The Yardbirds's Early Years (featuring Eric Clapton)

[borntrippin]

Wonderbar!!

[Blankfrack]

The troll 'MasterJackAubrey' worships John Lennon like a God. He slobbers over every video by Lennon, spewing out putrid, mewling adoration in every word. He once referred to Lennon as Mozart! LOL

[67lunatic]

To alex grostand.. yes .. I am handicapped... but I have two M.A. and speak two languages and read four languages and you should stop to discrimanated people taste... !genuis intelligent and smart person maybe you are ..

[kyle9371]

K forget everything i said before ....my main point is this- not for the sake of Clapton(who based on your information is a very evil person) ,but for the respect the loss of a young child 's life just you should say that about him. Talk trash or whatever about Clapton but his son has done anything wrong so for his sake show reverence for his tragic death.

I can't really defend Clapton because i don't know many of the facts myself but but an innocent 4 year old doesn't deserve to be disgraced.

[MasterJackAubrey]

LOL Clapton: "The only way to survive that was with DIGNITY". This heroin addict. This cocaine addict. This alcoholic, womanizer and negligent father wouldn't know "dignity" if it bit him in the ass. This guy writes a book and describes how he'd wake up, not knowing where he was, covered in vomit. Wow! You're some class act, Eric. Maybe he'd like to tell us where he was when his son got splattered all over a sidewalk. When he wrote "Tears In Heaven", poor Eric cried all the way to the bank!

[soueu2]

why the hell you care so much about the others life?

care about yourself, everybody know that eric is a briliant players, and thats all we need to know...

and before i forget, fuck you

[kyle9371]

show some fucking respect. What have you done with your life? Its one thing to talk bad about man's life and whatever but don't fucking bring his son who tragically died into this. Honestly Clapton may have made some mistakes in his life but who hasn't. Futhermore you sound like some nobody shit whose so cowardly you talk bad about a dead child and in fact all Clapton's mistakes and terrible qualities pale in comparison to you.

[kyle9371]

How dare you even mention someone not having "DIGNITY" when clearly you don't have any. If anything you could learn a thing or two from Clapton.

[MasterJackAubrey]

kyle93 - I do not kneel at the altar of celebrity worship. Especially to a guy who was a victim of his own amazing stupidity and then, profits from it. His book spoke of spending most of his life passed out on the floor covered in his own vomit. Most of Eric's "charitable" works are TAX SHELTERS. My heroes are cut from a different cloth.

[kyle9371]

I understand exactly where your coming from most of the rock gods and celbrities from the drugged out years 60s and 70s weren't great people at all to say the least but your comment about Clapton's "spalttered son" was way out of line.

[MasterJackAubrey]

kyle - Eric wrote, produced, recorded, marketed and then profited off "Tears In Heaven". He claims a producer "accidently" overheard him play it and "insisted" he record it. Not true! Nobody tells Eric Clapton what to put on his albums. Eric based an entire tour AROUND this song. He tells people he wrote this song in "one tearful night" when Conner died. Not true. Eric started sketching out this song back in 1973. He took this song off the shelf like a can of beans...and you're angry with ME?

[bluesman249]

you idiot

[67lunatic]

Thanks for information..but I still thinking that EC is too ego.. He is a good guitar player but there many others as good as him.

[67lunatic]

EC was good but Jeff Beck was more original and good.. and EC he is so ego. "It was just one man .."with his guitar"

[namdlefhtes]

He's not talking about himself there, he's referring to the bluesmen who influenced him. The self-accompanying bluesmen who had really had pain to get out.

[AlexGronstad]

my god ur retarded

[gtat111]

no its hendrix>>>>>anyone else of his time.

[oldiebgoody]

ATTN: augfive

You're spelling is awful! Your comment should read like this; clapton and the others weren't that great either...compared to some others playing jazz. Doesn't your pc have spellcheck? Stay in school or read books for correct spelling.

