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Explore the intricate details and rich history of Eric Clapton's legendary 1964 Gibson SG, famously known as 'The Fool.' Discover the story behind its incredible psychedelic paint job and its role in creating the iconic 'woman tone'.

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00:00I mean, look at it.
00:02It's had a life.
00:03It's had a life.
00:04And yet, what's interesting is I always think when there are artworks on something like
00:08a guitar, in all of the photographs that you'll see over the years, you'll think,
00:13oh, that looks like quite fine brushwork or whatever.
00:14But when you get close to the real thing, it sometimes doesn't look, it looks a bit
00:17more stagey.
00:18But this is actually quite a beautiful little painting, isn't it?
00:21It's really beautiful.
00:21And actually, there's a whole different scene which I hadn't appreciated on the pit guard,
00:25which was, I think, conceived as a separate whole little story in its own.
00:31But it's beautiful.
00:32I mean, it is psychedelic.
00:34It is psychedelia.
00:36It's the embodiment of psychedelia, really, isn't it?
00:38Completely.
00:39It's mad.
00:40It's beautiful.
00:41It's colourful.
00:42And we've found so many photographs of Eric Clapton holding it, and he is also wearing
00:47the most fantastic late 60s clothes.
00:50You know, it is a moment in time.
00:53But it's also so important, because it's the guitar that he, you know, this is where
00:57the woman tone comes from.
00:58Yeah.
00:59This is where that whole, you know, inimitable Eric Clapton magic was created.
01:06Absolutely.
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