Tapping was done thirty years before Eddy All of those chlamydia Spandex hair bands of the 80s were riding on the Country and Western shirt tails Roy Clarke Glen Campbell and many more would run rings around both of them They should be glad they stayed to country otherwise these So called rock Gods no one would be talking about them
Yep. When Clapton sobered up he got pretty nasty sometimes, maybe he reason for drinking? Eddie really calmed down when he sobered up it seems, sadly he lost a lot of friends and a wife while stoned.
I shared a demo booth with Paul Gilbert one year at the NAMM show. Even though I’m not into his kind of music, I could tell that he was indeed a world class player! And you’re right about him being a great guy! He gave me one of his signature “Home Brew” pedals. ❤️👍🏽👍🏽
You really don't want to hear EVH try to play with Brian Setzer i think EVH and Clapton are 2 good examples of how not to play guitar Django Reinhardt played everything on guitar and amazingly it was on a acoustic before electric guitar was even heard but he played like he was playing a electric and with 2 fingers he played every lick that is possible on guitar. Then Sabicus and Manitas de plata could play guitar like there was 5 people playing the same guitar then Brian Setzer and his Roland echo got to love them.
I think most people probably noticed, but the phrase on the second half referred to Clapton's "dismissive attitude", and I think it is pretty likely that the part that is missing is Clapton perhaps making a public comment panning the effort at covering his early efforts with Blues breakers. Maybe he got his feelings hurt that he wasn't asked to participate, or maybe it was just his negative opinion. At any rate, I recall reading a comment from Clapton that was pretty dismissive of Eddie's playing in general. I recall because I am a fan of VH and also of Cream, Derek And The Dominoes, and Blind Faith, but since VH came along, I don't make much time for the old Clapton stuff, and his newer "soft rock" efforts never interested me at all; the slow acoustic version of Layla is like a Ferrari with the engine removed. Eddie remained a creative force, his whole life. Clapton was done saying anything fresh when he hit his mid 30s, and started mining the lucrative soft rock/pop market.
Clapton had no business being dismissive of anyone, especially Eddie Van Halen. Even though Clapton is revered by many, I have never once thought of him as "one of the greats" and never will. Put it this way, much of his early work, though very good in its own right, was never anything I would call great or "WOW! Look at that!". He never influenced my own playing either. Sorry, you can complain about my comment all you like. It doesn't change the fact that I will never see Clapton as a great.
@@scottfriery9091 He also made an infamous bigoted rant at a show, drunkenly attacking the members of his audience that were Arabs; (calling them by a racial slur) telling them to leave England, although not before he already got their money for the show. I suspect that if we had had the internet back in the seventies his career would have been finished. Hardly anybody has even heard of the incident anymore. He went on a talk show a while after it and was given a chance to apologize, and he instead doubled down on the bigotry. Now his friends with Greg Abbott, the charming bigoted governor of Texas that likes to put razor wire in the water to slice up desperate families trying to cross the river to escape from violent gangs the US has created throughout Latin America with our drug war. Robert Cray, the great blues artist, responded to a picture of his buddy Eric, grinning alongside Abbott, by announcing that he's done with the friendship. Good on him; Clapton is a creep.
That's the Deal...Poor Ewic didn't like Brian May and Ed recording together,... THAT was the issue...not surprisingly the Heroin Junkies problem, D Bag
When Gilmour was asked who his favorite guitar player was, he said Jeff Beck. Then they played together, jamming on, among other things, ELP. Not all guitar heroes have ego problems.
If you mean “Jerusalem” in your reference to ELP I think you’ll find it has a lineage beyond that, which Beck and Gilmour (and the entire British audience) would be tapping into.
Yeah, I’m with basher, Clapton is a racist POS, which, I’ll add, is his right, you’re allowed to be racist in a free country but I take serious exception at the fact his entire career was built on the work of people he obviously considers beneath him. He’s lucky Howlin Wolf wasn’t present when he said that stuff about getting all the “wogs” (essentially the British n-word) out of GB, and to vote for Trump I mean Enoch Powell 😂. Even just 2 years from his death the Wolf would’ve kicked Clapton’s candied ass, I like to imagine. There’s no question the Wolf was a better man 😁.
