Eric Clapton - Just Like A Prisoner

[@markknopfler5498]

One of the best underrated songs in the history of rock, the solo is incredible......

[@HARVEYSHEL]

One of his best solos. I've heard him say just that in an interview. The breadth of his talent is remarkable.

[@amandaadams9170]

Loved when Phil Collins played drums for Eric Clapton! 💘

[@natslo26]

Watched a documentary where Clapton said this was his best playing ever. He said he could have went on forever. If I could play half this good I would think I was one of the greats.

[@royarmstrong6098]

If you could play half as good as this you WOULD be one of the greats ;-)

[@angusorvid8840]

He played very well in the mid 80s. August is also a good album with great guitar work.

[@matthewhart3423]

I'll never forget listening to this with my brother while smoking ❤️ we had this album on cassette and listened to it on a karaoke machine that had built in speakers which I got from a flea market ❤️ how times have changed and I'm only 27!!!

[@pgo301]

What a classic Clapton finish! Always top shelf.

[@TheGUESSWHO22]

Phil Collins is a BEAST on the drums! I freakn love it.

[@Avenger849]

There are two drummers!

[@toddwolfetube]

@@Avenger849 Actually Eric's longtime drummer of the time, Jamie Oldaker is the drummer in left side and Phil is right side. Sadly Jamie passed yesterday, succumbed to cancer. RIP Jamie

[@amandaadams9170]

❤

[@jaxgemmell9154]

❤️

[@StPeteG8r]

the lyrics, the rhythm, the voice, the stinging riffs.. HEAVEN

[@PeterParker-uz3oc]

Best Eric's solo on studio.

[@bozzojoe]

The chord arrangement here is one of those that really lends to heart felt soloing that can go on and on and on. Another one like that is "Old Love", I once went on for 20 minutes to that tune and it still didn't get old. Some progressions just bring things out in a person.

[@mikeherrick549]

So many of this mans song can just rip your heart out and have tears flowing, 72 year old nam navy vet

[@gizmott2161]

Listen to the guitar, wail and cry, listen to the sincerity of it all, drown yourself in the ocean of his tears....

[@caroledonald1960]

Must agree 100%.i just love this track and brings tears to my eyes. I play it over And over on repeat. Fab! 😎🤗🎸🎸😢

[@AsasAsas-jo9yd]

So many songs of this man brings a river of tears to my eyes and soul on the first cords of his guitar

[@ChrisBluesman]

Amazing, superb, marvelous, wonderful, prefect and precise. No one can solo like that. I love the album too, and I think this album is mark in his career, he only got better and better aftar that, till today!

[@VeraReginaScheleck]

Better Musician and Singer of all Time !!!

[@00govan00]

lol I pity you

[@conorlugt4155]

Huge fan of EC. This song contains EC's best electric guitar work in the studio. Much better than Cream for example. Besides an underrated album

[@crisp5925]

Completely agree with you! Totally underrated album!

[@TelecasterLPGTop]

conor lugt Yes Eric is the man. Live is even better. Those fingers those magical fingers.

[@ericletellier9527]

I think his best studio work was done on the roger water’s (from Pink Floyd) album - The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking... check it out man pink Floyd and Clapton

[@aladdinsane7882]

5 Long Years on the From The Cradle album is the one that floors me.

[@scottiesmusic]

I've seen Eric Clapton 4 times times live back 85....~ best ever!! Such good song...old school music??? that's what they call it?? WTF????

[@ThePineryGuy]

THIS SONG HIS VOICE ❤

[@toddwolfetube]

RIP Jamie Oldaker. Sadly Jamie passed yesterday, succumbed to cancer. Eric's longtime drummer of the time, Jamie, is the drummer in left side and Phil Collins is right side (headphones or proper stereo required)

[@douglas2902]

Thanks I knew there were 2 drummers and I knew Phil Collins was one of them couldn't remember the other

[@63icerider]

FFS. Don't critique it people. Just revel in the sweet heat of it! This is close as we get to perfection without involving deities.

[@TelecasterLPGTop]

John Kuntz Right on. Eric takes us away to that special place where we all belong.

[@shanwarzaman2016]

EC the living legend of music. Long live

[@210ppp]

I just watched a video on Hulu in which Clapton states that this is "the best guitar solo I ever recorded. I could have gone on forever".

[@luisandresperez807]

where is that video

[@sleekcartim]

completely agree with your take on this song / album. An inspiring work of true blue artistry.

[@nick1999louk]

Just like a prisoner, He don't know right from wrong. Just like a baby, He sings a pleading song And that's why So many tears must fall. Yes, that's why So many tears must fall. Just like a sailor, He steers away from home. He feels a tidal wave In his heart, but he ain't alone And that's why So many tears must fall. Yes, that's why So many tears must fall. I'm like that prisoner, I don't know right from wrong. Just like that baby, I sing a pleading song And that's why You'll never know how I feel. Yes, that's why You'll never know how I feel.

[@ChrisBluesman]

This album is amazing,

[@dommonte3507]

Saw Clapton in Australia in 1981, and Donald Duck Dunn on base, how cool

[@raylaws8242]

Love it when EC skirts the edge of abandon. Another example. Ain't Going Down from Money and Cigaretttes.

[@timothythomas456]

Love you Eric Clapton

[@nevilwasley946]

One of his best damn shame the producer cut him short !!

[@michaelmaison5592]

I've always loved the Clapper. But something extraordinary got into him while he recorded this song. He starts teasing during the verses, but then........The solo at the end is just damn belligerent.

[@grandcanyonmaster]

like they said in the old days "clapton is god" & he is still alive. remarkable

[@coravisser727]

Eric Clapton is the best,

[@jj2266]

I totally agree Cora. I love the guy.

