Eric Clapton - the only thing worth mentioning.

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Cream - after that he's a joke.

Thanks to Jack Bruce, Eric's seeds are dried up due to massive heroin intake!





Enjoy kids.
 
Really? :confused:

Everyone is entitled to their opinion and I'm not a big Clapton fan, but to say that he was a "joke" after Cream is a little harsh. I don't have time to look up the numbers, but the time he spent in Cream is what, less than 10% of the work he's done? Since then he's played thousands of shows, released multiple top-selling albums, written dozens of songs that charted and worked with most of the greatest artists on the planet. That's more success than most people can ever dream of. The jokes on you :D
 
I prefer his solo stuff.Journeyman was great. Never blew me away as a player but he wrote some great songs.
 
I used to think that way about Clapton. But I have changed my mind over the years. I think a lot of his stuff is pretty good after Cream. Sure it wasn't as fiery but he had some cool tunes over the years. Besides the drugs I think he got more into songs and less into being a guitar player. I still love the Cream stuff the best, but he kept up a high level of blues rock guitar all his life and you cannot take that away from him.
 
Man, Clapton has more talent in his toe nail clippings then half of us could ever dream of.
 
I think Clapton's actual guitar playing gets elevated past the level is his because of his overall musicianship which is singing, writing the tunes, constructing albums and tours, being the front man etc. I mean, if he played incredibly technical stuff he'd have a Varney album catalog with 12 fans. I was never a fan of his guitar playing but that's a small part of his deal IMHO. Yes, a lot of his fans are the one's who hype his playing though.
 
Don't usually respond to these idiotic threads but you are a dumbass :thumbsup:
 
My appreciation of Clapton has grown as I get older. When I was younger, I had no interest at all honestly, even the early stuff like the "Beano" album, I didn't get it. I do now though. His early tone and vibrato were groundbreaking back then. No doubt.
He can still catch fire in a live setting. Some of those jams on the Crossroads concerts are pretty cool. Kudos to him for keeping the guitar center stage in the world of pop and rap/crap.
 
I think his style has gotten better with age (his or mine I'm not sure)
 
Chester Nimitz":2gmcnzmn said:


This was Eric's best tone era .... :thumbsup:
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Love how he hits a bad note at 2:56 and laughs...bass player has a little fun with it :lol: :LOL:
and yeah...great tone there...his Soldano days!!! :rock:
Yeah I didn't get it when I was young either...I wanted to be George Lynch FTW!!!! :D
But I got it later on when I grew some hair on my balls....Eric is a fucking icon!!!! This thread is pure troll garbage...period.
 
That's a Clown question bro! I like his solo stuff better but he's always been one of my favorites. He was widely considered the best guitar player in the world back in the mid 70s. It's like saying the lion isn't the king of the jungle just because the elephant is bigger.
 
Even though not as harshly as the OP put it, I feel similarly. He has some OK songs after cream but he has no period of playing after Cream that inspires me at all. The Cream re-union he did with the Fender amps was just terrible. The tone was so anemic and lackluster and those songs should be on fire. He is a good blues player and has a nice vibrato but so do 100 guys around Atlanta.
 
right, clapton's blues and vibrato (of all things) is like 100 guys around atlanta...

what a thread lmfao
 
Clapton a joke? It's kinda like a lot of people saying Hammett is a joke. Yeah, Kirk isn't EVH but he is in Metallica after how many years?
 
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