I totally agree , the Jimi Hendrix experience was a such powerhouse for the exactly fact that it brought different inputs from different styles of music and the Jimi Hendrix Experience was so unique.... and there was blues bands everywhere but none maybe ZZTOP & Johnny Winter was the closest things even though TJHE was in s league of they own
@@Waverunner21 i agree, mitch had the explosiveness, but theres just something about that gypsys combo that suited jimi in my opinion. My favorite song of theirs is ‘Stop’ live at the filmore.
You only feel that way because that’s how history went, and Mitchell is what you got. As Noel Gallagher always says, “people don’t know what they want until you give it to them.” If Hendrix debuted with Buddy Miles, 50 years later people would say the same thing about him.
Also, Clapton knew Hendrix and his music AT THE TIME it was happening… that perspective of a peer is going to be completely different than how a fan views Hendrix’s legacy 50 years later.
I was just thinking that. This doesn't look like the Eric Clapton I remember. It looks like this guy should be his somewhat similar brother, Derek Clapton.
Every time I've seen Eric Clapton describing any event or any memory of an occasion or any description of any friendship documentary style, he is so lucid and descriptive really just puts you right there at that moment. Great storyteller. I mean you can tell here that he's off his chops on heroin or whatever but even now since he's been clean he's the same.
i believe that‘s a gift some good songwriters have. they are storytellers who are inspired by life itself and project their experience on songs. and to do that they need to be very descriptive. might be wrong though.
What a wonderful interview. UA-cam is a fantastic repository for stuff like this. Thank God because I was in 4th or 5th grade when stuff like this was going on. I'm so grateful that I m able to fully absorb it now when I'm 60 yrs old- a half century later.
If you really look into it, Mr.Clapton was deeply depressed when Jimi passed, he understood that he lost a major inspiration in his world of Guitar....
Jimi Hendrix was here for such a short time, but he gave so much & stamped Psychedelic rock all over the London scene. 'The wind cries Mary' always takes me right back to that magical time.
Jimi Hendrix favorite guitarist was Clapton. He was really excited to meet him. People make it seem that Eric was hating on him but they seem to have been good friends...
Don't believe everything you hear. And especially don't believe everything you read. Some people believe if it is written it must be true. That is a Big problem especially when the tabloids write about someone. ✌️&❤
I’m the end Clapton is a great guy. Wish Hendrix would have lived, we lost a lot of good music, collaborations. I think he was just getting started, as far as music goes, he was an open channel with no limitations.
He stole his best friends wife and then beat the shit out of her... Also a huge racist, went on a huge rant on stage talking about how england is only for white people.
that is a good point about (black) blues players not knowing other players. for the british, the blues was academic. for guys like jimmy, it was about smoking the next guy off the stage.
JIMI é o diferente quebrando estruturas na guitarra incomparável mesmo tendo sua passagem meteórica neste mundo , mais de 70 anos e o REI DA QUITARRA, DEPOIS VIERAM MILHARES DENTRE ELES ERIC CLAPTON ETC ETC ETC. MAIS O MAIOR AINDA É JIMI HENDRIX
Eric Patrick Clapton (Ripley, Surrey, Inglaterra, 30 de marzo de 1945), más conocido como Eric Clapton, es un guitarrista, cantante y compositor de rock y blues británico, conocido por su magistral habilidad con la guitarra eléctrica, en concreto con su Stratocaster.[2] Apodado Slowhand (‘mano lenta’),[1] desde su época en The Yardbirds, y God (‘Dios’) en su época con Cream, es miembro del Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll por partida triple: como miembro de The Yardbirds y de Cream y por su carrera como solista. En opinión de muchos críticos, ha sido uno de los artistas de la cultura de masas más respetados e influyentes de todos los tiempos.[3] Aparece en el puesto número 2 de la lista "Los 100 guitarristas más grandes de todos los tiempos" de la revista Rolling Stone[4] y en el puesto número 55 de su especial "Inmortales: Los 100 artistas más grandes de todos los tiempos".[5] Además, en 2005 la revista Guitar World incluyó cinco de sus canciones entre los mejores solos de guitarra de todos los tiempos.
