@60s Man 60s Guitars Thank you so much for sharing your experience. Been practicing my new sonf for almost a year (I hope I will upload it in March). Greetings from Lower Bavaria
He asked about "the drummer" on Bitches Brew. There were two drummers, Jack DeJohnette and Lenny White, but each one's playing was so complementary to the other's that it fit together like it was one drummer. There was also a conga player, Don Alias.
A time when rock musicians really knew music and actively listened to a wide variety of genres, not just a select few bands similar to their own style as is so typical nowadays.
I like looking at the chart hits at the end of these videos. It's ridiculous that so many iconic, classics were happening at the same time. I'm also thankful that I'm lucky enough to remember all of it.
@@terryenglish7132 Yes. It was top 40 US radio. They played the greatest but you had to sit through the bad too. Living in New Jersey we would switch between the different New York and Philadelphia stations to find the good songs.
@@dirtylemon3379 We listened to WIBG as kids. One day we listened to the count down. Will it be the Beatles?, will it be the Stones?, maybe the Supremes..." Strangers in the night, exchanging glances". Bitter disappointment.
that might have been because these songs were obviously picked especially for him. It was not like a typical blindfold test of the current singles of the week, there usually being a balance of gold and dross in those
I've been a big fan of that album for a long time too, although I lopped off part of the fold out. I can understand him hating the cover. I found a used copy of the 1970 marble vinyl in the late 80's.
Nah. it was in the charts at the time he happened to be asked - the songs weren't curated. Wait though, they may have rang him up when they knew which way that week's chart was breaking, knowing he'd like these tunes. In other reviews he can be quite critical...
1969-1970 was a very good year for music. Melody Maker, although it leaned towards pop and rock, covered a wide range of music. That was my senior year in college. It seemed like many walls had been collapsing. The next four years of Melody Maker and New Musical Express had excellent coverage of everything except classical music. I learned about so many musicians from those papers during that period!
@@Allan-et5ig But I've never seen these collections so attuned to one artist. Friends, favorites, inspirations and even the band he was in. This is specially selected for him. Either they really liked him and wanted him back or they were told select things he likes or he might be a boring reviewer.
I see “back home again” in the charts. That was the precursor song for winning sports teams recording a song for some charity or something. In the United States the best selling sports team song was “the Super Bowl shuffle” by the Chicago Bears done in the mid 80s
The Beatles era has ended, yet they post their last 2 albums and Paul's solo album near the top of the charts. With Led Zeppelin in flight. Clapton had a really good selection of non middle-of-the-road tracks to comment on, and he was honest and humble at the same time. It would have been tricky for him to work out something with Miles Davis since that is so far removed from his areas of expertise, but it would have been a blast if it happened.
Clapton just blows me away with his knowledge of music. I love him, and he was the first to turn me on to Electric Blues. He's been through so much and come out the other side.
Of that roster of jazz guitarists Eric tries guessing at on the Undercurrent album, Jim Hall is the best of them and possibly the one he wouldn't have known.
I love how Eric says that he doesn't think he would be up to jamming with Tony Williams or Miles Davis. He says that those guys avoid the obvious when they play. That's a very unique way for a blues Man to describe a jazz player. Eric was a lot easier going on these people than I thought he would be. I think that by this time he had mellowed out a bit and wasn't such a purist. 🙋
I would have loved Clapton to have stretched himself with Jazz Fusion. When he was playing live with Cream, when it worked, it was sublime. He never really challenged himself that much after 1970, getting more MOR and awful 'yuppie' rock of the mid 1980s. He's still one of the greatest guitarists of all time, but I would have loved to have seen him rock out more or push his limits.
Agreed. Like many artists from that era, he got lazy and started releasing a lot of bland music. And I can't stand all those blues tracks that sound like they were recorded in really expensive studios with that clean, slick sound. That to me is the antithesis of how the blues should sound. That's what I call yuppie blues.
@@alrivers2297 please cut an artist some slack. Cream was good but not all of it. There was plenty of self-indulgent noodling. It ran its course. Clapton moved on. I for one am glad he did.
@@alrivers2297 Cream's live version of Crossroads was something else. Absolutely fantastic. The the thing with Cream though is that it was often a battle between the three of them rather than a cohesive coming together. This more often than not produced some fantastic jams. There were the times when that battle produced a cacophony though. Those times were the minority. Most of the time, they produced an energy and sound that rivaled even Hendrix.
Big respect for Clapton after hearing he didn't know if he was good enonugh to play with Davis. Bill Wyman said the same when Ray Charles asked to play with him.
