To think George picked Eric up and put him in the car to go to the studio and Eric only found out then George wanted him to play on a track and he came up with something this good. Just legendary
Just another example of Clapton enhancing others' songs or his own w/otherworldly guitar playing--I also saw him live for my first time a few years ago with the Wallflowers being the opening act and you could feel his electricity in their set and his set. ;-)
He was on a completely different planet when he did this. Your first impression might be of a strange combination of totally uninhibited inventiveness and overwhelmingly powerful expression, but this takes him to places that I have never heard any other guitarist, or in fact any musician or vocalist go to before. He doesn't seem to be thinking about what sounds he wants to make, so much as just feeling things that seem to swing back and forth between sheer sublime joy and brutal, unbearable pain. Go listen to anything anyone has ever played on guitar, including anything else that Clapton himself has recorded, and see if you can find something that even comes close. There just seems to be nothing standing between what is going on in his imagination and what's coming out of the speakers.
Remember this was early '68- The Cream has already announced the impending breakup tour- Eric may actually have looked at it like an escape from the BS.
@@Cartier_specialist Interesting to compare Mark and Eric. Mark's strengths are in coming up with new musical ideas and guitar techniques, putting himself into the same category of 'guitar innovator' as Brian May . Eric is all about his umbilical connection to his blues heritage and the things that come directly out of that. I know, it's been difficult to use those points of comparison for Eric's things like Layla and or 461 Ocean Boulevard, where blues is more of a 'secondary influence', something where there is more common ground with the likes of Page's and Gilmour's 'never straying too far, too long from the blues' even when they stray their furthest from its most well-trodden pathways, whereas many an iconic Knopfler solo can more often leave you searching for and only finding the faintest traces of anything remotely resembling blues roots. But although Eric is more faithful to his original calling, he has earned more than his fair share of medals for musical innovation, mostly for developing and inspiring the transformation of blues guitar, in a way where Mark would share the accolades for also making decades of serious serious guitar inventiveness unexpectedly easy on the ear.
@@cagethefoxtrick3852 You might be right! I was playing that lick and trying to figure out how he came up with it in relation to a pentatonic scale. It's really odd. Pretty slick!
That guitar tone is out of this world, only vintage equipment can produce sounds like this and other great guitar playing as well, I wonder what kind of guitar he was playing?
probably the most prolific guitar solo ever on the greatest album of all time and when you hear it isolated you realize he was just "winging it".... wow.
I think it’s one of the stranger bits he’s done. Really all over the place but yet with purpose. It’s styled a little like Geo but also Clapton’s own thing. It has the chaos that the Beatles were bringing these days
This is for all those that think that a guitar should sound like a band. This is what the best of us sound like without other instruments accompanying. Now go and listen to the song in its entirety and know that even you might be able to do a solo with this much feeling.
Great isolation!!! I like the fact that you can hear mistakes in the isolation that get lost in the as released mix -- still awesome of course. Ringo Starr was a better drummer for Beatle music than Eric Clapton was a guitarist for the Beatles (because it was Ringo's job to show up and make it up on the spot and be flawless). Yes, you did just read that! Suggestion: combine the drum isolation and Clapton's lead isolation.
This is only the rough copy ...and not the actual finished product that was released which is much cleaner .. and it was on the spot seeing Eric had no idea he would be playing a solo to this song ...
Ringo was a good drummer for the beatles cause he could keep time and knew how to stay out of the way while still creating unique parts. Clapton was on a completely nother level however.
SSniperthewhitethunderwolf66781 George Harrison played the acoustic guitar, John played a rickenbacker 12 string electric part that you can here on the bass track
Si tuviera que elegir 1 solo (solamente 1) de EC (elección difícil, Presence of the Lord, etc) me quedo con este. Por el cual no fue jamás acreditado, lo descubrió el periodismo (NMExpress) aunque estaba claro desde el comienzo que esto estaba más allá del nivel del bueno de Harrison RIP.
According to the book “The Complete Beatles recording sessions” by Mark Lewisohn: . The following are the sequence of some "interesting" events of this great song: . 1968 . Thursday 25 July Take 1: solo vocal, acoustic guitar . Friday 16 August Takes 1-14 Ringo: drums, Paul: bass, John: Organ, George: guitar . Tuesday 3 September The very first eight-track Beatles recordings at Abbey Road were “Why My Guitar Gently Weeps” overdubs… . George attempted to get the sound of a “crying guitar”… so he was “experimenting with a backwards guitar solo.… but in the end “the whole thing was scrapped and it was around that time that Eric Clapton started to get involved with the song.” . Friday 6 September When Eric was giving George a lift from Surrey (where they both lived) into London, George suggested to Eric that he might wish to contribute a few hours. Eric was reluctant to help out - “because no one plays on Beatles sessions!” - only for George to retort “Wo what? It’s my song!” . “Clapton’s superb solo, played on his Les Paul guitar, was just one of a number of overdubs recorded this day, with brought ‘While My Guitar Gently Weeps’ to a conclusion.” . “Paul played a fuzz bass guitar, George threw in a few very high pitched organ notes, Ringo added percussion, and George - with Paul adding nice backing harmonies - taped his lead vocal.” . “Clapton’s appearance, George later commented later, “made them [the Beatles] all try a bit harder; they were all on their best behaviour”.” . Monday 14 October Chris Thomas, “Apparently Eric Clapton insisted to George that he didn’t want the guitar solo so typically Clapton… so we did this flanging thing, really wobbling the oscillator in the mix. I did that for hours. What a boring job!” . .Note: the technique of "backwards guitar" had been previously used in the song "Tomorrow Never Knows".
