Its hard to beleive that such a relatively unknown artist(in his own lifetime) like Robert Johnson could have such a hugely massive impact on the Blues form the mid sixties onward, his songs are played by every great blues artist..you should check out Tony TS McPhee...solo Robert johnson stuf it is as good as Erics versions
This is a real artist. No need for a huge light and smoke spectacle, no need for playbacks, no need for 30 dancers. Just give him a guitar and a chair.
eric the man of the blues,,,,,,,,,,,,sei il numero eric, sei l'unico egno di coverizzare rober johnson.......sei la mia musica, sei il mio blues.........
for those who are interested i know that clapton did tv special on ovation tv. it was a tribute to robert johnson. where he covered a bunch of rj's stuff. electric and acoustic. good stuff, don't know if it's online but it's worth a look see.
@damoknopfler : in all fairness, if it weren't for Eric, most people would have never heard of Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy or many of the other blues forefathers. Clapton pays homage to the pioneers and takes the music a little further down the road. Eric is the real deal.
@TheOldcountryboy: got to have the slide on this one brother....Eric's tuned to an open E chord....plays most of the slide licks at the 12th fret against the 1 chord. I struggled with slide for a long time but finally came around. Experiment until you find a slide you're comfortable withSorry for the guitar lesson gang; just trying to help a brother out. I LOVE the way Eric does this one.
Clapton playing R. Johnson stuff is awesome, it's my favorite Clapton... and anyone can feel how full of devotion he is for the former blues founders while he goes on playing... aaaamazing !!
To say that Eric Clapton does a "bluezy thing" that the old masters of blues didn't do doesn't make any sense. The world had never heard the "bluezy thing" before Robert Johnson and the others. They wrote it. It's theirs.
I believe the guitar is called the "dobro" guitar by Gibson. Sometimes called slide dobro because the musician uses a plastic or metal slide on their pinky for the unique "slide" sound. Eric Clapton is masterful in this video and with this instrument.
Otnas01, I know what you're saying but Robert Johnson was the greatest Bluesman of them all and , black or white, very few people can play his stuff as well as Eric does here. Respect, Mr.Clapton!!
Eric is great but it's weird how all those celebs and other American fans Idolise his playing and music, when it's just a very good copy of music that blacks in their country have played for centuries. Perhaps it's more comfortable to hear him do it.
An admirable cover, but nobody comes close to Robert Johnson. A handful of 70-year-old poor quality recordings, and nobody before or since comes close. A true genius,
@macaframa12 He also toured and recorded extensively with Steve Jordan on drums...and with the legendary Billy Preston too! The whole racist thing was a sham... Ruthless celeb gossip magazines...
to all of those that say the blues can only be properly played by black musicians is like saying rock or classical music could only be properly played by white people. it's not about colour, it's all about feeling the music and clapton does it like no other...
Any body know what tuning this Clapton fellow is in?? I usually play in open g. but when he slides to twelve it's not matching up. sounds like he's a step up. just wondering is anyone knows.
If anyone ever asks what blues is, point them to this because this is just about as good as it gets. The only one I can think of who could compete with this would've been Robert Johnson, but then again, Robert Johnson is and will always be the absolute master of blues.
i am only 17 and i find this kind of music very very beautiful most of my friends find me weird because i listen al kinds of music most of them are rap en this kind of music
but 10 years from now robert johnson and e.clapton whill continiud to be liesten and admired.and most of what your frinds like will be forgoten or ridicularized
i don't have any friends that listening to the blus music, and even if some of them do they don't really listening to the real blues like eric clapton and bb king..
so that's nice to know i'm not the only one in my age who really listening to him..^^
i started to think everybody turned crazy or something..^^
Mr. Eric Clapton "The Slow Hand": 18-time Grammy winner, the ONLY three-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, countless record sales and thousands of concerts around the world. Amazing....absolutely amazing.
seems like all the Robert Johnson tunes are best in Clapton's version... Eric does some kind of 'bluezy thing' that the old masters of blues didn't... All of you agree?
