eric clapton-whole of his life he played only one scale pentatonic,nothing else

joe perry from aerosmith-patetic

late george harrison-mediocrite guitar player in a great band

yngwie malmsteen-milion notes per second all of his life

bob dylan-bruce springsteen-these 2 play very rudamentary guitar solos all they life...
i mean look at jeff beck,he started as blues rock player simular to clapton but improved to a amazing player,what other players you can put in a lazy to envolve list???

Gosh, they're rich and famous -- despite their allegedly subpar skills. And, their Web critics are unknowns...

How do you explain that?


(here's where I admit to liking the guitarists you're slamming... especially Clapton)



I mean, c'mon... The man's practically beatific right there.

How is Joe Perry pathetic?

Oh, wait... I believe my buddy theAudience would insert this sort of picture, right about now...

Lenny kravitz

thebanishedone said:

Let's just retitle this "Ignorance, bad grammar and lousy spelling on the org".

PFunkjazz said:

Let's not. thebanishedone is pretty much on point there. There seems to be a general assumption, particularly with regard to Clapton, that because he is technically proficient that he's a guitar genius. Which he clearly is not. There's been no progression in his playing at all. 35 years ago he was playing simple solo's in C and he still plays the exact same way. No progression at all.

PFunkjazz said:

He's a songwriting genius in one of my favorite bands, but Rick Nielsen of Cheap Trick is probably the weakest "guitar god" in history. Even Mick Mars puts him to major shame.

But Rick wrote 'I Want You To Want Me' so it doesn't matter.

ThreadBare said:

I think this is the one you were going for...



...

Actually he may have a point (beyond the one on the hook).
I think the presentation may be a bit crude.


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i like some of claptons work with cream.but i hate the fact he didn't envolve as a guitarist.jeff beck is his contrempoary,look at his transformation.

clapton was impresive on cream concerts and derek and the dominos live.nothing after that. big stagnation.

whole of his life he only plated pentatonic scale.
its ok many guitar players use pentatonic,but still they add difrent flavours,modes.
reptile song is the only time he realy streched and showed some improvment.
joe perry's solos are the same as it was in 1978,1986.
oh on the clapton subject.check out hyde park dvd,its the most medciotrite playing ever by him.

Chad Taylor

of

+Live+


Probably the world's laziest guitarist. What over-produced pop-rock material he plays these days was probably spoon fed to him by frontman Ed Kowalczyk, and mixed beneath Ed's own filler guitar.

Barely present on Live's latest record, "Songs from Black Mountain".


How the mighty have fallen.

thebanishedone said:

You're entitled to feel that way. I prefer Clapton's stylistic consistency to what I see as Prince's devolution as a guitar soloist (gone are the exotic scales and pretty tone of the 1980s and early 1990s, replaced by that maligned pentatonic and horrible tone).

I think Clapton represents as slick a packaging of the blues you'll find in pop music today. Acoustic ballads? He does it. "Unplugged" rearrangements? Check. Hip-hop-influenced production? "Pilgrim." His riffs might be set in stone, but he has updated the context of those riffs as the times have changed (there I see a similarity with Jeff Beck).

And, for what it's worth, he's still a wonderful player.

prince played more pentatonic before. is rainbow children pentatonic?i dont think so

Although I love him....Ace Frehley.

Hanging on the canvas of life

Joe Palette: "I think this red isn't as nice as their red over there..."
His brother, Ed Palette: "No, you're wrong, this is the best red ever!"

threadbare you want to say prince didn't improve over years???
i think he drasticly improved from year 2000 until present .
he use more various scales now then he ever used.
listen to his playing on west,raibow children(the song) xpedition ,xenophobia,xogenus,rotterdame instrumental... its much better then he ever played before...

SPYZFAN1 said:

agreed. I remember Paul Stanley saying that Ace was a very good guitarist but he never inproved you mix that with drugs and alcohol you become very stangnet.

how do you improve anyway? its so easy to get stuck playing the same stuff over and over

Meloh9 said:

You improve by checking out styles that others do better than you and studying that style to take what you naturally have been doing in the past to the next place...

thebanishedone said:

And, I can point to his playing in the 80s (Live at Syracuse, SOTT, Small Club) and see examples of him having a more varied soloing style...


We just disagree. Which is allowed.

prettymansson said:

thanks, I have that same peddle in your avatar. I love the Vox

Let's hear it for the pentatonic scale!

I think we need spell check on this site

i told you milion times,english is not my native language.i bet i speak better english then you speak serbian.

AsylumUtopia said:

You are right. But I think part of what makes him so popular is that fact that he really HASN'T changed all that much over the years. He's a great player, no doubt, but like said, his style hasn't really changed much at all.

thebanishedone said:

Vrlo ste ljubazni

jessedez haha "vrlo ste ljubazni".
you caught me off guard,great.
you won all my simpathies.

heartbeatocean said:

I had this conversation with a friend the other day while we were discussing the upcoming Jeff Beck concert.

Of The Yardbirds' Big 3 (Beck, Clapton & Page), Jeff Beck has shown the most progress as a guitarist hands down.
In Clapton's defense, he has always been an evangelist for the Blues.
To his credit, he's *generally been willing to give credit where credit is due regarding his influences.

*I still have a question about the tune Strange Brew which sounds very similar to an Albert King tune I can't name at the moment.

This is in direct opposition to another of his Yardbirds compadres who will remain nameless.
Let's just say we'll turn the PAGE on that issue.


"There's Jimmy Page, the greatest thief of American black music who ever walked the earth."

~Homer Simpson


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