[@jimiguitar100]

I was about to say a comment but the description bellow is enough. Well you said mate

[@sleekcartim]

too good, just too damn good AHHH

[@OrkhanEfendi]

nice solo improvisation

[@grandcanyonmaster]

clapton at the height of his powers

[@CompleteCretin]

Magnificent!

[@grandcanyonmaster]

EC should get the next Nobel Prize now that Bob has broken the Nobel ceiling.

[@ursulabornhauser1091]

Great song😊love you eric for ever❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@joaquinlopeztorres9153]

FORMIDABLE CLAPTON !!!

[@matthiasbargholz5126]

Genial.

[@trashandcheese3636]

Was it the "unhappily-married working musician" lyrics that did it, or just the fact that, like every guitarist working off that old four-chord rudiment, he's got Toussaint L'Ouverture to compete with?

[@welcometoreality3450]

god. plays. guitar.

[@嶋田正人-f1b]

ジャーニー のニール・ショーンだけ聴いてたら、他のギターリストのプレイが全く良く聴けなくてどうしたものかと、思っていたところ、妹がこのアルバムを買っできた。 いちおうカセットテープに録音してもらって聴いたら、この曲を聴いてぶったまげました。 流石はニールの師匠。 後にも先にもこの曲だけです。タブ譜が欲しいのですが手に入りません。

[@dashinggaspar8042]

Kamil Stachowski is an avid Eric Clapton cover artist on here on KZbin. He plays note for note this song and all of his other ones. He also writes out the tabs, including for this song. Check him out!

[@嶋田正人-f1b]

@@dashinggaspar8042 さんへ Thank you very much !

[@douglas2902]

There was 2 drummers playing on this song Phil Collins was one of them I don't recall the other.

[@dashinggaspar8042]

Jamie Oldaker

[@TelecasterLPGTop]

I love that loud out of place bass note from Donald Duck Dunne, was he trying to pull Eric out of his dream state or was it just a mistake, who TF knows ?

[@22demianz]

What about Same Old Blues???

[@vanhalenfan1995]

zero dislikes, the way it should be

[@sleekcartim]

chills... every fucking time.

[@DruMMErSeba]

thanks for the info dude.

[@ispinimor1958]

Thank you. The Guv'nor in full flight.

[@DruMMErSeba]

Epic song, also recorded with two drummers, one of them was Phil Collins, the other drummer i dont know... i look it up

[@Avenger849]

Jamie Oldaker Drums (Left), Collins (Right)

[@infinitemonkey917]

That's called the 80's

[@RenigadeCineTrax]

Yes It Is!! Over the top production with Phil on the drums! Pure Joy!

[@sueclaussen1474]

I would like him to remix it withe drums not so loud so u can hear the master.xx

[@smarterthanyouraveragebear]

Sue Claussen No no no no. Phil Collins was a producer on this album amd his playing comes through quite clearly on this album as does his musical style. Behind the Sun is an absolute gem exactly as it is. I wouldn't change a thing

[@walkwayss]

Souvenirs...

[@TacomaPaul]

MOJO Magazine turned me on to this.

[@grandcanyonmaster]

Slowhand burning.

[@grandcanyonmaster]

bob won the Nobel Eric next

[@Raelistic89]

The other one was Jamie Oldaker.

[@antoniodambrosio7331]

Maybe on the first solo it's Robert Cray ... I remember that ...

[@royarmstrong6098]

Nah, that's Old Love your thinking of :-)

[@antoniodambrosio7331]

@@royarmstrong6098 Old Love was written by Robert Cray 😉

[@royarmstrong6098]

@@antoniodambrosio7331 Yes and he's wonderful on that :-) But the first Prisoner solo is very Eric ;-)

[@infinitemonkey917]

This is one of my favorite Clapton songs. I can practically feel his pain when I hear it. As for the rest of the album though: not his greatest work. Like many others, he fell victim to one of history's worse ( with a few exceptions) decades of music- the 80's. Fortunately he later realized that and went back to his Blues roots.

[@spacemunky53]

Boss track boss picken boss boss

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

The song is great, but ohh that '80's production is just nasty and that synth..uggh! and yes it is one of his finest solo's, reminds me of "While My Guitar Gently Weeps". Weird ending, you expect it to fade out...

[@ericcampbell6370]

The solo was edited together, combining the best bits of multiple takes.

[@guyg.9393]

Highly unlikely. Clapton is old school and is known to prefer his solos straight up, with few effects. From his fingers through the amp.

[@royarmstrong6098]

Nah, Collins produced it and harvested from several take @@guyg.9393

[@teamcompurepo2251]

i hear Phil Collins on the drums

[@whitepearl8639]

Nice...coment...jajaja..

[@joshwinter2812]

Agreed, this is a classic Clapton solo, it's just an appalling song with appalling production. Would be interesting to have it re-produced by someone that understands Clapton's 60's 70's roots, you'd probably end up with a great song instead of this plastic, microwaved version of blues

[@RepublicOfUs]

I absolutely hate the lyrics to this song--its got "middle school poetry" written all over it--but, *good-god-damn* that solo's great.

[@MITCHRENO]

I would love to here this without the crappy drums and synthesizers.

[@smarsey]

MITCHRENO crappy drums?!! That’s Phil Collins. His fills are awesome.

[@scottiesmusic]

I've seen Eric Clapton 4 times times live back 85....~ best ever!! Such good song...old school music??? that's what they call it?? WTF????

[@scottiesmusic]

I've seen Eric Clapton 4 times times live back 85....~ best ever!! Such good song...old school music??? that's what they call it?? WTF????

[@scottiesmusic]

I've seen Eric Clapton 4 times times live back 85....~ best ever!! Such good song...old school music??? that's what they call it?? WTF????