What an amazing performance!! Clapton 's finger work on his guitar was stupendous! One of the best jams ever..loved every minute of it!! Hats off to u Clapton!!
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For me the original Blackie Stratocaster has the most beautiful electric guitar tone all throughout his career. It is very much like Peter Green's Les Paul, Ed King's "Sweet Home Alabama" strat & Dickey Bett's goldtop Les Paul. It sounds best relatively clean with just enough distortion to make it sustain notes.
I really don’t like how trebly he used to sound used to be and I a hundred percent get why he put a mid boost built in to his strats shortly after this. Coming from a Gibson fuzz sound in the late 60s is just something he needs and he knows it.
This is the Clapton that I know and love. Not the man in his dotage who lets others play his shit. He's too generous nowadays. I know he's got nothing left to prove, but when I go to see Clapton I want to see "God", and nothing less. He set the bar himself and I'm holding him to it. For both our souls. Let it Rain I think may be his finest hour. I wish you could have heard it in the early 70's, it made a statement.
