Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton 

1978 Eric Clapton & Muddy Waters came to play in TULSA at the "Civic Center." I was 17 and didn't know who Muddy was & why he was singin a Led Zepplin song but, I said to myself... Man that old dude sure can play!" It was only later that found the joy of listening to and playing the blues guitar that I can truely appreciate that one day in '78 for 4 hours I saw one of the greatest blues artist of all time.

Clapton is the kind of person who carries on the work of Muddy I'm sure Clapton felt it a great privilege and honour to be up there with one of the all time blues greats

"The first guitarist I was aware of was Muddy Waters. I heard one of his old records when I was a little boy and it scared me to death, because I heard all of those sounds. Wow, what is that all about? " -Jimi Hendrix

the absolute, down right, whithout a doubt the greatest blues man of all time. In 1976 Muddy came to a club in Baton Rouge. I sat about 10 ft. or closer to him while he sat and played all his songs for bout an hour and a half. Iv'e never been so blown away in my life. They'll never be another like him.

this man is the resaon i play the blues.........everytime i sing this song, i pay tribute to him

Nobody had more blues than, Muddy (KcKinley Morganfield) Waters. That's the truth and that's just the way it is and there's no question about it! So there it is DADGUMMIT!

I am blessed to have seen Muddy Waters perform live in NYC...Happy Blues Day Mr. Morganfield!!!

this music gives me goosebumps !! not one present band can beat this !!

The King of the Southside Chicago Blues.

Guys: don't be too serious about it. Blues is an evolving art form and has been ever since. All learning is done by copying the teacher before creating something of your own around it. If the great masters had someone they learned it from. At least in part. No one was just "born" to it. And by all means: the greatest gift to an artist or teacher is, that the lessons they taught will live in the students forever.

i learned a lot of my playing from Muddy Waters, Stevie Ray Vaughn, Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash, Neil Young!! What Great Artists and Musicians ~ j.

The first time I heard this song I was a young child. The blues have shaped my guitar style throughout my life. It all started with people like Muddy Waters and Robert Johnson who I learned of from people like Eric Clapton and Keith Richards. Blues is in my blood. Something in my DNA was activated when I heard the blues for the first time and I was forever changed

Those long-dead mississippi delta blues players :) Robert Johnson and Muddy; Rest in Peace :)

One of the main voices of the Blues, if not thè voice of the Blues. Fantastic footage!

For me this MAN has the greatest blues voice of all time....

A great rendition of I AM A MAN by Muddy Waters shortly before he passed away. Man, I miss this guy!

Best concert I ever saw was Muddy Waters and Eric Clapton together on stage in Germany

I could listen to muddy waters or albert king all day and it would be heaven.

I went to see Muddy Waters at Slough in the 70's, does anybody else remember him playing there?

The memories! I saw Muddy Waters warm up for Eric Clapton in 1079. What a show THAT was!

You guys HAVE to see cadillac records, tells an AMAZING story of how Muddy's career started and the first label he and the Stones were signed to

the only man that should EVER do this song..he was the best

priceless footage!

This is REAL music by a REAL master!!! Muddy is one of my all-time heroes!!! I ALWAYS feel a part of him in me whenever I play "Hoochie Coochie Man" and "Mannish Boy" on my Stratocaster!!!

Key to the Blues is this, and I think Willie Dixon said it, "It's better to play your bad version of the blues then play someone else's song perfectly."

Never be another. Thanks for the video!!!!!!

@kd5smf : Very well stated "my Okie brother", keep on playin and enjoying...I'm glad you had that experience in 1978, I was 27...thanks for the story. "CDB"

Muddy waters always reminds me of a king

when muddy opened for eric around '76 they came out together at the end....eric said muddy had legally adopted him thru an attorney.....i was standing there...herad it myself from their mouthes....eric loved muddy...there was nothing but true love there....read eric's intro to muddy's biography...the are as one in spirit in my mind

Black people created this type of music along jazz, r&b, soul, funk, hip hop etc because in the past we were always looking for something new and better than what we already had, something that more accurately reflected life as it was at a certain time and place. Black people don't have a 'good ole days' so in general we aren't very nostalgic and most Black people no longer live the lifestyle that gave rise to the blues. Most are looking for the next thing rather than the old thing.