That special that they did about Bill Wyman was really interesting I had no idea he was such a fascinating cat! And when he broke down and said what he said about Ray Charles was the highlight of it for me Clapton is the same way here Not the usual rock ‘n’ roll bloke…saw him with Cream in 1968 and next year I’ll be 70 and I still love the guy to death thanks for spotlighting him again your channel is wonderful! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@YesterdaysPapers It figures that Clapton would like it as some of the players include Carl Radle and Jim Gordon with Delaney & Bonnie on vocals as well. And for my money - I did buy it - Dave mason's best album.
Kudos to Clapton for recognizing - and enjoying - Bitches Brew on first listen.I played Miles' previous album In a Silent Way, constantly, but Bitches Brew just sounded like noise after the contemplative mood of Silent Way. But as I had plunked down some hard earner money to buy Bitches Brew, I continued to listen to it, and got sucked down its rabbit hole. Bennie Maupin's bass clarinet just sounds amazing to me. And partially based on this listening experience, I do quibble with some of the comments on other posts that criticize the reviewer for not instantly grasping that one track or another is a classic. Sometimes time is needed to digest a piece of music, not to mention the biorhythms of that particular day for the reviewer. Eric not only music that he should have appreciated to judge, the selection that he had was as good as any other Blind Date session. The (American) singles chart, however, shows how much weaker the singles market was than in '65. In the fall of '65, the Temptations version Get Ready only got to #29, while the inferior, well not original, version by Rare Earth made the top 5.
Clapton got a chance to play with Wynton Marsalis, though, and it worked out really well. Ginger Baker said he considered Clapton to be as much a Jazz musician as he and Jack Bruce were, only he didn't know.
73' in my opinion is when the Hippie scene and the spark of the movement which influenced the music massively began to die out. After 73' it's just a few good records here and there but nothing compared to the mid to late 60s.
@@officalhumblefish565 I tend to agree. To my horror I recently realized that when I play records nowadays with few exceptions they are pre-1973. The later music always sounds to me like rehashing of earlier ideas.
It's funny how the music was changing direction fast. A year prior it was a totally different ballgame. It went from pop to rock to heavy metal within a year. No wonder that ablot of famous artists of the time couldn't or want to keep up with the changing times.
I caught him at the Rusty Rudder in Dewey Beach , DE; and Donovan as well that summer. '80s around Thriller or Graceland time. Both were excellent ; playing, unfortunately, at a 400 people packed capacity.
By 1970 most of the reviewers were real azzhats, cool to see Eric was not part of that but someone incredibly humble and finding mostly good things to say about someone else's music. Eric's concern for making sure the original blues artist was getting credit and $$ for their songs and not just getting ripped off as usual shows his care at a very young age for the creators of the music he so loved.
@@lightningstrikes7314 Nah, been buying records since '63. Kept up with music since then also. If you want to do a little research, it's a song off "There's One In Every Crowd." As for the dime, you should keep it.
@@lightningstrikes7314 let ME guess, you single out Zeppelin because you know fuck-all about the history of the genre but watched a couple of videos about Zeppelin not crediting artists. But outside of that you don't have a clue
No way Eric could keep up with that Miles band, glad he acknowledged it. John McLaughlin's work on Brew and Jack Johnson was on a different planet. Blind Faith got to some great heights around this time but Eric's playing was too much of a purist to play free. Miles wanted to team up with Hendrix who was doing some free jazz experimentation in the studio. Though it would have been cool, I highly doubt either of them would have met Miles musically as well as McLaughlin. Of all the 60s classic rock legends, Santana was really the only one to successfully join the fusion scene. Edit: Jeff Beck went fusion too, but not in the same free form way. That said, he could definitely have held his own in the Miles bands, too. Hendrix would have been great with Miles, it just would have been different. McLaughlin slid in perfectly with what Miles was doing, with Hendrix it would have been completely different.
Each to his own. I can"t stand McLaughlin....there's no lyricism in his playing..it's like a machine gun. Listening to his album with Carlos Santana "love devotion surrender" and I much prefer Santana's playing. Don't like Bitches Brew either....all that fusion stuff where jazzers were trying to cop some of the popularity and fire of rock music but it mostly sounds like musical wallpaper. All IMHO of course....
I have to disagree. It would have been GREAT to hear a collaboration with Miles, Clapton, Hendrix etc etc. They're all great and they could at least, work out a handful of tunes. They all knew how to improvise etc
I had figured out all of Clapton's stuff by the time I was 14, with 3 years on the guitar. This doesn't mean that he wasn't good but he wasn't "god'' if a young amateur could conquer his parts so easily.
"He's from Tennessee," I corrected Eric, back in the 1970s. "And he does not play no rock and roll, just the straight, natural blue." Mississippi Fred McDowell is my idol.
