the blues has become a lot less emotional
I blame Clapton.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 May 2010, 15:50, 2 replies, latest was 16 years ago)

Clapton is a cunt.
Fact.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 19 May 2010, 15:51, Reply)

I find his music incredibly dull
Cream were good, in places, but most of his stuff is boring, or he has taken something like Crossroads and sucked all the life out of it.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 May 2010, 15:52, Reply)

I could teach him a lesson on the guitar.
I would pick up my GLP copy and smash it into the Nazi bastard's mouth.
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:03, Reply)

EXCUSE ME.
Don't tar all Nazi bastards with the Clapton brush, please...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:43, Reply)

Yes, that was dreadful of me.
Dear Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei,
So sorry for comparing you to Eric Fucking Clapton - it was a thoughtless remark which I regret saying.
DrT2
(Tugnut Ex of this parish, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:55, Reply)

We Nazis
never murdered our own kids....
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 19 May 2010, 17:14, Reply)

Steven Seagal makes more
exciting music than Clapton. If it wasn't for Riding with the King I'd probably want to shoot him.
(Himjim died a little more inside on, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:05, Reply)

Clapton's a funny one
Superb guitar player - his work with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Cream spring to mind in particular - but just about everything he's done since Cream broke up has been utter shite.

I don't even think Layla is that good (although I do have a bit of a soft spot for the acoustic version)
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 May 2010, 15:52, Reply)

I don't like Layla
and I really don't like the acoustic version
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 May 2010, 15:53, Reply)

I like to think
that if Peter Green hadn't gone batfuck insane after a bad drugs experience and had carried on playing guitar in the '60s then he would have been bigger than Clapton today. He was certainly a better songwriter and I've always thought he was a better guitarist.

If you're after some modern blues with a bit of passion in it, check out Ian Siegal. He's rather good.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:00, Reply)

I agree with you there
Oh Well is one of my all time favourite songs

I will do, cheers
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:02, Reply)

Ooh, or alternatively
This song by Emily Loizeau. She doesn't really play blues, but this performance is a great blues number and is absolutely fucking awesome.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:04, Reply)

He is boring
But I used to listen to Layla with my first boyfriend. He wrote 'Clapton is God' on a wall in an alleyway.
Alan McDonald. I think he ended up a bit of a wrong'un.
( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 19 May 2010, 15:55, Reply)

I think he - or at least his graffiti - got a mention in one of the Martin Scorcese Blues films

(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:02, Reply)

;)

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:04, Reply)

The same film which led me to the conclusion
that Tom Jones really, really shouldn't try to sing the Blues.
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:19, Reply)

It was all over London in the late 60s
Roota's ex is either nearly 70 now or was a fucking loser copying 60s graffiti, which was, even when it was first written, complete hogwash.

That said I wish Clapton WAS God ie he didn't exist.
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:24, Reply)

Well, Roota is pushing 70 herself - so it could be.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 19 May 2010, 16:37, Reply)

Actually I'm in my 80s

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:38, Reply)

when you said you loved the 80s
I did not know you meant YOUR 80s...
( Monty Boyce, My cheese game is strong, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:42, Reply)

yeah, almost as good as the Blitz years for me

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:43, Reply)

But you wear it well.

( Larry Vest One day at a time, sweet Jesus, FFS., Wed 19 May 2010, 16:47, Reply)

Rouge and cold cream

( Roota zweeeeeoooooowm, Wed 19 May 2010, 16:53, Reply)