CREAM - Eric Clapton at his Best!!

This is the solo from Spoonful with Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce at the Royal Albert Hall.

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[GregDaviesguitarist]

Just reading the the Clapton doubters comments.... These people know shit. As a guitarist myself I realise that by these days standards Clapton is an average player technically. But, with Eric it's about emotion. If you can't hear that you wanna consider being a musician. He was doing this in 1964 for fucks sake!!!!!

[Lifindo]

oh my.... this is really awesome...Clapton can touch your hearts with his music. He doesn't only shows the skill. This is not a guitar lesson.

He try to tell us what is in his heart. When you can feel what's on his heart, you know that he is a living legend.

[playingforbritain]

@glezzery62 Also, what's wrong with a Stratocaster?

[playingforbritain]

@glezzery62 Firstly, I NEVER said that anything he did AFTER Cream was ground-breaking or anything like that - I always think that artists lose the shock factor after about their first five or ten years. I was just trying to say that he does more than pentatonics and people still find him interesting. Secondly, while his newer stuff may not be at the forefront of music, "Clapton", for example, is a refreshing album in many ways. And how do you know how old I am?

[glezzery62]

@playingforbritain Cream's last album came out 43 years ago, before you were even born, dumbass.

[glezzery62]

@playingforbritain ASS, i asked you what has he done in the last 30 years or so that is so Advanced and Ground-Breaking, which you claim. Layla isn't even ground-breaking. It's a standard rock tune. Maybe you should try trolling stupid people who don't notice you don't support your claims.

[playingforbritain]

@glezzery62 In 2000, a spokesman said "Eric Clapton receives numerous offers to play in countries around the world" (Wikipedia), and in 2010, Clapton features " his singing guitar throughout the song’s conclusion" with Autumn Leaves (Michael Fortes). Satisfied?

[playingforbritain]

@glezzery62 Ok... In Cream (60s), he had "the most experimental album he ever made" with Disraeli Gears (Chris Jones), with Derek and The Dominoes (70s), he wrote a song that "stands not just head and shoulders above anything else here but much else in the rock canon" with Layla (Sean Egan) In the 1987 Brit Awards, he gained "the prize for Outstanding Contribution to Music" (Wikipedia), with his Unplugged album (90s) he is "(showcased) as one of the master craftsmen of his instrument"

[glezzery62]

@playingforbritain So, what exactly can you point to that Clapton has done in 30-40 years that is ground-breaking and quite advanced? One way he could be still selling records is by playing bland commercial that folks find "Ground-Breaking!" and buy at every turn, while greatly exaggerating his technique and over all music.

[playingforbritain]

@glezzery62 Ok, shut up firstly. Clapton has done something different with every decade and, while some or all of those things don't interest you, some have been ground-breaking, some quite advanced and all interesting to the many people who bought his albums. How else would he have released his first albums barely into his twenties and still be recording and selling now?

[glezzery62]

Eric should toss that Strat in the garbage, pickup a Les Paul or an old SG, crank up an old Marshall, and stop playing rudimentary pentatonic blues. This stuff is boring. Clapton is boring. His concerts are a complete snoozefest of mediocre laid back music. Unbelievably over-rated and some of the stuff about his emotion and vibrato is just nonsense. The guy hasn't progressed in decades.

[azidiot99]

this is good but Eric has improved with age. Today he is even better