So true. You could not have stated it in a better way. The sound track of our lives. Awesome😊. I will remember those words. It feels so good starting the day listening to Eric. Just like so many other days in my life. He got me hooked back in ‘74. What a gift
When he plays blues....he is on another level, he plays the guitar like we eat, but playing the blues....this man goes somewhere very special. Thank you Eric Clapton.
oh now thats a big thumbs up.You take the words right out my mouth.Its not a sad song, but i cry.Bc, yeah, this guy is somthing special.He just goes into another planet when it comes to the blues.Its so intense
"This man goes some place very special" is very well said, and tells the reader that the man who said it has a special place he goes all his own; I can say that because I found mine back in '68 and go there often, and the best of all is it's my white Strat that takes me there.
Clapton went stratospheric and slapped the gods of guitar in the face with that solo, dropped the mic flicked the bird and asked where's the next level!! Simply on another level!!!
It was for me too. I remember picking up the cd back in '94 when it came out. I was 15 years old and really getting in to blues and lead guitar. I still love that album to this day and listen to it regularly. I also remember having a vhs of this rehearsal session and watching it until it wore out....
@@flurkin go listen to the new live album he dropped from the 94 live sessions. Nothing but the Blues. It’s even more incredible. Just unreal guitar playing.
Io passeggiava in una stradina secondaria, dagli Speaker diun negozio di dischi arrivava del blues, sono entrato e ho detto voglio il CD che state suonando. Era From the Cradle. 1995 Ho visto il tour a Roma.
Clapton's blistering performance on "Five Long Years" absolutely cements any claims to "Master of the Stratocaster" and provides new definitions to style, speed, endurance, musicianship and what an "old man" can do with a killer white Strat.
Thank you Eric. When you're feeling the blues, you play the most gorgeous, soul-stirring licks on guitar - bar none. And ever since Delaney and Bonnie convinced you that you should sing more, you've only gotten better and better. A marvelous compliment to your playing. This is why you've been my musical idol since The Bluesbreakers days.
Jesus h christ....I dont know where this is at or what got into Eric clapton on this night but holy fuck it's on fire. This fuckin guy didnt miss a single note in all that guitar chaos...it was like he was stepping on and off hot coals . You talk about being" in the zone "..... I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I've never seen him be so immersed in something before I saw this. This is why wood and electricity were invented....has to be.
I listen to this, wait 5 long minutes, do it all over again, usually, for about 5 long hours~ Lord, no one hits those licks like the one and only ~Slowhand ~ In my humble opinion ~
My vote for the absolute best guitar solo of all time. Most mortal guitarists would have been satisfied with the first part of the solo. Not Eric. He kicked it up two notches from there, and then ......two notches from THERE. Masterful!
@@stevenschwarz6317 I'll have to disagree. Buddy Guy's version is a little too contrived and over the top for me. I guess that's why they make chocolate and vanilla, eh?
Not to disrespect calling it "best" but man oh man, there's a particular version of Let It Rain -- and this is very, very important: not the Clapton album version, nor any version on a Clapton album; the Derek and the Dominoes In Concert album song, Let It Rain. Not the dogshit rerelease of that album either, called "Live At the Fillmore". The Derek and the Dominoes In Concert album song, Let It Rain, the 1973 release only. If that doesn't change your vote, at least you can now say so with a clear conscience! Because if it exceeds THAT song's solos it must be the top of the mountain.
Saw Clapton several times ,the Blues show was probably the best show I ever saw followed by 70$ shows Foghat and Led Zeppelin...Eric brought it and left every speck on the stage.. truly Spectacular
Saw him at House of Blues French Quarter New Orleans on this tour. Epic shit, only time I’ve seen him and I don’t need to ever see him again. Just a fierce show…
Indeed, and the version in C of this, as the one from Budokan in 2001, is even more aggressive, because he sings in a higher key. I still remember being astonished on the first time I watched it.
Ho-lee-sh-t... Eric Clapton is always at the very top tier of guitar playing, but seems even HE Has times where he is really in the zone. Wow. His singing on this tune is awesome too. He made his voice growl at a level to match his guitar work. Straight from the heart and soul.
