Jimi Hendrix smoked Eric Clapton

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thegame said:
Maybe someone can help me out here...I'm quite honestly not very familiar with Clapton's work beyond the radio staples but I once heard a solo track from him on the radio (never heard it before or since) that had an absolutely incredible lead solo with some of the tastiest phrasing I'd ever heard from anyone. The only way I could narrow the search down is that it sounded very much like it came from the 80's, judging from the production and overall vibe. I probably heard this sometime in the 90s so any of his work post 2000 could be ruled out.
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"Cold turkey" from the rush soundtrack?
 
thegame said:
Just checked those out and no. The production was similar but the solo I remember was more extended and adventurous.
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Layla ? - not 80s and not solo Clapton.
Maybe one of these ?
Blues power
She’s Waiting
It’s in the way that you use it.
 
thegame said:
Appreciate the suggestions guys but I'm going to call off the search party because I'm having a hard time sifting through most of this music lol
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tell me about it, i never been a clapton fan, but i wanted to give him a fair shot and wanted to see what all the hype is about.
So i tried to make it through his whole catalog :doh:
 
I always thought his best stuff was with other dudes…. Like traffic…dnd with the master himself-Duane…..
 
valve said:
tell me about it, i never been a clapton fan, but i wanted to give him a fair shot and wanted to see what all the hype is about.
So i tried to make it through his whole catalog :doh:
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Cocaine rock is not my favorite genre
 
CarlF said:
The best Clapton to listen to is the live Cream records, where the whole band is firing on all cylinders, and they’re all improvising. Clapton was un fucking untouchable back then, take my word for it.
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Until Jimi broke him. :cool:
 
I read somewhere that Clapton was so blown away by Hendrix that he thought about giving up guitar. They became friends...but when Clapton heard Jimi passed, he didn't talk to anyone for days. Didn't answer his phone, knocks at the door...he was physically ill after finding out.
That's what I read anyway.

I agree with Carl on the live Cream stuff....I listen to Crossroads fairly often. Great band.
 
rsm said:
Until Jimi broke him. :cool:
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No, I kinda know that era really good.

Jimi absolutely upstaged Eric Clapton that night in late 1966, at the London Polytechnic.
All that happened was, two weeks later Eric grew an Afro. They were friends.
Eric‘s guitar work in 1967 through 1968 era Cream is just off the charts. Jimi went to at least one Cream show that’s documented.
 
CarlF said:
No, I kinda know that era really good.

Jimi absolutely upstaged Eric Clapton that night in late 1966, at the London Polytechnic.
All that happened was, two weeks later Eric grew an Afro. They were friends.
Eric‘s guitar work in 1967 through 1968 era Cream is just off the charts. Jimi went to at least one Cream show that’s documented.
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Eric really kinda peaked in Cream. There were some good tunes here and there in his later work but he seems to have lost that fire that he had in his earlier career IMO.
 
Just because Jimi was bad ass, that doesn't mean Clapton wasn't bad ass. And Terry Kath was definitely bad ass.
 
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