Beano.

Last night Carlo came for his guitar lesson and he brought me two cds.

John Mayer Trio Live and John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers .

We listened some tracks from the first one, which is ok,
a little too polished for my taste,it lacks this raw feeling i am after.

Then we put on the second one which is one of my all time favourite blues record.

The first Bluesbreakers album ,featuring Eric Clapton .

This is a trully amazing album that got me hooked the first time i heard it
way back when i was in high school in Athens Greece.

It blew me away and it was the album that changed my life and it made me
decide that, that was exactly what i wanted to do for the rest of my life!

Play the Guitar!

I spent so many hours listening to it trying to figure out every guitar lick
Eric was playing.

It was his sound, his vibrato and his musical taste that had an enormous
impact on me.

Now this album is known to guitar players world wide as the "Beano"
album because of the comics magazine Eric was reading on the cover.

The amazing distorted sound he achieved, playing a
Gibson Les Paul through a Marshall combo ,

and for the fisrt time ever captured on tape, is now a standard reference
for the Gibson Les Paul- Marshall combination.

When Carlo left my studio after showing him the solo intro
and the rhythm guitar from the first song of that album ,"All Your Love",
he was in seven heaven!

As i was, many years ago when i figured out how to play it myself.