<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><!--StartFragment--> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext">>> Really interesting, during the entire article I kept in mind the Les Paul that Eric used with the Bluesbreakers, stolen since, and that he was never able to find replacement for it. <<</span><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext">Guitar World: Is the Bluesbreakers-period Les Paul the one that was stolen?<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext">[Eric] Clapton: Yes, that one was stolen during rehearsals for Cream. -- ("A Tribute To Slowhand: Clapton, [1985] Interview By Dan Forte" <i>Guitar World</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family: GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext">, December 1989 [Volume 10, Number 12], pp. 32-61, 79-80)</span><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext">...</span><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext">"The 'best' Les Paul I ever had was stolen during rehearsals for Cream's first gig. It was the one I had with John Mayall, just a regular sunburst Les Paul that I bought in one of the shops in London right after I'd seen Freddie King's album cover of <i>Let's Hide Away And Dance Away</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext">, where he's playing a gold-top. It had humbuckers and was almost brand new--original case with that lovely purple velvet lining. Just magnificent. I never really found one as good as that. I do miss that one." -- ("Out From Behind The Sun: (13 April 1985) Eric Clapton Interview By Dan Forte," <i>Best Of Guitar Player: Clapton</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext">, 1992, pp. 64-78)</span><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext">Although EC never found his 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar that he used while with John Mayall And The Bluesbreakers and early Cream rehearsals, he eventually did find a replacement.</span><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext">Guitar World: Do you currently own a Les Paul?</span><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext">Clapton: Yes, a very, very good one that’s almost identical to the one that was stolen. -- (“A Tribute To Slowhand: Clapton [1985], Interview By Dan Forte” <i>Guitar World</i></span><span style="font-size: 14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext">, December 1989 [Volume 10, Number 12], pp. 32-61, 79-80)</span><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext"><o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-family:GaramondLitITCTT;color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext"><span style="mso-tab-count:4"> </span>DeltaNick<o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <div class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:GaramondLitITCTT; color:windowtext"> <o:p></o:p></span></div> <!--EndFragment-->
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