Deletes Wonderful Tonight

John Mayall was better

>deletes Eric Clapton
He's the epitome of boomer buttrock

>deletes son out of window

JJ Cale>Clapton

Clapton stole all his best songs from him.

Some of his stuff is ok.

>only plays the shit acoustic version of Layla live now
fuck him

Critics gonna criticize.

I have never understood the appeal of Clapton. Sure, Layla is a fucking hymn and Crossroads is okay, but he just fails to play anything interesting most of the time. Rory Gallagher, Jeff Beck and Hendrix outclass him completely, can anyone show me any key moments that can make me understand Clapton?

His 60's stuff is pretty amazing. His solo stuff is just boring watered down adult contemporary and white boy reggae.

Always listen to live recordings. He's one of those guys who can't bring the energy when he has only a studio engineer to play to.

Clapton's just like Bob Seger in that the second he turned 30, he decided he needed to be grown up and boring.

What the fuck is slow hand? Wouldn't that be bad for guitar?
Who the hell is Bob Seger? I only know Pete Seeger

He's just boring buttblues for suburban white dads.

>Doing what I wonder?
Sucking black cock

Listen to the Beano album. Clapton was one of those kids who peaked really young, and then went on a slow downward slope afterwards.

>Clapton was one of those kids who peaked really young, and then went on a slow downward slope afterwards
Golly, we have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

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I remember a 70s interview where he talked about how awed he was of Brian May and "Guitarists these days can do so many things that are beyond me."

Nah man, you were just a lazy fuck. Besides, Brian May was one of your contemporaries, not a guy who was 20 years younger than you and from a totally different era so that makes you look even worse.

John Frusciante started out young, fiery, and edgy just like Clapton and then as he matured, became a little more sedate, but his technique just kept getting better and better. Clapton basically gave up once Cream disbanded and has spent the rest of his life playing generic shitty blues licks, as if he read a book titled "Blues chord progressions: An illustrated guide."

I always felt the same way. Never understood his acclaim.
Jeff Beck is obviously superior in comparison. Not sure what audiences were thinking back then

That’s what it sounds like. Clapton’s approach to blues as a solo artist never felt particularly inspired to me

>i killed my BABY
>it makes me SAD
>its my fault MAYBE
>i was a shit DAD
>dropped it out a WINDOW
>when i saw i said UH-OH
>he made a red MARK
>when he smacked the ground STARK

the core is the best track on slowhand
youtube.com/watch?v=_6beZtpvVzc

fuck off, it wasn't Clapton's fault. He wasn't even there.
Single mothers, every single time.

He's a fucking upper middle class British guy whose grandparents raised and spoiled him, how can he possibly "get" the blues?

Caucasian brain capacity allows them to understand things they aren't intimately familiar with

Now Stevie Ray Vaughn grew up poor in Texas, he "got" the blues. When you hear Clapton LARPing as a roughneck from the Texas oil fields in Tulsa Time, you have to hold back from snickering a little.

Of course then again, even Christgau notes that George Terry rather than Clapton is what makes this track great.

I hate that guitar hook on Wonderful Tonight, I really do.

I still like Cocaine better, though I guess The Core hasn't been ruined by overplay like the singles from the album.

clapton is from buttfuck ripley of all places
he's not middle class

I think Pete Townshend far more fit the middle class description than him.

Clapton is good. Typical contrarian millennials shitting on something because it doesn't reflect their profound faggotry.

>deletes my y chromosome
>adds another x chromosome

Pretending is alright I guess.

Slow Hand is because people would slowly start clapping or something weird like that