Lame. Big alcoholic egos. Not "big dogs". Nothing to justify. I love EVH and some of Clapton's stuff. But having an unchecked ego isn't an achievement.
@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Aren’t you that same moron on Blabbermouth who also says stupid shit? Or is a coincidence that 2 people with the same name could be as equally Fucking stupid and ignorant.
@fartpooboxohyeah8611 Well, that settles it, then. He was completely without ego. He didn't screw over Mike, Sammy; never had any issues with anyone. I guess you knew him personally and was around him 24/7. Where did you get your information? You know, what's funny is that we can't accept our idols as maybe being flawed in some way. Every single one of them was humble, never had issues with anyone, and never took any chemicals stronger than a Diet Pepsi. Incredible how this works. Prince; Michael Jackson; Eddie; etc. All perfect human beings.
I met Eddie before he was famous, and he was lovely - modest, but he knew he was onto something. We talked for about 5 minutes. I don’t know what happened to him later, but young Eddie was a nice guy.
Sounds like Clapton was being a bit precious about his playing - he should be honoured by the tribute Van Halen was trying to give him - whether he liked the playing or not!
Clapton peaked in the late 60s and plummeted through the floor going into the 70s, leaving tens of thousands of cooler guitar players ahead of him. But he used to be really good.
We can appreciate both. They were just different guitar players. Clapton was coming out of his drug and alcohol addictions. Eddie was just getting started…and it got real bad him. RIP EVH.
@@brads2330 so let's be real, Ed is not overrated, overrated is a hack term he changed guitar sales and pumped up more interest in the instrument than anyone before him. He is an elite A leaguer, you're trying to be a hack, the difference is I am not allowing it
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle By looking at your page you obviously don’t know alot. Your into the Bubblegum RugRat Teenybopper era . Cmon Ozzys music after Sabbath sucked. Look at the sales between Eric’s and Eddies music. Clapton has him tripled. You obviously haven’t been around the Block.
Eddie probably got the "teabag" moniker from a Guitar Player magazine interview of Jeff Beck where Beck was asked about his contemporaries Page and Clapton.Beck said of Clapton that he was a teabag.Clapton and Van Halen were both a bit steeped in their own hype.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle i don't agree with clapton being B league but i do agree with EVH and rhoads.... but i also knew danny gatton and he was pretty bad ass too....
Music sounded different before and after Cream. Clapton definitely lead the wave of Psychedelic blues, him Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker introduced more aggressive riffs, solos, and rhythms to rock, and they laid the foundation for heavy metal without even trying. Show some respect to the architects.
@@Dave_Wight_The_Rock_Oracle Clapton has a legacy too long to list Rhoads been in 2 well known bands, but Van Halen only one who is the B.- Leaguer according to the track record of success.
Clapton didn’t grow up learning Van Halen riffs. It was the other way around. What I’m trying to say is when Clapton learned, he didn’t even have Clapton to learn from either. He started with less knowledge and influence. Judging Clapton by today’s standards is just ignorant. He was very influential in his time so why discredit him now?
Hey man, at 2:17 there is a cut that makes the audio not make any sense. Who was reconciled with a newly-sober Clapton? What event between which people made the reconciliation necessary?
For me, Clapton was at his pinnacle with Derek and the Dominoes. After that, all down hill. Of course having Duane Allman play with you on the Layla recording always helps out. I have seen Eric a couple times. EVH the same.
Glen was an outstanding singer and guitarist; however, just like Clapton and Van Halen his personal life was awful. I buy the music I enjoy but I don’t concern myself with the musician’s private life; otherwise, I would buy nothing.
@@Every-picture-tells-a-story It seems that the guitar community prefer their heroes to be sort of old-school and not too adventurous. It is quite conservative really.
