Seriously, I'm really sorry. I was in a shitty mood when I wrote that and I took my shittiness out on you for no damn reason. Sorry for being so shitty.
Egad, you're right! Moving it from a major to minor context makes it almost unrecognizable. Now I'm gonna have that stuck in my head all day, or until I take out the Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash and put Cream in...
Someday, I gotta get you a copy of a bootleg I have of Hendrix playing Sunshine of your Love. It's the best live recording I have by any artist. It has a dead-on parody of Clapton's solo... not to mention some outright abuse of the audience.
The second half of the solo is the good half, though. I never thought Clapton was much of guitar player, really, but the second half of this solo is cool...
His best playing was pre-Yardbirds as far as I am concerned. Although he occasionally shows blasts of brilliance (Rollin and Tumblin in the Cream reunion show ... just blistering, the rest is guitar wank at it's worst)
Back before he felt the need to show off all the time, and to solo for 10 minutes at a stretch.
I blame him for a lot of the bad guitar playing that followed Cream. Anyone can play flash and fast, I want someone to either excite me to a point of unreasoning joy, or to make me weep. Clapton just makes me cry.
My favorite moment in his career, the guitar lesson he got from Robbie Robertson in the Last Waltz movie.
Sadly, Robertson is another example of guitar player gone bad...by the time the Band hit 1973 his playing was complete wanky-drivel, and thusly so was the Band. There was no sign of the guy who had played on "going to acapulco".
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Date: 2006-04-08 07:06 pm (UTC)Hey, has anyone else noticed that ice is really frozen water???
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Date: 2006-04-08 07:14 pm (UTC)I've been listening to that song for 30 years now ... never occurred to me ...
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Date: 2006-04-08 08:41 pm (UTC)Someday, I gotta get you a copy of a bootleg I have of Hendrix playing Sunshine of your Love. It's the best live recording I have by any artist. It has a dead-on parody of Clapton's solo... not to mention some outright abuse of the audience.
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Date: 2006-04-08 10:26 pm (UTC)The second half of the solo is the good half, though. I never thought Clapton was much of guitar player, really, but the second half of this solo is cool...
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Date: 2006-04-08 11:12 pm (UTC)Back before he felt the need to show off all the time, and to solo for 10 minutes at a stretch.
I blame him for a lot of the bad guitar playing that followed Cream. Anyone can play flash and fast, I want someone to either excite me to a point of unreasoning joy, or to make me weep. Clapton just makes me cry.
My favorite moment in his career, the guitar lesson he got from Robbie Robertson in the Last Waltz movie.
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Date: 2006-04-08 11:30 pm (UTC)Sadly, Robertson is another example of guitar player gone bad...by the time the Band hit 1973 his playing was complete wanky-drivel, and thusly so was the Band. There was no sign of the guy who had played on "going to acapulco".