Wow! I just found your two excellent 'I'm So Glad' videos; haven't listened to your other videos yet. Your phrasing, bends, and vibrato are on target; including the 'minor third' (three fret) bends. Clapton's solo is arguably his best studio solo, and maybe the most eloquent 32-bar instrumental statement of the rock era. He effortlessly blended the mixolydian mode (major 3rd) and blues scale (minor 3rd) in a linear, lyrical fashion; presumably on just the G string. There are moments like this on the 'Fresh Cream' album that go beyond Beano.

Hard to believe you didn't pick any from the Beano album!! Some of those are breathtaking, as youve often shown

Nice licks man. I like these type of licks, have a southern rock vibe. 🎸👍🏼🤘🏼

This is GOLD!

MY BLUES GUITAR< make a video lesson only showing a bunch of Jimmy Page Pedal Steel Bend licks, you should have to watch a lot of live Plant Page concerts in the 90's which Jimmy Pages does a lot of really good licks. There is a lot of live concerts 90's ear of Plant/Page concerts on YT that you can watch to get licks to make video lesson about them

Love your videos mate . You are a top guitar player bud . Would love to be able to play as good as you one day . Do you play rhythm as well or just mostly lead ?

Fantastic

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I was sad to hear of Peter Haycock untimely passing. I was fortunate to see him live several times. His playing was jaw dropping. You have captured this piece very accurately. Beautiful work. I used to do this tune back in the early 80's Its a definite challenge to play it correctly. There is one solo of his I'm trying to capture. Its in the song Flight the version which was performed at the NY Academy of music (FM Live Album) the solo starts at 2:55 and he plays for only about 30 seconds. But its pure gold to my ear. Any chance you may have figured this one out? It would be a great solo to learn.

Why were these guitars auctioned? Where did the money go?

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I like that you always do it so carefully and methodically. Without showing off, but in the service of learning music. I'm a huge fan of Jimmy and not only enjoy playing his music, but also drawing and painting him. And finally: most people choose either Cream and Clapton or Page and Led Zeppelin. I'm not one of them and I see you are neither. Music unites, not divides. ;-)

Wow,those are pieces of history.Incredible!

Eric didn't have to auction off his guitars ... he has a net worth of $600 million US dollars ... he could fund the treatment center with money from net savings .

He donated all that to a drug addiction center? Wow.... What if we created "raise your kids correctly" centers? That might catch things WAY earlier, eh?

Great lesson. Thanks Mark.

Why would he sell these? His family are rich, start a small museum...

can you even imagine how much his Beano Les Paul would have gone for??? Of course, provided that it hadn't been stolen and he had kept it all these years.That is THE guitar on THE album (not that I personally even like the beano album that much- still....) - it is the quintessence of rock. It is the Les Paul that launched a thousand Les Pauls and Les Pauls are the big daddy of vintage guitar auctions..

$1m+ for the explorer

I agree. WTF is it with Leo Fender's "straight out of the gate" GENIOUS guitar design and build back in the early 1950's ? People still clamor and pay EXORBITANT - RIDICULOUS prices for these early pieces. May I mention the name "Stradivarious" to this mix?

Those were all very good prices.

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I wonder if Brownie had been refinished. It has the worst 2 tone burst I have ever seen, wear not withstanding.

Once heard the explorer had a cracked neck.

Thanks for this. Always found it funny how Eric's Blackie Stratocaster is more valuable than his Brownie one given that Blackie is a Partscaster and Brownie is a complete original guitar straight from the Fender factory. Cheers from the Land Down Under.

Is there a practical reason the Explorer has two strap buttons on the back? I sold my SG because back buttons tend to make guitars fall away from my 'eyeline' to the fretboard making it impossible to play.

I was thinking of spraying my surf green 21-fret 1979 Stratocaster (with dot inlays) to match the toilet-wall blue of my vintage and rather smelly 2001 Ford Focus. BTW there is a Derek and The Dominos topic on YT and yesterday I had my mind blasted listening to the incredibly exciting three-cd bootleg 'Transmission Impossible' with its absolutely incredible playing from all members of DATD and the greatest and most passionately fierce solos I've ever heard EC play. Happy New Year everyone...

I know the guy who bought the explorer. I played it in 2000 or 2001, I can't remember. I have no idea where it is now or if the guy I used to know is even alive. He was a collector that had a store here in Minnesota. I had a store here at the time as well so I used to go in and see him. He had a ridiculous collection. Many bursts, amps and all kids of things I could never afford. I actually played another real explorer back then at Daves in Wisconsin. I miss those days. It was fun to get to be able to play Eric's Explorer for a few minutes. Nice video.

The Explorer must be in the half million range plus. Great buy.

I was just commenting how I could easily see myself paying 80 grand for a 91 Strat, and this video pops up

IMVHO Eric always did his best work on SG's.

Most of these eventually will end up in Cuba. The UK is communist country.

Really enjoyed this !!!! Thank You !!!!

Are they all in Japan? "East Coast Crew" ... LOL as phuq! Betcha a bunch were taken by drug dealers. Illegal immigrants would club in and spend up big today for record prices on E.C.'s axes, while the rest of us look for cigar butts along the Freeway.

??!?!?!?!?! How did that explorer go for that?

Brownie for sure is over 1 million now. Those early “artist” strats, I really don’t understand someone paying that much.

The Explorer was a smoking deal.

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One guitar missing "Blackie" did it go under the hammer?

Jeff Becks ox blood les Paul is coming up for auction will see what that brings!!!

They'd go for four times those figures today. Of them all, I'd have the 335.

Yeah, this stuff would go for crazy prices today. It’s a shame prices have gone up so much in the last 25 years. How are you doing bro? Hope all is well.

I'm very surprised the custom shop strats went for similar prices to the original 50s strats. Also thought the guide prices were way off. A 1956 Strat would sell for more than the guide price even if it wasn't owned by anyone famous let alone Eric Clapton

The Explorer, a very good deal, indeed! I'm puzzled why some of the rather generic Strats went for so much with the Explorer in mind?

Gilmour's strat sold for nearly 4M in 2019 so you can imagine what EC's would go for now.

That '59 Gibson is valuable enough just for the pickups!

If Eric would sell brownie today it has to be over million. That explorer is interesting, did he ever play it live?

Would be nice to get a Gibson Fool SG reissue, although it would probably be of a high price ! Great video, wonder what happened to some of Eric’s guitars you showed in the video. Are they in vaults or being played.

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What we're the amp and guitar settings fir the sound sitting on topnofvthe World? Thanks