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coloradodem2005 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 02:42 AM
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Poll question: What is the best Eric Clapton album
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VOX Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 02:53 AM
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1. Other: The Bluesbreakers With Eric Clapton
Clapton was only 21 when this was recorded, and his work is astonishing. His solo on the slow blues "Have You Heard" is an absolute show-stopper!
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Album recorded at Decca Studio's, West Hampstead, London during April 1966.

Few albums have had greater impact than John Mayall's 1966 landmark Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton. Released by the Decca label in Britain on July 22 1966, literally days after Clapton quit the Bluesbreakers and just a week before Cream's debut, it went all the way to #6: a pretty mean feat, since Mayall's band never before had a hit single. This may have been a first in Britain.

Of course, this is the album that set the blues and guitar worlds aflame and established Eric Clapton's name worldwide as the most passionate of musical interpreters. If you haven't yet heard "Beano" (as it is affectionately known, because Clapton is pictured reading "The Beano" comic book on its cover), then you ain't heard nothin' yet!

From the album's first notes, you realize that you're in guitar heaven, as "Slowhand" shows the way electric guitar can and should be played. Clapton's virtuoso playing is white hot throughout. Playing with a maturity beyond his 21 years, the young Eric Clapton was so influential that Gibson eventually reissued the (out-of-production since 1960) Les Paul model guitar, which he then played. As a direct result, the Gibson Les Paul Standard became the first vintage electric guitar. (DeltaNick, Ellicott City, MD)

Tracks:
All Your Love (Rush, Dixon)
Hideaway (King, Thompson)
Little Girl (Mayall)
Another Man (ar. Mayall)
Double Crossing Time*1 (Mayall, Clapton)
What'D I Say (Charles)
Key To Love (Mayall)
Parchman Farm (Allison)
Have You Heard (Mayall)
Ramblin' On My Mind (Johnson)
Steppin' Out (L.C. Frazier)
It Ain't Right (Jacobs)

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Dem_Loyalist Donating Member (234 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Sep-10-04 03:22 AM
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2. Its gotta be Disraeli Gears
I just LOVE that album....Cream plain old RAWKS!
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