(THEY CALL IT) STORMY MONDAY (1966) by John Mayall's Bluesbreakers live w/Eric Clapton

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• IM

  @imamadityaeffendi3578 · 3 years ago (edited)

  No one played the electric guitar like he did in '65. He sang the guitar. Have been listening to this masterpiece for more than half a century and it still give me the shivers.

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• ME

  @meltonin8837 · 2 years ago (edited)

  A friend of mine (now passed) went to see the Bluesbreakers with Clapton around this time at The Toby Jug, in Tolworth, Surrey. After their set he was stood next to Clapton at the bar and said "How the hell do you play like that, Eric?". "I dunno" (says Eric)...can I get you a beer?" Awesome!

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• PA

  @paulrhodesquinn · 2 years ago

  That’s ridiculously good. So much creativity and imagination in his phrasing, note choice, rhythm and articulation. Brilliant!

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• GU

  @guyincascade · 2 years ago

  A guitar, a cable, Amp, and talent. No effects boxes at all. Love it

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• PE

  @petermaunder8357 · 4 years ago

  I used to see Eric a lot with John Mayalls’s Bluesbreakers in the small clubs in North London,way back in the mid sixties.I can tell you it was mind blowing.My ears are still ringing to this day.Great memories.

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• RO

  @romancultist6089 · 5 years ago

  Imagine walking into some club on an ordinary evening and hearing this.

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• DI

  @dijonthecat · 13 years ago

  His work on Bluesbreakers,Cream, Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominos (with Duane Allman) are some of the greatest guitar work I've ever heard.

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• WI

  @williamgeorge2433 · 9 years ago

  Clapton playing the way I want to hear him play.

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• GL

  @Glicksman1 · 6 years ago

  To those obsessed with pedals, effects, and fancy rigs, etc., this was done with a good guitar into a good amp and a genius on the other end.

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• OZ

  @Ozpeter · 2 years ago

  Raw blues, which was what John Mayall was all about. RIP and thank you

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• AE

  @ae3898 · 7 years ago

  Ah, yes--the sound of an almost-starving 21 year-old upstart inventing blues-rock guitar in some hole in the wall club. Immortality.

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• UN

  @univibe23 · 10 years ago

  I'm always amazed on hearing these very early Clapton recordings at how good his technique was to be so young and not having played that long---all the more so given there was no one to teach him other than listening to records---no tabs, no videos, and probably no one teaching guitar in England who could really play this stuff. He was just blessed with a special talent obviously.

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