Mayall/Clapton: Stormy Monday/LIVE

[trisonic]

Reputed to be live from The Flamingo.
Is that Jack Bruce on bass?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et_t5SQe8lA

That 1962 is about to blow.
Apologies if this has already been posted.

Best, Pete.

PS Thanks to LHakim.

[sanhozay]

He still had that mean ass vibrato and wicked phrasing back then too? Nice.

[theRocco]

Whoa,

Sounds like someone trying to free themself from a trap by sawing through their leg with a hack saw

and I like it!

[TwoTubMan]

Is that Jack Bruce on bass?



There's a line @ 1:38 that certainly sounds like him.

[Mark Kane]

Pete, that track is on Looking Back. Clapton got different but he never got better.

[SlyStrat]

Love the tone and playing.
I just bought that cd off ebay.

[karmadave]

It's also on a CD called 'Bluesbreaking'

http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/clapton/bluesbreaking.htm

Some of Clapton's best playing for sure!

-KD

[mcuguitar]

Amazing playing.

[wsaraceni]

It's also on a CD called 'Bluesbreaking'

http://www.geetarz.org/reviews/clapton/bluesbreaking.htm

Some of Clapton's best playing for sure!

-KD

anyone know where to get the cd?

[groutfulone]

Thank you so much for posting this. I LOVE it!

[itkindaworks]

Why wasn't this on bluesbreakers with clapton?

[jmcerlain]

Damn! I love that period.


Poke around here,I have found some amazing stuff. Free boots.

http://www.sugarmegs.org/

[realityczech]

Thanks trisonic!
Raw like a good steak

[TravisE]

Wow. He was so great back then. Just as raw and real as it gets.

[esoteric pete]

killer clip! thanks for posting pete.

[Drifting]

Wow.

I've never really delved into the archives of boot legs, so I'm unaccustomed to this, but that's the closest I've heard to his Beano tone, live.

He said he wanted his studio tone to sound like his live sound for the BB album, but I never fully believed it until now.

There's a little less saturation here, probably not full bore opened up(or he rolled back the vol. knob), but hot damn, there's that great attack and everything.

[Poppa Stoppa]

Is that Jack Bruce on bass?Yes, it is.

This deluxe edition is the best collection of that stuff I've seen:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bluesbreakers-Eric-Clapton-John-Mayall/dp/B000HT34Q6

[Ritualee]

So how is it that one achieves a sound like that and then says, "well, I think I'll move away from that now..."?

[Ian Anderson]

It just blows my mind to think he was only 21 when he played this.

[Poppa Stoppa]

So how is it that one achieves a sound like that and then says, "well, I think I'll move away from that now..."?I believe I read that EC said he couldn't play with that visceral sound & intensity all his career, it's too intense!

[trisonic]

That's what it was all about, right there.
People need to be reminded that we weren't all mad.....................

Best, Pete.

PS And Mark, that looks a killer LP you just picked up!

[Cussion]

That's just fabolous.

Pete, did you get to see Bluesbreakers with Clapton?

[trisonic]

Someone asked me that on TLPF I said yes at The Flamingo when I was 15 but I now think it was at Bluesville/Manor Park the same year.
Funnily enough my favourite memory of 60's Mayall was at the Chelmsford Corn Exchange with Mick Taylor. I can't remember the year but Mick still had his first Les Paul (thru a Marshall half stack). It's all a very long time ago now.....
Best, Pete.

[bluesjunior]

I did in Aberdeen in 1966. Eric stood out even then, not because he was flash or anything but he sounded unlike anyone else. His guitar soared out when he soloed and it wasn't just volume. I saw most nearly all of the top bands of the 60's and as a guitar player EC stood out. The next guy I saw who had that effect was Peter Green when I saw Fleetwood Mac at the Aviemore Centre in 1968. Since then it has always set the benchmark for me when I listen to guitarists. The really top guys for me anyway sound different in a live situation. Like the recorded sound but clearer and somehow much better. I have seen many top guitarists who sounded just like their recordings but only a few who sound better than them. Off the top of my head Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Jeff Beck, Mark Knopfler, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Rory Gallagher all had a kind of magic to their live sound that somehow doesn't seem to record very well, at least to my ears anyway.
By the way there is a good recording of the Bluesbreakers from a BBC concert in London dated 09/02/1966 available at Sugarmegs for anyone interested.

