Well again I bought this for ( I shot the sheriff.) The other tracks are fine, Idont care I bought it, and I'm happy.
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Eric Clapton cd excellent delivered on time
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Awesome as always
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Superb cd
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Recommend
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Cactus and tissue
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This was Clapton's first album after he stopped taking heroin and because he hadn't practised much during the previous three years (1971-74) his lead guitar playing was a little rusty. Consequently on 461 he and his new band of American musicians settled on an understated, almost minimalist, approach for most of the songs with basically no tweeter shredding solos - to great effect as this is arguably Clapton's most coherent collection in his four decade career. Highlights are the classic crossover rock/reggae groove of I Shot the Sheriff, the emotional cry for help from the depths of Give Me Strength and the sexual tension of Get Ready, as well as the George Harrison influenced Let it Grow (Clapton has written that he ripped off Led Zeppelin's Stairway to Heaven on that one but I can't hear it myself). Add to that two driving rockers in the semi-autobiographical Motherless Children and George Terry's Mainline Florida and covers of three classic blues numbers delivered with rock steady precision, it makes for an outstanding listening experience. Clapton's singing voice had suffered during his addiction and he became a much stronger singer later (check out 1980's Just One Night) but even so his laid-back vocals on this album are convincing and really suit the restrained material.Two other points worth mentioning are the fantastic chemistry between the musicians, especially the rhythm section, where drummer Jamie Oldaker and bassist Carl Radle excel and Tom Dowd's production, where amongst many other good things he achieves the most natural drum sound of any producer I have heard. Despite his perpetual restlessness and the subsequent peaks he scaled Clapton never found better co-conspirators than these Oklahoma boys and on 461 they helped him show he was not still a serious player still capable of making an album with strong tracks all the way through. It's no surprise therefore that it was massively successful and it still stands up as a milestone of 1970's rock.Read full review
My husband had this album on cassette when we first met back in 1980 and we loved it, listened to it ALL THE TIME when we were driving around in his horrible old van. I'd never heard Eric Clapton before and thought it was amazing, just listen to the lyrics of "Please Be With Me". So I just had to get it for him on CD. Great album!!! You won't be disappointed.
i have been a fan of eric clapton though his career from the yardbirds to cream to deric & the dominoes blind faith i could go on and on i just love listening to blues rock & roll and 461 ocean boulevard eric clapton is joined by musicians from tulsa oklahoma where the legend jj cale comes from so when i saw the album i just could not resist buying it so basically that is the reason
This is a classic from EC. Here is a album he did after he had just come of the drugs, this album got him back into the swing of things again.It is one of the best albums he has done.Get 461 and make your own mind up. Brillant.
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