Clapton and hendrix were the only two who could suspend time on the fretboard between hammer on pulloffs and bends no one has ever come close to them no one
He damn sure wrote most of the book on how it's done. No showy bs and no wasted notes. HUGE fan for 40 years now. If he has a new release, I get it. If he plays somewhere I can get to I am there!
Eric Clapton's solos in this live version of "After Midnight" just make me swoon. Steve Winwood and Clapton playing this live version of this song is one of the top five songs EVER.
Eric Clapton und Stevie Winwood ist ein Dreamteem . Beide spielen immer am Besten, wenn sie zusammenspielen !!! Ich habe nie verstanden , warum sie nicht dauerhaft in einer Band spielen , wie die Rolling Stones!!!
These two guys are on. Fire Eric is simply the best blues guitar player ever. Period. Great Style. He has an unbelievable sense of memory and attention . Uses the tone and volume at the precise time. One Reason His hands and fingers are big so he can hit notes with ease and never misses any. Plays every single note. No short cuts, No blends , Nothing unadulterated. And learned to play by just having patience and listening carefully. No Lessons. The guy is Unbelievable!!
They bring out the cool in each other. Am so grateful for concerts recorded for posterity ... Clapton's Blind Faith reunion with Winwood & his Cream reunion with Jack Bruce, even Ginger Baker.
I'll find my way back to you girl, lonely and blue, mistreated to. Sometimes I think of you girl, is it true that you think of me too? I wore out many cassette tapes playing this. I would plug in my guitar and jamb with the whole album.
The great thing about this version (and I've seen it 1,000 times now, it seems) is the speed of the song. It's fast - very fast. When you see the bass player smiling broadly at the beginning, it's almost as if he's saying, "Really? This is going to be the tempo?" The laughing by the entire band at the end confirms it. What a blistering version of a song that, quite frankly, wasn't much of a favorite of mine, but has since become one because of this version.
You just know a live performance is gonna be good when everybody, including Clapton and Winwood and the entire fucking band, are smiling and having a good time. That's what it's all about, my friend!
I much prefer the 'slower version' that Clapton released later in his career. IMHO, it has a much sexier groove which more closely fits the message in the song. (versus "sexy" from the perspective of someone high on coke? lol) Having said that, based on the 'fast versions' I've enjoyed when I seeing Claption in concert & the version in this video, I will say that the live 'fast version' does sound much better than the 'fast version' recorded in the studio. :)
+Crunch Voodoolounge It's like listening to one-half of Blind Faith from the days of yore, and could we ask for more? Do the young people realize that they're listening to a legend? A guitar god? Someone who is incomparable as far as playing the guitar is concerned? This is a perfect example of becoming one with your instrument. We're not worthy...
I really enjoy this faster version. EC and SW must really enjoyed themselves together. This is the most I've ever seen EC smile at a concert. He usually looks like he just wants to get it over with. In all of these videos from this concert he and SW are smiling and even laughing. It is nice to see. I would have loved to see this concert. I've always been a big fan of both.
Wow! Great songs can often be interpreted in many different ways. Although J.J. Cale's own versions of this put me into a happy trance, I really love this performance too. :-)
This is not a Clapton song. It is JJ Cale's ,one of the most underrated guitar players/song writers ever. He also wrote Cocaine, They Call Me The Breeze, The Same Old Blues Again. He has an album with Clapton The Road To Escondido. .
noobi core ye man,you're right, Clapton, and so many other Brits took the blues from JJ Cale and from, other blues masters like BB King and changed the ritm before they sold it to the world like it was there own music. is this justified I wonder, and wonder everyday!
....and J.J. Cale learned the blues from Africans who needed to sing the blues because they were enslaved, used, and abused by white Brit settlers & the many generations of fervently-racist Americans that followed. And when blues & blues-rock hit the mainstream, the white-dominated music industry & white musicians enjoyed big-time paydays, and not many of them did much to reward the poverty-stricken blues greats they had been ripping-off. So Ali, the real story is not about "Americans" versus "Brits" or any other of form patriotic bullsh*t. If you feel the need to take a historical perspective of the blues & any injustices that should bother people, you should be talking about decades of cultural appropriation of/profiteering by 'white America', ie. The theft of an authentic art form & music born out of racial oppressiion against African-Americans - an opprression that was perpetrated by white-America. (note: not all musicians & corporate management 'used' black artists or 'ripped-off' the blacks...for example, Eric Clapton has always acknowledged his sources of inspiration...but I would suggest that a significant percentage of the music industry did, especially during the 50s, 60s, and 70s.)
