My friend John and I saw The Bluesbreakers with Eric, play live at a pub in N. London called The Golders Green Refectory. At the gig Mayall announced that they had just finished recording an album that day at Decca, it turned out to be the Beano album. There was about fifty people at that gig and we spoke to Eric and Hugh Flint in the toilets. They could'nt believe that we had hitchhiked from Cardiff (150 miles) just to see them, they bought us a pint. Those were the days.
In 67, as a High School jr, in Queens, a friend whose mother was English, turned me on to the Beano album. He'd been in London and came back raving about two things: the Who and Clapton. I was gobsmacked.I became a blues freak from then on. I literally spent the rest of my high school weekends at the Filmore East. I have seen the best players up close but my passion has always been English blues. This is the best Beano doc. Great Work. Now, onward to Mike Bloomfield !!
If you’ve heard them play live with green they were at their best. Absolutely unstoppable it’s like the equivalent of if you could hear the feeling of getting hit by a freight train
Great day when I bought this album without a hint of how it would change my life...now I'm a guitar nut and Eric's tone etc still are goals. I was young then and now I'm 76...but I remember that afternoon and seeing/buying the album in Fresno...
Keith, I spent years acquiring guitars, amps, and (so many) pedals chasing various tones, including purchasing and lugging around a Leslie that I used on just a few songs. Now whenI get tempted to acquire more gear I sit down and practice for a while and accept that the only thing that makes me a better sounding player is spending time PLAYING the instruments that I already own. Thank you for another great video, but mostly for reminding us that the great players got that way by playing and developing their own styles.
jts3339 well said! I couldn’t agree more. I always say that the weak link is me. There is no guitar or amp that will help me at this time. It’s practice that is needed.
Oh so very true. And this translates into every endeavor, be it golf, carpentry, shooting sports, machinist or model building. It's not the gear or equipment that makes one a proficient master of his craft. It's skill obtained thru practice. And as is said "practice makes perfect ".
I agree, once you get a GOOD guitar and amp. I can remember struggling when in my teens, and all the while saving my $. When I was able to own a guitar that felt like shaking hands with an old friend it changed things significantly. It may be half psychological, but for me exists nonetheless. When I added a good amp, and I am just talking about a used Hot Rod Deluxe, I truly yearned to practice and play every second.
The Beano album with Eric Clapton is THE definitive Blues Breakers LP. Although I also love the two following LPs, A Hard Road and Crusade, featuring guitarists Peter Green and Mick Taylor respectively, the Clapton album stands far above everything else in Mayall's catalog. My favorite thing to do when listening to the Beano album is to mute the "band-side" channel during the guitar solos so that you can only hear Clapton's guitar, as the classic 60's stereo mix often puts the guitar on one side only. Certain songs, such as "Have You Heard," feature Clapton's blistering guitar solo coming out of one speaker with absolutely nothing else in that speaker, so that when you separate it, it's extremely intense, especially those long-held notes with Clapton's vibrato. Insanely amazing album!
My guitar instructor believed this album to be the Holy Grail of guitar tone. He spent years through the 80s and 90s tracking down vintage gear to recreate it. He had 60s era cables a same year Les Paul and Marshall Amp. I remember visiting him one time and seeing his setup in his living room. Must of cost him thousands.
@@bradcarroll3719 Not in the 80's. Les Pauls were to be had for about $2,000. Later on the Japanese began buying up most of them and prices. hit $40,000 pretty fast. Prices now are just absurdly crazy.
I can confirm that...I had a deal for a 1959 Les Paul for $3,000 in 1982. It was an outrageous sum for the day, so I passed.Who knew I could've paid off my house with it.
Your guitar instructor should have known it is all in the fingers... no cables, amps or any gizmos can do it, if you cant. If you cant play it on an acoustic guitar, you are not ready, not worth.. simple as that.
Love the new format experiment! I still love the short history of individual pieces of guitar, but I'd be quite happy to see this treatment for other albums too. I'd also say there's nothing wrong with leaning into getting nerdy about the minutiae of the gear. Others have done great videos on the playing on seminal albums, but nobody seems to get the gear right! Your meticulous approach to researching this stuff is very much appreciated.
Full disclosure: I’m not that interested in Eric Clapton or the Beano album. The fact that I watched and enjoyed it says volumes about the infectiousness of your enthusiasm and quality of your videos. Keep them coming, please.
It's kind oof like Behind the Music (or documentaries in general). I can have zero interest in a band, but I know they are important historically and I watch and can't help but be interested. Learning things is cool, even if you end up still deciding to pass on them moving forward. I didn't start listening to a bunch of Skynyrd after watching the doc on Netflix, but I did enjoy it for what it was.
Possibly the greatest compliment of all came from Jimi, stopped his gig, "Lets play some Cream" I cannot remember the gig but unless I am going senile that happened.
Spartanm333, it was during a live BBC programme called the Lulu show in January 1969 that Jimi played Voodoo Chile, and then was meant to play Hey Joe with singer Lulu joining Jimi for a planned “duet”. Jimi and the Experience started Hey Joe but stopped the song and made a dedication to The Cream (who had just split up) and tore into a version of Sunshine of your love, going past the point (time wise) where Lulu might have joined the band, and indeed played through the time allocated for talking at the end. The producer was apparently pointing to his watch and silently screaming at the band to stop. The clip is widely available on the Internet.
