Favorite Blues Guitarist

[botfly10]

obviously eric clapton

 

[TCD]

obviously eric clapton

Eric clapton is as blues as a chinese man playing a flute.

 

[ruprecht]

Eric clapton is as blues as a chinese man playing a flute.

Not true. He was great at ripping off the blues masters.

 

[Omeletpants]

Not true. He was great at ripping off the blues masters.

No such thing as ripping off the blues masters

He covered them much like hundreds of thousands of songs that have been covered

Clapton has done more for blues that anyone in Blues history. Without him propagating the music form it would have been dead in the mid 60s. He is the one that brought Buddy Guy and Albert and Freddie King into the big stadiums. Without Clapton they would have been playing 30 seat clubs into obscurity. White artists like Clapton, Beck, John Mayall as the reason anyone knows who Robert Johnson is

Without Clapton the Blues would be dead on a large scale

 

[ruprecht]

No such thing as ripping off the blues masters

He covered them much like hundreds of thousands of songs that have been covered

Clapton has done more for blues that anyone in Blues history. Without him propagating the music form it would have been dead in the mid 60s. He is the one that brought Buddy Guy and Albert and Freddie King into the big stadiums. Without Clapton they would have been playing 30 seat clubs into obscurity. White artists like Clapton, Beck, John Mayall as the reason anyone knows who Robert Johnson is

Without Clapton the Blues would be dead on a large scale

Also George Harrison should have put a cap in his ass.

 

[botfly10]

Not true. He was great at ripping off the blues masters.

I know you are being funny, but try and imagine trying to be a bluesman without drawing heavily from the ones the came before you.

 

[ruprecht]

I know you are being funny, but try and imagine trying to be a bluesman without drawing heavily from the ones the came before you.

I have seen him in concert multiple times.

 

[Omeletpants]

I know you are being funny, but try and imagine trying to be a bluesman without drawing heavily from the ones the came before you.

Yup, take a song like "key to the highway" which is considered a blues classic. It was first recored in 1941 but every blues musician in the world has played it. So, that means that every blues artist since 1941 has ripped off this song. LOLOLO

 

[Omeletpants]

Also George Harrison should have put a cap in his ass.

Why? Harrison loved Clapton and told him to take his wife

 

[ruprecht]

Yup, take a song like "key to the highway" which is considered a blues classic. It was first recored in 1941 but every blues musician in the world has played it. So, that means that every blues artist since 1941 has ripped off this song. LOLOLO

Yolks on you.

 

[ruprecht]

Why? Harrison loved Clapton and told him to take his wife

Lol. Ok.

 

[Omeletpants]

Lol. Ok.

WTF, everyone but you knows that but you

 

[ruprecht]

WTF, everyone but you knows that but you

Wrong. You have not been yourself lately. Small stroke perhaps?

 

[TCD]

I know you are being funny, but try and imagine trying to be a bluesman without drawing heavily from the ones the came before you.

Well trying to be funny poorly but as far as personal tastes in blues without getting into heavy technicalities of musicianship? I personally have never been overwhelmed by his sound, his mechanics, his charisma nor his vocalization for the blues as a genre. That just personal tastes shit coming into play here. No disrespect to him or his fanbase as he has to have done something right through his career to garner the acclaim he has. Just not my blues style taste. Dare i say he sounds too white washed for me without that sounding racist? Perhaps lacking the soul of it which i am drawn to with the blues more than the actual technical musicianship?

I'm a delta blues, hill country blues, Hokum blues, and to a lesser extent a swamp blues fan and Piedmont blues (even though its difficult to separate some of these sometimes). Clapton simply doesn't fill my tastes in those sub genres that I enjoy most.

 

[Urblock]

Wrong. You have not been yourself lately. Small stroke perhaps?

Not nice.

 

[botfly10]

I have seen him in concert multiple times.

wat?

 

[ruprecht]

wat?

Did I stutter?

 

[botfly10]

non sequitur?

I had a taco yesterday?

 

[ruprecht]

non sequitur?

I had a taco yesterday?

How did you know?