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“Put it away and get a proper guitar!”: Andy Fairweather Low on playing with Eric Clapton
Low got the Teisco Spectrum V bug after seeing Ry Cooder with one. Eddie Van Halen loved them too. Clapton? Not so ...
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Ranking Eric Clapton’s 6 Top-10 Hit Songs
Eric Clapton is recognized as one of the greatest guitar players of all time. Influenced by the early blues players like Robert Johnson, the British-born musician grew up playing the six-string like ...
“Where I belonged”: The artist who made Eric Clapton want to play guitar
Although Eric Clapton was a bluesy troubadour from the beginning, he had a special fondness for those speaking his musical language.
“The music got lost”: Eric Clapton on the worst era of his career
Eric Clapton may have various periods of brilliance sprinkled throughout his career, but even he knew when he wasn't up to ...
Eric Clapton hated Cream’s “Crossroads." But is there an even longer version of it?
Producer Tom Dowd said Cream never played “Crossroads” for less than seven minutes in concert and was certain the 'Wheels of ...
Eric Clapton Nearly Charts A New No. 1 Album With One Of His Most Famous Releases
Eric Clapton’s fifth solo album Slowhand debuts on Billboard's Top Blues Albums chart at No. 2, nearly netting the guitarist ...
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The Guitarist Eric Clapton Says Plays “Like Nobody Else”
In 2018, Mk.gee told Complex how Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix inspired ... witnessed someone transforming the electric guitar. While the British blues revivalists had introduced American blues ...
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The Hawaiian Roots of the Electric Guitar
As a teenager, he started playing “Spanish guitar” – that’s what everybody called acoustic guitars before electric guitars were invented. One day, while he picked the strings with his right hand as ...