Author Topic: 60s Blues Rock Guitar Lesson on YouTube (Read 12574 times)

Elliot · « **on:** March 17, 2007, 12:52:38 PM »

Who is that dude?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPx3pUayCkA&mode=related&search=

noodleplugerine · « **Reply #1 on:** March 17, 2007, 01:05:55 PM »

Clapton...

indysmith · « **Reply #2 on:** March 17, 2007, 04:33:24 PM »

Philly Q · « **Reply #3 on:** March 17, 2007, 06:38:06 PM »

Brilliant, I've never seen that before. That's the best look he ever had. 8)

First time I've seen him actually playing the Fool SG, too.

Kilby · « **Reply #4 on:** March 18, 2007, 01:25:23 AM »

Damn you sir, I have just spent 3 hours watching cream vids because of that.

That should be a joyious thing but

1 : I can't hear Mr Bruce properly on any of them

2 : It's pointed out how much Erics tone changed (not for the better) when he stopped playing Gibsons

I whine too much I enjoyed myself really :)

Theres several vids featuring the Fool SG, and I think it looks best in the video link above where it gains a real nice purple tinge

Tellboy · « **Reply #5 on:** March 18, 2007, 09:57:21 AM »

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2 : It's pointed out how much Erics tone changed (not for the better) when he stopped playing Gibsons

Yep....my friend and I went to see him at the Albert Hall when he was with Delany & Bonnie (just post Cream/Blind Faith) and he was playing a Strat through a Fender amp. I had been an ardent Clapton fan but remember coming out and turning to my friend and saying "Well that's it then - it''s all over." It wasn't just the tone - he seemed also to have lost his flair/agression which I don't think he has ever got back.

Tellboy · « **Reply #6 on:** March 18, 2007, 10:16:57 AM »

I subsequently found this article which sums it up a lot better than I can.

http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/cream/jeff/guitarist.htm

I think the author is being a little unkind to Strats ! ("cheap, unsophisticated guitar")

_tom_ · « **Reply #7 on:** March 18, 2007, 10:50:07 AM »

I love his SG tone in that first video (until he rolls down the tone control). I just found some videos of him playing a strat on youtube, it still sounds good, but not as nice as the SG.

Watching that has made me realise how cr@p my vibrato is

DeanS · « **Reply #8 on:** March 18, 2007, 12:05:38 PM »

Whenever I watch these type of vids I can't help thinking of spinal tap...!

dave_mc · « **Reply #9 on:** March 18, 2007, 04:01:49 PM »

Quote from: DeanS

Whenever I watch these type of vids I can't help thinking of spinal tap...!

haha, +1

I like clapton... he was better in cream, but his tone on layla (strat, I believe) was great too.

Elliot · « **Reply #10 on:** March 18, 2007, 08:14:05 PM »

to be fair to the Stratocaster (niether Jimi nor Jeff Beck had a problem sounding mean on a strat) - EC changed his style pretty heavily from Bluesbreakers/Cream to Blind Faith and his solo stuff. Objectively he probably became a better guitarist in the sense his composition became more sophisticated. But that was the trouble - he went from angry Surrey boy playing Robert Johnson licks electrically to a millionaire coke head guitar hero. In my view that was the change for the worse, not the guitar.

dave_mc · « **Reply #11 on:** March 18, 2007, 08:16:48 PM »

^ yeah.

:drink:

Kilby · « **Reply #12 on:** March 19, 2007, 09:11:35 AM »

It was that change that took place with Clapton no doubt, but that change coinsided with his change to Fenders.

Apparently some of the 'change' was to do with his manager insisting that he become a 'sosphisticated' musician with an air of mystery.

Since changing management, he has done the cream reunion gigs amongst other things. He seems to have gotten a little bit of enthusiasm together (at last).

Rob...

99_not_out · « **Reply #13 on:** March 19, 2007, 01:16:52 PM »

This all goes to explain why I can get the old Clapton tone off my SG, but can't get a modern Calpton tone! I always assumed he'd played Fenders all his career. Doh! :)

Kilby · « **Reply #14 on:** March 19, 2007, 03:47:01 PM »

Quote from: 99_not_out

This all goes to explain why I can get the old Clapton tone off my SG, but can't get a modern Calpton tone! I always assumed he'd played Fenders all his career. Doh! :)

Don't forget that he has the TBX midboost in his current guitars.