“ I have backed out of (playing with Miles) several times because I don’t know if I’m up to it.” Good call. He definitely was not up to it and never would be. Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker could hold their own with Miles, but Clapton would have been exposed as the mediocrity he was. Good taste, tho.
@@YesterdaysPapers Because they were natural musicians. Plenty of British music at that time was contrived and over intellectualized (Pink Floyd anybody?). After excesses of Cream Clapton was looking for something that was natural and organic. People playing good music, not pretending to be gods of new era. Also, as a bonus, Delaney taught him how to sing.
It probably wasn’t about Delaney and Bonnie themselves: Jim Gordon and Carl Radle were the best rhythm section around-Eric and George poached them for All Things Must Pass and Layla and made their best albums.
I'm a big fan of Miles. I first got into the Bitches Brew and On the Corner era. The earlier stuff like Someday My Prince Will Come and Kind of Blue were acquired tastes. I guess Bitches Blue was pretty polarizing at the time
The rock world tended to overestimate it; the jazz world underestimated it. I think both were somewhat correct. Live Evil was what BB aspired to be, I think.
I wonder if that "five hour jam" with Winwood that Clapton says was "absolute madness" was recorded. It doesn't sound like Eric enjoyed it much, but on the other hand, it needn't have been Blind Faith Part Two to be interesting.
I guess they thought it was a special occasion so they selected records that they thought he'd like. By the late 60s and early 70s, most of the artists who guested on the Blind Date section were minor artists. Things were no longer as casual as in the 60s when pretty much all the big stars from that era did Blind Dates.
@@YesterdaysPapers Thanks for the info. I noticed that the US charts were getting soft rock and lots of it. It occured w the rise of FM underground radio. They'd play whole albums
Eric's instincts on everything rang true for me too. I love his humility when talking about the wondrous Miles Davis. Didn't realize EC had an expansive knowledge of jazz music and the great guitarists who'd featured along its greats. Sidenote: when younger I'd always believed only you know was performed by him but it made sense when I learned Bonnie and Delaney did it as well.
@@deirdre108 Yeah everybody talks about Sgt Peppers and Rubber Soul but Sound of Music outlasted them all. Give it another few YP posts and i’ll probably end up buying the Sound of Music soundtrack myself 😂
@@mattkierkegaard9403 Right! Back in the 1980's I had a girlfriend who was Austrian and she told be that Austrians hate the "Sound of Music" movie with a passion. She said that every other American on vacation in Austria that she met thought "Eidelweiss" was the Austrian national anthem. LOL
@@Cream1968 Clearly Clapton wants his politics to be tied to his music, or he wouldn't have gone off on one in the middle of his concert, or, to bring it to the 21st Century as you wanted, made "Stand and Deliver." I'm just trying to comply with his wishes and spread his message far and wide.
@@NotoriousLightning If you’ve seen Clapton’s Life in 12 bars You’ll know that he was a raging alcoholic after becoming a raging drug addict he’s accepted responsibility for what he said and that was like 45 years ago as far as the Covid song and his political stance now he would not of wrote it if he did not become violently ill after getting the shot…. He was politically active for democratic Politicians such as Obama and now is being woked by the same crowd because he spoke of how bad his reaction was to it Again enough with the politics
Calm down, Eric paid his respects to black musicians all his life and helped many to get money, fans and recognition. Just look at his current rhythm section.
@@markhunter8554 Most likely. Probably to "steal'. After I found out about his racism of blacks, when he was young, I don't really care for him or his music anymore.
@@jasonlindsey9946: Spot-on. Clapton seemed to become corrupted by the far-right at certain points. I can't listen to him nowadays. It's bad enough that we have to share oxygen with Ted Nugent.
" I guess you realize I'm out of my depth....What do mean "Yes" ?.... lol......after naming all those great current jazz guitarists. Eric sure knows his stuff. Fred McDowell is a tremendous "modern" country blues singer. And he even knows Lord Buckley, an acquired taste I guess, but unique for sure. " I'm split down the middle. Half of me is black and half is white." Love that and know exactly how he feels. Thanks as always, YP. BTW is that your voice narrating these vids?
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"Anyone who can strum a guitar is allright with me." Thank you, Mr. Clapton.
@60s Man 60s Guitars Thank you so much for sharing your experience. Been practicing my new sonf for almost a year (I hope I will upload it in March). Greetings from Lower Bavaria
So knowledgeable and so humble. What a great time for music that was!
He asked about "the drummer" on Bitches Brew. There were two drummers, Jack DeJohnette and Lenny White, but each one's playing was so complementary to the other's that it fit together like it was one drummer. There was also a conga player, Don Alias.
It was an honest mistake to think it was Tony Williams.