I started playing guitar back in '68 when I heard Cream on the radio. I thought it would be cool if I could learn to play and sound like that. Well, all these years I've been playing and STILL wish I could sound like that!!
im throwing all my guitars away.. after this there is not more.. LOL.. been playing licks since I was 14 and then cream came on the scene.. Im still in awe.. still trying. but nothing compares to this man.. im over 70 and this guy still reigns supreme.. OK.. there are a few other close and if you put Eric and Keith together.. Id have to listen for an hour to pick a fav.. different but genius none the less. But what a great hour. LOL
Don’t forget Jimi and Duane. Both gone at 27 and 24. What music would be if they were still around. Eric was never the same after they died. He got on heavy drugs and he stop pushing himself.
@@brandonparish5229 I am civil.. I just figure if you look at what he does, what he has accomplished.. He has continued to push boundries and him self for many many years..
As a side note, I saw Clapton years ago in Sacramento (when the Arco arena was still the Arco arena) and it was all good; it was here in the middle of the show when he strapped on "Blackie" and he launched into "Have You Ever Loved.a Woman" (being a slow, hot, electric blues---always my personal forte and my favorite style. Tell me there's a slow blues jam and I am there!). From "Derek and the Dominos" onward Clapton has never done that song wrong once he got his hooks into it and all but burned the arena down! Hell, Clapton got the place rockin' so hot my eyebrows were singed! That was such a salient moment in my life as both a consumer and an old blues guy, I will never forget neither that night and that moment, when Clapton set his Marshall to "Burn"!
@@markzuelch7452 Though I spent a big chunk of my life in Sacramento I was always on the road, train or plane to somewhere because of the slave labor I did for work. I missed his playing there, as well as -- despite driving an old VW Bus -- the Grateful Dead. When my sudden retirement came for medical reasons, a woman taught me that song for real. After I tried to drink myself to death, I bought an old Triumph motorcycle, discovered real Blues music, and became an animaI for it at every bar & club around the area. You know the drill.
Clapton in "Five Long Years", just as with "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" absolutely defines slow electric blues...and if you ever find yourself in the position to join in, be prepared to deliver or go home!
Slucham i obserwuje E. Claptona od b.dawna.Ktos kiedys napial E Clapton jest Bogiem .To musial byc porok.Od the Yardbyrs do pozniejdxych dokonan chocby Crime i inne.Najlepszy.
EXACTLY!!! Thats a staple statement that alot of people say when comparing cream clapton compared to solo Clapton.As far as im concerned, hes always been in his prime, always evolving! also.Clapton is more about soulful playing not going a million miles an hour, but this video shows he can if he wants.And hes still precise as a mofo haha.Tons of clapton god solos but man he tears this one up something fierce! And i absolutley love how he almsot cat still still, moving his legs, hes feeling this so much
Respectfully Disagree-alcohol impaired him massivley thru the mid 70/80s, he has admitted it himself.Although he did release a few decent radio hits..He got clean and then tears/cradle happened.Some of his best playing ever.
I have heard & seen just about every recording & video of this song by both writer & original performer Eddie Boyd and Eric Clapton. This is without a doubt the best version. There is one by Boyd where he slightly alters the words in a couple of places which in that way make it better, but I wish Clapton would do a cover of it. You can't play & sing Blues like he does unless you've got that fire deep, down in your soul.
Eric’s the greatest guitarist ever!!!!
Can't hear this enough. He sings the hell out of it too. Thanks Mr. Clapton for all you've given us over the years. the soundtrack of our lives.
😊He is awesome by far , an this song 😢brings tears to my eyes
Bcuz my ex husband locked me out
Of his home yrs ago 😂
So true. You could not have stated it in a better way. The sound track of our lives. Awesome😊. I will remember those words. It feels so good starting the day listening to Eric. Just like so many other days in my life. He got me hooked back in ‘74. What a gift
When he plays blues....he is on another level, he plays the guitar like we eat, but playing the blues....this man goes somewhere very special. Thank you Eric Clapton.
oh now thats a big thumbs up.You take the words right out my mouth.Its not a sad song, but i cry.Bc, yeah, this guy is somthing special.He just goes into another planet when it comes to the blues.Its so intense
@@EC_IS_Here it's the blues, the blues take Eric some where very special. No one comes close playing the blues like EC
You can see that in his body language!
