Eric Clapton & Jeff Beck, Live, O2 Arena, London, 14th February 2010, Blues

[DRJVancouver]

Jeff is a great guitarist, but he relies too much on effects, I personally like his old less effects material like Freeway Jam where he uses mostly overdrive. Blues like this doesnt need that flash effects sound. Clapton keeps his guitar fairly clean, love to here Beck use his talent as a guitarist and less effects, and he can do it well.

[begijnenstraat]

If Clapton is God, than Jeff Beck is Boedhha....

greetings from Antwerp

[luciferrules]

Eric _clapton stopped play the songs about Conor in 2004 because he thought that the thing with those songs were that have to feel it. By the way Tear in Heaven was actually in the film Rush and he found a place in the film were he could put it and it was that movie that gave him the opportunity to write about his son.

[luciferrules]

Jeff solo maybe insane but he stays in the scale. When I play the notes Jeff plays I can't get it sound that way. I have never heard someone get that sound that Jeff gets.

[luciferrules]

Who recorded this song first because I guess that EC didn't wrote it?

[ronnied828]

From a physical standpoint, Clapton looks like he hasnt aged well and Beck looks like his son, WTF happened to that guy, i guess all those drugs and drink caught up with him !

[wind3]

this is probably what it was like for the ancient greeks when they saw zeus shredding at the top of mt. olympus.

[ChiroQuacker]

eric should do a tour with the allman brothers band...

[jasonlammons]

Beck, takin' dat shiza:):) oo mAN

[redredroselass]

Jeff Beck 's guitar playing was too loud especially they were playing blues.

[bellers]

dont get how everyone compares guitarists...doesnt make sense, just enjoy the music...

[gasforus]

Music, nor guitar playing, is a competition! Beck and Clapton each have their niche and strong points. They both came from the same blues "school", and even played together for a time. In the seventies Jeff moved into the rock/fusion genre, while Eric continued on the blues/rhythm & blues path. The question is not who's a better guitar player; the question is, do you relate to, feel, and understand their playing?

[Foinman]

What the fuck for an amp uses Jeff ?!!!! Fucking sound !

[Bigbluesboy]

@Foinman JMT 45 and Fender Twin 12 watt

[WTig3r]

@Bigbluesboy Actually he just used a tiny Fender Pro Jr amp for this concert. The other amps on stage were just for show, I suppose

[HeckTo]

omg! jeff's solo is totally insane!

[EZIOTHEMASTER]

Best Clapton performance I've been seeing in years, it's like he found his fire again. Probably, playing with Jeff doesn't hurt.

[iseamas]

Always a fan of both of these guys, but Beck in the last decade has been EVEN more of an unbelievable player than ever. That solo was a masterwork. At times it sounds like a overdriven harmonica, later it sounds like one of those crazy horns played in sacred hindu music. No one can touch Beck.

[MySquire]

that's freaking awesome!!!

what amp is jeff playing through? hes got a little tweed box, and a marshall looking amp there. nonetheless, SWEET!

and i like clapton's little boost thing in his guitar. 6:53. i want one myself :)

[dbrier72]

The"little boost thing" is the volume knob as you can see him turn it up while playing.

[MySquire]

@dbrier72 well no, it's an active mid boost unit he uses in his guitars. it's really nifty.

[EricClaptonFan24]

@dbrier72 NOT the volume knob. It is Mid-Boost, build in the Clapton-signature strat.

And it is the tone-control knob. Not volume knob.

[mcfarmland]

have you done little queen of spades ericmiller?

[ericmiller500]

@mcfarmland - 'fraid not, just the ones I uploaded.

[grungethequeen]

your camera is CRAZY good man.

can't wait to see clapton in march

[skydogjp123]

i love beck, hes awesome but clapton is the greatest, he keeps his technique sweet and simple, he doesnt need no whammy bar and fast finger tapping to make his guitar scream and cry

[dbrier72]

@skydogjp123 Thats just it,Clapton's technique is too simple and plain.He doesn't have the balls to do what Jeff does.I have seen both live and Jeff is in a league of his own and makes it look so easy.Don't get me wrong Eric is a great blues player but thats it(just blues).There is way more to Jeff's playing and his repitoir in my opinion is much more impressive.Get his new album"Emotion and Commotion"and then make your judgement on who is a better player in the present day.Track 2 Hammerhead.

