14SUNSHINE OF YOUR LOVE CREAM

(1967)

Woman tone and a tribute to Hendrix

Sunshine was actually bassist Jack Bruce’s riff, inspired by seeing a Jimi Hendrix gig. Clapton simple doubled Bruce’s part, adding 7th chord strums on the repeats. It’s the ideal riff for learning the blues scale because it hits each note almost in sequence. Clapton used his psychedelic SG known as The Fool, turning off the tone on the neck pickup for the most famous example of his Woman Tone. Given the myth around Clapton, hard info on his amp choice is thin on the ground, but at this time he favoured Marshall JTM-100S, massive KT66 powered amps he ran (naturally) on 10.