Talk:Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton/Archive 1

Archive 1

Tone

The tone used was not Woman Tone, woman tone is a dual humbucker guitar, both pickups on in parallel, tone controls set to 0. This was a wide open bridge pickup. Edited to reflect this.

Bluesbreakers one word or two?

I moved this page from Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton to Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton. Allmusic, Amazon.com, .de, .ca and .fr all use Bluesbreakers, though Amazon.co.uk uses Blues Breakers. This could be one of those cases where there is no true 'correct' title. If anyone objects to the move, please comment here. --Alcuin 20:15, 11 July 2006 (UTC)

The band were definately the Bluesbreakers (one word), but the artwork clearly shows Blues Breakers (two words). For that reason, I think it should be where it was (two words) with a title section, like the one on the Lovesong page. MightyMoose22 ^{>Abort, Retry, Fail?_} 02:52, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

The artwork does clearly show it as 2 words, but yet a google search gets 42,700 hits for "bluesbreakers with eric clapton" (all in quotes) vs 11,900 for "blues breakers with eric clapton" --Alcuin 03:02, 12 July 2006 (UTC)

And a google search for probly gets 2,200,000. Does that mean it must be correct? ;) MightyMoose22 ^{>Abort, Retry, Fail?_} 13:52, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

I'm still not convinced which is the 'correct' title, if there is one. Or for that matter, where the band name ends and the album title begins. My guess is that when the album was originally released, the band, the record company and the person who designed the cover didn't really bother to be consistent and didn't really care, and would be amused to discover that we're really discussing this. My limited research (above) suggests that Polydor has apparently chosen Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton as the title, but it really doesn't matter one way or the other to me. Though I would like to see more conclusive evidence one way or the other, if it exists. Alcuin 14:24, 19 July 2006 (UTC)

some small changes

I cleaned up the language to make it a little more encyclopedic, and added an "influences" section. It will be great if people expand the influences section as they are able; I'm kind of a newbie when it comes to the Blues, but I'm sure a lot could be written about the connections to the African American blues artists these guys were copying/taking from. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 72.87.187.228 (talk) 07:19, 23 December 2006 (UTC).

I don't see the beatles riff of "Day Tripper" as an influence, as the song is origonally a Ray Charles song, and had that riff in there in it's origonal recording by Ray, loooooong before the beatles.

And influences would be kind of self explanitory as the names of who wrote the songs origonally are next to the songs. It could be made as an argument for the section, that on the songs written for the album, you may be able to hear the characteristics of an influence here or there, but otherwise no, the section shouldn't be here. Unless someone wants to wade through the influences and try to find each paricular riff or idea that sounds similar to another artist. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 63.3.18.1 (talk) 01:50, 1 February 2008 (UTC)

Influences

The guitar riff which begins at 3:32 in "What'd I Say" is borrowed from The Beatles' "Day Tripper," released the year before (1965)

I removed this section as it is small and does not have a reference for was it does have. Rock'N'More (talk) 01:58, 7 June 2010 (UTC)

Bluesbreakers as a band name

Regarding the previous note:

The band name John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers that was used by the band subsequently is derived from the title of this album; no original issues mention the Bluesbreakers as band name.

The original liner notes clearly state "In John Mayall and Eric Clapton we have the two most dedicated blues musicians in this country. Together with John McVie and Hughie Flint, they make up John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers." As such, I've removed the note.

Lukpac (talk) 04:04, 27 March 2012 (UTC)