Always cooler to take the high road in situations like this. You come offl looking better. Eddie Van Halen dissed Jimmy Page saying he plays like has a broken hand in concert. Page just compliments Eddie when asked about him. When you are really great and so many people look up to you and buy your music,, one of the best selling guitarists and songwriters who ever lived, like Page is, no need to throw around petty criticisms. Page always compliments guitarists and guitar playing, it is an instrument forever linked to him. So many kids, young teens back in the day 1970s and 1980s, looked up to Page, and they still do, a good man. No ego, nice guy to his fans. Upsetting seeing stories like this petty insulting behavior of Clapton and Eddie Van Halen.
You're right about Page. I have never seen him diss other musicians or bands. I admire that. When Keith Richards and Pete Townshend (who I both love) try to diss Zeppelin it just comes off as petty.
Jimmy didn't have to spend hours of his life practicing scales, he had an imagination that came out and it was a blueprint for many many in rock music. I remember when Clapton and Beck played with Jimmy and the faces Clapton was making is insulting. Beck knew Jimmy had the gift of creation with music, and enjoyed his guitars without trying to be a perfect player.
Jimmy is my overall favorite He has always been gracious and supportive of other players and artists.That is the gentleman producer and his parents upbringing most likely.Plus he is just jazzed about all things related to the instrument .I also always appreciated that he left his "clams" on the records which were few to keep the performance a living breathing thing.Raw and beautiful,finess and power.just respect him so much.plus it doesn't hurt that he masterminded his bands re-arrangement of the rock and or roll universe.
@bornagainbornagain6697 I am with you on that ARMS concert.Page was still grieving his good friends death and encumbered with a nasty herion habit.Clapton"s snotty faces were him being kind of what he always was a brooding,emotionally inept swat that believed the "Clapton is God" rubbish.yes he was stellar in Mayall's bluesbreakers and Cream.I absorbed Wheels of Fire and Fresh Cream and it propelled my learning the instrument. Page inspired me by a magnitude more so in writing, arranging production and just being an all around player.To his credit,I appreciate Clapton"s stance on the clot shots and I believe he is rather proud of being an Englishman.I also absolutely love Jeff Beck for the record.Cheers from another Born Again
@@bradsmith7311 I think some of them are literally a bit jealous of Page. Sad to say. But it seeems likely. Page's music with Led Zeppelin and his popularity with fans. His music outsold all those guys, other top guitarists back in the 1970s and 1980s like Clapton, Beck, Van Halen, Richie Blackmoore, etc.,by a lot. The names you heard back then of the top lead guitaists in the 1970s to mid1980s like Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, Townshend, Blackmoore, Van Halen, etc., - Page had more fans and his music outsold those guys by a mile. Led Zep still outsells them all, practically, all those rock and roll bands, except maybe The Beatles, way back then 1960s to 1980's. I remember all the top live rock and roll bands in the ARMS concert then LIVE AID most all the fans; who were they there to see and so excited about getting to see and hear play music? Jimmy Page
@@heimonen5174 Clapton is a vastly overrated guitarist with a bigger ego than any of them, not to mention all the racist and antivaxx remarks he's made over the years.
Seems Clapton’s antivaxx remarks proved to be correct… as for his racist remarks.. might want to revisit that one. It was in the 70’s and Clapton was deep into his addictions. He has since apologized for his remarks …
2:15 - Something was edited out at that point. Unfortunate, because considering the what was being said at that particular moment it might've been crucial to the story. Oh well...
Rory Gallagher, No ego, a pure gentleman, respect for other musicians and fans, an Irish man, and the best guitarist in the world, as said Jimi Hendrix on Rory..
Actually, Jimi Hendrix never said that - that's just a story that got out and about due to a line in a book by Chis Welch that he later said "well, I heard the story, too" but didn't have any source for it - it's been around so long it has been hard to put to bed once and for all.
@@Scion-cy6wj Gallagher was a bloody good guitarist though. He also played shows in Northern Ireland at a time when most acts wouldn't play there due to the conflict.
@@geoffpoole483 OF COURSE he was. He was absolutely fantastic - especially in the days of TASTE. Followed him since 'On The Boards' when it came out - superb technician with firepower/imagination to spare.