Derek Baker + are you crazy? These guutar players practiced night and day to play like this also channeled music from angels lost souls in the spirit world. The songs are from one ancient soul to their astral traveling time traveling lovers who jilted them. After midnight is when they turn their bodies over to entities that tricked them into believing they wrote their songs. They create portals on stage and allow many spirits to flow into their bodies to keep up tgat pace. At some point the spirit tgat wrote the songs shows up and the musician is no longer in control. Somcne else is driving the car. Ancient souls wrote the blues. Celestial spirits that are still on a spinning wheel ride in the sky to be sent off in another direction next time they show up to take acchance on finding their first love. Dig it? Selah!
@@derekbaker3279 I can’t argue your point brother you are very well educated on life and how it exists but I’ve always heard the Brit’s give full acknowledgment at least the ones I like to the blues from the U S they may not recognize it far enough back but they do give credit and to further your point I hate the fact that slavery ever existed it’s a dark spot on this world but I do know that our first form of air conditioning was a front porch built by slaves for their own homes and the white man loved the idea so much he had them build him one and so on you are a very well spoken individual sorry that I am not but I appreciate your educating me on this bc I myself didn’t know all of that god love you
Why did they ever split up? They are two halfs of a whole and compliment each other so beautifully! My two favorite musicians who never should have quit playing together. I've seen Clapton in concert but it is on my bucket list to see them play together again. Just tell me where and when!!
This is one of the best bands i have heard Eric play with. Why? Well they dont try to do anything else than back Eric but MY GOD this number swings...:-)
I saw this show in June of 2009, I think it was ,in Glendale Az. Front fuckling Row left Center by 1 seat, What a great fond Memory and yes, = I Was the One With Binoculars, the Big ones, = In the First Fucking Row, I Love You Eric My hero on guitar =+_ I do all these particular songs live on stage at every fucking gigs I do and have since 1979. With lots of Proud Pride and Enthusiasm plus as a really good solid guitar player representing the Master Players Period.. = ............. We Worked nightly 5 nights a week in a local bar and we Packed the Dance Floor Doing my Job Well As A Band in a Bar trying To Just Make The Cash register Ring And The Owner Makes a Profitb better Than The Last 5 Bands Etc. = = " Yeppers We Were That Band" And Still Am, = if my phone rings =I book The gigs = the Pandemic Messed with all of us but it, is 2024 AND I AM BACK, = "READY "TO PLay" = Now with My "Blue Corral Band" live and in color so to speak. = Cool Baby Cool" ... = = = =- == ==Eric is a = A Dispenser Of Wisdom On Guitar In his Craft = To ME, = Period Plus, = he is the I tell You = he, = Heck, you all know this already don't you. = i Only Hope And Pray Daily That one DAY Yea, = One Day Sir Eric Calls = Me up o n the phone or however he reaches me live and in person so to speak, = & Says "hey Mike, = You still want To Jam For LITTLE BIT?????????????????.. = OH L ORD = YES I DO>< DO < DO< I DO DO DFO . = Mike Her in Phoenix, Az. The Land OF "The Hot"= Stay Safe & Healthy,"=Everyone"=Miike..
Eric Clapton + Steve Winwood = Sheer perfection.
I went to a show from this tour so many great songs from both of them Voodoo Chile was really good
Great version, Magic Eric 🎸🎸🎸💖💖💖
There'll never b a guitarist like Eric Clapton...hes the GREATEST...i could watch his videos 24 /7 .
Count me in!
U right
Clapton and hendrix were the only two who could suspend time on the fretboard between hammer on pulloffs and bends no one has ever come close to them no one
He damn sure wrote most of the book on how it's done. No showy bs and no wasted notes. HUGE fan for 40 years now. If he has a new release, I get it. If he plays somewhere I can get to I am there!
Blistering pace....that look on the bassist's face at the beginning - "so this is where we're going...ok then" priceless
Eric....this solo made me goosebumps
They look like two former math- and biology teachers, but they make the best music ever. Don't know who to choose, am in love with both.
Master of the hammond
Great bassist in this band.
Best Version Great Eric and Steve!!
Eric Clapton's solos in this live version of "After Midnight" just make me swoon. Steve Winwood and Clapton playing this live version of this song is one of the top five songs EVER.