Don Alias later became a partner of Joni Mitchell.
Miles was a bigger Genius then Eric was.
Don Alias also played drums as well as Billy Cobham and Juma Santos and Airto Moreira on Percussion.
@@tdunph4250 What exactly is a “Bigger genius”?
Eric was very positive about all song's put in front of him that day. Brilliant.
Good thing For Your Love wasn't re released that week.
Heroin will do that. I’m sure he would’ve been more critical in the ‘80s or ‘90s.
Well, he got some great songs! Miles, Canned Heat, Fred McD - what's not to like?
Some great songs on those lists. Clapton very generous in his praise.
A time when rock musicians really knew music and actively listened to a wide variety of genres, not just a select few bands similar to their own style as is so typical nowadays.
Most boomer comment ever made right here
I like looking at the chart hits at the end of these videos. It's ridiculous that so many iconic, classics were happening at the same time. I'm also thankful that I'm lucky enough to remember all of it.
Me too, but by now I notice that bubble gummy ish soft rock was coming in
Creedence was on top of the world!
@@terryenglish7132 Yes. It was top 40 US radio. They played the greatest but you had to sit through the bad too. Living in New Jersey we would switch between the different New York and Philadelphia stations to find the good songs.
@@dirtylemon3379 We listened to WIBG as kids. One day we listened to the count down. Will it be the Beatles?, will it be the Stones?, maybe the Supremes..." Strangers in the night, exchanging glances". Bitter disappointment.
@@terryenglish7132 Doobie, Doobie, Dooo...
Eric was the most positive reviewer we have yet seen here.
He sees the good in all.
You'll never know who you'll be touring with!!
@@L1V2P9 OH...
that might have been because these songs were obviously picked especially for him. It was not like a typical blindfold test of the current singles of the week, there usually being a balance of gold and dross in those
Which is not in keeping with his character. He must’ve had good drugs that day.
“The Nazz (aka J. Christ)” by the one and only Lord Buckley.
It was a stroke of genius to include it in the blindfold test.
I didn't expect to hear "The Nazz ". It was a pleasant surprise.
This was an honest and concise review by Mr. Clapton. The man definitely knows what clicks. Many thanks Yesterday's Papers!
one of the best singles of all time was released june 1970: “lola” by the kinks
Still gives me chills
Bitches brew is so good. I think I have it stored note for note in my brain
That Dave Mason album is ace. "World in Changes" I liked especially. Funny to hear he hates the cover, I love his top hat especially.
When I was a kid, I thought 'Only you know and I know' was Clapton playing AND singing...ha ha...
I've been a big fan of that album for a long time too, although I lopped off part of the fold out. I can understand him hating the cover. I found a used copy of the 1970 marble vinyl in the late 80's.
Whoever was running Melody Maker back then must've really liked Clapton; they curated a group of songs he was sure to like.
Nah. it was in the charts at the time he happened to be asked - the songs weren't curated. Wait though, they may have rang him up when they knew which way that week's chart was breaking, knowing he'd like these tunes.
In other reviews he can be quite critical...
1969-1970 was a very good year for music. Melody Maker, although it leaned towards pop and rock, covered a wide range of music. That was my senior year in college. It seemed like many walls had been collapsing. The next four years of Melody Maker and New Musical Express had excellent coverage of everything except classical music. I learned about so many musicians from those papers during that period!
@@Allan-et5ig But I've never seen these collections so attuned to one artist. Friends, favorites, inspirations and even the band he was in. This is specially selected for him. Either they really liked him and wanted him back or they were told select things he likes or he might be a boring reviewer.
Look at that list at the end, so much good stuff! And some great records for me to find that were played to Clapton
Undercurrent came out in the early 60s. Great album -- one of the best jazz albums, especially if you're a fan of just piano and guitar.
Now, this is impressive! I never knew this existed, and that Clapton had such good taste.
And playing with Miles?
We can only dream... 🎺 🎸
I see “back home again” in the charts. That was the precursor song for winning sports teams recording a song for some charity or something. In the United States the best selling sports team song was “the Super Bowl shuffle” by the Chicago Bears done in the mid 80s
A transmission from a different era. Beautiful.
The Beatles era has ended, yet they post their last 2 albums and Paul's solo album near the top of the charts. With Led Zeppelin in flight. Clapton had a really good selection of non middle-of-the-road tracks to comment on, and he was honest and humble at the same time. It would have been tricky for him to work out something with Miles Davis since that is so far removed from his areas of expertise, but it would have been a blast if it happened.
I just listened to that bill evans Jim hall record undercurrents yesterday!
Clapton just blows me away with his knowledge of music. I love him, and he was the first to turn me on to Electric Blues. He's been through so much and come out the other side.
