Eric Clapton stepped into the spotlight for the first time with the Yardbirds. Clapton abandoned the potential for a commercially successful career with the Yardbirds because he felt they had strayed from their blues roots. The Yarbirds were set to follow the commercial path of their musical colleagues the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Clapton ...
Eric Clapton has been one of my favorite artists since I first listened to his music in the mid eighties. Dad played his albums on the record player, and he said he can remember me staring at the speakers in awe even then. Slowhand had an immediate fan. While trying to think of the best ...
Rock guitar has arguably been ruled by three kings: Eric Clapton, Jimi Hendrix, and Jimmy Page. These are indeed the cream of the crop, the musicians willing to explore and create new sounds in the birth of a new genre. But the debate that reigns: is who is better? The best of the best, of ...
Eric Clapton is a true artist who puts heart and soul in any song he touches. As talented at playing guitar as he is at writing music, many of his songs are true to life, with a story to be told. The strong blues influencing his music makes it unique, with just a enough of ...
Rolling Stone magazine listed its 100 greatest guitarists of all time in November 2011, a list that was compiled by music’s top guitarists and experts in the field. Like all lists, Rolling Stone‘s compilation is arguable. Rolling Stone’s Top Five: The top five were respectable save for number four, Keith Richards. However, Richards was listed ...
For a generation of baby boomers, that infamous graffiti painted on the decaying walls of a London building was the astute capitulation of the musical aspirations of radical youth in a radical time. “Clapton is god”, it said, and rightly so. The sixties was a revolutionary period of ambitious, idealistic change, and Clapton’s wailing guitar ...
Whether it’s his instrumental-guitar driven tracks, or the inspired lyrics Eric Clapton remains one of my favorite artists of all time. The first 3 songs on my list are ones that were written or performed by Eric Clapton during his relationship and marriage to Pattie Boyd. At the beginning, Clapton fell in love with Boyd, ...