The solo at the end being backed by Winwood sent me to another planet. People who don't like old style Rock N' Roll really miss out.
My absolutely favorite version! These two have such a mutual respect that they push each other to musical genius levels!
Never heard him better than this , on fire altogether
People wouldn't know what they like. They're all brainwashed now but we still rock on.
@@davenorris5734 saw that tour, this doesn't do it justice
Love this version 😘😘👍👍👍👋👋👋👋👋👋👋❤️❤️❤️❤️
This Version Is Absolutely Brilliant!👍👍😃😃😺😺 Steve & Eric Were Born To Play Together!
Love him collaborating with Steve Winwood MSG LIVE IS AWESOME
Love it when Eric smiles at the end of After Midnight ‼️
Steve too. They both know that something amazing just happened.
Eric Clapton und Stevie Winwood ist ein Dreamteem . Beide spielen immer am Besten, wenn sie zusammenspielen !!! Ich habe nie verstanden , warum sie nicht dauerhaft in einer Band spielen , wie die Rolling Stones!!!
Clapton can't help but dance as hes soloing .. hes feels his music so much.. hes the best!
This was fire! They shook the world by coming together that night, in my honest opinion. *Thank you!*
I could listen to Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood play together until hell freezes over. The Cream reunion at St. Albert's Hall was epic, too.
They've been doing it since Blind Faith days in 1969. That's an amazingly long friendship and a tribute to their natures.
Nobody said "this is fire"! Back then either.
@@TheMick777777 You mean you said that this is fire?
Not to forget the fabulous drummer!
These two guys are on. Fire Eric is simply the best blues guitar player ever. Period. Great Style. He has an unbelievable sense of memory and attention .
Uses the tone and volume at the precise time. One Reason His hands and fingers are big so he can hit notes with ease and never misses any. Plays every single note. No short cuts, No blends , Nothing unadulterated. And learned to play by just having patience and listening carefully. No Lessons. The guy is Unbelievable!!
... agree ray... this might be a perfect storm of artists and song... beautiful to look into isn't it...
You said it, Brother Ray.
A real guitar man!
Clapton guitar playing and Winwood voice, amazing.
Steve is amazing with Eric.
Just amazingly good.This is real music kids!!!!
Steve and Eric SO FANTASTIC TOGETHER 👍👍👍🎼🎙🎹
Eric Clapton the Master. He just blows your mind away. Doesn't matter what he plays it is sure to be UNbelievable. Just love him.
... TWO OF THE BLOODY GREATEST EJOYING WORKING TOGETHER AGAIN .... GOD BLESS ....
Smoking version! What a great duo and a great band.
I enjoyed that tremendously!
A chaque fois j'en ai des frissons, le sourire du bassiste et quel solo !!🤩🤩
AWESSOME!
Masterpiece
Amongst the few people in this world
Excellent- (great drummer).
Cerph the drummer is real good. Who is he. ?
Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood playing together still brings tears to my eyes, they're so fucking perfect together.
+Tigger Too ... ditto
2 awesome legends of classic rock. winwood is cool as hell just as much as eric :)
They bring out the cool in each other. Am so grateful for concerts recorded for posterity ... Clapton's Blind Faith reunion with Winwood & his Cream reunion with Jack Bruce, even Ginger Baker.
Ab-SO-lutely. Two masters, growing old gracefully, and ROCKING the joint! Long live all these guys.
enjoy while you can......things like this won't happen much anymore with legends like this.
EPIC. !!! Two Gods ... !!! All my RESPECT !!!
Great performance by Clapton.After Midnight and Cocaine were written and performed by JJ Cale another great artist
SUPER
For real, we are not fucking WORTHY. Eric Clapton is the Guitar God, forever and ever, no doubt about it. I bow down...
Great version !!
one of the best live performances i've ever seen
Fender MAN SLOW HAND ... Eric Clapton ☀️☀️☀️🙏🏽🙏🏽⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Amazing performance and lets hear it for Willy Weeks on Bass 👏👏👏😎
the looks on their faces says everything!!!
I discovered both Eric and Winwood about the same time...didn't realize how rich it made me back when I was just a kid.
This is so much better than the albumversion
I prefer just one night, s
So much energy with this one
So good, so good, so good!
Great drummer
Saw him play this in my home town of tulsa when he toured with the great muddy waters what a show
God given talent.😇🙏🙌💛🤍❤😎
Coolest performance.
There's no perfection! But this is perfect!!!
