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Post subject: Clapton is God
Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 10:52 am
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Just got the "Complete Clapton' autobiography and 2-cd set for Christmas. Can't wait to read the book. The CD is good, but I already had all the stuff in my collection already.
Isn't the live Cream "Crossroads" guitar solo one of the best live "off the cuff" solos you have ever heard? Love that solo!

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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 12:39 pm
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The book is flat and lifeless with zero guitar/amp content. I recommend the DVD of the Cream farewell concert from Royal Albert Hall when Slowhand still had a pulse. Even he admits the Mad Sq Garden Cream reunion concert (that the new DVD was made from) was a total burned-out bust.

The Crossroads stuff is harmless fun, kind of like Clapton as friendly Wal-Mart greeter.

If you want to know the real, non-sanitized, non-self-serving story of the Clapton ears, read Patty Boyd's book. That's the real Clapton.


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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:45 pm
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I've read 40 pages of Clapton's biography so far and what a moaning git!!


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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:56 pm
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I found the book interesting. It's not a guitar book. It's a life story - an autobiography. I have a better insight on the man and artist.

For some of the best live Clapton try "Cross Roads 2 - Live in the 70's." In my opinion Clapton's best era musically.


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Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2007 2:59 pm
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Yeah he made the mistake of firing the ghost writer and writing it himself. Not only can't he write, but clearly he did this to spin things his way and sanitize his bio. It reads about as colorful and compelling and deep as the Yellow Pages. But the ultimate insult to the guitar playing fan is he stiffs us on any playing revelations, guitar lore, amp lore or anything related to recording. If you didn't know better you'd assume this guy was an accountant who got laid a lot.


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Posted: Thu Dec 27, 2007 1:23 pm
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I'm a huge Clapton fan. In my humble opinion, no individual can match his contributions to music over decades in first of all revolutionizing guitar from the Beatles/Byrds sound into a blues-based format (to a much greater extent than the Rolling Stones could do), and then excelling in composition and production. Sure Zeppellin and Page have their guitar army, but it's there contemporaneously on Derek and the Dominoes and creating unbelievable music that is genius. For example, everyone's heard Layla a million times because it's a great song. If you play the chords in Layla slowly they breathe lost love. The song works on many different levels. When playing live, Clapton was and is fantastically accomplished.

I've only gotten through the beginning of the Clapton Autobiography so far. I'm amazed he writes so well with no ghostwriter. It's a moving and very personal story about somebody who came up a lot harder than anyone would imagine. He overcame it, despite the toll it took on him, and accomplishes great things with his Crossroads Center. He's an inspiration.


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I got the book for Christmas. Haven't started it yet.


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the cream dvd is great .maruuk is patty boyds book out yet


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Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2007 12:29 pm
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Sure, Amazon's got it. Word is, Clapton solemnly promised her he wouldn't write about them. Then he did anyways and it was so self-serving and full of crap, she wrote this to set the record straight.

http://www.amazon.com/Wonderful-Tonight-George-Harrison-Clapton/dp/0307393844


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strat58cat wrote:
and creating unbelievable music that is genius. For example, everyone's heard Layla a million times because it's a great song.



Great song .... YES !!! But the opening lick is Duane Allman's creation - read the bio of the Allman Brothers Band. Duane is talking just after the recording sessions were done to the other band members who naturally were very curious and interested ; Tom Dowd was their producer as well as for Derek and the Dominoes. They hear Layla and Allman said " that's my riff " !!!! Again... great song but the opening is Duane Allman's !!!!


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If Clapton is God, then who is Jesus? :lol:

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bowlfreshener wrote:
If Clapton is God, then who is Jesus? :lol:


ME :wink: :wink:

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bluestube wrote:
bowlfreshener wrote:
If Clapton is God, then who is Jesus? :lol:


ME :wink: :wink:


I'm a little late, but happy birthday! LOL!

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Posted: Tue Jan 01, 2008 11:02 am
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dude im on the last chapter of the book. it's an extremly great book and an easy read. yeah there is'nt much guitar/amp content but thats not all he did in life.

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It reads pretty much like Dick and Jane or My Pet Goat. See Eric do this. See Eric do that. It's about as colorful, informative and dimensional as a flatworm. And as for guitar content, there is one, literally one passage, and it's WRONG!

"On the Beano album, I just turned the bass up all the way on the guitar to get this cool sound." That's nonsense. He may have done that on a solo or two for the classic low-moan "woman tone", but that would have left most of his tracks dull mush. You can clearly hear he's full on treble on most of the tracks, especially on the Freddy King-esque bridge pickup work on "All Your Love". Alcoholism and drug addiction for that many years takes away a lot of your memory. I doubt Clapton can recall anything accurate of note concerning details of his playing or gear lore.

Ben Palmer, Clapton's good friend and roadie told me when my band was opening for Cream in their first US performances that Eric had an amp tech build some overdrive into the Marshall JTM45 or whatever that "Bluesbreaker" combo amp was known as then. Basically it was "boogied" which is where most of the striking overdrive tone came from.


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