So true. You could not have stated it in a better way. The sound track of our lives. Awesome😊. I will remember those words. It feels so good starting the day listening to Eric. Just like so many other days in my life. He got me hooked back in ‘74. What a gift
When he plays blues....he is on another level, he plays the guitar like we eat, but playing the blues....this man goes somewhere very special. Thank you Eric Clapton.
oh now thats a big thumbs up.You take the words right out my mouth.Its not a sad song, but i cry.Bc, yeah, this guy is somthing special.He just goes into another planet when it comes to the blues.Its so intense
"This man goes some place very special" is very well said, and tells the reader that the man who said it has a special place he goes all his own; I can say that because I found mine back in '68 and go there often, and the best of all is it's my white Strat that takes me there.
It was for me too. I remember picking up the cd back in '94 when it came out. I was 15 years old and really getting in to blues and lead guitar. I still love that album to this day and listen to it regularly. I also remember having a vhs of this rehearsal session and watching it until it wore out....
@@flurkin go listen to the new live album he dropped from the 94 live sessions. Nothing but the Blues. It’s even more incredible. Just unreal guitar playing.
Io passeggiava in una stradina secondaria, dagli Speaker diun negozio di dischi arrivava del blues, sono entrato e ho detto voglio il CD che state suonando. Era From the Cradle. 1995 Ho visto il tour a Roma.
Clapton went stratospheric and slapped the gods of guitar in the face with that solo, dropped the mic flicked the bird and asked where's the next level!! Simply on another level!!!
Clapton's blistering performance on "Five Long Years" absolutely cements any claims to "Master of the Stratocaster" and provides new definitions to style, speed, endurance, musicianship and what an "old man" can do with a killer white Strat.
Jesus h christ....I dont know where this is at or what got into Eric clapton on this night but holy fuck it's on fire. This fuckin guy didnt miss a single note in all that guitar chaos...it was like he was stepping on and off hot coals . You talk about being" in the zone "..... I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I've never seen him be so immersed in something before I saw this. This is why wood and electricity were invented....has to be.
Thank you Eric. When you're feeling the blues, you play the most gorgeous, soul-stirring licks on guitar - bar none. And ever since Delaney and Bonnie convinced you that you should sing more, you've only gotten better and better. A marvelous compliment to your playing. This is why you've been my musical idol since The Bluesbreakers days.
I listen to this, wait 5 long minutes, do it all over again, usually, for about 5 long hours~ Lord, no one hits those licks like the one and only ~Slowhand ~ In my humble opinion ~
My vote for the absolute best guitar solo of all time. Most mortal guitarists would have been satisfied with the first part of the solo. Not Eric. He kicked it up two notches from there, and then ......two notches from THERE. Masterful!
@@stevenschwarz6317 I'll have to disagree. Buddy Guy's version is a little too contrived and over the top for me. I guess that's why they make chocolate and vanilla, eh?
Not to disrespect calling it "best" but man oh man, there's a particular version of Let It Rain -- and this is very, very important: not the Clapton album version, nor any version on a Clapton album; the Derek and the Dominoes In Concert album song, Let It Rain. Not the dogshit rerelease of that album either, called "Live At the Fillmore". The Derek and the Dominoes In Concert album song, Let It Rain, the 1973 release only. If that doesn't change your vote, at least you can now say so with a clear conscience! Because if it exceeds THAT song's solos it must be the top of the mountain.
Slucham i obserwuje E. Claptona od b.dawna.Ktos kiedys napial E Clapton jest Bogiem .To musial byc porok.Od the Yardbyrs do pozniejdxych dokonan chocby Crime i inne.Najlepszy.
Saw Clapton several times ,the Blues show was probably the best show I ever saw followed by 70$ shows Foghat and Led Zeppelin...Eric brought it and left every speck on the stage.. truly Spectacular
im throwing all my guitars away.. after this there is not more.. LOL.. been playing licks since I was 14 and then cream came on the scene.. Im still in awe.. still trying. but nothing compares to this man.. im over 70 and this guy still reigns supreme.. OK.. there are a few other close and if you put Eric and Keith together.. Id have to listen for an hour to pick a fav.. different but genius none the less. But what a great hour. LOL
Don’t forget Jimi and Duane. Both gone at 27 and 24. What music would be if they were still around. Eric was never the same after they died. He got on heavy drugs and he stop pushing himself.
@@brandonparish5229 I am civil.. I just figure if you look at what he does, what he has accomplished.. He has continued to push boundries and him self for many many years..
Saw him at House of Blues French Quarter New Orleans on this tour. Epic shit, only time I’ve seen him and I don’t need to ever see him again. Just a fierce show…
Ho-lee-sh-t... Eric Clapton is always at the very top tier of guitar playing, but seems even HE Has times where he is really in the zone. Wow. His singing on this tune is awesome too. He made his voice growl at a level to match his guitar work. Straight from the heart and soul.
Indeed, and the version in C of this, as the one from Budokan in 2001, is even more aggressive, because he sings in a higher key. I still remember being astonished on the first time I watched it.
I started playing guitar back in '68 when I heard Cream on the radio. I thought it would be cool if I could learn to play and sound like that. Well, all these years I've been playing and STILL wish I could sound like that!!
Clapton in "Five Long Years", just as with "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" absolutely defines slow electric blues...and if you ever find yourself in the position to join in, be prepared to deliver or go home!
As a side note, I saw Clapton years ago in Sacramento (when the Arco arena was still the Arco arena) and it was all good; it was here in the middle of the show when he strapped on "Blackie" and he launched into "Have You Ever Loved.a Woman" (being a slow, hot, electric blues---always my personal forte and my favorite style. Tell me there's a slow blues jam and I am there!). From "Derek and the Dominos" onward Clapton has never done that song wrong once he got his hooks into it and all but burned the arena down! Hell, Clapton got the place rockin' so hot my eyebrows were singed! That was such a salient moment in my life as both a consumer and an old blues guy, I will never forget neither that night and that moment, when Clapton set his Marshall to "Burn"!
@@markzuelch7452 Though I spent a big chunk of my life in Sacramento I was always on the road, train or plane to somewhere because of the slave labor I did for work. I missed his playing there, as well as -- despite driving an old VW Bus -- the Grateful Dead. When my sudden retirement came for medical reasons, a woman taught me that song for real. After I tried to drink myself to death, I bought an old Triumph motorcycle, discovered real Blues music, and became an animaI for it at every bar & club around the area. You know the drill.
EXACTLY!!! Thats a staple statement that alot of people say when comparing cream clapton compared to solo Clapton.As far as im concerned, hes always been in his prime, always evolving! also.Clapton is more about soulful playing not going a million miles an hour, but this video shows he can if he wants.And hes still precise as a mofo haha.Tons of clapton god solos but man he tears this one up something fierce! And i absolutley love how he almsot cat still still, moving his legs, hes feeling this so much
Respectfully Disagree-alcohol impaired him massivley thru the mid 70/80s, he has admitted it himself.Although he did release a few decent radio hits..He got clean and then tears/cradle happened.Some of his best playing ever.
I have heard & seen just about every recording & video of this song by both writer & original performer Eddie Boyd and Eric Clapton. This is without a doubt the best version. There is one by Boyd where he slightly alters the words in a couple of places which in that way make it better, but I wish Clapton would do a cover of it. You can't play & sing Blues like he does unless you've got that fire deep, down in your soul.
There's even a better version of this that was on SNL with Keltner on drums. It's kind of hard to find like lost in the NBC archives. I've got it on a VHS around here somewhere. Just simply amazing the synchronicity and Clapton's fire.
