Eric Clapton Interview 1989 

This video quality is CRAZY GOOD!

I just love his choice in clothing. Eric is a colourful personality. Nice interview.

He is so smart and interesting !

Eric made blues enjoyable to the masses . He is a gifted musically . 🔥🎸🔥

The thoughts of a musical genius

Love him..my life would not be the same without EC.

Me, me, me!! You’ve given us a lot of great music. Thanks Eric.

He's the coolest. The original electric guitarist. 😎💯✌🏼

Clapton looks like a different person in every video on YT.

The guitar sounded good when Eric Clapton was learning but not when I was learning.

I love how he showed love for George Harrison

always gives such a generous interview. Love him so much!

The interviewer voice is so soothing.

Funny how, at this point, he can't be objective about Cream's greatness - "that it wouldn't survive today." He was so wrong - I've never heard ANY band sound like Cream - great songs, amazing, soulful, raw yet complex amplified power - brilliant instrumental interplay and fantastic vocals. Love Clapton/Bruce melodic harmonies above that explosive, bluesy heaviness.

I’m 17 now and when I was 15 I heard my first rock album and it was “Disraeli gears” that really turned me on as a listener I thought and still consider Eric as the guitar god ( one of my 3 god in my lists ) and really he is reason I picked up guitar and I started my search for blues, I listened to Robert Johnson, BB king , buddy guy and many more just like following steps of Eric and moving beyond

Very important interview for someone who wants to learn or start something

It's good to learn Eric's memorys😊❤❤

That a well spoken artist

I respect his enthusiasm for other musicians

Eric He is a really good person

Bless you . I've loved you and your music since 1970. Thank you. And look at that, it's all turning out with YOU being who you truly are; you're beautiful. Thank you to the person who posted this.

One story from one person, involved in the evolution of rock and roll, and the blues. He still listens to records to learn more! That's exactly the way I learned/still learning. Archaic, yet effective in ear training, and technical ability! WOW!!!!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY ERIC CLAPTON.

Music in 2022 sucks. This sure makes me miss 1989!!

Heroes get remembered..... legends never die

Great interview...bless you eric❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

💯❣😁made my day.

He's so honest!

always loved Clapton.....I knew he was influenced by Buddy Holly but he loved Buddy Holly!!! I love his music even more now!!!

cool dude!

SOOOO HANDSOME MAN😭😭😭💖💖💖💖

I went and saw him that year at the Tacoma dome in Tacoma wa. He lit up a huge joint on stage when weed was still very illegal.

thanks for the video

Eric a artist musician dead honest about his Kurier 😊love you😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Music, guitarist and three times Hall of Fame aside, he is a great guy, very humble, respects all musicians and musical genres. Look at all the talented egoistic musician around today??? Eric has always shown respect for all musicians around today, and for those in the past. He is a a true musician...

When he says that he stopped in 81 to drink thats not true ^^ I saw him i think it was 1986 or smth like that, the guy was absolutely drunk on stage ! Thats good he recovered and still play in 2024 ! amazing musician

this syle of his from hairstyle to suits inspired SOB ROCK John mayer imo

oh yes eric the Joker years

Female reporter: You’ve gone softer? Clapton: Yeah in some ways, but harder in others. Female reporter: Such as? Lol

Totally honest eric🎉1❤for ever❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

My first 45 single in 1974 was I shot the sheriff. I still have them I can't remember the b side

He revises his heavy drug years here when he says it began in 73. The making of the Layla album in 1970 was notoriously smack-ridden and in 73 his friends put together the Rainbow “comeback” show to try and pull him out of it.

The interviewer does have a very sexy voice! 🔥

I LOVE WHEN YOU SMILE😅

I think me and him speak the same language (not literally. I mean in a figurative kind of way.)

Run So Far got on Journeyman. What were the two that didn't?

Wonder which heavy metal bands he actually had in mind when making that kind of statement 🤔

Eric Patrick Clapton 30/03/1945 76 años (77)

11:00 Who is he talking about when he says John Mayer?! the one I know was 13 years old at the time so I must have misheard

he looks like both pts

I don't get the whole Eric's an angry middle aged man thing. He seemed pretty chilled

Eric Patrick Clapton (Ripley, Surrey, Inglaterra, 30 de marzo de 1945), más conocido como Eric Clapton, es un guitarrista, cantante y compositor de rock y blues británico, conocido por su magistral habilidad con la guitarra eléctrica, en concreto con su Stratocaster.[2]​ Apodado Slowhand (‘mano lenta’),[1]​ desde su época en The Yardbirds, y God (‘Dios’) en su época con Cream, es miembro del Salón de la Fama del Rock and Roll por partida triple: como miembro de The Yardbirds y de Cream y por su carrera como solista. En opinión de muchos críticos, ha sido uno de los artistas de la cultura de masas más respetados e influyentes de todos los tiempos.[3]​ Aparece en el puesto número 2 de la lista "Los 100 guitarristas más grandes de todos los tiempos" de la revista Rolling Stone[4]​ y en el puesto número 55 de su especial "Inmortales: Los 100 artistas más grandes de todos los tiempos".[5]​ Además, en 2005 la revista Guitar World incluyó cinco de sus canciones entre los mejores solos de guitarra de todos los tiempos.

