eric clapton - worried life blues

[antoni7515]

Yeah that was buddy guy, he is not even playing that gibson with any soul, he needs his strat man!

[chalftits]

@antoni7515 not a gibson...guild starfire... buddy actually played several of those instead of gibson 335 and 345, and please dont ever say buddy has no soul u really sound dumb

[antoni7515]

@chalftits Well spotted about the Guild, i hadnt seen it properly just posted cus ive got this vid on vhs from years ago, My bad!....No, about the soul thing, i meant he doesnt get into it like he normally does on his strat! besides i think he's just holding back to let Eric have his moment! Haha. ;-)

[mareasto]

That is not Buddy Guy.

[leealpha2177]

Buddy was away with the fairies

[freakybuzz]

Eric Clapton?! And Buddy Guy?! In a small, intimate club setting?!

Get much better?

[ThePamela77]

I hadn't seen Piano like that since my wild Homesteadin Grama!  SHe was a picker too

[silvertonman77]

What is the look at 3: 58. He apparently didn't like something. What was it?

[Jim21680]

That's one of the coolest openings to a solo I've heard in a long time (from about 3:40 on). Clapton has got it ALL.

[mereks]

That Buıddy Guy is playing aint Gibson .... It is a "Guild" .... FYI

[dr05guitar]

surprising he didn't give buddy a solo, and did give one to the pianist

[EJwannabe]

Great performance, but I like Robben Ford's version better

[iroulis]

@EJwannabe Robben Ford ain't a popular guy. He don't do pop.

[willis187211gunit]

guitar gods

[SAUCEPANJEFF]

clapton should have let Buddy Guy lose

[internalpeaceseeker]

i can relate to this song lyrics

[kivlov]

@internalpeaceseeker same

[bklyncosanostra]

probably the best clapton solo ever, listen to key to highway from sswame gig, awesome

[floydwarb]

Is there any way of getting hold of the whole performance of this gig?

[magnum9987]

I always find it funny on these old videos how you can tell clapton is stoned. haha

[johnnymurray100]

love the players here...chris stainton on piano...but eric's tone reeks of lace-sensor pickups...he sounds way better with a gibson in his hands.

[uofm97]

@johnnymurray100 Lace-sensor pickups? I'm not familiar with that term. Active and passive I know of as far pickups go, but not lace-sensor. Does it have anything to do with that incredibly fuzzy tone Eric is using here?

[Mikular]

Man, that piano guy got skill.

Oh, that Clapton whats-his-face is okay, is suppose... :P

[753lol]

i have to say i'm used of better soloing done by eric

[kingofthemosh]

Something about Buddy Guy playing a Gibson just doesn't look right. He should be ripping it on his polka-dot strat!

[BadCatStrat]

Sir, it is a Guild.

[FreedomZealot]

@kingofthemosh Yeah, Buddy's Strat is a more natural fit. But wasn't that a Guild Blues Bird, rather than a Gibson?

[bdog66656]

epic

[DRISSERY]

Buddy Guy! What a legend in the background..

[aaiissc]

BIG

[dkstryker]

now this is when clapton was considered the best guitar player in the world.but now there are many faces in with his.

[RonyMexico]

clapton still is the best

[podiumr]

man, love this song, E C is so talented, piano cant argue with that! fxxxing classic i love it! oh lordy lord

[6235115]

lovin this video!! leave me a comment

energetic fun smart and loves this video ws

[Finjuro]

Quick, turn Buddy Guy's amp down!

[rogerthehat]

why did clapton do pop this is what he is best at

drop the pop stick to the blues

[MarcoZucchi81]

I totally agree.

[JFiannaca]

such a good sound i cant decide whether i like clapton with the gibson or strat better they both sound awesome

[MarcoZucchi81]

Eric is better with Gibson! Because his hard picking should be balanced with the mellow sound of a Gibby... check out "have you ever loved a woman" live in Hyde park in 1996... there he used his old Yardburds/Cream Gibson 335 and it' s just AMAZING. Come on, Eric, if you' re reading come back to Gibson!

[specialagentslowhand]

3:50-3:53 sounds like he played a lick that changed key and back. either a brilliant move or a perfect mistake!

[joebrassmonkey]

sounds to me like he actually "mistakenly" added a minor note into it. He was play from the 3rd pentatonic position, so it leads me to assume it was an accident.

[seanfunk1]

I remember seeing this on the TV back in '86 as part of a South Bank Show Special on Clapton. I still have the show on VHS somewhere but sadly no VHS player to watch it on. I used to be a huge fan of Clapton but his work of the last twenty years leaves me cold - this is his natural environment and one in which he flourishes. Great stuff.

[bluez1981]

Man! those early Eric Clapton Signature Stratocaster's with Lace Sensor pickups had such a special compressed sound perfect for that low down dirty blues

[MarcoZucchi81]

The Clapton Signature Strat was introduced in 1989... I really love Strats but honestly i don' t likke the mid-boost that is mounted on that model.