@@geoffpoole483and also very humble, I met JJ Cale, he hung around on stage after he finished his show, and Rory was also there around the stage, Rory was asking JJ about his Harmony gtr, how it was wired up..Not sure if JJ knew who Rory Gallagher was on that night..but Rory never introduced himself, for him he was just another member of the JJ Cale audience, a very humble gentleman, Rory was...
"Wives" are not trophies to be stolen. They compare and choose, and they are entitled to do it just as "husbands" are. Marriages, in developed countries at least, are not immutable.
The breakdown of respect between Edward and Eric was really tragic…..I think what happened was Eric was a very purist ‘blues’ player and made some judgemental statements about Ed on the blues breaker track because Eric took it way too seriously. Much more seriously than Ed had intended…Edward and Brian were just loose jamming to clear their heads….It wasn’t meant to be something to be rated and calibrated according to build ups and structures.,,Then Eric made the rather tactless statement that they(Ed and Brian) ‘can’t play the blues’ which was Eric judging something for what it was never intended to be……..Then Ed called Eric a ‘teabag’ and things went downhill fast.😔🙄
I remember reading an interview with Eric, in a guitar mag, way back in time, where he basically said Eddie can't play the blues, so yes their respectively different approaches to guitar playing clashed completely.
@@Finn-qw9jm Well, ‘blues’ to Eric meant something different and more than to Edward or Brian because to Eric blues was his SPECIALTY in the present and most of what he was as a guitarist but to Edward and Brian ‘the blues’ was just an INFLUENCE in their past going back to their roots…So they would see the blues differently…I don’t think Edward or Brian would have played it with as much attention to emotional nuance as Eric would have because Ed and Brian’s individual ways of playing had evolved so beyond it into something different.
Eddie made a comment that upset Eric Clapton. It was made because Eddie was disillusioned about Eric. That's Eddie's work. Eric was upset about being called a name and so that's Eric's issue. Beyond that, I don't know what the nature of their differences were. I don't know what Eddie was disillusioned about, but to be disillusioned, one must first have an illusion. But if we surpass our heroes, it is more mature to do so with some grace. If you surpass your king or believe you have, then there is no need to kill him. Our illusions are our own. If our illusions are sparked by heroes, then simply thank them for having the shoulders you stand on. This is more than about who is a better player.
I believe Edward was disillusioned by Eric not appreciating what he had dedicated to him in return for what Ed felt he had learned from him. If you grew up learning from a mentor and they turned on you years later if you were sensitive that could literally break your heart…In fact it could CRUSH you…Eric could have been more diplomatic even if there was something in what he said about Bluesbreaker lacking the emotional nuance and build of how he played the blues..I don’t think Edward had ‘illusions’ about Eric, he just felt rejected by him with his forthrightness. I don’t think one player surpasses another in music because taste is not ‘quantifiable’ and not comparatively ‘measurable’….Also illusions are not exclusively our own because nobody functions in a social vacuum and the perceptions of others and social ideologies can shape our illusions.
@2:20 - huh? did you leave a chunk out of the story? What dismissive attitude? Where did this come from? After watching this, I still have no idea why they fell out.
I met Ace Frehley in 2012 at his book signing. Complete wreck. He was rude,incoherent about certain Kiss songs and what record they released on. He wasnt drinking,but he sure looked like he needed a hit. Very weird conversation with him overall,then it got worse. Two girls behind me were next in line and he up and walked out on them both,saying he would be back later. They were the last two in that line! LOL. He could have stayed for 10 more minutes? Nope,he just split. I've heard from a few others they had the same experience with him. Rude and his mind was some where else instead of meeting fans. So yeah it can be true at times,never meet your heroes. Sometimes it can be amazing though. Two people that were the opposite of Ace though are Gary Cherone and Nunno Bettencourt,they couldn't be more classy and down to earth. I still have my 1992 CD they signed when they played Fresno. :D
I took vocal lessons from a famous singer I won’t say who. But he was the rudest person I ever met. I paid close to $3000 for a week.i sang “Your Song” 🎶 he stopped me and said “It’s not Funny, it’s Funny.” That’s what I saw singing”🎶 “ you’re not pronouncing it correctly” that’s when I said what’s the first line of jumping jack flash cause I can’t understand anything he says
Just very rude, I was singing and he said he sings like he has no teeth 🦷 “ that got a big laugh from everyone. After the class he apologize to me. I didn’t say anything
Why would Clapton review a tribute played for him? The point was the tribute, not the relative quality of the music. If someone gives you a gift, do you critique the quality of the gift. That would be dumb and callous. Clapton was dumb and callous.
