dbreslauer Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 he should just put the Strat down forever... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUpc0YNkkJ0 sweet, in a glorious "Freddie King" kinda way. :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Versatile Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 A truly wonderful performance..... V Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rocky4 Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Nice. Proving why he's one of the biggest fish in the sea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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badbluesplayer Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 ++++++ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I was looking for something with Blackie in it, but found this instead. Never seen this before. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG FAN Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Clapton's one of my biggest influences, regardless of which guitar he is playing at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
milod Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I was doing so much other stuff, and listening largely just to older more "folkie" sorts of things 1980 forward until a cupla years ago that I joined the forum... never really thought much about Clapton one way or another. Past cupla years I've started listening to the old guy (he's a cupla months older than I am) and I have come to very much appreciate him. I think too that as the guy aged he started playing stuff on stage he'd probably been exposed to about the same time I was. So... probably that makes me appreciate his stuff even more. Now I'd love to sit and have a coffee and bs with the guy. If we ended up pickin' a bit, fine, if not... a cupla old guys who went different directions, one with talent and the other with none, but who worked a bit for some skills... the BS and coffee would be fine. <grin> m Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbreslauer Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 i like that while Clapton's experimented with "pop" (now "classic rock" in some circles), the guy is a bluesman. you can skip over whole chunks of what he did in the 80's, and call it development time or something. when he goes back to the chicago blues stuff, he's home. i am somewhat younger than he obviously: Cream broke up before i was born. but i can only imagine the stories this guy could tell. his autobiography tells his personal tale, but the musical stories must be just as interesting, if not moreso. Man, can he play! :) just for fun: here's Freddie King doing that song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GGLmZCZ1sXY Don Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WahKeen Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 Oh yeah. And he looks a lot more into it with the Gibson than I've seen him with a strat. Weird. But his tone and licks were scrumptious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dbreslauer Posted February 15, 2011 Author Share Posted February 15, 2011 Oh yeah. And he looks a lot more into it with the Gibson than I've seen him with a strat. Weird. But his tone and licks were scrumptious. it was the tone that got me too. while i admit i LOVE his playing on any guitar, the ES just sounds more bluesy to me: less "strat-like" if that makes sense. visually it looks better too, IMO. i watched that clip several times in a row. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Riverside Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I've got tickets to see him on the 8th. I'm hoping it's as good a show as I saw him give back in '75. Blackie has long since been retired, but I'm sure it will sound good, whatever he brings to the stage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SG FAN Posted February 15, 2011 Share Posted February 15, 2011 I've got tickets to see him on the 8th. I'm hoping it's as good a show as I saw him give back in '75. Blackie has long since been retired, but I'm sure it will sound good, whatever he brings to the stage. Yeah, I saw him about a year ago in Nashville with Roger Daltrey, great show! He still has it. Vince Gill even came in and played on a few numbers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sjl200 Posted February 16, 2011 Share Posted February 16, 2011 He was home in 1966 too! .http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rUUEtCBhn_Q&feature=related and in 1963! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NghfjuxvPnw Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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