I remember first hearing this album in highschool 1967......a few years after I started playing guitar......still listen to it today.......saw Duane Allman play and got hooked on his playing more than the clap ....... nothing like the tone of a LP through a Marshall.....
I have a long standing theory about sideburns and the ability to play stupid-good guitar. Look at Duane, and Eric, and Jimi. All grew some sweet cheek shag.
@@honkytonkinson9787 I'm sure they sound... fine. Perhaps they should have practiced more instead of obsessing about the futuristic-outer space pointy-ness of their 'burns.
Funny: just an hour before I clicked on this clip, a fellow Fender Bass buddy of mine texted me and asked: “I found a CTS 500k pot in my bin. Did they ever use em on Precision Basses?” I responded “not to my knowledge…only 250k pots went into basses. Maybe the 500k ones were planted in Stratocaster Guitars…” Well, after watching this informative video, it looks like I was right! Excellent job on this clip, I very much enjoyed it and will now pay much deserved attention more to this groundbreaking recording.
One day up at the old L&M Music in Chattanooga I played a 1974X Marshall 18 watt with a Les Paul Classic Goldtop LP with a 60's neck ......and I was in a room by myself thanks to my friend Paul ...letting me do that and I dont claim to get the exact sound but I got dang close !!! And I had no pedal ...just a cable ...but it was amazing !!
The Beano album and the first Paul Butterfield album were the first two blues albums I bought when they first came out. I'm looking at the framed covers on my wall while watching this vid. And, yes, I worked backwards from there to find the originators of the blues. Thanks for posting all the details.
Had a band in high school covering the Stones, Animals, Them, Kinks etc. Then got those two LPs and basically morphed into a blues band - completely unaware at the time where that music came from. Whenever I play them (often) I get a major nostalgia rush and my mind blown by Clapton and Bloomfield!
Eric Clapton was the reason I wanted to learn guitar. Took a week of guitar at music camp the summer before third grade, learned a very watered down version of Layla, and demanded that my classically trained, band director father get me a guitar. I even had an Eric Clapton greatest hits eight-track in the old Chevy pickup I drove in high school. Clapton was god to me then, though nowadays he is more like Zeus in my pantheon of guitar gods.
Great video. I'm fascinated with the history of the music of those times. At the time so many things get done without intense thought or as part of a plan. Someone lights a cigarette and smokes it just because he wants one but maybe that cigarette lends an edge to a voice that years later becomes a factor that can in no way be ascertained with any kind of certainty. Add all those random acts together, especially in recorded music, and you can, and want to, listen to that totality of actions for the rest of your life. Thanks for this examination of the Beano album.
Vos Vintage original specs I was always told that is what it ment buddy I dont know maybe i am wrong,I asked them at the Gibson garage,when i bought my R9 it has a paint blemish in inside lower bout .Best LesPaul i ever owned.Great program Keith, be safe Tommy in Tn
Interesting listening to this. I'm -- Really old - in my 70's. I got my first guitar in 1954 and a friend of my mom's was a jazz guitarist and that is what I was learning -- Till Elvis and Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly ----- all us kids (at that time) just had to try and figure out WTF they were doing and how did they do it...…………… We all came up with different answers...………. which is why I will say that was the golden age of guitar playing. All these Boomers playing their version based purely on what they felt was right and what they honed. That's how you end up with Clapton, Allman, Hendrix etc. All sounding different - Different answers to the same question.
I'd heard references to your channel quite frequently on UA-cam without actually 'tuning in'. Well now I'm here and kicking myself for not being here sooner. The last minute of this video illustrates your integrity to a 'T' . You credit everyone who assisted by name and occupation. Have to go now and watch more .
Thank you Kieth, your ability to find the “keys to the highway” are as strong as ever! The rabbit hole might already be open...but how about following this theme down through ‘A Hard Road’ into the formation of Green’s Fleetwood Mac? A tone almost as sought after and legendary...
I’m already working on a video about “Beano on a Budget” but we’ll see how well this does to look to the future of album short histories. It was fun to make w David and Jeff.
I've loved this lp every sense I came across it In 1967. It's been In my collection ever sense. If I was to move get divorce or if it was stolen I would replace it right away.
I always regarded "For Your Love" as the B side of "Got to Hurry". That was the side that I played the grooves off. The album was known to me as the "Mayall/Clapton" album. Never heard it called the "Beano" album until the internet came along and noobs started going on about "God" as a sign of belonging. I had some Bluesbreakers Decca singles bought from a little record shop tucked under the skirts of the ABC cinema on the crest of Muswell Hill. I always wanted to hear the straight poop on those saxes employed to ape Eric's low end chordal punctuation. It was almost an article of faith that Eric's reading of Hideaway was a single unbroken take and it certainly gained from the sympathetic contribution of the McVie and Mayall. Standing outside the Manor House that summer waiting to be let in to listen to Peter Green, I clearly recall John McVie getting off a bus (probably a 19 or a 38, I don't recall) carrying his P bass. Just the P Bass, not in a case, not even in a brown paper bag. Fortunately it was a dry evening it has to And it has to be said, I was never a big Mayall fan, even in the early days. The record that had the most impact back then was the eponymous first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album. It has always been in my top five, always will be.