And this is why we can feel something everytime he plays the blues
"This man goes some place very special" is very well said, and tells the reader that the man who said it has a special place he goes all his own; I can say that because I found mine back in '68 and go there often, and the best of all is it's my white Strat that takes me there.
When he goes beast-mode.. he’s unbeatable.
Eric was on a mission on this! Astounding talent...
From the early 90’s, maybe 93-94 when he was totally clean and back into his roots. Some of his best playing
He reset himself..
but added in life experience.
Just phenomenal
Clapton went stratospheric and slapped the gods of guitar in the face with that solo, dropped the mic flicked the bird and asked where's the next level!! Simply on another level!!!
The Buddy Guy influence on Clapton's solo is striking.
From the Cradle is a life changing blues album. If you haven’t listened to it, please do. You’ll thank me.
Was for me
Life changing… best way to describe it!
It was for me too. I remember picking up the cd back in '94 when it came out. I was 15 years old and really getting in to blues and lead guitar. I still love that album to this day and listen to it regularly. I also remember having a vhs of this rehearsal session and watching it until it wore out....
@@flurkin go listen to the new live album he dropped from the 94 live sessions. Nothing but the Blues. It’s even more incredible. Just unreal guitar playing.
Io passeggiava in una stradina secondaria, dagli Speaker diun negozio di dischi arrivava del blues, sono entrato e ho detto voglio il CD che state suonando. Era From the Cradle. 1995 Ho visto il tour a Roma.
Clapton's blistering performance on "Five Long Years" absolutely cements any claims to "Master of the Stratocaster" and provides new definitions to style, speed, endurance, musicianship and what an "old man" can do with a killer white Strat.
Dream guitar. Which i eventually got.
Virtuozitate pura magnifica. Gaby Statescu Gabriel
If you can't feel it, it's not Blues. This is REAL Blues Power played Right!!!!!
Clapton is on a cosmic level, the highest there is.
There are very few players that can match his level of playing the blues like this--just magnificent.
Listen to the same song with Steve Marriott.
He was clearly born to play the blues! His playing was out of this world and his voice was superb. One of my favorite songs
Well said! Total agreement!
Yes he was 🦋🎹🦋
Goosebumps....................every time.
Thank you Eric. When you're feeling the blues, you play the most gorgeous, soul-stirring licks on guitar - bar none. And ever since Delaney and Bonnie convinced you that you should sing more, you've only gotten better and better. A marvelous compliment to your playing. This is why you've been my musical idol since The Bluesbreakers days.
This is the true Clapton and his Music, not the Pop or Mainstream he did for many years. Play the Blues Man....😊
Damn Clapton is really feeling it in this
Clapton influenced my guitar playing big time!
Probably one of if not the greatest blues guitarist of all time
I say yes.Freddie King is up there to but Eric just is another level I feel
Best sound I ever heard coming from Eric's guitar and amp combo !
Jesus h christ....I dont know where this is at or what got into Eric clapton on this night but holy fuck it's on fire. This fuckin guy didnt miss a single note in all that guitar chaos...it was like he was stepping on and off hot coals .
You talk about being" in the zone "..... I'm gonna go out on a limb and say I've never seen him be so immersed in something before I saw this.
This is why wood and electricity were invented....has to be.
Totally agree followed him for years but there is something special about this performance. Off the scale unreal.
@@fuzzywuzzy4193 couldn't agree more. 👍😃
Wow absolute class what an awesome tune
EC in the blues zone. Nothing better.
This man is so good at what he do .Eric clapton.
ÉPICO!! Sensacional!! Pura guitar blues !! Amo Clapton.
This rendition blows it out of the Park
Gods favorite guitarist
Here again after seeing the Nothing But the Blues promo...broke so many strings playing along to this. Let's do it again!
He's on fire !!!! hurts my fingers just to see him play... wooow maann
He's a Hollywood actor
Knebworth 1990.
Taste of things to come.
Purple patch 🏆
Beautiful 😊love you eric for ever❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Passion,talent and fury are in the air
wow mind bowing superb performance!!!!!
