Omg his smile is so stinking adorable!

I saw that film when I was 15 and it changed the way I tried to play guitar, copy that fluency of his, dynamic stuff from Eric, his early years were a godsend.

As good an explanation of improvisation as you can get. Stock phrases but mixed with dozens of variations and practice until they can come out without overthinking.

A young and unrecognizable Eric Clapton playing a customized Gibson SG. This dude was on a side quest in different eras

Eric Patrick Clapton (Ripley, Surrey, Inglaterra, 30 de marzo de 1945) es un guitarrista, cantante y compositor de rock y blues británico, conocido por su magistral habilidad con la guitarra eléctrica, en concreto con su Stratocaster. 79 AÑOS 🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤🎤

I have to say it, but he is the greatest Blues/Rock guitarist that's ever been.

Happy 79th birthday

Clapton on a Gibson is rivaled only by Hendrix on a Strat...

Wow, his hands are amazing.

He makes it look so easy! I’ve been playing since 1965, I think I’m pretty good, but every time I see this short video… I’m HUMBLED. I can imitate his style, my kids and my friends are impressed… but I’m no “Clapton”

That finger vibrato was awesome

The old camera with the audio makes it sound so awesome

He favours the minor pent.

Megan look alike or girls goes in high I feel it

Oh now I got it!

The quintessential British blues guitarist. A lot of it is down to a highly stylised left hand, which basically maintains an Am/E pattern, moving up the fingerboard to vary the pitch. It's essentially a 3 finger technique with the pinky used to 'grab' add-ons. He wraps his thumb, which makes classical and jazz players cringe but it gives him real power and control in bends and vibrato. It looks awful but it's bloody effective. Clapton's killer secret however is the right hand, which is both incredibly loose and also precise. This lets him move effortlessly from lead to inserting chordal chops. Listen to Crossroads from Wheels of Fire to hear this. He really is a unique player.

Yikes that's rough

What kind of guitar is that??

cant he afford an ashtray at this point?

He plays better in this video than any of his albums. I never heard him jam out on the radio. I was always confused growing up why people called him a great guitarist.

Eric, graj. Nie pierdol

"Jangling noise machine" sounds like what they said about the Beatles earlier. Obviously, they didn't learn.

Clapton is awesome forever, with his Divine Voice!!! 🙏💖🌹

The man is doing this since 1965 at age 20.. Still going strong in 2022 at 77. He's a born virtuoso.

What amp and what distortion pedal, etc? Couldn't just be a cranked amp or it would have been too loud in the interview.

Beautiful

I know the title says “ Eric Clapton “ , but I just can’t see it’s him🤦🏼‍♂️😂. Looks nothing like him , if that makes any sense!😂

Cream was his best work!

In the really quick cutaway, the fellow wearing the hat with the feather looks a lot like Felix Pappalardi. Gone too soon RIP✌🏼

I’m curious about what kind of gear he’s using. Other than the wah of course.

I hate how some people consider him washed up, or tired…. I say, he’s forgotten more than all the wannabes will ever know…. Still the best in my humble opinion! I was twelve or thirteen when an older friends brother in law said”Rob, everything you want to listen to is blues music, I wasn’t smart enough to realize a genre then, but seeing everybody that came to town at rock n roll concerts, still left me wanting the blues sound… never changed, now we have I-phones and can access anything, when Eric hangs it up… it’s done….

And now the gentleman master guitarist will play a chord progression known commonly amongst the internet community as 0 3 5

You want me to break the guitar up? I how amazed he was by that haha

This is Claptons ”These go to eleven” moment

The 🎸 needed a 🚬 afterwards too

Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, Page. Mount Rushmore!

Nice...I hear a little bit of Page in there too

If you close your eyes and listen to his voice it could be Neil from the young ones🤘😂

Cigarette in the headstock, rock n roll

Clapton................OMG

Long haired layabout, making a racket! He won’t get anywhere with that. Put on a nice suit and get yer bleeding hair cut!!

Let me kick on the wah pedal. HADOUKEN!!!

Wow, well, my opinion of Clapton just changed... what a beast!

The most overrated of all. ...( heard of ted Greene ?)

That's not Eric Clapton...

nobody sounds like Clapton or Hendrix since them....the new players copy Jimi, Stevie, Eric and beck.....they speed it up and people think they are better.. no way

3:11. The most important information to every guitarplayer. It can take a long time to get your vibrato perfected. But thats what makes the whole difference, between you and professional guitar guys like Eric, Jimi and Brian May.

He was only 23 here...... 23!!! He was just a fucking KID! Jesus!

Electronic Guitar hahahha

I have been very critical of Eric in the past. But I was wrong and I take it all back, and I won't have a bad word said against him. He is a legend plain and simple.