I’ve achieved the exact beano album with a studio Les Paul through a boss katana mini! I can’t exactly say is something so holy graily tone wise! For those times maybe but today is a piece of cake to achieve it!
I'm spinning this LP right this minute. I would love for Rick to do a What Makes This Song Great with a song from this album just so we could see how much of Eric's amp bleeds into the other tracks.
Thanks for the video, great job. This is a good starting point to getting into what those Mississippi/Chicago blues guys were doing after WWII and into the 1950's. The guys Clapton was so influenced by. I'd love to see a video about them and their gear. Especially since they were probably playing some cranked small amps.
I saw Mayall and Clapton at a gig in the mid 60's ...Eric's setup on that night was of course the les Paul but was fed through a Vox ac 30 ...that was the first time I heard that now unique sound which are will always remember.
This album and Clapton Unplugged is my introduction to blues music. Its start when i watch Metal Evolution earl Metal UK, there is interview with John Mayal, and few music clip from Mayall and Cream that got me hooked instantly and still digging to discover blues music.
Back to the cellar again, damnit, because I believe there is a copy of this down there. Probably have not listened to it in 25 years. And now, thanks to you, my Grandson thinks I am a guitar player.
Keith, didn't take your initial suggestion BUT I have Beano on now while I bought a new Five Watt T-shirt. Excellent, just plain excellent video. Thanks from Colorado.
John Mayall cooked me shepherd's pie, his mother's recipe, one night at his home in LA back in the late 70's. He was good friends with my producer bud, Don Nix and I was invited up for dinner. Rock royalty coming and going everywhere!
The JTM45 only puts out around 32-35 watts. It’s not a 45 watt amp. I’ve worked on about 20 of the original combo’s. Why it sounds loud is the Alnico Celestion T-652 speakers as those speakers are very efficient compared to the ceramic G12-20’s.
Fantastic video!! I initially thought I heard you stating that EC used a Mk I combo, but was mainly confused by the factory promo photos of the Mk I and not the Mk II. I think the jury might still be out on which tubes his transitional Mk II utilized? Thanks on your efforts to put this together for us. Spot on!!
Thanks for a informative and enjoyable video. The sleeve notes to the 80s issue of the Beano album on cd by John Tracey are also an excellent source of information 😎
It’s a triple ax27 tube preamp section with a double tube power amp section. It’s got a digital reverb a fat cab and a master volume. It’s basically grab and go. A future gigging classic I am certain. Thing is I am getting Beano tones using single coils from a fender mustang which counters the conventional idea.
This is a great album but in my opinion Clapton really took blues rock to another level on Fresh Cream. Fantastic video. Thanks for taking the time to make it!
Good job with this one Keith. Hell, what am I talking about , you always do a good job with your research and everything that goes with putting one of these together. I remember buying this alum on the recommendation of a high school friend, it disappeared many years ago I'm sorry to say. You take care.....
All I know is this album made me want to actually learn how to play guitar and made me start paying attention to my tone. Before it all I did was play drop D 0011010 riffs with my gain knob dimed. After listening to this and Fresh Cream I started taking lessons, invested in quality gear and began the never ending quest become a great guitar player. I owe it all to the first lick in “All Your Love”
Hi Keith - First off thanks again for your excellent videos, and 'The Beano Album: A Short History' is especially good. I thought I'd tell you a Clapton story from just a little before that time which people might find interesting. On 6th June, 1964, when I was 16 I went to see the Yardbirds at the Trade Union Hall in Watford, England, especially to hear this fantastic guitarist we'd heard about. Well, there he (God) was, up there on the stage about twenty feet or so from us at the front left side. I have a photographic memory, and I remember EC was playing something like a Hofner (!) but behind him propped up on a cane chair was either a red Gibson 330 or 335 - a real hot item in those days in England especially! Well, right on the end of a solo, EC stepped back across the stage and crashed that brand new 330/335 off the chair and onto the floor, and broke the neck. He was devastated, as you can imagine and wasn't the same for the rest of the evening! But being a teenager at that time and seeing EC close up made a huge impression and of course the guitar was IT from then on... unfortunately for me the talent didn't come with it! Cheers 😀
five watt world You haven’t published a bad video yet. Just keep doing it! I don’t want to sound like a fanboy, but your videos have no equal that I am aware of. Huge love and respect to you and yours from me and mine. You are one of UA-cam’s gems.
What a fun video Keith! I got to play that beano reissue guitar at Chicago music exchange in I think 2012. I actually played it into a Marshall head and a full stack but I am not sure if both cabs were on now. I remember it sounded very bright, but I had no experience with the controls on either piece of gear. I fiddled with it, but I sounded bad. They displayed the guitar on top of a large piano, and it was 8995.99. I left thinking I wasn’t too impressed but that was really because I just couldn’t play the thing well enough which goes to your point about the guys playing what notes they did. Thanks for your videos man!
Could be right about the price. I have learned that it was probably me that it sounded bad. But I still would not choose the tribute guitar. Once you have a decent guitar, the rest is up to you I guess lol
One of my favorite albums of all time. As a relative youngster I remember being in a Cream phase and getting this album on CD and spinning it for the first time in a discman with headphones during a family road trip. I listened to nothing else that whole drive from Jacksonville to Atlanta. Great music during formative playing years
Aha! So that's the Marshall that Clapton left behind. It's cool to hear the abridged story behind that. Just watched the JTM 45 vid so I thought I'd refresh my memory and watch this afterwards. 👍
I actually figured out a Bluesbreakers tone using my Boss Katana. Lead channel, gain turned down, gain volume cranked, and EQ Cranked. Then I just played through my my Les Paul classic with 61 zebra pickups in the middle posting. Instant Stepping out tone.
