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The trips to London

The trips to London introduced him to a second tier of musicians — Junior Wells, J. B. Hutto, Hound Dog Taylor — for whose work Dobell’s record store was the sole British outlet. Clapton also possessed a reel-to-reel Grundig tape recorder with which, night after night, he honed his technique. According to Rose Clapp’s son Adrian, “[Clapton] swore and cursed till he could copy the sounds exactly, from as many records as he could get hold of.”

Christopher Sandford, 1999, from the book Clapton : Edge of Darkness, Rev. Ed.