With sumptuously dynamic backing and an extended slide solo from Duane Allman, the scene is set for one of Clapton’s finest moments: his follow-on solo (at 4:08) is a blazing example of how he’s able to effortlessly adapt his playing style to the idiosyncrasies of the tone he’s using, in this case from his ‘Brownie’ Stratocaster into a tweed Fender Deluxe on 10. Official. Recommended by The Wall Street Journal. Cale had ⦠More Versions. Rhythm - Electric Guitar ⦠The influence of the song's writer, J.J. Cale, and current musical collaborator, Delaney Bramlett, is clearly evident. 77,216 views, added to favorites 455 times. Robert Johnson and this song have loomed large in Clapton’s life. A uniquely creative guitarist who has powered one of the world’s biggest bands for 40 years and counting, let’s trip through the wires to look at 20 guitar highlights from the strings and pedals of the man they call The Edge. For the Bluesbreakers’ cover of Steppin’ Out on the ‘Beano album’, Clapton took the piano riff, the fluid sax phrasing and Matt ‘Guitar’ Murphy’s freeform bends and scrapes on the 1959 Memphis Slim original and distilled them into a molten-hot blues masterpiece of guitar virtuosity. EC joined The Band during their final concert to cover this Bobby Bland Texas shuffle as part of the 1976 concert film The Last Waltz and turned in an amazing performance that illustrated two important lessons for guitarists. As a guitarist, he began as an imitator who paid his dues to become an influencer. After midnight, we're gonna chug-a-lug and shout. Even his straps have great timing. #18 in 1970. Though it’s predictably stiffer-limbed than the original, EC does an admirable job of capturing Hendrix’s freeflowing spirit in the solo, and adds a lovely feedback jam at the end that references Third Stone From The Sun. His greatest solo? 16. “I just played and played, to stop from facing the situation.” Tears In Heaven, co-written with Will Jennings, was eventually added to Clapton’s soundtrack for the movie Rush and became an international hit. Use a mixing console in Pro version. Songs. Even for non-players, Eric Clapton's name has become synonymous with the electric guitar – here, we pick just 20 examples of Slowhand’s fretwork from his varied career to serve as reminders of his extraordinary talent. Thanks! ⦠He returned to the song with Cream, playing it at their early shows (including this Klooks Kleek version in London in 1966), on the BBC and the celebrated 13–plus-minute live version at San Francisco’s Winterland from 1968 on Live Cream Volume II: all are fountains of amazing licks. Tears In Heaven won three Grammy Awards in 1993, for Best Male Pop Vocal Performance, Song Of The Year, and Record Of The Year. After Midnight is a rock song written by J.J Cale. Edit. Eric Clapton - After Midnight / Layla (1976, Vinyl) | Discogs View credits, reviews, tracks and shop for the 1987 CD release of "Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert" on Discogs. In terms of Clapton’s approach to soloing, this 1970 cover of the Billy Myles/Freddie King classic is a fascinating halfway house between the virtuoso channeller of influences he started out as with the Bluesbreakers and the fluid vocabulary of instantly recognisable licks he developed when he embraced the Strat as a lead instrument. From Cream’s 1969 album Goodbye, Badge was co-written by Clapton and George Harrison (who played rhythm guitar on the track and is listed in the credits as ‘L’Angelo Misterioso’). Stephen Stills recalled the session to loudersound.com: “I bumped into Eric one evening, and he came by and the night degenerated into an endless jam of The Champs’ Tequila. Clapton was entirely unprepared for the session and had to borrow Harrison’s Les Paul to lay down his track. We're gonna find out what it is all about. Guitar.com is the world’s leading authority and resource for all things guitar. When it comes to Clapton attempting Jimi, then his Derek And The Dominos-era Little Wing and Voodoo Chile (from Live From Madison Square Garden, 2009) with Steve Winwood are obvious contenders. This gnarly recording of a cover of T-Bone Walker’s blues standard from London’s Flamingo Club in 1966 joins the action with the band mid-flow and Clapton mid-solo, with the song’s non-standard chord progression seemingly spurring the 21-year-old’s lead playing into another realm of sophistication in terms of phrasing, tone, intensity, control, solo construction, creativity and musicality. Because I’d never heard anything of my own on the radio before…”. Eric Clapton's ⦠His imagination is as important as his gear, but here’s a guide to the tools and sounds of his trade…. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and of Cream.Clapton has been referred to as one of the most ⦠The January 2021 issue of Guitar Magazine is out now! The line-up of Mayall’s band on this recording featured Clapton’s future Cream bandmate Jack Bruce on bass. His 1977 album, Slowhand, named after his nickname given by Giorgio Gomelsky, received three times Platinum in the United States. After midnight, we're gonna let it all hang down. Because of its stripped-down arrangement, it isn't dated or 'stuck in 1970' like a lot of other songs on Eric ⦠Poet Pete Brown, a friend of Jack Bruce, also wrote the lyrics for Sunshine Of Your Love, I Feel Free and SWLABR. Eric Clapton is the debut full studio album by British rock musician Eric Clapton, released in August 1970 under Atco and Polydor Records. In his autobiography, Clapton described hearing the song for the first time as “similar to what I imagine I might feel if I were to meet an alien from outer space. Thread Status: Not open for further replies. Steppin’ Out was one of only four songs recorded in 1966 by all-star pre-Cream studio band Eric Clapton And The Powerhouse. Is the slower version of After Midnight (from the Michelob commercial) available? It is not available on any "store bought" CD. Clapton was initially reticent. I double-checked and it was a commercial for regular Michelob, not Miller Lite as I previously posted. Of White Room, he said: “It was a miracle it worked, considering it was me writing a monologue about a new flat”. You could also win a signed guitar that was used on Sheeran’s upcoming album. After being successful with bands including The Yardbirds, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Cream and Blind Faith, Clapton recorded an album under his ⦠After Midnight:Eric Clapton. * Discussion in 'Music Corner' started by budlyte, Sep 30, 2007. Along the way, he’s been virtually the most iconic player of many different models of instrument, including the Strat, the Les Paul and the SG; he’s also counted among them for the 335, the Firebird and the Martin acoustic. This Steve Winwood composition leans heavily on its hypnotic double-tracked Zeppelin-esque loping riff, but its solo, which EC likely played on his ’63 ES-335, channels the improvisational brilliance he had painstakingly developed with Cream into a more disciplined, storytelling style. Blues Power Lyrics: Bet you didn't think I knew how to rock and roll / Oh, I got the boogie-woogie right down in my very soul / There's no need for me to be a wallflower / Because now I'm living on Download Eric Clapton - Eric Clapton's Rainbow Concert | Escudo Badge,Dalo Vuelta Roll It Over,Presencia Del Señor Presence Of The Lord,Reina Perlada Pearly Queen,Despues De La Medianoche After Midnight,Pequeña Ala ⦠After that, Ringo walked in drunk and gave us that line about the swans living in the park”. "After Midnight" is a rock song by J. J. Cale, first released in 1966. Cocaine’s riff bore a similarity to Cream’s Sunshine Of Your Love and proved to be right in EC’s wheelhouse; Eric’s version stuck close to the original, adding layers of sparse but perfectly measured guitar lines and a classy, rhythmic solo section with an extra bump of second guitar for good measure. Said Slowhand to Uncut magazine: "Are there four guitars on there? The first was economy, both in terms of the energetic, stinging licks he wrings from his Strat and the elegant precision of his fingers along the fretboard. Submit Tab. It simply blew my mind.” When it came time to record his own take in 1966 with the Bluesbreakers (aka the Blues Breakers), everything about it had been supercharged: from the Les Paul-through-Marshall-combo’s tone and sustain, to the song’s enhanced rhythmic interludes, to the more expansive leadlines and the more intense use of doublestops and unison bends, this was the electric blues repackaged and turned up to 11. After Midnight by Eric Clapton is in the key of C Major. Cream’s 1966 debut Fresh Cream warped a handful of blues songs through the power trio’s lithe, distorted psychedelic filter, but none showed off the potential of their futuristic sound as viscerally as Willie Dixon’s Spoonful. Apologies for any downtime or slow forum loading now or within the next week or so. Though Cale wrote the song, it first appeared on Eric Clapton's eponymous 1970 album, and Clapton's recording remains the most well known version of the song. “I got hold of a little Spanish guitar that I had lying around and I had it with me the whole time, from the minute I woke up and for the rest of that year,” he said in the Life In 12 Bars documentary. The March 2021 issue of Guitar Magazine is out now! With the wah and Marshall, he’s been an effects and amp innovator and with his creation of ‘woman’ tone, a sonic pathfinder, too. Favorites. (Written by JJ Cale. Marshalling his newfound tone to add sustaining lead licks, feedback embellishments and stinging vibrato’d notes, Clapton blends major and minor pentatonics in the blues-lead-friendly key of G to perfection. Songsterr Plus . Read about After Midnight [slow version] by Eric Clapton and see the artwork, lyrics and similar artists. The Northern Irish bluesman’s kinetic style fused blues and rock