"become a more fully rounded musician, but too often the album needs the spark that some long guitar solos would have given it. In short, it needs a little more of Clapton's personality."" Eric Clapton (album) Eric Clapton is the debut solo studio album by British rock musician Eric Clapton, released in August 1970 under Atco and Polydor Records. After being successful with bands including The Yardbirds, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, Cream and Blind Faith, Clapton recorded an album under his own name in late 1969 and early 1970. The album cover shows Clapton sitting in a room which"
"their guitarist Eric Clapton, who was considered by some to be so proficient with the guitar that he garnered the popular nickname ""God"". However, he split from the Yardbirds after their commercial success to become a serious blues musician. A new wave of British bands were now emerging. The Kinks produced an electrified gritty sound expanding musical possibilities. Inspired by them, The Who combined a macho image, pop art and fast driven rock. In 1965, year zero of rock, the Who released a song that the program postulates defined the era, ""My Generation"", and was incredibly innovative in both its"
"Eric Clapton from John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker from the Graham Bond Organization. His connection to the Who enabled him to get this new group, Cream, onto the bill for a 9-day booking at the RKO theater in New York in 1967. It was an important showcase for Cream and enabled Stigwood to introduce them to New York's music cognoscenti and helped break them in the USA. It was for this show that Stigwood commissioned the Dutch art collective called ""The Fool"" to paint the striking psychedelic designs on Eric Clapton's Gibson SG guitar, Jack"
"acting as the backing band for Sonny Boy Williamson on his British tour. They earned a formidable reputation as a live act, developing frantic improvised guitar–harmonica ""rave-ups"", but they enjoyed only modest success with singles based on R&B covers. In 1965 they cut the more pop-oriented single ""For Your Love"", which made the top 10 in the UK and US, but the move away from the blues prompted Clapton to quit the band for a stint with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and then to form Cream. His replacement Jeff Beck (and eventually his replacement Jimmy Page), saw the band enjoy a"
"Decca, but split before its release. The model of British rhythm and blues was emulated by a number of bands including the Rolling Stones, the Animals, and the Yardbirds. The other key focus for British blues was around John Mayall who moved to London in the early 1960s, eventually forming the Bluesbreakers, whose members at various times included, Jack Bruce, Aynsley Dunbar, Eric Clapton, Peter Green and Mick Taylor. The ""Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (Beano)"" album (1966) is considered one of the seminal British blues recordings. It was notable for its driving rhythms and Clapton's rapid blues licks with"
"a tax inspector, John Mayall began forming a Chicago-style blues band, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. Initially Mayall wanted to recruit bass player Cliff Barton of the Cyril Davies All Stars for the rhythm section of his new band. Barton declined, however, but gave him McVie's phone number, urging Mayall to give the talented young bass player a chance in the Bluesbreakers. Mayall contacted McVie, and asked him to audition for his band. Soon thereafter, McVie got an offer to play bass in the Bluesbreakers. McVie accepted while still holding down his daytime job for a further nine months before becoming a"
"decided to jam together; a friend heard them and remarked: ""This is too much for the average white man,"" which became adapted as the name of the band. The band's breakthrough was a support slot at Eric Clapton's comeback concert in 1973. MCA Records released their debut album, ""Show Your Hand"" (1973), which sold poorly. Bruce McCaskill, who was Clapton's tour manager, liked the band's music and agreed to manage them. He borrowed money to take them to the US and to promote them. McCaskill had many contacts from his days with Clapton and managed to get Atlantic Records to"
"of several influential blues rock albums. When Eric Clapton left Mayall to form Cream, they created a hybrid style with blues, rock, and jazz improvisation, which was the most innovative to date. British band Fleetwood Mac initially played traditionally-oriented electric blues, but soon evolved. Their guitarist Peter Green, who was Clapton's replacement with Mayall, brought many innovations to their music. The electric guitar playing of Jimi Hendrix (a veteran of many American rhythm and blues and soul groups from the early-mid-1960s) and his power trios, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Band of Gypsys, had a broad and lasting influence on"
"on bass guitar (both members of krautrock group Agitation Free). Clapton emerged in the early 1970s as a singer-songwriter in the ""troubadour"" style of Neil Young and Jackson Browne. In 1972, Clapton returned to Australia and signed a publishing deal with Essex Music and a recording deal with Infinity Records, a subsidiary of Festival Records. His debut single, ""Last Train to Marseilles"", was released in October. Clapton was backed by Red McKelvie (guitar, ex-The Flying Circus), Kenny Kitching (pedal steel), John Capek (piano, ex-Carson) and John Bois (bass guitar) and Tony Bolton (drums), both from Country Radio (see Greg Quill)."
