Cream "I Feel Free" solo question

xSkarloey

A 'splitting hairs' type question this! But it's one thing I've never been 100% about. 

Was playing this solo and it brought the question back into my mind: The point where Clappo goes from 'woman tone' to the screaming treble sound for the final pattern in this solo: 

Do you think he's going from front pup (tone down) and to the back pup (tone up) via the selector switch? 

Or do you think he's just on the back pup and winding the tone up very quickly. 

 occurs at 1:42.

not_the_dj

Love that solo, possibly my favorite Clapton moment. I've always thought he was changing pick-ups.

xSkarloey

not_the_dj said:

Love that solo, possibly my favorite Clapton moment. I've always thought he was changing pick-ups.

Mine too. 

There's archive footage of him on Youtube playing it live with the SG seeming to change pups. Could be that on disc too. 

Begs the question what other people here do to go from one to the other which is just as interesting to me. 

RocknRollDave

Definitely sounds like neck pickup, tone rolled off, switched to bridge pickup, tone open wide, to my ears.

richardhomer

Never given it a moment's thought.

Whatever he did, it sounds bloody marvellous though.

And a lot of 'Dorian' in it too...

xSkarloey

richardhomer;270130" said:

Never given it a moment's thought.

Whatever he did, it sounds bloody marvellous though.

And a lot of 'Dorian' in it too...

That probably means you have your mind on better things!

I think he's on the selector switch. The Gibbo's tone pot is just a bit too far away to tely on rolling it up quickly.

ICBM

RocknRollDave said:

Definitely sounds like neck pickup, tone rolled off, switched to bridge pickup, tone open wide, to my ears.

That's what it sounds like to me as well.

koneguitarist

I think the switch as well, similar to Buddy Holly with Peggy Sue, where he had neck pickup on with tone rolled off then a guy standing in front changed switch for solo.

johnnyurq

richardhomer said:

And a lot of 'Dorian' in it too...

http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/lf/feather_260312/lesley-joseph-birds-of-a-feather-stage_5816142.jpg

I would say RocknRollDave has it bang on and it sounds like that to my cloth ears.