Fender Eric Clapton "Blackie" Stratocaster | Guitar of the Day

Pickup selection should not be priority .

my favourite fender guitar

Love 💕 Straturday! My favorite guitar 🎸. I really liked the way you did Crossroads ✅. 👍☮️🌞🎸❤️

Great Playing,Well Done.

Layla is my favorite thing to play. When lemmo plays it I feel like I suck heheh

NAILED THE TONE.

Sweet mellow tones indeed…

Definitely something special from this guy he’s an amazing player

Definitely has the Clapton tone! I believe it was 1983 when I bought my '79 Fender strat used for $480.00 at a local music store that's been out of business many years. Mine is black with a black pick guard and pickups with the bullet truss rod. Pretty cool. I still play it often. I recently got a long overdue fret job done on it from a local luthier. It plays like a dream. Something about a Fender strat. In the late seventies, they were a chunk of wood. Lol Heavy guitar.

Five for the price of three, thanks for the 5 song tribute for the 5 way selector.

Lemmo just goofing around blows me away Great pick for a host

Awesome Mike hope u have a great tour again. 😎😎😎😎😎

Jenn u kick ass :)

Clapton body should have a six screw trem.

cool the boost tbx gives it a tone on lead

Great job! Enjoy the holidays guys. Michael, safe travels back east

Fender and Clapton had a dispute when they first started making "Clapton" Strats because Fender wanted to make them also with rosewood boards but Clapton said no because he use rosewood boards himself. However, apparently Fender made a very, very, select few in that way and released them and I'd kill to get my hands on one. Has anyone here ever seen one? I don't even have a clue what they'd be worth but if someone knew what they had they'd surely be valuable wouldn't they?

Mike is so tasteful.

Girl in the background needs to calm down the sound effects at the beginning of these videos.😊

blackie didn't had a tremolo...hmm

That Sunshine of Your Love cover was sick, amazing guitar playing

I bought an 89' a very early Fender Eric Clapton body off Stratoverse...this was an early number in Fenders Players Series...before the Custom Shop as we know it....This model had the Lace Sensor p'ups...I bought it to turn it into the Gilmour Black Strat...bought everything Custom 50's...Seymour Duncan SS-L5 etc way too bellsy....but my hero is Clapton and I've been wanting to turn it back into Blackie...2018 neck? I'll have to research....lol

Very good man!

I love COCAINE U KILLED THIS

Strangebrew

Racist's guitar with a racist name

this one with 24 frets
a trem like Fender Beck trem
a better neck joint
rosewood fg and perfect 
with a humbucker and with locking tuners = perfect but it does not exist

A Clapton signature with 2 point trem bridge? 🤔

Usually the Clapton Strats have the Mid Boost and TBX fitted, and single play pickguard. Also, the trem is usually blocked off, with six screw Trem system. It seems the person who bought this didn't really want a Clapton Strat in the first place!

Real Blackie didn't had mid boost.

Wow, the sound of that Fender Eric Clapton "Blackie" Stratocaster is awesome and beautiful. I want one of those in my guitar collection.

Can anybody help??
I have a purchased in Australia 1997 Black Fender Stratocastor (deluxe/plus range i wanna say, the case is moulded with the Fender Plus Badge) Eric Clapton lace sensor pickups, pearl white pickguard, 5 way switch with the 25db od 3rd tone pot, anodized silver bridge guides with chrome bridge base, maple rosewood neck with skunk stripe, anodized silver ball bearing LSR nut/guide with anodized silver locking tuner pegs with a serial starting with N7, can provide further details to anyone with possible info. I struggle to find any specificities on the guitar which my dad purchased for me when I was in school. It's all original in perfect working order, I thought I'd drop a comment here and see if anybody piped up before I head to the store I acquired it and see if they can offer any further info on it, history rocks! Thanks if you took the time to read this 👍

I have a G&L George Fullerton model Strat that I got for my 50th birthday in October 2004. It is a copy of a 1957 Strat with the boat neck and a hardtail bridge, black with a white pickguard and maple neck. I think it is a closer copy to the original Blackie Strat then Fender ever made.

Knockin' on Heaven's Door (nice version)
Crossroads
Cocaine
Sunshine of Your Love
Layla

Great sounding guitar, excellent playing! Always enjoy visiting Norm when I'm in LA. Blessings from the Mississippi Delta ... where it all began.

Outstanding!

Awesome🤘🔥

The bridge is also not original, it comes with a vintage one not with the two screw mount.

