Eric Clapton - "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" Budokan 1999

[thkem23onijSb]

he's SKILLED ok but the one who should cry this tune out as he does on the guitar , my way , should be, we , women ! ja ja ja ja ja

[TREYOLDHIPPIE]

I love to hear when someone sounds almost as good as they did on another recording.. Maybe its only me?

[cgabler91191]

This is one of my favorites of Eric Clapton! Seeing him live is really a treat, he just plays brilliantly, soulfully! Captures the true heart of the song, isn't that what the Blues is all about? This one is a good as the version on 24 Nights - recorded in 1990-1991 at the RAH.

[doubleotwentyone]

Just about the most effective blues guitar I've heard for along while. He's on fire!!

[samueltbillbros]

Eric owns any guitar he happens to pick up!

[raybede]

Rather good What?!!!!!

[Gilmour3]

I was in the bathroom and i suddenly hear this guitar sound. I thought: My fucking God!!!What is this unbelievable sound???Wow.....Eric is blues..

[BluesBelarus]

hmm, now THAT's what I call the Blues

[bluesmann8]

I think eric out did EC was here! Great jam brother!

[gazzaboy2531977]

On fire

[Tapiola2007]

My oh my! Wailing the blues!

[johnnimar]

paixao avassaladora pena q era pela mulher do melhor amigo dele " e q amigo ? " coitado do george h.

[saffernellie]

Ah, Eric, You move me!

[BillMorrison90]

goddamn Clapton! I absolutely adore your playing the blues.....Don't you ever dare to die!!

[saffernellie]

@BillMorrison90

You know EC is a strong believer in God and wouldn't appreciate the gd you posted. Sorry.

[MaripozaM]

"Clapton to me is one of the best guitarists in the history of the Blues"

[jerichomyles]

I cant Belive the many comments on here.....if it wasn't for clapton? Most of you, including myself....or Toni Iommi...or SRV wouldnt be playing the blues...get a grip on your music people.....I dont mean to sound harsh....but geez....come on!

[gazzaboy2531977]

cant beat a 335 for sound though

[TheLakewind]

You all youngsters think Cream was "pop".?Snicker Ever hear of rock n roll?

[donswald]

Rock n Roll is pop, the two terms are synonymous. Pop is short for popular. Jazz and blues, while sometimes similar in style, are not nearly as popular as Rock n Roll.

[helmetwhiteheart1]

Why to categorise guitar players jazz blues or pop. what would it matter it it is so good.

who cares what he is. He is the top..

[kzearo]

Hey slunky08, do you have 'She's Gone' from this same night?

It was a great performance but it has disappeared from YouTube. The final solo from it is one of his very best in my opinion.

[onewaytoplay]

polished does not equal unpassionate...they are not at odds with eachother, even in the blues.....BB King?

[enorbet2]

didn't say polished = dispassionate. From my experience a more impulsive and "messier" style shows stretching in improv instead of settling for the safe and rehearsed.

[enorbet2]

Eric lost a lot of street cred among purist Blues fans when he took the tangents into Pop, but if any doubt he's first and foremost a Blues player, let them hear what he's done since, getting back to his roots. I somewhat prefer his younger, messier, more impulsive style but one only has to listen to this and then the exact same song one night previous (also here) to recognize Eric's polished but still passionate improv cred at the most difficult of styles, slow blues.

[rixills]

he started off playing pop. remember the yardbirds?? "for your love" was a pop song.

remember cream? "anyone for tennis" as well as many other songs were pop songs.

[slunky08]

Clapton started off as a blues guitarist. He left the Yardbirds because they chose For Your Love for a single. Cream was live almost free jazz with Clapton doing blues-oriented riffs. Of course Clapton played some pop songs, too. He has done that throughout his amazing 45-year career.

[enorbet2]

While "For Your Love" may seem like Pop now, and may have been sufficiently so to Clapton's ear to count himself out, it's important to recall that a musical revolution was going on. Eric Burden mentioned it in song slamming the Bobby Vee Pap Pop in favor of bolder stuff and forays into Eastern sounds were coming in as well as distortion and noise as expression not to mention feedback and sustain. For Your Love may have been loosely Pop, but it was not mainstream in it's own time.

