saturn Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WahKeen Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Excellent! Clapton is so awesome. RIP SRV. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
pfox14 Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Slow Hand strikes again Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Great playing, but that Strat tone. Blech! Â Is that Double Trouble backing him up? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T Bone Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Has he switched back to Lace Sensors? No pole pieces on that Strat (he's been favoring the Olympic White Strats in recent years, great look). That's Tommy Shannon on Bass and Reese Wynans on the white keyboard too. Haven't been able to spot the drummer yet, but wouldn't surprise me if it were Chris Layton... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Best version of this song ever, imo. Usually I'm all about SRV's version, but Clapton is really feeling this one. And it's from the mid 90's, so that's one of EC's older set ups. Â Great playing, but that Strat tone. Blech! Â Is that Double Trouble backing him up? It's from the DVD "A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan", it has Double Trouble and elements of Jimmie Vaughan's band backing the likes of Bonnie Raitt, BB King, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, and Dr. John paying tribute to SRV on the Austin City Limits stage. Just the Best playing the Best, but if you have a Strat hang-up you'll probably not want to hear it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Morkolo Posted April 16, 2012 Share Posted April 16, 2012 Nice playing but there's something missing in Clapton's tone and it can't be the Lace Sensors because my old guitarist used them and his Strat sounds amazing through his old 60s Fender Twin. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 good try , he can't do stevie ray , no way, Â You mean this one? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WahKeen Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Great! Let's compare guitarists! <_< Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
damian Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Geeez........Ain't you guys seen Gary Moore's 3 DVD set of covers honoring Eric Clapton and Stevie Ray with Axel on all vocals ??? :unsure: ...... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EVOL! Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 It's from the DVD "A Tribute To Stevie Ray Vaughan", it has Double Trouble and elements of Jimmie Vaughan's band backing the likes of Bonnie Raitt, BB King, Robert Cray, Buddy Guy, and Dr. John paying tribute to SRV on the Austin City Limits stage. Just the Best playing the Best, but if you have a Strat hang-up you'll probably not want to hear it. Â Yeah, it kills me sometimes because I love all of those cats' playing (especially early Robert Cray and seeing Buddy Guy at fifteen changed my life), but it's hard for me to get past that Strat tone. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleb Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 I loved it. Mainly because you can tell Eric is playing directly from his heart. That alone is his strength as a player. And this is some of his best playing since the post Blind Faith years IMHO. Â James Beam, it is not about who can do Stevie Ray better it is about the tribute. Eric put his own style into a SRV song (isn't it a Freddie King song? Not sure who originally wrote it), which is the way to do it. Eric has his style, SRV had his style. I think Stevie would have loved to know that Eric was paying tribute to him. It's not about doing it exact or trying to beat the original, it is about originality and playing from the heart, which is the main thing in this arena. Â EVOL, I know you can't stand Strats. But I can't stand Fuzzy garage band type tone (which isn't an insult to that sound in any way I was just describing it...) so we're even! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 +1 Kaleb! Â He's not trying to "Do Stevie Ray", he's paying homage to him. And in the classic blues tradition he's keeping his friends music alive by playing it. And when that comes from the likes of Eric Clapton, BB King or Buddy Guy it's more than an honor, it's vindication. But that's Blues, it's meant to be played and shared. Â And I'm pretty sure this is a SRV penned tune. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleb Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 +1 Kaleb! Â He's not trying to "Do Stevie Ray", he's paying homage to him. And in the classic blues tradition he's keeping his friends music alive by playing it. And when that comes from the likes of Eric Clapton, BB King or Buddy Guy it's more than an honor, it's vindication. But that's Blues, it's meant to be played and shared. Â And I'm pretty sure this is a SRV penned tune. Â YES! I thought the whole thing was very touching. All these players all had their own sound and feel for the instrument, a concept lost on some blues guys nowadays..... Â I was sure too, but it sounds like something inspired (not copied, INSPIRED!) by Freddie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Well, EC sounds like EC, no matter who's song he's doing, or what guitar he plays! Which is a Great Thing...IMHO! Â I DO wish, at times, he'd crank that Strat up "clean," more often, and let the amp do all the overdrive/sustain. The built-in guitar OD sounds too "fizzy," and puny, to me. It's not just the Strat, itself...IMHO. If you've ever seen the "John Mayall 70th Birthday Celebration" DVD, Buddy Wittington's "Strat Tone," is AWESOME! He's a great player, as well...but, EC is awesome, too, with his playing, on that same DVD...it's just that Buddy's Strat tone, at least on that particular DVD, is so much richer. Buddy was running a generic (custom made) Strat, into a Dr. "Z" amp! Beautiful tone, but not overly distorted, more a "singing" and very rich sounding tone, with plenty of natural sustain. Â CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
saturn Posted April 17, 2012 Author Share Posted April 17, 2012 Well, EC sounds like EC, no matter who's song he's doing, or what guitar he plays! Which is a Great Thing...IMHO! Â Â CB Â Â What I really like about his playing in this clip, is that he used more of his old style classic "roll" technique more than his "trills" style playing which he does more and more as he gets older. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
charlie brown Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Â What I really like about his playing in this clip, is that he used more of his old style classic "roll" technique more than his "trills" style playing which he does more and more as he gets older. Â Yeah, it's a nice clip! I really loved the fact that he used his Strat "Clean," for it, too. I wonder, though, if a "ballsier" amp, would help more, than a different guitar? Of course, something on a video clip, is much different, than being there...so, it may have sounded a lot nicer, "in person," tone wise? Still, I'd love to hear him use a "fatter" sounding amp, with his Strat. Of course, his ES-335, or Les Paul would be awesome, too. Â CB Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest rogerb Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 Great! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kaleb Posted April 17, 2012 Share Posted April 17, 2012 EC needs to play a JTM-45 again... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FirstMeasure Posted April 18, 2012 Share Posted April 18, 2012 I'd like to hear Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker take a stab at this one. I always loved Cream playing the blues! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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