Clapton

[bunsen burner]

I'm a long time fan albeit not a massive fan. Some really good stuff and some mediocre stuff. Post your favourite Clapton stuff here.

I'll leave White Room and Crossroads for others. Here's my two all time favourite Clapton songs:

 

[Plugger35]

I reckon Clapton's best work was with Cream, incredible band.

People always mention bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who when discussing the great English bands of the 60s but Cream were probably better than all of them.

 

[Zuma]

Ole Slowhand. Good that he has grown back his hair. Cream were an incredible group, had a few of those in the later 60's that were together for only a short time such as Jimi Hendrix Experience, Buffalo Springfield, The Doors, etc

Good pals with George Harrison, had a lot in common, fast cars, guitars, women

 

[Plugger35]

Ole Slowhand. Good that he has grown back his hair. Cream were an incredible group, had a few of those in the later 60's that were together for only a short time such as Jimi Hendrix Experience, Buffalo Springfield, The Doors, etc

Good pals with George Harrison, had a lot in common, fast cars, guitars, women

I read a book about Clapton and he had a period in the early 70s where he became a reclusive heroin addict and pretty much gave up music altogether and it was only George Harrison's benefit concert for Bangladesh in around 1973 that was able to coax him back into playing again.

He's had a pretty interesting life and career with so many different phases to it. A true rock legend in every sense of the word.

 

[Marlowe]

A couple of beautiful underrated faves

 

[Marlowe]

 

[Marlowe]

 

[JimDocker]

This John Mayall's Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton first got me interested in the blues. I had a tapeof this that I reckon I played 500 times. Scorching guitar breaks on this album. I enjoyed a lot of Eric's career and love the Blind Faith, Cream era, Derek and the Dominoes were fantastic. And yes, I liked his early solo stuff too. He concentrated on more melodic music in his early solo time and it stands up well I reckon.

 

[mark73]

This John Mayall's Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton first got me interested in the blues. I had a tapeof this that I reckon I played 500 times. Scorching guitar breaks on this album. I enjoyed a lot of Eric's career and love the Blind Faith, Cream era, Derek and the Dominoes were fantastic. And yes, I liked his early solo stuff too. He concentrated on more melodic music in his early solo time and it stands up well I reckon.

That along with Duane Allman and Freddie King was what got me interested in guitar.

 

[JimDocker]

I think Hideaway is a Freddie King song? Not 100 % sure.

 

[mark73]

I think Hideaway is a Freddie King song? Not 100 % sure.

You're right.

 

[Black Diamond]

 

[Partridge]

That along with Duane Allman and Freddie King was what got me interested in guitar.

Me too. Had a horrible running battle going on deciding who was better out of Clapton, Mick Taylor, Duane Allman and Peter Green (if we're talking the pure white blues guitarists).

The jury's still out.

 

[Partridge]

I reckon Clapton's best work was with Cream, incredible band.

People always mention bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who when discussing the great English bands of the 60s but Cream were probably better than all of them.

Musical ability most definitely. For output and songwriting and so forth harder to argue. There are some average songs on the albums, and the less said about Anyone for Tennis the better.

 

[Partridge]

That song is partly the reason why he left the Yardbirds. The blues "purist" that he was couldn't bear to be in a band that had commercial success. It turned out quite ironic, when you listen to what (and who) the Yardbirds morphed into, while Clapton spent the '70s creating shit like Lay Down Sally.

 

[mark73]

Me too. Had a horrible running battle going on deciding who was better out of Clapton, Mick Taylor, Duane Allman and Peter Green (if we're talking the pure white blues guitarists).

The jury's still out.

Never really a Clapton or Taylor fan. Good players , but not really my cup of tea.

 

[Partridge]

Never really a Clapton or Taylor fan. Good players , but not really my cup of tea.

I still love the early Clapton stuff - Bluesbreakers, Cream, plus the Derek & the Dominoes album. But over time I've concluded Taylor is far superior. Now that Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out has been remastered there's compelling evidence too. Not to mention his own Bluesbreakers stuff too. Plus he could play rhythm. Clapton still can't.

 

[Black Diamond]

My personal favourite:

 

[eldorado]

the less said about Anyone for Tennis the better.

I'd best not get into the merits of Pressed Rat and Warthog, then...

 

[eldorado]

The last quality playing Clapton did was on Roger Waters' Pros and Cons of Hitch-Hiking...Love the Bluesbreakers stuff (where he cranked his Marshall up, and stuck the mic 30 feet away for the ambience), really like Layla and Assorted etc, but as the 70s wore on, the smack and the booze wore him out. A snoozefest now...

 

[The Passenger]

I reckon Clapton's best work was with Cream, incredible band.

People always mention bands like The Beatles, The Rolling Stones and The Who when discussing the great English bands of the 60s but Cream were probably better than all of them.

i'm all over the shop with cream. they have some ripper tunes - swalbr, white room, tales of brave ulysses, sunshine of your live, strange brew but they also had some songs i just can not sit through - pretty much all of 'fresh cream', and also songs like 'sitting on top of the world'.... but yeah when they hit it, they are sweet to listen to. ginger baker massively underrated as a drummer.

no doubt eric claptop has had one of the more interesting lives going around. he's pretty much had the full scale of life experiences.