Wat guitar did clapton use when he played crossroads?
 

I no its either a les paul or a strat, someone help me out.

I always thought it was a Firebird.

to put it ignorantly:

cream = les paul
clapton (solo) = strat

i know, i know, he played other gibsons too, but this is putting it blandly

Yeah i no, he betrayed lps when he wetn solo the c unt, wat an idiot, so im thinkin it was a les paul then aye?

Yeah, pretty sure it was a strat.

It was a Firebird.

or an sg maybe? it could be an es-335

[QUOTE=Random Username]It was a Firebird.[/QUOTE]

Oh really, didn't know that.

[QUOTE=longvonsilver]Yeah i no, he betrayed lps when he wetn solo the c unt, wat an idiot, so im thinkin it was a les paul then aye?[/QUOTE]
for the record, he basically stopped using les pauls once his '59 was stolen, then he went to gibson explorers, then fender strats. (and he likes the strats much more than the previous two).

So one guys sayin firebird, anothers sayin strat, nobody sayin les paul, which is it to be then.

Ok ok, for the version of crossroads recorded live at the fillmore on the wheels of fire disc, he used a cherry gibson es335...he also used gibson sg's around this time. In '66 he used various '58-'60 les pauls, and he didnt use firebirds untill the late 60's.
[url]http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/cream/Guitars.htm[/url]

[QUOTE]It was a Firebird.[/QUOTE]
[QUOTE]Yeah, pretty sure it was a strat.[/QUOTE]
wrong

he used an ES-335 on all the live performances I've seen of crossroads when he was still with cream.

It sounds like a LP to me...Man ECs guitars were so cool.

he played a custom painted gibson sg named "the fool" the bassist also had a custom painted precision bass

See for yourself...



xxxhttp://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=02UXO9U021VSX0GF5EJZU5E4LM

i forgot, he also played a red es 335 live. i would show you, but i havent figured out how to put pictures in yet

Im sorry to all you people out there who thought Clapton used a LP in Cream. Just after cream was founded and the debtut of "Fresh Cream" Claptons LP was stolen. So he bought the custom SG "the fool". He later used a ES-335 on the "wheels of Fire" album so to put it bluntly and for all final reference ERIC CLAPTON USED A ES-335 ON "CROSSROADS", HE ALSO USED A SG FOR THE MAJORITY OF CREAM, HE ONLY BRIEFLY USED A FIREBIRD ON HIS "ERIC CLAPTON" ALBUM AND BLIND FAITH, AND LATER USED A CUSTOM STRAT FOR THE BETTER PART OF HIS CAREER. These facts are totally true and solve all debate.

he played a gibson 335 it was cherry red i got a poster out of guitar world a while back (on my wall now) it tells the whole story behind it thats what he used when he played "crossroads" but that guitar is in a case now he sold it for like $800,000 a while back to guitar center and gave the money to charity

I think it was a strat, thats the guitar he's famous for

i guess as everyone else has said it was a 335, i thought it was most likely his SG (which he got painted by a couple of friends of the Beatles)...but even though he has switched from LPs to SGs to Strats, his tone is pretty much the same...i find that quite interesting...

[SIZE=5][url=http://s51.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=02UXO9U021VSX0GF5EJZU5E4LM]CROSSROADS LIVE 1968[/url][/SIZE]

^^^i love u

The DVD Cream of Clapton has 1968 footage of Clapton playing Crossroads, it seems a little different than the album however he is playing his ES335 for crossroads.

[QUOTE=pfc_mike]^^^i love u[/QUOTE]
second time in the same thread I posted the vid....

[QUOTE=cgecko1219]second time in the same thread I posted the vid....[/QUOTE]

first time the link was actually a link...

[QUOTE]CROSSROADS LIVE 1968[/QUOTE]

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Now.

[QUOTE=pfc_mike]first time the link was actually a link...[/QUOTE]
'twas a vid, nonetheless




[size=1]vid courtesy of MX upload bonanaza, 3/05[/size]

[QUOTE]Im sorry to all you people out there who thought Clapton used a LP in Cream. Just after cream was founded and the debtut of "Fresh Cream" Claptons LP was stolen. So he bought the custom SG "the fool". He later used a ES-335 on the "wheels of Fire" album so to put it bluntly and for all final reference ERIC CLAPTON USED A ES-335 ON "CROSSROADS", HE ALSO USED A SG FOR THE MAJORITY OF CREAM, HE ONLY BRIEFLY USED A FIREBIRD ON HIS "ERIC CLAPTON" ALBUM AND BLIND FAITH, AND LATER USED A CUSTOM STRAT FOR THE BETTER PART OF HIS CAREER. These facts are totally true and solve all debate.[/QUOTE]
He also used les pauls while recording gears and wheels, not jsut durring fresh cream. ex: he used a lp custom black beauty on the direali gears sessions...
[IMG]http://twtd.bluemountains.net.au/cream/img/eclpcustom.jpg[/IMG]

Clapton used LPs all the way up past Derek and the Dominoes...he didn't just spotaneously give them up...