with a virtuosity that inspired scores of guitar players – here are the fundamentals of his technique. Pro Play This Tab. Continue. Cream’s signature track from the band’s 1967 opus Disraeli Gears is also the definitive example of Clapton’s famous ‘woman tone’: his 1964 ‘The Fool’ SG with the tone rolled off provides warmth with fullness, crunch and sustain, which the guitarist exploits to the max in the song’s famous solo. For Blind Faith’s infamous Hyde Park debut, Clapton played a confusing-looking hybrid instrument – a modified 1969 Sunburst Telecaster with the neck from his famous ‘Brownie’ Stratocaster, Eric’s rise was so meteoric, he’d eventually have an asteroid – Minor Planet 4305 Clapton – named after him. Duane Allman based the song’s famous riff on a vocal line from the Albert King song As The Years Go Passing By. interesting side note on this.that was recorded at the lone star cafe in nyc.the part of the ad showing a marquee with clapton's name was the beacon theater.a lot of folks were wondering if he was really playing there that night.after they finished the taping,clapton said he'd come back to the lone star that night to play with roomful of blues,which he did for the whole night.some friends of mine just happened to go that night and walked into the club right behind him. © 2021 Guitar.com is a member of the media division of BandLab Technologies. The February 2021 issue of Guitar Magazine is out now! After Midnight tab by Eric Clapton. Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next > ⦠This Derek And The Dominos track is a bit of a busy, strained mess on the Layla… record, but comes to life in this close-to-15-minute version recorded at the Fillmore East in 1970. There is also an extended "unedited" version of the beer ad After Midnight (runs 6:22). The ill-starred Blind Faith were saddled with the ‘supergroup’ tag from the off, and piled pressure on themselves by making their lacklustre live debut in front of 100,000-plus fans at Hyde Park. Apologies for any downtime or slow forum loading now or within the next week or so. His solo was one take and he got a fabulous sound. So with an avalanche of music to choose from, we present a selection of 20 fine examples of his six-string genius in the hope that anyone who doesn’t yet know what the fuss was all about can hear for themselves why, among many other achievements, Clapton became the only three-time inductee in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame. An up-tempo, funky single debut for Eric Clapton as a solo artist, "After Midnight" clearly showed Clapton going in a more simplified, soul/rock direction after Blind Faith and Cream. If you’re going to play along, make sure your Fender’s set up well beforehand – the solo’s many whole-tone-or-more bends go way beyond the string-choking limits of most Strats. I would think his newest box would too. With its classic descending riff penned by Cream bassist Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker’s dramatic intro and portentous lyrics from poet Pete Brown – with their “goodbye windows” and “tired starlings” (hard to tell, surely), Clapton had a beautiful canvas to daub his psychedelic guitar imaginings onto. Thanks. On John Mayall’s horn-soaked slow-blues lament, Have You Heard, Clapton distils all of his passion, energy and fire into a minute-or-so of pure guitar lightning: announcing his presence with a couple of angry knocks on the door, he proceeds to wring the neck of his Les Paul to send staccato flurries of angry vibrato, mazy pentatonics and frantic bends through his fully cranked 2×12 Marshall combo, before finishing with a definitive, crunching flourish that practically shouts: “Have that!”, According to blues-rock great Joe Bonamassa, Clapton’s long-lost ‘Beano’ Les Paul currently resides in a collection on the East Coast of the US – and “it’s a ’59, not a ’60”. in 1966.) We provide insight and opinion about gear, artists, technique and the guitar industry for all genres and skill levels. Recommended by The Wall Street Journal Clapton bought his iconic ES-335 because it was similar to the Gibson models Freddie King favoured. Harrison unwittingly came up with the song’s title after Clapton misread the word ‘Bridge’: “Eric read it upside down and cracked up laughing – ‘What’s ‘Badge’?’ he said. It was also a UK cd single (possibly in an extended mix) that also featured an unreleased live Cream version of Sunshine of Your Love (it's probably been released sinec then more widely). Now I have to track it down. Background and artwork. An earlier, abandoned version of the song saw Harrison spend hours trying to create a backwards solo; to make Clapton’s expressive soloing more ‘Beatle-y’, George Martin’s assistant Chris White was tasked with “waggling the oscillator ’ to add ADT flanging by hand. The second was, put your guitar strap on properly. Favorite. JJ Cale said of Clapton’s version of After Midnight: “The first time I heard it on my car radio I just drove off to the side of the road. And Jesus⦠that sound.