>>124226071
Well, I don't like a lot of his recordings, but still wish I had even a fraction of his talent. And I like him personally. About the most unpretentious musical legend there is. He's really an average Joe.

it doesn't matter how proficient you are at playing an instrument. what matters is your songwriting and the emotion your playing brings out in people, which clapton is not good at for the most part.

>>124226337
He's not a one hit wonder at least. Better than most people. But better in a band context. Just wasn't stable like Jimmy Page who kept with one band.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OU6iplEflzs

Clapton figured out electric rock guitar
It's easy to be unimpressed but dude was light years ahead of his contemporaries, and there was noone to copy. he listened to obscure american black slave guys as a white british kid in Peengland and managed to take it to the next level
there was no dude in the UK who could teach you to do what he did
for peak Clapton guitar genius, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers and obviously the Cream albums
the motherfucker could play
BB fucking King, a real black guy, would tell you the same
He was the best of the British players, Gaylmour, Page, Beck would all agree
https://youtu.be/Az7sLKGOUe8
>muh Hendrix came to England BTFO him
not even close. Hendrix was awesome. E-Clap humbly pretended to be in awe of Hendrix but that was just virtue signalling, Hendrix never came close to level of what I just posted on electric guitar

>>124226337
Nigga he literally wrote layla

>>124226583
this and I know I'll get clowned but Tears In Heaven he made in his 40's after throwing his kid out of the window is one of the most heartwrenching, make you cry songs of all time
and it's not even a showcase of his talent at blues guitar solo'ing, it's just a straight up song

>>124226592
Anal Cunt was going to name a song Eric Clapton's Son Killed Himself Because His Father Sucks but were pressured out of it

>>124226583
The only good parts in that song were written by Duane Allman

>>124226601
for zoomers
https://youtu.be/FVinzg2PuXU
https://youtu.be/qxcE0fKZn8Q

>>124226606
>The only good parts in that song were written by Duane Allman
actually, the best part... the outro... is written by a schizo that murdered his parents

>>124226704
I associate it with mafia shit now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Z6MJIjCJ20

>>124226071
it's not contrarianism, he is not that well regarded anymore in most places, not just /mu/

I went to school with a Mexican metal chick whose parents named her Layla, after the song.

>>124226764
>he is not that well regarded anymore in most places
only because people are too stupid to realize that the future guitar heroes built upon what Eric Clapton did. SRV, EVH, name your guitar hero built off of Clapton. Any 13 year old kid now can build of EVH and think they are better than Clapton but electric blues rock barely existed before Eric Clapton
The majority opinion is wrong, Clapton literally was and is a great guitar player

>>124226782
Did she have you on your knees, begging her to ease your worried mind?

>>124226803
Nah, she nicknamed me Flaco. Then everyone called me that. I'm not even Mexican, but I think it means skinny. I don't think she respected my strength. I should've showed her. Oh well.

>>124226908
>I'm not even Mexican
cap

>>124226922
I'm a hapa who gets mistaken for one. But then, some people think I'm a Slav or Turk. Depends where I'm at.
But enough about me. More Clapton.
Diddy's favorite Clapton song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UkWccgl-9vs

>>124226592
Man I fucking agree 100% about Tears In Heaven. A definitely sad heart wrenching song and gets made fun of a lot but is genuinely a great pop ballad.

He had some other great hits like Let It Rain and Wonderful Tonight. There's a handful of good ones and a few good covers he did. He was in cream, played with Duane allman, close friends with George harrison... He's worthy enough

>>124226514
>Hendrix never came close to level of what I just posted on electric guitar

Hendrix would do that and a lot more.
Jimi basically invented a new style of playing guitar, which was to fluidly move between legatos and chords, and chord bending and back to a little chord fragment then making the sound just dive into a low register with the whammy bar
For Hendrix it was all about fluidity, playing in this interstitial space between chords and the typical bluesy fillers, making the music come out of unexpected places, instead of just doing the old tired blues, running on the same old scales back and forth like Clapton

However, although I hold that Hendrix was phenomenal and one in a eon, his influence on guitar was terrible. It was like Nirvana's influence on rock. He was great because only he could do that magic, but those who immitated him ended up noodling like a bunch of nerds, eventually leading to the 80s style.

>>124227565
It's kind of strange that EVH would say Clapton was his big influence when it sounds like Jimi more like. At least in that fluidity between rhythm and lead.

>>124227599
Yeah EVH was not really that bluesy. But then I suspect a lot of artists kept secret their real influences and only paraded some names because it was useful for them in some way. Maybe EVH wanted to gain Clapton's sympathy or something. He couldn't do that with a dead Hendrix.

>>124227653
He was more bluesy in his rhythms and groove, but I'm glad he didn't totally copy Hendrix whole style. Just that flow he had was Hendrix like. That and their energy. They both sound like they're harnessing a lightning bolt. To me, the best guitar players do. It's controlled chaos. I suppose Clapton could be like that live as well (i.e. see Crossroads).

Hendrix was not as technically advanced as EC and Hendrix was also pretty sloppy
Hendrix strength as a musician is NOT lead guitar
it's rhythm guitar and songwriting
Hendrix's best songs were art fag shit

>>124226789
SRV and EVH aren't nearly as popular as they used to be either. The most popular guitar heroes are probably Jimmy Page, Jimi Hendrix, and Tony Iommi.

>>124226963
Do you ever LARP as being something other than hapa IRL?