Topic: Eric CLAPTON'S BEST SONG
First some information. CLAPTON = a CHAMELEON. He started as a not so self insured fellow, with JOHN MAYALL & THE BLUESBREAKERS. Back in the early sixties, THE BLUESBREAKERS and ALEXIS CORNER gave us some of the best guitar players on the world, in most of the cases followed by 1 or 2 years Yardbirds.
# Eric Clapton
# and Jack Bruce (both later in Cream),
# Peter Green, John McVie and Mick Fleetwood (later all in Fleetwood Mac),
# Mick Taylor (later in The Rolling Stones),
# Harvey Mandel, Walter Trout, Larry Taylor (later in Canned Heat),
# Don "Sugarcane" Harris, Randy Resnick, Aynsley Dunbar, Dick Heckstall-Smith, Andy Fraser (Free), Chris Mercer, Henry Lowther, Johnny Almond and Jon Mark (later of Mark-Almond).
AN AMAZING LIST.
ALEXIS KORNER WAS THE OTHER ONE:.
musicians as Charlie Watts, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry and attrackting some others including Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Rod Stewart, John Mayall and Jimmy Page. I believe that at that time everybody has played with everybody.
BUT HIS BEST SONGS? MAYBE 2 LISTS: ROCK/BLUES and BALLADS
- ROCK:
1) CROSSROADS
2) LAYLA
3) BADGE
- BALLADS
1) LET IT GROW
2) TEARS IN HEAVEN
3) WONDERFUL TONIGHT
- MY GUITAR PLAYS EVERY STYLE = BLUES, ROCK, METAL, so I NEED TO LEARN HOW TO PLAY IT.
[color=blue]Civilization began the first time an angry person cast a word instead of a rock.[/color]
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