Clapton can play but his blues is souless...discuss

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Just my opinion, I acknowledge that hes an amazing player but there's no feeling in his blues stuff, just very guitar playing by numbers for my liking.

Much prefer Freddie King, Buddy Guy and if your talking English players I think Paul Kossoff is one of the most under rated players ever , great vibrato.
 
Not now but back the day with the Bluesbreakers and Cream he was far from AOR/MOR.
 
bananaman said:
Just my opinion, I acknowledge that hes an amazing player but there's no feeling in his blues stuff, just very guitar playing by numbers for my liking.

Much prefer Freddie King, Buddy Guy and if your talking English players I think Paul Kossoff is one of the most under rated players ever , great vibrato.
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On some tracks certainly true. I would also add bobby 'blue' bland and BB king himself to your list of excellent soulful blues musicains.
 
I don't agree

Heres a good video..... his solo is in the end, but please watch it all.

 
bananaman said:
Just my opinion, I acknowledge that hes an amazing player but there's no feeling in his blues stuff, just very guitar playing by numbers for my liking.

Much prefer Freddie King, Buddy Guy and if your talking English players I think Paul Kossoff is one of the most under rated players ever , great vibrato.
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Clapton plays "Blues by the numbers" these days, goin through the motions.
 
forgot about SRV, an absolute legend, and Hendrix of course had some mean blues chops "Red House" springs to mind.
 
They had a name for Clapton in the 50's. 'Guitar Hero'
 
see jack bruce has been airing his opinion on cream over zeppelin:


It’s good news that there might be more from Cream.
Well, the trouble is that I’m doing so many amazing things on my own. Cream is just a band from many, many years ago, and we did do something [referring to the reunion shows in 2005]… Everybody talks about Led Zeppelin, and they played one fecking gig – one fecking lame gig – while Cream did weeks of gigs; proper gigs, not just a lame gig like Zeppelin did, with all the [vocal] keys lowered and everything. We played everything in the original keys. [Becoming animated]: feck off, Zeppelin, you’re crap. You’ve always been crap and you’ll never be anything else. The worst thing is that people believe the crap that they’re sold. Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is.

That’s a bold opinion.
What? You’re gonna compare Eric Clapton with that fecking Jimmy Page? Would you really compare that?

To be fair, they’re different kinds of player, aren’t they?

No! Eric’s good and Jimmy’s crap. And with that I rest my case.
 
sammymc said:
see jack bruce has been airing his opinion on cream over zeppelin:


It’s good news that there might be more from Cream.
Well, the trouble is that I’m doing so many amazing things on my own. Cream is just a band from many, many years ago, and we did do something [referring to the reunion shows in 2005]… Everybody talks about Led Zeppelin, and they played one fecking gig – one fecking lame gig – while Cream did weeks of gigs; proper gigs, not just a lame gig like Zeppelin did, with all the [vocal] keys lowered and everything. We played everything in the original keys. [Becoming animated]: feck off, Zeppelin, you’re crap. You’ve always been crap and you’ll never be anything else. The worst thing is that people believe the crap that they’re sold. Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is.

That’s a bold opinion.
What? You’re gonna compare Eric Clapton with that fecking Jimmy Page? Would you really compare that?

To be fair, they’re different kinds of player, aren’t they?

No! Eric’s good and Jimmy’s crap. And with that I rest my case.
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Jack Bruce sounds like a Citeh fan bemoaning the fact that Zep were a bigger, more successful band. At least Cream had the taller floodlights. What a cock.
 
when it comes to english blues players(as opposed to rock guitarist...pagey everytime for me there) Peter Green is the one...his solo on Need your love so bad on the Shrine 69 live cd is fecking sublime.
 
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