Eric Clapton

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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by Micah Cohen
    Saturday night, in front of the computer. Don't let this happen to you. :mad:

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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited July 2005
    "Guitar Man," that's an amazing song. Look to early Elvis. Early is best.

    And don't be afraid of live stuff. When it's done right, as in those things I mentioned, it puts you in the middle of the action, where you should be in rock and roll, and is secondary to the action happening on the stage. The audience never gets in the way on those recordings.

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  • Polkersince85
    Polkersince85 Posts: 2,883
    edited July 2005
    I to went college at Milledgeville, GA, about 35 miles from the "Brothers" in Macon. In the very early 70's. Met some of them at the clubs. Took a class at "Statesboro". In my professional opinion, MR. Cohen is off base on who's the best. They are all good, I bet any of them can play circles around him on a guitar. So STFU.
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  • VR3
    VR3 Posts: 29,427
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by Micah Cohen
    "Definitive Technology"? Never heard of them. :D

    MC [/B]

    Yeah yeah yeah, F U pal! ;)

    I have a few Clapton CDs - dosnt do anything for me. Sorry. Way way way to laid back for me.
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  • audiobliss
    audiobliss Posts: 12,518
    edited July 2005
    Ok, I'm never talking to you again, Sid!! :mad: :mad: :mad:

























    :p:D
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  • F1nut
    F1nut Posts: 51,771
    edited July 2005
    The Fillmore SACD is a hybrid, meaning it has a 2 channel redbook layer too. Of course, I've never listened to it.......why should I?
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  • Roy Munson
    Roy Munson Posts: 886
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by Micah:
    Aw, Hendrix is crap.

    Dude, you are to brutal!

    Have you heard the news, there's good rockin tonight!

    Scotty Moore is the bomb!!!!!!!

    Some early Elvis:

    Little Sister
    Milkcow Blues Booge
    One Night with You
    Reconsider Baby
    Good Rockin Tonight
    Mystery Train
    That's Alright Mama
    Paralyzed
    Heartbreak Hotel
    Lawdy, Lawdy, Miss Clawdy
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  • shack
    shack Posts: 11,154
    edited July 2005
    I've stayed out of this tread because Micah can hold his own and unfortunately I sorta agree with him (about Clapton) and that bothers me. As a point of reference...I own more versions of The Allman Brothers Band at Fillmore East (5) than I do Clapton (solo) albums (2). Filmore is the best live rock album of all time IMO.

    461 Ocean Boulevard was a stellar effort by Clapton even though I never really liked his version of "I Shot The Sheriff" (agreeing with Micah again :(). Later in his career Journeyman came close to generating that "fun" again. Nothing else has ever been worthy of purchase IMO. His work with Cream, The Yardbirds, Derek And The Dominos, Delaney and Bonnie and the Bluesbreakers was very good stuff. I guess Clapton is better being part of a band than a solo artist.

    Sabbath and Deep Purple are "fun" to listen to from time to time (in fact Made in Japan just got some play last week). I never really liked Ozzie - then or now.

    I listen to SRV a lot more than JH and have more SRV albums. That said...Electric Ladyland is a fantastic studio album and most of the stuff never gets any "classic rock station" airplay. Nothing "boring" here. The same can be said for Band Of Gypsys which is Jimi's best live album. And yes...he was a musician...not a writer.

    Most "Nostalgia Tours/Bands" are bad. I think the Eagles are the exception because they don't try to be the Eagles of the 70's...They act like the 50 something muscians that they are who have honed their craft and are probably better musicians now.

    Guys....Don't let Micah define YOUR fun. Hell, Micah's fun is probably only legal in certain South East Asian countries and parts of rural Arkansas.... Find your own fun.

    I wish I had more to disagree with Micah about...as he is a worthy adversary and arguing absolute truths would be....FUN.
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  • Loud &amp; Clear
    Loud &amp; Clear Posts: 1,538
    edited July 2005
    Clapton is a good guitar player who's contributed to a lot of good music over the course of ... forever. He's not the greatest, imo, but I have to laugh my **** off at Micah's self-assured condemnations of Eric Clapton. Christ, let the young man enjoy his effing Clapton already. Hell, be happy about it; after all, he's not extolling the virtues of Will Smith's musical catalog.

    I'm more a Richard Thompson guy myself, to use a reasonable example, but Clapton's fame isn't entirely without merit. One listen of the Derek and the Dominoes 'Layla' recording should put that into perspective.

    A little respect, and in this case fanfare, isn't out of line for a pretty damned good musician.

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  • george daniel
    george daniel Posts: 12,096
    edited July 2005
    Great job Micah,, let them run with it,,reel in the slack and then,,,Set the hook!!!
    JC approves....he told me so. (F-1 nut)
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  • Micah Cohen
    Micah Cohen Posts: 2,022
    edited July 2005
    Yeah, Elvis may be The King, but I'm the Pope of this forum!

    Audiobliss, send me a private message with your address and I'll send you a 2-disc set of remastered pre-army Elvis that has all this stuff that Roy just mentioned. (Good Roy, good!)

    And I still say that "Layla" is as boring as an episode of "Mister Rogers' Neighborhood" would be to an adult, and it's Duane who does anything exciting on that, anyway.

    Now I wish (a) that someone would bring up something else to talk about, or that I would go find some other thread to bother, because when Shack agrees with me it's definitely time to move on :D, and (b) that I could sleep later on a Sunday morning and not end up on the garshdarn Polk forum at 8am. What a LOSER.

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  • ND13
    ND13 Posts: 7,601
    edited July 2005
    Originally posted by Loud & Clear
    Christ, let the young man enjoy his effing Clapton already. Hell, be happy about it; after all, he's not extolling the virtues of Will Smith's musical catalog.
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    Exactly, at least one young mind isn't going to be wasted on today's sorry excuses for music. And no I'm not ignorant enough to proclaim all of today's music as crap, just a major share of it.
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  • nellis8166
    nellis8166 Posts: 292
    edited July 2005
    Here's my two cents on EC. I love his music, I think he changed the modern era of rock music.
    I have to say that I was very dissapointed with his live show. I saw him last year on the 4th of July. He was all business, almost like it was a chore to be up on stage. He only played 1.5 hours. I guess I just expected more. I think he said two words all night. Maybe it was just and off night for him, not really sure.
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