If Clapton died in 1970 from drug use after the Dominos album, his legacy would have been completely different. He would have been glorified the way Hendrix is as a bonafide guitar god, no Wonderful Tonight or Tears in Heaven. I suppose that’s the deal he could have made with the devil.
I got his book. There was burnt. And there was Eric Clapton. I love you Eric. Your a most very nice and humble man today. But years ago your musician friends were even afraid of you. /// "I would lock my door from Eric Clapton".
It is hard to tell what Eric is on at this point in his life (and in the interview). The date written in the marquee title is "1973", and if this is accurate then it means it was sometime during Clapton's transition from straight heroin to a combination of heavy cocaine use and even heavier alcohol abuse. Eric does a pretty good job covering his tracks, so to speak, in that one can tell that he is on something but unable to tell what it is specifically. Eric has said in many past interviews that he had been using heroin exclusively from the Cream days through Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes, and on into his first string of solo recordings (although not his first solo recording). It was sometime during the years 1973-74 that he finally was able to put the smack down for good due to Dr. Meg Patterson's treatment. So, who really knows just what Eric has flowing through his bloodstream during the period of this interview? The fact that he seems fairly lucid and coherent says alot, I would venture to say. Clapton has always been a master interviewee in the sense that he is able to utter a good amount of rhetoric without giving too much away. This specific interview is a good example of what I am referring to...
but like a junky he is lying to grab money on the death of jimi hendrix who he did not know yes he met him but they were not friends like calling each other and chatting hendrix took off in england and then he was gone. Clapton is bullshitting how many interviews has he grabbed money from talking about hendrix he even once said the basterd left me behind he did not take me with him what bollocks clapton does for money.
??? Why make such a subjective comment that we will never know to be true or false?? Musical trends move very quickly so I think it's impossible to assume jimi would have morphed into what people were looking for during those decade's. Eric however has reinvented himself time and time again, absolute genius, guitar and vocals!!.
And the fact that he's incessantly rocking back and forth. Probably on speed or coke lmao EDIT: just realized that Eric is in fact sitting in a rocking chair, making the rocking seem less insidious
@@stevemineer2857 beck learnt to play after 1970... before, he could not even find his own identity. And even after, we Talk about a guitar player....the other two are also great songwriters and singers
@@pabloperez4063 After Cream, Clapton was boring. Hendrix was a better musical visionary than a guitarist. His skills as a guitarist were limited and he knew it. Beck was the true innovator of those three. It doesn’t matter because EVH blew them all away.
He also changed his appearance and stage movement at that time because of Jimi. He started wearing a "Jimi" type hairstyle and was kinda doing a swaying kinda move like Jimi. Check out the Strange Brew video.
Eric should have stayed with Gibson, he was explosive, he really changed when he went to Fender. Some artists just sound better with certain brands, like Hendrix and that black and white Flying V, never sounded like he did on a Strat
Jimi Hendrix was definitely the greatest rock guitarist of the 20th century. If I hadn't been told that was Clapton being interviewed I would never have known it was him - totally unrecognisable.
From clapton’s perspective it didnt gel at first but he was hearing them in the studio and live he had ears on both but it obviously really worked out in the end Thank god those guys made those records My opinion but i dont think clapton ever did anything even remotely as good as Cream since
@@adamstevens253 shown to him by Jimi one would 🤔 think and some are so detailed You can tell both men's style Billy's is very deep Jimi's more out there Who knows at this point I just know I like The later bass lines after the first two albums Cheer's and happy new years
@@paulcowart3174 Agreed. The playing on Band of Gypsys and Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge is top notch and funky. I've tried to play the bass intro on Hey Baby;not easy!