He was just giving honest feedback the way Bluesman did for him. Don't be so sensitive. They were glam musicians trying to co-opt the credibility that Clapton had with the Bluesbreakers and Cream, arguably the most influential english bands.
@@jeffrey3498 they shouldn't put him on the spot like that. Clapton may have inspired these two but he is on another level. Its not debatable. He was just trying to help them.
Brian May sent a copy of the track to Eric Clapton and EC said right out in an interview: “It was so horrible. And they dedicated it to me. They sent me a copy, and I put it on, expecting something, and, you know, I was almost insulted that they should send this to me.” Jeez, chill out EC
He did the right thing. Queen were a good band for Glam music and so was Eddie Van Halen... But nothing more. He was just giving honest feedback the way elderly Blues-man did for him. They were glam musicians from the 70s trying to co-opt the credibility that Clapton had with the Bluesbreakers and Cream, arguably the most influential english bands.
@@spencerwilliams461 Eric Clapton has only imitated black American blues guitarists since his comfortable little white life. He should shut his mouth! Fortunately for him, real bluesmen were not as full of themselves as he was. Clapton has always been a bad ass
Most guitarists rip off Eric Clapton's work live and in studio with Cream and The Blues Breakers. Its a fact. Van Halen owes a lot too those bands more than any other.
Fact I read that when Eddie was in high school and everyone was out on the weekends partying he was playing and jamming to wheels of fire in his bedroom no party Ed jam clapton .....
@@lfader Yep. Alot of the improvisation, experimentation and blues on Wheels of Fire influenced most bands after it. Unfortunately music history is generally very one sided and misleading as to what really set the tone for what was to come... And the live albums too. I think Eddie claiming he didn't play like Clapton is misleading, he played like a specific portion of Clapton. Guys like Clapton and Hendrix pioneered more than their successors and contemporaries. Live albums and Mono versions of Cream albums you hear the influence. And The Blues breakers too.
And Clapton ripped off Buddy Guy, all the Kings, Howling Wolf, Muddy Waters, and other blues players as well. He reinterpreted the Blues very well and added his own flavor to it (like most British Blues players did) but he was not an originator of the Blues.
I'm surprised that Clapton found the dedication insulting, I used to listen to that 'jam' as a kid and thought the Van Halen parts were some of the most amazing guitar I'd ever heard. Each to their own.
These two spent holidays together and were absolutely cool with each other. Mutual admiration and respect. Practically bros from another mother. Two Mt. Rushmore guitarists who cared deeply for one another.
Well, Clapton's best guitar work was with Cream, too bad his SG got stolen. As for EVH, never cared for the guy but his influence on so many is undeniable.
So, i'm number three on this unpopular opinion party. I ve always idolized Cream, mainly due to Jack Bruce, and then partially due to Ginger and Eric, and thats a 80/20 favoring Ginger. As for Eddie, his music is great, but as a guitarist, i forgot him really soon. Got more nuanced, expressive and jaw dropping guitarists to listen to, any day.
@@nathaninostroza7655 Jack Bruce's vocals are somewhat of an acquired taste, on 'Spoonful' he really belted it out along with some outstanding playing perhaps only 2nd to Entwistle, though there are plenty of other great bassists too. James Dewar of Robin Trower was another outstanding vocalist. Seems they're weened on Scotch up there. Looks like you, me, and Mr. Ellison are somewhat in agreement here on one thing at least, we're not 'Runnin' With the Devil.'
