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 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".