@magnum9987 Hi man ! I love both, but I think RJ playing is far better than EC (if we talk about delta blues style). EC has better recoordings, but if you lesten carefully to RJ, you'll find a breathtaking and awsome guitar player (and os course, singer). Cheers !
@gva128 Not fully. Clapton is great for sure. Esp. technically on the guitar he is a master in his own right. Evolution plays a great part as well. If Johnson were around today or even thirty years ago his songs would sound much different. Plus a really good guitar helps to. But Clapton deserves credit for the way he plays the blues. He has always been pretty respectful of it to.
no... I don't agree. I do know where your coming from though. we just like claptons style better. I think its hard to appreciate just how great Robert Johnson really was with the recording equipment and effects, or lack there of, that he had to use. I wonder what a talent like Johnson could have done with todays technology?
@abluesfreak2 Yeah, the technology works for a better result sometimes, but the acoustic guitar have always been basecally the same thing yesterday and today... What kind of technology do you see in this video? The dobro guitar and the bottleneck aren't so different of the johnson's. I think that in studio recording we can't compare, but in live performances each one can count only on their talent, no fakes.
amen bro... don't get me wrong, i truly beilieve Clapton can take just about any genre of music and make it amazing. Pure feeling and emotion is the difference. ie; somewhere over the rainbow... I would love to jam with you any day. keep up the great posts. Ps check out some of his work with Duane Allman. a true master of the slide :)
certainly not. clapton is great, but not blues, just 12 bar. real blues is about timing, dynamics, tension, relaxation, redemption - it's CLASSICAL music. mr. eric's is english boy scout sound, to be played and enjoyed around the campfire;-) as for the blues: listen to robert and elmore!!!
@gleannan Well said! So true! And as all music should be, really. Feel it... don't think it. A good understanding of the foundation/theory should be there, obviously. But it certainly shouldn't be relied upon. Human emotion is the most important thing about music and Eric definitely feels some blues!
I'm Fran Raya, a female singer/songwriter from the UK. I supported Eric Clapton on one of his Scandinavian tours performing my own songs. Whether acoustic or electric he is such a first class musician and performer. I am so very proud to have been his supporting act and witness his genius at close range. Love this clip.
I love the look on the faces of these celebs; (who are successful in their own right) you know they're humbled, realizing their watching a legend, and will most likely always remember the moment.
and fuck i don't try to copy the robert johnson original version. maybye in another life to late for me . i had to start playing when i was 3 years old not 30 lol.
EBEG#BE, Open E tuning also known as Cross Spanish tuning. Many guitarist prefer use an opend D with a capo on 2nd position, but i think the strings are too near the freeboard to play slide that way.
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dude in my opinion clapton is not genius, just very tentative student. he never really expanded on the pentatonics, never really went to far outside of what had already been done. not too much creativity as far as songwriting or structure, just a master of blues scales. j lennon, p maccartney bob dylan, maybe page, geniuses.
no one, and def. not clapton, created psychadelia...when psychadelia hit he was butterfield blues band, left yardbirds cuase they didnt play blues...gimme a break man, beatles put out revolver in 66 when clapton was still practicing bb king and buddy guy licks. oh, and passion? hendrix, man, played with jesus on his left shoulder and the devil on his right...also SRV id say is more expressive...albert king....buddy guy. only novices think clapton trumps all
@rubberrev0lver OK, when I read your first comment, I thought you just didn't like Clapton as much as other people did, which is fine. But that second comment was just stupid. It clearly shows that you have no idea what you are talking about. And everyone knows Cream was the first real psychadelic/virtuoso band. Sure, their was a couple of stuff that lead up to that point, including Revolver, but no one made music into Psycadelia like cream did. And as for novices? How about Eddie Van Halen?
cont. Eddie Van Halen would have never picked up a guitar if he hadn't went to a Clapton concert when he was a teen. And Clapton, played hard core electric blues. He gave Power to the blues. More power than Muddy Waters or John Lee Hooker could never have dreamed of. Him and Buddy Guy where true visionaries with blues power and brought it to a whole different level
your essay gets an "B". If youre proposing psychadelia was born in late 1967 with Disraeli Gears (prior to which they subsisted mainly on blues covers) you are sorrily mistaken. I dont claim to know the date psychadelia was invented, but listen to 1966's Tomorrow Never Knows by the Beatles, Revolver. I bet clapton was in the next studio over, covering rollin and tumblin...
