Eric Clapton

Lay down sally. Me and Jerry had similar taste. Not in women though.

Tales of Brave Ulysses

He went downhill after Blind Faith IMHO and not a huge fan of the solo stuff.

Tell the Truth 

https://youtu.be/rolWdNFDLy4

>>>He went downhill after Blind Faith IMHO and not a huge fan of the solo stuff.

Derek and the Dominoes and the Delaney and Bonnie stuff is pretty killer but otherwise I'm in full agreement.

I have to admit that I'm a sucker for Clapton's MTV Unplugged "Running On Faith"

I've often listened to it during times of loss...

Wonderful Tonight

Layla

and I'm a sucker for "Bad Love"

I was a big Cream fan as a young teen, which brought me to The Yardbirds, then Blind Faith.  Also became a fan of Buddy Guy after reading in an article that Clapton was a big fan.  Of course, he also led me to another one of my favorites: J.J. Cale.

Tears in Heaven is also good stuff.

Just sticking strictly to his solo stuff, I never get enough of The Core, Motherless Children, Mainline Florida, and Holy Mother about Richard Manuel..of course give me Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, but on a slow summer day with a nice laid back buzz, mid-later 70's Clapton hits the spot..

Just played half of All Things Must Pass (vinyl) today - I had forgotten how great his playing was on this!

I love Clapton but a little too sterile for me. At least the last 4 decades.

Had an old hippie friend from London I met in Goa that I hung out with everyday for 3 months and he said he liked Jerry better than Clapton. He was first in Goa and India in 65 or 66? I would play Jerry aka JGB tapes and occasionally GD all the time in the house I was living.

God bless you Jackson!

Hello old friend

Bell bottom blues

Key to the highway

Little wing

While my guitar gently weeps

And many of the above, and many ive forgotten...

Call me the breeze...(jj cale)

Let It Rain

Hello Old Friend

White Room

Why Does Love Got to be So Sad

Lay Down Sally

Bell Bottom Blues

Blues Power

Let It Grow

Layla

johnny D, i always knew you were a 'runnin on faith bro' heim.....

As a youth, I caught Eric Clapton at Nassau Coliseum in April of 1978 and snuck up to the front row for "The Core" opener.

Still blown away by the finesse and speed of his playing.

I love "Any Day"  by Derek & the Dominos and "Mother's Child" of off 461 Ocean Blvd.

Sorry I meant to write "Motherless Children"

You have to check out this version from San Diego with Derek Trucks.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h9d2ZeAvBgA

Lonesome and a Long Way From Home

Let it Rain

Keep on Growing

Why Does Love Got to be so Sad?

Got to Get Better in a Little While

Great documentary:  "Clapton in the 70's" from AXS TV floating around.

https://www.axs.com/eric-clapton-s-70s-output-recalled-on-comprehensive-...

He has a great blues album titled, "Blues"..wide variety of various blues styles. He has an original on there 'Cryin' which is similar to a couple Bill Broonzy songs & Blind Wille McTell tune..one my favorites https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzDj4eiEA10 

Love every song he wrote on Layla album, Keep on Growin', Any Day, Why Does Love..

I used to LOVE this LP, especially the instrumentals, like Hideaway and Steppin'' Out:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1-fD9fD61kA

"Forever Man" is a good one not mentioned, and "Let It Grow" from 461 Ocean Blvd. is just gorgeous.

Blues Power is great too. If anyone hasn't seen the Eric Clapton & his Rolling Hotel movie you should check it out..its from late 78 or early 79 I think...he's hammered throughout. He plays some beautiful stuff on Double Trouble toward the end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hasgWgpEVY 

.......Then I heard this version of Steppin' Out, which was my absolute favorite song for several months:
 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYVvZqa9Ecw

I worked with an MCI (analog) mixing console that was purchased from Miami's Criteria Studios, and was used by Tom Dowd for the tracking and final mix down of Layla and all the Bee Gee's hits.

There was a burn hole from a cigarette dead center, I always wondered if was Eric's.

Loves me The Core.

it's more like what I DON't like by Clapton ...that I could list.

Not many

Too many favorites to mention. A lot of them covers of course.

Don't agree that he went downhill after Cream/Blind Faith-- he was constantly changing, and drugs and booze added to some of the crappier stuff and performances.

He came  back to the blues- and it got really good again.