. I was into Cream growing up but didn’t know anything about this record . I knew it existed and people held it in high regard at some point but avoided listening to older blues as a teen because of New Wave. Now I’m digging into these other recordings I missed. Thank you for the back story.
Please do another video like this one album tones!! PS I’m glad you talked about the effect of transformers on the sound quality of vintage recording gear.
Clapton is the godfather of rock. That tone, particularly on songs like Steppin' Out and Have You Heard, was revolutionary. It was a gauntlet that was thrown down. Defining what 'lead guitarist' meant. Eventually, defining the electric guitar as the 'voice' instrument of rock. That 'rock' was a separate thing from rock n roll and 'pop' music. Later efforts with Cream created 'supergroup' and the groundwork for metal. Clapton likely doesn't care but that's not how history works.
I would argue that Townsend, Beck and Hendrix were already by that time experimenting with a harder sound also. Townsend wasn't a great lead player but My Generation preceded this album by about 10 months.
Although there were other guitarists who sounded great before Clapton, he did set the tone that made rock guitar thick, heavy and biting... Can't deny that. The fact that guitar players still seek that tone is proof of that.
My friend John and I saw The Bluesbreakers with Eric, play live at a pub in N. London called The Golders Green Refectory. At the gig Mayall announced that they had just finished recording an album that day at Decca, it turned out to be the Beano album. There was about fifty people at that gig and we spoke to Eric and Hugh Flint in the toilets. They could'nt believe that we had hitchhiked from Cardiff (150 miles) just to see them, they bought us a pint. Those were the days.
Great story! Thanks
what a wonderful story......
That's a great bit of history Peter. 150 miles would be about 3 hours travel I guess, hope you stayed in London for a day or two.
Thanks Mate for a piece of history! I'd buy you a pint just to hear the tale.🍻
Awesome story! those were glorious days!
My old friend and blues tutor was a friend of John Mayalls and a school friend. I feel honoured to have this connection. R. I. P the 2 Johns x
YES!! One of my favorite albums of all time.
Definitely a landmark record (in my humble opinion). Some records are like an encyclopedia of licks... this one has a notch up there in that.
I think just about all guitar players would put this album high on their list of favorites. It really did change the world of guitar for the better.
Made my day when you sat in Righteous guitars and played that fragment of "Dance the Night Away".
I'm trying to cover this whole album
A seminal work.
In 67, as a High School jr, in Queens, a friend whose mother was English, turned me on to the Beano album. He'd been in London and came back raving about two things: the Who and Clapton. I was gobsmacked.I became a blues freak from then on. I literally spent the rest of my high school weekends at the Filmore East. I have seen the best players up close but my passion has always been English blues. This is the best Beano doc. Great Work. Now, onward to Mike Bloomfield !!
Rest in peace, John Mayall.
Amen
Love that album and remember playing it the first time. After that I realized just how much I love the Marshall/Gibson tone.
Amazing Hypes! A great new addition to the series. Love it!
Thanks Hypes!
Rick Beato! Love you Man!
@@fernandoreynaaguilar1438 wow way to show love back and reciprocate lol. Shit man you didn't even get a like. Here I'll give you a like.
Beano is a killer album. However "A Hard Road" showed Peter Green unafraid to step in and make his own mark. One MUST own both.
A Hard Road is a much better record. I'm a big Peter Green fan, though.
Matt Gertsch I’m of the opposite opinion.
They're both excellent LP's. The next LP with Mick Taylor, Crusade, stands tall with both of them.
BB King is well known to have said that Peter Green is the only guitarist who could give him the cold sweats.
If you’ve heard them play live with green they were at their best. Absolutely unstoppable it’s like the equivalent of if you could hear the feeling of getting hit by a freight train
Great day when I bought this album without a hint of how it would change my life...now I'm a guitar nut and Eric's tone etc still are goals. I was young then and now I'm 76...but I remember that afternoon and seeing/buying the album in Fresno...
Keith, I spent years acquiring guitars, amps, and (so many) pedals chasing various tones, including purchasing and lugging around a Leslie that I used on just a few songs. Now whenI get tempted to acquire more gear I sit down and practice for a while and accept that the only thing that makes me a better sounding player is spending time PLAYING the instruments that I already own. Thank you for another great video, but mostly for reminding us that the great players got that way by playing and developing their own styles.
jts3339 well said! I couldn’t agree more.
I always say that the weak link is me. There is no guitar or amp that will help me at this time. It’s practice that is needed.
jts3339 ...very well said...and I agree 100%
Oh so very true. And this translates into every endeavor, be it golf, carpentry, shooting sports, machinist or model building. It's not the gear or equipment that makes one a proficient master of his craft. It's skill obtained thru practice. And as is said "practice makes perfect ".
Yep. The imput jack is the hands backed by a bit of soul.
I agree, once you get a GOOD guitar and amp. I can remember struggling when in my teens, and all the while saving my $. When I was able to own a guitar that felt like shaking hands with an old friend it changed things significantly. It may be half psychological, but for me exists nonetheless. When I added a good amp, and I am just talking about a used Hot Rod Deluxe, I truly yearned to practice and play every second.