"The History of Eric Clapton The History of Eric Clapton is a compilation double LP, released in 1972 by Polydor Records in the United Kingdom, and Atco Records in the United States. It features Eric Clapton performing in various bands between 1964 and 1970, including The Yardbirds, Cream, Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominos. The compilation is notable for helping both Clapton's career when he was battling a severe heroin addiction and making Clapton's magnum opus, ""Layla"", famous. It is also notable for being the first compilation in rock music to collect music of a single rock musician that"
"close stylistic forerunner, of what, by then, had become known as ""blues rock guitar"". Other American artists, such as Paul Butterfield and Canned Heat are now also considered blues rock pioneers. In the UK, several musicians honed their skills in a handful of British blues bands, primarily those of Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner. While the early British rhythm and blues groups, such as the Rolling Stones, the Yardbirds, and the Animals, incorporated American R&B, rock and roll, and pop, John Mayall took a more distinctly electric blues approach. In 1966, he released ""Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton"", the first"
"Your Love"", a Beatles-influenced Graham Gouldman composition built around a four-chord progression (Em-G-A-Amin) played on a harpsichord by Brian Auger. ""For Your Love"" hit the top of the charts in the UK and Canada and reached No. 6 in the United States, but it displeased Clapton, a blues purist whose vision extended beyond three-minute singles. Frustrated by the commercial approach, he abruptly left the band on 25 March 1965, the day the single was released. Soon Clapton joined John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers, but not before he recommended Jimmy Page, a prominent young session guitarist, to replace him. Content with"
"be pivotal in Taylor's career when Mayall began to look for a guitarist to fill Peter Green's vacancy the following year. Mayall contacted Taylor, and invited him to take Green's place. Taylor made his debut with the Bluesbreakers at the Manor House, an old blues club in north London. For those in the music scene the night was an event... ""Let's go and see this 17-year-old kid try and replace Eric"". Taylor toured and recorded the album ""Crusade"" with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. From 1966 to 1969, Taylor developed a guitar style that is blues-based with Latin and jazz influences. He"
"As an adolescent he listened to the Rolling Stones and Bob Dylan, and was given his first electric guitar by a school friend's father. He cites Richard Wherrett—his house master and English teacher at Trinity who later became a prominent theatre director—as an early mentor. In 1965, Clapton formed Darktown Strutters with Ross Andreasen, Mick Bradley, Will Fowler, Dennis Hunter, Ross Lamonde and Ian Peepman. He left school in his final year without completing his mathematics examination. He played guitar while training as a commercial artist in the 1960s. He raised enough money to board ship in 1967 to London"
"Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse Eric Clapton and the Powerhouse was a British blues rock studio group formed in 1966. They recorded three songs, which were released on the Elektra Records sampler album ""What's Shakin'"" in 1966. A possible fourth song remained unreleased. The Powerhouse was formed with full intention of being a short-lived studio project. In 1965 and 1966, American record producer Joe Boyd was in the process of opening a London office for Elektra Records and was looking for some British talent to feature on the first release from the label's local division, a sampler compilation album. Manfred"
"join Traffic) amongst others in their line up. With a new line-up Chicken Shack was formed as a trio in 1965, naming themselves after Jimmy Smith's ""Back at the Chicken Shack"" album. 'Chicken shacks' (open-air roadside chicken stands) had also been frequently mentioned in blues and R&B songs, as in Amos Milburn's hit, ""Chicken Shack Boogie"". Over the next few years the band had a residency at the Star-Club, Hamburg with Morley, then Al Sykes, Hughie Flint (who was John Mayall's drummer when Eric Clapton was in the band) and later Dave Bidwell on drums. They made their first UK"
"5 March 1965. ""For Your Love"" became their first Top 10 hit in both the UK and the US. To replace Clapton, the group needed a lead guitarist who was experienced with blues and R&B, but also willing to explore more progressive and experimental material. They approached Jimmy Page, but he was unwilling to give up his steady employment as one of London's most popular studio guitarists. Page recommended Jeff Beck, who was invited to an informal audition. Drummer McCarty recalled the tryout: ""Not only could he play all the Eric stuff, but also a lot more ... There was"
"style. The brothers attempted to assemble a live stage band that could replicate their studio sound. Lead guitarist Alan Kendall had come on board in 1971 but did not have much to do until ""Mr. Natural"". For that album, they added drummer Dennis Bryon, and they later added ex-Strawbs keyboard player Blue Weaver, completing the Bee Gees band that lasted through the late '70s. Maurice, who had previously performed on piano, guitar, harpsichord, electric piano, organ, mellotron and bass guitar, as well as mandolin and Moog synthesiser, by then confined himself to bass onstage. At Eric Clapton's suggestion, the brothers"
