Not neccesarily, distortion and a good amount of compression was also added on those Disraeli songs in the studio.

Great comment, thanks.

I did too! It was my first ever concert as well. I was impressed.

Yeah, that was great tone & playing. Saw the tour, later leg without Eric, didn't sound right.

Badge has Clapton’s most finely crafted solo imho - pure perfection!

@@derekclacton I agree totally. He has never topped that original recording. It's a magnum opus of tone, phrasing, and note selection. I think it's their best song by far and that's saying something.

@@SimpleManGuitars1973 Absolutely - and Eric’s vibrato and slides, everything about the solo is perfect👍My favourite Cream song too and album.

FYI Eric wrote Badge with George Harrison and he said in more than one interview, that George was a key influence on him, as a song writer AND a guitar player including slide. This is not often mentioned as we all assume Buddy Guy, Freddie and Albert King, Jimi etc because of the Bluesbreakers 'sound' and Cream. George was already successful when Eric was a teenager, he looked up to him and not least the fact that George was one of the key British people importing and re-processing US music at the time - country, blues influences like Chet Atkins, Luther Perkins (Johnny Cash's lead - early recorded use of Esquire/Tele), Carl Perkins, Chuck Berry and wider jazz artistes like Django Reinhardt. Listen to those early pop records of the Beatles for the licks, fills and runs that were included over John and Paul's chords - that was mostly George whipping them out of fresh air like the solo break on All My Loving. Some of these are subtle and difficult to play, introducing notes and chords that other 'pop groups' were not even aware of but they are a key element of why the songs were hooky and successful and the experimentation contributed in time to the revelation of Rubber Soul and Revolver. George was doing this from 15 years old which is incredible when you analyse those songs as Eric was doing - he caught the influence right away. It's further evidenced I would suggest by Eric's decade post Cream, his contribution to George's triple album All Things Must Pass in 1970 and then the hook up in America with Duane Allman and Delaney & Bonnie. During that period, those early influences promoted by George first in The Beatles, later to Eric directly came forward and he appeared on stage with many of them including Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins. Just my opinion but it's based on Eric's interviews, their working relation ship and clear links in their catalogue. And oh yes, they shared a wife and a guitar :) the LP used on While My Guitar Gently Weeps.

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Thanks right about Chas...I real it in Charles Shaar Murreys book on Hendrix

I read that Jimi asked Chas if he could introduce him to Eric, and if he could swing that he would be inclined to go- in fact excited! They were all each other's heroes! (Eric, Jimi, Jeff Beck, Pete Townsend) so cool 😎 (Then Eric got his hair permed into an "afro")👍

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years as go my 2nd wha a was a Dunlap Jimi Hendrix wha and I called Dunlap and told them this pedal doesn't sound like Hendrix at all and it was very noisy I was mad, the gal I spoke to, was Great, She said calm down sir and we talked and I asked don't you make Clapton's pedal? she said yes but he wants to much money to put his name on that model. anyhow i sent back my pedal and they put the Clapton mod in it. all the parts were now unlabeled and the jacks were hermetically sealed. it SOUINDS EXACTLY LIKE THE DOMINOS SOUND from the Fillmore period and the Layla album era and 461 ocean blvd. period etc. Just one night as well. and the Dual showman period. when I use my 1969 Dual Showman with JBL D- 140's or 130's with my wha I nail the White room wha sound. they did all this for me back in 1996. S. Mcray approved the mod.. it says it in the pedal in 2 places under the cover..

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My girlfriend would definitely watch that one

Thanks Ben

I guess you've never heard of B.B.King?

@@garthkolbeck8674 Yes, of course, we can keep going back through Lonnie Johnson, Muddy and Django etc endlessly but I think you've somewhat missed the point. Angus Young actually sounds more like Clapton '68 than Clapton sounds like BB King '65. And Angus never moved beyond that for 50 years in terms of gear, sound and approach. And why not, if it ain't broke don't fix it. EC invented it i.e the supercharged rock/blues template Gibson+cranked Marshall but had cast it aside by '70.

