Joe Bonamassa 'Introducing Eric Clapton' to 'Further On Up The Road' from RAH Concert 2009

[@michaellossau1681]

I love this clip. When they start trading licks, they look like they're having a ball just jamming together.

[@RobertKetteringham]

This is a wonderful song 🎵

[@RobertKetteringham]

To play like this Old fashioned way Eric Clapton Clapton is the best guitarist 🎸 absolutely brilliant

[@freddyfriesen]

Is it actually legal for two people to have this much fun together ? Then again, this is probably the most perfect example of the word synergy. Beautiful. The sum is much greater than the parts.

[@aaronkuntze7494]

"Whenever you play your guitar, play it as if it's the last time. " -Eric Clapton

[@j.m.youngquist419]

Well , it has and continues to work Eric.

[@ulisanabria1950]

You can see Joe’s band standing, clapping, loving, understanding the experience of playing with EC. Nobody lives forever.

[@chrisvassos1869]

Eric Clapton is the definition of a legend.

[@ohenry5780]

The best of the best.

[@michelpotaris7338]

The God playing guitar!!!!!

[@onoyudont]

he's been through the fire.

[@cochemartin]

you can see that EC really enjoyed this performance with Joe

[@isaiahmarquez9717]

Seeing Eric Clapton so thoroughly enjoying this with a big smile is fantastic. He obviously enjoyed playing with Bonamassa. That must be a helluva experience for Joe. I’d be thrilled to trade licks with Clapton. And with Joe for that matter.

[@allegedactor126]

what an honor to serve as a worthy guest in eric clapton’s house.

[@Guitarlife41]

Yeah you right and a couple years Joe released Royal te ajjaja

[@nickcleveland2810]

For Clapton it was just another day at the office- I can only imagine what was going on in Bonamassa’s head as he was finally getting to share the stage with his idol!

[@cardbored_]

That’s the power of a Strat directly into a Tweed Twin!

[@mysterj1]

@@cardbored_ Yep. Only place to find THAT tone.

[@carnivaltym]

Yes, I wish he'd go back to the Les Paul sometimes!

[@michaellossau1681]

Don't forget that Bonamassa played with B.B. King and John Lee Hooker when he was 13.

[@markv.5962]

i met joe at a guitar clinic and actually asked him that. he said it blew his mind

[@MV-vo1tx]

Eric is the blues. Joe is the fabulous. They're beautiful together.

[@hobojakobo]

It’s actually really fucking impressive for two guitarists to improvise a blues “guitar-off” like those two did toward the end of the song and have it sound that good/natural. It’s a testament to both of their talent.

[@mikespain8655]

Playing from the heart and soul.

[@marKism69]

Clapton's voice is sooo good.

[@Guitarlife41]

Yeah Eric voice it's better like a old wine jajaja

[@jimmaculate5]

Always. He's as good a singer as he is a guitar player. Incredible pipes with Derek. Legendary with Bobby Whitlock.

[@johnnydodgecountry9508]

Proud to say that Joe is from my home town. Great job !

[@ddesa123]

Me too! Utica, NY!

[@AP-ui7oi]

This is cool after hearing Joe’s story behind this performance.

[@hkguitar1984]

That is why I'm here too. Wow, an amazing performance by both of them, when 1+1 equals more than 2.

[@berkayerturrk]

What is the story can you tell me ?

[@hkguitar1984]

@@berkayerturrk Here is the title to the video where he explains it as well as the link. I'm providing both because sometimes you cannot post a link in the comments, this way you'll still have the title so you can search and find it! Check it out, its pretty cool. kzbin.info/www/bejne/o2ivXomlhLaZaJY Joe Bonamassa : "The Best Gig I Ever Played" PLUS Performing w/ Eric Clapton (FYI, I couldn't find "Part 1")

[@Guitarlife41]

Joe's hero! And the next year Eric invited Joe to crossroads festival 👍🎸🌍🇦🇷👍

[@hkguitar1984]

@@Guitarlife41 Thank You @blues@35life, a superbly fine performance by both.

