The Beano album became a benchmark for how a Les Paul Burst and a Marshall could sound together. But how Clapton achieved this sound is a bit more complex than that… Few guitarists will ever forget the first time they heard Clapton’s ecstatic playing on Hideaway from the Bluesbreakers’ Beano album. The sound that EC achieved in this album has become one of the classic archetypes of what an electric guitar should sound like. His Les Paul strummed hard, his voice guttural but expressive – with the dynamics to reveal the nuance of each phrase – but enough sustained compression to really take flight when Eric lets loose. , hardware, are known. The guitar used was, of course, the Beano “Burst” whose current whereabouts are unknown (though widely speculated).