[Mark Kane]

That's what it was all about, right there.
People need to be reminded that we weren't all mad.....................

Best, Pete.

PS And Mark, that looks a killer LP you just picked up!


Pete, thanks, it's a super cool fiddle!!! Mick Taylor on the two live Diary of a Band LP's is my favorite guitar tone ever. That was the genesis of "HONK"

[Tuco]

By the way there is a good recording of the Bluesbreakers from a BBC concert in London dated 09/02/1966 available at Sugarmegs for anyone interested.

Many thanks for the heads-up on this!

[trisonic]

Pete, thanks, it's a super cool fiddle!!! Mick Taylor on the two live Diary of a Band LP's is my favorite guitar tone ever. That was the genesis of "HONK"
The reason why I kept my Custom (which weighs a freaking ton) is because it is a dead ringer sonically to Mick Taylor's first Les Paul.........
If ever you want to sell any of yours do let me know?

Best, Pete.

[sanhozay]

So how is it that one achieves a sound like that and then says, "well, I think I'll move away from that now..."?


He sounded pretty damn good in the 70's with Blackie. His playing is still damn good, especially the way he approaches a slow blues. But the guy has miles and isn't young anymore. Still phrases better than 90% of the players approaching a solo. Dig out the guitar work he plays on Roger Water's album, The Pros & Cons of Hitch Hiking, from the early 80's. I think some of his finest playing appears on that record.

No disagreement though, his first 10 years on the job produced his most amazing body of work.

[trisonic]

I've posted a link to this one before - it bears repeating because not many people have heard this song done by them at all:

November 15th 1966 (same year as the Mayall clip) this time it's Cream at Klook's Kleek performing "Meet me in the Bottom" - lots of cool video and stills - and before anyone asks the strange guitar that Eric seems to be playing at one point is believed to be an English "Grimshaw" (not featured in the music, though).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmx5lGIJIa4

An interesting comparison to Stormy Monday.....

Best, Pete.

[Goldie295]

Thanks for the link to that bootleg site. Mind boggling what's on there !!

Clapton+Gibson=Soul

See:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djRAF_ph3TQ&feature=related

[English Jim]

I've posted a link to this one before - it bears repeating because not many people have heard this song done by them at all:

November 15th 1966 (same year as the Mayall clip) this time it's Cream at Klook's Kleek performing "Meet me in the Bottom" - lots of cool video and stills - and before anyone asks the strange guitar that Eric seems to be playing at one point is believed to be an English "Grimshaw" (not featured in the music, though).

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmx5lGIJIa4

An interesting comparison to Stormy Monday.....

Best, Pete.

I have that show on CD - pretty killer. I also have an even earlier show from Manchester - one of their first I think. It's hard to believe but if you listen to Cream shows from just a few months later Claptons playing has improved exponentially.

[Jack Gilvey]

So how is it that one achieves a sound like that and then says, "well, I think I'll move away from that now..."?

I mean, how do you get from something that primal and intense to..."Lay Down Sally"?

[Goldie295]

I mean, how do you get from something that primal and intense to..."Lay Down Sally"?

Drink and drugs?

[trisonic]

What's also sad is that more people on TGP are more interested in someone dropping their pedal than listening to this stuff.........

Best, Pete.

[groutfulone]

That Klooks Kleek show is on Sugarmegs. I downloaded it a few days ago.
Here is the stream: http://sugarmegs.org/asx/cream1966-11-15.asx

If you want to download it, go to this page: http://tela.sugarmegs.org/
search for cream, the show is cream1966-11-15.asx; right click on the download link and save it to your computer.
Enjoy. That tone runs chills up my spine.