He was an entirely different man then, than he is now, as an older man in his seventies..I suppose that’s normal.He did laugh quite a bit.Not so sardonic.

Cream?

Was waiting for him to talk about Fleetwood Mac. Because of cultural conditioning, there is always way too much vocal indebtedness to American blues - rock'n'roll ended up being very different from the blues. There is really no need to constantly talk about the blues - rock'n'roll branched off and became very different. Like the car thanking the horse-driven buggy.

I was waiting for her to ask the golden question : How did he learn to play the guitar? What was he's practice regime like? Guitar books? Self taught? Private lessons? Nothing!!

Forgot he was from England..😂😂😂

I feel so bas to say this but I can't relate to Clapton's personality even though I love his mucic🥲 One of the goats, like him or not

One question: What has Eric worn on his lower teeth?

Had an all too short career of greatness

You are a dinossaur of the blues

if he had fallen into drugs in this era he would have died in a moonth or so... the drugs are just SOOO much worse now.

cream were better than any 80s band haha

Eric Clapton shouldn't make derogatory comments about other Guitarists. Recently I read that Eric claimed that "Francis Rossi couldn't play a Lead Break to save his life" Anybody that knows anything about Rock music will know that Francis Rossi is one of the best Guitarists of all time. Francis would never make a negative comment about another Guitarist or Musician. Francis knows how good he is, I and every one that's heard him play knows how good he is. In my critical objective opinion, the 2 best Guitarists in music history are Rick Parfitt and Francis Rossi. There is a massive gap of daylight to 2nd place. The criteria for being a great Guitarist isn't based purely on being technically proficient. There are other factors that make a great Guitarist. Look at Steve Jones of Sex Pistols infamy and the Guitar work he recorded on Iggy Pop's "Instinct" album. There's no way Clapton could do what Steve Jones played. Another great example is Kent Steedman from Legendary Australian Hard Rockin' Surf Punk Band "The Celibate Rifles" Words cannot describe how good Kent is. Guitarists would go to Rifles gigs just to watch the Master at play. Kent stayed true to his craft his whole 'career' and maintained his Indie / Alternate roots. It wasn't as financially rewarding as it could have been, though Kent Steedman is definitely one of the best Guitarists to walk the Planet. In my critical objective opinion, Eric Clapton is OK as a Guitarist, most of his recorded material and commercial releases are fairly lame and weak, with a few exceptions. "White Room" and "Crossroads LIVE Version" are 2 of the greatest recordings in music history. The LIVE version of "4500 Times" on STATUS QUO's Double LIVE album "LIVE" goes for 16 mins and 42 seconds. If you can spare the time, I urge everyone to have a listen. Alan Lancaster on Bass and John Coghlan on Drums round out the 4 piece affectionately known as THE FRANTIC FOUR (STATUS QUO) Easily the best and greatest Rock Band of all time.

Led Zeppelin?

Well Eric got better with time at the playing however Page, Beck and Major were far better in the Yardbirds.

is that Eric Crapton the banjo player ?

Elephant in the room, never mentioned, the man Jimi Hendrix, if he had lived, Clapton wud have been overshadowed to a huge degree....Clapton always played it safe, his riffs predictable, Duane Allman made Layla special, Jimi threw caution to the wind absorbing not copying, never played his songs the same each time live.. searching for the ultimate musical 'Experience" 4yrs.....vs. 55yrs...who made the bigger impact ?...just sayin , just asking ...

Ahh, the health expert.

Isn't it strange that Clapton was so dismissive of Cream in this interview but he was all into the Cream reunion gigs so many years later! What a hypocrite! IMO Cream was a great band and even to this day has so many fans.

okay hold on just a minute. Did he not just say “John Mayer”? This was in 1989, Mayers career hadn’t even been born in 89. Or am I tripping???

I respect him alotnas a musician but in this interview he is a major hypocrite. He says " when I met my heros they didn't want me to play like them so I had to create my own sound". That is exactly what Eddie Van Halen did. He idolized Eric and always made that known out of respect yet created his own way. And Eric repeatedly disrespected Eddie his entire life. Now it goes without saying that Eric isn't even in the same galaxy as Eddie but still, you would think he would have been a bit more kind to a guy that lived exactly what Eric preached.

i can't stand him lol ! enough ! thanks !

Cream reunion was a disappointment he played nothing like he did with Cream.