😂😂😂😂😂

That's true 😂

With the exception of Zappa, for obvious reasons

Sometimes you're so loaded you even start to make sense

This was before he was hooked on heroin and cocaine

Yeah interviewer was quite knowledgeable with this gear

He said “Fuck this pedal in particular”

@潘卓Pan_Cho I thought they were made of rocks back then

I tried a vintage Vox Clyde Wah before and honestly you have to press it twice as hard to engage it . So compared to a modern day wah it was definitely more sturdy .

Dominique Arquiza The only reason he started using it on Cream songs like Tales of Brave Ulysses and White Room was to one-up Hendrix, who had started experimenting with it first.

I have a bunch of different wah pedals and some are harder to start than others. For example the Xotic wah is famous for having a really soft switch. There’s another one that I can’t think of that as soon as you put your foot on it, it senses that slight pressure change and activates. It’s actually too sensitive - a lot of players complain it goes on when they accidentally brush against it when hitting a different pedal. Others are really hard to activate - my Wilson wah I kinda have to give it a good jolting press to get it on, specifically if I’m doing it in time with a song. But I’ve never played a wah pedal where you have to kick it as hard as Eric did 😂

Really funny you can maybe write a comic book about the musicians of the sixties and seventies

xBlackout718x With my T•Rex wah you definitely have to kickstart it heehee

@@xBlackout718x yeah my cry baby can be a bitch sometimes.

After listening to Clapton that's my vibrato tecnique now The best vibrato you can get is this one

@@cagethefoxtrick3852 Actually Paul Kossoff had the best one, even Eric said so because he ask Kossoff how he did his vibrato and Paul said to Eric you're kidding right.

@@jwjeffrey clapton had a better vibrato

@@toonarmy2979 agreed 100% 👍

@@jwjeffrey No way! Best vibrato was Danny Kirwan.

YES, I can't even believe this footage exists so you get to see how he thinks with the guitar in his hands.

YES

+Raul Mejia what if you're using a strat?

+floydian1 I just turn the tone knobs all the way I get a decent cream tone

+davefan16 Thanks ^_^

floydian1 tone knobs all the way down**

Use a Strat at your own risk!!!

Timliu92 I think because of the death of his rival-friend the legendary Jimi Hendrix. He was kinda depressed that time.

Timliu92 When he bought a Strat the day before Hendrix died

Jimi died in 1970 though, and this video is from 1968. I think he just is/was calm by nature

Francis Dedumo He didn’t buy a Strat for himself the day before Jimi died. He found one of the rare left-handed ones and was planning to gift it to Jimi, but he died the day after he bought it. Clapton didn’t start playing the Strats until he went for his solo album and the DatD stuff. At the end of Cream he was using Firebirds and 335s, and then Les Pauls with the Bluesbreakers and THEN Strats.

Thats the thing about virtuoso, you cant work it out just how they got so good so soon, Gary Moore was the same at 18 he had it all.

Not to disagree with you, he took quite a few of these licks from American musicians. I give him credit in his country, but he's mostly just another brit that jacked our swag

The licks Clapton stole from black blues artists...sure.

@@Rhythmicons Which artists did he steal from? Any solos in particular that contain these stolen licks? It's easy to cross-reference and compare these days, when people can pull up pretty much any song within seconds. I'm curious to take a listen.

@@Woozy.0 Can you give examples of who Clapton took licks from? Not a rhetorical question. Genuinely curious.

Because Hendrix and Steve Winwood used strats

I think you answered your own question. As he got older, his tastes softened. He doesn't play the aggressive hard blues-rock much anymore. He plays softer blues. I assume that's why he switched to the strats.

I think the Rock God life almost killed him and the switch to a Strat reflects his backing away from the aggressive style in Cream.

I don't know if I'd say its necessarily a reflection of him leaving the harder lifestlyle behind. The reason I say this is because he started playing the strats around the time Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs came out (its noted by Duane Allman who played guitar with Eric on a majority of the album that you could tell who's guitar it was because of the thickness in tone spoken in reference to Erics Strat and Duanes Les Paul). During that time he still would've been struggling with his addictions and other side affects of his hard rocking lifestyle. Granted his switch could be reflection of his wanting to leave that lifestyle being but who's really to say i guess.

Experiment Eight I think because of the death of his rival-friend the legendary Jimi Hendrix. He was kinda depressed that time.

allrequiredfields I think this is up there with the best tone anybody has ever had. Eddie Van Halen’s brown sound is up there as well, but I think it’s extremely hard to compare anyone to Clapton in the late 60s when it comes to technicality. I personally think is when Clapton was at his best, because of the tone and because I think the SG & Gibson guitars in general are superior to Strats and Teles.