Of that roster of jazz guitarists Eric tries guessing at on the Undercurrent album, Jim Hall is the best of them and possibly the one he wouldn't have known.
I love how Eric says that he doesn't think he would be up to jamming with Tony Williams or Miles Davis. He says that those guys avoid the obvious when they play. That's a very unique way for a blues Man to describe a jazz player. Eric was a lot easier going on these people than I thought he would be. I think that by this time he had mellowed out a bit and wasn't such a purist. 🙋
Brilliant stuff from Eric. That 1970 chart almost had me in tears of nostalgia. I Got pop music back then (aged 12).
Another great instrumental at the end! Great stuff!
Thanks!
@@YesterdaysPapers I know I'm not the only one who enjoys it.
Undercurrent by Bill Evans and Jim Hall is one of my favorite albums of all time. Clapton’s review was funny as he named multiple jazz guitarists.
That's because so many sounded the same. Two that were easy to identify were Wes Montgomery and Gabor Szabo.
I would have loved Clapton to have stretched himself with Jazz Fusion. When he was playing live with Cream, when it worked, it was sublime. He never really challenged himself that much after 1970, getting more MOR and awful 'yuppie' rock of the mid 1980s. He's still one of the greatest guitarists of all time, but I would have loved to have seen him rock out more or push his limits.
Agreed. Like many artists from that era, he got lazy and started releasing a lot of bland music. And I can't stand all those blues tracks that sound like they were recorded in really expensive studios with that clean, slick sound. That to me is the antithesis of how the blues should sound. That's what I call yuppie blues.
His work in Cream was the best. Why he stopped I don't know. But he's made numerous poor decisions throughout his life.
@@alrivers2297 please cut an artist some slack. Cream was good but not all of it. There was plenty of self-indulgent noodling. It ran its course. Clapton moved on. I for one am glad he did.
@@alrivers2297 Cream's live version of Crossroads was something else. Absolutely fantastic. The the thing with Cream though is that it was often a battle between the three of them rather than a cohesive coming together. This more often than not produced some fantastic jams. There were the times when that battle produced a cacophony though. Those times were the minority. Most of the time, they produced an energy and sound that rivaled even Hendrix.
Cream , the best Times. of E Clapton
Most of these are right up Claptons alley! Jim Hall was one of the greats, but what about Bill?!!!
What a lovely man! Eric is so down to earth: "Anyone who can strum a guitar is alright with me" 😇🤙
Interesting, positive comments from Eric showing his maturity as a musician.
Big respect for Clapton after hearing he didn't know if he was good enonugh to play with Davis. Bill Wyman said the same when Ray Charles asked to play with him.
He wasn’t wrong. He’s no John McLaughlin. Never was.
Thank God for that, one is enough!
That special that they did about Bill Wyman was really interesting I had no idea he was such a fascinating cat! And when he broke down and said what he said about Ray Charles was the highlight of it for me Clapton is the same way here Not the usual rock ‘n’ roll bloke…saw him with Cream in 1968 and next year I’ll be 70 and I still love the guy to death thanks for spotlighting him again your channel is wonderful! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@jayburdificationAnd I’m sure that millions of people would agree with me that that’s a good thing…E.C. Forever 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
@@Cream1968 yeah nah. Only until about 1975. After that he put out consistent slow-handed dreck and acted the wanker.
Enjoyable selection. Really good to hear
Nice selection of albums. Wasn't Eric playing with Delaney and Bonnie at that time?
Yes.
@@lotharroberts5978 Are you the Lothar of Lothar and the Hand People? 😉
That Dave Mason album was outstanding. I enjoyed his music for a couple years and then he seemed to disappear from the music scene.
I'll have to check out that album, I've never heard it.
One of my very favorites too
@@YesterdaysPapers It figures that Clapton would like it as some of the players include Carl Radle and Jim Gordon with Delaney & Bonnie on vocals as well. And for my money - I did buy it - Dave mason's best album.
I think he must have taken part only on the condition he wasn't given any MOR, as I've never known the selection be so devoid of it!
I wonder why John Mclaughlin isn't evef discussed? He did mention Larry Coryell through. Excellent guitarists.
I really dug the vibes in this groovy video man !
They called him 1.6 Kilometers Davis in Europe
A wonderful album. Loved it.
Kudos to Clapton for recognizing - and enjoying - Bitches Brew on first listen.I played Miles' previous album In a Silent Way, constantly, but Bitches Brew just sounded like noise after the contemplative mood of Silent Way. But as I had plunked down some hard earner money to buy Bitches Brew, I continued to listen to it, and got sucked down its rabbit hole. Bennie Maupin's bass clarinet just sounds amazing to me.
