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Eric Clapton

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This is a collections of tracks recorded mostly of Eric Clapton, and if I remember the original liner notes along with Jimmy Page with a few cuts featuring Jeff Beck. (Beck sounds the most proficiant to me) A friend of mine had this album (or at least an album with some of this material on it) back in 1973. I believe it was called Guitar Boogie. It's very dated sounded with a few of the tracks just having 2 guitars (Eric on lead and Jimmy on chords I think)and sounds like they had a small reel to reel sitting around someone's house in an informal jam. I bought it just for the memories, a little bit of the earlier jamming by Eric, Jeff & Jimmy. I believe this was probably around the time of the Yardbirds, or shortly after Beck split from them, around those years. I would only recommend this for those searching out everything these guys have done. But there are some good moments on there. A few tracks have vocals in what sounds like sessions one of them were playing on.

I was with a friend cd shopping when we ran across this one, after looking it over he decided to by it. After listening to it we were both impressed with it, so I got on Amazon and bought me a copy. With further listening I found this to be pretty good, the sound quality on most of the tunes is pretty good for the time period. From what I have learned this is early to middle sixties, it is from the time they spent with the Yardbirds. There is a lot of great guitar playing from these three, the tunes sound like they are very raw and early. This is all Blues for sure, so if you like good raw early blues, this would be a good choice. There is not a lot of vocals just jamming for the most part, to me it is still worth having.

This CD is advertised as a box set but it contains one CD and for the price it is extremely disappointing. The tracks feature a very early Clapton and does contain some moments of inspired palying but there is nothing on this CD that you will not hear on some of the other nostalgia prints such as Eric Clapton (with Beck and Page) from the orange dot collection (Orange 225). This 2 CD set contains all and more and costs a fraction!