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Short story:
John Mayall's Bluesbreakers release a new album, Blues Breakers: John Mayall with Eric Clapton, in the UK on Decca Records.
Full article:
John McVie (bassist, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers] : It was done at Decca Studios in West Hampstead, England, in less that a month. We played together a lot as a band, so we'd just go in and do takes live, with no overdubs. And as soon as the session was finished, we'd be out to gig. ?
Eric was, and is, a great player - that's it. After the album came out a strange situation developed, because this upstart guy named Peter Green started playing with John. There were guitar style wars going on between them - all that stuff about 'Clapton Is God' being sprayed on the walls was real! In a lot of ways, I think Peter was more of an emotional player than Eric was at the time.
We knew it was good, but it's only become a classic with the passage of time. The record was very big among people who liked the blues and were into that scene. At the time, there were definite cliques - people who liked blues, people who liked The Beatles, people who liked this or that - and they tended to be very tight, almost insular about their tastes. That included myself - I got quite snobbish.
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Eric was, and is, a great player - that's it. After the album came out a strange situation developed, because this upstart guy named Peter Green started playing with John. There were guitar style wars going on between them - all that stuff about 'Clapton Is God' being sprayed on the walls was real! In a lot of ways, I think Peter was more of an emotional player than Eric was at the time.
We knew it was good, but it's only become a classic with the passage of time. The record was very big among people who liked the blues and were into that scene. At the time, there were definite cliques - people who liked blues, people who liked The Beatles, people who liked this or that - and they tended to be very tight, almost insular about their tastes. That included myself - I got quite snobbish.