I have heard that song, and you are right, it is distinctively psychadelic, but they beatles never exploited on this like Cream did nor where they renown for it. As well, Cream made it distinctly powerful, with the massive power of and rhythm of Bruce's Bass and Baker's drumming that complemented Claptons powerhouse of guitar tone and magic.
@rubberrev0lver And of course the Beatles were recording Larry Williams covers when Brian Wilson was arranging and conducting in a recording studio full of the best musicians in America for some of the most complex pop ever recorded. Of course Tomorrow Never Knows was months after the Kinks recorded See My Friends, the first of many one chord psychedelic/eastern wonders. That said, I still see pretty colors when I hear TNK. B-
@rubberrev0lver Excuse me Mr., How much time you took to learn to play like Robert Johnson? Was it very dificult for you to emulate correctly the microtones used in the slide riffs? And what about singing in tune at the same time? Could you post one video of yours, playing like robert Johnson or anyone else that could do this better than clapton?
I'm Fran Raya a female singer/songwriter from the UK. I was invited to support Eric Clapton on his Scandinavian tour performing my own songs. His band then were Gary Brooker, Albert Lee, Dave Markee, Chris Stainton and Henry Spinetti. It was one of the most memorable times of my career and I am so proud to have toured with him. Top man.
Mr. Clapton unplugged, unpretentious, unequalled and soooooo cool
franrayamusic 2 days ago
GREAT...
claudiocharruagomes 1 week ago
Station! The important element of every blues song :D
sAwAi1992 1 month ago
Robert Johnson fake....
VVo0dy 1 month ago
truly an inspiration for anyone who loves the blues
Hennigera 1 month ago
I guess Bobby DeNiro isn't as easily impressed as Bill Clinton.
ElTeaBill 1 month ago in playlist Favorite videos
Like a boss
Dns2080 1 month ago
He will always be the best, blues baby
kurtangful 2 months ago in playlist eric clapton and friends 2
1:17 bill clinton
waitzsauce 3 months ago
Tuning is Standard. i think. seems to work for me
garf2005 3 months ago
@garf2005 It's in open E...not standard...
jf4r3w311 3 months ago
banda é pros fracos
hylalp 3 months ago
Its hard to beleive that such a relatively unknown artist(in his own lifetime) like Robert Johnson could have such a hugely massive impact on the Blues form the mid sixties onward, his songs are played by every great blues artist..you should check out Tony TS McPhee...solo Robert johnson stuf it is as good as Erics versions
Adibarum 3 months ago
@Adibarum well, here in mississippi his popularity has always been strong but sometimes a good career move for some artist is dying prematurely
renman103 2 weeks ago
@renman103... yes that one has been known to increase record sales..lol
Adibarum 2 weeks ago
o cara é um revolucionário ... sem palavras
Menooz190 4 months ago
This is a real artist. No need for a huge light and smoke spectacle, no need for playbacks, no need for 30 dancers. Just give him a guitar and a chair.
Lyrero 4 months ago 3
Defo open E cool sound
grahamer06 4 months ago
sweet slide guitar work eric clapton is and was the best ever
mkeywork 5 months ago
Eric Clapton redeemed Robert Johnson's soul from the devil : )
wildwestpoint 5 months ago
eric the man of the blues,,,,,,,,,,,,sei il numero eric, sei l'unico egno di coverizzare rober johnson.......sei la mia musica, sei il mio blues.........
ipappagallini 7 months ago
eric is great but is sad that an english man must pervor m blues the urban american music art in the front off a american president
wolfiherz 7 months ago
@wolfiherz he sounds as good as american if not better than american
matimaui 6 months ago
playing like ... WHO NEEDS A BAND ?!
upTOWNboy94 7 months ago 10
Eric is the best!
