Eric Clapton Interview on Jimi Hendrix (1973)
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- Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music.[2] He ranked second in Rolling Stone's list of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time"[3] and fourth in Gibson's "Top 50 Guitarists of All Time".[4] He was also named number five in Time magazine's list of "The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players" in 2009.[5]
After playing in a number of different local bands, Clapton joined the Yardbirds in 1963, replacing founding guitarist Top Topham. Dissatisfied with the change of the Yardbirds sound from blues rock to a more radio-friendly pop rock sound, he left in 1965 to play with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. On leaving Mayall in 1966, after one album, he formed the power trio Cream with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and "arty, blues-based psychedelic pop".[6] After Cream broke up in November 1968, he formed the blues rock band Blind Faith with Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech, recording one album and performing on one tour before they broke up. Clapton embarked on a solo career in 1970.
Alongside his solo career, he also performed with Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos, with whom he recorded "Layla", one of his signature songs. He continued to record a number of successful solo albums and songs over the next several decades, including a 1974 cover of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff" (which helped reggae reach a mass market),[7] the country-infused Slowhand album (1977) and the pop rock of 1986's August. Following the death of his son Conor in 1991, Clapton's grief was expressed in the song "Tears in Heaven", which appeared on his Unplugged album. In 1996 he had another top-40 hit with the R&B crossover "Change the World". In 1998, he released the Grammy award-winning "My Father's Eyes". Since 1999, he has recorded a number of traditional blues and blues rock albums and hosted the periodic Crossroads Guitar Festival. His most recent studio album is Happy Xmas (2018).
Clapton has received 18 Grammy Awards as well as the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.[8][9] In 2004, he was awarded a CBE for services to music.[10] He has received four Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. 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. In his solo career, he has sold more than 280 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time.[11] In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for those recovering from substance abuse.[12]
I never would have thought that was Eric Clapton. Looks nothing like the 7 other distinguished Eric Clapton faces from over the years.
He abused cocaine for several years.. drug use changes your face.
He probably doesn't even remember doing this interview
That's his "I'm drinking everyday" face....1973
@@dre4011 just like every other brit would do.
He was completely out of his box during this interview!
Eric Clapton. The only rock star who could give interviews while watching a tennis match on the telly...
lol
😂😂😂😂
Cocaine’s a helluva drug
Heroin
Brilliant
It’s like his face turns into a someone else’s every decade
I was just thinking that. This doesn't look like the Eric Clapton I remember. It looks like this guy should be his somewhat similar brother, Derek Clapton.
Either Adam Scott or David Tennant should play him in a movie.
yes.
Oh man that is wild! Every time I see these old clips of him I think to myself how it looks like someone else. Might be all the substance abuse.
It's always the same eyes though
Couldn't imagine any other drummer in The Jimi Hendrix Experience. Mitch Mitchell was a power house and the secret weapon.
I totally agree , the Jimi Hendrix experience was a such powerhouse for the exactly fact that it brought different inputs from different styles of music and the Jimi Hendrix Experience was so unique.... and there was blues bands everywhere but none maybe ZZTOP & Johnny Winter was the closest things even though TJHE was in s league of they own
But jimi’s work with buddy miles behind him live is so much better rhythmically. Imagine that from the beginning
@@Waverunner21 i agree, mitch had the explosiveness, but theres just something about that gypsys combo that suited jimi in my opinion. My favorite song of theirs is ‘Stop’ live at the filmore.
You only feel that way because that’s how history went, and Mitchell is what you got. As Noel Gallagher always says, “people don’t know what they want until you give it to them.” If Hendrix debuted with Buddy Miles, 50 years later people would say the same thing about him.
Also, Clapton knew Hendrix and his music AT THE TIME it was happening… that perspective of a peer is going to be completely different than how a fan views Hendrix’s legacy 50 years later.
Eric’s facial appearance changed more often over the years than anyone I’ve ever seen. Interesting.
Cocaine!
I agree. I always thought he was a bit of a chameleon haha
What you saying Bill?
@@finkaiser3994 that's Boy George
Clone
This is gold. You are left with no doubt that Hendrix was a legend in his own lifetime, amongst his peers and beyond
If you really look into it, Mr.Clapton was deeply depressed when Jimi passed, he understood that he lost a major inspiration in his world of Guitar....
