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?
“ 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.