@@PageMarker1 you're damn right about entwistle, dewar and bruce being on the same breath. John s really special due to his knack he has on songwriting. Dewar s got so much charisma in that soulful voice, coupled with his cool playing and Trower s not over the top and overly hendrixian (he's that far from being a carbon copy, no matter how much of Jimi s sound he's borrowed) makes it for really cool bangers. Jack on his solo career was a genius. On his cream days he was the ultimate, a major team player with his bass playing, and a monster with his singing. I can't get over Bruce s passion soaring through his vocals.
What SG are you talking about? The one in the video painted by the Dutch team The Fule (Fool) was SOLD not stolen - today, it is owned by Todd Rundgren who has loaned it to a blues cafe to be displayed.
Eric Clapton was and is the most influential guitarist on the face of this earth and he has been ever since his first recordings. That's why he is the only only artist inducted into the hall of fame three times, and there are no significant rock guitarists that haven't done their best to copy him, even as unsuccessfully as Eddie Van Shred-head attempted to do.
You hit the nail right on the head with that statement! I have been let down so many times, when you find out the people that you thought were the real deal turns out that aren't who you thought they were at all! They turned out to be phonies!!! 🙁
I met Mike Stern once in an Airport where we shared a flight from Germany when in line going through US customs. He was even better than I ever dreamed, a real great person on top of a great guitar player and personal hero since the 80's. so... sometimes it works out!
Except in this case, the hero, Clapton, was without flaw here. Eddie was the one who butchered a style of playing he didn't even comprehend - then wondered why Clapton hated it. A BETTER phrase is, "approach your heroes respectfully.....NOT as if they're your equal".
obviously you gave a hoot enough to click on ? eddie (10,000 mph hammer-on) van halen never impressed me much, as a matter of fact GROTESQUELY over-rated !!
@@casedismissed8581have you played his riffs? I never fully appreciated him until I started playing his songs. Eddie was great, his stuff was super creative and really fun to play like the way Hendrix’s licks are fun; sliding into things and bending up and down to the note. Lots of open strings like gibbons. Learn drop dead legs. Plays the same note 3x by fretting, sliding into it and bending up to it. Who does that?!
I remember when I first started at university mentioning to my chemistry professor that I idolized Sir Isaac Newton and he told me not to because he was a cruel man.
Isaac Newton said: "If I seen farther than most it is because I have stood on the shoulders of giants." Doesn't sound like the sentiments of self-absorbed, cruel man. Perhaps your Chemistry Prof was mistaken or had an agenda of his own.
This is EXACTLY what happened when Clapton met Chuck Berry. Berry had been a hero of his...until he actually met him which he called "the biggest disappointment of my life." Berry was the biggest a$$hole you could EVER meet. Keith Richards put together a tribute to Berry's 60th birthday called "Hail Hail Rock n' Roll" in which Clapton was a part of. Berry treated both of them like they were garbage. Richards said Berry actually punched him in the face over a stupid disagreement. Clapton was outraged at the disrespect and jealousy of Berry!
Jan Akkerman (Focus) said it profoundly. "Every guitarist comes from a different place". I'm paraphrasing here but it is true. There is no definitive title of "greatest". There are gamechangers; Eric, Eddie or even Buddy Holly and George Harrison. In jazz, you have Al DiMeola and John McLaughlin or Chet Atkins, Tommy Emmanuel and that new kid Matteo Mancuso from Sicily (insane). They all come from different places. The gold standard for Eric and Eddie was the uncanny ability to compose songs around their amazing guitar arrangements.
I KNEW there had to be a story behind this crap! I was SOO PISSED at Eddie for his crappy remarks towards later Clapton. There was vitriol in his voice. I have been down the path of addiction like both of them. Thank GOD I got out.
@jayteesgear weird question? And a horrible guess, who would assume someone talking about Clapton and Ed is 20, show some comment sense. Nice hyperbole because if that were true about it being the stupidest thing you've read in your life, you've been extremely blessed to only have been exposed to intelligent and insightful commentary all of your life. What I said is accurate and aligns either reality
It started with Eric’s response to Ed and Brian’s dedication….he said it was awful. He was insulted. They couldn’t play. Well…that escalated quickly…and the rest is history.