The Beano album with Eric Clapton is THE definitive Blues Breakers LP. Although I also love the two following LPs, A Hard Road and Crusade, featuring guitarists Peter Green and Mick Taylor respectively, the Clapton album stands far above everything else in Mayall's catalog. My favorite thing to do when listening to the Beano album is to mute the "band-side" channel during the guitar solos so that you can only hear Clapton's guitar, as the classic 60's stereo mix often puts the guitar on one side only. Certain songs, such as "Have You Heard," feature Clapton's blistering guitar solo coming out of one speaker with absolutely nothing else in that speaker, so that when you separate it, it's extremely intense, especially those long-held notes with Clapton's vibrato. Insanely amazing album!
My guitar instructor believed this album to be the Holy Grail of guitar tone. He spent years through the 80s and 90s tracking down vintage gear to recreate it. He had 60s era cables a same year Les Paul and Marshall Amp. I remember visiting him one time and seeing his setup in his living room. Must of cost him thousands.
Dozens of thousands would probably be closer.
@@bradcarroll3719 Not in the 80's. Les Pauls were to be had for about $2,000. Later on the Japanese began buying up most of them and prices. hit $40,000 pretty fast. Prices now are just absurdly crazy.
I can confirm that...I had a deal for a 1959 Les Paul for $3,000 in 1982. It was an outrageous sum for the day, so I passed.Who knew I could've paid off my house with it.
Your guitar instructor should have known it is all in the fingers... no cables, amps or any gizmos can do it,
if you cant. If you cant play it on an acoustic guitar, you are not ready, not worth.. simple as that.
@@tomasvanecek8626 then why did Eric Clapton use amps and an Les Paul if he could have just used his fingers and an acoustic guitar?
Im a BIG fan of RICK BEATO and love your channel.....
Love the new format experiment! I still love the short history of individual pieces of guitar, but I'd be quite happy to see this treatment for other albums too. I'd also say there's nothing wrong with leaning into getting nerdy about the minutiae of the gear. Others have done great videos on the playing on seminal albums, but nobody seems to get the gear right! Your meticulous approach to researching this stuff is very much appreciated.
Full disclosure: I’m not that interested in Eric Clapton or the Beano album. The fact that I watched and enjoyed it says volumes about the infectiousness of your enthusiasm and quality of your videos. Keep them coming, please.
Thanks for wading through it David. Danke.
Bo you cray
It's kind oof like Behind the Music (or documentaries in general). I can have zero interest in a band, but I know they are important historically and I watch and can't help but be interested. Learning things is cool, even if you end up still deciding to pass on them moving forward. I didn't start listening to a bunch of Skynyrd after watching the doc on Netflix, but I did enjoy it for what it was.
You never played guitar... or did you ?
Are you deaf?
As much as I love SRV, Clapton is always on the top of my list for his diversity and always improving vocal skills.
Possibly the greatest compliment of all came from Jimi, stopped his gig, "Lets play some Cream" I cannot remember the gig but unless I am going senile that happened.
Spartanm333, it was during a live BBC programme called the Lulu show in January 1969 that Jimi played Voodoo Chile, and then was meant to play Hey Joe with singer Lulu joining Jimi for a planned “duet”. Jimi and the Experience started Hey Joe but stopped the song and made a dedication to The Cream (who had just split up) and tore into a version of Sunshine of your love, going past the point (time wise) where Lulu might have joined the band, and indeed played through the time allocated for talking at the end. The producer was apparently pointing to his watch and silently screaming at the band to stop. The clip is widely available on the Internet.
@@craigthomson3621 It was brilliant - I remember it well! Consternation at the BBC - Saturday schedules awry!
@@Spartanm333 It was on the Lulu Show - they cut him off at the end.
Sweat smoke and mileage... best way to describe a blues rock instrument ever
Once again you've hit another Grand Slam!
I look forward to your videos and enjoy ALL of them.
Thank you for your craftsmanship
I remember first hearing this album in highschool 1967......a few years after I started playing guitar......still listen to it today.......saw Duane Allman play and got hooked on his playing more than the clap ....... nothing like the tone of a LP through a Marshall.....
The only good sideburns are ones of preposterous length.
I have a long standing theory about sideburns and the ability to play stupid-good guitar. Look at Duane, and Eric, and Jimi. All grew some sweet cheek shag.
My wife outlawed those sort of sideburns years ago, eliminating my Neil Young hero worship look.
What are your thoughts on the lush pointy sideburns from 1960s Star Trek?
I've sported long sideburns forever . On the one occasion I shaved them off, I couldn't play for toffee for several days 😉
@@honkytonkinson9787 I'm sure they sound... fine. Perhaps they should have practiced more instead of obsessing about the futuristic-outer space pointy-ness of their 'burns.
Thanks! I downloaded the deluxe version and have been re-discovering it.
Funny: just an hour before I clicked on this clip, a fellow Fender Bass buddy of mine texted me and asked: “I found a CTS 500k pot in my bin. Did they ever use em on Precision Basses?” I responded “not to my knowledge…only 250k pots went into basses. Maybe the 500k ones were planted in Stratocaster Guitars…” Well, after watching this informative video, it looks like I was right! Excellent job on this clip, I very much enjoyed it and will now pay much deserved attention more to this groundbreaking recording.