Clapton bought a left-handed guitar for Hendrix and that night he heard the news of his death.
It's a coverup
Every time I've seen Eric Clapton describing any event or any memory of an occasion or any description of any friendship documentary style, he is so lucid and descriptive really just puts you right there at that moment. Great storyteller. I mean you can tell here that he's off his chops on heroin or whatever but even now since he's been clean he's the same.
i believe that‘s a gift some good songwriters have. they are storytellers who are inspired by life itself and project their experience on songs. and to do that they need to be very descriptive. might be wrong though.
Jimi Hendrix & Eric Are Definitely Amongst The Best Musicians Of The Late 60’s
Obviously yea
Jimi Hendrix favorite guitarist was Clapton. He was really excited to meet him. People make it seem that Eric was hating on him but they seem to have been good friends...
I feel some genuine love and admiration towards Jimmy in his voice.
What a wonderful interview. TH-cam is a fantastic repository for stuff like this. Thank God because I was in 4th or 5th grade when stuff like this was going on. I'm so grateful that I m able to fully absorb it now when I'm 60 yrs old- a half century later.
Jimi Hendrix was here for such a short time, but he gave so much & stamped Psychedelic rock all over the London scene. 'The wind cries Mary' always takes me right back to that magical time.
Eric was so humble. He did not even considered himself in the same category as Hendrix though he loved to talk with Hendrix about music.
You knew them both so well. HA, HA
High as a kite... look at his eyes 👀
Legend has it Eric kept sitting there and giving this interview for seven hours after the film crew left..
😄😄😄
hahaha class comment
Hahaha
LOLOLOLOL
Don't believe everything you hear. And especially don't believe everything you read. Some people believe if it is written it must be true. That is a Big problem especially when the tabloids write about someone. ✌️&❤
Looks like EC was in his Heroin addition at this time... Steppenwolf ..
Tombstones in their eyes...glad he pulled through.
Jimi Hendrix was just too good....even Eric Clapton knew jimi was the guitar god
It’s no coincidence Hendrix wanted to play with Clapton
awesome interview. Thanks Eric ❤❤
I love hearing Clapton talk abt other musicians
Because he IS always Well spoken
I don't
@@floodgatestudios1825 well then why do watch?
Nice to see Eric relaxed like this.
Well... relaxed isn't what I would call it. But yeah, nice to see him being a nice guy while being strung out.
@@bakkels Woosh
He looks totally coked out. I wouldn't call it relaxed
@@booishoois309 Woosh
On the gear
Finally, after all these years, somebody has managed to unearth Eric Clapton's audition tape for 'One Flew over the Cuckoo's nest'
So cool an interview.
This reminds me of Keith Richards commenting on Mick Taylor.
if you showed this clip to any music enthusiast without any reference a lot of people would NEVER guess this was Eric Clapton.
Before he looked like a math teacher
At that time!, heavy drinker I love Eric Claptons songs. 461 Ochean Bouleward is a master piece
Just relax everyone,Clapton is on his way out as we all are,let us only get all fuzzy-happy about the groovy times that were had.
Is he sick or something?
@@oulosvie old
Not me! I'm gonna live forever! 😛😜😝
@@oulosvie EC has trouble with neuropathy and tinnitus.
I hope Clapton outlives your kids
Clapton seems so real here... Normally during interviews he seems gloomy and non interested
We've all known Eric since he was 18, regardless what decade we were born.
Clapton and jimmi ruled.👍🏻🇬🇧🎸🕯️
Eric i love you so much
I’m the end Clapton is a great guy. Wish Hendrix would have lived, we lost a lot of good music, collaborations. I think he was just getting started, as far as music goes, he was an open channel with no limitations.
Clapton is a racist asshole you fucking dingdong. In the end, you’re an idiot.🤦♂️🤦♂️🖕
He stole his best friends wife and then beat the shit out of her... Also a huge racist, went on a huge rant on stage talking about how england is only for white people.
@@spanqueluv9er Yep this is true fuck Clapton, but you cant deny he's a good guitar player
@@spanqueluv9er As a person I would be probably say I hate him but he's still a good player regardless and I would love to lie but its true
Fascinating.
