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The auction's winner was the music equipment chain Guitar Center, and the bid set the record for the world's most expensive guitar. In 2006, another Stratocaster—signed by a large group of celebrities, including Clapton—was auctioned to benefit the victims of the 2004 Asian tsunami, selling for US$2.8 million and surpassing Blackie's record.
The Fool is an essential part of what Clapton called the "woman tone", "a sweet sound ... more like the human voice than the guitar". Clapton demonstrated the Woman Tone in a videotaped interview in 1968 included in the BBC movie from their final Royal Albert Hall farewell concerts, using The Fool SG and a Marshall amplifier; he said it is ...
Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English musician, singer, ... Before Eric, guitar playing in England had been Hank Marvin of the Shadows, very ...
A guitar played by British music star Eric Clapton while in rock band Cream has topped a rock ‘n’ roll auction. The 1964 Gibson SG electric guitar sold for 1,270,000 dollars (£1,023,000) to ...
The 71-year-old revealed his condition in an interview with Classic Guitar magazine, saying that he’s 'been in a lot of pain the last year.' Eric Clapton struggling to play guitar because of ...
The guitar appeared on his debut album Eric Clapton where it can be seen on the cover. Its most noteworthy usage can be heard on the Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs album also recorded in 1970. But after 1971, Brownie served as back-up for Clapton's main Fender Stratocaster, Blackie.
Eric Clapton played a range of different Fender and Gibson models while playing in The Yardbirds and Cream.In 1970, for his landmark Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs with Derek and the Dominos, Clapton started using a sunburst 1956 Stratocaster which he later nicknamed Brownie that he had bought in May 1967 while in Cream. [2]
The Crossroads Guitar Festival 2004 is a concert film, released by the British rock musician Eric Clapton. It documents live performances and interviews by various guitar players Clapton admires and is the first official Crossroads Guitar Festival .