This is all pretty funny.
Remember this, Clapton pioneered this style of playing. Having a style and playing the same licks over again are two different things.

Who doesn't repeat some things anyway? SRV, that's the finest example of playing the same overrated licks over and over again, and those licks live on through the Strats With Hats Movement. Malmsteen, same thing. Nothing but scales really, really fast. Clapton, Hendrix, Page, Jeff Beck, Rory Gallagher were all innovators. I don't consider any of these players overrated. These guys influenced generations of players. If Clapton is so overrated, why does he still sell out every show he plays? Why is his music played four decades later? You can never be too good for your own good. Clapton's not my favorite player, but not even close to overrated.

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Amen. Preach it, brother.



(How did you like my little roundabout, sideways "Clapton is God" reference, there?)

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Hey guys, have in mind that he is 60 + years old, we cannot expect him to be at his peak now.

I believe you should judge EC for what he accomplished during his career as a musician and we he did for music.

In Sessions for Robert J he said something like "I worry about what I can give to the music not what I can take". What would be of all the old blues musicians if was not for him. Would you ever heard of Robert Johnson if it was not for EC?

Why not? I'm 53 and I know I am a better player now than I have ever been at any other time in my life. When does a person stop learning?

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

No he didn't, scores of players were doing it before Eric and he more or less took his whole style kit and kaboodle from Freddie King, BB King and Buddy Guy. Even Eric would admit that there's nothing new about his playing.

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George Van Eps.

No, he took the genre to a whole new level as did all the old timers like Page and Beck. High volume power trios weren't the norm in the Blues circuit. These guy brought the Blues back from extinction and guys like Buddy Guy will admit it. Same as Johnny Winter, Mike Bloomfield, canned Heat helped Muddy Waters and John Lee Hooker. Cream wasn't just another Blues Band playing nothing but Blues covers. Crossroad Blues is a great example of taking Robert Johnson's original version and creating something off the hook while still letting people know the songs real origins.

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Troll

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DO NOT FEED THE TROLL

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Hey Bob Im going to see Canned Heat next weekend.

Check out his tone on Cocaine from the 2004 crossroads show. Huge sound coming out of that strat. I would never call his tone thin or too clean. Quite the opposite, the midrange bump gives it a single coil-humbucker hybrid sound that is really pretty interesting and beautiful and gives the amp a little bit of burn to it without washing out the notes in waves of distortion. I'd definitely put his tone in my top 5

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^^ That takes a lot of brains Eric copied his style from those guys i mentioned above. Are you disputing those facts? So he was not and is not original.

Rather than write troll in gigantic letters, put forward your reasons as to why my facts about Eric are wrong. He copied Buddy Guy and Freddie King verbatim and tried to copy Hendrix playing killing Floor but couldn't play the rhythm so had to drop it.

I'm not entering into the Eric lovefest i'm afraid. Stroking the ego of a multi millionaire who still pretends he's got the blues while forking out millions on personalised Ferrari's is stupid.

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George Van Eps.

Mate having a collection of Ferrari's from playing guitars is about the coolest thing ever ur not thinking straight....... No matter what you think of EC...."Like i am not a no1 fan"..........Kudo's EC!!!!

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Yeah but pretending to have the blues at the same time is a bit rich. EC is a good player but the way people brown nose him, particularly on this forum, is objectionable. There are stacks of players, guys like Johnny Winter and Ronnie Earl, Duke Robillard, Danny Gatton who play miles better at their peak than Clapton did but get nowhere near the amount of attention. All of these guys and many more would play rings around Eric hence the reason i say he's good but not as good as people crack him up to be.

He is overrated, a good player but nowhere near the level he's blown up to be.

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George Van Eps.

I'm a bit more on the fence than you with him then huh.......He ain't quite Stevie's trashed moments of glory...... but he's sure as hell one of the best blues artists ever...........Without doubt.....

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