Don't like the playing down of the experience going on here, jimi was the man no doubt it's like he had a mysterious purpose of showing everybody what an electric guitar was truly capable of doing, I true gift. The experience was very on point and made it so jimi could do whatever he wanted and he could aways count on them to be there keeping it going, and they really knew how to let him breath
Over the past ten years or so, I'v come to realize that Chandler should'v assembled a better band for Hendrix, and @0:30, Clapton begins to explain, inso many words, that he felt the same way. In particular, I believe, he should have at the very least, recruited a more qualified bassist. Redding was a crossover guitarist and not a true bass player or a very good one at that, and certainly not on Hendrix's level. You can see that manifest a handful of times when Jimi would need to rerecord bass tracks himself bcs Redding couldn't get the bass lines right. Frankly, Redding wasn't qualified to play bass for the most creative and iconic and mind blowing guitarist the world had ever seen. Mitchell was obviously a very talented drummer, but his drumming, imo, was chaotic and often times distracting and got in the way of Jimi's playing. When Jimi finally hooked up with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, a true bass player who played real bass lines and fills and could lock in on synchronized runs at Jimi's glance from the other side of the stage, and a drummer who drove the beat with intensity when needed and sat back and stayed out of the way when needed, Jimi was more relaxed and confident that his band will be where he expects them to be and his jamming became tighter, more interesting and technical because Cox, especially, was able to follow him on intricate, prearranged runs and Miles wasn't playing "Lead Drums" in every song, especially during his guitar solos.
Interesting interview with Eric, which I haven’t seen before. I always thought Jimi’s band could have done with a better bass player... apparently Noel got the gig because Jimi dug his hairstyle lol, but as Eric concluded, “it worked”!
Noel was very very lucky!. Because before Jimi came to Europe (UK) he asked his best friend and fellow musician Billy Cox to come with him. But Billy didn't have the money to travel and wished Hendrix all the best. The rest is history.
Noel wasn’t a bass player to start with . He’d auditioned as guitarist for the new Animals ( he didn’t get the job ) but Chas asked him if he’d sit in on bass for Jimi & the Experience had their bass player. Jimi did say he dug Noel’s hair , think that was a bit of a joke though.
@XJM U292 you mean the one that he’s apologized profusely for fourty years now? But unlike Clapton I’m sure you don’t make mistakes. “Racist:” the most misunderstood and overused word of the 21st century.
I never would have thought that was Eric Clapton. Looks nothing like the 7 other distinguished Eric Clapton faces from over the years.
He abused cocaine for several years.. drug use changes your face.
He probably doesn't even remember doing this interview
That's his "I'm drinking everyday" face....1973
@@dre4011 just like every other brit would do.
He was completely out of his box during this interview!
Eric Clapton. The only rock star who could give interviews while watching a tennis match on the telly...
lol
😂😂😂😂
Cocaine’s a helluva drug
Heroin
Brilliant
Couldn't imagine any other drummer in The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Mitch Mitchell was a power house and the secret weapon.
I totally agree , the Jimi Hendrix experience was a such powerhouse for the exactly fact that it brought different inputs from different styles of music and the Jimi Hendrix Experience was so unique.... and there was blues bands everywhere but none maybe ZZTOP & Johnny Winter was the closest things even though TJHE was in s league of they own
But jimi’s work with buddy miles behind him live is so much better rhythmically. Imagine that from the beginning
@@Waverunner21 i agree, mitch had the explosiveness, but theres just something about that gypsys combo that suited jimi in my opinion. My favorite song of theirs is ‘Stop’ live at the filmore.
You only feel that way because that’s how history went, and Mitchell is what you got. As Noel Gallagher always says, “people don’t know what they want until you give it to them.” If Hendrix debuted with Buddy Miles, 50 years later people would say the same thing about him.
Also, Clapton knew Hendrix and his music AT THE TIME it was happening… that perspective of a peer is going to be completely different than how a fan views Hendrix’s legacy 50 years later.
It’s like his face turns into a someone else’s every decade
I was just thinking that. This doesn't look like the Eric Clapton I remember. It looks like this guy should be his somewhat similar brother, Derek Clapton.