And partially based on this listening experience, I do quibble with some of the comments on other posts that criticize the reviewer for not instantly grasping that one track or another is a classic. Sometimes time is needed to digest a piece of music, not to mention the biorhythms of that particular day for the reviewer. Eric not only music that he should have appreciated to judge, the selection that he had was as good as any other Blind Date session. The (American) singles chart, however, shows how much weaker the singles market was than in '65. In the fall of '65, the Temptations version Get Ready only got to #29, while the inferior, well not original, version by Rare Earth made the top 5.
61 highway so soulful!!! Love it!!
Clapton got a chance to play with Wynton Marsalis, though, and it worked out really well. Ginger Baker said he considered Clapton to be as much a Jazz musician as he and Jack Bruce were, only he didn't know.
I tend to think that 1970 was when the music scene started to go downhill, but no doubt about it that was a truly great selection.
73' in my opinion is when the Hippie scene and the spark of the movement which influenced the music massively began to die out. After 73' it's just a few good records here and there but nothing compared to the mid to late 60s.
@@officalhumblefish565 I tend to agree. To my horror I recently realized that when I play records nowadays with few exceptions they are pre-1973. The later music always sounds to me like rehashing of earlier ideas.
It's funny how the music was changing direction fast. A year prior it was a totally different ballgame. It went from pop to rock to heavy metal within a year. No wonder that ablot of famous artists of the time couldn't or want to keep up with the changing times.
Very true.
Dave Mason eventually got his mellow groove on & broke big for a spell.
I caught him at the Rusty Rudder in Dewey Beach , DE; and Donovan as well that summer. '80s around Thriller or Graceland time. Both were excellent ; playing, unfortunately, at a 400 people packed capacity.
First Blind Date I have seen where the artist interviewed was positive about every song listened to. Nice change to the usual snark.
I do love the snark though.
The selections they gave him were all hip, not the usual bubblegum singles that tend to dominate these Blind Dates.
@@danstone8783 Oh yeah, me too but was a nice change though.
@@divingduck1970 True enough.
@@deansmith6593 Indeed. Eric was so nice but then he did get better songs and in styles he liked.
Music was so much better then, than what it later became
By 1970 most of the reviewers were real azzhats, cool to see Eric was not part of that but someone incredibly humble and finding mostly good things to say about someone else's music. Eric's concern for making sure the original blues artist was getting credit and $$ for their songs and not just getting ripped off as usual shows his care at a very young age for the creators of the music he so loved.
Great tunes.
There's No one like Eric Clapton
Good ear, Mr. Clapton. I suppose I should’ve seen this coming.
Amazingly knowledgeable
Should have played Clapton some Hendrix
Seeing 'Brontosaurus' by the Move in the charts is a good thing................
Groucho Marx at 4:03
Ha. I associate Lord Buckley so much with his appearance on You Bet Your Life that I didn't even notice Groucho.
An interesting take on Miles Davis' music, per Bitches Brew via Mr. Clapton.
Hilarious that Clapton was so concerned about Canned Heat giving a writers credit.
EC always gives credit to the originators of songs he covers unlike say Led Zep
@@lightningstrikes7314 wanna lay some money on that????
@@07oscarboy Let me guess, you've done hours of research to find the time he didn't? Well done. Here's ten cents.
@@lightningstrikes7314 Nah, been buying records since '63. Kept up with music since then also. If you want to do a little research, it's a song off "There's One In Every Crowd." As for the dime, you should keep it.
@@lightningstrikes7314 let ME guess, you single out Zeppelin because you know fuck-all about the history of the genre but watched a couple of videos about Zeppelin not crediting artists. But outside of that you don't have a clue
No way Eric could keep up with that Miles band, glad he acknowledged it. John McLaughlin's work on Brew and Jack Johnson was on a different planet. Blind Faith got to some great heights around this time but Eric's playing was too much of a purist to play free. Miles wanted to team up with Hendrix who was doing some free jazz experimentation in the studio. Though it would have been cool, I highly doubt either of them would have met Miles musically as well as McLaughlin. Of all the 60s classic rock legends, Santana was really the only one to successfully join the fusion scene.
Edit: Jeff Beck went fusion too, but not in the same free form way. That said, he could definitely have held his own in the Miles bands, too. Hendrix would have been great with Miles, it just would have been different. McLaughlin slid in perfectly with what Miles was doing, with Hendrix it would have been completely different.
Each to his own. I can"t stand McLaughlin....there's no lyricism in his playing..it's like a machine gun. Listening to his album with Carlos Santana "love devotion surrender" and I much prefer Santana's playing. Don't like Bitches Brew either....all that fusion stuff where jazzers were trying to cop some of the popularity and fire of rock music but it mostly sounds like musical wallpaper. All IMHO of course....
