Eric Clapton and Blues Rock

so don't try to pull rank on me, I am a 70's baby.

you charlatans.

 

I am the flower baby of the 1970's, child of the 1980's, teenager of the 1990's and angry man crazy of the 2000's.

 

And the pain-in-the-ass of the Hip Forums!

 

how does bein born in the 70s make you an expert on 70s music?? by my calculations you were born in '78-79?? that makes you in diapers when the 70s ended..... so how the fuck do you know anything??

 

Hey, those two and a half months of the '70s that he lived through taught him a lot!

 

This thread is somewhat... awkward and strange.




If I had to say someone invented Blues Rock, I'd probably name Bo Diddley or Chuck Berry before I'd name Eric Clapton. Bill Haley would be in there too, along with Alan Freed (He was a DJ on WINS in NYC and basically came up with the term "Rock and Roll" to seperate it from black rhythm and blues). I mean, not only is it logical, but Bo's nickname is the Originator.

 

And I'm an eighties baby. That doesn't mean I wear neon colored parachute pants and drive a Delorean..

 

You bunch of Charlatans.

 

You never lived one day in the 1970's, you can't remember the 1980's and you were too young in the 1990's. I am from the 1970's so fuck you!!! You Charlatans!

 

clapton is great and one of his mentors is b.b. king, but the blues was started back in the negro and slave days. i dig the fact that eric clapton has taken so much time to learn the blues and he plays the hell out of the blues. i love the old blues players and singers from the 20', 30's, 40's and 50's. i love the blues when i'm feeling blue it always picks me up. i learned to sing the blues from the radio when i was a kid. we didn't have no tv and radio was our only entertainment. sarah vaghun, billie holiday, ethal waters, big mama thornton and then came janis joplin (thank God) in the 60's, man, that girl could wail. love to talk the blues, love to sing the blues.
hippiewise

 

sorry, I was born in 74, so I think I know a hell of a lot more than you, diaper boy....... and you call yourself an expert on the 70s, buahhaaa

 

Bo Diddley actually was in a different musical sphere......his driving rhythms and blitz-ing guitar sound were not really blues based. BUT, you are absolutely spot on when it comes to his being original. It is a shame that others have not took up his torch, so to speak.

Bill Haley was the first rock n Roll star, but his style - the big backing band - owes as much to swing and Louis Jordan (now, THERE was a musician) than to the blues. As Muddy Waters said, '...the blues has had a baby, and it's called Rock 'n' Roll.'

With the odd exception, Paul Butterfield, and the criminally underrated Mike Bloomfield, the blues had passed on in the USA, overshadowed by Rock 'N' Roll. But, then along came the British Blues groups, first and foremost the Rolling Stones who in the early days were pure blues....with a white, London twist! When they played Little Red Rooster on the Ed Sullivan show, with Brian Jones playing slide, hardly ANY american journalists knew it was originally a Willie Dixon song, covered by many of the old blues greats like Howling Wolf, Son House, et al. The blues had come home - via England - and has gone from strength to strength.

 

wat dus charlatans mean? n wat the hell is up with u??? no offence but y dus everything hav 2 be an argument with u? and since wen has the 70s bin the start of blues rock neway! chill out and just enjoy the music

 

I'm not pulling rank on you, you were ahead of me in the rat race. You were a little kid in the 70's while I was just an infant. I'm as old as the 70's. I made it in! I was one of the winners in the 1970's rat race. The losers of the 1970's rat race are the ones born in the 1980's. Ha ha..the 80's.

 

hey i was born in the 80s, dont diss

 

This thread is just infantile........

......so, to stick with it -- I WAS born in the 60s!

.....and, I fart in your general direction





whatever

 

hehe my friend has that as his ring tone (i fart in your general direction)

 

exactly!!!

 

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