Clapton is God!!!
nartrock 8 months ago
for those who are interested i know that clapton did tv special on ovation tv. it was a tribute to robert johnson. where he covered a bunch of rj's stuff. electric and acoustic. good stuff, don't know if it's online but it's worth a look see.
AllKindsaGirls 8 months ago
nice resonator!!
515742617000027 8 months ago
Eric spend his entire life to play like Mr. Robert Johnson..and he is such a great player man!
hujaqaa 8 months ago
Think this is the best version of this song EC has done!
joeboyjones 8 months ago
clapton is god
o0weezy0o 9 months ago
@damoknopfler : in all fairness, if it weren't for Eric, most people would have never heard of Robert Johnson, Big Bill Broonzy or many of the other blues forefathers. Clapton pays homage to the pioneers and takes the music a little further down the road. Eric is the real deal.
Guitar4blues 9 months ago
@TheOldcountryboy: got to have the slide on this one brother....Eric's tuned to an open E chord....plays most of the slide licks at the 12th fret against the 1 chord. I struggled with slide for a long time but finally came around. Experiment until you find a slide you're comfortable withSorry for the guitar lesson gang; just trying to help a brother out. I LOVE the way Eric does this one.
Guitar4blues 9 months ago
@Guitar4blues nah mate think its open D d a d f# a d
pretty9reenpark4 7 months ago
@pretty9reenpark4 I believe you're right. I stand corrected. thanks man
Guitar4blues 7 months ago
@pretty9reenpark4 Open E, same shape but two steps up.
halo4484 6 months ago
@halo4484 tried open e doesnt sound right
pretty9reenpark4 6 months ago
@pretty9reenpark4
Open E works for me
Evertale1 5 months ago
is the slide really necesary to play this tune ya think? id love to learn it but i can't use a slide for the life of me
TheOldcountryboy 9 months ago
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Gilmour3 9 months ago
Clapton playing R. Johnson stuff is awesome, it's my favorite Clapton... and anyone can feel how full of devotion he is for the former blues founders while he goes on playing... aaaamazing !!
TheDaveSpaceBand 9 months ago
This is Eric Clapton spreading civilization...
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MrCerote 10 months ago
Robert Johnson is probably smiling in heaven while listening to this.
TheRenegadeAssassin 10 months ago 2
@TheRenegadeAssassin Or in Hell.....with satan
voodoochild53 10 months ago
@voodoochild53 yeah....that would match up with the story lol. He's probably looking up from Hell.
willwelsh816 9 months ago
how can anybody say "Eric does some kind of 'bluezy thing' that the old masters of blues didn't... "
If there was no Emperior Robert Johnson there would be NO eric clapted out. its called standin on the sholders of giants
damoknopfler 10 months ago
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BabyyyyAshleeaj381 11 months ago
Kevin Spacey! ^_^
rizwantakkhar 11 months ago
Eric is THE MAN!!! Awesome guitarist!
MrDionp056 11 months ago
Eric, you're the best!!!!!!
mamabon1075 11 months ago
clapton is god
MrCerote 11 months ago
lol bill clinton looks like a retard <3
morrandekudde 11 months ago
To say that Eric Clapton does a "bluezy thing" that the old masters of blues didn't do doesn't make any sense. The world had never heard the "bluezy thing" before Robert Johnson and the others. They wrote it. It's theirs.
434793854 11 months ago
I believe the guitar is called the "dobro" guitar by Gibson. Sometimes called slide dobro because the musician uses a plastic or metal slide on their pinky for the unique "slide" sound. Eric Clapton is masterful in this video and with this instrument.