[@jorgeleonel6663]

The frantic guitar lick trade-off at the final section of the song gave me goosebumps, legendary performance!

[@Guitarlife41]

Thanks for watching man take care!👍🎸🇦🇷🌍

[@johnskippyodonnell7396]

Just SUPERB!

[@TheWhiskeyChuck]

I must have been freeze dried until three days ago. Life-long Clapton fanatic and just discovered Bonamassa. WOW!!!! I'm hooked! Coolest story behind this performance and loved it!

[@michaelpal7641]

Eric was looking at Joe during the trade-off...and smiling! Yeaa..Ok! two greats just having so much fun and in the "moment"! Doesn't get any better than this!

[@williamsnyder1315]

Eric always loves playing with another guitarist.

[@johnyuri2777]

Could listen to this all night long

[@Guitarlife41]

Are you watching the entire DVD? Go ahead man

[@patricksullivan7140]

Guitar legends just keep paying it forward. Like the ones before Clapton to his generation. One day Joe will do the same. ❤

[@charlesfitzgerald3201]

One of the best performances ever , Was big moment for Joe , like he said , its all over his face and body language , Clapton having fun as well , simply awesome

[@Guitarlife41]

You're right Charles thanks for watching!!

[@barryleslie7727]

The connection when you click as a musician is a weird bond that goes beyond anything physical or emotional and really the mind becomes like a hive. What a great example of this 😊👍

[@user-et2fj8xm5l]

A phenomenal display of taste, tone and timing..

[@akasgsvirgil9503]

Ok......now.....Imagine having the opportunity to play on the same stage with your music idol. What an honor. Now, imagine having the opportunity to play on the same stage with your idol and KILLING IT! That's Joe Bonamassa, folks.

[@NP-io4ol]

Incredible

[@TxDan100]

That looks like mutual respect ...and FUN... love it

[@billmiller2051]

Clapton really enjoyed that !

[@billvill61]

You could see it in his face as they were trading off solos. Absolute Gold!

[@littlewingaseel3029]

One of my favorite performances of these two greats. I see can how much they enjoy, love and respect each other. Both guitar solos were perfectly so beautiful. We are so blessed we still have Eric Clapton with us. And thank you so very much Joe Bonamassa for sharing your great talent with us to enjoy! Take care guys, we love you. 🙏❤️🙏

[@snowman3773]

Just never gets old!!!!! Love this one...

[@dawnmarcus4690]

Yes, Eric Clapton is a legend. Simply the best guitarist on the planet. Love this performance!!!!💖💖💖

[@mrjw6701]

Eric makes everything look so easy. Incredible guitarist and a great voice.

[@ricardogarcia183]

What a magic moment,they created,the whole band,giving all they got

[@theleftymonster]

You know you made it when you turn around and see that you are standing next to Eric Clapton on stage! You made it Joe and you definitely earn that privilege. 👏👏👏

[@snivelinj7612]

Ohhhh man, what a treat ! Two guitar giants on the same stage complimenting each other. Perfect duo.

[@lancerx1759]

This is what meeting your Hero and it turning out to be way way better than you ever imagined looks & sounds like

[@tristanbouchonnet1461]

2021 ! How have I never heard this before ??? What a jam !!

[@elisabethaxelsson4736]

Woow this is so great

[@rynhxxx]

This is a wholesome video of someone playing with their guitar idol wow

[@jennifer86010]

So here are two guys in suits playing rock-blues. Cool !!

[@johntailing5283]

Two masters of the art havin’ fun - great to watch, thanks for posting.

[@Guitarlife41]

You're welcome my friend, good wishes from Argentina 🇦🇷🎸👍

[@TheJason1957]

Two of the best, brought tears to my eyes. I'm sure Joe was in heaven.

[@Dwoed]

Now...how great is this playing with your hero❤

[@kristinosborne5323]

Absolutely amazing! Spiritual and musical sustenance at its divine best ❤

[@EHzRacingCollecting]

Wow! Just Wow! I wish I could hit the like button on this like 10,000 times. Great stuff.

