{"id":2118,"date":"2012-01-12T15:30:14","date_gmt":"2012-01-12T20:30:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/?p=2118"},"modified":"2012-01-12T15:30:14","modified_gmt":"2012-01-12T20:30:14","slug":"through-the-years-with-eric-clapton","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/through-the-years-with-eric-clapton\/","title":{"rendered":"Through The Years With Eric Clapton"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Clapton is one of the best guitarists to have hit the music scene. Photo courtesy of Wikipedia.org<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

I thought it was about time I wrote about the big man himself, Eric Clapton.\u00a0 There are a lot of ways that I could have written this post, but I decided to travel in a time machine and find videos of a few of Clapton’s music projects throughout his music career.\u00a0 I won’t be able to hit everyone’s favorites, so feel free to leave comments with your favorite videos too.\u00a0 This is a great chance to dive into Clapton’s playing and inspire guitarists visiting this blog that aren’t as familiar with Eric Clapton.\u00a0 I hope you enjoy the videos because I definitely had a great time collecting them all for you.<\/p>\n

You can’t represent Eric Clapton’s career in just a few videos, so you’re in for a treat in this post.\u00a0 I collected nine videos from a variety of groups, and if you can believe it I had to cut a lot out to get that final number.\u00a0 Clapton saw his first success as a member of the Yardbirds.\u00a0 This song, “For Your Love,” was a big hit for the Yardbirds but was also the point when Clapton left the band because it was too much pop.\u00a0 Check it out at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GPrk-WU7cKQ<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Clapton turned to John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers for a short time next and recorded the song, “All Your Love.”\u00a0 Find it at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rUUEtCBhn_Q<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Then came one of the best supergroup guitar trios in the late 60s, Cream.\u00a0 Catch one of their biggest hits at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Cqh54rSzheg<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker then started a new group called Blind Faith.\u00a0 I found a cool video performance of Blind Faith playing the song, “Can’t Find My Way Home,” at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=mUW1SGF7bR8<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Clapton’s song, “Layla,” has been one of the best rock anthems since its release in 1970.\u00a0 Here’s a performance with the hit group, Derek and the Dominos, at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=Th3ycKQV_4k<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I found a cool video of Derek and the Dominos performing with Johnny Cash and Carl Perkins.\u00a0 See all these great guitarists at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=RRnA2bnGRCw&feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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One of the great Clapton hits is the song, “Cocaine.”\u00a0 Check out a great video of Clapton playing it at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=qYS732zyYfU<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Another big hit for Clapton is the song, “White Room.”\u00a0 Originally played with Cream, check out this later performance with Clapton and Friends.\u00a0 Notice Phil Collins on the drums too.\u00a0 Find the video at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=rvnWuOjJDh4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Now onto some of Clapton’s later performances in his career.\u00a0 Here’s a classic performance of his song, “My Father’s Eyes.”\u00a0 I’m sure buddy Q (keys in the Griff Hamlin Band) will be happy to see Billy Preston on keys and Chris (drums in the Griff Hamlin Band) should be happy to see Steve Gadd on drums.\u00a0 Check it out at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=cxKxOglHg_4<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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I thought this performance of Clapton playing the song, “Same Old Blues,” wrapped up this post nicely.\u00a0 Through all the years Clapton has under his belt playing in so many different groups, his heart still feels at home in the Blues.\u00a0 Check out the video at http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=GA-0BbHeRS8&feature=related<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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So I know this wasn’t a short post, but I can’t cut corners with Eric Clapton.\u00a0 There’s definitely a lot more out there so let me know some of your favorites.\u00a0 I hope you enjoyed this little trip back in time with Eric Clapton.<\/p>\n

Thanks,<\/p>\n

Griff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I thought it was about time I wrote about the big man himself, Eric Clapton.\u00a0 There are a lot of ways that I could have written this post, but I decided to travel in a time machine and find videos of a few of Clapton’s music projects throughout his music career.\u00a0 I won’t be able […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2118"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2118\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2118"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2118"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluesguitarunleashed.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2118"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}