Clapton still rules.

[Bengal]

The difference is im not pissing in your thread....there's the door....

bye-bye

I believe Blazer started this thread. So I suppose if it's anyones, it's his...

Damn dude. Do you really get this pissed when someone calls Clapton boring? Get over it and yourself. It's an internet post board. People come in here with different opinions. Deal with it...

[thez0r]

I think the "unplugged" performance was EC's peak.

[semagic]

Clapton wrote the book on alot of stuff. Before Clapton there was no book.

It's sad to see a bunch of kids on this site who can't show respect for one of the biggest Rock guitar influences that ever was...they would rather listen to cookie monster dethmetal garbage...hey, that's OK....let's see if your heros are being played 35 years from now like Clapton is.

+1

[Top Jimmy B]

It was EVH who led me to Cream and one of the most killer albums I have ever heard - Wheels Of Fire. Sadly, the man who turned my head around on those tunes(Clapton) hasn't been seen or heard from since. This jimmy legged, acoustic Clapton bores me to death - put an SG in his hands and I may be interested again.

[Boomdoggy]

EC will always be one of my heroes.Listen to the studio version of "Have You Ever Loved a Woman".If that doesn't move you,call a doctor,you may well be dead.
A Jackson site is probably the wrong board to find a bunch of blues fans.He does not have the spark he used to,but when he did.....yowza!!!!

[Evol]

I believe Blazer started this thread. So I suppose if it's anyones, it's his...

Damn dude. Do you really get this pissed when someone calls Clapton boring? Get over it and yourself. It's an internet post board. People come in here with different opinions. Deal with it...

It's his thread , and you don't seem to like Clapton, so why don't you go just go away, it was an appreciation for him, if you want to have an anti-Clapton thread go start one.

There's that old saying about opinions, and I guarantee you the people who recognize Clapton for what he's done and still does don't care to hear your "opinions about how boring he is".

Thank you, come again.

Or actually, don't.

[horns666]

I know about Ed slowing down Cream records and learning Clapton solos note for note..although I'm sure that is truly the case ..I NEVER got that connection.

I hear more Jeff Beck in Ed than I do Clapton..because my 'ol friend slowed down VH records and learned Ed's note for note.

[Endrik]

Most of the Ed's licks are actually Billy Gibbons' to the T only "hot-rodded" and mixed with weird Allan Holdsworth-ish jazzy runs

[horns666]

Most of the Ed's licks are actually Billy Gibbons' to the T only "hot-rodded" and mixed with weird Allan Holdsworth-ish jazzy runs

Yeah, most definitely..I was thinking Holdsworth..that legato rum in "When Push Comes to shove" is total Holdsworth..and I can hear a definite Billy Gibbons in him too..even the songs themselves..and I hear a little Page/Zep in his soup too...even some Black Sabbath..well, he was going to call his band "Rat Salad" ..along with Broken Comb, then Mammoth..then plain ol' VH!

[Endrik]

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[chrisolson]

Really? Who is still making out there from 1984 making successful music???? The only few I can think from around 1984 that could come close to the impact Clapton had were EVH,SRV, Randy Rhoads.....Yngwie and Vai had yet to hit,but I would venture to say they had much less of an impact on music that the former.

Let's see EVH(influenced by Clapton btw)? Something about a reunion tour,and basically nothing of any success in a LONG time. Randy -R.I.P. bro......SRV (HUGELY Clapton influence) R.I.P. bro...

Maybe Lynch? Doubt he can even come as close as an influence,but never the less,I think he's playing small places now,and I can't think of the last time I heard him on a non-classic rock type radio station of any merit.

Jake E Lee perhaps...once again I don't see many modern musicians citing him as an influence ,nor heard anything substantial coming from him since Badlands.


While there people may still be "around" and playing "gigs" for the most part,it can't compare to a legend who has been around and valid for 40+ years now,and is still as popular and influential now as ever. The dude writes good songs,which people remember,not whack off guitar solos which only impress the guitar player crowd. He's a blues player,pure and simple,always will be,and yes you CAN do more with one note than a billion,ask B.B. King....better yet go watch the 81 year old man show you how it's done. You might learn something.

And to the rest of you hating on Clapton,piss off.

Really.

Just piss off.

Why in the hell would you come to a thread titled "Clapton still rules" if you think he sucks or whatever? Why come in and piss all over everything just because you don't like it,who gives a flying fuck about your shitty opinion of the man's music?? Go start an Eric Clapton bores me thread or something.

Please.

Move along.

I'm off to find my Xanax :ROTF:

I'll be over to piss on your Captain Crunch again tomorrow morning...

Chill out dude. No one attacked you.

Had a blast seeing White Lion, Firehouse, and Warrant last night in a PACKED house BTW... Seemed pretty successful to me.

[Bengal]

It's his thread , and you don't seem to like Clapton, so why don't you go just go away, it was an appreciation for him, if you want to have an anti-Clapton thread go start one.

There's that old saying about opinions, and I guarantee you the people who recognize Clapton for what he's done and still does don't care to hear your "opinions about how boring he is".

Thank you, come again.

Or actually, don't.

Shit, I'll keep this going as long as you do. This is just too easy...

I don't begrudge Clapton anything. I recognize his importance to modern music. I know he's been quite the influence to alot of guitarists/musicians. That's great. I'm happy for him...

BUT, that doesn't mean I've got "Forever Man" spinning on my iPod. Or "It's In The Way That You Use It". Or "Change The World". Or "Pretending". Or "Bad Love". Or "She's Waiting". Get where I'm going???

Sure, Clapton had some chops in the 60's and 70's but then he changed. He changed for MTV like Aerosmith did. And I think it's for the worse. Do I like "Crossroads" or "Layla"? Sure, decent tunes but I could go without hearing any of those songs I listed ever again in my lifetime. Radio Written Pap. That's all I think it is...

Plus, if the best guitarist was the most influential, Robert Johnson would be the shit around here...

[Evol]

Had a blast seeing White Lion, Firehouse, and Warrant last night in a PACKED house BTW... Seemed pretty successful to me.

How big of a house would that be??? Also, my point is this, when have you seen anything successful come out of those bands, oh let's say in the last 10-15 years?????? How many recent artists cite ANY of those guys as an influence, and which one of those , if any, changed the music scene forever?

Oh, and someone asked how this might tie in with Jackson...think of it this way, without Clapton there would have been no EVH, without EVH would there have been a Charvel? Maybe, but without the striped guitars early on would it have became what it is?

All valid what-ifs in my book.

[VitaminG]

so we have Robert Johnson to thank for Jackson Guitars? Whoda thunkit?

[horns666]

so we have Robert Johnson to thank for Jackson Guitars? Whoda thunkit?

ahhh..ummmm.. there ya go..