Eric you are amazing love you for ever❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Sold gold interview. 🥇
that is a good point about (black) blues players not knowing other players. for the british, the blues was academic. for guys like jimmy, it was about smoking the next guy off the stage.
I hope there's a recording of Hendrix and Clapton playing. I have a feeling it exists somewhere.
Someone has it in their basement somewhere. They used to go to clubs together in secret and blow everyone else off the stage together😂
Doubt it. Actually didn't play together at the LSE when Hendrix, came up to jam. Clapton simply walked off the stage. 🎤
@@SirPeter6464 Ye that’s the famous first story that everyone loves “Hendrix killed Clapton” but they came mates and would share the blues.
@@SirPeter6464 This thing never happened, troll
@@Unholygamewinner quoting his autobiography...?🧐👍
Rock on clapton
nice
I think rock behind Clapton
Keep on keeping on Eric
Eric e tao bom na guitarra que nunca quis competir com ninguem,sempre quis unir todos
Is this Eric Clapton? Can't believe this!!!
Some of Claptons best guitar is the London howlin wolf sessions. Not very well known but a must for the blues lover.
Good to know! Thanks for tip!
Yeah his guitar work fell off after blind faith in my opinion.
@@dylanwesley3964 try THE DOMINOES
Yeah he's almost as good as Rory Gallagher..... but he's not.
@@dodibenabba1378 I can respect that opinion. He is good. Always liked his playing.
JIMI é o diferente quebrando estruturas na guitarra incomparável mesmo tendo sua passagem meteórica neste mundo , mais de 70 anos e o REI DA QUITARRA, DEPOIS VIERAM MILHARES DENTRE ELES ERIC CLAPTON ETC ETC ETC. MAIS O MAIOR AINDA É JIMI HENDRIX
I got his book. There was burnt. And there was Eric Clapton. I love you Eric. Your a most very nice and humble man today. But years ago your musician friends were even afraid of you. /// "I would lock my door from Eric Clapton".
Eyes dilated 100%... probably hadn't slept in a week here.
IS that THE most important of This interview....?
@@pabloperez4063 why you butthurt? Clapton was loaded out of his mind here, he's been pretty open about his history of drug use you know...
I thought they looked pinned
Are you talking about hendrix on the acid 😱😱😱
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.
Tea time at Eric's!
How could any guitarist not love Robert Johnson? It's a damned shame that there is so little of his music recorded.
If jimi didn't die so young, he would have taken the 80s, 90s, and 2000s by storm
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??? Why make such a subjective comment that we will never know to be true or false?? Musical trends move very quickly so I think it's impossible to assume jimi would have morphed into what people were looking for during those decade's. Eric however has reinvented himself time and time again, absolute genius, guitar and vocals!!.
This video reminds me I need to stop drinking so much beer. I'm getting fat. Dont look myself... yeah. Thabks for the upload mate
Two of the best
Omg please .... Billy Gibbons , Johnny Winter and all the 4 guitarist from the Lynyrd Skynyrd.... Duanne Allman
A dead legend and a hack
He doesn't mention the left handed guitar he bought for him. In the 80's interview he was in tears about the left handed guitar.
This was 48 years ago damnn
When people wonder why Eric Clapton started playing Stratocasters (after playing Les Pauls and SG's) - it was after watching Hendrix.
He also changed his appearance and stage movement at that time because of Jimi. He started wearing a "Jimi" type hairstyle and was kinda doing a swaying kinda move like Jimi. Check out the Strange Brew video.
Eric should have stayed with Gibson, he was explosive, he really changed when he went to Fender. Some artists just sound better with certain brands, like Hendrix and that black and white Flying V, never sounded like he did on a Strat
Different guitar players but both great
Clapton is so generous! 😁👍👍👍
If you didn't know this was Eric, you'd swear it was a blind person.
Speaking from experience, druggie?
@@91dodgespiritrt you seem very angry. Relax, calm down, have a nice cup of tea. Happy New Year 🍾🎉🥳
If Buddy Miles and Billy Cox went with Jimi to London That lineup would have been perfect.
