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[snipelfritz]

You do realize this thread is basically becoming an even more rambling version of the whatever thread and will probably never die?

That said, this is my favorite shredder(apart from the one in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles):
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_M9zWORBuA[/youtube]
The saxophone at 1:30 is priceless

the funny thing is that the "shreds" version is more exciting, dynamic, and musically complex than anything clapton has ever done.

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True that bro.

Yeah, Clapton is a great blues guitarist, but that's really it. He can't write for shit. The best thing he did was Cream and even then Jack Bruce was mainly at the helm. The one major song he wrote with them was Badge and you can hear George Harrison's influence all over that.

[Mudfuzz]

Yeah, Clapton is a great blues guitarist, but that's really it. He can't write for shit.

Personally I list him as good, not great, to me he has always lacked power. Sure technically he is great... but we is talking blues.

[Noise...]

I never liked Clapton.

[CBA]

People can do what they want, but I will never EVER see the appeal of watching a guy jack off on a guitar for ten minutes... and that goes for all of the modern guitar virtuosos. Especially when they're playing "the blues", which is pretty much a meaningless epithet for whatever kind of music that genre is.


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p.s. It's this kind of negativity and close-mindedness that KILLS THREADS.

[theavondon]

People can do what they want, but I will never EVER see the appeal of watching a guy jack off on a guitar for ten minutes... and that goes for all of the modern guitar virtuosos. Especially when they're playing "the blues", which is pretty much a meaningless epithet for whatever kind of music that genre is.


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p.s. It's this kind of negativity and close-mindedness that KILLS THREADS.

I fully agree. Also, suck it.

[unownunown]

yeah, imo technically wankery will always and only be just that. wankerrryyyyy.

although i am a huge dirty projectors fan so i don't know if i'm allowed to say that.

[Noise...]

yeah, imo technically wankery will always and only be just that. wankerrryyyyy.

although i am a huge dirty projectors fan so i don't know if i'm allowed to say that.

+10 points for you.

[Gearmond]

growing up with jazz and blues. like REAL jazz and blues, i will never for the life of me understand the appeal of clean cut blues.

not-the-girlfriend took me to see like... Leslie something or other for a folk festival at Kent. all i could see in the audience was old white folks, and kids who grew up with whited over museum-piece glorified-minstral-show blues and folk. and quite frankly. fuck that shit. real blues is the black keys, jack white, muddy waters, etc. guys that actually went through shit, or at the very least play with some damn emotion. real folk isn't this peach jar preserve, "gorsh i don't unnerstand that there innernets, heres a song about it you can buy on iTunes" 50's folk hero wannabes who exist in throwback golden days that never existed as they imagined it, and were just as shallow then as it is now. real folk is Defiance, Ohio, Ghost Mice, Mischief Brew, Paul Baribeau, Crywank, etc. real singing, real concern, raw as fuck.

and if she prefers that white-washed homogenized boorish "i knew chitlin back when she still called herself chitlin despite probably never eating them, or never being poor enough to even consider it" (yeah, there is actually a folk artist who used to call herself chitlin. Jessica Lea Mayfield) pretty face with a guitar writing half-assed breakup songs folk, than i'm perfectly fine being just friends. because that goes beyond simple taste difference in music, i'm fine with that, but to prefer a polished well produced folk album over you know... folk, is a compromise of principles i'm not willing to compromise for.

[Fuzzy Picklez]

I hate Clapton with a passion.
I think he's incredibly boring, and was the reason it's okay to be a boring jack ass white blues player now.
I don't even like Cream that much.

[dubkitty]

i suppose it's not a widely held opinion, but i still respect Clapton despite his recent decades of Armani-suited tedium, and here's why: i found his playing "OK but not all it was cracked up to be" for years and years, through Cream and Blind Faith and the Dominoes and the solo career on into the 80s, and one day i realized that i'd never heard him play a note that wasn't well-played, accurate, and on-point musically and emotionally. he's the only player from whom i've literally never heard a bum note on an official release or a bootleg, and given the length at which he's spieled over the years that's saying something. my favorite example of this is The Last Waltz, where Eric leads The Band through "Farther On Up The Road": Robbie Robertson solos first, blasting away in the excessive manner he employed in those days, after which Clapton carves him up with a surgeon's precision, saying three times as much with half the notes.

and don't even get me started on the bowdlerized blues...i grew up in Chicago in the 1960s. when SRV first hit the market my reaction was "oh, great, another fucking white boy who thinks he's Albert King."

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my favorite example of this is The Last Waltz, where Eric leads The Band through "Farther On Up The Road": Robbie Robertson solos first, blasting away in the excessive manner he employed in those days, after which Clapton carves him up with a surgeon's precision, saying three times as much with half the notes.

ILL SEE YOU THAT AND RAISE YOU A PRINCE

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ifp_SVrlurY[/youtube]

SRSLY is greatest example of "fuck your solo and fuck this song.....shit i dont even know what im doing here in the first place" all leaning back into the crowd all SUCK MY DICK TOM PETTY and that dhani fggt is all YEAH DUDE FUCK TOM PETTY. Then in the end he throws his guitar up in the air AND IT DISAPPEARS. KNOW WHO CAUGHT THAT SHIT? I FUCKING DID. IN SPACE. PUSSY.

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^^^LOVE THAT SOLO



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[Fuzzy Picklez]

my favorite example of this is The Last Waltz, where Eric leads The Band through "Farther On Up The Road": Robbie Robertson solos first, blasting away in the excessive manner he employed in those days, after which Clapton carves him up with a surgeon's precision, saying three times as much with half the notes.

Ahhhh...
See I'm the other way around.
I would use that same example to prove something else.
Robbie Robertson's solo to me is just so much more raw and personal.

Different strokes for different folks I guess.
[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WDmMWF83x4[/youtube]

[SPACERITUAL]

Yeah i like robertsons solo better cause it isnt all twankity twank twank tink. I dislike that sound. I like how theyre talking at the beginning and you know clapton is just "Man i dont know what the fuck youre even talking about im way too high lets just do this shit so i can go back to the hotel and throw up"