Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Originally posted by: Platypus
Originally posted by: CraKaJaX
Originally posted by: Platypus
Everything before he switched to Fenders
Boooo Platy, boooo.
Anything Clapton was or is in, I'll listen to, and most likely enjoy.
Definitely a different sound, but hell, still sounds damn good to me. It's just so clean.... and the guy never misses a note. It just amazes me.
Sorry
I lost a lot of respect for him when he did that. I'm all for artists changing their style and tone but his reasoning was ridiculous... he also moved into a genre I didn't care for around that time period too. He invented the tone that I hear in my head when I think about electric guitar and then abandoned it over something retarded.
Furthermore, the Cream reunion was a slap in the face when he showed up with Fender gear!!! He should have called it 'skim milk'
I wont deny he's an awesome player, he just started making music I don't care for...
LOL @ skim milk. That is kinda weird, I've never thought about it like that. But in any case, I love the blues and he is just a master of it. What do you mean about "He invented the tone that I hear in my head when I think about electric guitar and then abandoned it over something retarded." ? Don't think I quite comprehend that. As in the Cream noise was "electric" and his noise today is "retarded" ?
Clapton invented the 'woman tone,' essentially a Les Paul into an overdriven Marshall stack with the tone wiped out. It was that amazing moaning, singing, fat buttery tone that went for days... he perfected that.
Go listen to the 'beano' album
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/B...kers_with_Eric_Clapton
That sound... that quacky midrange overdriven plexi tone is just.. that's electric guitar tone to me. There are thousands of flavors but when I hear him on that album it is just the best.
Shortly after some punk at Rolling Stone or some magazine like that wrote a negative review of Clapton saying that the woman tone was too easy and that gibsons were too easy to play and real guitar players used stratocasters.. something to this effect. He took it very personally and decided to switch to strats to 'prove' himself as a worthy guitar player. (this is all annectdotal from Jay Jay French of twisted sister). Since then his tone has been very thin and clippy to my ears. When you invent something SO influential.. spawning essentially a thousand bands.. it's hard to enjoy his change in preference.
I know that seems snobby and it probably is.. but music is subjective and as Clapton is free to pursue new sonic territory, I am free to not enjoy it. Clapton is one of the greats no doubt but come the fuck on.. you do a CREAM reunion show, the band that essentially took this woman tone to insane heights and you try to cover it with a strat.. sorry doesn't fly.
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