LowPhreak
(United States of Duplicitous Tools) | | Posted: Aug 15, 2009 - 08:05 | |
Yes, you must be only black or poor (preferably both) to play a blues tune, which can only be performed in a cotton field in Mississippi on a crappy old acoustic guitar.  |
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Stave
(San Francisco) | | Posted: Jul 14, 2009 - 16:53 | |
SpaceCowboy wrote:This gives the blues a bad name! It is as exciting as the standard guitar boogie played forever on a stratocaster. Who needs these rich, boring guys going through the motions? I really pisses me off! The should be banned from playing! Listen to Model T Ford, R. L. Brunside, Lightin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf et. al. Clapton had some stints with Cream, and I admit that was some great stuff. And that album with the Bluesbreakers. But this...
For some of us who were just starting to branch out taste-wise when this album came out, it acted as a gateway drug to the above mentioned artists... |
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kurtster
(Seeking shelter from the cold) | | Posted: May 12, 2009 - 03:21 | |
Think what you want of EC. I myself don't think he ever phoned anything in. He is/was always connected to a song he got involved with, no matter whose.
He deserves all the airplay he gets. Remember, there is always another song coming or use the volume control, if you don't get it. |
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Pyro
(Between a rock and a hard place) | | Posted: Jun 15, 2004 - 09:10 | |
bluedot wrote:
i disagree. if you like blues and you like clapton, BUY THIS ALBUM!
it is far and away the best thing he's ever done (this song is actually one of the weaker cuts).
and the "real" blues guys like him too. he even has a cool recent duet album with b.b. king.
it's when eric ISN'T playing blues that he often does suck big time.
I completely agree with you on all of this. One of EC's best CDs. It is obvious that he has a real passion for the blues, and it shows! |
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Patrick
(Columbia, MO (1920 miles E of Paradise, CA)) | | Posted: Apr 11, 2004 - 00:48 | |
NICKNAME wrote:THE CORRECT ANSWER IS 10
Yes, teacher! |
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bluedot
(Long Beach, CA) | | Posted: Mar 17, 2004 - 02:08 | |
SpaceCowboy wrote:This gives the blues a bad name!
It is as exciting as the standard guitar boogie played forever on a stratocaster. Who needs these rich, boring guys going through the motions? I really pisses me off! The should be banned from playing! Listen to Model T Ford, R. L. Brunside, Lightin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf et. al.
Clapton had some stints with Cream, and I admit that was some great stuff. And that album with the Bluesbreakers. But this...
i disagree. if you like blues and you like clapton, BUY THIS ALBUM!
it is far and away the best thing he's ever done (this song is actually one of the weaker cuts).
and the "real" blues guys like him too. he even has a cool recent duet album with b.b. king.
it's when eric ISN'T playing blues that he often does suck big time. |
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SpaceCowboy
(Off the shoulder of Orion, near the Tannhauser gate) | | Posted: Mar 05, 2004 - 05:38 | |
This gives the blues a bad name!
It is as exciting as the standard guitar boogie played forever on a stratocaster. Who needs these rich, boring guys going through the motions? I really pisses me off! The should be banned from playing! Listen to Model T Ford, R. L. Brunside, Lightin' Hopkins, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf et. al.
Clapton had some stints with Cream, and I admit that was some great stuff. And that album with the Bluesbreakers. But this...
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redeyespy
(W.P.B., FL) | | Posted: Oct 21, 2003 - 18:13 | |
Eric rips it up well on this disc. A career high point.
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camarkim
(So Cal, CA) | | Posted: Oct 21, 2003 - 13:30 | |
One of my old bands used to do this as a cover, but I'd never heard the original (if this Clapton version IS the original.)
Anyway, Clapton does it much better than we did. It sure was fun and easy to play, though.
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Dotman
| | Posted: Sep 20, 2003 - 19:20 | |
dot thinks this was what he was talking about. he was better though.
dot.
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