Rating: - seminal and timeless! a must for all guitar lovers
This is a fantastic album. Clapton's playing from one so young (he was 21) and Mayall's singing and keyboards, and arrangements, are just spine-chilling. Best moments for me - Clapton's solo on "Have You heard" and the whole band/arrangement/composition "Double Crossing Time". Oh, and by the way, you get to hear Clapton's first lead vocal on record - "Ramblin on my Mind". Great band, great performances and SO well recorded - hats off to Mike Vernion and decca!
I first heard it in 1972 on a ... Read More
Rating: - Beyond brilliance
I first listened to this album when it was released during the 1960's
I was 17 years old and could not believe what I was hearing!
A truly ground breaking album that influenced most aspiring guitar players of that era.
The Bluesbreaker album features the young Eric Clapton at his best, in my opinion he has never surpassed the sublime guitar breaks on this album, he was truly inspired when this was recorded, with the great John Mayall's haunting vocals and keyboard skills, John Mcvie's ... Read More
Rating: - can you imagine...
I was going to mention Clapton's christening of the Les Paul, Marshall setup, but others have beaten me to it. I liken it's impact to what happened to harp playing when Little Walter and other's deciding to blow through the PA or an early guitar amp. They REDEFINED the sound of the instrument.
So all I'll add is the rhetorical question...can you imagine being a teenage Brit, having been reared on the sounds of the Beatles, Jerry and the Pacemakers, or even the Dave Clark Five, wandering ... Read More
Rating: - The most important guitar album of all time!
The best guitar player of the time on top of his game. Classic tracks. The perfect combination of guitar and amp. Incredible solos... Listening to this album it is easy to see why rock took the directions it did. This is the blueprint for pretty much every rock/blues album that followed, and in my opinion the closest Clapton ever got to this ever again is on Layla... This is Essential.
Rating: - The album that changed my life.
On a week's holiday with my parent's in Littlehampton in Sussex during the summer of '66, as ever, I found a record shop. Without much money as I was still at school, (just), I had the choice, in my mind anyway, between two albums; The Mother's Of Invention's 'Freakout,' and 'Bluesbreakers.' Maybe there had been a lot of publicity at the time about 'Freakout,' I can't remember, but for some reason I was torn between which one to buy. Probably the fact that I was a Yardbirds fan and had listened to 'Five ... Read More
