Guitarist even played live with the group in question, but later ended up forming a new project with one of the members
Having in the curriculum names like Yardbirds, John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith and participation in discs Beatles, George Harrison and Roger Watersamong others, with whom the most Eric Clapton Could you want to record?
The guitarist has always praised the The band as an inspiration to achieve the sound it produced with the Derek and the Dominos and for the turn in his solo career. However, it is not exactly she the band he considered entering.
In an interview with Rolling Stone American (via Far Out) In the early 1970s, Clapton said he would have agreed to enter the Trafficif it was called. However, the invitation never came:
“I was hungry to play. I went to see them (Traffic) in Oxford and I could touch them. Steve (Winwood), the Jim (Capaldi) and the Chris (Wood). And I liked the sound. I didn’t think they were better with me playing with them, but I felt they needed another instrument. I hoped that after that show I was invited. If it had been, I would have entered. Simple as that. But I was not invited, so it didn’t happen. “
Graduated in Birmingham in 1967, the group had already released prominent albums as Mr. Fantasy (1967) and Traffic (1968).
Clapton did not join Traffic, but ended up forming a band with vocalist and guitarist Steve Winwood, Blind Faith. In it, it also had the bassist Ric Grechfrom Familyand the drummer Ginger Bakerold acquaintance of the times of cream.
However, Blind Faith lasted only one record. The homonymous debut released in 1969 was the first and only recorded by the band, highlighting songs such as “Can’t Find My Way Home”, “Presence of the Lord” and “Had to Cry Today”.
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