The Dark Knight Technicality? In terms of speed or virtuosity in vibrato, pitch and knowin what to play when?

@@thedarkknight6799 what happened to him? his playing went from awesome to middle of the road overnight it seems

Method1 I don’t know what you’re referring to but if you’re saying that he’s been bad live lately that’s probably due to arthritis

I think the king of vibrato at that time was Danny Kirwan in Fleetwood Mac.

There's even a Jack sighting at 1:53!

EXACTLY! Nigel Tufnel!

Roberto Sedinho Fuck off...

Joshua Stephens WAS God, Clapton WAS God...

Erummm...Jimmy Page?

@@PaulSter Totally different sound. Not worse, just different.

As they were close in those days, I think the "Les Paul into a cranked Marshall" tones were all about the same. Vibrato, style, rhythm differentiated them, but not by a wide margin in live sections. All those cats from back in the day had essentially the same tone. All great.

@@PaulSter They were all amazing and set the tone for all that followed. Even Hendrix who mostly played a Strat used Gibsons quite a bit. Really changed they way rock music was played even to this day.

@@BeachJazzMusic yep. I'm a fanatic of all things electric. For me, it was seeing Jimi on TV at his seminal Monterey Pop Festival performance. I was probably 14. I started playing guitar that same year - '74. As passionate about it today as I was then. I'm in my studio, surrounded by Strats, Les Pauls, Teles, SGs, a V, other various guitars, basses, my plexi half-stack,'68 Super Reverb,'68 Leslie model 16, DRRI, Mesa Lonestar, and other very nice tube amps and a bass amp. So a range of 22w to 100w. Thankfully (?), I'm out of room, or there would be more. Probably 15 more guitars in storage. All to say that I'm totally immersed in it. And it all started with Jimi at Monterey.

I know right? Getting old sucks

He needs to go back to using Gibsons! He sounds great on strats but there's something about his style using humbuckers that sounds so good

With Hendrix, the line of influence is pointing in the other direction - Sunshine of Your Love was Cream making a song a la Hendrix, having just seen him live and been blown away. Page is a funny case - he's got Clapton's tone almost perfect in parts of LZ I, particularly studio version of How Many More Times and in the solo, and he played a telecaster in those days. When he picked up his Les Paul (and I agree, they've got a sonic profile pretty similar to an SG) he moved away from that sound and into a more honking, rough tone that became kind of the hard rock default. I love Led Zeppelin, but I think rock and roll would have been better off without them. They broke ground, and anyone who lived through the hair metal bands of the 80s or ever had a neighbor who played Foreigner too loud knows that it was the WRONG GROUND. Now that I think of it, Jeff Beck is playing on the Yardbirds "Over Under Sideways Down", which also got a jump on the Cream tone that was Clapton's best. I think Clapton did it better than anyone (other than possibly Hendrix, who had a similar but distinct thing going on) but the originator he was not.

It's a good one, for sure. He's really being serious, and answering the questions honestly.

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Other than Jimi Hendrix.

***** zappa sucks

Pale Sage Music Zappa sucked...??? You're crazy man!!

A nice piece by Eric...

And Jeff Beck

+rafasounds2010 I,ll have a look for that rafasounds, cos I struggle with bend vibrato, and he makes it look easy on this vid. but the reason I replied to you was because, curiously , bb king never put vibrato on string bends. although he used amazing vibrato in so many licks, I just wonder if thre is a link ??? : )

johnny shep Yes, I think there is a link. Both are blues players, and blues guitar players see the guitar as an extension of the human voice (I mean, the great ones). The human voice can't be "bent" like a string; it can slide notes up or down, and can do vibrato as well. It can also slide a note and vibrate it, but its less common than to just oscilate on stopped notes. Sorry for the messy explanation. Nowadays I find myself vibrating on bends less randomly and more consciously on specific places.

yeh, I like your explanation, makes sense. so , I need to keep practicing bend vibrato or I,ll feel inadequate. lol. then I,ll maybe use it less,( sorry not less but like u say, more consciously) I,ll never be gary moore lol

johnny shep Try to practice it with a metronome. First you try slower. Use rhythmic figures - two oscilations per beat, three oscilations, and so on. A fast and well defined vibrato is hard to find, like Hendrix and Vaughan. A fast and defined vibrato is good, but a fast and chaotic vibrato is bad. The finger vibrato is for sure the most difficult technique on the electric guitar. Its much harder than fast picking, sweep picking and all that stuff. The vibrato has to be done in a natural wal, and it involves a complex movement of wrist, fingers, and probably forearm. Every player has a different physical constitution (different hands, arm shape and length and so on), so we should try to find what works to us. I hope you get it soon.

thanks, great feedback, will try it