Jeff Beck was quite successful with fusion.
@@plantagenant agreed.
Listen to Hendrix's 'Nine to The Universe' which Mclaughlin plays on. It's some of the greatest fusion ever put on vinyl.
I have to disagree. It would have been GREAT to hear a collaboration with Miles, Clapton, Hendrix etc etc. They're all great and they could at least, work out a handful of tunes. They all knew how to improvise etc
As if Clapton wouldn't like McDowell, Canned Heat, Lewis and the jazz stuff. They must have wanted to go easy on E.C....lol...
Bitches Brew and Lord Buckley! It doesn't get much better, thanks for the post
Incredible hearing him say he'd love to work with Davis
Great content and great work! 👍 Would you know if you could find a review from November, 1970? ✌️
What Eric said about jazz surprised me, because he wasn't into it when he was in Cream. I guess Jack and Ginger must have turned him onto jazz.
I had figured out all of Clapton's stuff by the time I was 14, with 3 years on the guitar. This doesn't mean that he wasn't good but he wasn't "god''
if a young amateur could conquer his parts so easily.
Context. He would have been mad as fuck back then.
Sure you did.
"He's from Tennessee," I corrected Eric, back in the 1970s. "And he does not play no rock and roll, just the straight, natural blue."
Mississippi Fred McDowell is my idol.
Good for you, Eric! Respect for Miles…
Fascinating
The future anti-vaxer is being very eloquent and insightful. Nice
“ I have backed out of (playing with Miles) several times because I don’t know if I’m up to it.” Good call. He definitely was not up to it and never would be. Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker could hold their own with Miles, but Clapton would have been exposed as the mediocrity he was. Good taste, tho.
Miles would have been very scary to work with when you are not confident in your ability.
A 'mediocrity'? Come on!
Clapton had the great tone but his phrasing lacked the imagination to keep up with Miles.
Never liked Clapton.
Clapton loves Mississippi Fred. Good taste.
until now i had only heard dave mason's fuddy duddy music. this is much better.
Amazing how Black Sabbath and Plastic Ono Band came out the same year. These are all pretty soft. Nothing wrong with that, but quite a contrast.
Great selection! Jim hall lord buckley miles davis
E.C. right on the $$. Good yp this one. Thanks yp
Awesome
I don't understand Eric's fascination with Delaney and Bonnie I never got it myself
Same here. I don't mind Delaney & Bonnie but I've never understood why Eric Clapton and George Harrison were so infatuated with them.
Me neither
@@YesterdaysPapers Because they were natural musicians. Plenty of British music at that time was contrived and over intellectualized (Pink Floyd anybody?). After excesses of Cream Clapton was looking for something that was natural and organic. People playing good music, not pretending to be gods of new era. Also, as a bonus, Delaney taught him how to sing.
In a profession full of creeps, Delaney was supposedly one of the worst.
It probably wasn’t about Delaney and Bonnie themselves: Jim Gordon and Carl Radle were the best rhythm section around-Eric and George poached them for All Things Must Pass and Layla and made their best albums.
Impressive reviews by Slowhand.
I'm a big fan of Miles. I first got into the Bitches Brew and On the Corner era. The earlier stuff like Someday My Prince Will Come and Kind of Blue were acquired tastes. I guess Bitches Blue was pretty polarizing at the time
I love "Bitches Brew" and "On the Corner", too. Great albums.
Real Polarizing ! Love it or hate it ! ...Mitch Hedberg was neutral ,lol ... EDITed for spelling
The rock world tended to overestimate it; the jazz world underestimated it. I think both were somewhat correct. Live Evil was what BB aspired to be, I think.
@@DrumAndDrumber Thanks
Kind of Blue was a major influence on the Allman Brothers.
I wonder if that "five hour jam" with Winwood that Clapton says was "absolute madness" was recorded. It doesn't sound like Eric enjoyed it much, but on the other hand, it needn't have been Blind Faith Part Two to be interesting.
It would be interesting to hear. From what I've read, that's how Traffic worked in their early days. They'd spend hours and hours jamming.
@@YesterdaysPapers I can believe that. And the results were amazing.
Were they scared to play Clapton something pop? Seems like this and Johnny Cash they pre-selected what to play?
I guess they thought it was a special occasion so they selected records that they thought he'd like. By the late 60s and early 70s, most of the artists who guested on the Blind Date section were minor artists. Things were no longer as casual as in the 60s when pretty much all the big stars from that era did Blind Dates.