One day up at the old L&M Music in Chattanooga I played a 1974X Marshall 18 watt with a Les Paul Classic Goldtop LP with a 60's neck ......and I was in a room by myself thanks to my friend Paul ...letting me do that and I dont claim to get the exact sound but I got dang close !!! And I had no pedal ...just a cable ...but it was amazing !!
The Beano album and the first Paul Butterfield album were the first two blues albums I bought when they first came out. I'm looking at the framed covers on my wall while watching this vid. And, yes, I worked backwards from there to find the originators of the blues. Thanks for posting all the details.
Had a band in high school covering the Stones, Animals, Them, Kinks etc. Then got those two LPs and basically morphed into a blues band - completely unaware at the time where that music came from. Whenever I play them (often) I get a major nostalgia rush and my mind blown by Clapton and Bloomfield!
you and a few thousand of us.
Eric Clapton was the reason I wanted to learn guitar. Took a week of guitar at music camp the summer before third grade, learned a very watered down version of Layla, and demanded that my classically trained, band director father get me a guitar. I even had an Eric Clapton greatest hits eight-track in the old Chevy pickup I drove in high school. Clapton was god to me then, though nowadays he is more like Zeus in my pantheon of guitar gods.
another great piece on the rock and blues bands ,gear they use and diffrences in tonal structures,,thank you .😊
Great video. I'm fascinated with the history of the music of those times. At the time so many things get done without intense thought or as part of a plan. Someone lights a cigarette and smokes it just because he wants one but maybe that cigarette lends an edge to a voice that years later becomes a factor that can in no way be ascertained with any kind of certainty. Add all those random acts together, especially in recorded music, and you can, and want to, listen to that totality of actions for the rest of your life. Thanks for this examination of the Beano album.
One of my favorite albums of all time. Thank you.
Vos Vintage original specs I was always told that is what it ment buddy I dont know maybe i am wrong,I asked them at the Gibson garage,when i bought my R9 it has a paint blemish in inside lower bout .Best LesPaul i ever owned.Great program Keith, be safe Tommy in Tn
Interesting listening to this. I'm -- Really old - in my 70's. I got my first guitar in 1954 and a friend of my mom's was a jazz guitarist and that is what I was learning -- Till Elvis and Chuck Berry and Buddy Holly ----- all us kids (at that time) just had to try and figure out WTF they were doing and how did they do it...…………… We all came up with different answers...………. which is why I will say that was the golden age of guitar playing. All these Boomers playing their version based purely on what they felt was right and what they honed. That's how you end up with Clapton, Allman, Hendrix etc. All sounding different - Different answers to the same question.
Excellent work miss playing along with that record with my fender and Marshall
I'd heard references to your channel quite frequently on UA-cam without actually 'tuning in'. Well now I'm here and kicking myself for not being here sooner. The last minute of this video illustrates your integrity to a 'T' . You credit everyone who assisted by name and occupation. Have to go now and watch more .
Thanks! Welcome to five watt world!
Thank you Kieth, your ability to find the “keys to the highway” are as strong as ever! The rabbit hole might already be open...but how about following this theme down through ‘A Hard Road’ into the formation of Green’s Fleetwood Mac? A tone almost as sought after and legendary...
I’m already working on a video about “Beano on a Budget” but we’ll see how well this does to look to the future of album short histories. It was fun to make w David and Jeff.
@@fivewattworld look forward that if it goes ahead.
I've got an early pressing of the Beano album, but the one I really want is A Hard Road with Peter Green...!
Early Clapton & Beck bends is what me to the 2 whole note bends! Well, Dave Gillmore had a hand there
Thanks Mr. Guitar geeek!
Look so forward to your videos
I've loved this lp every sense I came across it In 1967. It's been In my collection ever sense. If I was to move get divorce or if it was stolen I would replace it right away.
I listened to that record nonstop for weeks when I discovered it.
I own some Barber pedals. Love his compressor. Big fan of Robben Ford as well. Had a Robben Ford cover band too.
Keith... this was awesome! Great insight to an amazing album!
Thanks Chaz!
Thanks again Keith for another great short history.
Thanks for watching Michael.
I always regarded "For Your Love" as the B side of "Got to Hurry". That was the side that I played the grooves off. The album was known to me as the "Mayall/Clapton" album.
Never heard it called the "Beano" album until the internet came along and noobs started going on about "God" as a sign of belonging.
I had some Bluesbreakers Decca singles bought from a little record shop tucked under the skirts of the ABC cinema on the crest of Muswell Hill.
I always wanted to hear the straight poop on those saxes employed to ape Eric's low end chordal punctuation.
It was almost an article of faith that Eric's reading of Hideaway was a single unbroken take and it certainly gained from the sympathetic contribution of the McVie and Mayall.
Standing outside the Manor House that summer waiting to be let in to listen to Peter Green, I clearly recall John McVie getting off a bus (probably a 19 or a 38, I don't recall) carrying his P bass.
Just the P Bass, not in a case, not even in a brown paper bag. Fortunately it was a dry evening it has to
And it has to be said, I was never a big Mayall fan, even in the early days.
The record that had the most impact back then was the eponymous first Paul Butterfield Blues Band album.
It has always been in my top five, always will be.
A timeless classic for “Steppin Out” alone. 1966 was an unparalleled year.
