Footnotes

• First launched at the NAAM show in 1973, the miniature battery-operated Pignose amplifier was used on many classic rock recordings of the 1970s. Clapton said that he had recorded all the guitar parts of his 1974 song Motherless Children using a Pignose amp, which may well have been this particular amp. Other notable examples of recordings with a Pignose include Joe Walsh's Rocky Mountain Way.
  
  An extract from an interview with Eric Clapton by Dan Forte, Guitar Player, 1976:
  DF: Why do you record at such low volumes?
  EC: There's less interference, less noise. I like to record a lot of tracks as live as possible, including voice. So if you've got a really loud amp, you're going to leak onto everyone else's track, and you won't be able to sing either. I also like to record tracks without cans [headphones]; I like to hear the sound the room is making itself, rather than the balance coming through the board and into the cans. I recorded "Motherless Children" [461 Ocean Boulevard] with just a Pignose mini-amp.
  
  Photo: Eric Clapton playing his 1975 Telecaster (Ex-Lot 19, Crossroads Guitar Auction, Christie's, New York, 1999) through this lot or a similar Pignose at his home in 1978. Photograph courtesy of Pattie Boyd.
  
  Further images of this lot are available at www.bonhams.com/clapton
  

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