No old-time vagrant bluesman had ever plumbed such depths of misery as he among his mansions and Ferraris. In later life, one of the most thoroughly dissolute rockers of olden times became the most thoroughly reformed. The former drunk and druggie in excelsis is a pillar of Alcoholics Anonymous and a leading campaigner against drug abuse who has poured millions into the Crossroads treatment centre he helped to found in Antigua. At the age of 54, his seeming quest to seduce every female in the world came to an end when he met his second wife, a year-old American student named Melia McEnery.
While herself maintaining a compatibly low profile, she has had three daughters with him; some restitution for the hideous tragedy of And to all appearances, she is the only woman to whom he has ever been completely faithful. That trend continues even today.
He gave the world the traditional sound of a rock guitar, and he used his newly found sound in many, many fabulous hits, some of which are:. Eric Clapton would use a multitude of techniques. He would often play with plectrums, but when needed, he started using the finger-style.
He was fast and, make no mistake, he could play extremely fast when he wanted to. He knew every trick in the book, such as slides, legato, vibrato , bends, and he was a champion at every technique that he used. It also comes with Eric Clapton inspired licks which you can pick up and start playing today!
This is the first time a Les Paul guitar and a Marshall amplifier were used together. This particular formula of the Gibson Humbucking pickup and the powerful Marhall amp became the template for all modern rock guitar, blues and blues rock. Clapton is great! No one has held any other guitarists back so Clapton be could get more accolades or money. I saw the Life in 12 Bars doc. He faced his life head on, made amends for his drunken past.
BB King said he was a fine man, helped black musicians, opened Crossroads for addicts. Try a little objectivity before such an uninformed comment. Eric Clapton is a skilled guitarist, but he is not talented. He creates a battle scene with sound. Led Zeppelin covered it after Beck. They took a traditional blues approach and applied typical rock influence.
Beck on the other hand Approached the song the way a composer would. Clapton you get the same stuff over and over again. Clapton is boring as hell. He hates people that are not Anglo Saxon. He has no compassion for anyone who is not Anglo-Saxon.
And he has publicly said as much at his concerts. March 30, A young middle-class boy, he had a record player, and spent his time seeking out obscure imported vinyl to learn from. Most of the players in the rock framework were coming from a rockabilly stance. I was obsessed with black blues guitar players, and for me the ultimate problem was trying to shift that style into a Chuck Berry rock format.
A somewhat troubled young loner, Clapton applied himself diligently to the task. There's a lot to learn and it means going to the library and listening to just about everything that was ever done and trying to learn from that.
If you do your work and do your best to carry the burden of the past and the fellowship of the blues, so you know you've done all your research and you've studied everything you can, I think if you really love the music you'll start to express it your own way.
It's almost impossible not to. In rock, guitar soloing wasn't much more advanced than Chuck Berry. No one had heard this kind of extended extemporisation before.
He owed a debt to the original blues guys, but everyone else was learning their chops from him. If there is a guitarist who the rock world universally acknowledges as number one, it is not Clapton, however. Jimi Hendrix appeared on the London scene in late , and by all accounts his sudden emergence shook Clapton's confidence. But Clapton recovered in an interesting way, by extending his range. It is all indicative of a powerful musical curiosity.
He has never stopped touring and recording, with 23 solo studio albums since On the question of whether he is still a significant player, his professional admirers seem united.
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