Eric Clapton and Blues Rock

peter green, jeff beck, and john mayall were all from the mid 60s as well.

and to say that eric clapton started it all is just absurd. there were tons of british guitar players that were into the blues. they all were recording around the same time as well.

even keith richards and the rolling stones were doing the blues before eric clapton and the yardbirds were.......

another band that was around even before the yardbirds was the animals.... so really your argument doesnt hold any water.

some people would say that hendrix defined the blues rock genre...... I think even clapton would admit to that...... there was one person that he wishes that he could have been, and that was jimi hendrix..... he even bought a wah wah peddle because jimi had one.

once again, you cant claim that one person started the whole thing. period.

 

don't forget that the reason clapton uses stratocasters is kind of a tribute to Jimi.

 

exactly, all these british guitarists thought they were the shit, until they saw jimi perform.

 

dont forget that in 1967, eric clapton permed his hair as a tribute to jimi.

 

I think we should all perm our hair, in a tribute to Jimi

anyone wit' me?

 

oooooooo lemme get some brylcreem and some quaaludes...... hold on.

 

you guys forgot about rory gallagher, how could you?!?!

 

tell me about rory, i heard of him but havent got around to digging him yet!

 

rory gallagher came along during the 70s, though....... there were many established blues rock artists before him.

 

late sixties till 1995 there was rory
and rory was better than clapton, cuz clapton
was less pure.

 

you wouldn't know the 1960's if it came from behind and stuck a flower up your ass.

 

youre the one to talk.

 

hahaha indeed, water baby you're 8 years older than i am, what have you got to say bout the sixties eh? by the way, why would you say that to me? did i do anything to you?

 

This is amusing...and even mildly interesting.


My take on the scen is this; One of the first, and best, british blues guitarists was Brian Jones, who founded the rolling Stones. Keith Richards tells how he and Mick Jagger came to see a young Brian Jones doing Elmore James slide with Alexis Korner. No one did slide guitar in England then, let alone form the worlds greatest Rhythm and Blues bands.

I don't rate Eric Clapton at all, I'm afraid, although he is a good guitarist, there were FAR better at the time. Eric Clapton was in the right place and the right time, especially his work with John Mayal. A terrible oversight is the highly underrated Mike Bloomfield. Listen to his ferocious scorching slide on Janis Joplins 'One Good Man'. Simply awesome, and his touch and technique were beyond Clapton.

Duane Allman had a touch and mojo ahead of Clapton's, too, IMO.

However, what you must realise is that everyone's taste differs, that evryone hears things slightly differently. Eric Clapton certainly played a major part of taking amplified blues into the spotlight, and blues back into fashion.

 

What I gotta say is that I was born in the late 1970's while you were born in the late 1980's. At least I can remember the 1980's and I was a teenager during the grunge era. I am older than you, I was always nearer than you to the 60's and 70's. You wouldn't know the 1970's if it showed up at your front door dressed in bell-bottoms!!!

 

so?

what does that have to do with taste or knowledge in music?
my grandpa seen the 40s 50s 60s 70s and so on, though he swears nothin beats abba!

 

whoa buddy, i agree with you.

 

yeh i no im not part of this but age doesnt really have anything to do with it, unless you were around and into blues rock in the 60s then you might know a bit more about it but to be fair weve all got are own opinions on whos better and seems to me there were loads of guitarists at the time who all had different styles who were all influenced by other people before, i dont think you can really say it was any 1 person (clapton is great tho )

 

bloody hell anger here... what we should be doing is feeling sad for eric's kid who fell out the tower block... pure hell.

 

At least I was born in the 1970's. The first time I ever came in this wretched earth it was in a 70's civil war zone. I am a part of the 70's while many of you are not.