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Andy Fairweather Low (left) leans into a note as he plays a solo on his black hollowbody electric; Eric Clapton (right) plays his Black Strat live in the early '90s.

“Put it away and get a proper guitar!”: Andy Fairweather Low on playing with Eric Clapton

By Jonathan Horsley published

Low got the Teisco Spectrum V bug after seeing Ry Cooder with one. Eddie Van Halen loved them too. Clapton? Not so much...

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Eric Clapton

“I wanted to do it as if it was brand new”: Eric Clapton's classic Unplugged performance now features previously unseen footage

By Paul Elliott published

The show that spawned the best-selling live album of all time!

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Cream

“I think that the whole band was kind of misunderstood by everybody, and it gave us a sort of an edge, you know": The story of Cream's Disraeli Gears

By Jamie Dickson published

Best of 2024: How Baker, Bruce and Clapton transcended their (and their management's) very different ambitions for Cream to track a '60s masterpiece

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American blues guitarist and singer Buddy Guy performs live playing a Fender Stratocaster guitar on the American Folk Blues Festival tour in London in October 1965

When Buddy Guy rewrote the blues rulebook with a Strat and blew the collective minds of Clapton, Beck and Page

By Neil Crossley published

Best of 2024: The inspirational playing of the last living American blues legend: "I was bringing it up to Eric and Jimmy – ‘Have you heard this stuff!?'"

Guitars
Pete Townshend of The Who smashes a Fender Telecaster guitar into the speaker cab of his amplifier during a concert at the Oberrheinhalle, Offenburg, Germany, 17th April 1967. Singer Roger Daltrey is behind him on the left. Marshall amplifier heads are visible behind the speaker cabs and the guitar is fitted with a Fender Stratocaster neck

"I'm going to pretend I'm Hendrix!'": Pete Townshend looks back in this classic 1990 guitar interview

By Guitarist magazine published

Best of 2024: "The thing that really stunned Eric and me was the way he took what we did and made it better"

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CREAM 1967 Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce

“One of the best guitar solos ever!”: The Clapton classic that he called "wrong" but Eddie Van Halen loved

By Neville Marten published

The real story of Cream’s Crossroads

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John Lennon and Eric Clapton

Newly unearthed John Lennon letter to Eric Clapton reveals plans for supergroup

By Will Simpson published

Ex-Beatle hoped group would “bring the balls back in rock 'n’ roll”

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Eric Clapton and his gold-plated Cry Baby: [Left] a black and white image of Clapton playing his Bigsby-equipped Gibson Les Paul standard live on stage with Cream.

Dunlop salutes wah pedal pioneer Eric Clapton with a gold-plated signature Cry Baby

By Jonathan Horsley published

Doing that scrapyard bling...

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Martin Scorsese

Martin Scorsese confirmed to direct film of Robbie Robertson tribute concert

By Will Simpson published

Scorsese to direct Robbie Robertson concert film

Gigs & Festivals
ock band the "Bluesbreakers" pose for a portrait in 1966 in London, England. L-R: John Mayall, Hughie Flint, Eric Clapton, John McVie.

Eric Clapton shares moving eulogy for John Mayall

By Rob Laing published

"I want to say thank you for rescuing me from oblivion," he says in a candid video in tribute to his blues mentor, who has passed away at the age of 90

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