Is Eric Clapton’s solo in Cream’s version of Crossroads the greatest live blues-rock solo ever recorded? Here, we pose the question - and bust a few myths in the process. Robert Johnson’s Delta blues ...
The Beatle and Clapton briefly crossed paths several times throughout the first half of the 1960s. However, they didn’t become friends until the latter part of the decade. In Martin Scorsese’s ...
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Music is not just vibrations in the air. There is something physiological about it. When a song comes on, it somehow starts to interact with your DNA and change your internal composition. It can make ...
George Harrison started playing slide guitar after seeing what Eric Clapton and other great guitarists were doing on the instrument in the mid-1960s. His interest in the sitar had taken over for a bit ...
Everyone has his or her favorite guitar hero, but when it comes to blues-rock, you have to give it up for Eric Clapton. Starting with his groundbreaking work in the mid-60’s with The Yardbirds, and ...
Eric Clapton may have the most impressive résumé in rock ‘n’ roll history, having played in the Yardbirds, John Mayall’s Bluebreakers, Cream, Blind Faith and Derek and the Dominos. He’s also racked up ...
Slash doesn’t play games when it comes to shredding, and he’s proved time and time again that he can tear up a guitar solo with ease. “November Rain” and his cover of “Johnny B. Goode” are a couple of ...
When The Beatles first started, Paul McCartney and John Lennon dominated the songwriting side of things. Their partnership, known as Lennon-McCartney, is one of the most successful and prolific ...
“Thank you!” Over and over Monday night in Chicago, those were about the only words spoken by legendary English guitarist Eric Clapton between songs on stage at United Center on night three of his ...
“I thought of Cream as sort of a jazz band,” bassist Jack Bruce once said, “only we never told Eric he was really Ornette ...
Eric Clapton played the first of several scheduled U.S concerts on Tuesday night at the Pechanga Arena in San Diego. Jimmie Vaughan served as the opening act. Clapton's 1971 Derek and the Dominos ...