Buddy was annoying,,,thats why Jimi canned him...or went along with it, lol
Aloha from Hawaii 🏝️
😎🤙🎸
If Clapton died in 1970 from drug use after the Dominos album, his legacy would have been completely different. He would have been glorified the way Hendrix is as a bonafide guitar god, no Wonderful Tonight or Tears in Heaven. I suppose that’s the deal he could have made with the devil.
Eric looks cool and so different in here. The voice is still the same though (just lighter)
Clapton is still God.
Yes God.
Clapton was really high.
The birds from Layla chirping in the background
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Eric struggled with his fame Hendrix came with a bomb but Eric was a great musician & huge presence stayed the distance
Yeah because Hendrix died
@@isaacdeeley8698 lol.. dude there was guys that could blow Hendrix off the fucking stage back then.. give ya one name kiddo! Terry Kath..
@@kevinstimelsky673 True. IMO, Jeff Beck was better than Clapton and Hendrix. Kath was off the charts.
@@stevemineer2857 beck learnt to play after 1970... before, he could not even find his own identity.
And even after, we Talk about a guitar player....the other two are also great songwriters and singers
@@pabloperez4063 After Cream, Clapton was boring. Hendrix was a better musical visionary than a guitarist. His skills as a guitarist were limited and he knew it. Beck was the true innovator of those three. It doesn’t matter because EVH blew them all away.
Just finished his autobiography last month....he was drinking to bout Keith Moon at this time....living in Hurtwood Manor with Alice Ormsby
I thought i read Brian Wilson! Only when the vid started and realising jow uncharacteristically cool of brian as he started talking did i reread the title
Jimi Hendrix was definitely the greatest rock guitarist of the 20th century. If I hadn't been told that was Clapton being interviewed I would never have known it was him - totally unrecognisable.
HE WOULDN'T RECOGNIZE YOU EITHER, "MISTER NOBODY" HA, HA
@@91dodgespiritrt Not sure what I said to deserve that smart arsed remark
@@wirefreez At least you earned one thing in your life. ha ha
Rainbow concert in 1973 was Eric's first live performance since august 1971 (the concert for bangladesh) where he almost died of a overdose...
The band was definitely thrown together fast I like the stuff Jimi played bass on myself
Oh , which tracks were these?
@@neeharavi All Along the Watchtower and I suspect the much later stuff like Nightbird Flying and Earth Blues
@@paulcowart3174 I'm pretty sure that Billy handled the bass on those later tracks.
@@adamstevens253 shown to him by Jimi one would 🤔 think and some are so detailed You can tell both men's style Billy's is very deep Jimi's more out there Who knows at this point I just know I like The later bass lines after the first two albums Cheer's and happy new years
@@paulcowart3174 Agreed. The playing on Band of Gypsys and Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge is top notch and funky. I've tried to play the bass intro on Hey Baby;not easy!
It is hard to tell what Eric is on at this point in his life (and in the interview). The date written in the marquee title is "1973", and if this is accurate then it means it was sometime during Clapton's transition from straight heroin to a combination of heavy cocaine use and even heavier alcohol abuse. Eric does a pretty good job covering his tracks, so to speak, in that one can tell that he is on something but unable to tell what it is specifically. Eric has said in many past interviews that he had been using heroin exclusively from the Cream days through Blind Faith, Derek and the Dominoes, and on into his first string of solo recordings (although not his first solo recording). It was sometime during the years 1973-74 that he finally was able to put the smack down for good due to Dr. Meg Patterson's treatment. So, who really knows just what Eric has flowing through his bloodstream during the period of this interview? The fact that he seems fairly lucid and coherent says alot, I would venture to say. Clapton has always been a master interviewee in the sense that he is able to utter a good amount of rhetoric without giving too much away. This specific interview is a good example of what I am referring to...
Great take👍
but like a junky he is lying to grab money on the death of jimi hendrix who he did not know yes he met him but they were not friends like calling each other and chatting hendrix took off in england and then he was gone.
Clapton is bullshitting how many interviews has he grabbed money from talking about hendrix he even once said the basterd left me behind he did not take me with him what bollocks clapton does for money.