Clapton doesn’t care for anyone really who doesn’t play blues guitar 1st Pentatonic Position 😂. 60s Clapton is awesome. But I just can’t bare to listen to him play these days. Every solo the same. Everyone he likes is basically regurgitating blues licks Eddie though was an arrogant person in his early days about his comments about Page and others. Eddies technique was unique but Van Halen was just a party band. There was no Kashmir coming out from them Eddie had a lot of substance abuse which may have been the reason for such comments. Musicians are very fickle and many are not complimentary of each other. I know Clapton couldn’t grasp what Eddie was doing and on top probably didn’t find it very musical. Hence no love lost
I agree with you,beyond the talent being sober and accountable to others is what really sticks out repeatedly with Eddie..he failed at with just about everyone close to him.The 60s Clapton...awesome! and to me Jimmy Page is in a league of his own.
@@davidrynberk1533 Eddie seemed to be a nightmare and taking away Michael Anthony’s share of the band was so wrong. Maybe Roth had the right idea to leave. The Hagar period saw Eddie Trying to focus more on songs and less on technique but I was not a fan of his songs from that period. They say never meet your idols. 🤔
@@skyemoz6559 Ya that wasn't right ,if everyone is saying ,he is like this (nightmare),there must be truth to it.I have watched interviews and he seemed to be never at peace..Maybe in earlier yrs ,but I doubt it.Alcohol screwed him bad.
Listen to the studio version of Spoonful from July ‘66. Then go and find anything remotely like that type of guitar playing from that time or before. When you think of ‘lead guitar’, that, and his other solos from that time, is where it comes from, all of it.
No one, after listening to both would ever mistake one for the other. Ed may have had great exposure to British version blues growing up but flash was his overwhelming contribution. They do different things
Yes, Glenn Hughes of deep purple who was good friends with EVH, once said that Eddie was heavily influenced by Ritchie Blackmore and he couldn’t stop talking about him…
I like both of their music and have been a long time fan of both, however if you told me I had to pick one to listen to the rest of my life I would choose Clapton.
@frankfuentes5659 Yea I would agree. And the thing I don't like about Clapton is he is not a great live performer. To me he always seems to be finding his way in the solo's he has performed so well in the studio versions. I actually think Clapton is overrated.
False. Claptons reinterpretation of the Blues in The Bluesbreakers and Cream in studio and live were ripped off by every guitarist. Its a fact. EVH just added a couple more effects to the guitar and regurgitated things Clapton, Hendrix had already done. Play Van Halen to anyone and then play the bands he ripped off and people will notice how he wasn't special.
Jimi Hendrix demoted Clapton to second tier. Actually they were both very talented players but I think Jimi was more of an innovator. He was the real deal black American blues player growing up on the Chitlin Circuit, backing up a bunch of black artists before moving to London. Yet he expanded far beyond the blues. What a scene London of the mid to late sixties must have been. There’s Jimi, Clapton, Jimmie Page, Jeff Beck, George Harrison and on and on. I really didn’t pay much attention to Eddie Van Halen.
I remember Jimi was changing the instrument in the late 1960s so radically that a lot of old time Muddy Waters players were accusing Jimi of ‘distorting’ the blues. In the late 1960s Jimi so expanded the sound of the instrument that British guitarists like Eric, Jeff Beck and Townshend were all afraid of him…Edward was the next big step in the rock evolution of the instrument after Jimi.
funny i was there the night jimi did'nt show up to play with danny gatton and roy buchannon .... gatton would have smoked hendrix but i liked jimi's style better
Yes more feelings in Eric Claptons playing.Eddie van Halen was just a new year's fizz of a bad rocket with bright colors fading out like himself , too soon.😂
Eddie was a crap song writer. Eruption is the most overrated playing. Malmsteen plays that with his baby finger. Clapton has far more acvolades. He's a true Legend. Eddie is resting in peace.