If we could turn down the organ a 40 x 100
Amen. Clapton is sublime.
this is spot on, best I've ever heard.
If he EVER COME TO THE USA IM GOING
Amazing!
Grande Eric......👌👌👏🥃
I'll find my way back to you girl, lonely and blue, mistreated to. Sometimes I think of you girl, is it true that you think of me too? I wore out many cassette tapes playing this. I would plug in my guitar and jamb with the whole album.
The best video of this song out there - thank you
Eric Clapton playing with JJ Cale's toys is a must-see.
Hands down the best after midnight version!
There are so many.....
No one comes over JJ Cale no one
The Master was allways the best
The great thing about this version (and I've seen it 1,000 times now, it seems) is the speed of the song. It's fast - very fast. When you see the bass player smiling broadly at the beginning, it's almost as if he's saying, "Really? This is going to be the tempo?" The laughing by the entire band at the end confirms it. What a blistering version of a song that, quite frankly, wasn't much of a favorite of mine, but has since become one because of this version.
You just know a live performance is gonna be good when everybody, including Clapton and Winwood and the entire fucking band, are smiling and having a good time. That's what it's all about, my friend!
P.S. The fast version of "After Midnight" is the BEST.
I much prefer the 'slower version' that Clapton released later in his career. IMHO, it has a much sexier groove which more closely fits the message in the song. (versus "sexy" from the perspective of someone high on coke? lol)
Having said that, based on the 'fast versions' I've enjoyed when I seeing Claption in concert & the version in this video, I will say that the live 'fast version' does sound much better than the 'fast version' recorded in the studio. :)
Willie Weeks laying it down on bass!!
This way faster version is so much better than the laid back one from album from 70's. I noticed the bass players smile, too. More fun.
fantastic....like old days...yea
+Crunch Voodoolounge It's like listening to one-half of Blind Faith from the days of yore, and could we ask for more? Do the young people realize that they're listening to a legend? A guitar god? Someone who is incomparable as far as playing the guitar is concerned? This is a perfect example of becoming one with your instrument. We're not worthy...
+Tigger Too ... a big ditto
Crunch Voodoolounge
besides the obvious mastery is Chris Stainton on piano, another Beast and he is bringin it! this setup defines " Super Group"
Does it need any other words than..WOW! ?
Clapton is God... And Winwod too... Oh yeeeaaah!!!!
what fun. what talent. what music by the best musicians you could imagine
Would have loved to be at this concert 😎👍✌❤
best version
I really enjoy this faster version. EC and SW must really enjoyed themselves together. This is the most I've ever seen EC smile at a concert. He usually looks like he just wants to get it over with. In all of these videos from this concert he and SW are smiling and even laughing. It is nice to see. I would have loved to see this concert. I've always been a big fan of both.
Taya C c
Wow! Great songs can often be interpreted in many different ways. Although J.J. Cale's own versions of this put me into a happy trance, I really love this performance too. :-)
debo decir que es un Grande Eric Clapton ..brilla y brilla..uno de los mejores guitarristas y compositor..un genioooo!! todas sus canciones encantan
Quel virtuose! Le solo est terrifiant
brilliant... fantastic bass
AWESOME!
Let's rock and roll after Midnight 😁😁😁😁😍🤩😍🤩😍🤩😀😀😀!!!!!
This is not a Clapton song. It is JJ Cale's ,one of the most underrated guitar players/song writers ever. He also wrote Cocaine, They Call Me The Breeze, The Same Old Blues Again. He has an album with Clapton The Road To Escondido. .
noobi core ye man,you're right, Clapton, and so many other Brits took the blues from JJ Cale and from, other blues masters like BB King and changed the ritm before they sold it to the world like it was there own music. is this justified I wonder, and wonder everyday!
....and J.J. Cale learned the blues from Africans who needed to sing the blues because they were enslaved, used, and abused by white Brit settlers & the many generations of fervently-racist Americans that followed. And when blues & blues-rock hit the mainstream, the white-dominated music industry & white musicians enjoyed big-time paydays, and not many of them did much to reward the poverty-stricken blues greats they had been ripping-off.
So Ali, the real story is not about "Americans" versus "Brits" or any other of form patriotic bullsh*t. If you feel the need to take a historical perspective of the blues & any injustices that should bother people, you should be talking about decades of cultural appropriation of/profiteering by 'white America', ie. The theft of an authentic art form & music born out of racial oppressiion against African-Americans - an opprression that was perpetrated by white-America.
