Watch ERIC CLAPTON Join HAWKWIND for Eight Songs During U.K. Show

05 December 2019

ERIC CLAPTON linked up with HAWKWIND for a lengthy guest turn during their show in Guildford, England, part of the space-rock band's 50th anniversary tour.

The ex-CREAM guitarist came onstage during "The Watcher," a 1972 track written by future MOTORHEAD frontman Lemmy Kilmister before he split with HAWKWIND.

Adding bluesy licks and solos on his Fender Stratocaster, CLAPTON hung around for the rest of the main set and full encore, playing on seven additional songs: 1970's "Hurry on Sundown," 1971's "Silver Machine" and "Master of the Universe," 1973's "Welcome to the Future," 1975's "Assault and Battery" and "The Golden Void" and 1992's "Right to Decide." Watch two of them below.

CLAPTON is a longtime friend of singer-guitarist DAVE BROCK, HAWKWIND's lone original member. The pair often played guitar together during their pre-fame teenage years in the early '60s.

CLAPTON was so young that he didn't yet own an instrument. "I used to play blues guitar and Eric didn't have a guitar," BROCK told the Quietus in 2011. "We used to sit there and I would show a few chords to him, 'off you go' and then [later] he'd have his guitar, we used to sit there playing together. I've got some photographs from then."