Posted on 05/29/2024 2:48:01 AM PDT by mbrfl
Err...
that should probably be
one of Saddam’s sons-in-law
Even this dipshit?
Christopher Cross.
Yes, Christopher Cross. Just curious. Did you see Rick Beato’s video on him?
Google, MS, Apple, TikTok, Snapchat and Twitter (X) run the world.
Yes. I didn’t realize how great a guitar master he was till I saw that video. Then I listened to all his songs again.
I left out Pat Metheny.
If we can go into the great guitar masters that have passed on, then Glen Campbell and Tommy Tedesco would have to be at the top of the list. Jimi Hendrix, Stevie Ray Vaughan, BBKing, Albert King….
All these guys could play circles around Clapton, and he’d be the first to admit it.
Clapton is a standard blues guitarist. He rarely plays outside the box. He was the Father of British blues and for that genre, yes, he’s the best. But like British food, it lacks a lot of spice.
“ But you’ve probably never heard of them”
You have no clue about who or what I know. Music and aviation are right in my wheelhouse.
Then you should know that Clapton is not the best guitar player of all time.
Maybe he’s in the top 10 of most influential, but as far as musical skills, technique and innovation, there are at least 100 who could play circles around him. And he’d be the first to admit it. He called Tommy Emmanuel the best guitar player he’d ever heard. Have you even heard of him? Tommy Emmanuel said that Chet Atkins was the greatest guitar player he’d ever heard.
Most rock guitar players put Jimi Hendrix at #1.
As far as Blues, have you heard Robben Ford? He took the blues to a whole new level and continues to do it every time he releases a new album. And honestly, is Clapton even in the same league with Joe Bonnsmassa? Really?
I’m not reading your novella.
No problem.
“ Then you should know that Clapton is not the best guitar player of all time”
That’s not a claim I have ever made. I just refuted the claim that he was average.
Hendrix wasn’t around long enough to be the best ever. Maybe had he lived and put out more music.
Randy Rhoads was the player I was most impressed but too short of a career also.
Stevie Ray Vaughan certainly was getting there too.
I like Satrani
Tom Schultz is up there too.
My personal favorite is Mark Knopfler but I don’t think I would rank him 1.
Eddie Van Halen deserves a mention.
My other favorite are in Jazz like George Benson, Lee Ritenour and Norman Brown.
He supports KGB Russia and Hamas. Guess who will not be seeing his son in Heaven.
So Clapton feels bad for the Nazis and Nuremberg and screams about Israeli rule, because he thinks that importing antisemitic Muslims is a Jewish plot. Drug abuse does bad things to the brain
Classic self-abuse, where success in life is taken for competence in other areas of life.
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