[@vinayrao3273]

I think this is the best rendition I've heard of this song. Got to love the way the speak to each other with their fingers 5min in.

[@RichardBrown-pm2rn]

I'd probably have frozen up. I've been playing for 50 years and I can't even imagine it. Joe is one of the best and he handled up!

[@eddaeges9309]

If it wasn't for Clapton, allot of musicians would probably play differently or not even tried. These 2 mixed with Stevie Ray would have been amazing !!

[@sunking2001]

Don't forget about Johnny and Alvin.

[@Guitarlife41]

Yeah I agree, but don't forget to Gary Moore please, buddy guy

[@nooneanybodyknows7912]

​@@Guitarlife41And, Kenny Wayne Shepherd 🎸

[@markkennard861]

SRV all day every day..

[@rickmartch]

A les Paul and a strat at there best , bloody brilliantly played

[@wadeknutson8232]

Simply epic....

[@garyhall704]

Joe will become a blues legend and keep the blues alive. Thank God for the blues!

[@Diplomat924]

Just the best.

[@AnnieGr59]

I've always loved this one of Clapton's. But I love the collaboration here!

[@aminebarka5858]

So exciting to be with your idol in same time and same place and you perform with him... Really Fantastic

[@MIKEE2250]

awesome duo in this video . thanks for the post

[@petrabecker4047]

Clapton &Mayer& Bonamassa ❤i love them..

[@alexcroce3539]

Géant...

[@dicer0075]

The final part, speaking the same language, goosebumps!

[@KAYJENSENReed]

Look at you and Clapton. That makes my hear sing! You go boys!🎸😎🎶🎸

[@johnhendricks8140]

Thats meat of potatoes of the blues, right there.

[@MikeFloutier]

Yup, what a groove!

[@leslierudd8399]

No peas or carrots ❤

[@christianceffray3477]

deux mecs plein de talent ca fait plaisir a voir et surtout a entendre j'aime ce rock

[@atourdeforce]

Hard to believe this was live and they never played together before.

[@jennifer86010]

You can't loose when playing a solid shuffle blues !!!

[@mimmoleonardi8643]

Amazon, this is the best blues ❤🎸🎸💪💪

[@wyo550]

What a BLAST! What a great GREAT song together for these guys to see what the other's lead was ...and masterful answers all around! Horns and drums and bass...all TOP NOTCH! Thank you whoever made this video! The audio is superb!

[@davedederer4124]

Clapton is massively underrated as a singer.

[@mikestevens5512]

Fabulous Singer!! Just incredible

[@JamesSmith-ko4xq]

So true!

[@CutzuPisi]

If you live under a rock ...maybe. But TBH I am tired of seeing these stupid useless comments "x singer/actor/movie is underrated" ..especially when they are NOT. You don't have to comment, you know ? Or at least don't say stupid things.

[@donmccann2885]

Literally the best dream situation I could ever imagine musically as Eric’s my hero too. Very cool

[@maureenwelsh8765]

The first i ever heard joe B sing wahl love this erics voice if fantastic to this day x

[@mcdlb181]

Eric : And back to what I was doing, this stuff brings tears to my eyes , it’s emotionally to me for some stupid reason . Seen Eric back in the 80s 2 hr show 3 encores

[@terryonufer5247]

This video makes me cry too. When Eric has a grin , I am a mess. Good music is a blessing.

[@mcdlb181]

@@terryonufer5247 damn it I had to watch it again ……..same results,thank you from Sacramento ca.

[@andreamenegazzi897]

Joe Bonamassa is a Good guitarist but when Eric Clapton enter into the solo with his Fender's tune is another level ... Seems the roar of a lion !!

[@andreamenegazzi897]

@Kurt My friend the difference exists.... The tone of Eric Clapton's guitar is a brand that is possibile to recognize after 3 notes. The difference between a Legend and another good guitarist as many others (the same differenze between the first and the second or the third ... You remember who win the gold medal or the fourth arrived?).