Either Adam Scott or David Tennant should play him in a movie.
yes.
Oh man that is wild! Every time I see these old clips of him I think to myself how it looks like someone else. Might be all the substance abuse.
It's always the same eyes though
Every time I've seen Eric Clapton describing any event or any memory of an occasion or any description of any friendship documentary style, he is so lucid and descriptive really just puts you right there at that moment. Great storyteller. I mean you can tell here that he's off his chops on heroin or whatever but even now since he's been clean he's the same.
i believe that‘s a gift some good songwriters have. they are storytellers who are inspired by life itself and project their experience on songs. and to do that they need to be very descriptive. might be wrong though.
This is gold. You are left with no doubt that Hendrix was a legend in his own lifetime, amongst his peers and beyond
Eric’s facial appearance changed more often over the years than anyone I’ve ever seen. Interesting.
Cocaine!
I agree. I always thought he was a bit of a chameleon haha
What you saying Bill?
@@finkaiser3994 that's Boy George
Clone
What a wonderful interview. UA-cam is a fantastic repository for stuff like this. Thank God because I was in 4th or 5th grade when stuff like this was going on. I'm so grateful that I m able to fully absorb it now when I'm 60 yrs old- a half century later.
If you really look into it, Mr.Clapton was deeply depressed when Jimi passed, he understood that he lost a major inspiration in his world of Guitar....
Clapton bought a left-handed guitar for Hendrix and that night he heard the news of his death.
It's a coverup
I feel some genuine love and admiration towards Jimmy in his voice.
Jimi Hendrix was here for such a short time, but he gave so much & stamped Psychedelic rock all over the London scene. 'The wind cries Mary' always takes me right back to that magical time.
Jimi Hendrix & Eric Are Definitely Amongst The Best Musicians Of The Late 60’s
Obviously yea
Jimi Hendrix favorite guitarist was Clapton. He was really excited to meet him. People make it seem that Eric was hating on him but they seem to have been good friends...
@@T.D.I.Y.M.F.M Jimi's favorite guitarist was Chicago's Terry Kath
I heard him say Billy gibbons was
Nice to see Eric relaxed like this.
Well... relaxed isn't what I would call it. But yeah, nice to see him being a nice guy while being strung out.
@@bakkels Woosh
He looks totally coked out. I wouldn't call it relaxed
@@booishoois309 Woosh
On the gear
Eric was so humble. He did not even considered himself in the same category as Hendrix though he loved to talk with Hendrix about music.
You knew them both so well. HA, HA
I love hearing Clapton talk abt other musicians
Because he IS always Well spoken
I don't
@@floodgatestudios1825 well then why do watch?
Looks like EC was in his Heroin addition at this time... Steppenwolf ..
Tombstones in their eyes...glad he pulled through.
Jimi Hendrix was just too good....even Eric Clapton knew jimi was the guitar god
So cool an interview.
awesome interview. Thanks Eric ❤❤
I hope there's a recording of Hendrix and Clapton playing. I have a feeling it exists somewhere.
Someone has it in their basement somewhere. They used to go to clubs together in secret and blow everyone else off the stage together😂
Doubt it. Actually didn't play together at the LSE when Hendrix, came up to jam. Clapton simply walked off the stage. 🎤
@@SirPeter6464 Ye that’s the famous first story that everyone loves “Hendrix killed Clapton” but they came mates and would share the blues.
@@SirPeter6464 This thing never happened, troll
@@Unholygamewinner quoting his autobiography...?🧐👍
Just relax everyone,Clapton is on his way out as we all are,let us only get all fuzzy-happy about the groovy times that were had.
Is he sick or something?
@@oulosvie old
Not me! I'm gonna live forever! 😛😜😝
@@oulosvie EC has trouble with neuropathy and tinnitus.
I hope Clapton outlives your kids
Legend has it Eric kept sitting there and giving this interview for seven hours after the film crew left..