Is it just me or does he kind of sound like he’s imitating George’s style? Very melodic for a typical Clapton solo. Maybe I just associate this so much w George I can’t tell them apart.
No he was really keen on blending into the Beatles sound. After recording was done and they made a mix of the track Clapton's tone didn't sound Beatle-y and he made a point of getting them to get it to sound that way in post.
That man in your basement no because one is guitar tone and the other is playing style. I think he was blending both his playing style and guitar tone to the Beatles. Not just imitating George.
@@MaxwellBergen I'd say so as well. I mean his playing on that song does not sound like his normal Clapton songs from the late sixties or what have you. I think it's a little ironic too that their collaboration together for a Cream song, Badge, sounds to me like a straight up Harrison song. They're switching on their songs stylings like they switch wives. (Well the last bit is only half true)
When heard this song I never knew eric clapton played on it blew my mind 😮I was shocked 😲 I don't understand why the beatles never told anyone they acted like it was there own work 😢
My thought exactly!!! Raw, but it sounds so great in the mix. Clapton would work to put a song together in other situations then go record it. The Beatles production process, on the other hand, was to show up at a recording session and "rehearse" while recording. I bet Clapton ran through the basic mix a couple of times and created this masterpiece, but it has mistakes. I can't even imagine the pressure Clapton was under creating a lead guitar part on the fly for the Beatles.
Exacto no hubo ni habra mejor guitarrista que Eric Clapton. Es como decir que Elvis Presley es el rey cuando debio ser Chuck Berry, y lo mismo el mejor guitarrista es Eric Clapton mas no Jimi Hendix
Why do you guys need Clapton's guitar on "Crossroads" isolated? There's nothing else there save for bass and drums. Also, given that it's a live performance from the sixties, there probably is no truly isolated recording of the guitar in existence.
haha past 3? That's funny, he's running a Dallas Arbiter Rangemaster into a Marshall (JTM45) Bluesbreaker combo thats most likely turned up to the neighborhood of 8-10. This would have been recorded during the prime Cream years, Clapton was often known to be pushing upwards of 110db while practicing and recording. Along with The Who, Cream was one of the loudest bands on the planet during that brief window. And a huge part of Claptons tone is the amps being nearly maxed out with a push from a treble booster.
Man there’s a lesson to be learned there, what is a good tone? This tone by itself is arsh trebely and dry with a big slab of chorus on top... nothing to write home about... Yet when you swing all that in the mix you get one of the most classic smooth tone ever. I just went and listened to the whole song and can barely catch up on all those things I don’t like about this tone.
Thank you!!......alone, it is not impressive at all.. could be a 200 dollar guitar and a 100 dollar amp.......actually quite sloppy and shrill, but in the mix, it is absolutely magic
I would agree but the tone sounds great in solo to me too. I guess from doing so much mixing I can just tell a good tone out of the mix? Not to be pretentious or anything, I struggle to get good tone a lot, but I know good tone when I hear it if that makes sense.
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Nick Bottorf the trick is put a microphone in the room to get an ambient sound like in this record
Gonzalo 3136 true, nobody is putting their ear right up to the amp when they’re playing, so why mic it that way? Get the sound of the whole room instead.
In choral singing, there are different tones that one uses sometimes to create different feelings in the harmony. Few would enjoy a droning early modern choral bass solo but it ads a cool sound to the chorus. Learning about the interplay of tones in harmony is key to good part-writing and can make some otherwise shrill or weird tones really shine.
You can see why John said that Clapton’s performance was a missed opportunity. It’s pretty underwhelming. Remember, the only reason that George invited Clapton was because having an outsider in the studio would put the other 3 Beatles on their best behavior. It wasn’t because they needed someone that could play on the song.
Probably “beats,” like when you tune your guitar with harmonics and as the pitch gets close, there is a pulsating effect. I’m guessing the double tracking used two tape machines that were slightly out of sync at that moment, and there was a slight difference in the guitar’s pitch that created the pulsating beats. I could be wrong, but I think it would be pretty weird to use a Leslie and only speed it up for that one moment in the song. Plus many commenters are referencing a book about Beatles recordings which says it was automatic double tracking.
Sure was-Clapton specifically said in his biography he did his guitar lead on this song in one take-said not mu h from Paul or John but George was happy & kept playing it back. I know so much of it is effect but his playing is without a doubt sublime....to say the least. What a gift...
@@maxjohns5028 Yes it was and it's documented to that fact. Ignorant idiot. Clapton's leads were played ONCE. Anything after was using his one take. Get it?
@@kommi1974 Someone needs more fiber in their diet.... ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-XhwRZ1_xzz8.html Completely different solo. COMPLETELY DIFFERENT.
Not true. That is a Leslie box with overdrive. There were other, completely different takes without it, but THIS take was recorded with it. There was no changing things after the fact back then.
@@AureliusR The guitar isn't going through a Leslie, it has ADT. And you could definitely change things after it was recorded, you could add flange, delay, compression, you could eq it and also get rid of certain parts by cutting the tape.
How did you isolat then? The guitars were mixing on a single track for this album, so unless you had access to master tapes... just by recognizing the style and making the assumption?
The Beatles did a lot of jokey stuff in ‘68, and when this (“White Album”) record came out I thought almost all of it was done tongue in cheek: “While My Guitar Gently Weeps” seemed like a farce because the solo is doing anything but ”gently weeping”… sorry: honest first impressions from a 16 year old musician (not a Beatles fan, but I didn’t hate them, either…). His guitar loudly screamed…