Jbqb20 1 year ago
The hell? What guitar is that?
gaiolinn 1 year ago
Bill was itching to pull out his sax and jump on stage with him here, (and I mean saxophone its no metaphor)
MrEwant1980 1 year ago
its called a better guitar
georgemiles74 1 year ago
Awesome song and the way he lets his guitar sing for him
Kivi2345678 1 year ago
LOL, nice editing... "Little girl, I have mean things on my mind." and watch Bill Clinton smile... Is that because of the music or... ;-)
0321Sjoerd 1 year ago
His fingers just slide on those strings...love his style of music
Melodia336 1 year ago
this man is a genius. Eric Clapton for ever <3
00narco 1 year ago 33
@00narco . So right
Melodia336 1 year ago
I'll take my hat of for eric !
fisasnillur 1 year ago
If Robert John had known that one of his songs would be someday played in front of the president of the united states...
benj2107 1 year ago
Otnas01, I know what you're saying but Robert Johnson was the greatest Bluesman of them all and , black or white, very few people can play his stuff as well as Eric does here. Respect, Mr.Clapton!!
GrahamFudge 1 year ago
Eric is great but it's weird how all those celebs and other American fans Idolise his playing and music, when it's just a very good copy of music that blacks in their country have played for centuries. Perhaps it's more comfortable to hear him do it.
otnas01 1 year ago
one reason the celebs are smiling so much is that the camera is pointing at them ....yep .... bye
kedocom 1 year ago
@kedocom
looool, Made me laughed!
Abadez2010 1 year ago
@Abadez2010 looool, Made me laugh!
gaiolinn 1 year ago
look at all the celebs love eric clapton music i do to
mkeywork 1 year ago
bill clinton jizzed.
and a guy next to hillary looks like chet atkins
oknarbtal 1 year ago
An admirable cover, but nobody comes close to Robert Johnson. A handful of 70-year-old poor quality recordings, and nobody before or since comes close. A true genius,
monkeymandoomteller 1 year ago
Clapton racist??? I think you forget his long time touring bassist is black ( nathan east, best bass player around)
macaframa12 1 year ago
@macaframa12
or Billy Preston, BB King (and his speech about clapton on crossroads) or or or or...
112341513534134 1 year ago
@macaframa12 He also toured and recorded extensively with Steve Jordan on drums...and with the legendary Billy Preston too! The whole racist thing was a sham... Ruthless celeb gossip magazines...
feelthebowes 1 year ago
You can convert this to an mp3 at instantmp3s..com
murky629 1 year ago
j'suis en randonnée en mes pensées...j'fais du hiking dans mes songes : )
marcandrelessard 1 year ago
to all of those that say the blues can only be properly played by black musicians is like saying rock or classical music could only be properly played by white people. it's not about colour, it's all about feeling the music and clapton does it like no other...
SuperSeb81 1 year ago 4
awesome
alexisdiaz78 1 year ago
Any body know what tuning this Clapton fellow is in?? I usually play in open g. but when he slides to twelve it's not matching up. sounds like he's a step up. just wondering is anyone knows.
ssk8r0 1 year ago
@ssk8r0 this clapton fellow!!??? it sounds like you've never heard of him!!!
HolyCraq123456789 1 year ago
@ssk8r0 open d
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flesaint 1 year ago
@ssk8r0 I think it's Open D (D A D F# A D)
flesaint 1 year ago
I might love Metal and Rock, but I simply live the Blues...can't help it, it'll be in my heart forever...
Withoutanyidea 1 year ago
CLAPTON IS GOD... LUCHIO A.K.A MJ 23 SP 33
luchomaggio 1 year ago
If anyone ever asks what blues is, point them to this because this is just about as good as it gets. The only one I can think of who could compete with this would've been Robert Johnson, but then again, Robert Johnson is and will always be the absolute master of blues.
Paddis92 1 year ago
i am only 17 and i find this kind of music very very beautiful most of my friends find me weird because i listen al kinds of music most of them are rap en this kind of music
hannes400 1 year ago 4
@hannes400 this is real music, so u got taste
Jacksquat99 1 year ago
but 10 years from now robert johnson and e.clapton whill continiud to be liesten and admired.and most of what your frinds like will be forgoten or ridicularized
montequim 1 year ago
@hannes400
so what?!
who gives a fuck about what your friends??
i'm a 16 years old girl and i listen to this music all my life!!
the blus allways was and allways will be my life!
so don't listen to your friends!
one day they will stop listening lo greenday and then they will see how great and special is the blus!!
