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As a huge Clapton fan, this is really good! Especially considering Sheeran’s forte is singer/songwriter pop, his voice fits surprisingly well. Amazing cover!
This is what happens when everyone enjoys their part to play. Probably the best cover ever created. Shout outs to the Background Singers and Drummer in Red who sold it hard.
Really, really nice to see Ed performing with a live band again. While I love seeing him with the loop pedal, some of the songs start to feel redundant and make it easy to forget how good he can sound with a few more instruments behind him. Also very nice seeing him return to the rock/blues sound that influenced many songs on his older albums. Divide was really lacking in the darker, bluesy songs like Make It Rain, The Man, Don't etc
Andrew Power sorry my mind was a bit weird and I thought you were thinking that he quit playing or something which confused but i get what you mean. I suppose he wanted to focus more on his songwriting and voice once he got as good as he is at guitar. He has definitely improved over the years, if you hear how much he stumbled and all at Shepherd’s Bush and then hear him play now he has definitely gotten better, but I guess he didn’t think he needed to go and overtake Clapton or any of the legends
I'm young now and I love Clapton and Layla so much that I might name my future daughter(if I'll ever fortunately have one) Layla. As of now, my guitar is named Layla[winked].
first riff I remember in my head when I was 5 years old. I could hear the tune in my head, but it took me over 10 - 15 years to find out what the actual song was!!
The Man Called Toyan Ed performed Layla when he was 11 yrs old at some charity event. Ed saw Eric.C performing at the Queens Jubilee, which inspired him to want to learn play the guitar, plus Ed was already playing other musical instruments, so he could have known some chords but fully learnt Layla as his first proper song.
these comments are full of bollocks who think saying great old singers are always better than pops makes them look they have good tastes in song. Ed is a great singer and these fools don't know how much he respects Eric Clapton
And how much Clapton respects him! They're friends afaik and have collaborated twice on records and a couple of times on stage. If Clapton likes him, why would his fans still try to defend him from Ed?
Ermm...he's just strumming chords. It requires no talent at all. Sheeran is busker standard & happens to live in an era where talentlessness is adored.
Karl Anders This wasn't too complicated, true. But he is not "busker standard"... Assuming you know how he uses the loop pedal, watch any of these two and tell me again he's talentless ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DV0TJZ7Kp40.html www.dailymotion.com/video/x2iynl2_ed-sheeran-performs-bloodstream-brit-awards-2015_music
love Ed's music, very talented & great cover but Clapton lived, drank, was addicted, and lost a lover to 'Layla', it's his song--and to me I like everyone's versions of it but Clapton's are the ones I love best
Lol why? I do like the original better but this is a cover, it's not meant to be better, it's meant to be different. And as far as covering songs goes this is ok, not bad at all (but nowhere near the original).
I’m all for decent covers, but ed Sheeran is seriously misjudged. I’m pretty sure he’s a nice guy and that. But I don’t see any great talent in him at all. As a performer he is quite bland and doesn’t exhibit any particular great skill. And is his songwriting is abysmal. Don’t get me wrong, if I turned up to a jam night at my local pub, and ed was covering this, I’d think it would be a good effort and give an applause. But for god sake. On national television in New Years. Don’t know why anyone would wanna see that.
Quite bland huh? I'm pretty sure that you didn't listen to any of his albums or his live performance. Yes u may say that I'm a fanboy but his song definitely stand out from what nowaday mainstream artist song, and before you wanna say him as a "typical pub singer" U probably should should learn about what he been thought to archive nowaday success.
kang dante, first off, yes he is bland. I am aware of his music and performances. I’ve been aware of his music from the sbtv days and yes I have listened to plus and divide, both over hyped albums. I don’t make my criticisms lightly. I am informed when it comes to his music, to make unbiased honest comments. Also you’re last comment about success does not make sense. I’m not too sure on the point you’re trying to make. Please be more constructive with your writing...