I love Clapton but a little too sterile for me. <<

Valid statement.. Post Breakers.

I Believe in Life

Running on Faith 

Old Love

Outside Woman Blues

Lay Down Sally

Blues Power

Forever Man - kudos to the Winwood performances

That one in the Blues Brothers movie

Bell-Bottom Blues

Dance The Night Away

Somewhere Over The Rainbow -  saw it live, and it was sublime

Promises

The one on the Wayne's World st

EC is great. I've seen him like five or six times, and he usually delivered. One of those times was Cream, first night MSG, and I loved how EC had to keep up with Baker and Bruce. Great times. 

Does he play Cocaine every night to give Cale a check? Does it work that way? I always thought that spot in his show could be used for alternating classics, but no: always Cocaine. 

Btw, EC's version of Traveling Light is pretty good too. 

EC was here...real great live album. some great tunes on 'there's one in every crowd'

clapton is god. 

i second motherless children and the core for solo stuff.   in the sixth grade i was gifted (for christmas) a complete box set of all cream lp's. still have it. they and jazz greats led me to appreciate "the jam" and led me on my GD journey. 

its really hard to pick a favorite song.

 "soulhand' and "slowhand"

Keep On Growing

The Core

Motherless Children

Mainline Florida

Lay Down Sally

Anyone who has such a long arc will plateau.  I see a small growth here and there on music boards where some wish to expose the feet of clay a bit more, like Lucy van Pelt saying, "Beethoven wasn't so great."

I will just state he was in both British triumvirates: Yardbirds (Clapton, Beck, Page) and Mayall (Clapton, Green, Taylor).

Cream.

Beatles songs he played on.

Blind Faith? Didn't gel really but sort of realized on the tour with Winwood.

Like the Jerry is Jesus burden Clapton hated the God graffitti and all that went along and spent 20 years changing that.

Also like the Dead hugely influenced by Big Pink and with the help of Delaney Bramlett started his journey in that direction.

Great solo debut then Derek and the Dominoes.

Over the long solo years much to like and some dreck.

I didn't hear him live until the 21st century but happy to catch the Trucks and Winwood tours in DC and the Cream reunion at MSG.

He will supposedly end the touring with the MSG shows next year.

Hands, like but not as bad as Tony Rice.

As Derek Trucks says, "He always has it in his back pocket."

All 5 Jams from the Layla sessions.  Killer shit.  He and Duane just shred Jam V!!!

ABB featuring Eric Clapton March 2009 at The Beacon Theater.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pb22MYqdugE

Songs are important, but I'm always about the playing far more than the songs, and IMO the playing shows itself most in the live setting. I've seen Clapton live many times over many years, starting in '77 at the Oakland Coliseum...

(My first rock 'n roll photo - his shirt says No Snow, No Show - very '70s) 

And I have enjoyed his shows to greater & lesser degrees every time.

(He was great at the Ronnie Lane benefit show at the Cow Palace - Bill Wyman on bass in the background)

The best times have been when it's more spare & raw, the lesser times when it's too slick with too many people in the band.

The best shows in my memory have been the time he toured as a four piece with Phil Collins on drums, which just ripped, and the last one I saw with Derek Trucks, but hands down the best Eric Clapton show I ever saw was at the Fillmore in SF on his blues only tour.

I've always been a fan of his guitar playing but I have never been affected by his guitar the way I was that night. It was simply brilliant, the show was so different and so much better than any other Clapton show I've seen, and it remains one of the top shows I've EVER seen.

Overall I don't consider myself a huge fan, but he is one of the all-time greats and I respect him hugely, and I hope to see one of those LA shows that he claims along with the MSG shows will be his last.

He was playing the Gibson wasn't he?  He had a 335 and a Les Paul on the rack at Cream reunion but stayed with the Fenders.

he played a Firebird on and off with Cream in 68, along with the SG and ES 335

He switched over to Strats in 1970.

In the early days with Mayall he had a vintage Les Paul that was held ransom by a club owner in Greece when they tried to split back to England-  he stole it back.

I was refering to the Cream reunion shows at MSG in 2005.

Yes, once he took up the Strat the only time we saw the Gibson's return was the Back to the Cradle record and tour Lance mentioned.

And the one off with Marsalis. 

Strats are fine but what a big sound with the Gibsons. 

Has anyone here purchased the new live release? 

Thinking of buying it today...wondering how others liked it.

thanks.