Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton Beano Album vinyl lp 1st press A1 B1 with Comic
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Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton Beano Album
1st press A1 B1
Comes with Beano Comic
The vinyl plays well, sounds great. For the condition of the cover see the pictures.
There is a jump on the second track on the B side Parchment Farm, but that's the only blemish on the LP the rest of the album sounds amazing the quality of the pressing really shines through. There is some damage on the cover as you can see from the pictures, but not enough to spoil it.
Blues Breakers with Eric Clapton (a.k.a. The Beano Album) is a 1966 blues/blues rock album recorded by John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers with Eric Clapton as part of the band. It is the second album credited to John Mayall after the live John Mayall Plays John Mayall. Clapton left to form Cream after this recording, though would team up again in 1971 for the double LP Back to the Roots.
It is also known as The Beano Album because of its cover photograph showing Clapton reading The Beano, a British children's comic. Clapton stated in his autobiography that he was reading The Beano on the cover because he felt like being "uncooperative" during the photo shoot. The photographer was Derek Wedgbury and the location was near the Old Kent Road.
Originally, John Mayall intended for his second album to be also a live one in order to capture the guitar solos performed by Eric Clapton. A set was recorded at the Flamingo Club, with Jack Bruce (with whom Clapton would subsequently work in Cream) on bass. The recordings of the concert, however, were of bad quality and were scrapped.
With the original plan of a live album now discarded, John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers recorded Blues Breakers at Decca Studios, West Hampstead, London in March 1966. The guitar that Eric Clapton used during these sessions was a sunburst 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard with two PAF humbucking pickups. This guitar (which was stolen in 1966; its whereabouts remain unknown) is also called the "Blues Breaker" or "Beano" Les Paul and a replica of which was reissued by Gibson in 2012. Critics consider Clapton's guitar tone and playing on this album to be influential in the artistic and commercial development of rock-styled guitar playing.
Side one- "All Your Love" (Otis Rush) – 3:38
- "Hideaway" (Freddie King, Sonny Thompson) – 3:17
- "Little Girl" (Mayall) – 2:36
- "Another Man" (Mayall) – 1:47
- "Double Crossing Time" (Clapton, Mayall) – 3:04
- "What'd I Say" (Ray Charles) – 4:28
- "Key to Love" (Mayall) – 2:08
- "Parchman Farm" (Mose Allison) – 2:22
- "Have You Heard" (Mayall) – 5:56
- "Ramblin' on My Mind" (Robert Johnson) – 3:08
- "Steppin' Out" (L. C. Frazier) – 2:30
- "It Ain't Right" (Little Walter) – 2:45
Studio album by John Mayall & the Blues Breakers
Released 22 July 1966 Recorded April 1966 Studio Decca, London Genre Blues rock, blues Length 37:39 Label Decca Producer Mike Vernon
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