[momonurse]

Wow, that was fantastic. I don't care who is "better", it was a great performance. You were a lucky mother***** to be able to see/record that, and everyone should thank you for that. So everyone should stop bitc*** about who is better, it was just nice to see and hear that. Thanks

[rich465]

Does all this crap matter? They are both amazing legends and just enjoy their freakin talent!

[MooCarvalho]

who is playing the keys?

[innerdreamrecords]

JB's guitar sounds like a harmonica here, that's cool.

[snowchief]

the Clapton solo's in this song are really outstanding. at the end, Eric seems to be asking Jeff if he wants to play lead and Jeff giggles like he's not ready, so Eric takes it. if you listen closely, the lead in lines to eric's solos are real classics. i think he likes to take the back stage most of the time, but when he really puts some effort into it it's hard to match him.

[ericmiller500]

Well spotted, EC pulled all the stops out, although for 'entertainment' reasons I think he missed an opportunity to nail the evening by not playing Layla, Wonderful Tonight or Tears in Heaven which would have blown the O2 half way up the M1.

[sgguitar77]

Yeah, but Clapton can play those tunes any other time. These shows with Jeff are a bit different.

[garmonbozia318]

@snowchief- I'm pretty sure Eric was cuing Jeff that the change was coming up, and Jeff thought he meant right away. Jeff comes in 2 bars early and then has to drop back, Clapton graciously steps in.

[MichaelPalinFan2008]

I think people would say Eric's solos are much better, because they have a direction. Jeff's does, but sooo random alot. I think that's one of the things that unique about him though, that fact that he does go off at random tangents, but makes it sound so sick to 'make up for it' so to speak.

[ericmiller500]

This is the mentor and the minor, not at odds but in competition. Often the minor outperforms the mentor, however, experience usually prevails and teaches respect, composure and excellence.

[ericmiller500]

Quote:

"We were all trying to be big bananas ... Except I didnt have the luxury of the hit songs Erics got".

Read between the lines - respect?

[isabelfuentesnar]

@dljone9 If you think Clapton is just a hit record saler like Carey Bros and this people you really have no idea at all, he´s skilled, has style, feeling everything.......a guitar player could aspire to........he´s just to good to be truth.... and one of the best with Page, Gilmour, Hendrix, SRV................it´s no just my opinion....history will tell at the end.

[RootsinBrooklyn]

@ericmiller500

"...not at odds, but in competition" ...Huh?

The two British electric guitarists here are each other's contemporaries. Each has his own gifts. (Jeff plays his butt off here, and maybe wins the little guitar duel this time. But I don't see him stepping up to sing.)

There is no mentor-protege relationship between these two. They were born ten months apart,. Both have played professionally since they were in their teens.

[MichaelPalinFan2008]

Matt guitar murphy of the blues brothers is a fine example of lead guitar playing, and no he definitely doesn't lack direction. Haha, well yes but I wasn't saying Jeff 'lacks' direction, I was just saying in the point that they're different. Maybe what I meant, was as Clapton sort of takes you down several paths with his playing and Jeff sort of jumps around alot, that people would find them 'better' because they could sort of see where he was going? Maybe... Haha oh anyway, that's my opinion.

[garmonbozia318]

MichaelPalin- I can see how one could hear Jeff's solos as "random" but I find with most of them, if you listen close you can hear how a lot of the wild leaps and different sounds imply more traditional melodies. A lot of the time I feel like Beck's solos are kinda like those Japanese paintings where two brush strokes perfectly suggest a mountain, or tree, or whatever; he just plays a few parts of the melody and lets your ear fill in the rest.

[savoybrown001]

this sounds like areally good band...

when they land in canada...please practice at what ever place...and london is a good town you be quiet if you want...

cheers...

[sugarmagknowya]

Eric Clapton blows my mind!!!  Holy Chit!!!

[jbawn]

That was jeff becks best solo of the night, Both of them were awesome

[markmcg]

that clapton solo was to good

[jbawn]

that clapton solo was amzin. I was there :-)

[shadowcaste]

Great capture!!

[rabs97]

Nicely shot video there... I went on the Saturday... Awesome gig....

[drockadam6]

The song is called "Brown Bird"

[ericmiller500]

Ta!