Impresionante! Gracias. Desde Argentina

Fantastic video and great sound. Great, Great Muddy Waters! Thank you so much for this.

That's gotta be the great Paul Butterfield on vocals & harmonica. Cant leave him out! ❤ Thanks for posting.

2:55 He putting somebody in check and never missed a beat...a master of his craft

@cedricleecason Saw Jerry play a small club here in Austin about almost 20 years ago and it was a harp players summit, Austin hyas a lot of really fine harp players and everyone from Kim Wilson of the T Birds to just a kid learning the instrument came to see the great Jerry Portnoy. Not much jealousy as there was admiration.

The best of the best! I´m sing this song at "bares de samba" in Rio de Jeneiro, it´s so funny... The show must go on

Muddy & TAFKAg guess who can make the moon come up 2Hrs late? cheers, these were the fun songs these BluesGiants did.enjoy.i will.

and don't forget.....that was Steady Rollin Bob Margolin playing guitar with Muddy on this tour.

#ugottalisten2b4udie Muddy's last gig was in Florida w/ Clapton in the autumn of 1982.

Summer '79, I saw Muddy open for Clapton in Seattle. Muddy had the crowd hoppin'. Clapton seemed a bit tired that night and the audience lost some of their enthusiasm. Muddy joined Eric for the last couple of songs and the place went wild. The concert definitely ended on the upswing.

great performance a great blues

@MaabudZ I LOVE THE ALBUM, "THE RESURRECTION OF PIGBOY CRABSHAW" I SING AND PLAY SEVERAL TUNES FORM THA ALBUM, "ONE MORE HEARTACHE" AND "DOUBLE TROUBLE", THE OLD OTIS RUSH TUNE. ALSO ENJOYED EAST WEST, STILL HAVE THE ORIGINAL CASSETTE TAPE OF THAT ALBUM, AND MY FAVE SONG IS "I GOTTA MIND TO GIVE UP LIVING"

Cool cap, you got, Muddy !........Fabulous post ! Thanks to poster !

@BLUESMANRONCHICAGO Buterfields first album, I played that sucker to death, got another copy and now I have it on CD and still play it. Sam Lay sang "Mojo" on that album.

eric clapton is an awesome guitarist. He's been around since the sixties. look him up. HE'S AWESOME!!!!!!

i was lucky enough to see Muddy at DAR Constition hall in 1977, i think. It was tour with Johnny Winter & James Cotton were with him, you know Steady Rollin' Bob Margolin was too.... It was at the time of the Hard Again album. who knows why Muddy called the album Hard Again? I know... a bit of trivia....

You might want to check out and purchase PBS American Masters Series "Muddy Waters: Can't Be Satisfied" put out in 2003. There are a number of good biographies too, including the one I read, "Muddy Waters: The Mojo Man" by Sandra Toose published in 1996.

@Zenabirg The great Jerry Portnoy on harp

Taką muzykę tworzą mistrzowie.

c'est juste magique

thank you so much for uploading this !

Muddy Waters, and Eric Clapton; BETTER-UN'-FRESH-RUBARB-PIE"/and GRAMS, PEACH COBLER! THOSE TWO KNEW WHAT TIME IT IS/WAS/& WILL-BE/MUSIC CAN CROSS CHASMS!!

Listen to his older stuff. You may say th esound is wat every one else does but he invented that sound

Muddy Waters will never be dead.. :)

Well I started doing my Kick the Bucket list last summer and it included doing a blues CD of Muddy songs and Little Walter, stuff i lke and have been doing for 40 years, but I dont know now if i should efven mess with it. It took a lot of hard stuff to decide it was time, but hollywood just screws things up they way they think it would be a better story. fact, hollywood would never do it for the artists when they were alive F____Hollywood and the Music Biz

You are very correct. No comparison with, when The Great Little Walter was on Harmonica, none at all.