[naveengta]

Page > Beck > Hendrix > Allman > Clapton

[Kelol100]

You did it wrong. Rigth is:

Page < Beck < Hendrix < Allman < Clapton.

:D

[HisDudeness89]

Its

Page = Beck < Allman = Clapton < Hendrix

[kyle9371]

man you re stupid

[cast3lo]

What's the name of this song? (seconds 0- 0:15)

see ya!

[snusmumriken3]

"Around and Around" Check out the version by the Animals posted by magusmagic! It's better in my opinion! ;-)

[cast3lo]

thanks man!!! i will... XD

[augfive]

its all relative... clapton and the otehrs werent that great eitehr.. compatred to some otehrs playing jazz

[dagooch]

Not cheap as in inexpensive. Cheap as in quality. Is Clapton past his glory days? Probably. But he can still play the blues like he means it. Pagey can't. Carlos plays the same like he did in the 70s. Townsend was never really known for his lead work. Jeff Beck is pretty must the only one out of the 60s that has blazed new trails. Clapton doesn't put the accolades on himself, the media & people do.

[dagooch]

I have popped down to the local guitar shop. Nobody there plays anything like Clapton, Page, Jeff, Carlos etc. They don't have the patience to learn. They just do everything in dropped D tunings & play 2 strings at a time. The lads in the 50s, 60s & 70s didn't have 25 types of Strats, Les Pauls or SGs like we do now. You either bought a Gibson, Fender or Gretsch (& pay import fees) or something way, way cheaper. And if you've ever played a cheap guitar you would know what I'm talking about.

[68generation]

Eric C. was nothing special in those days and many of my friends and I in the States preferred that special aura, magic & talent brought by Keith Relf. Without this cat the group wouldn't have been the same.

[kidcalabria]

Violinbloke, I'm no great Clapton fan, but in all fairness, today perhaps lots of people might play that way & that kinda style, but here in the UK, in 1963, Clapton must have been a sight to behold, simply because he was there first. John Mayall was older & more experienced, a real blues pioneer in the UK, and he wouldn't have got Clapton, after his days in The Yardies, unless he was as good as most music lovers & gig-goers thought in those days...only Brian Jones could play the Blues that way

[violinbloke]

Yes, I agree.....what's always puzzled me though is the way that EC's 'status' has stayed so high when there were SO many better (in every way) guitarists later on. He's very lucky IMO, to have had such a career based on nothing special.

[kidcalabria]

I definitely agree with you there. It could be argued that Jeff Beck was more original, same for Jimmy Page and even Pete Townsend, not to mention Keith Richards whom can be recognized right away when you hear him, even without virtuosisms & long solos (or rather, exactly because of that)...and also some other guy called Jimi..something....definitely in a league of his own (and I'm pretty sure you'll agree with me there...) btw, what does IMO stand for? Forgive me my "virtual" ignorance...

[violinbloke]

Sorry, it means 'in my opinion'. Yes! That Jimi bloke, Jimmy, Jeff, Carlos, and SCORES of others have got the X factor....but after all these decades Eric still isn't as good as the kid at the guitar shop...IMO !!

[willwelsh816]

eric was the one to bring blues to more people, other people sort of made it there own. eric got alot better in 1969 and the 80s in my opinion, although his Cream stuff was a bit more fun to listen to.

[violinbloke]

OK...Eric Clapton is a good guitar player. I don't think he's GREAT, compared to so many others. The stuff that Cream did is SO turgid and overblown, big-headed and without any genuine groove at all....not helped by having three massive egos, a bizarre drummer with a tom-based sound etc etc. In my opinion. What young person ever refers to the Cream theses days? They are very switched-on to bullshit, you'll find.

[msfyn]

Thanks for sharing. I met the Yardbirds when Jimmy Page played along side Jim McCarty. I repeat myself saying .....thanks.

[violinbloke]

Nice documentary.......but Eric Clapton was really over rated!! Anyone who disagrees should pop down to their nearest guitar shop!