[@andreamenegazzi897]

@Kurt You want perfection & tecnique? Listen Steve Vai or another like this ... I know an incredibile number of great guitar players but they came after E.C. ... They didn't invented nothing (a special guitar tone, legendary songs, etc...) ... Don't forget that in late sixties in the London's walls somebody wrote:"Eric Clapton is God" ... Somebody did the same for the 3 guys is Austin?

[@andreamenegazzi897]

@Kurt Listen Gary Moore and you will discover another galaxy of guitarist !!

[@andreamenegazzi897]

@Kurt It seems that you refuse to understand that the world is full of people able to sound other's music lick by lick but it's a copy from the original and, most of the times, without personality. Probably to achieve guitar's culture needs to be old ... but not obsolete (cit. Terminator movie).

[@andreamenegazzi897]

@Kurt First of All my name is not Jack but Andrea and I come from a country with century of story not coming from the Pilgrim Fathers arrival. If you have problems to understand this there are 2 options: 1) In your country you have difficulties with the concept of good education. 2) If you paid a lot of money in a private school for your musical education and now you're a perfect unknown musician, listen, chance job ... Music is not your attitude!! Please stop to waste my time ... I have better things to do than to discuss about music with a Texas ranger!!

[@paolozenna]

Masterpiece !

[@alicethomasse5309]

YYYEESSSS he is the best!!!! Eric Clapton, SLOW HAND!!! my husband is past away, he was an gitar player, and the studio cals him SLOW HAND, thats was his biggeds compliment ever also his EDISON!!!! ❤❤LOVE EN MIS HIM

[@jgeph2.4]

Legandary performance

[@IamMagPie]

At 03:08 Master Clapton steps up to he plate and lets everyone know he is still on top - with a scream from his guitar that says it all

[@GanttCarterservant]

Yep

[@judgegarry]

Commander Clapton has, IMHO, the perfect and greatest vibrato technique 👌 of all time... Damn if I couldn't find a way to pull the note both up and down with only a light anchor on the neck. Oh well, my sound is my sound, and pulling the notes mainly down has proven to be comfortable and effective... Okay, I'm a stickler, but I love to just watch techniques ... (like the time I scored 5th row seats to see the master, Itzhak Perlman, not knowing classical performances people sit in the back... so there i was, all alone, up close and personal, probably looking like a little kid.) Anyways, I digress..

[@ALTOVOLTAGE594]

AS THE GUITARRIST AN SINGER YOU ARE GREAT BONAMASA

[@eliasp8645]

One of joe's best tones so far 😄👍

[@sailadventurercaptainpeter909]

Clapton Bonamassa Nuff said!

[@Guitarlife41]

Yeah!!!!

[@perjonsson6392]

So fantastic and perfect, wonderful

[@Boudreaux641]

They be "Cuttin' Heads" towards the end.....Awesome!

[@polomassa864]

Two monsters of the guitar!

[@motherlessblues1565]

Here once they started trading licks it was not trying to blow the other guy off stage but truly complementary and that’s class

[@masonrahgozar1562]

Joe Bonamassa,Erick Clapton🎼🎶🎸🥇🥇⭐️⭐️

[@sergiosaleh4908]

And the band is on fire too!

[@larrywithrow5876]

You 4 must be brothers? Sure have similar looks🤣 Awesome playing🎸👊

[@jennifer86010]

5:10 the video director switches to a moving camera shot behind the bandstand, while all the musical action is happening out front between the guitarists, trading licks. Apparently the video director didn't know that the camera should always be on the musical focus of a lead singer or lead instrumentalists when soloing.

[@MrManihoney]

2022. still the most insane trade lickin (!) of all times

[@tomhoefling]

So, so, good, in every way.

[@marrop2760]

Yowza! So much LOVE shared! Yabba Dabba Doo!

