Is Clapton overrated?

Is Clapton overrated?

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yes

Not for his pre-1975 work after which he gave up on life and became a peddler of MOR mush.

clapton is a hack. cream was the last good thing he was a part of.

Besides, Jack Bruce came up with that legendary riff, not Clapton.

>Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands. Wogs I mean, I'm looking at you. Where are you? I'm sorry but some fucking wog...Arab grabbed my wife's bum, you know? Surely got to be said, yeah this is what all the fucking foreigners and wogs over here are like, just disgusting, that's just the truth, yeah. So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country. You fucking (indecipherable). I don't want you here, in the room or in my country. Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch's our man. I think Enoch's right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans and fucking (indecipherable) don't belong here, we don't want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don't want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. We are a white country. I don't want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for fuck's sake? We need to vote for Enoch Powell, he's a great man, speaking truth. Vote for Enoch, he's our man, he's on our side, he'll look after us. I want all of you here to vote for Enoch, support him, he's on our side. Enoch for Prime Minister! Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!

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itt: musicians who actually let children dangle from windows

So he's retiring from touring now, although I guess he'll still do one-off gigs and studio work. I guess he figures 70 is a good age to call it quits and he really doesn't want to end up like Chuck Berry.

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How cute because he actually retired in 1975. It just took him 40 years to make it official.

Maybe.

His retiring cos his hands are fucked

Absolutely and completely.

His early solo stuff is garbage (Lay Down Sally, Promises, I Shot the Sheriff etc) but everything bookending that period was decent-to-good

I never heard that, I more just got the impression he's getting old and doesn't want to bother with the bullshit of traveling anymore.

Promises has one of the worst guitar hooks I've ever heard. Tulsa Time is also lame af.

>upper middle class British boy thinks he's a roughneck from the Texas oil fields

and because no one wants to listen to the bullshit that is his music anymore keke

OTOH, the Rolling Stones love Chuck Berry so much they want to end their days just like him.

Oh god, Christgau's reviews of Clapton are hilarious.

>As someone whose albums have often been cited by Sominex for unfair trade practices
>And here he contributes three new sleepy time classics. All are listed on the front sticker and none were written by Bob Dylan.

Before he became an inoffensive pop singer, he was alright.

He says traveling is the part he hates, but actually getting up on stage and playing is easy.

No crap it's easy. He doesn't actually do anything on stage but strum a couple basic pentatonic licks and put everyone to sleep with his monotone voice.

Pilgrim really wasn't a very convincing way of selling the world on the pain of losing his son.

lol

>losing

conor killed himself because his daddy fucking sucks.

"How the fuck can white people sing the blues? What do white people have to be blue about, anyway? They went down to Banana Republic and found they were out of khakis?"

-- George Carlin

hey, white lives matter too you fucking nigger

His early stuff was great but his solo stuff is mostly boring.

Sure not Eric Clapton at any rate.

in my top 5 favorite guitarists. layla and other assorted love songs is a 10/10 classic