No wonder people think it’s so good – because it’s fucking wrong.” Instead of playing on the two and the four, I’m playing on the one and the three and thinking, ‘that’s the off beat’. But most of that solo is on the wrong beat. Yet the man himself has never understood the idolatry for the performance, telling Guitar World: “I’ve always had that held up as like, ‘this is one of the great landmarks of guitar playing’. It shows Clapton’s effortless ability to improvise endlessly creative, musical solos with intensity and finesse. Especially Crossroads"Īlmost certainly using his 'Fool’ SG through Marshalls, he orchestrates a psychedelic take on the blues that builds relentlessly from its restrained hybrid-picked intro to the dizzy heights of its wild outro, mixing major and minor modes and showing off his full repertoire of bends, doublestops, triplet licks and fluid phrasing along the way. ![]() (Image credit: Christie Goodwin/Redferns)Įric Clapton: "I actually have about zero tolerance for most of my old material.
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