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Cream — Stormy Monday

Wanted to share this cause it’s Cream really well recorded. I can’t play their older stuff on the big rig as much as I like it because it’s not well recorded and I just can’t. But I recently found this recorded live in Royal Albert Hall in 2005 that IS well recorded, and it includes possibly the best Clapton guitar solo I’ve heard and one of my faves ever given its combination of intricacy and musicality — and it’s three masters at work. Fun to watch here, but you can pull it off Qobuz, turn the lights way down and be transported to Royal Albert Hall.  Pretty fun.

https://youtu.be/44GHRBBz_eA?si=urk7Z_W0do2bppug

soix
soix OP
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I don't see what you're objecting you re: my comment about playing the tune as a I/IV/V, given that it was just an opinion. 

@stuartk Apparently he can have his opinions but you’re not entitled to yours — hypocrisy.  Good grief. 

christianb5s4
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Another one worth listening to is Clapton’s Crossroads 2 (Live in the Seventies) album.

 

One more that is stunning is the Cream album Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-4-5-6 2005. My personal fave.

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onhwy61
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T-Bone Walker owns the song, but this is my go to version by Roomful Of Blues, Duke Robillard on the guitar.

 

hysteve
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If you like the RAH version of Stormy Monday, AND I DO, try Soulshine from Allman Bros Where It All Begins. The dueling duo of blues/rock guitars is amazing. First tune I played after my last upgrade and it still blows me away.

jonwolfpell
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Soulshine is up there w/ the Allman Bros classics w/ great guitar work  & Gregg’s vocal is also outstanding. 


I never got why some of of Cream’s recordings are so poor. It’s a shame because the music is excellent! Their engineers must have been joining  in on the heroin et al….

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