MOR7295 1 year ago
@hannes400
so what?!
who gives a fuck about what your friends??
i'm a 16 year old girl and i listen to this music all my life!!
the blus allways was and allways will be my life!
so don't listen to your friends!
one day they will stop listening to greenday and then they will see how great and special the blus is!!
MOR7295 1 year ago
@MOR7295 hmm. marry me?
rupertacdc 1 year ago
@rupertacdc
hmmmm... so you agree with me?? nice^^ i meen... who can really match blus with rap? lol
MOR7295 1 year ago
@MOR7295 Im 16 too and the only one of my friends who listens to blues, or anything older than 20 years for that matter.
rupertacdc 1 year ago
@rupertacdc so i ges your not alone..
i don't have any friends that listening to the blus music, and even if some of them do they don't really listening to the real blues like eric clapton and bb king..
so that's nice to know i'm not the only one in my age who really listening to him..^^
i started to think everybody turned crazy or something..^^
MOR7295 1 year ago
if someone is goin to cover Robert Johnson, it should be EC.
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@lalaa9000 If you agree with it, thumbs up lalaa9000 :)
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I just realized this was recorded on my birthday :D
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tallboytiny 1 year ago
what is this? his blues PHD ceremony
internalpeaceseeker 1 year ago
grande sound, grande personalità, unico
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Mr. Eric Clapton "The Slow Hand": 18-time Grammy winner, the ONLY three-time inductee into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, countless record sales and thousands of concerts around the world. Amazing....absolutely amazing.
n3iyr 1 year ago
What kind of guitar is that?
HolyFerdinand 1 year ago
@HolyFerdinand
resonator, but assuming you already knew that, I'm just as clueless as you =D
WNxLigerzx 1 year ago
@HolyFerdinand Pretty sure it's a Regal Ressonator
MrBrandonKB 1 year ago
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MikeHockislong 1 year ago
there's this video where clapton admitted "it would take a lifetime to duplicate robert johnson's original ".
bigfucker2010 1 year ago
Clapton is God !
BluesPickerGuitar 1 year ago 2
Whats the story with this concert? what was it for and does Clapton play any other songs on it? cheers.
muksNZ 1 year ago
Clapton have not that right timing
corraoma 2 years ago
@corraoma
What he's got, the wrong one? :-))
ezekielwahwah 1 year ago 2
seems like all the Robert Johnson tunes are best in Clapton's version... Eric does some kind of 'bluezy thing' that the old masters of blues didn't... All of you agree?
gva128 2 years ago 19
well i dont know if they are "better" but i usually like his versions of other peoples songs more than the originals.
timmy47 2 years ago
@gva128 The playing is better than Johnson's, but Clapton could never sing like robert Johnson
magnum9987 2 years ago
@magnum9987 Hi man ! I love both, but I think RJ playing is far better than EC (if we talk about delta blues style). EC has better recoordings, but if you lesten carefully to RJ, you'll find a breathtaking and awsome guitar player (and os course, singer). Cheers !
mistercao 2 years ago
@gva128 Ya kind of...
montreemtx 1 year ago
@gva128 Not fully. Clapton is great for sure. Esp. technically on the guitar he is a master in his own right. Evolution plays a great part as well. If Johnson were around today or even thirty years ago his songs would sound much different. Plus a really good guitar helps to. But Clapton deserves credit for the way he plays the blues. He has always been pretty respectful of it to.
ranger59 1 year ago
no... I don't agree. I do know where your coming from though. we just like claptons style better. I think its hard to appreciate just how great Robert Johnson really was with the recording equipment and effects, or lack there of, that he had to use. I wonder what a talent like Johnson could have done with todays technology?