What was the video about. And learnt how to play for crist sake

Be aware that the Clapton Stratocaster with the boost of has 12 DB mid boost. The same as a hot Gibson Les Paul. As Humbucker power doubles with every 3 DB mid boost a 15 DB mid boost guitar has the double Humbucker power of a 12 DB mid boost guitar ( Gibson Les Paul) a 18 DB mid boost guitar has 4 times the Humbucker power of a 12 DB mid boost guitar. A 21 DB boost guitar has 8 times the Humbucker power of a 12 DB mid boost guitar. A 24 DB mid boost guitar has 16 times more Humbucker power than a 12 DB mid boost guitar. At 25 DB mid boost the Clapton Stratocaster is more than 17 times more powerful than a Gibson Les Paul Humbucker wise. The reason it starts at 12 DB mid boost is because it has Humbucker pick ups. Vintage noice less pick ups are Humbuckers. The Lace senzor pick ups that were there earlier were even more powerful than the Humbucker pick ups in the Clapton signature Stratocaster. So this is as far away from a Stratocaster you can possibly come. Clapton himself does not see it as a Stratocaster. He writes in his self biography he used a Stratocaster for 8 to 11 years. He started playing the Stratocaster in 1974 ( yes his earlier solo albums were recorded with a Gibson Les Paul ( see page 179 in his self biography ). In 1982 Clapton was fed up with the Stratocaster and signed for a Company called Strings and Things. They made his first signature guitars and had great Humbucker guitars. Clapton at this time was looking for the most powerful Humbucker guitar available. A year or 2 later Fender offers Clapton the most money ever given to a guitarist to sign with Fender. Clapton answers ” If you can make Me the absolute most powerful Humbucker guitar in the world I sign with Fender ”.
Fender suceeds with making the absolute most powerful Humbucker guitar the world has ever seen and Clapton signs with Fender.
Thats the guitar Clapton has used since early 1986 and became the Clapton Stratocaster in 1988. Its without a doubt the absolute most powerful Humbucker guitar in the world still today. Clapton played a Stratocaster from 1974 to December 1985 but has to deduct the contracted time with Strings and Things and therefore Clapton says he played a Stratocaster for 8 to 11 years. If you buy this guitar be sure to have a very powerful amp as a normal amp Will break down immidiately from the brutal power of the Clapton Humbucker Stratocaster.

sThe Clspton signature Stratocaster is 17 times more powerful Than a Gibson Les Paul Humbucker wise. The absolute most powerful Humbucker guitar in the world because of its Humbucker pick ups ( vintage Noiceless and the insane 25 DB mid boost. This Off course is not a Stratocaster it only looks like one.

The Strats on "Cocaine" play the main riff in like ten different ways ... I can never figure out all of them.

I bought an Eric Clapton Strat and it's the best guitar I have ever had - highly recommended . I had a Yngwie Malmsteen Strat - Custom Shop .

Clapton's guitars have all five strings and a wooden block cuz he doesn't use the tremolo so that's been modified

Love my 2008 Eric Clapton strat!

The 2 problems With the Clapton Stratocasters if you like normal stratocasters are 1. Because of the stacked Humbuckers ( Fender vintage noice less ) it can never sound like a normal Stratocaster. Physics does not allow it. The Clapton Stratocaster has always 12 DB mid boost even without the boost button. So it Will always be a lot more powerful than a Stratocaster. Its weakest position 12 DB mid boost is a lot more powerful than a Gibson Les Paul Humbucker wise.
2. At 25 DB boost its Way too hot. As Humbucker power doubles with every 3 DB mid boost its between 25 to 30 times more powerful than a Gibson Les Paul Humbucker wise. The Clapton Stratocaster is the absolute most powerful Humbucker Guitar in the world. This is as far away from a Stratocaster as you possibly can come. I dont understand why Fender calls it a Stratocaster because it Will fool a lot of customers wanting a real Stratocaster. Clapton according to his auto biography only used a real Stratocaster for 8 to 11 years. He started recording With a Stratocaster in 1974. The earlier solo records and Derek and the Dominos were recorded with a Gibson Les Paul by Clapton ( see page 179 in his auto biography. ), by 1982 he was fed up With the Stratocaster and Signed with a company called Strings and Things. They made excellent Humbucker guitars and even made the first Signature Clapton guitar. A year or 2 later Fender offers Clapton the biggest offer ever to sign With Fender. Clapton answers ” If you can make me the absolute most powerful Humbucker guitar in the world I sign With Fender ”. Fender succeds in building the absolute most powerful Humbucker guitar the world has ever seen. Nothing even gets close even today. Clapton then signs With Fender. Thats the guitar Clapton has used since early 1986 and became the Clapton Signature Stratocaster in 1988. Clapton only used a real Stratocaster from 1974 to December 1985. But deducted With the time he was under contract with Strings and Things and played their guitars he states in his auto biography he only used a Stratocaster for 8 to 11 years. In the eightiees he used the Fender Elite s lot when playing Stratocasters. The Elite has a mid boost from 0 to 12 DB boost. Clapton only used it on its maximum 12 DB mid boost.

does this have the midboost gain mod where it takes a battery ?