Eric Claptons Favorite Guitar Solo Duane Allman on Wilson Picketts 1. Cover of the Beatles Hey JudeAsk a group of guitarists to name their favorite guitar solo, and theres a pretty good chance someone will mention Eric Claptons solo on the live recording of Crossroads, from Creams 1. Wheels of Fire album. So then, whose solo does Eric Clapton like On more than one occasion he has singled out Duane Allmans breakthrough performance on Wilson Picketts R B cover of the Beatles Hey Jude. In late 1. Allman was about 2. Allman Brothers Band. Eager to make a name for himself, he showed up at Rick Halls now legendary FAME Studios in Muscle Shoals, Alabama, to offer his services as a session guitarist. Lick Library Learn To Play Eric Clapton' title='Lick Library Learn To Play Eric Clapton' />Slide guitar is a particular technique for playing the guitar that is often used in bluesstyle music. The technique involves placing an object against the strings. Look-Inside/covers/19529054.jpg' alt='Lick Library Learn To Play Eric Clapton' title='Lick Library Learn To Play Eric Clapton' />Hall told Allman he already had more guitar players than he could use. Allman asked if he could just hang around the studio and help out if the need should ever arise. Praxis Program Management. I mean, this was Duane, Hall said to Allmans biographer Randy Poe. He was hell bent for stardom and nothing was going to stop him. Hall let the young guitarist hang around, and before long he was playing on a few sessions with Clarence Carter. Hall liked what he heard, and Allmans crucial moment arrived shortly afterward, when the former Stax recording artist Wilson Pickett showed up at the studio unexpectedly. As Poe writes in his book Skydog The Duane Allman Story,Pickett came into the studio, says Hall, and I said, We dont have anything to cut. We didnt have a song. Duane was there, and he came up with an idea. 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Were gonna cover the Beatles Thats crazy And Pickett said, No, were not gonna do it. I said, Their singles gonna be Number 1. I mean, this is the biggest group in the world And Duane said, Thats exactly why we should do it because the Beatles single will be Number 1 and theyre so big. The fact that we would cut the song with a black artist will get so much attention, itll be an automatic smash. That made all the sense in the world to me. So I said, Well, okay. Lets do it. The original Beatles version of Hey Jude is over seven minutes long. Pickett was determined to keep his version shorter, to make it suitable for radio play. At four minutes long, it was still more than a minute longer than the average popular song from that era. Most of the extra time is taken up by Allmans explosive rock and roll style guitar solo. From the moment Duane plays the first lick ten seconds into the coda, writes Poe, until the song fades out over a minute later, it is entirely his show. The background vocalists are singing those familiar na na na nas but its all for naught. Rick Hall has pushed them so far down in the mix, they are merely ambiance. Absolutely nothing matters but Duanes guitar. When it was over, everyone rushed to hear the playback. Hall was so excited he picked up the telephone and called Atlantic Records producer and executive Jerry Wexler, who had sent Pickett to Muscle Shoals. Writes Poe Hall cranked up the volume, held the receiver near the speakers, and played the recording all the way through. The guitar player, naturally, blew Jerry Wexler away. Who is he Wexler asked. Hall told Wexler that Pickett called him Sky Man. He said that Sky Man was a hippie from Florida who had talked Pickett into cutting the tune. Wexler persisted. Who the hell is he Names Duane Allman, Rick replied. Before Pickett christened Allman Sky Man, the guitarist already had a nickname he was fond of Dog. In keeping with it, he always wore a dog collar wrapped around his right boot, like a spur. So the two nicknames were combined, and Allman was known thereafter as Skydog. Although Pickett recorded Hey Jude against his will, he liked the result so much he made it the title song of his next album. And right about the time the Beatles version was coming down after nine weeks at number one on the American charts, Picketts version started going up. It peaked at number 1. R B chart and number 2. When Clapton first heard Allmans solo on his car radio, he reportedly pulled over to the side of the road to listen. I drove home and called Atlantic Records immediately, Clapton said. I had to know who that was playing guitar and I had to know now. Listen to the full song Related Content Here Comes The Sun The Lost Guitar Solo by George Harrison. Eric Claptons Isolated Guitar Track From the Classic Beatles Song, While My Guitar Gently Weeps 1. 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