The best artist alive
La vie privée d'Éric Clapton ne regarde que lui, merci pour toutes ces années de plaisir que vous nous avez offert et qui continue encore
I listen to this, wait 5 long minutes, do it all over again, usually, for about 5 long hours~ Lord, no one hits those licks like the one and only ~Slowhand ~ In my humble opinion ~
My vote for the absolute best guitar solo of all time. Most mortal guitarists would have been satisfied with the first part of the solo. Not Eric. He kicked it up two notches from there, and then ......two notches from THERE. Masterful!
the buddy guy version is better
@@stevenschwarz6317 I'll have to disagree. Buddy Guy's version is a little too contrived and over the top for me. I guess that's why they make chocolate and vanilla, eh?
@@joeydupre6153 And why they have everything in between.
Not to disrespect calling it "best" but man oh man, there's a particular version of Let It Rain -- and this is very, very important: not the Clapton album version, nor any version on a Clapton album; the Derek and the Dominoes In Concert album song, Let It Rain. Not the dogshit rerelease of that album either, called "Live At the Fillmore". The Derek and the Dominoes In Concert album song, Let It Rain, the 1973 release only.
If that doesn't change your vote, at least you can now say so with a clear conscience! Because if it exceeds THAT song's solos it must be the top of the mountain.
@@Bill_Woo I found it and listened to it. Five Long Years is still the best for me. I'm a pretty hard core blues type of guy.
Much respect for Eric's efforts to dig himself out of that deep addiction hole and then spend millions helping others.
march 30, 2022/ 00:02 GMT, happy birthday eric clapton
Absolutely on FIRE!!!!!!
Eric on fire
Clapton the best blues guitar player in the world of all times!!
Just electrifying!!
The greatest!
Superb .🙏👌👌👌👌👍👍👍👏👏👏
Unreal.
I wish I could whip out my memory and listen to this for the first time .
I saw this tour when Eric came through the Midwest. He was at his formidable best.
Eric Clapton is an awesome blues player I just love his music.
Never saw a video like this one! He play the blues with his soul!
Sounds so awesome. My goodness. I agree next woman is gonna work and bring me the dough.
❤eric
Amazing clapton's performance makes guitar cry!!
Great drummer!
Saw Clapton several times ,the Blues show was probably the best show I ever saw followed by 70$ shows Foghat and Led Zeppelin...Eric brought it and left every speck on the stage.. truly Spectacular
The best Clapton I have ever seen...🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Saw him at House of Blues French Quarter New Orleans on this tour. Epic shit, only time I’ve seen him and I don’t need to ever see him again. Just a fierce show…
So awesome love ERIC 💘
That was EPIC!!!!
his tone, his vibraton and phrasing ..eric is the best blues guitar player in the history of blues
This is one of the few songs on which Eric still gets so aggressive with his guitar and singing.
Indeed, and the version in C of this, as the one from Budokan in 2001, is even more aggressive, because he sings in a higher key. I still remember being astonished on the first time I watched it.
Check out his cover of another Blues classic called "Someday Afterwhile".
"slow hand" my a**.... man still can jam
Legend.
King Eric. thanks for the vid!
So much emotion and feeling channeling through to that instrument. Few have mastered the ability.
Ho-lee-sh-t... Eric Clapton is always at the very top tier of guitar playing, but seems even HE Has times where he is really in the zone. Wow. His singing on this tune is awesome too. He made his voice growl at a level to match his guitar work. Straight from the heart and soul.
Seems as he is singing from jail claiming for his innocence
If there was ever a better way to say it, I have yet to come across it. Thanks bro.
And to think that he went into isolation for a year in his Cream days to "learn how to sing blues".
This video is so great. He was just SO locked in.
Been a fan of clapton for 35yrs and I'm still learning off him wtf!!!!
well thats bc hes the god
I started playing guitar back in '68 when I heard Cream on the radio. I thought it would be cool if I could learn to play and sound like that. Well, all these years I've been playing and STILL wish I could sound like that!!
im throwing all my guitars away.. after this there is not more.. LOL.. been playing licks since I was 14 and then cream came on the scene.. Im still in awe.. still trying. but nothing compares to this man.. im over 70 and this guy still reigns supreme.. OK.. there are a few other close and if you put Eric and Keith together.. Id have to listen for an hour to pick a fav.. different but genius none the less. But what a great hour. LOL
Don’t forget Jimi and Duane. Both gone at 27 and 24. What music would be if they were still around. Eric was never the same after they died. He got on heavy drugs and he stop pushing himself.
@@brandonparish5229 He stopped pushing himself???? as in drive to work??????? Really.. LOL.. where you been the last 45 years..