[joeh77]

The tone and intensity are amazing! In those days he was a innovator that infulenced everthing about electric guitar since he first joined Mayall. You may not care for his later work, but based on the Beano album alone he is an all time great!

Thanks for posting!

Joe:)

[EataPeach]

EC is the reason I started playing..

That initial clip was amazing...

[trisonic]

Hank made me start but Eric made me take it seriously.

People forget to put his early work in context to the plinky state of guitar at the time - suddenly this screaming monster appeared and it was good.......

Best, Pete.

[Drifting]

Hank made me start but Eric made me take it seriously.

People forget to put his early work in context to the plinky state of guitar at the time - suddenly this screaming monster appeared and it was good.......

Best, Pete.

Totally agree, could not have said it better.

I get sick real fast of people saying, "oh yeah, clapton was nothing special, just a blues copy cat".

There wasn't another player playing that ferociously that early, with the exception of mike bloomfield, there are some interesting bootlegs of him with PBBB. Clapton was still miles ahead in tone, though.

[trisonic]

Yeah, I collected Mike's stuff concurrently. Loved his playing.
BUT Mike really, really needed a JTM45...............you know what I mean?

Best, Pete.

[moj067]

Jeez, thanks. I really like this period and with all the YouTubes of Fleetwood Mac w/ Kirwin. Nice vibratos.

[trisonic]

Yes, it is.

This deluxe edition is the best collection of that stuff I've seen:
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Bluesbreakers-Eric-Clapton-John-Mayall/dp/B000HT34Q6

For some reason that is less than £10.00 in the UK BUT freaking $73.00 over here in the 'States ( at the same "store", Amazon)!

Best, Pete.

[Drifting]

Yeah, I collected Mike's stuff concurrently. loved his playing.
BUT Mike really, really needed a JTM45...............you know what I mean?

Best, Pete.

Yeah. Don't get me wrong, his sound through that twin reverb was brutal, but I would have loved to hear him through a marshall, let the amp do some work to0o ya know? All the break up he got was from his pick attack practically.

There are some later recordings that sound like they could be through marshalls or maybe supros. Listen to this tone, his solo on this song is amazing, have never heard his vibrato sound so confident:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TFIIwsAG4zs

[trisonic]

Great, great playing! - Still not so keen on his tone, from 1969, right?

Best, Pete.

[Alister]

Well, we're all on this thread cause we love that sound and Clapton from that time. And I'm not the Eric expert most of you are, although he broke into my world about the same time as all of you ('67 for me, cause I lived in middle America).

But as to, How do you get from this to Lay Down Sally, an inquiry that arises over and over around here, I have to say the same thing I always do:

Even through youtube and a tiny computer speaker, this stuff is clearly about as loud as you can play an electric guitar. Especially this cliip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmx5lGIJIa4

I mean, holy krist. That makes my fillings rattle, even fourth-hand, across five decades.

Can you play that loud, night after night, year after year?
I couldn't.
I started out, mostly through Clapton/Hendrix inspiration, playing one of the first Mashall double stacks in town.
For about a year and half.
Then down to one cabinet/50 watt.
Then to Bassmans and Bandmasters....you get the drift.

I see now that a lot of it was db tolerance. (Or, as a lot of 20-something macho types now call it, "getting old.")

Maybe this is too simplistic, but I don't think so. Eric complained -- or confessed, actually -- in his autobio last year to being "functionally deaf."
You may not like Strats and noiseless pickups or even tweed twins, serving up your Cream, but if you were Eric?????

[franksguitar]

Bass on the Beano era is John McVie later of Fleetwood Mac

[groutfulone]

Well, we're all on this thread cause we love that sound and Clapton from that time. And I'm not the Eric expert most of you are, although he broke into my world about the same time as all of you ('67 for me, cause I lived in middle America).

But as to, How do you get from this to Lay Down Sally, an inquiry that arises over and over around here, I have to say the same thing I always do:

Even through youtube and a tiny computer speaker, this stuff is clearly about as loud as you can play an electric guitar. Especially this cliip:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tmx5lGIJIa4

I mean, holy krist. That makes my fillings rattle, even fourth-hand, across five decades.

