Eric Crapton

hammertime · Post by **hammertime** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 3:19 pm

I was watching this clown the other night on a show about Robert Johnson (whom I like) on PBS. This guy has to be the single most overrated guitar player on the planet. He looked like a turtle or something, with his little round head bobbing around while he played. He played cliche after cliche riff with this faux American bluesman voice -- it was almost kind of funny if it wasn't so pathetic. This guy really captures the spirit of mediocrity (which is probably why so many people like him).

;ivlunsdystf · Post by **;ivlunsdystf** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:05 pm

Is there anything that you actually like? Well, I guess you mentioned Robert Johnson. Anyway, I agree with you about Eric Clapton, although I must concede that the ride cymbal during the breaks in "Cocaine" is one of the coolest things ever committed to tape. I heard a rough audience recording of one of the recent Cream reunion shows and the performance was positively stale. Word.

hammertime · Post by **hammertime** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:47 pm

Right now I'm listening to Roy Smeck (Roy Smeck plays Hawaiian Guitar, Banjo, and Ukelele.). It's a trip how alot of older music like Django Reinhardt, Smeck, Fats Waller (etc. -- there's some more stuff I like) doesn't paint in such broad strokes (heavy-handed chord banging crap like Crapton's version of Cocaine). The music is more subtle, the lyrics kind of corny (when there are lyrics), but the emotion comes from the musicianship, not these broad, floundering emotional cliches.

dither · Post by **dither** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 6:54 pm

I never understood the fascination with Eric Clapton...or how he became a blues man. B.B. King thinks he's alright though *shrug*

djuny · Post by **djuny** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:27 pm

I know it's not cool to like popular artists, but you can't be serious about hating on Clapton, can you? Ever hear the Mayall stuff? Cream? 461 Ocean Blvd?

Now granted, he has been spotty throughout his career, but geezus, how can you completely dismiss the person who gave us Disraeli Gears and Wheels of Fire?

;ivlunsdystf · Post by **;ivlunsdystf** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 8:38 pm

Oh, darn. I forgot about Wheels of Fire. "Pressed Rat and Warthog", however unClaptonesque, got me through the difficult years of eighth and ninth grade. You got me there. I stand by my opinion of the later Clapton.

JGriffin · Post by **JGriffin** » Mon Dec 05, 2005 9:38 pm

I tend to prefer the lap steel playing of Lester Fernfuffle, who played with the McGee/Flaherty Rhythm and Rhythm Band and later formed the Pebbles. The greatest uke player in history (though admittedly he played dustbowl uke, not Hawaiian, but Hawaiian's sellout crap anyway) was Skin'n'Bones Murphy, from Webster Klorn's band, the Harper County All-Stars.

Oddly, the best jazz harmonica player I've ever heard is this Hungarian dude who was a contemporary of Django's. His name was Nandory Szepeszszesikiszi. Played a chromatic harp and one of those really huge bass harmonicas. Great chops, that guy.

Girl Toes · Post by **Girl Toes** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 1:27 am

Eric Clapton liked my Tribute To OJ Simpson song, that's the only reason I like him in return.

I like Layla unplugged, even tears in heaven, and while my Guitar Gently Weeps is pretty cool, I guess. I'd call Clapton OK.

Now The Who, that's an over rated band!

curtiswyant · Post by **curtiswyant** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 6:09 am

Clapton has played on tons of shit we don't even know about...

Marlowe · Post by **Marlowe** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 7:03 am

I agree completely.

I have to give him credit for the Beano/Mayall album, While My Guitar Gently Weeps and Cream, though. Since Cream he's dedicated himself to representing boringville 100%!

hammertime wrote:I was watching this clown the other night on a show about Robert Johnson (whom I like) on PBS. This guy has to be the single most overrated guitar player on the planet. He looked like a turtle or something, with his little round head bobbing around while he played. He played cliche after cliche riff with this faux American bluesman voice -- it was almost kind of funny if it wasn't so pathetic. This guy really captures the spirit of mediocrity (which is probably why so many people like him).

honkyjonk · Post by **honkyjonk** » Tue Dec 06, 2005 11:05 pm

Pressed Rat and Warthog?

Crapton couldn't have had much to do with that song. He certainly didn't "bring it to us." Neither did he "bring" us Wheels of Fire or Disraeli Gears. All he did, like always, is sit there and wank out unmotivated lead guitar in the same blues scale he has always played, while Jack Bruce sang his ass off, and Ginger Baker played like a genious.

While My Guitar Gently Weeps would have been way better if there was no Crapton on it. Even just blank space would be an improvement. I always thought that should have been a mariachi song anyway.

joelpatterson · Post by **joelpatterson** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:03 pm

Well, it's a free country and we're all able to say what we think.

Within reason.

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Wed Dec 07, 2005 9:51 pm

"How is Eric Clapton like Turkish coffee?

They both SUCK without CREAM!

honkyjonk · Post by **honkyjonk** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 11:43 am

Hmmm.

Turkish coffee every morning for me, without cream. Shucks.

Gets the bowels moving like gangbusters.

joelpatterson · Post by **joelpatterson** » Thu Dec 08, 2005 8:09 pm

Hmmm... is that got something to do with the lyric "I wait in a place where the sun never shines"?

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