I’ve achieved the exact beano album with a studio Les Paul through a boss katana mini! I can’t exactly say is something so holy graily tone wise! For those times maybe but today is a piece of cake to achieve it!
Dude! I am eating up these history lessons. There's a depth to your analysis that belies a depth of soul. Digging this FWW trip!
Thanks Bill.
I'm spinning this LP right this minute. I would love for Rick to do a What Makes This Song Great with a song from this album just so we could see how much of Eric's amp bleeds into the other tracks.
I wonder if he has the tracks for this....hmmmm....
Hearing the isolated guitar would be very revealing
Would love to hear this!
Do Clapton's insane take on Freddy King's Hideaway!
sniff rat Clapton's isolated guitar on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps" is interesting, sounds so different than when it's mixed in with everything else
Paul Jones and the Blues band play every month in my town in Dorset UK . They are still such a great band............
Thanks for the video, great job.
This is a good starting point to getting into what those Mississippi/Chicago blues guys were doing after WWII and into the 1950's. The guys Clapton was so influenced by. I'd love to see a video about them and their gear. Especially since they were probably playing some cranked small amps.
I saw Mayall and Clapton at a gig in the mid 60's ...Eric's setup on that night was of course the les Paul but was fed through a Vox ac 30 ...that was the first time I heard that now unique sound which are will always remember.
As always you bring music history to life and bid those who tag along to relive it.
This album and Clapton Unplugged is my introduction to blues music. Its start when i watch Metal Evolution earl Metal UK, there is interview with John Mayal, and few music clip from Mayall and Cream that got me hooked instantly and still digging to discover blues music.
It’s always a great day when FWW posts a video but this one was the best yet!
Back to the cellar again, damnit, because I believe there is a copy of this down there. Probably have not listened to it in 25 years. And now, thanks to you, my Grandson thinks I am a guitar player.
scholarly researched and wonderfully presented. Thank you!
Thanks John
Keith, didn't take your initial suggestion BUT I have Beano on now while I bought a new Five Watt T-shirt. Excellent, just plain excellent video. Thanks from Colorado.
Thanks for the support Craig.
Brilliant video , thank you , I’ve just read in Clapton’s auto biography that it was indeed a Les Paul that he left behind in Greece ,
Excellent video. I had a few different stories about how The Blues breakers came together;great to get the straight of it 🎸👍
One of my favourite albums, definitely a “desert island disk.” Clapton on fire. Thanks so much for this history.
......U...nnn...tilll I played the second note. How fitting. Mr .Williams you are a gem , sir!
Thanks Lonnie. I’m still working on the second and third notes.
Brilliant! Thanks so much, Keith.
Thanks for watching Ted
Great job on what must have been exhausting research to do this video
Coming out of your comfort zone, yet remain gear oriented. With that touch of tours. I love it, man!
Thanks Avi
@@fivewattworld hey,
You never told me what you thought about that piece of music i sent you. Did you get the link?
John Mayall cooked me shepherd's pie, his mother's recipe, one night at his home in LA back in the late 70's. He was good friends with my producer bud, Don Nix and I was invited up for dinner. Rock royalty coming and going everywhere!
The JTM45 only puts out around 32-35 watts. It’s not a 45 watt amp. I’ve worked on about 20 of the original combo’s. Why it sounds loud is the Alnico Celestion T-652 speakers as those speakers are very efficient compared to the ceramic G12-20’s.
Fantastic video!! I initially thought I heard you stating that EC used a Mk I combo, but was mainly confused by the factory promo photos of the Mk I and not the Mk II. I think the jury might still be out on which tubes his transitional Mk II utilized? Thanks on your efforts to put this together for us. Spot on!!
I just started listening to this album! Perfect timing!
I love this series keith! the beano album just hits different man yk?
I’ve shared your video to some key Facebook groups on this topic.
Thanks for a informative and enjoyable video. The sleeve notes to the 80s issue of the Beano album on cd by John Tracey are also an excellent source of information 😎
I recently purchased the Artist TweedTone 20r and it seems like the answer for the Beano tone chaser at a practical volume.
It’s a triple ax27 tube preamp section with a double tube power amp section. It’s got a digital reverb a fat cab and a master volume. It’s basically grab and go. A future gigging classic I am certain. Thing is I am getting Beano tones using single coils from a fender mustang which counters the conventional idea.
This is a great album but in my opinion Clapton really took blues rock to another level on Fresh Cream. Fantastic video. Thanks for taking the time to make it!
Good job with this one Keith. Hell, what am I talking about , you always do a good job with your research and everything that goes with putting one of these together. I remember buying this alum on the recommendation of a high school friend, it disappeared many years ago I'm sorry to say. You take care.....
Album.......... not alum. Sorry.
All I know is this album made me want to actually learn how to play guitar and made me start paying attention to my tone. Before it all I did was play drop D 0011010 riffs with my gain knob dimed. After listening to this and Fresh Cream I started taking lessons, invested in quality gear and began the never ending quest become a great guitar player. I owe it all to the first lick in “All Your Love”
Hi Keith - First off thanks again for your excellent videos, and 'The Beano Album: A Short History' is especially good. I thought I'd tell you a Clapton story from just a little before that time which people might find interesting. On 6th June, 1964, when I was 16 I went to see the Yardbirds at the Trade Union Hall in Watford, England, especially to hear this fantastic guitarist we'd heard about.