(note: not all musicians & corporate management 'used' black artists or 'ripped-off' the blacks...for example, Eric Clapton has always acknowledged his sources of inspiration...but I would suggest that a significant percentage of the music industry did, especially during the 50s, 60s, and 70s.)
Derek Baker + are you crazy? These guutar players practiced night and day to play like this also channeled music from angels lost souls in the spirit world. The songs are from one ancient soul to their astral traveling time traveling lovers who jilted them. After midnight is when they turn their bodies over to entities that tricked them into believing they wrote their songs. They create portals on stage and allow many spirits to flow into their bodies to keep up tgat pace. At some point the spirit tgat wrote the songs shows up and the musician is no longer in control. Somcne else is driving the car. Ancient souls wrote the blues. Celestial spirits that are still on a spinning wheel ride in the sky to be sent off in another direction next time they show up to take acchance on finding their first love. Dig it? Selah!
And an awesome album it is
@@derekbaker3279 I can’t argue your point brother you are very well educated on life and how it exists but I’ve always heard the Brit’s give full acknowledgment at least the ones I like to the blues from the U S they may not recognize it far enough back but they do give credit and to further your point I hate the fact that slavery ever existed it’s a dark spot on this world but I do know that our first form of air conditioning was a front porch built by slaves for their own homes and the white man loved the idea so much he had them build him one and so on you are a very well spoken individual sorry that I am not but I appreciate your educating me on this bc I myself didn’t know all of that god love you
at home, this concert's dvd is going round and round and round ....so brilliant!!
man Eric is spot on playing this one
♥️
My goodness. For the thirty seconds starting at 3:35, Winwood is just on fire.
Extraordinaria versión!!! Los solos de Eric incendian el alma!!!
Yes steve eric clapton is great. you both are
Winwood can't stop staring at him. LOL
Magic, one of the best performances of an old favourite that I've ever heard :) Doesn't get any better than this. Thanks for posting.
best version ever
hermosamente lindo ç
I watch this at 0.75 speed to hear what Winwood would sound like on the slower 1988 version
Che riff pazzesco
Ian Thomas on drums - best studio drummer ever
I do believe that is Jim Gordon!
There are two drummers - one is Ian Thomas.
The best accidental tempo of all time
Indeed
Cant be better than this
When the stars align. Yep, that about sums this up 😁
The Masters.
Ok.. he's pretty good..
Damn don’t get much better ......
Why did they ever split up? They are two halfs of a whole and compliment each other so beautifully! My two favorite musicians who never should have quit playing together. I've seen Clapton in concert but it is on my bucket list to see them play together again. Just tell me where and when!!
quel géant !!!!!
This is one of the best bands i have heard Eric play with. Why? Well they dont try to do anything else than back Eric but MY GOD this number swings...:-)
I saw this show in June of 2009, I think it was ,in Glendale Az. Front fuckling Row left Center by 1 seat, What a great fond Memory and yes, = I Was the One With Binoculars, the Big ones, = In the First Fucking Row, I Love You Eric My hero on guitar =+_ I do all these particular songs live on stage at every fucking gigs I do and have since 1979. With lots of Proud Pride and Enthusiasm plus as a really good solid guitar player representing the Master Players Period.. = ............. We Worked nightly 5 nights a week in a local bar and we Packed the Dance Floor Doing my Job Well As A Band in a Bar trying To Just Make The Cash register Ring And The Owner Makes a Profitb better Than The Last 5 Bands Etc. = = " Yeppers We Were That Band" And Still Am, = if my phone rings =I book The gigs = the Pandemic Messed with all of us but it, is 2024 AND I AM BACK, = "READY "TO PLay" = Now with My "Blue Corral Band" live and in color so to speak. = Cool Baby Cool" ... = = = =- == ==Eric is a = A Dispenser Of Wisdom On Guitar In his Craft = To ME, = Period Plus, = he is the I tell You = he, = Heck, you all know this already don't you. = i Only Hope And Pray Daily That one DAY Yea, = One Day Sir Eric Calls = Me up o n the phone or however he reaches me live and in person so to speak, = & Says "hey Mike, = You still want To Jam For LITTLE BIT?????????????????.. = OH L ORD = YES I DO>< DO < DO< I DO DO DFO . = Mike Her in Phoenix, Az. The Land OF "The Hot"= Stay Safe & Healthy,"=Everyone"=Miike..