abluesfreak2 1 year ago
@abluesfreak2 Yeah, the technology works for a better result sometimes, but the acoustic guitar have always been basecally the same thing yesterday and today... What kind of technology do you see in this video? The dobro guitar and the bottleneck aren't so different of the johnson's. I think that in studio recording we can't compare, but in live performances each one can count only on their talent, no fakes.
gva128 1 year ago
amen bro... don't get me wrong, i truly beilieve Clapton can take just about any genre of music and make it amazing. Pure feeling and emotion is the difference. ie; somewhere over the rainbow... I would love to jam with you any day. keep up the great posts. Ps check out some of his work with Duane Allman. a true master of the slide :)
abluesfreak2 11 months ago
thaanks bro! I'll check that out right now!!!
gva128 11 months ago
@gva128
certainly not. clapton is great, but not blues, just 12 bar. real blues is about timing, dynamics, tension, relaxation, redemption - it's CLASSICAL music. mr. eric's is english boy scout sound, to be played and enjoyed around the campfire;-) as for the blues: listen to robert and elmore!!!
matthiaswohlgemuth 11 months ago
@matthiaswohlgemuth real blues is about expression of youre feelings and life thru your playing : not a lesson in theories
you LIVE the blues man - YOU DONT think THE BLUES
gleannan 10 months ago 2
@gleannan Well said! So true! And as all music should be, really. Feel it... don't think it. A good understanding of the foundation/theory should be there, obviously. But it certainly shouldn't be relied upon. Human emotion is the most important thing about music and Eric definitely feels some blues!
dropjawbertone 10 months ago
Ally McBeal at 1:46 :-))))
josipml5 2 years ago
Thanx, I needed that!!!
tambourini 2 years ago
DON'T GIVE UP :)
destroydez 2 years ago
i'm close to have it after 3 months of good work :). ps : i'm a beginner
destroydez 2 years ago 3
Great stuff!
//dan
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I'm Fran Raya, a female singer/songwriter from the UK. I supported Eric Clapton on one of his Scandinavian tours performing my own songs. Whether acoustic or electric he is such a first class musician and performer. I am so very proud to have been his supporting act and witness his genius at close range. Love this clip.
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Man.... he's got it.
turncoatslethbridge 2 years ago
EPIC
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NickeyWhitfield 2 years ago
I love the look on the faces of these celebs; (who are successful in their own right) you know they're humbled, realizing their watching a legend, and will most likely always remember the moment.
blackwashburn 2 years ago 22
@blackwashburn Especially how President Clinton is enjoying himself so much...another bluesman!
feelthebowes 1 year ago
so many celebrities down there!
alexandre1129 2 years ago
Notice Bill Clinton in the audience.....he knows all about the blues.....
aricandisgood 2 years ago 7
and fuck i don't try to copy the robert johnson original version. maybye in another life to late for me . i had to start playing when i was 3 years old not 30 lol.
destroydez 2 years ago
he's in open e , i'm learning the song actually . i'm a beginner and i learned by watching his slow hands :). i almost can do it now i'm so happy
destroydez 2 years ago
Ty Robert Johnson. rip or rih if the legend is true.
destroydez 2 years ago 2
what tuning does he play? open...?
thiger89 2 years ago
EBEG#BE, Open E tuning also known as Cross Spanish tuning. Many guitarist prefer use an opend D with a capo on 2nd position, but i think the strings are too near the freeboard to play slide that way.
gigistrato 2 years ago 6
Open E!
gva128 2 years ago
Bill Clinton has never looked so happy
TheTokelove 2 years ago 6
maybe you should ask Monica Lewinsky if that's ture
LRGDuran 2 years ago 5
3:11 Kevin Spacey?
cronology 2 years ago
he was hosting
shinigami285 2 years ago
It takes a life to achieve covering robert johnson like clapton does... Clapton is definitively a genius...
carlopstar 2 years ago 39
You are so right! If you look at the video where Clapton is talking about the technique of covering Johnson... it's really amazing...