Can you play that loud, night after night, year after year?
I couldn't.
I started out, mostly through Clapton/Hendrix inspiration, playing one of the first Mashall double stacks in town.
For about a year and half.
Then down to one cabinet/50 watt.
Then to Bassmans and Bandmasters....you get the drift.

I see now that a lot of it was db tolerance. (Or, as a lot of 20-something macho types now call it, "getting old.")

Maybe this is too simplistic, but I don't think so. Eric complained -- or confessed, actually -- in his autobio last year to being "functionally deaf."
You may not like Strats and noiseless pickups or even tweed twins, serving up your Cream, but if you were Eric?????

The older I get, the more I agree with this. Plus, it is boring to do the same thing over and over all the time (well, at least with most things for me).

I always wondered why he never at least tried the Marshall 1962 combo again. Original or reissue. I remember an article back in '88 when the reissue came out (I saved up for a year and then got mine) and he said it was something he may check out.
To bad (for me, not Eric) that was the same year his Sig. Strat was launched. I don't know why he would try Soldano and not the 1962, unless it was because of the master volume.
It would be such a great match for him because, if you ask me, it gives more sustain and midrange (and a more articulate midrange in my opinion) without the need for the mid-boost on the strat.

[trisonic]

Bass on the Beano era is John McVie later of Fleetwood Mac
He certainly played on the record but he was fired more than once for being drunk and of course came back again. Jack and Eric played together for a short time in the Bluesbreakers. Interestingly I saw John still with the Bluesbreakers after Fleetwood Mac had been formed (because the "salary" was more regular).

Best, Pete.

[Babaji]

Cor Blimey Pete! Just when I think I'm over the whole Bluesbreaker/cream thing...You pop up with this! Clapton's best period. I still think that the British version of Spoonful may be his best solo...Very evil sounding!
Thanks...Ta
Bill

[trisonic]

Gawd, Luvaduck it's Bill!
How the devil are you, sir?


Best, Pete.

[Babaji]

Pete,
I'm nattering about...Gigging playing Rock&Roll. I hope all is well with you!
Any more Clapton gems?
Me Ballocks,
Bill

[trisonic]

Pete,

Me Ballocks,
Bill
Quite so! Drop the a add an o............
You coming up to NJ in May? I'll introduce you to hansoloist - his "Anglo-English" is just as amusing. Later, Bill.

Best, Pete.

[Cussion]

The older I get, the more I agree with this. Plus, it is boring to do the same thing over and over all the time (well, at least with most things for me).

I always wondered why he never at least tried the Marshall 1962 combo again. Original or reissue. I remember an article back in '88 when the reissue came out (I saved up for a year and then got mine) and he said it was something he may check out.
To bad (for me, not Eric) that was the same year his Sig. Strat was launched. I don't know why he would try Soldano and not the 1962, unless it was because of the master volume.
It would be such a great match for him because, if you ask me, it gives more sustain and midrange (and a more articulate midrange in my opinion) without the need for the mid-boost on the strat.

Thing with some "older" players is that they don't seem to want to go back to the gear they once used.
I think EC became THE Les Paul/Marshall-guy, and he got kinda tired of that, and that's why he changed to a cleaner thinner tone.

Maybe if Hendrix would've been around today he had played an Ibanez RG into a Line6 amp?

[Neill]

that was gnarly. thanks.

[Babaji]

Pete,
I should be there again...Making a racket! Enough Wellybashing!
Bill

[zzmoore]

Someone asked me that on TLPF I said yes at The Flamingo when I was 15 but I now think it was at Bluesville/Manor Park the same year.
Funnily enough my favourite memory of 60's Mayall was at the Chelmsford Corn Exchange with Mick Taylor. I can't remember the year but Mick still had his first Les Paul (thru a Marshall half stack). It's all a very long time ago now.....
Best, Pete.