"guitar, the musicians who recorded the original tracks were: For ""Archives to Eighties"" Mayall recorded new bass and drums tracks played by Bobby Haynes and Joe Yuele. Tracks 10, 11, 12 & 13 on each CD are the ""Archives to Eighties"" overdubbed versions <br> All track listings taken from the album's liner notes and sleeves Back to the Roots (John Mayall album) Back to the Roots is a 1971 double album by John Mayall released on Polydor. Recording sessions took place both in California and London where Mayall invited some former members of his band, notably guitarists Eric Clapton and"
"previously toured with John Entwistle, Alan Parsons and as musical director the past 10 years with the Happy Together tours. Sources: The Yardbirds The Yardbirds are an English rock band, formed in London in 1963. The band's core lineup featured vocalist and harmonica player Keith Relf, drummer Jim McCarty, rhythm guitarist/bassist Chris Dreja and bassist/producer Paul Samwell-Smith. The band is known for starting the careers of three of rock's most famous guitarists, Eric Clapton, Jimmy Page and Jeff Beck, all of whom ranked in the top five of ""Rolling Stone"" magazine's list of 100 greatest guitarists. The band had a"
"went on to form the Nice with organist Keith Emerson. Through both a ""musicians wanted"" ad in ""Melody Maker"" on 10 June and his own search, Mayall found three other potential guitarists for his Bluesbreakers, a black musician named Terry Edmonds, John Moorshead, and 18-year-old Mick Taylor. The latter made the band quickly, but Mayall also decided to hire Edmonds as a rhythm guitarist for a few days. In the meantime, on a single day in May 1967, Mayall had assembled a studio album to showcase his own abilities. Former Artwoods drummer Keef Hartley appeared on only half of the"
"in this area up till his death in 2017. He published several influential books on gypsy jazz, was producer and music co-ordinator for the TV Documentary ""Django Legacy"", was the owner of the Fret Records record label, and organised the U.K. Gypsy Jazz Guitar Festival annually from 1997 to 2000. Ian Cruickshank grew up in the south-east of England where he formed his first band, The Ian Lloyd Bluesmen, in 1965 at the age of 18. One night in 1968, after a gig supporting John Mayall's Bluesbreakers he was approached by Mayall's drummer Keith ""Keef"" Hartley who was leaving Mayall"
"first three weeks of August. The group's name had reportedly resulted from a gaffe made by the announcer at their first concert, who mispronounced the band's provisional name, ""Eric & The Dynamos"". In fact, Clapton chose ""Derek and the Dominos"" because he did not want his name and celebrity to get in the way of maintaining a ""band"" image. When the tour was over, they headed for Criteria Studios in Miami to record an album. The source of the album's eventual centrepiece, ""Layla"", was rooted in Clapton's infatuation with Pattie Boyd, the wife of his friend and Beatle lead guitarist"
"terms of personnel, with the earlier, wider rhythm and blues phase, which had begun to peter out in the mid-1960s leaving a nucleus of instrumentalists with a wide knowledge of blues forms and techniques, which they would carry into the pursuit of more purist blues interests. Blues Incorporated and Mayall's Bluesbreakers were well known in the London Jazz and emerging R&B circuits, but the Bluesbreakers began to gain some national and international attention, particularly after the release of ""Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton"" album (1966), considered one of the seminal British blues recordings. Produced by Mike Vernon, who later set"
"one of the earliest supergroups, with Jack Bruce on bass (Bruce was previously of the Bluesbreakers, the Graham Bond Organisation and Manfred Mann). Before the formation of Cream, Clapton was not well known in the United States; he left the Yardbirds before ""For Your Love"" hit the U.S. Top Ten, and had yet to perform there. During his time with Cream, Clapton began to develop as a singer, songwriter, and guitarist, though Bruce took most of the lead vocals and wrote the majority of the material with lyricist Pete Brown. Cream's first gig was an unofficial performance at the Twisted"
"but were not commercially successful. During the time that Bruce and Baker played with the Graham Bond Organisation, they were known for their hostility towards each other. There were numerous stories of the two sabotaging each other's equipment and fighting on stage. Relations grew so bad between the two that Bruce left the group in August 1965. After leaving, Bruce recorded a solo single, ""I'm Gettin Tired"", for Polydor Records. He joined John Mayall and his Bluesbreakers group, which featured the guitarist Eric Clapton. His stay was brief, and he did not contribute to any releases at the time, but"
"Chicago blues (side 1 kicking off strong with Otis Rush's ""All Your Love"" and Freddy King's hit instrumental ""Hide Away"" [here spelled without a space as ""Hideaway""]); Mayall wrote or arranged 5 (such as ""Double Crossing Time"", a slow blues with a scorching solo by co-writer Clapton); and Eric debuted as lead vocalist, and began his practice of paying tribute to Robert Johnson, with ""Ramblin' on My Mind"". The album was Mayall's commercial breakthrough, rising to No. 6 on the British chart, and has since gained classic status, largely for the audacious aggressiveness and molten fluidity of Clapton's guitar playing."
