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  • 4:27 ... one of the best solos of all time and not even in a specific song, now THAT's genius

  • Cool Gibson SG ! ;)

  • man he looks cool :)

  • which interview is this from? are there more clips from it? can i see full thing somewhere?

  • Greatest tone of all time, along with the Beano Album.

  • what an awesome ciggarette holder

  • hendrix killed eric

    hehe hendrix is god 

  • @achemaro hendrix = genius in his own weird world / clapton = genius in our own dramatic world hendrix = much more show, rhythm and noise / clapton = much more singing pain in the tone

  • Clapton. Right place, right time, complete twat.

  • electronic guitar???

  • They must be in a decent sized hall you can hear the natural reverb coming of the building.

  • massive tone win

  • Man I've had yet to hear that tone replicated today.

  • so much cooler than today

  • lol at his cig stuck in the guitar at 1:00 !

  • this the real eric clapton the god before he was replaced by a blues loving soulless robot clapton shows how good he could play with aggression in the music and switching to a strat was the worst thing he did hes no hendrix he shouldve stuck to what he knows instead of trying to copy other peoples styles ask anyone and they all say the same thing the moment he went from gibson to fender for some reason he lost his edge

  • Derek and the Dominos era was also incredible with the strat but after that....i dont know.

  • Great...

    This is from 1971

    Clapton is GOD !!!

  • @whisky9096 Cream disbanded in 1968...

  • the fool sg

    one hell of a guitar.

  • perhaps the coolest ever?

  • One of the Best of All times!!

  • any ideas on what amp / effects he used here?

  • He is the real Eric Clapton.

  • Is that real Eric Clapton ?

  • No, oh god no...that's not real eric clapton, that's just an animatronic dummy which has been programmed to play an SG.

  • he doesnt talk about his main skill at that time:

    a godlike (haha...) Vibrato!

  • Is there more of this show? Is there a complete version of the show?

  • What year was that?

  • He used a vox wah that he got from mannys music store in 67.

  • what wah did he use?

  • Could you just do that again? Weeeerrrr~~~~ Enuff, Done! ^^

  • Now I see where Spinal Tap got their shtick from...

  • Does anyone know wat he's playin in that last part? just a basic idea? tabs would be great, but yer if anyone could help, thanks,

  • you have ears

  • It's pretty obvious from my question that I'm mostly a tab relient guitarist, yeah that probably makes me alot less of a real musician, but all I wanted to know was what he is playing. Instead of wasting my time with some stupid, pointless comment, you could easily have just either answered my question, or said nothing.

  • it's obvious that he's improvising. I'm pretty sure there are no tabs, so the only way is to listen. It's not that hard.

  • I know, I ment some kind of shape or something to work with, and just a few of the phrases that he was using. I don't want to play that exact thing, just that kind of sound.

  • pentatonic scale

  • I appreciate that your trying to help me, but your kind of missing the point. Just dw, thanks.

  • There are tabs for this; Can't recall where I saw them though, I'll look around.

    GOOGLE IS YOUR FRIEND!

    :)

  • Thanks a heap mate :)

  • minor pentatonic scale

  • I can see why peopel are getting irritated; there are musicians and then there a tab players. Playing using tab means you arent versed in theory which in turn means you arent able to really create the music, which seperates you from a musician. What you are is a guitar player, playing the tunes. As for the tabs, I advise you take into account the teach a man to fish philosophy. Read up blues, and make up your own licks like this, as opposed to learning the tab and only being able to play this.

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  • does clapton do alternate picking or freestyle picking?

  • "Yeah, let me turn this thing off", CRACK!!!!!!

    I wonder how many wah wah pedals he'd bust up in a year, practically stomped through the stage floor. : )

  • another characteristic of your kind of playing is a kind of whining noise usually described as the woman tone

  • he definetely knows what he is talkong about.

  • @elbratzo being in my opinion the greatest guitarist ever, i should hope so!!

  • cool. I'd love to see the rest of this programme

  • it was on bbc i player called the story of the guitar it was a really good program including hendrix david gimour and jimmy page

  • That's not true. I have the full video, and has nothing to do with Jimmy and Jimi.

    It's a 50min of Cream music and band members interview like this one!

    I love it when he kicks the wah. xD

  • and burning cigarette end scorched his guitar head

  • What guitar is he playing in the vid?

  • It's a SG

  • it was called *the Fool*

  • Gibson SG 'The Fool'

  • gibson sg great guitar

  • my bad...

    hungrycrocodile

    spelt funny

  • heres the link for that cool guitar shop... if you didn't already get it:

    hungrycrocodilec (dot) co (dot) uk

    sells all sorts ;)

  • I want an SG now.