😄😄😄
hahaha class comment
Hahaha
LOLOLOLOL
Don't believe everything you hear. And especially don't believe everything you read. Some people believe if it is written it must be true. That is a Big problem especially when the tabloids write about someone. ✌️&❤
At that time!, heavy drinker I love Eric Claptons songs. 461 Ochean Bouleward is a master piece
Finally, after all these years, somebody has managed to unearth Eric Clapton's audition tape for 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest'
High as a kite... look at his eyes 👀
I’m the end Clapton is a great guy. Wish Hendrix would have lived, we lost a lot of good music, collaborations. I think he was just getting started, as far as music goes, he was an open channel with no limitations.
Clapton is a racist asshole you fucking dingdong. In the end, you’re an idiot.🤦♂️🤦♂️🖕
He stole his best friends wife and then beat the shit out of her... Also a huge racist, went on a huge rant on stage talking about how england is only for white people.
@@spanqueluv9er Yep this is true fuck Clapton, but you cant deny he's a good guitar player
@@spanqueluv9er As a person I would be probably say I hate him but he's still a good player regardless and I would love to lie but its true
Eric you are amazing love you for ever❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Some of Claptons best guitar is the London howlin wolf sessions. Not very well known but a must for the blues lover.
Good to know! Thanks for tip!
Yeah his guitar work fell off after blind faith in my opinion.
@@dylanwesley3964 try THE DOMINOES
Yeah he's almost as good as Rory Gallagher..... but he's not.
@@dodibenabba1378 I can respect that opinion. He is good. Always liked his playing.
Fascinating.
Eric i love you so much
Clapton seems so real here... Normally during interviews he seems gloomy and non interested
It’s no coincidence Hendrix wanted to play with Clapton
Eric e tao bom na guitarra que nunca quis competir com ninguem,sempre quis unir todos
Before he looked like a math teacher
This reminds me of Keith Richards commenting on Mick Taylor.
Clapton and jimmi ruled.👍🏻🇬🇧🎸🕯️
if you showed this clip to any music enthusiast without any reference a lot of people would NEVER guess this was Eric Clapton.
Rock on clapton
nice
I think rock behind Clapton
Keep on keeping on Eric
We've all known Eric since he was 18, regardless what decade we were born.
Is this Eric Clapton? Can't believe this!!!
Sold gold interview. 🥇
that is a good point about (black) blues players not knowing other players. for the british, the blues was academic. for guys like jimmy, it was about smoking the next guy off the stage.
JIMI é o diferente quebrando estruturas na guitarra incomparável mesmo tendo sua passagem meteórica neste mundo , mais de 70 anos e o REI DA QUITARRA, DEPOIS VIERAM MILHARES DENTRE ELES ERIC CLAPTON ETC ETC ETC. MAIS O MAIOR AINDA É JIMI HENDRIX
Eric Patrick Clapton (Ripley, Surrey, Inglaterra, 30 de marzo de 1945), más conocido como Eric Clapton, es un guitarrista, cantante y compositor de rock y blues británico, conocido por su magistral habilidad con la guitarra eléctrica, en concreto con su Stratocaster.[2] Apodado Slowhand (‘mano lenta’),[1] desde su época en The Yardbirds, y God (‘Dios’) en su época con Cream, es miembro del Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll por partida triple: como miembro de The Yardbirds y de Cream y por su carrera como solista. En opinión de muchos críticos, ha sido uno de los artistas de la cultura de masas más respetados e influyentes de todos los tiempos.[3] Aparece en el puesto número 2 de la lista "Los 100 guitarristas más grandes de todos los tiempos" de la revista Rolling Stone[4] y en el puesto número 55 de su especial "Inmortales: Los 100 artistas más grandes de todos los tiempos".[5] Además, en 2005 la revista Guitar World incluyó cinco de sus canciones entre los mejores solos de guitarra de todos los tiempos.
If Clapton died in 1970 from drug use after the Dominos album, his legacy would have been completely different. He would have been glorified the way Hendrix is as a bonafide guitar god, no Wonderful Tonight or Tears in Heaven. I suppose that’s the deal he could have made with the devil.
