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...popular groups is that they have realized that they are not just "doing their thing" but that they are putting on a show, that they are different from their audience in some very material ways, and that they must maintain a sort of friendly inaccessibility. Richard Nixon and Eric Clapton share in common this ability to convey their superiority. That's why both are culture-heroes of different segments of our society. One of the reasons the Boston Sound failed was because of a hip unwillingness to idolize the performers so that, like the early Beatles or San Franciscans, they...
Touchstone of Grit. Then came the recent wave of white, blues-oriented rock. King's guitar style suddenly started echoing through the playing of gifted youngsters like Mike Bloomfield, Eric Clapton and Larry Coryell, who singled him out as a touchstone of musical sincerity and grit. Two years ago, King made his debut at San Francisco's temple of rock, the Fillmore Auditorium. In the past year, he has made his first European tour and started getting college concert dates. And he has just finished his first extended Manhattan-nightclub booking, a week at the Village Gate...
WELL, I LIKE a lot of the new groups. The Beatles. The Beards, whatever. The musicians are better--Mike Bloomfield, Eric Clapton, Butterfield, Jimi Hendrix. "The studios are better": 12-72 track, incredible microphones, stereo. Stereo wasn't even invented when Elvis first came out. "The engineers are better": Shadow Martin. Phil Spector. Jimmy Miller. George Martin...
Then "Big Boss Man," the blues, that's a long time ago, when that record came out. Eric Clapton was fifteen when that came...
...sneaking suspicion that the Beatles stayed away from the blues for so long because they were incapable of it disappears after "Yer Blues." Lacking a guitar virtuoso like Jeff Beck or Clapton, the Beatles have fashioned their own version of the medium, a kind of pop-blues that is faithful to the spirit and style of the real blues. It is so exciting to hear the Beatles play the blues that one is tempted to wish that they might fully commit themselves...