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I don't "get" Eric Clapton

#202
slobake said:
Someone mentioned Fleetwood Mac earlier. I would ask if they have heard the older stuff with Peter Greene. That was a very different band than the later version. Hey maybe you still won't like it , that's okay too.
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They were still yet another different band in the middle years with Jeremy Spencer, Peter Welsh, and Danny Kirwin before they became the Buckingham and Nicks band. That's my favorite incarnation of that band - Kiln House, Bare Trees, Penguin, Mystery To Me, Future Games, and Heroes Are Hard To Find.
 
#204
blue4 said:
I know a lot of people who loved that song unplugged.
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+1, Clapton opened a whole new audience with the unplugged version, so he made a little cash, I like cash. When the Layla album first came out it took a few years before radio and audiences took notice. The songs some people don't like by Clapton including 'Wonderful Tonight' and and unplugged Layla brought in the female audience that helped his career's longevity. I loved Cream, but they weren't exactly make out records.;)
 
#206
mellowinman said:
If you say he's the best ever, I'll argue with you. If you say he's not that great, I'll argue with you.
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^^^This. His playing has never been my personal cup of tea, but I really respect his body of work. Well, maybe not that 461 Ocean Blvd crap... :) But the guy's a pro, and even his most rote blues wanking conveys more sincerity and passion than the entire repertoires of a gazillion other "better" (sic) guitarists.
 
#207
Personally, the "Slowhand" album is one of my favorites. I love "Lay Down Sally," "The Core," "Wonderful Tonight," and the song "Next Time I See You" led to a recurring dream I had where Eric Clapton was trying to kill me. I couldn't figure out why I was dreaming it, until I was listening to that song one day, and realized the following lyrics had gotten into my subconscious somehow:

"And if you see her again
I will surely kill you
And if you see her again
I will surely kill you"

Thanks, Eric!
 
#208
bolophonic said:
Dude, I'm all for getting rich with a guitar, but c'mon.... Taking your most overplayed song and phoning in a campfire strum-along version MINUS THE SIGNATURE RIFF? Sure, plenty of people ate it up, but that doesn't make it good.

And don't get me started on Wonderful Tonight. That is the sound of a man hitting menopause.
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Apparently the signature riff wasn't required for some people. It works just fine.

Wonderful tonight is not my cup of tea either.
 
#212
I was in a band for about 20 yrs before we went our different directions.
One of the last songs we learned and played was - You are wonderful tonight.
Not a dry eye amongst the ladies in the audience.
They all came up to us after and said it was the most beautiful thing they ever heard.
Sometimes it is good to play to the audience.
 
#213
His unplugged effort stands as my favorite from him. Of course it is charged with a lot of emotion due to the death of his child, still it is an honest, great concert with some of the best modern blues acoustic work and singing. I'm certainly not in the Clapton is god camp. I'd take Rory Gallagher over him any day of the week. Still, you could put him side by side with the greats and not get much argument from most I'd think.
 

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