Wow!
You saw Mick Taylor with The Bluesbreakers? He probably was not too much older than you I guess. He was such an awesome player. My God, that tone of his. All the stars just never quite aligned for him. A shame.
Anyway this was about Eric Clapton, sorry. Thanks for the great info, and for letting me say my peace.
Thank You

[trisonic]

Wow!
You saw Mick Taylor with The Bluesbreakers? He probably was not too much older than you I guess. He was such an awesome player. My God, that tone of his. All the stars just never quite aligned for him. A shame.
Anyway this was about Eric Clapton, sorry. Thanks for the great info, and for letting me say my peace.
Thank You
Yes and he had a beautiful Les Paul too (no Bigsby). Most Les Paul books imply that the first one he had was given him by Keef when he joined the 'Stones and that is just not true.
The first one he bought in Selmer's, Charing Cross Road at the time when the salesmen included John McLaughlin and Paul Kossoff.

I like Mick's tone too - I have a very nondescript Norlin Custom that I bought direct from Rosetti's (the distributer) in London in 1982 (at the time they were owned by EMI) and the reason that I kept this otherwise overweight monster is because its voice is identical to the Mick's first one he used on "Crusade".
I think Mick is two or three years older than me.

Best, Pete.

[LZ_69]

The older I get, the more I agree with this. Plus, it is boring to do the same thing over and over all the time (well, at least with most things for me).

I always wondered why he never at least tried the Marshall 1962 combo again. Original or reissue. I remember an article back in '88 when the reissue came out (I saved up for a year and then got mine) and he said it was something he may check out.
To bad (for me, not Eric) that was the same year his Sig. Strat was launched. I don't know why he would try Soldano and not the 1962, unless it was because of the master volume.
It would be such a great match for him because, if you ask me, it gives more sustain and midrange (and a more articulate midrange in my opinion) without the need for the mid-boost on the strat.

Here's something worth reading over on the Les Paul forum about one of the members meeting Clapton at a cafeteria...

http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100122&highlight=clapton+bluesbreaker+lunch

[bluesjunior]

Here's something worth reading over on the Les Paul forum about one of the members meeting Clapton at a cafeteria...

http://www.lespaulforum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=100122&highlight=clapton+bluesbreaker+lunch
I would love to read that post but unfortunately I just get some sort of Bulletin Message about signing in and as I am not a member I can't and don't really want to join just to read one article. Any other way to read this post?.

[Alligator > jam]

i would love to read that post but unfortunately i just get some sort of bulletin message about signing in and as i am not a member i can't and don't really want to join just to read one article. Any other way to read this post?.
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[LZ_69]

Well in that case....

Hi guys, just want to share my experence with meeting a guitar “legend”....

Being a Mastering Engineer at Capitol Records in Hollywood brings me in touch with the odd music “celebrity” every now and then..... so for me, with doing this job for 20-odd years, I’ve seen them come and I’ve seen them go.....But when I found out 2 1/2 weeks ago that Eric Clapton would be recording a new album in studio “B” here at Capitol with JJ Cale,....I got VERY excited....

Since Clapton and Co. were “recording” an album instead of “mastering” an album, I had to figure out a way of meeting him without coming across as some nerd/fan or whatever.....

Well on the second day of the session, my friend Jimmy who was the assistant engineer on the date, called my studio to ask if Eric and Simon Clime could come up to listen to the vinyl copy of Eric’s new record “Coming Home” to check the vinyl pressing on my turntable.......Are you kidding me....HELL YES!!!!

I couldn’t believe it...WHAT LUCK!!!! SO I immediatley drove home and got my 66’JTM45 and LES Paul, and camera and got back to my studio in less than one hour, hoping to get a few autographs and pictures after the “listening” session in my studio......
I was READY......

The session was supposed to start at 6:00pm that day.
I got a call at 5:30pm from my friend Jimmy saying “So sorry dude, only Simon the producer is coming up to your studio”.........

FAAAAHHHHCCCCKKKKK!!!!!

After a few days I learned that Eric and everyone on the session would have lunch everyday at 1:00 in the Artist lounge. Up until this point the closest I got to Eric was checking out his “rig” in the studio and hanging out with Lee Dickson a bit. Eric was using one reissue ”low powered” Fender tweed twin , one black custom shop strat and one very old L5. No stompboxes or effects whatsoever....

