Clapton's tone on the Bluesbreakers Beano album...

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...is iconic and immediately recognizable. I haven't listened to that album in decades, but today Have You Heard came up while streaming Earle Bailey's Headtrips show on Sirius. A few notes in I thought, "I don't recognize this song, but that sounds like early Clapton" and had a look at what was playing. Sho' 'nuf it was.

I can only think of a handful of other artists that fall into that category. SRV was one of them, until every blues wannabe copied him.
 
Les Paul, vintage neck humbucker with the tone rolled off, into a marshall amp with the volume turned way up. Sounds simple, but it’s never worked for me. I guess tone is in the fingers.
 
Some believe Clapton used a vintage Dallas Rangemaster treble booster during the Beano sessions. However, Clapton has never confirmed nor denied that detail.
 
shoeless said:
I can only think of a handful of other artists that fall into that category. SRV was one of them, until every blues wannabe copied him.
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Hendrix and Albert King.

Duane Allman always jumps to my mind among the white blues guitarist list. Ry Cooder too, though in a different kinda way.
 
Some of the pioneers of loud amps were players like Link Wray, Freddie King and Chuck Berry. Clapton paved the way for loud Marshall amps in the recording studio. Clapton’s playing on Beano is mostly influenced by Freddie King with some BB King and Albert King thrown in for good measure. Hideaway is a Freddie King cover.
 
I had forgotten that John McVie played bass on that album. Mayall had a knack for finding talent. They'd inevitably leave Mayalll's project to do something else.
 
You're thinking of someone else.

Eric Clapton's debut song was "Tears in Heaven". And he played that song on acoustic guitar until he died from the vaccine in 2021.
 
Bones McHorror said:
You're thinking of someone else.

Eric Clapton's debut song was "Tears in Heaven". And he played that song on acoustic guitar until he died from the vaccine in 2021.
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Clapton showed up in heaven and his son :angel:, Conor, did not even know his name. However, Conor did recognize Eric's face. Conor shouted, "That's the asshole who pushed me out a window, so he could write a hit song!" Clapton got kicked out and ended up back down here. Anecdotal evidence that we're all in hell.

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Freddie King has more of a normal treble balance. Clapton really has to dig with his right hand to get to the treble, but he uses is expressively.
 
Bones McHorror said:
You're thinking of someone else.

Eric Clapton's debut song was "Tears in Heaven". And he played that song on acoustic guitar until he died from the vaccine in 2021.
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Not true. Eric Clapton is playing a sweet Stratocaster in the New Travelling Willburys alongside his bandmates Van Morrison, Morrissey, the lead singer of Pantera, and Voldemort.
 
Maybe it’s a Gen-X vs Boomer thing…..

I listened to “I shot the Sheriff” and “ Cocaine” and that was enough for me. I get it that some people really dig Clapton because of his history of work or whatever… but he’s just… :shrug: to me.

Sorry, not sorry.
 
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