Read this,then.

Loved this part: First, Bramhall brought the crowd to its feet with piercing, screeching stop breaks, then Trucks started slowly, quietly, scratching out a few jazzy lines that improbably but inexorably spiraled into a walloping barrage that also got the crowd standing.

What should have happened next is that the British guitar immortal, the man who played the solo on "While My Guitar Gently Weeps," should have stood up and knocked the ball out of the park. Instead, he listlessly drove the song to an anticlimactic close that left the audience in its chairs.

he's already an immortal who's only in his 60s. what's he got left to do or prove?

I don't hate the guy; he seems like nice enough fella.

But he's gotta get tired of the jerkoffs in his face daring him to prove himself over and over in the same blues scale. That guitar crowd can be pretty cretinous and unforgiving.

I heard they buried his son in a pizza box.

Classy

Hope your kid never dies

I don't mind Clapton, though I think his lastest slew of albums are just fodder for baby boomers. I would've liked to have seen this tour with Trucks playing with him. Still, at the end of the day, the man was Slowhand, and has quite a reputation behind him.

A "slew" = 35 years. But I get your point. The man does have some skills, but the vast majority of his musical career has been fucking dull.

35's pushing it, I could see an argument for 27 years though.

I heard the unplugged version of "Layla" the other day while shopping at White Hen Pantry and said out loud, "Jesus Christ, I hate Eric Clapton."

It felt really good to get that out.

But, I don't hate Blind Faith or Derek and the Dominos. Similar to my loathing for Sting and love for the Police. I just wish the solo careers would go away.

I'll never understand the hate here for EC.

I think this one gets it about right...

At one time he was my all-time favorite.
But that was a long time ago.
I don't hate him, just the majority of the music he's put out since 1972 or so.

Still, no matter how crappy the rest of his output, Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs is unfuckwithable, in my eyes. Every time I come back to that one, it kicks my ass up and down.

I don't hate the man, but he could of have retired before releasing Unplugged. I'm not sure what song bugged me more in my teens, Tears in Heaven or Layla(unplugged).

meh

What a bunch of fucking dopes.

Yardbirds-Great
Cream-Great !!
Delaney and Bonnie-Great
D and the D-Great
Early solo stuff up to "Slowhand"-Good but spotty
Afterwards-Mostly boring

not a big fan, but Goodfeallas woudn't be the same without him.
(or whoever did that part of the song)

Releasing some good music (that doesn't simply show off guitar wankery) would be a nice start.

I just read this last week & almost posted it

As I've posted many times on Obner, ya gotta respect da Zeitgeist...

In the incense and flower haze of the late 60's, you were suddenly amped and steamrolled by this unique huge raw sound, riffing to the edge of mortality... Cream... and it was about white rooms and the needle chill and going full bore. In some shadows of acid understanding, it seemed his thick descriptive sound (not chops-driven like Beck, not dirty-axe dance music like Brian Jones) had joined Hendrix in trying to get to someplace new.

Everything after that is total shit.

Pretty indifferent about his current stuff. I liked the Clapton/JJ Cale record last year, but that's because it was mainly a JJ Cale record. He'll never top his 60s/early 70s out put (especially Derek & The Dominos).

everything he did beforehand was pretty brilliant (up through and including Layla). Cream was awesome, so was Blind Faith, and so was Layla obviously.

everything he did afterwards (with the exception of MAYBE Tears In Heaven) was meandering, boring, irritating, and irrelevant

that much heroin (during 1970-72) probably really did fuck with the guy so much that he probably lost a hell of a lot of his fire to the drugs