Clapton is OK, his Cream stuff was OK. SRV, Hendrix, Buddy Guy, etc. etc. Those are virtuoso's of the guitar. Clapton is very sterile in his playing. He is over rated.
And don't get me wrong, I like Clapton and love his Cream stuff, but he isn't the virtuoso that many clam. Hardly innovative at all, just a run of the mill blues player. He became a commodity in the sixties because he was a white American man playing delta blues and hard blues rock. So what? he hasn't done a thing since Cream and Derek and the Dominoes.
Sue me
I must clam that Eric Clapner being white had little or nothing to do with his success!
Yoi! What......... was Hendrix playing the whacked-out, zoned-out white guy thing? Personally, I think Jimmy was less-than-great.
I'm a 'Moody Blues' wonk....... M. Pinder
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