I got his book. There was burnt. And there was Eric Clapton. I love you Eric. Your a most very nice and humble man today. But years ago your musician friends were even afraid of you. /// "I would lock my door from Eric Clapton".
Eyes dilated 100%... probably hadn't slept in a week here.
IS that THE most important of This interview....?
@@pabloperez4063 why you butthurt? Clapton was loaded out of his mind here, he's been pretty open about his history of drug use you know...
I thought they looked pinned
Are you talking about hendrix on the acid 😱😱😱
It is hard to tell what Eric is on at this point in his life (and in the interview). The date written in the marquee title is "1973", and if this is accurate then it means it was sometime during Clapton's transition from straight heroin to a combination of heavy cocaine use and even heavier alcohol abuse. Eric does a pretty good job covering his tracks, so to speak, in that one can tell that he is on something but unable to tell what it is specifically. Eric has said in many past interviews that he had been using heroin exclusively from the Cream days through Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes, and on into his first string of solo recordings (although not his first solo recording). It was sometime during the years 1973-74 that he finally was able to put the smack down for good due to Dr. Meg Patterson's treatment. So, who really knows just what Eric has flowing through his bloodstream during the period of this interview? The fact that he seems fairly lucid and coherent says alot, I would venture to say. Clapton has always been a master interviewee in the sense that he is able to utter a good amount of rhetoric without giving too much away. This specific interview is a good example of what I am referring to...
Great take👍
but like a junky he is lying to grab money on the death of jimi hendrix who he did not know yes he met him but they were not friends like calling each other and chatting hendrix took off in england and then he was gone.
Clapton is bullshitting how many interviews has he grabbed money from talking about hendrix he even once said the basterd left me behind he did not take me with him what bollocks clapton does for money.
@@theprogrammerrolandmc3039 You act as if you know/knew either of them personally. Shut up, man. You sound ridiculous.
@@Jay_Wood i am talking facts
This was probably taken sometime in mid to late 1972 in his heroin era
Tea time at Eric's!
If jimi didn't die so young, he would have taken the 80s, 90s, and 2000s by storm
❤
??? Why make such a subjective comment that we will never know to be true or false?? Musical trends move very quickly so I think it's impossible to assume jimi would have morphed into what people were looking for during those decade's. Eric however has reinvented himself time and time again, absolute genius, guitar and vocals!!.
Eric looks cool and so different in here. The voice is still the same though (just lighter)
He is high as a kite here. The eyes darting about is key. it takes one to know one, lol.
He's caned, for sure.
And the fact that he's incessantly rocking back and forth. Probably on speed or coke lmao
EDIT: just realized that Eric is in fact sitting in a rocking chair, making the rocking seem less insidious
Thought the same thing, too. I think he was still on H at the time.
@@mawtymawty9010 speed for sure
@@dougbennett8592 that would make him appear drunk like, alcohol and heroin both affect the autonomous nervous system it’s more likely a stimulant.
Is this the guitarist from Spinal Tap that went on to write such classics as 'lick my love pump'?...
Seriously!?
I believe this man wrote sex farm
Think he used to be in The Originals
Hahahaha I laughed to hard at luck my love pump
His eyes are on 11, that's for sure.
Eric struggled with his fame Hendrix came with a bomb but Eric was a great musician & huge presence stayed the distance
Yeah because Hendrix died
@@isaacdeeley8698 lol.. dude there was guys that could blow Hendrix off the fucking stage back then.. give ya one name kiddo! Terry Kath..
@@kevinstimelsky673 True. IMO, Jeff Beck was better than Clapton and Hendrix. Kath was off the charts.
@@stevemineer2857 beck learnt to play after 1970... before, he could not even find his own identity.
And even after, we Talk about a guitar player....the other two are also great songwriters and singers
@@pabloperez4063 After Cream, Clapton was boring. Hendrix was a better musical visionary than a guitarist. His skills as a guitarist were limited and he knew it. Beck was the true innovator of those three. It doesn’t matter because EVH blew them all away.