âOf course, there are guitar players more technical than Eric Clapton. I always liked that slower version from the old Miller Lite commercial. Eventually, he became one of a select few whose impact and influence has continued across the generations in the role of innovator, comeback kid and now, elder statesman. Eric Clapton - After Midnight Tab. But thatâs like havi⦠This track was released in 1966. Alas, this wah workout from Stephen Stills’ solo debut doesn’t feature both Hendrix and Clapton on the same track; Jimi only played on Old Times Good Times from the same record. Eric Clapton (1970) This isn't only the best song on this list; it's one of the finest songs Clapton has ever written. The truth is, for many EC purists, most of this list could come from a single album: Blues Breakers With Eric Clapton, the 1966 mother lode of British electric blues that saw the 21-year-old guitarist redefine the horizons of electric-guitar tone and intensity. Never mind what he did with The Yardbirds, Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith and Derek And The Dominos – 2020 marks the 50th anniversary of Eric Clapton as a solo artist, and for most of this prolific musical career, the blues-obsessed guitarist from Surrey has been a household name. One accurate version. The December 2020 issue of Guitar Magazine is out now! On it, the spooky reverb-drenched subtleties of the lead guitar on the original album version are sacrificed at the altar of pure improvisational blues-rock fury: EC tears out solo after solo in a marathon of intensity, poised between creative exploration and staying grounded in some semblance of the tune itself, to enable his bandmates to disappear off on their own improvisational flurries. The subtle embellishments of harmony and fingerpicking in its riff tip their hat to the original artist, while the song’s two solos are a near-perfect example of first, EC’s melodic major-pentatonic style and second, his ability to up the level of intensity by introducing creative bends, crunching doublestops and repeated triplet licks in the high-octave minor pentatonic position for a timeless solo of dizzying variety and effortless class. Then we did the album track in the studio. How the hard-charging Minnesotan rockers laid down the blueprint for the shape of punk to come. It should be played at a tempo of 96 BPM. Opening with a frantic, edge-of-feedback wah-based funk workout (that incidentally sounds a lot like One Love by the Stone Roses, of all things), the band quickly gets the song out of the way before embarking on an unrestrained guitar odyssey that takes in inventive chordwork, Santana-esque pull-off sections, slide-like single-string melody lines and more, with the major-key setting a chance for Eric to explore ideas beyond the boundaries of blues-rock. The Pretenders’ legend on why she only ever wanted to play rhythm, how she’s “won by default” with her brand new signature Fender Telecaster, and why she very nearly talked herself out of the whole thing…. One of the band’s shortest songs – and also the only one to feature five people, with the inclusion of Harrison and Felix Pappalardi on piano and Mellotron – it’s also one of their most accessible. After Midnight Tab by Eric Clapton with free online tab player. Eric Clapton has listened to J.J. Cale's original version of "After Midnight" many times and he still hasn't worked out how he did it. Beginning with an approximation of the melody from Blue Moon, Clapton emphasises the major pentatonic scale in his leadwork to offer serene musical contrast to the aggressive riffs grinding away behind it before, in its final section, showing off the incredible variation in his phrasing by playing off the track’s steady metre to build to a decisive climactic run that folds neatly back into the song. Among his many other accolades, Clapton holds the distinction of being the only ‘outside’ guitarist ever to play on a Beatles studio track. The former Kyshera bandleader details the gruelling task of staying afloat on the road as an independent act in his debut book, Noise Damage – although it hasn’t deterred him yet, The Canadian guitar player is most notably known for his esteemed YouTube channel but, as he reveals below, he’s also an accomplished session musician and something of a Bigsby aficionado. They only managed a single album before splitting up; but at least it contained hints of their ambition and what might have been. I always liked that slower version from the old Miller Lite commercial. Clapton's guitar playing is also ⦠The tragic story behind this disarmingly simple, heartrending ballad is well known: and after the accident that led to the death of his four-year-old son Conor, Clapton turned to music for solace. It inspired me.”, Clapton agreed to do the solo on the record in return for a demonstration of Stills’ acoustic sound.