"known as the Band, and their debut album, ""Music from Big Pink"", which proved to be a welcome breath of fresh air, to Clapton, in comparison to the incense and psychedelia that had defined Cream. Furthermore, he had read a scathing Cream review in ""Rolling Stone"", a publication he had much admired, in which the reviewer, Jon Landau, called him a ""master of the blues cliché."" In the wake of that article, Clapton wanted to end Cream and pursue a different musical direction. At the beginning of their farewell tour on 4 October 1968, in Oakland, California, nearly the entire"
"Back to the Roots (John Mayall album) Back to the Roots is a 1971 double album by John Mayall released on Polydor. Recording sessions took place both in California and London where Mayall invited some former members of his band, notably guitarists Eric Clapton and Mick Taylor. At the end of the 1980s Mayall remixed some tracks and issued them along with some of the older material as ""Archives to Eighties"". An expanded two-CD version of ""Back to the Roots"" now includes both the original and later remixed versions of the tracks. Besides Mayall, who sang and played piano and"
"Eric Clapton. Downing played on every Judas Priest album from ""Rocka Rolla"" to """". Downing started his first band Stagecoach, a pop band, between the age of 17 and 18 with his second cousin Brian Badhams on bass guitar (now with The Elkie Brooks Band) and drummer Martin Philips. The trio ""mainly jammed a few Cream songs and a few 12-bar blues"". Downing played guitar with the band after winning a coin toss with his cousin Brian ""in his bedroom to see who would play guitar or bass"". Prior to joining Judas Priest, Downing went to catering college and worked"
"equally talented drummer. By May 1969, Ric Grech, bassist with Family, was invited to join them (leaving Family in mid-tour). News of the group's formation created a buzz of excitement among the public and press, which even heralded the band as ""super Cream"". The group debuted at a free concert at London's Hyde Park on 7 June 1969 in front of 100,000 fans. The performance was well received by fans there, but troubled Clapton, who thought that the band's playing was sub-par and that the adulation was undeserved and reminiscent of his Cream days when the crowds would applaud for"
"Clapton to name a few and now The Wallbirds. The outcome of this is a debut album called ""Changes with the Moon"" . The Wallbirds flew over to L.A to work with the legendary Bob Clearmountain who is to mix the debut album ""Changes with the Moon"" and also bob has mixed the single ""Lying at the Side of You"" which as already seen the likes of BBC Radio two DJ'S Janice Long, Chris Evans, Terry Wogan and Alex Lester. Also BBC6 DJ'S Shaun Keavney and Chris Hawkins, playing the single on their shows. The band split up in 2012"
"other group in the magazine's history; Greil Marcus's articles contributed to the Band's mystique. The Band was also featured on the cover of ""Time"" magazine (January 12, 1970). A critical and commercial triumph, ""The Band"", along with works by the Byrds and the Flying Burrito Brothers, established a musical template (sometimes dubbed country rock) that paved the way to the Eagles. Both ""Big Pink"" and ""The Band"" also influenced their musical contemporaries. Eric Clapton and George Harrison cited the Band as a major influence on their musical direction in the late 1960s and early 1970s. Clapton later revealed that he"