Clapton is still God.
Yes God.
When people wonder why Eric Clapton started playing Stratocasters (after playing Les Pauls and SG's) - it was after watching Hendrix.
He also changed his appearance and stage movement at that time because of Jimi. He started wearing a "Jimi" type hairstyle and was kinda doing a swaying kinda move like Jimi. Check out the Strange Brew video.
Eric should have stayed with Gibson, he was explosive, he really changed when he went to Fender. Some artists just sound better with certain brands, like Hendrix and that black and white Flying V, never sounded like he did on a Strat
If Buddy Miles and Billy Cox went with Jimi to London That lineup would have been perfect.
Buddy was annoying,,,thats why Jimi canned him...or went along with it, lol
Two of the best
Omg please .... Billy Gibbons , Johnny Winter and all the 4 guitarist from the Lynyrd Skynyrd.... Duanne Allman
A dead legend and a hack
This video reminds me I need to stop drinking so much beer. I'm getting fat. Dont look myself... yeah. Thabks for the upload mate
Different guitar players but both great
Jimi Hendrix was definitely the greatest rock guitarist of the 20th century. If I hadn't been told that was Clapton being interviewed I would never have known it was him - totally unrecognisable.
HE WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE YOU EITHER, "MISTER NOBODY" HA, HA
@@91dodgespiritrt Not sure what I said to deserve that smart arsed remark
@@wirefreez At least you earned one thing in your life. ha ha
This was 48 years ago damnn
Is this the full interview? Like to see more
If you didn't know this was Eric, you'd swear it was a blind person.
Speaking from experience, druggie?
@@91dodgespiritrt you seem very angry. Relax, calm down, have a nice cup of tea. Happy New Year 🍾🎉🥳
Aloha from Hawaii 🏝️
😎🤙🎸
An early ad for Just for Men ? :)
He's still in his twenties here mate.
From clapton’s perspective it didnt gel at first but he was hearing them in the studio and live he had ears on both but it obviously really worked out in the end
Thank god those guys made those records
My opinion but i dont think clapton ever did anything even remotely as good as Cream since
Dominoes
@@pabloperez4063 dig it but not even close
I find he is quite plain and unremarkable at times, then out of nowhere, there he is. The brilliant player you hear about endlessly.
@Brad even still
Derek and the Dominos, 'Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs', and any live band recordings from the 1970's.
That 2:14 photo, timeless look, dont look dated, Jimi is always right now
The mirror is the Devil's back
whats that from? brilliant
The band was definitely thrown together fast I like the stuff Jimi played bass on myself
Oh , which tracks were these?
@@neeharavi All Along the Watchtower and I suspect the much later stuff like Nightbird Flying and Earth Blues
@@paulcowart3174 I'm pretty sure that Billy handled the bass on those later tracks.
@@adamstevens253 shown to him by Jimi one would 🤔 think and some are so detailed You can tell both men's style Billy's is very deep Jimi's more out there Who knows at this point I just know I like The later bass lines after the first two albums Cheer's and happy new years
@@paulcowart3174 Agreed. The playing on Band of Gypsys and Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge is top notch and funky. I've tried to play the bass intro on Hey Baby;not easy!
Clapton was really high.
What year was this interview recorded?
Don't like the playing down of the experience going on here, jimi was the man no doubt it's like he had a mysterious purpose of showing everybody what an electric guitar was truly capable of doing, I true gift. The experience was very on point and made it so jimi could do whatever he wanted and he could aways count on them to be there keeping it going, and they really knew how to let him breath
Yeah but he said those were just his initial thoughts, he obviously knows what it became
But can't touch Cream
Over the past ten years or so, I'v come to realize that Chandler should'v assembled a better band for Hendrix, and @0:30, Clapton begins to explain, inso many words, that he felt the same way. In particular, I believe, he should have at the very least, recruited a more qualified bassist. Redding was a crossover guitarist and not a true bass player or a very good one at that, and certainly not on Hendrix's level. You can see that manifest a handful of times when Jimi would need to rerecord bass tracks himself bcs Redding couldn't get the bass lines right. Frankly, Redding wasn't qualified to play bass for the most creative and iconic and mind blowing guitarist the world had ever seen.
