most of you are probabley familiar with recent guitar festival called
crossroads guitar festival.
most of people that mean something in guitar world played there this summer.
people like steve vai,jeff beck,b.b. king,
eric johnson,santana any many others.
i know that eric clapton(founder of this guitar festival) like prince's music.
how come he didn't invite him.
i think it would have gain more new fans to prince.people who don;t even know prince is a guitar player.

thebanishedone said:

we don't know that he didn't.

btw,this guitar festival is now on DVD and it's on my Christmas list

the 2nd guitarist in Clapton's band on this dvd(and last couple of cd's)is
none other than Doyle Bramhall,for those who don't know who he is,Doyle is married to Susanah Melvoin.he is an awsome guitarist also.get the dvd!

Cause Eric Clapton wears flat shoes

EC didn't want to risk Doyle and Prince fighting over Susannah.

I mean, gosh, how could Doyle play with all of Prince's pancake makeup all over his knuckles? That would be awfully distracting.

Awfully distracting...

ThreadBare said:

Gav said:

Its not Prince's style. He would have said no. He wouldn't have felt confortable with all those great guitarists, thinking he would have to out-do them all since he is VERY COMPETATIVE. He did it once for the R & R Hall Of fame, but it was one performance and few accomplished guitarists, here he would have to face MANY. Prince considers shit like this to be a competition, don't know why, but he does...he's a Gemini, go figure

thebanishedone said:

rudedog said:

You may have a point.

>>sounds on the money Rudedog....brotha must B still trying 2 peace out his inner competition concerns....i've always felt like u just do the Best of U & that's what works....oh well 4 the mercurical...

because Clapton is so full of himself that he doesn't want to stand in the shadow of Prince's guitarplaying (wearing flat shoes..... )

Clapton is overrated.....
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abierman said:

This is also true. Clapton is overrated and full of himself.

Hotlegs said:

He's actually known for being humble, regardless of how some feel about his playing...

Dude can burn...

clapton is not overrated.
in the past i used to hate eric clapton.i thought he was awful guitar player.
i only liked cream.

but after i saw "live from reptile tour 2001-one more car one more raider "dvd
i gained a habbit to watch erioc clapton's guitar solo on "my father eyes
"
he totaly killed it with that solo.he was on fire.eric clapton was a wild guitar player in his cream ,derek and the dominos,blind faith days.
he became a guitar wanker in the '80-es.

but now days he plays with such urgency and fire.

for example on live from reptile tour,
all guitar solos contaid his long forggoten gritty(jimi hendrix ) sound.
all solos were fast and had a bit of urgency in them.
i highly recommend following tracks
eric clapton-stone free(hendrix cover)-wild furios guitar playing

derek and the dominos live-little wing

sunshine of your love-any version

b.b. king and clapton-marry me(getting funky with b.b. king)

eric clapton-five long years

lenny kravitz and eric clapton-all along the watchtower

eric clapton and sting-it's probably me
bell bottom blues
and of course the real thing electric layla...

thebanishedone said:

Hey, bud, at risk of jacking this thread even more, I must say: I dig Slowhand's playing and all (listening to that Stone Free right now, actually), but I find the cut-and-paste approach to his solos on Pilgrim downright shady.

Listen to "One Chance" closely, and you'll see what I mean. Not an honest solo, but more like a Franken-solo.

He didn't invite Prince (struggling to get this thing back on topic) because he felt sympathy toward P, who's taken up with the ugliest, cheapest Strat in all creation. EC didn't want to upstage him with his multicolored (and cheap-looking) deal.

There.

prince's strat is cool.it makes great sound.