  • amazing he really knows ehat he is doing.

  • thats why i want the sg

  • I just love how articulated he is when he turns off the wah-wah!

  • it sounds so nice...

  • i think that tales of brave ulysses was the first song to be recorded with a wah wah pedal.

  • it was the first song eric clapton played with wah wah

  • ohh damn.... i dint know mr. clapton looked this good in his young age.... but he rarely used the wah wah.... that was done more by jimi hendrix

  • in cream live era he used wah wah , on studio i recall himn using wah on tales of brave ulysses and white room as i recall

  • watch awesome tibetan guitarist (from switzerland?!), he will blow you away! just look for "purtag" (his name)

  • just wonderful.

  • i love how this is a TINY bit...."these go to eleven.....its one higher"

  • I love you Eric!!

  • Mr. C was sooo extremely hot then.

    And still he is !!!

  • I would kill to get that guitar and that sound! Its fucking sick.

  • His sound and how he just lets these licks rip out are so cash...

  • that cigarette is sooo cool

  • your a fucking idiot

  • Anyone have any idea what amp he was using?

  • I love Clapton the complete performer more than Clapton the guitarist,love his singing voice but every time i see this footage his playing is totaly smoking !! love it

  • When i first saw this it changed alot my playing! I love this...

  • Wow good to hear someone likes David Gilmour too. Yeah Clapton is the COOLEST ever. ever.

  • Eric Clapton and David Gilmour are my Gods!

  • @linjo97811 Dont forget Mark Knopfler lol

  • And German is not 'some shit language', it's a beautiful one without which we would not have Goethe!

  • And what's the point in argueing about different languages in the first place? We are all different, which is the reason the world is so beautiful. Shutup and listen to Mr. Clapton here.

  • I want this guitar !

  • i wish sticked to the rock

  • Maybe you should learn to click on the 'Reply' button and make your comment in there, since I wont get any email about your pathetic comment if you just post your shit. More than 1 month delay for me to reply... The only reason I saw this, was because some German jerk said something in a stupid language. that I don't understand, in a 'reply' to me, so I got the email notification...

  • 1:20-1:40 is amazing.

  • Kinjutsuu, you're not voicing an opinion at all. You're simply trying to get a reaction out of everyone else. A few posts previously, you say, ''Hey, I like Clapton'' now you're saying ''I just don't like Clapton.'' Grow up you arrogant little moron and go look for your sad little kicks elsewhere.

  • Everybody can change opinions. Especially if there are so many faggot fans...

  • Amazing video - and for people saying he shouldn't be the 2nd greatest guitarist in the world because of just being able to play that.. Its about soul Eric plays with soul and you don't see soul in Dragonforce or Fall Out Boy.

    Great video thanks for posting!

  • lolol nub christian haha... soul my ass! it's about music knowledge and finger skills. brain to hand connection. = brain not soul I've never heard anything so silly before, eric clapton just picks up the guitar like any other guitarist and plays something. NOTHING SPECIAL IN THAT

  • Do you know his nickname "Slowhand"??!

    My oppinion is you're a little motherfucker without any knowledge about guitarplaying!!

    So SHUT UP !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • You're opinion can rage me in the ass. And the fact that I know the truth about Clapton makes me smart in the category guitar playing, haha. So you shut up, or learn to spell opinion with one P. It's not a good idea to make such typos when you're trying to demean someone. So I'll just be waiting for some professional comeback. Take your time. Oh, and the nickname Slowhand is great. I could come on some too, I'm sure, like Boring Grandpa, or Crap-itar Clapton

  • Also erstens: oPinion

    Dann was für eine in dem Kommentar erwähnte Wahrheit?? Was für ein professionelles Comeback?? Und ich entschuldige mich natürlich hiermit in schriftlicher Form bei ihnen für diesen Rechtschreibefehler.

  • That's what I call a professional comeback................. In some stupid shit language that I don't understand... Good job.................

  • Oh, thank you, but it's only german because i'm german. That's why my english isn't the best. But if you don't understand my language, your IQ is under the temperature outside.

  • HAHAHA that's the worst piece of crap I've ever heard... That's why I hate Germans.. "But if you don't understand my language, your IQ is under the temperature outside." My IQ is 125, nazi, but it's not 125 degrees outside. And I regonize crap when I see it, so I knew it was in Deutsch. English is the best language. Get used to it, sucker. Don't expect the rest of the world to learn your shit.. Learn English instead, and you'll be able to communicate with so many people around the world.