[@johnfoskey7855]

Love the way clapton starts his lead..making that start scream

[@CynthiaCinelli]

Ur VOICE IS KEY !!

[@judgegarry]

It was a nice gesture for #EricClapton to let #JoeBonamassa walk onto the stage at Royal Albert Hall , a stage that Mr Clapton, Commander of the British Empire. has owned for around a half century, when he first set foot upon it, the days when fans were spray painting "CLAPTON IS GOD " on the walls of London's back streets... Joe definitely picked the best of the best for his early influences. Clapton, Page. Beck... the men who etched something in a whole generation of guitar players... Ah, think I'll go plug in and crank it out

[@jamesmckenzie924]

God bless lee and the boys I used to drink with lee in the Jellico Canvey the memories are priceless

[@mennobults6464]

Great to see how other great players think about their idols. Joe can play a little as well. Clapton belongs to the very best all time.

[@John-fv8sc]

Joe can play a little too ? Did you just hear that

[@Jake-wl7mh]

Speechless....

[@davidmilliken3360]

Unbeatable.

[@johncopeland3826]

The Last Waltz version of the song is incredible ..Robertson and Clapton playing the blues ..you bet !

[@lucienvandegaart8434]

saw them separately when both were in their 20s Clap Clap Clap smother with the Cream. Bon Bons one of the greatest of his age group. Blues don't discriminate but honestly these boys never slept in the swamp or worked all day pulling and stuffn an 11 foot cotton sack. That's in the blood not the wallet. these boys got the heart the rest is God's blessings. we're blessed to hear them together

[@9AJW4]

So sleeping in a swamp makes you a better blues guitar player? Lol, wat?

[@ArmanBaig]

AxcivW he’s saying true blues comes from living a hard life, but that shouldn’t stop us from enjoying their beautiful music

[@ohenry5780]

Awesome

[@ohenry5780]

Clapton is GOAT

[@willy-willy651]

so good ,....yeahhhh!👍👍

[@rolfgobel2406]

two masters

[@mariosantini5152]

Clapton, la crema del blues bianco.Bonamassail presente e il futuro del Blues.

[@andreamenegazzi897]

Buongiorno Mario. Non esageriamo ... Il mondo é pieno di bravi chitarristi come lui, da qui a scrivere "J.B. is God" ne deve passare di acqua sotto i ponti. Bonamassa dice di ispirarsi a Eric Clapton e a Gary Moore ma é ben lontano dalla classe e dal sacro fuoco che pervade/va i sopracitati. Il blues é passione, cuore, rabbia, sentimento ... Joe é una abilissimo esecutore oltre ad una "freddezza" di fondo ma non ha inventato nulla (uno stile, un tono della Fender che sembra un ruggito, canzoni che rimarranno per secoli). La leggenda non é un abito da tutti i giorni ...

[@mariosantini5152]

@@andreamenegazzi897hai ragione il mio era un discorso generale, a cominciare da Robert jonhson,passando per Muddy Waters BBKing, il mondo del blues passando Clapton si svalutera' vedi concerto in Svizzera 2018. Amico la crema del blues bianco e nero e'passata ,Bonamassa sarebbe unbuon proseguitore, in attesa di altri talenti.....se arriveranno ma ho i miei dubbi.Un saluto

[@mariosantini5152]

Errata corrige no 2018 ma Baloise 2013

[@andreamenegazzi897]

@@mariosantini5152 E ma allora provochi ... Vogliamo parlare del Live al Madison Square Garden con Steve Winwood? Anno 2009 credo ... Oppure se proprio vogliamo uccidere i soloni della chitarra blues ... Gary Moore, Blues Alive anno 1993 ....

[@mariosantini5152]

@@andreamenegazzi897 rispetto tutte le persone del mondo blues e tutti i concerti,hendrix band of gypsys 31 dic. 1 gen.1970 ti pare poco? Io rispetto tutti amico

[@jimmaculate5]

Unbelievable!

[@voice_of_reason5604]

Wow that was great!!!