Well, there he (God) was, up there on the stage about twenty feet or so from us at the front left side. I have a photographic memory, and I remember EC was playing something like a Hofner (!) but behind him propped up on a cane chair was either a red Gibson 330 or 335 - a real hot item in those days in England especially! Well, right on the end of a solo, EC stepped back across the stage and crashed that brand new 330/335 off the chair and onto the floor, and broke the neck. He was devastated, as you can imagine and wasn't the same for the rest of the evening! But being a teenager at that time and seeing EC close up made a huge impression and of course the guitar was IT from then on... unfortunately for me the talent didn't come with it! Cheers 😀
Another fascinating vid from Keith. A departure from his usual “A Brief History of” stuff, but still made for essential viewing.
Glad you liked it Kevin
five watt world You haven’t published a bad video yet. Just keep doing it!
I don’t want to sound like a fanboy, but your videos have no equal that I am aware of.
Huge love and respect to you and yours from me and mine.
You are one of UA-cam’s gems.
Thanks for this video. Anything you do next will be fine with me. But that was a great period, with Fleetwood Mac, Canned Heat, etc.
Thanks KW. Another solid effort.
Thanks man
Another great piece. Nailed it.
Thanks, Keith.
Thanks for watching Ricardo!
Keith - a great video about a great album. Thanks!
Glad you liked it David!
Bought that album when it came out. My first Mayall album. Love it.
One pickup two knobs. Five watt guitar.
Thanks for the video!
What a fun video Keith! I got to play that beano reissue guitar at Chicago music exchange in I think 2012. I actually played it into a Marshall head and a full stack but I am not sure if both cabs were on now. I remember it sounded very bright, but I had no experience with the controls on either piece of gear. I fiddled with it, but I sounded bad. They displayed the guitar on top of a large piano, and it was 8995.99. I left thinking I wasn’t too impressed but that was really because I just couldn’t play the thing well enough which goes to your point about the guys playing what notes they did. Thanks for your videos man!
Most of the new LPs just don't sound right Like the old ones.anyways
Clapton probably paid $200 for his.
Could be right about the price. I have learned that it was probably me that it sounded bad. But I still would not choose the tribute guitar. Once you have a decent guitar, the rest is up to you I guess lol
I very much enjoyed this video...thank you!
One of my favorite albums of all time. As a relative youngster I remember being in a Cream phase and getting this album on CD and spinning it for the first time in a discman with headphones during a family road trip. I listened to nothing else that whole drive from Jacksonville to Atlanta. Great music during formative playing years
Loved it Keith! Thanks for your efforts.
Thanks Rick!
Aha! So that's the Marshall that Clapton left behind. It's cool to hear the abridged story behind that. Just watched the JTM 45 vid so I thought I'd refresh my memory and watch this afterwards. 👍
I actually figured out a Bluesbreakers tone using my Boss Katana. Lead channel, gain turned down, gain volume cranked, and EQ Cranked. Then I just played through my my Les Paul classic with 61 zebra pickups in the middle posting. Instant Stepping out tone.
. I was into Cream growing up but didn’t know anything about this record . I knew it existed and people held it in high regard at some point but avoided listening to older blues as a teen because of New Wave. Now I’m digging into these other recordings I missed. Thank you for the back story.
AWESOME Epidosde Kieth!!!! And great advice!! My Fav YT channel! Stay safe, healthy and Groovy!!
Thanks man. Stay home and practice brother,
Loved being guided through the history of the album! Now i have to listen to it ;°)
That's Andy Summers outside the Flamingo, second from the right @ 6:05
That’s GREAT!
Yup, It's most of Zoot Moneys Big Roll Band.
Thank you for the opportunity to be involved in such a quality video on one of my favorite records! I learned a lot! Great stuff man!!
As the saying goes, "The pleasure was mine" brother. You did some great playing for this. Thanks again for coming along for the ride.
Top job again Keith, thanks. Respect.
Thanks Willie
Excellent! As always! I need to borrow that "Until I played the second note" thing.. 8) Thanks much! --gary
Thanks Gary.
Please do another video like this one album tones!! PS I’m glad you talked about the effect of transformers on the sound quality of vintage recording gear.
Great album. I had it on vinyl and have it again on CD.
Hurray - a new FWW. And looking at the Beano album. Hope you and yours are staying safe and well. All the best from plague-ridden England.
God stuff... great to see there’s still a buzz around this classic album... keep it burnin! Mike
Clapton is the godfather of rock. That tone, particularly on songs like Steppin' Out and Have You Heard, was revolutionary. It was a gauntlet that was thrown down. Defining what 'lead guitarist' meant. Eventually, defining the electric guitar as the 'voice' instrument of rock. That 'rock' was a separate thing from rock n roll and 'pop' music. Later efforts with Cream created 'supergroup' and the groundwork for metal. Clapton likely doesn't care but that's not how history works.
I would argue that Townsend, Beck and Hendrix were already by that time experimenting with a harder sound also. Townsend wasn't a great lead player but My Generation preceded this album by about 10 months.
His tone is all Freddy King.
Although there were other guitarists who sounded great before Clapton, he did set the tone that made rock guitar thick, heavy and biting... Can't deny that. The fact that guitar players still seek that tone is proof of that.
Fascinating. Good work!