Who else thinks Eric Clapton SUCKS?

What a sorry wannabe he is. His music's crap too.

:nuke:

every single note he plays hurts my ears.

or Keith Richards.

Clapton Blows!

These chilluns with no contextual knowledge of the history of rock 'n roll. Clapton was the first, and the ultimate guitar god. The only equal in stature, in terms of impact, is Hendrix.

Cream. "Crossroads." 1968.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l16jlallBMs

Richards is a great ..... rhythm guitarist. Page is a second-generation noodler.

there's not a guitarist in the US South that can't play better than that English git.

is not a great guitar "player"

He is a master of effect.

and I talk about both him and Clapton in terms of impact on the history of rock. Probably no two guitarists has a greater impact on that history, in terms of influence on the art of the electric guitar.

Hendrix did lots of theatrical stuff, too, but he really could play.

Voodoo Chile.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3TkPRjf4TSY

everyone else how it's done. No one before or since has mastered the guitar like Jimi. (except possibly Stevie Ray)

named "Guitar Magazine's" Guitarist of the Year (1977 to 1981).




Clapton is the most OVER-RATED player ever.

Steve Howe.

Impact on rock aside, this guy is the best PLAYER... ever. Between his musical vision and his ability to make it reality, there are none better.

I also told you about his awards


Now listen, and worship at the altar. Here he's playing a steel slide... good stuff.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bJZD0GCkJ6Q

play close attention to the build-up towards the solo (the solo is great, but he really works his way to it). it's not just about moving your fingers quickly, it's about having something to say w/ those finger.

And his accoustic is pretty good too

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZiA1XBXAE6U

Period.

I'm not saying that what he did wasn't any good... but as a player... no. He could make sounds from that thing that most people would never believe, but not because he was picking and strumming in melodic sequences.

He's the master of effect.

It was only BECAUSE he had the technique of a god that he COULD make those sounds come out. He could play anything in any style.

and he did it better than anyone

..my Respect for your opinion is tremendous.

I'm a fan of Larry Carlton and Jim Hall but your "Choices" are Wonderful. :)

really.

He also, aside from genius guitar player, was a very good songwriter, a rare talent among the very good players.

but still no Jimi Hendrix

:D

j/k

I love Yes.

Awesome, versatile player.
Dave Gilmour is probably second in my book. Distant, but second.

The best color in the world is yellow. True or false?

Yeah yeah I get it with the guiatr God thing but I just never liked his songs much and MY GOD were they overplayed to the point of nuisance

That title belongs to the late great Mick Ronson.

he was also capable of exquisite string arrangements. Not a bad piano player either.
Rest in peace

eom

Man knows how to handle a guitar.

:silly:

:D

He's put that song on EVERY live CD and DVD he's released since it was first spawned on the "Slowhand" album (1977)...

THIRTY YEARS of hearing that P.O.S. song over and over and over again.

THREE FRIGGING DECADES!

The thumping sounds you hear on the track aren't percussion. They're bluesman Robert Johnson rolling over in his grave.

THIRTY YEARS, DAMMIT!

GOD, do I HATE that effing song.

I mentioned to my SO how I thought the song was lame and boy did I get an ear full. I do like his Bell Bottom Blues but I think that's because it was playing during my happy innocent high school days when the future looked bright and promising. Another song which played on and on that drove me up a wall was the "Cocain" song. I hated it.

Never got into Clapton.

You know what I like about him the most? He doesn't take himself very seriously.

They nearly killed one another on stage.

swear to god...I have a friend who knows the fellow who promoted the Rod Stewart Group show in Boston and he told me the story just a couple of months ago.. The van broke down in traffic, Beck crawled underneath, fixed the problem, and then they made their way to the hotel.
Jeff Beck is indeed a helluva man.

he has or had a large collection of different makes and years of american street rods

participating in the starmaking hype machine.
He knows that he is a brilliant musician and apparently could care less if PR flacks trumpet the news to the world.

I used to have it, then lost it. I really need to get a copy of it again.

maybe? Great record.

Although if that one was good, I may give it a listen as well.

greatest guitar album ever.

Much obliged.

http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/5937559/the_100_greatest_guitarists_of_all_time

