Clapton Les Paul Videos

[Drave]

YouTube - Cream - I Feel Free

[Drave]

YouTube - 05. Strange Brew.wmv


sg and a fro lol


just found these and made me think of this thread!

[Drave]

YouTube - Cream - Sunshine of Your Love, Glen Campbell Show (1968)


wow first time i see him playing that lol.. sorry dont mean to keep postin so many just like to share clapton on a gibson

[banditguitarist1]

second video is funny with the direct into the sound board.

[rickym]

Originally Posted by Drave

YouTube - Cream - Sunshine of Your Love, Glen Campbell Show (1968)


wow first time i see him playing that lol.. sorry dont mean to keep postin so many just like to share clapton on a gibson

Prolly the only other full clip of EC playing a Firebird. Playing it w/fingers until 2:40. Sorry for the hijack.
YouTube - Eric Clapton - Reconsider Baby

[j45]

Originally Posted by st.bede

which vox sounds better......

Sennheiser MD 421 YouTube - While My Guitar Gently Weeps - George Harrison or

I know that mic I just can not remember it's name xxxxxx YouTube - Eric Clapton & George Harrison - While My Guitar

Sennheiser MD 421 has my vote...I use it on cabs too...I know there are many other factors too...I just love seeing (hearing) 421....

The second mic looks like it's an old 1980's EV PL series mic with the gray casing. They are both dynamics with similar patterns and would not have enough going on between them to account for the drastic difference in sound. I also prefer the closeness of the MD421's sound but in the other video they are using a different approach to the mix altogether.... blending in a lot of ambience and the mic also sounds to be effected to try and get a little of the sound of the original recording.

Originally Posted by Tycho

Did anyone else think that EC is struggling a bit in that clip, especially in the first solo? Almost as if all those years of playing nothing but Strats has softened him up!

He's a shell of his former self here. The bloated face tells it all. Even so, he's always playing the phrase and has that great feel for where he is in the progression. His early years mastery of setting up phrases is one thing I miss today most and seems like he still does it a little better here. The truth is is that he never came back after somewhere in 1971. Before then his playing had an arrogance, almost fearlessness you could sense as he took chance after chance with phrases on those long Cream solos and always landed on his feet. I still think it was Jon Landau's panning him in front of the whole world in "Rolling Stone" that threw him into depression while still in Cream that made him aware of his own mortal character. Someone with a realistic, healthy, view of themselves would not have been that destryoed over one bad review. He thought he was invincible and played guitar that way. "Rolling Stone" was the first to tell him he wasn't and it shattered his confidence. Kinda like the stunt daredevil who when young would ride with wild abandonment but after breaking every limb in his body comes back, and is still good, but never has that same fire of when he thought he was invincible. There's something to be said for the swagger that comes with youth and thinking one is indistructable.

[Splattle101]

Originally Posted by Drave

YouTube - Cream - Sunshine of Your Love, Glen Campbell Show (1968)


wow first time i see him playing that lol.. sorry dont mean to keep postin so many just like to share clapton on a gibson

This clip shows why Led Zeppelin were leary of TV for rock bands. Clapton's sound on this clip is not what he would have wanted. It's far too clean. The sound men obviously made him turn down to a 'manageable' level and as a result he was getting no overdrive. You can see his Marshall 100 W head behind him: there's no way he had that thing cranked.

Splat

[rickym]

Originally Posted by j45

He's a shell of his former self here. The bloated face tells it all. Even so, he's always playing the phrase and has that great feel for where he is in the progression. His early years mastery of setting up phrases is one thing I miss today most and seems like he still does it a little better here. The truth is is that he never came back after somewhere in 1971. Before then his playing had an arrogance, almost fearlessness you could sense as he took chance after chance with phrases on those long Cream solos and always landed on his feet. I still think it was Jon Landau's panning him in front of the whole world in "Rolling Stone" that threw him into depression while still in Cream that made him aware of his own mortal character. Someone with a realistic, healthy, view of themselves would not have been that destryoed over one bad review. He thought he was invincible and played guitar that way. "Rolling Stone" was the first to tell him he wasn't and it shattered his confidence. Kinda like the stunt daredevil who when young would ride with wild abandonment but after breaking every limb in his body comes back, and is still good, but never has that same fire of when he thought he was invincible. There's something to be said for the swagger that comes with youth and thinking one is indistructable.

Check out his autobiography if you haven't yet. He explains the RS thing & will be the first to admit that he's not what he used to be. But honestly I rather hear his guitar work than Pagey's nowadays. The fire comes back when he has the right musicians backing him up. As much as I love Derek & The Dominos, they'll never be on the same level as CREAM IMHO. After CREAM he wanted to be in a situation ala The Band; & there really hasn't been any rhythm section since Bruce & Baker that has made his creativity explode.

[tonebone]

Originally Posted by Drave

YouTube - Cream - Sunshine of Your Love, Glen Campbell Show (1968)


wow first time i see him playing that lol.. sorry dont mean to keep postin so many just like to share clapton on a gibson

Wasn't '68 when Clapton himself was tiring of the Cream "sound"?

To me, this clip has many qualities of the playing he would do in Blind Faith.

(my wife saw Blind Faith here in Oregon, btw.)

[RCCola]

Originally Posted by rickym

Check out his autobiography if you haven't yet. He explains the RS thing & will be the first to admit that he's not what he used to be. But honestly I rather hear his guitar work than Pagey's nowadays. The fire comes back when he has the right musicians backing him up. As much as I love Derek & The Dominos, they'll never be on the same level as CREAM IMHO. After CREAM he wanted to be in a situation ala The Band; & there really hasn't been any rhythm section since Bruce & Baker that has made his creativity explode.

The only Clapton I listen to is the Beano album and Layla. I bought all the Cream albums together at once after I had been listening to the two aforementioned albums nonstop. I listened to each Cream album once and didn't enjoy it at all. Maybe just not my style...

The best collection of playing and singing I've heard from Clapton since the 60s was on the Scorsese documentary "Nothing But The Blues". That's not to say he hasn't been ripping the past 4 decades.

YouTube - Buddy Guy Eric Clapton Live

His tone nowadays, as others have commented on, is not so nice...I have the Crossroads 2007 DVDs and his tone sounds like cheap solid-state distortion.

[rickym]

"NBTB" was fantastic! Prolly because he was using Gibsons as well. He just seems to be more creative on a Gibson than a Strat. That's why I slung the vid with the Firebird in there - there are little bursts of the old Clapton peeking thru.

[brimay]

this is one of my favourites writtin by chuck willis(one of my favourite singers very underrated)coverd by tons of groups like buddy holly and the crickets.

theres a great solo from clapton in this one
YouTube - DEREK AND THE DOMINOES ON JOHNNY CASH SHOW

and theres a treat in the end carl perkins shows up and they all play matchbox.

cheers

[tonebone]

Here, let me keep this thread alive,

YouTube - cream - spoonful -

precious little of Eric init, tho. Like to catch up with the camera-man, grab 'is nose and give it a good twist.

[tonebone]

'nother one, same set,

YouTube - Cream - Sunshine of your Love


I see this camera-man in a pub, I'm gonna put a cig out in 'is beer, and give his forehead the finger-thwack.

[banditguitarist1]

great videos Tonebone!

[tonebone]

I looked, and looked for some "the fool" SG stuff. Finally found it. I think these are on that special retrospective Cream VHS that was floating around for awhile.

The cameraman is on my sh*tlist. Seriously. He couldn't point the damn thing at Eric a little more? Dude.