Title is misleading. Video shows footage of Eric Clapton greeting MW spliced around a completely different video of a MW performance that EC wasn't part of. Hoax

Both great giants. Could had been better to hear Muddy play as well.. The king of slide guitar. May his soul RIP..

that just made my day

Class A material this

Clapton doesn't deserve to stand on the same stage as Muddy.

i think i started listening music 1968,and i understand that blues is the REAL thing and born by natural way not import or born through ambassadors.blues is born and nourished by minority and sadness, precious things.Eric is a mimic who play what are done years before his time.

grazie per il video

Also, even though you believe everyone you mentioned is better than Clapton, all of the artists are different in their own way and have their own signature sound so you can't really compare one to another.

This and Now happened really scary fast........cool

thank you thank you thank you......

Sing it muddy!!!

At 0:18-0:19, I bet that guy kept that cast forever. Haha.

@TheMarexz GOT MY MOJO WORKING, ALSO COVERED BY PAUL BUTTERFIELD ON HIS FIRST ALBUM, I AGREE WITH ETHONADON10, THERE IS NO COLOR OTHER THAN BLUE WHEN IT COMES TO THIS MUSIC, I KNOW THAT FIRST HAND AFTER HAVING PLAYED THE BLUES FOR OVER 40 YEARS. I HAVE A BLACK DRUMMER, MEXICAN BASS PLAYER, AND MY SELF AND GUITAR PLAYER ARE WHITE, BUT ON STAGE WE ARE ALL THE SAME, MUSICIANS WHO ARE KEEPING THE BLUES ALIVE

Wow!

mo jo workin have lots of fun man

@biggerturtle Blues is blood.

GODS!!!!

now this is heavy shit!!

Hell yeah

i misd him in 1982

1079? That was a long time ago! ;-)

Check out Jerry's dance moves!

It is hard to watch a movie about a time you lived through even though I was just a young boy at the age of five, when my mother siad stop listening to all that jive...............

Fantastic! I'm a Man!

thanks

YEAH!!!!!!!!!

Muddy Gettin' Down!!

WOW

great

In Finland we call this thing "reilu meininki". That means B.L.U.E.S.!

you have a point about him not doing much the last 5-10 years or so. You are wrong about Clapton sucking for one major reason. The older blues players are great don't get me wrong but, Clapton is a much more versatile guitar player. He doesn't just play blues. He plays everything. He knows how to read and write music using notation instead of just ear and/or tablature.

I feel u man, but if u can, give it a view

like it

there aint no absolut truth to anything what comes to art or"inner gift" .true master is a real talent from a first work to last.they had that"touch" like Chopin,Picasso,Elvis.Marley,Nicholson,VGogh etc.asocial,hermit and breaking the rules is big part of their characters and if i´d be trained i´d be FAR from an original,way i wanted to be;Cezanne.Eric is Great british musician but not God

eric is the guy who bought howling wolf's tombstone out of respect. But yes, muddy is the shit for sure.

People people people don't even mention Mick Jagger in the same sentence with Muddy Waters cause Mick Jagger can't even hold Muddy's microphone.

yeah the best bues¡¡

True, but it still made for a good movie though

=D you know GOD? lol, im reading his auto at the minute its absolutly amazing, if you see him again can you do me a big favor and tell him he's an insparation to all performers out there and will always be loved by his fans =) ty

ooooOOOOOOOWWWWWWWW!!!!!

i think this is from fall of 1982...he died April 1983

@irishbear76 RIGHT ON!

@MrAlvarosantiagoferr come on man... mr jagger could drawn you with his deep down blues unpitched vocal solo

@Danman917 yes just 3 hours