Music from the mid 60's to late 70's (when creative genius reigned..)

[Polarbearboy]

I was watching the Ginger Baker Memorial Tribute last night when I had a revelation: Jimi Hendrix was a great innovator but Eric Clapton is the greatest rock guitarist ever. I know this is blasphemy, as every poll of either listeners or critics places Jimi in the #1 slot. But listening to Eric at the Memorial playing many Cream and Blind Faith tunes and recently having watched almost everything on youtube with either Jeff Beck or Hendrix--I adore and you might even say worship both!--Clapton's incredible skill and long illustrious career stand out. There are songs he's played hundreds or even thousands of times, yet he always has something new. Perhaps you may think that this is too much, but Eric Clapton is God!

Here's the link to the Ginger Baker tribute:

PS: I'm also a huge Michael Hedges and John McLaughlin fan.

 

[oldfool]

Clapton, Page, Jeff Beck, Albert King, Peter Green, SRV, Johnny Winter,
Lightnin Hopkins, Billy Gibbons and so many more...can't pick a fave.

Johnny Winter called Billy Gibbons when he heard this song on the
radio and invited the band over to his house for beer & Mexican food.
They were young, and this was their first hit. A few years later Billy introduced
Stevie Ray Vaughan around & gave him guitars trying to help him get started.

 

[Canna Chameleon]

I was watching the Ginger Baker Memorial Tribute last night when I had a revelation: Jimi Hendrix was a great innovator but Eric Clapton is the greatest rock guitarist ever. I know this is blasphemy, as every poll of either listeners or critics places Jimi in the #1 slot. But listening to Eric at the Memorial playing many Cream and Blind Faith tunes and recently having watched almost everything on youtube with either Jeff Beck or Hendrix--I adore and you might even say worship both!--Clapton's incredible skill and long illustrious career stand out. There are songs he's played hundreds or even thousands of times, yet he always has something new. Perhaps you may think that this is too much, but Eric Clapton is God!

Here's the link to the Ginger Baker tribute:

PS: I'm also a huge Michael Hedges and John McLaughlin fan.

Clapton is a better blues guitarist than rock, and he’s an antivax nutter.

Greatest rock guitarist has a lot of competition and while I think Clapton has skills you’d have to convince me he’s better than a lot of others to be considered top.

 

[Canna Chameleon]

Double post but past time to edit. So @Polarbearboy here’s your numero uno

Eric Clapton Raises $2M for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Campaign in California

Eric Clapton performed at a fundraiser for presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a private estate in Brentwood near Los Angeles. The event raised $2.2 million for Kennedy: $1 million for the campaign and $1.2 million for a PAC supporting the candidate. “I am deeply grateful to Eric...

www.yahoo.com

 

[bhasma]

Age is no object!
Robert Fripp's YouTube channel recently posted this:
Fripp on the road - 2023

 

[bulllee]

 

[oldfool]

 

[NYC_Frank]

"Good morning little Schoolgirl"
Ten Years After recorded live at Winterland, San Francisco 8/4/1975

 

[Polarbearboy]

Double post but past time to edit. So @Polarbearboy here’s your numero uno

Eric Clapton Raises $2M for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Campaign in California

Eric Clapton performed at a fundraiser for presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a private estate in Brentwood near Los Angeles. The event raised $2.2 million for Kennedy: $1 million for the campaign and $1.2 million for a PAC supporting the candidate. “I am deeply grateful to Eric...

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Seeing Clapton cozying up to anti-science RFKjr.(egoist and co-celebrity Trump supporter) seriously bothers me. I didn't know. EC is a guitar god, and other wise possible--I don't know him that well!--idiot, fool, or reactionary, or worse. How can he tickle the strings so gloriously and be so sorta foolish and destructive politically? Human all too human. And old. Like me

Double post but past time to edit. So @Polarbearboy here’s your numero uno

Eric Clapton Raises $2M for Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Campaign in California

Eric Clapton performed at a fundraiser for presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. at a private estate in Brentwood near Los Angeles. The event raised $2.2 million for Kennedy: $1 million for the campaign and $1.2 million for a PAC supporting the candidate. “I am deeply grateful to Eric...

www.yahoo.com

Canna, I agree with you. As a guitarist, Clapton is God! As a human being, he can be a complete idiot, and a fool to boot. Seeing him raising $2m for the lying anti-science Trumptool RFKjr disgusts me. Now I'm wasted and I'm stoned and I can't find my way home.

 

[cybrguy]

Seeing Clapton cozying up to anti-science RFKjr.(egoist and co-celebrity Trump supporter) seriously bothers me. I didn't know. EC is a guitar god, and other wise possible--I don't know him that well!--idiot, fool, or reactionary, or worse. How can he tickle the strings so gloriously and be so sorta foolish and destructive politically? Human all too human. And old. Like me

It's an important lesson. Expertise in one area in Absolutely no way qualifies someone as an expert in any other area. There is nothing inherently wrong for example, with a celebrity getting involved in politics, but their celebrity has nothing to do with whether or not they are politically qualified and they need to go through the same process of identification and evaluation that any other politician must. They should absolutely not start on 3rd base because their celebrity says nothing about their competence. Frankly, whatever lead to their celebrity and the time and effort it took may instead suggest a lack of opportunity to have spent the time necessary to understand the political and social world in an objective manner and therefore lead to more skepticism about whether they might or might not make a good political candidate.

I love Eric Claptons music and I have for 50 years, but his life of privilege, with the adoration of his fans, his peer group of heavy drug users and incredibly entitled rock and roll stars, and his great wealth don't make him a man of the people.

That being said, he IS a musical hero of mine. I just don't expect him to be a hero in any other venue.

 

[Bologna]

Meh, he was never my gawd.. save for some early work with the Bluesbreakers, Blind Faith, Beatles/Harrison, Yardbirds, Cream, Derek and the Dominoes and very few solo tunes... I much prefer other styles of blues over most Chicago and Blues Rock... like this:

R.L. Burnside: See My Jumper Hanging On the Line (1978)

R.L. Burnside at home in Independence, Mississippi, shot by Alan Lomax, Worth Long, and John Bishop in August, 1978.

 

[bulllee]

 

[bhasma]

1967

 

[Bologna]

My favorite track from one of my all-time fav trio jazz records:

Chick Corea - Matrix - Now He Sings, Now He Sobs (1968)

Man, I love Roy Haynes...!!!

Edit: Apparently I'm not the only one that feels this way...:

The Chick Corea Trio: Now He Sings, Now He Sobs

 

[bulllee]

 

[Bologna]

It's true....!:

Frank Zappa - Broken Hearts Are For Assholes (Visualizer)

And the "hits" from the album, too, why not....?:

Frank Zappa - Dancin' Fool (Visualizer)

Frank Zappa - Jewish Princess (Visualizer)

Enjoy your Sunday, Folks!

&

 

[bulllee]

 

[Curious Gorilla]

Coffee is GOOD.
BETTER with Jazz.

 

[bulllee]

 

[vapviking]

1970

 

[NYC_Frank]

Rainy Day stoner thoughts brought to mind this under-rated Beatles tune

 

[bulllee]

 

[oldfool]

...can't pick a fave.

I certainly can't leave out Leslie West.

 

[bulllee]

 

[bulllee]