  • Thats a great choice of words , but if you call me a nazi, your IQ cannot lie at 125. You don't respect other persons opinions, and thats your problem. This is the plot of this conversation. All in all I'm no nazi, you're the nazi. ---> ...I hate germans (Ein englischer/amerikanischer Rassist)

  • Yeah, maybe I could be poet. And exaggeration promotes understanding. With the word nazi, I express you as a German lover who wants the whole world to speak Deutsch, and without any respect to the rest of the world. I do respect other persons opinions, though. And nazis are German bitches who fights for the 'good' with the symbol Swastika that they've took from religions such as Hinduism, Buddhism. I can't be nazi since I'm not from Germany, and I don't have the same point of view as Hitler had.

  • Your opinion is I'm a nazi, because I've written 1 comment in german???

  • You've called a black person a nigger???

    Indeed you're a member of the KKK.

  • You're both idiots. 'Orschnu; for responding to this arrogant, stupid, disgrace of an english speaking man, and 'Kinjutsuu' so being a generally ignorant cock. Should he write in english just because it would be easier for you to understand!

    Take a petri-dish and a brain cell and try and grow a large enough intellect to be more tolerant of other people!

    And bloody hell, just enjoy the music!

  • Maybe you should read my comments one more time. There you will find the reason

  • Now I've written your comments 5 times, but I hadn't found a reason

  • You don't need to write them again man, just read them. Maybe an English - Deutsch dictionary would help.

  • Well, I've already understood the context, but maybe I'm to stupid to find the reason.

  • Well maybe.

  • The last solo is really amazing !!!!

  • Just fucking amazing .. WOW

  • Love how the typical 60's BBC interviewer patronises Eric in the clipped Oxbridge accent which was the only one allowed on air at that time.

    Was it really only 40 years ago?

  • Why does he kick his Wah so hard?

  • Since when did ALL GREAT MUSIC have to have 'subtlety' and 'delicacy'?

  • hendrix is shit? you need to sort your fucking life out : )

  • Fuck I'm sick of guitar hero wannabes who think playing reallllllyy fast means you're good.

  • Don´t you just hate, that you can´t play yourself? Hehe.

    Satriani, Malmsteen, Becker. Haha. Go see them live, you´ll find out. They are all robots. Especially Malmsteen. That guy hasn´t present anything of his own. Except an easy way out picking. Guitar playing is a whole lot more than mindless shredding.

  • they are great and play much better than clapton, but that's not a big achievement.

  • Clapton may be inspired your shredder idols? Have you thought that?

  • Yes, definitely agree with you.

    On ONE fucking thing.

    Guitar playing is about more than mindless shredding, which is what stuff like MAB is. But calling Jason becker mindless shred is like calling your mother beautiful, it's just not true. Eric Clapton is definitely a good musician, he has good composition, but his music is BOOOOOOOOORING.

    Now, Becker has this same awesome composition, but manages to make music that is exciting, refreshing and has an awesome mood.

  • Clapton could beat those noobs at any time bitch.

  • hahahahahahahaha yeah yeah sure, soon his in the grave old grandpa clapton. if the competition is about fast picking and good melody then yngwie malmsteen would own old grandpa so hard in the ass.. if it's about old boring blues, then grandpa may have a chance

  • STFU, you dont know anything about music my lost and confused friend. Go paste your crap somewhere else!

  • good idea, there are tons of other videos with grandpa. Maybe I can convince some of the people at those.. I might be able to open their eyes. ok then 'pal'. goodbye

  • Try to go to "Layla" and watch 2:55-3:05 and tell me if that isn't the greatest solo you have ever heard.

  • Definitely good, but not the best... It's not hard to play either.. Just because he can play that it shouldn't give him the rank of the world's 2nd best guitarist that's just fucking stupid...

  • Man, he's been around in 45 years, listen to his tracks from 1965 - present... He's a guitar god...

  • claptons a better guitarist than yngwie anyday of the year

  • That's so low, Kinjutsuu. Bet you can't play guitar at all, if you could you would change your mind about Clapton.

  • It's weird that you post a comment more after 3 minutes. You didn't insult me enough in the first one, eh? Hey, I like Clapton, but there are other guitarists that I like way more... And who I would call better.. But he made some awesome tracks like Tears in Heaven. Not hard to play, but so beautiful.. So yeah, I know that guitar playing is about more than just shredding, but fast shredding is still skillzzz

  • Fast shredding is skills, yes, but I'm a guitarist and a bit experienced in this subject. It's about being virtouso, not to be a fast robot with no feeling for the playing (I'm not insulting you, just giving a example). I've been listening to famous guitarists and comparing these musicians. Most of them are awesome, but they don't have any feeling for the playing.