Well, with not having any clients attending my session last thursday, I decided that THIS was the day...... I got my lunch about 12:50pm and went up to the Artist lounge to eat. There were a few folks already hanging out there so I picked the booth closest to the window.

At almost 1:00pm on the dot, Eric bounded up the stairs. I’m sitting there eating my lunch and find it strange that NOBODY seems to want to sit with me at this booth.....Suddenly Eric comes over to me and asks, “Do you mind if I join you?”....”NO , not at all! “ I say, now realizing that no one was sitting with me because I ‘m at Eric’s bloody table!

So he sits down and I introduce myself while shaking his hand....He say’s “Hi I’m Eric”...... So here I am sitting two feet away from one of my guitar heroes watching him eat his chicken taquitos (with tabasco sauce), trying to think of something appropiate to talk about.....I can feel the beads of sweat starting to form on my brow..... Eric mentioned to another fellow that his daughters just went to a “Wiggles” concert last night. I immediately piped in saying my two small kids were into the Wiggles too... He asked how old my kids were and we both laughed about how popular Dora the Explorer is in each of our households. Eric says, “Dora is VERY powerful stuff”.

I asked him how long he’s been using the “low powered” tweed twins and he said “quite a long time”. He said the new ones are more “robust” for the road. I then mentioned the circuit for those amps is not that different than the old JTM-45 he used to use....He piped right in and “yes it is a similar sound when cranked up..” He said he used 2 of those twins for the Cream shows and he only needed one because Ginger plays “very quiet”...I asked him what happened to that BB combo and at first he didn’t remember, but then he did saying he left it in Greece when he was playing with the Glands after he left Mayall. He said that was a real special amp and that he hasn’t heard one like it since. I said, “I have a 66’ style 1 BB combo” in which Eric said “oh yes, with the thick lip, my one had the flat front on it”.....I asked him if he ever plugged into a 18watt “mini-bluesbreaker” and he said “no”, but he seemed interested when I told him they have a similar sound to the JTM-45’s but at a lower volume....I said to him I had my amp up in my studio and he was more than welcome to use it if he liked.....

He politely declined....(DAMN!!!)

I wanted desperately to get a picture or have him sign my amp but the appropiate time never transpired. I feel very lucky though, to have been able to hang with Eric for 20 mins or so.....

blewsbreaker

[Lightningrt]

The track in the original post has been available on record here in the UK since 1975. I first heard this 30 years ago when I first started playing guitar and I still find it inspirational!

[bluesjunior]

Well in that case....

Hi guys, just want to share my experence with meeting a guitar “legend”....

Being a Mastering Engineer at Capitol Records in Hollywood brings me in touch with the odd music “celebrity” every now and then..... so for me, with doing this job for 20-odd years, I’ve seen them come and I’ve seen them go.....But when I found out 2 1/2 weeks ago that Eric Clapton would be recording a new album in studio “B” here at Capitol with JJ Cale,....I got VERY excited....

Since Clapton and Co. were “recording” an album instead of “mastering” an album, I had to figure out a way of meeting him without coming across as some nerd/fan or whatever.....

Well on the second day of the session, my friend Jimmy who was the assistant engineer on the date, called my studio to ask if Eric and Simon Clime could come up to listen to the vinyl copy of Eric’s new record “Coming Home” to check the vinyl pressing on my turntable.......Are you kidding me....HELL YES!!!!

I couldn’t believe it...WHAT LUCK!!!! SO I immediatley drove home and got my 66’JTM45 and LES Paul, and camera and got back to my studio in less than one hour, hoping to get a few autographs and pictures after the “listening” session in my studio......
I was READY......

The session was supposed to start at 6:00pm that day.
I got a call at 5:30pm from my friend Jimmy saying “So sorry dude, only Simon the producer is coming up to your studio”.........

FAAAAHHHHCCCCKKKKK!!!!!