1 Jimi Hendrix
2 Duane Allman of the Allman Brothers Band
3 B.B. King
4 Eric Clapton
5 Robert Johnson
6 Chuck Berry
7 Stevie Ray Vaughan
8 Ry Cooder
9 Jimmy Page of Led Zeppelin
10 Keith Richards of the Rolling Stones
11Kirk Hammett of Metallica
12 Kurt Cobain of Nirvana
13 Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead
14 Jeff Beck
15 Carlos Santana
16 Johnny Ramone of the Ramones
17 Jack White of the White Stripes
18 John Frusciante of the Red Hot Chili Peppers
19 Richard Thompson
20 James Burton
21 George Harrison
22 Mike Bloomfield
23 Warren Haynes
24 The Edge of U2
25 Freddy King
26 Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and Audioslave
27 Mark Knopfler of Dire Straits
28 Stephen Stills
29 Ron Asheton of the Stooges
30 Buddy Guy
31 Dick Dale
32 John Cipollina of Quicksilver Messenger Service
33 & 34 Lee Ranaldo, Thurston Moore of Sonic Youth
35 John Fahey
36 Steve Cropper of Booker T. and the MG's
37 Bo Diddley
38 Peter Green of Fleetwood Mac
39 Brian May of Queen
40 John Fogerty of Creedence Clearwater Revival
41 Clarence White of the Byrds
42 Robert Fripp of King Crimson
43 Eddie Hazel of Funkadelic
44 Scotty Moore
45 Frank Zappa
46 Les Paul
47 T-Bone Walker
48 Joe Perry of Aerosmith
49 John McLaughlin
50 Pete Townshend
51 Paul Kossoff of Free
52 Lou Reed
53 Mickey Baker
54 Jorma Kaukonen of Jefferson Airplane
55 Ritchie Blackmore of Deep Purple
56 Tom Verlaine of Television
57 Roy Buchanan
58 Dickey Betts
59 & 60 Jonny Greenwood, Ed O'Brien of Radiohead
61 Ike Turner
62 Zoot Horn Rollo of the Magic Band
63 Danny Gatton
64 Mick Ronson
65 Hubert Sumlin
66 Vernon Reid of Living Colour
67 Link Wray
68 Jerry Miller of Moby Grape
69 Steve Howe of Yes
70 Eddie Van Halen
71 Lightnin' Hopkins
72 Joni Mitchell
73 Trey Anastasio of Phish
74 Johnny Winter
75 Adam Jones of Tool
76 Ali Farka Toure
77 Henry Vestine of Canned Heat
78 Robbie Robertson of the Band
79 Cliff Gallup of the Blue Caps (1997)
80 Robert Quine of the Voidoids
81 Derek Trucks
82 David Gilmour of Pink Floyd
83 Neil Young
84 Eddie Cochran
85 Randy Rhoads
86 Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath
87 Joan Jett
88 Dave Davies of the Kinks
89 D. Boon of the Minutemen
90 Glen Buxton of Alice Cooper
91 Robby Krieger of the Doors
92 & 93 Fred "Sonic" Smith, Wayne Kramer of the MC5
94 Bert Jansch
95 Kevin Shields of My Bloody Valentine
96 Angus Young of AC/DC
97 Robert Randolph
98 Leigh Stephens of Blue Cheer
99 Greg Ginn of Black Flag
100 Kim Thayil of Soundgarden

:eyes:

I've seen players in LA bar bands that are better than Clapton.

What did Eric ever do to you?

...and has been for decades, long before Wenner cared more about corporate profits and "US" magazine than he did about the "Stone. Are you fucking kidding, posting a "Rolling Stone Best of" in 2007? Anyone with a millimeter's worth of rock comprehension knows better than to cite "RS" as an authority on anything.

:spray: What a joke!

. . . to get Jack White THAT undeservedly lofty ranking?

This is like one of those "Rolling Stone Wants To Be SPIN, but little do they know BOTH magazines suck the balls of the dead" moments.

Wenner also probably feels a certain affinity for a fellow pudgy boy

Skydog, too.

(Or one hundred, as the case may be.) :P

All of those losers could only play, like, one guitar at a time...or if they did manage two, they couldn't add a violin into the mix! ;)

Leaving off Eliot Easton of the Cars invalidates it. Kudos, though, for someone finally ranking Duane Allman amongst the all-time greats.

...If Jimmy Page wasn't God, Eric Clapton would be.

He isn't even the best blues guitar player, but he is still pretty damn good. he is a great guitar player but there are a lot fo better ones out there.....

think he is a wannabe. You can not like his music, but saying he is a wannabe is silly! A wannabe what? He pretty much is; he doesn't have to want to be anything.

that "Clapton Is God" nonsense all over London.
And THAT's exactly how the MYTH started

..Derek and the Dominoes and even then he playing dual lead except for about two tracks.. Nothing he's done since comes close. However listen to The Blues Breakers (the Beano album), Cream, Blind Faith and His first solo album. (The 1973 Rainbow Concert Album has it's moments)

Best guitar player ever-Duane Allman-no contest!

Next I would put Jeff Beck, then Robbie Robertson.

The greatest axe-man alive...plus he wears a cool hat.

He'll even tell you so himself as he's pitching his crappy guitars on late night infomercials.

If boring mainstream music is the standard of what a great guitarist is then I guess he's super duper.I'll take someone like Agata Ichirou from Melt Banana or even Trey Azagthoth from Morbid Angel (not their biggest fan...but the mofo can play!).

And just once I'd like to go into a bar and NOT hear fuckin' Cocaine for the billionth time. :puke:

He used to be good.

First it's dissing Zep, now EC????

EC is part of the Trinity - Hendrix, Clapton, and _________ (your choice but NOT Steve Howe). I personally put SRV in.

Bake

That seems obvious. ;)

The "snob appeal" of naming someone that no one has ever heard of, and proclaiming them the "best ever" (just look up a couple of posts, I've already forgotten the name because I never heard of 'em anyway).

There is a considerable amount of pretentiousness on DU.

Bake

not at the head of it. Jimi is seated at the head, and most rightfully so. Seated next to Jimi? Stevie Ray.

I've never liked him. And as a guitar player myself for 35 years, I've heard pretty much everything he's done.

Strangely, Clapton hisself would agree with me.

Another point: Technique has little to do with how great a rock guitarist is perceived to be. Any garden variety jazzer could play circles around most rock guitarists, but only the best of them could create something as beautiful as 'Little Wing'.

I had a copy of 'Live Cream, Vol. 2' back in the early Seventies. I traded it to a friend for 'Free Live'. I still have (and practically worship) it. Paul Kossoff, now there's a great blues rock (pop?) guitar player. Dead tooooo long. Sigh....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leGAYNe2UzU