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Eric Clapton Just Caught the Year's Biggest Salmon in Iceland
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| 6/29/2017
| Lauren Steele
Posted on 06/28/2017 10:08:13 PM PDT by DeathBeforeDishonor1
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To: Salamander
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1; Sicon
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
To: laplata
To: nickcarraway
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posted on
06/29/2017 1:24:27 AM PDT
by
lefty-lie-spy
(Stay metal. For the Horde \m/("_")\m/ - via iPhone from Tokyo.)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
and spent two and a half hours reeling it in Slowhand
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posted on
06/29/2017 1:47:11 AM PDT
by
lonevoice
(diagonally parked in a parallel universe)
To: Fungi
one of the greatest musicians of all time By whose measure?Anyone with an ounce of good taste?
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posted on
06/29/2017 2:41:20 AM PDT
by
ETL
(Obama-Hillary, the REAL Russia-US scandal (UraniumOne Deal, Missile Defense, Nukes) See my home page)
To: LS
*ping of possible interest*
To: Fungi
Oh for God’s sake, the guy caught a fish. Can you guys stop the judging BS for one second?
With that log in your eye it must be difficult to see the picture.
To: dorothy
Actually, he was born Eric Clapp.
...and the fish’s name is Eric. He’s an halibut.
To: nickcarraway
Yeah, it’s from last year. This article doesn’t have any date on the page. Easy mistake.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:37:22 AM PDT
by
Hugin
(Conservatism without Nationalism is a fraud.)
To: DeathBeforeDishonor1
Takes a ‘slo hand’.
Tight lines!
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:49:41 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Flick Lives
...and the fishs name is Eric. Hes an halibut. Well he better get a pet fish license then
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:51:35 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: laplata
“Pretty much every guitar player in the world”
Oddly enough Clapton would not agree. He’s rather humble in that respect and understands that a lot of his Fame was due to being at the right place at the right time. And I respect him for that.
He’s a good Blues guitarist and he paved the way for other guitarists such as Bonamassa who is a gigantic talent in a time that probably will not allow him (Bonamassa) to overshadow Clapton. It’s sort of a chicken and the egg thing and which came first. Of course we all know Clapton came first over Bonamassa but Clapton didn’t really come first. The old bluesman from the Mississippi Delta whom Clapton emulated came first, and that’s another thing that Clapton humbly understands and gives due credit. I respect Clapton for that also.
Personally I prefer Ted Greene and other Jazz guitarist such as Gambale and Holdsworth over Clapton. But Clapton is very listenable and I do appreciate his catalog.
Was Layla and other assorted love songs ever remastered? I would like to hear a remastered version because the original was very muddy sounding to me and Duane Allman kicked some serious buttock during those sessions. The whole line up on Layla was spectacular.
Nice fish by the way... at that size and age it wouldn’t taste all that great. But Clapton has spent a lifetime catching and releasing various things... But the fight was probably worth every second of pleasure that was derived from it.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:56:25 AM PDT
by
Clutch Martin
(Hot sauce aside, every culture has its pancake, just as every culture has its noodle.)
To: Fungi
one of the greatest musicians of all time By whose measure? Clapton's only brush with greatness was in the late 1960's, when Leon Russell played piano on his first album.
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:59:11 AM PDT
by
Dixie Yooper
(Ephesians 6:11)
To: dorothy
Clapton was born on 30 March 1945 in Ripley, Surrey, England, to 16-year-old Patricia Molly Clapton (7 January 1929 March 1999) and Edward Walter Fryer (21 March 1920 15 May 1985), a 25-year-old soldier from Montreal, Quebec.[11] Fryer shipped off to war prior to Clapton's birth and then returned to Canada. Clapton grew up believing that his grandmother, Rose, and her second husband, Jack Clapp, Patricia's stepfather, were his parents, and that his mother was actually his older sister. The similarity in surnames gave rise to the erroneous belief that Clapton's real surname is Clapp (Reginald Cecil Clapton was the name of Rose's first husband, Eric Clapton's. maternal grandfather).
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posted on
06/29/2017 3:59:41 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: nickcarraway
Catching the same fish two years in a row...I am impressed.
To: Dixie Yooper
Most people don’t know the late great Leon Russell anymore . He was an incredibly talented song writer and adequate piano player.
As far as Clapton. I’ve seen him with Cream, once and multiple times by himself. He is incredibly proficient. He does not entertain (no stage show) he is just good. He is no Andrés Segovia.....no Doc Watson. But for a rock/blues performer he is close to the best. Along with the rest of Yardbirds Triumvirate he is one of the best.
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posted on
06/29/2017 4:11:06 AM PDT
by
Vaquero
(Don't pick a fight with an old guy. If he is too old to fight, he'll just kill you.)
To: Fungi
Yes, one of the greatest of all time.
To: Clutch Martin
Bonamassa?
I don’t think so.
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posted on
06/29/2017 4:15:03 AM PDT
by
caver
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