@@chinto50 let’s keep it civil here. I’m just sayin i think his attitude changed once they died. Things changed. Not sure you can argue that.
@@brandonparish5229 I am civil.. I just figure if you look at what he does, what he has accomplished.. He has continued to push boundries and him self for many many years..
I had to tune in.
You are”Yessirsir at everything you do I love it when you sing the blues
Real Blues Done the Right Way! BLUES POWER!!!!!
As a side note, I saw Clapton years ago in Sacramento (when the Arco arena was still the Arco arena) and it was all good; it was here in the middle of the show when he strapped on "Blackie" and he launched into "Have You Ever Loved.a Woman" (being a slow, hot, electric blues---always my personal forte and my favorite style. Tell me there's a slow blues jam and I am there!). From "Derek and the Dominos" onward Clapton has never done that song wrong once he got his hooks into it and all but burned the arena down! Hell, Clapton got the place rockin' so hot my eyebrows were singed!
That was such a salient moment in my life as both a consumer and an old blues guy, I will never forget neither that night and that moment, when Clapton set his Marshall to "Burn"!
@@markzuelch7452
Though I spent a big chunk of my life in Sacramento I was always on the road, train or plane to somewhere because of the slave labor I did for work. I missed his playing there, as well as -- despite driving an old VW Bus -- the Grateful Dead. When my sudden retirement came for medical reasons, a woman taught me that song for real. After I tried to drink myself to death, I bought an old Triumph motorcycle, discovered real Blues music, and became an animaI for it at every bar & club around the area. You know the drill.
Clapton in "Five Long Years", just as with "Have You Ever Loved a Woman" absolutely defines slow electric blues...and if you ever find yourself in the position to join in, be prepared to deliver or go home!
Merci à vous monsieur et aussi à votre superbe groupe Merci et bisous à vous tous
SMOKIN'!!
Slucham i obserwuje E. Claptona od b.dawna.Ktos kiedys napial E Clapton jest Bogiem .To musial byc porok.Od the Yardbyrs do pozniejdxych dokonan chocby Crime i inne.Najlepszy.
I'm not in habit of crying when rock stars die but I know when Eric ill be crying huge tears 😢
The GOAT
Don't ever tell me Eric Clapton never played another soulful note after Cream dispanded.
EXACTLY!!! Thats a staple statement that alot of people say when comparing cream clapton compared to solo Clapton.As far as im concerned, hes always been in his prime, always evolving!
also.Clapton is more about soulful playing not going a million miles an hour, but this video shows he can if he wants.And hes still precise as a mofo haha.Tons of clapton god solos but man he tears this one up something fierce! And i absolutley love how he almsot cat still still, moving his legs, hes feeling this so much
This concert is one of my very favorites.
he didnt for 20plus years and then from the cradle sessions happened
@@richat1691 nah, he did it his whole career imo.He imo is the one guy who absolutley never stopped his whole career
Respectfully Disagree-alcohol impaired him massivley thru the mid 70/80s, he has admitted it himself.Although he did release a few decent radio hits..He got clean and then tears/cradle happened.Some of his best playing ever.
E.C. is on FIRE!!!!
More Eric, more!❤❤
All I can say is " Beat that ".
Eric at his Best 💖💖💖
At his best
Beautiful
Clapton salvaje ese día
I have heard & seen just about every recording & video of this song by both writer & original performer Eddie Boyd and Eric Clapton. This is without a doubt the best version. There is one by Boyd where he slightly alters the words in a couple of places which in that way make it better, but I wish Clapton would do a cover of it. You can't play & sing Blues like he does unless you've got that fire deep, down in your soul.
It is amazing but the SNL performance (same tour/year) believe it or not, takes it another step above
Jesus christ that solo towards the end was nuts
Master craftsman!
I love youuuu...
Hendrix disse....
" Só toco na Inglaterra se conhecer Eric Clapton ....
All said
Pocas veces vi en escenario disfrutar sintiendo tanto un tema, debió ser importante para el, le pone mucha intencion e intensidad
Yeah !!!!!
CLAPTON IS GOD
❤
Love it❤
Jesus. Guitar god
The nurse is on her way
No more time to play
But there is always
Tomorrow
The next
The best
Rest in between
God himself is smiling.
UN DIEU CE CLAPTON