@@theprogrammerrolandmc3039 You act as if you know/knew either of them personally. Shut up, man. You sound ridiculous.
@@Jay_Wood i am talking facts
This was probably taken sometime in mid to late 1972 in his heroin era
"We just talked trivia, really" - this is actually a deep observation. True genius just doesn't seem to need inspiration.
Hendrix loved bob Zimmerman.
Very much well all along the watch tower. Bob gave that song to him. Cheers.
He is high as a kite here. The eyes darting about is key. it takes one to know one, lol.
He's caned, for sure.
And the fact that he's incessantly rocking back and forth. Probably on speed or coke lmao
EDIT: just realized that Eric is in fact sitting in a rocking chair, making the rocking seem less insidious
Thought the same thing, too. I think he was still on H at the time.
@@mawtymawty9010 speed for sure
@@dougbennett8592 that would make him appear drunk like, alcohol and heroin both affect the autonomous nervous system it’s more likely a stimulant.
That 2:14 photo, timeless look, dont look dated, Jimi is always right now
High as a kite!
Is this the full interview? Like to see more
Eric Clapton, and jimi hendrix, both on the same gig of Bbq 67
he really looks like Paul McCartney
The mirror is the Devil's back
whats that from? brilliant
I've always thought that cream and JHE were like mirror reflections of eachother
Interesting interview with Eric, which I haven’t seen before. I always thought Jimi’s band could have done with a better bass player... apparently Noel got the gig because Jimi dug his hairstyle lol, but as Eric concluded, “it worked”!
Noel was very very lucky!. Because before Jimi came to Europe (UK) he asked his best friend and fellow musician Billy Cox to come with him. But Billy didn't have the money to travel and wished Hendrix all the best. The rest is history.
Noel wasn’t a bass player to start with . He’d auditioned as guitarist for the new Animals ( he didn’t get the job ) but Chas asked him if he’d sit in on bass for Jimi & the Experience had their bass player. Jimi did say he dug Noel’s hair , think that was a bit of a joke though.
I certainly have no complaints against Noel's bass playing.
Omg, hes Man-E-Faces from Masters of the Universe. 🤗
As much as i love rap id rather have met Jimi than anyone. He was way ahead of his time.
Higher than a kite.
What year was this interview recorded?
I'm like #365 hell yeah!
actor playing young eric clapton
If the chair stops rocking the spiders get him, the spiders
Is this the guitarist from Spinal Tap that went on to write such classics as 'lick my love pump'?...
Seriously!?
I believe this man wrote sex farm
Think he used to be in The Originals
Hahahaha I laughed to hard at luck my love pump
His eyes are on 11, that's for sure.
As others have commented over many videos, there is something very strange going on with Clapton's appearance.
Fucking f by Hendrix. Had to restring everything. Just so easy to see, f blown out of water. 😎
I agree with you 100%.#OBP Bluesman
For us, the history of the world is divided into two distinct parts: BEFORE CHRIST/AFTER CHRIST; while the History of MUSIC can be divided into BEFORE JIMI HENDRIX/AFTER JIMI HENDRIX: JIMI is the most INNOVATIVE and UNREACHABLE guitarist in History: I don't know if subsequent musicians would have managed to reach his SOUND in the studio with the equipment used by him in the YEARS 1966/67/68 and above all I believe that the other guitarists would not have been EVEN CREATIVE having only THREE YEARS of recording activity at their disposal as happened instead for the legendary THE JIMI HENDRIX EXPERIENCE...!!! 🎸☮💔❤
This was from a documentary on Hendrix.
And people say paul mccartney has been replaced
An early ad for Just for Men ? :)
He's still in his twenties here mate.
I think this is his semiretired recluse phase.
the "obligatory hendrix perm" was true story.
Don't like the playing down of the experience going on here, jimi was the man no doubt it's like he had a mysterious purpose of showing everybody what an electric guitar was truly capable of doing, I true gift. The experience was very on point and made it so jimi could do whatever he wanted and he could aways count on them to be there keeping it going, and they really knew how to let him breath
Yeah but he said those were just his initial thoughts, he obviously knows what it became
But can't touch Cream
To all the fans who say that Clapton was better than Jimi this is for you. Eric said it himself Jimi was on another level.