[MOR7295]

true..[=

[v12vanquish89]

Polished? Do you own the Cream 2005 Reunion dvd? In the interviews, Ginger Baker talks about how Clapton plays a different solo every night. Sure things are similar from one night to the next. However, that just comes from playing these songs over and over again. His "polished" playing comes from instinct and skill. Not rehersing the solo.

[enorbet2]

@v12vanquish89 - Over time as improv players grow, they/we tend to make fewer and fewer poor choices/mis-steps ending in deadends or any sort of losing of the thread, so even playing a different solo every night or even jamming on a basically unfamiliar progression becomes a polished effort. So, I agree with v12vanquish89, instinct and skill is THE way to keep the fire in w/o being lame and/or sloppy. Gotta please yourself first.

[BATENKILL]

What is that White Fender he plays most of his hard core blues on? It looks like a Olympic white 50's or early 60's??? Sounds like a giant MONSTER!!!!!

[slunky08]

It's a 1994 Fender Stratocaster Eric Clapton Signature Model (Olympic White) , that he used onstage during the 90's blues tours. It was sold at the Crossroads Center Auction for 50 000$.

[BATENKILL]

Man probably just because it belonged to him! does all the EC models have the noiseless pickups?

[Bigbluesboy]

it was Lace pickup from the start to 2001, then the noiseless came on......

[captainbadjam]

And just to think, he doesn't ever practice his "bending" as he calls it anymore. That is just coming from his soul. Some may get close but he will never be surpassed.

[sam19851]

What are you on about? When you talk about him not practicing his bending anymore?

[sam19851]

It takes more than a life time to Master the blues...

When you realize that you'll know because something will come over you.

[rudedemclot]

taking musical taste OUT OF IT

the most skilled guitarists of all time (Hendrix, Clapton,SRV, B.B.king,Jimmy Page, etc)

are deemed so because of their ability to play the blues. Because it was the original genre of solo guitar, it is THE standard for determining skill.

THEREFORE it is surely NOT just playing a couple scales over and over.

It is so unbelievably complex that its a true test of ability.

[metebelis]

I agree totally. The blues scale has 9 notes - so only 3 semi tones are not used. This leaves potential for huge variety.

Not just 5 notes as earlier posters have suggested - the pentatonic scale - with only 5 notes fits over the top of many other scales - ie the lazy or beginners option.

[augfive]

its sounds "better than anything else" to YOU....thats the point ....

[augfive]

polytes1 I agree totally! But when a "blues" player does that, the purists just say its not "real Blues"..again ..youre right,, and a good example is Robben Ford..awesome player who incorparates all the tools you listed,,, also.. many players arent "lazy"...they just cant hear the deeper harmonic ideas

[augfive]

blues is blues...how friggin' good can it be? lol is what it is..same five notes over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over and over...

[Polytes1]

Thats only true of lazy players. You can actually incorporate a lot into blues playing; dorian and mixolydian modes, chromatics, a whole bunch of great stuff. . .

[kzearo]

I don't care whether it consists of 5 notes or 50; whether it uses this scale or that one. Like most Blues players I know nothing about music theory. All I know is that it sounds better than anything else.

[teleslinger2]

Even a one note solo will fly if the pain and emotion are behind it.

[shinigami285]

Damn, Freddie King must be so fucking proud of him!!!

[sam19851]

for the first part of course :D

[BATENKILL]

Then he uses a pick? where does he get it if so?

[sam19851]

from about 1:00 you can clearly see he is using his fingers then switching about 5 seconds before he goes into the main swing of things. A pick is easily concealed underneath parts of the guitar.

[BATENKILL]

Man thats sooooo coool he is the GOD!!!

[Bigbluesboy]

ErnieBall.

[sucoblues]

Yep, greatest strings ever made!

[sam19851]

Just realized EC is using his fingers. :D

[sam19851]

Having listened to Clapton for so long both live and his recordings its not often ive gotten that age old spine chill i used to get when i was experiencing him for the first time, this just brought it all back....

Eric sir you never cease to amaze me.

[majvdl]

Great intro! Very nice addition to the video I posted earlier. Thank you for posting! Hopefully he will play this good on June 28, 2008 in Hyde Park, London because I will be there.

[zep123dmc]

1:53-2:18 TURN UP FUCKING LOUD!

[zep123dmc]

wow, amazing guitar playin throughout. I especially love the beginning and the spine tingling shit he pulls off!

[viagoangel]

Does anybody know wich guitar is Andy Fairweather Low playing? What is the black guitar model´s full name?