Mitchell was obviously a very talented drummer, but his drumming, imo, was chaotic and often times distracting and got in the way of Jimi's playing. When Jimi finally hooked up with Billy Cox and Buddy Miles, a true bass player who played real bass lines and fills and could lock in on synchronized runs at Jimi's glance from the other side of the stage, and a drummer who drove the beat with intensity when needed and sat back and stayed out of the way when needed, Jimi was more relaxed and confident that his band will be where he expects them to be and his jamming became tighter, more interesting and technical because Cox, especially, was able to follow him on intricate, prearranged runs and Miles wasn't playing "Lead Drums" in every song, especially during his guitar solos.
He doesn't mention the left handed guitar he bought for him. In the 80's interview he was in tears about the left handed guitar.
The birds from Layla chirping in the background
Interesting interview with Eric, which I haven’t seen before. I always thought Jimi’s band could have done with a better bass player... apparently Noel got the gig because Jimi dug his hairstyle lol, but as Eric concluded, “it worked”!
Noel was very very lucky!. Because before Jimi came to Europe (UK) he asked his best friend and fellow musician Billy Cox to come with him. But Billy didn't have the money to travel and wished Hendrix all the best. The rest is history.
Noel wasn’t a bass player to start with . He’d auditioned as guitarist for the new Animals ( he didn’t get the job ) but Chas asked him if he’d sit in on bass for Jimi & the Experience had their bass player. Jimi did say he dug Noel’s hair , think that was a bit of a joke though.
I certainly have no complaints against Noel's bass playing.
Just finished his autobiography last month....he was drinking to bout Keith Moon at this time....living in Hurtwood Manor with Alice Ormsby
"We just talked trivia, really" - this is actually a deep observation. True genius just doesn't seem to need inspiration.
If the chair stops rocking the spiders get him, the spiders
What documentary is this from?
from ukulele to the strut
rare footage
Clapton is a total class act. But, walk up to him and say something bad about Jimi... I dare ya. ✌
Don’t look up his racist rant then
You're a goon. Shut up.
@XJM U292 you mean the one that he’s apologized profusely for fourty years now? But unlike Clapton I’m sure you don’t make mistakes.
“Racist:” the most misunderstood and overused word of the 21st century.
As much as i love rap id rather have met Jimi than anyone. He was way ahead of his time.
David Brent?
Clapton is so generous! 😁👍👍👍
he really looks like Paul McCartney
Rainbow concert in 1973 was Eric's first live performance since august 1971 (the concert for bangladesh) where he almost died of a overdose...
Eric Clapton, and jimi hendrix, both on the same gig of Bbq 67
❤❤❤
To all the fans who say that Clapton was better than Jimi this is for you. Eric said it himself Jimi was on another level.
Higher than a kite.
High as a kite!
As others have commented over many videos, there is something very strange going on with Clapton's appearance.
I've always thought that cream and JHE were like mirror reflections of eachother
Hendrix loved bob Zimmerman.
Very much well all along the watch tower. Bob gave that song to him. Cheers.
Fucking f by Hendrix. Had to restring everything. Just so easy to see, f blown out of water. 😎
I agree with you 100%.#OBP Bluesman
Hes on coffee and donuts
And chocolate noir
Cream tangerine.
I think this is his semiretired recluse phase.
the "obligatory Hendrix perm" was a true story, even Clapton wore it in 1967.
He did terrible things to the gorgeous Pattie Boyd which her fans will never forgive him for.
Like what ?
No one cares
Bah !!!!
Like you’re wonderful tonight?
It's all water under the bridge. Eric is a happy family man now.
On a scale of 1 to 10 how high does he look
Bout 5'10. Why, how high is he?
Eleven