A legend with his '64 Cherry...

[JDPS150]

Great links thanks guys.

Found this too, seems like the inspiration for Nigel.
68 interview

 

[roadrunner]

Great links thanks guys.

Found this too, seems like the inspiration for Nigel.
68 interview

Yeah, I think Nigel stole a lot of thing from that interview and the Jeff Beck one a little later... the Beck interview, with some dweeby annoucer dude and Jeff's band in tow is a classic.

 

[Brownie]

Nobody can hang on a note like EC.

 

[chasenblues]

dam,why oh why did he stop using gibby's as his main guitars:wow

 

[lp59pete]

EDIT - same song, same key, red Gibson semi - and SMOKING too - no secret where Clapton got his inspiration:
http://youtube.com/watch?v=GGLmZCZ1sXY&mode=related&search=

Damn, I don't know a lot about the blues, but I think this guy may be the best blues player I ever heard! I'm gonna have to get some cd's.

 

[59_murphy_flame]

Great tone with 335!

Man, I just love those guitars!

 

[Wally]

Calpton has never made a secret of the woodshedding he did with Freddie King's music. Not only is the study evident in EC's guitar, but Freddie King's vocal style is right dead center in Eric's.

 

[Reinhard]

I have the Hyde Park DVD and EC just rips it up on a 335. Man he just sounds awesome in these clips:wail

 

[Stumbler]

I have the Hyde Park DVD and EC just rips it up on a 335. Man he just sounds awesome in these clips:wail

IS that Have You Ever Loved a Woman with the red 335 on the Hyde Park DVD? The Youtube in the first post here?

 

[fancychords]

no the one here of have you ever loved a woman is from. the nothing but the blues tour

 

[burstone]

IS that Have You Ever Loved a Woman with the red 335 on the Hyde Park DVD? The Youtube in the first post here?

Here's the one from Hyde Park.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=MUpc0YNkkJ0

 

[Stewie]

That guitar now rests in the hands of the owners of Guitar Center. They bought it at Sothebys for around 800,000. I am always amazed at how much Clapton's mid boosted strat tone sounds like his tone from the famous Red Gibby 335. Listen to his version from the Crossroads 2004 DVD of, Have you ever loved a woman played on his Crash II Strat it is amazingly close.
Gibson religously copied that guitar and when they sent him the prototype he actually thought it was the original. So you could have that exact guitar. If you can find one.

 

[Troels]

What is so good when Eric Clapton plays a Gibson, to my ears it is the sound I want to hear.... He comes across on those vids as 'of age', a mature bluesman.... Very enjoyable.... :salude

It seems as well as it is the sound HE want's to hear as well. Much more inspired (and way better sounding...) than many of his Strat performances - in my opinion...

 

[burstone]

Just found another cool clip. No pick!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LF60zs1CKj8&NR=1

 

[Stumbler]

Good one. His tone and style change a lot when he doesn't use a pick.

 

[Bluespower]

And a most excellent horn section
!

 

[toxpert]

Hearing all those great Gibson-played blues makes me get all misty remembering Freddie King from back when. Eric's style is his own.. but you can hear some of Freddie coming through at times... just fantastic!!

It was amazing to watch Freddie play.. he was bigger than life and had hands the size of a catcher's mitt... but man oh man could he get those beautiful sweet tones from his guitar. Seemed like the amp volume was always wide open .. yet he could make a guitar purr like a baby or scream like a demon.

 

[Stumbler]

That guitar now rests in the hands of the owners of Guitar Center. They bought it at Sothebys for around 800,000.....

Actually it was Christie's there at Rockefeller Center in NYC. Hammer price for the 64 335 was $750k and with the buyer's premium, GC had to pay $847,500. Biggest fish of the auction until Blackie went last at $959,500.

I always post these in these discussions. (Where's Waldo?)

 

[Bluespower]

Why is that photo so ironic?
(IMO):hmm

 

[burstone]

Just found Gary Moore playing a 335. Never seen him play one before. I believe it is the '64 cherry that's featured on the cover of the latest issue of Vintage Guitar magazine.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=C4icpn9wEDg&mode=related&search=