@@YesterdaysPapers Thanks for the info. I noticed that the US charts were getting soft rock and lots of it. It occured w the rise of FM underground radio. They'd play whole albums
Eric's instincts on everything rang true for me too. I love his humility when talking about the wondrous Miles Davis. Didn't realize EC had an expansive knowledge of jazz music and the great guitarists who'd featured along its greats. Sidenote: when younger I'd always believed only you know was performed by him but it made sense when I learned Bonnie and Delaney did it as well.
Well he was in a band with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce, those guys were heavy jazz cats. Some of their knowledge probably rubbed off.
Wow, Clapton got the best songs so far.
Is that Moby Dick at the end? Thanks for another cool video.
Yep. Thanks!
Cool.
Songs this week were rather nice, probably one of the best ones yet. Clapton's good at identifying like Hendrix, but sadly doesn't have much to say..
Like Hendrix he speaks through his instrument, something I wish more musicians would do
Delaney & Bonnie: “Fabulous band,” I think I’ll sneak in and steal it from them.
Clapton 1970 looks exactly like Howard Moon 🌝 🤣
or George Harrison from the Get Back oeriod
or George Harrison from the Get Back period
Respect for Miles? Absolutely. And Bill Evans as a choice as well? Mr. Evans is my favorite Jazz artists. Love him. But what a tragic life he had.
Agreably surprised about his open mindedness toward jazz
What! No “the sound of music” soundtrack in the top 10 albums chart 🤷🏼♂️
True!
Obviously an oversight
Damn, you beat me to it. I've been noticing "Sound of Music" and commenting about it for seems like forever!
@@deirdre108 Yeah everybody talks about Sgt Peppers and Rubber Soul but Sound of Music outlasted them all. Give it another few YP posts and i’ll probably end up buying the Sound of Music soundtrack myself 😂
@@mattkierkegaard9403 Right! Back in the 1980's I had a girlfriend who was Austrian and she told be that Austrians hate the "Sound of Music" movie with a passion. She said that every other American on vacation in Austria that she met thought "Eidelweiss" was the Austrian national anthem. LOL
What would Enoch Powell say if he found out old Clapper was half black?
Get over yourself mate….time to move on to Century 21
@@Cream1968 Just sharing my nostalgia for the past. Isn't that what this channel is about?
It’s about music not politics
@@Cream1968 Clearly Clapton wants his politics to be tied to his music, or he wouldn't have gone off on one in the middle of his concert, or, to bring it to the 21st Century as you wanted, made "Stand and Deliver." I'm just trying to comply with his wishes and spread his message far and wide.
@@NotoriousLightning If you’ve seen Clapton’s Life in 12 bars You’ll know that he was a raging alcoholic after becoming a raging drug addict he’s accepted responsibility for what he said and that was like 45 years ago as far as the Covid song and his political stance now he would not of wrote it if he did not become violently ill after getting the shot…. He was politically active for democratic Politicians such as Obama and now is being woked by the same crowd because he spoke of how bad his reaction was to it Again enough with the politics
2:10
"half of me....."
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in contrast to the 1976 rant where half wanted the other half "out"?
He probably realised that it is best to view things from afar
He was drunk as hell when he said that,don't take it so seriously
Calm down, Eric paid his respects to black musicians all his life and helped many to get money, fans and recognition. Just look at his current rhythm section.
yeah, you could play with miles.
please.
He actually said he couldn't because he felt he wasn't good enough.
What happened to Clapton to turn him into the guy he is today?
I thought he was going to be a harsh critic.
Kind of surprised that Clapton found the courage to listen to Miles, seeing that he was Black.
Gee, I think that most of the music that Clapton listened to was by black people (Big Bill Broonzy, Robert Johnson, Albert, BB and Freddie King, etc).
@@markhunter8554 Most likely. Probably to "steal'. After I found out about his racism of blacks, when he was young, I don't really care for him or his music anymore.
@@jasonlindsey9946: Spot-on. Clapton seemed to become corrupted by the far-right at certain points. I can't listen to him nowadays. It's bad enough that we have to share oxygen with Ted Nugent.
“I’m split right down the middle. Half of me is black, half of me is white.“ - Eric Clapton
No.
Eric Clapton with Miles Davis? Glad that didn't happen! Too bad Jimi Hendrix died before he got the chance though.
" I guess you realize I'm out of my depth....What do mean "Yes" ?.... lol......after naming all those great current jazz guitarists. Eric sure knows his stuff. Fred McDowell is a tremendous "modern" country blues singer. And he even knows Lord Buckley, an acquired taste I guess, but unique for sure. " I'm split down the middle. Half of me is black and half is white." Love that and know exactly how he feels. Thanks as always, YP. BTW is that your voice narrating these vids?
Thanks, Willie! Glad you liked the video, I always enjoy your comments. No, not my voice narrating these vids.