Riverdale270 2 years ago
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dude in my opinion clapton is not genius, just very tentative student. he never really expanded on the pentatonics, never really went to far outside of what had already been done. not too much creativity as far as songwriting or structure, just a master of blues scales. j lennon, p maccartney bob dylan, maybe page, geniuses.
rubberrev0lver 2 years ago
He is a genius to bring Blues to me or to create John Mayer
marcdjan 2 years ago
nobody except his parents created john mayer...he did it himself
rubberrev0lver 2 years ago
Maybe we should send him back to them.
barscotch 2 years ago
@rubberrev0lver Clapton single handedly created psychadelia and put more passion into his playing than anyone you can compare to
magnum9987 2 years ago
no one, and def. not clapton, created psychadelia...when psychadelia hit he was butterfield blues band, left yardbirds cuase they didnt play blues...gimme a break man, beatles put out revolver in 66 when clapton was still practicing bb king and buddy guy licks. oh, and passion? hendrix, man, played with jesus on his left shoulder and the devil on his right...also SRV id say is more expressive...albert king....buddy guy. only novices think clapton trumps all
rubberrev0lver 2 years ago
@rubberrev0lver OK, when I read your first comment, I thought you just didn't like Clapton as much as other people did, which is fine. But that second comment was just stupid. It clearly shows that you have no idea what you are talking about. And everyone knows Cream was the first real psychadelic/virtuoso band. Sure, their was a couple of stuff that lead up to that point, including Revolver, but no one made music into Psycadelia like cream did. And as for novices? How about Eddie Van Halen?
magnum9987 2 years ago
cont. Eddie Van Halen would have never picked up a guitar if he hadn't went to a Clapton concert when he was a teen. And Clapton, played hard core electric blues. He gave Power to the blues. More power than Muddy Waters or John Lee Hooker could never have dreamed of. Him and Buddy Guy where true visionaries with blues power and brought it to a whole different level
magnum9987 2 years ago 2
your essay gets an "B". If youre proposing psychadelia was born in late 1967 with Disraeli Gears (prior to which they subsisted mainly on blues covers) you are sorrily mistaken. I dont claim to know the date psychadelia was invented, but listen to 1966's Tomorrow Never Knows by the Beatles, Revolver. I bet clapton was in the next studio over, covering rollin and tumblin...
rubberrev0lver 2 years ago
I have heard that song, and you are right, it is distinctively psychadelic, but they beatles never exploited on this like Cream did nor where they renown for it. As well, Cream made it distinctly powerful, with the massive power of and rhythm of Bruce's Bass and Baker's drumming that complemented Claptons powerhouse of guitar tone and magic.
magnum9987 1 year ago
@rubberrev0lver And of course the Beatles were recording Larry Williams covers when Brian Wilson was arranging and conducting in a recording studio full of the best musicians in America for some of the most complex pop ever recorded. Of course Tomorrow Never Knows was months after the Kinks recorded See My Friends, the first of many one chord psychedelic/eastern wonders. That said, I still see pretty colors when I hear TNK. B-
saguaroboy 1 year ago
@carlopstar ok well al im sayin is if he was a real genius it wouldnt take him 50 years to learn to play that way
rubberrev0lver 1 year ago
@rubberrev0lver Excuse me Mr., How much time you took to learn to play like Robert Johnson? Was it very dificult for you to emulate correctly the microtones used in the slide riffs? And what about singing in tune at the same time? Could you post one video of yours, playing like robert Johnson or anyone else that could do this better than clapton?
carlopstar 1 year ago
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why did franraymusic's comment get all these thumbs down???
anveedi 2 years ago
CUS HE'S A FOOL!
therealseddo 2 years ago
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I'm Fran Raya a female singer/songwriter from the UK. I was invited to support Eric Clapton on his Scandinavian tour performing my own songs. His band then were Gary Brooker, Albert Lee, Dave Markee, Chris Stainton and Henry Spinetti. It was one of the most memorable times of my career and I am so proud to have toured with him. Top man.
franrayamusic 2 years ago
enough with that
jorgenmac 2 years ago