His #1 Strat was a 1956 two-tone sunburst with a ... You’ll hear Eric play lines like this in After Midnight, from the Eric Clapton album. As mentioned, Eric loves to incorporate quick ...

Eric Clapton often auctions off his music gear to help fund the Crossroads Centre in Antigua, and it's from the first in mid-1999 that Lot 103 was sold. That 1954 Fender Stratocaster dubbed ...

It's ironic that Clapton is the world's most famous living Fender Stratocaster player, since he made his name playing Gibsons and was rarely seen with a Strat until after the death of Hendrix. And ...

Carlos “CDawg” DC, lead guitarist for Slow Hands Band, a New Jersey-based Eric Clapton tribute act, said he would probably pass on the 1954 Fender Stratocaster that Slowhand himself used for ...

Eric Clapton may have had an extensive career, but some classics are bound to stand out a lot more than others.

ELECTRIC GUITAR WEEK: There are very few guitars that enjoy the status of Eric Clapton’s beloved black Strat, ‘Blackie’, and back in 1994, Guitarist magazine was offered a close encounter. It so ...

he didn't make the switch to his "Brownie" Strat until early 1970, when he began performing with Delaney & Bonnie and Friends, who in turn supported him on Eric Clapton. As Clapton detailed in a ...

When you sold a Strat, people wanted to sound like Stevie Ray Vaughan, or they wanted to sound like Eric Clapton.” The same is true for those at the top of the guitar-food chain. “The first ...