  • that's why gary moore kicks ass !!! just listen to still got the blues :))

  • I bet you've never heard of phrasing or vibrato, shredding doesn't include any of them. Clapton can make his music have a meaning. Shredding is just about getting young kiddies to love you. I'm 13 before you say anything twattish about being a grandpa. Thing is with Malmsteen. Only guitarists know who he is. With Clapton, people who play and don't know who he is, and worship him for that matter, also I believe everyone who knows a thing about music will continue to love him even after he dies.

  • Just shut up I am tired of grandpa fans replying to me all the time. Let me have my point of view, that's my decission, not yours. In my eyes Clapton makes really boring music and really shouldn't be known as the world's 2nd best guitarist and so be it.

  • I'm 13, if you're calling me a grandpa, then I'm guessing you're calling yourself around 2. Also, it seems to me like you think your opinion is more important than others. Soul your ass eh? So, have you ever listened to Stevie Ray Vaughan. He's the bridge between so called shredding and soulful playing and he's bloody brilliant. Eric Clapton on the other hand knows how to play a guitar elegantly and soulfully. Don't argue against soulful playing. Any good guitarist respects good music.

  • You're stupid. I don't call you a grandpa, kid, I call Eric Clapton a grandpa, nice nickname for him with his old music. Stevie is nice btw, I just don't like Clapton.

  • no he has a lot more than them.

    its called good music. you know why clapton is more famous than any of those guitarists?

    cos hes better

  • He's fucking not better, but obviously the rolling stones are turned on by blues... I find blues a bit boring... And Eric Clapton may be better than many people, but not them all ffs

  • Stultus est ! ! !

  • Okay?

  • lilefty2 is talking crap and he knows it. He's just trying to provoke angry responses from us - and evidently it's working.

  • liftys right malmsteem could play anything clapton does but it wouldn't work the other way round. Check out rusty cooley and malmsteem and all of them. thats real guitar playing

  • u hate clapton, u love malmsteen, fine. but face fact, clapton is much more appreciated worldwide. i checked malmsteen vids, i think his style is horrible

  • and thats why almost nobody knows Yngwie Malmsteen ^^

  • My comment re girlfriend - not everything is best when done quickly ;-) Seriously tho, yeah Yngwie is a great player (Satriani is better IMHO) and the whole neo-classical thing was cool for a while but I watched Yngwie on the G3 tour and he looked a little dorky busting out of those spandex trousers! To dimiss Hendrix as shit because he didn't play a million notes a second is missing the point - Hendrix was a great player.

  • notice? hes got a cigar on the guiatr..

  • yes! he's got a cigar on my videos.

    sheck them out, both live videos.

  • "the faster you can play the better you are....".

    Hmmmm. Ask your girlfriend if thats really the case.

  • can't get enough of this. dunno how many times i've watched this and i have enjoyed every second of it

  • anybody knows, what guitar he plays in that vid? or what pickups he used? anybody? thanks alot. merry christmas.

  • Ah, he is fucking great.

  • he plays fast anyway

  • who ever insults clapton doesnt kno what music is...u just like metal and playing fast. Wheres the feeling. Fuck dragonforce, metallica, and other metal bands. This is blues...hes not supposed to play fast...ruins everything

  • wo wo woow...calm down bro :d...i understand you're furious because they just cursed at your favorite guitarist :d..but its unnecessary to curse at other bands for no reason ! :D...just say that you dont like them ...dont say fuck them :D...and btw i have nothing against clapton...think he is amazing ! :D.. ooh and btw....FYI some blues guitarists do shred in blues style of course :D..including clapton :) ...just look it up ... no hard feelings bro !

  • blues ?? why not fast?

  • you are correct! bless your soul enlighted one.

  • indeed master, my sins have been enchanted, our wives shall enquisite tonight

  • is this a cigarete?

  • yes

  • A few comments re some posts here..I'm a major Tommy Emmanuel fan and yes he's a freak. One of the hundreds of times I've seen him was opening for Clapton. He had 10000 people's jaw's dropping with just an acoustic guitar. Then EC came on and with his first 15 seconds of playing, made TE look almost redundant. No one plays/sounds/puts the amount of feel into guitar as much as Clapton.

    Vibrato? Listen to Double Crossing time on Bluesbreakers. Listen to Tons of Sobs with Kossoff. Both killers

  • Yeah, from what I know it is a '61