After a few days I learned that Eric and everyone on the session would have lunch everyday at 1:00 in the Artist lounge. Up until this point the closest I got to Eric was checking out his “rig” in the studio and hanging out with Lee Dickson a bit. Eric was using one reissue ”low powered” Fender tweed twin , one black custom shop strat and one very old L5. No stompboxes or effects whatsoever....

Well, with not having any clients attending my session last thursday, I decided that THIS was the day...... I got my lunch about 12:50pm and went up to the Artist lounge to eat. There were a few folks already hanging out there so I picked the booth closest to the window.

At almost 1:00pm on the dot, Eric bounded up the stairs. I’m sitting there eating my lunch and find it strange that NOBODY seems to want to sit with me at this booth.....Suddenly Eric comes over to me and asks, “Do you mind if I join you?”....”NO , not at all! “ I say, now realizing that no one was sitting with me because I ‘m at Eric’s bloody table!

So he sits down and I introduce myself while shaking his hand....He say’s “Hi I’m Eric”...... So here I am sitting two feet away from one of my guitar heroes watching him eat his chicken taquitos (with tabasco sauce), trying to think of something appropiate to talk about.....I can feel the beads of sweat starting to form on my brow..... Eric mentioned to another fellow that his daughters just went to a “Wiggles” concert last night. I immediately piped in saying my two small kids were into the Wiggles too... He asked how old my kids were and we both laughed about how popular Dora the Explorer is in each of our households. Eric says, “Dora is VERY powerful stuff”.

I asked him how long he’s been using the “low powered” tweed twins and he said “quite a long time”. He said the new ones are more “robust” for the road. I then mentioned the circuit for those amps is not that different than the old JTM-45 he used to use....He piped right in and “yes it is a similar sound when cranked up..” He said he used 2 of those twins for the Cream shows and he only needed one because Ginger plays “very quiet”...I asked him what happened to that BB combo and at first he didn’t remember, but then he did saying he left it in Greece when he was playing with the Glands after he left Mayall. He said that was a real special amp and that he hasn’t heard one like it since. I said, “I have a 66’ style 1 BB combo” in which Eric said “oh yes, with the thick lip, my one had the flat front on it”.....I asked him if he ever plugged into a 18watt “mini-bluesbreaker” and he said “no”, but he seemed interested when I told him they have a similar sound to the JTM-45’s but at a lower volume....I said to him I had my amp up in my studio and he was more than welcome to use it if he liked.....

He politely declined....(DAMN!!!)

I wanted desperately to get a picture or have him sign my amp but the appropiate time never transpired. I feel very lucky though, to have been able to hang with Eric for 20 mins or so.....

blewsbreaker
great story, thanks for sharing.http://www.thegearpage.net/board/images/icons/icon14.gif

[Poppa Stoppa]

The track in the original post has been available on record here in the UK since 1975. I first heard this 30 years ago when I first started playing guitar and I still find it inspirational!It goes back even further - to the vinyl album 'Looking Back' which I believe I bought in 1969.

[trisonic]

Thanks, LZ 69.
I think I have met blewsbreaker - I hooked up with him over on the LPF and asked him to pop over here. I can't PM him over there.

Best, Pete.

[erplander]

It goes back even further - to the vinyl album 'Looking Back' which I believe I bought in 1969.

That's where I first heard it as a kid. Wore that album out, and the Stormy Monday was one of my favorites.

The track has also fairly recently appeared on Jack Bruce's 6-cd retrospective Can You Follow (a really great anthology!).

http://www.jackbruce.com/2008/Music/Albums/can_you_follow.htm

[Lightningrt]

That's where I first heard it as a kid. Wore that album out, and the Stormy Monday was one of my favorites.

The track has also fairly recently appeared on Jack Bruce's 6-cd retrospective Can You Follow (a really great anthology!).

http://www.jackbruce.com/2008/Music/Albums/can_you_follow.htm


So it's been inspiring people for years. Excellent!!

That double stop right near the end of the solo kills me every time.

[Alligator > jam]

LZ_69: thanks for re-posting that here