@@lightningstrikes7314 wait a min .. you're giving Clapton complete credit for the Marshall cranked sound? You never heard of Pete Townshend and The High Numbers at the Railway Tavern? Look, I'm a fan of the Yardbirds, of the Beano era of cream of blind faith and domino's and Delaney Bonnie... But I've got to tell my side of the story... I believe that Pete Townshend was the power and volume and feedback guy... The first one in that English beat band era ... he's using distortion and feedback because he was trying to do something other than his jazzy lead guitar which I think sounds great to me but I can see why he went to the use of noise and distortion and feedback because he didn't feel like he was really good at solos... But I hear Pete Townshend as a great solist... Clapton, Hendrix, page beck.... Well Beck is probably the best of all of them because he is a playerq

John Entwistle has been credited as the first guy to "stack" speaker cabinets, back in the day.

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Great choice I'll look into that

@@TheGuitarShow I really appreciate you!

Absolutely

Pleasure Rikko thanks for watching!

Thanks Mike - I agree that Marshall has to be full up and then recorded with an old school microphone and preamp.

Thanks a million Ben!

Becuase they had not been invented

@@pabloperez4063 Besides a few pedals, there wasn't much to choose from. Maestro Fuzztone was around (1962), then the treble boosters, and finally Tonebenders and fuzz faces (1965), etc. I wish i could hear Clapton using a fuzz pedal though.

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You got it Alan!

@@TheGuitarShow thank you ramon, i even tried doing that too, i got a British pedal company treble booster rigged to my les paul straight from my marshall origin amp, i felt like the sound wasnt close to the beano tone.

@@Alan-su5bg yes people think you need a pedal to achieve this. But back in the 60s it was just guitar cable amp and everything on 10. We can't do that nowadays so a small amp.ot pedal is necessary. Wish I was in the 60s!!!!

It's indeed the leslie, driven by a marshall head. He used the 335 for it as well.

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A Vox wah is my desert island pedal.

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If you're talking about the intro (and later parts where that sounds shows up), it's all layered feedback guitar tracks.

That's correct Derek

BTW My brother ended up buying Felix Pappolardi's Fender Rohdes electric piano from a studio we were reordering at, which it was being stored in during the time. Back Street Recording Studio, White Plains Rd + Nerid Ave, Bx NY. from our engineer Ed Solan who was also engineering for Ace Freely's solo lp being recorded there "Back In The New York Groove" Rocklove ArtyThan ☆♡☆

Hi Joey - it's an ESP Navigator Special - I really want an orginal '58 but I dont think thats going to happen anytime soon!!!!

@@TheGuitarShow ya know man, don't waste your money on something like that. i almost bought a 58 in 1990 in NY for $1400 instead, i went uptown and bought a really nice 1970 Custom. of course, that one got away.

Thanks Jerry

Clapton's early Vox wah's would have been Clyde Mccoy's.

@@thepirhomancer9745 yeah ik but def not 847s 😂

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Damn! hah Thanks Shuan

I watched another KZfaq video of a guy using the crossroads pedal to get hard rock and metal tones recorded direct. I was pleasantly surprised how good it sounded and that someone was using that pedal for those sounds!

@@honkytonkinson9787 Yes, it's not that it's totally bad . The best approach when using the pedal is to take the name Eric Clapton out of the equation and play with it until you find something useable that you like .

I bought a Crossroads pedal from Soho Soundhouse on Charing Cross Road when they first came out. The pedal was the biggest load of junk I've ever bought and how Clapton could put his name to it is beyond me.The latest gimmick is the Woman Tone pedal which has a ridiculous high price and sounds way too fuzzy and fizzy

@@colinmcnab6145 I got off lightly, bought mine a few years later second hand . I tend to think Eric's only involvement in this pedal was promoting his Crossroads Centre in Antigua.

Many thanks for the great comment

His volumes in the 60s must have damaged his hearing for sure

He used a Octavia, Fuzz Face, a wah pedal, and a univibe. It think if there were more effects he would have used them.

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I know crazy! I thought to myself, this is going to be a really easy quick video....not! lol

@@TheGuitarShow ive read his autobiography highly recommended he talks about gear as well.

Great comment thanks

I agree. I had not used any pedals for a while, and then I brought some to use on a gig. Two songs in, I unplugged them and plugged straight in to my amp (Princeton reverb) WAY better.

I have to disagree with pedals being a cloak. It’s up to the player to used them creatively. Reverb is the classic effect, everyone uses it in one way or another.