God doesn't need to know what time it is.

" You could have Clapton’s playing ability if you just bought a guitar and practiced with marginal diligence.  I would guess the average person hits Clapton-level ability after about a year from starting from scratch.

There’s nothing special about his playing.  As basic as it gets."

SIGH...

Knows it all, predictable remarks, always the new  member with the comments.

Has to be the agitator-grow up.

Find another sandbox to play in.

Clapton is great guitarist but he is also walking vomit. 

@mahgister Yikes.  You said it best: “I’m too old to be imprisoned in reeducation camp.”

I only call it as I see it.  Considering reprinting his 1976 comments here would be far too grotesque, I would urge you to google them.  The ideas he expressed are patently revolting, but then even more galling when one considers his entire career was built off of appropriating these same people’s music (with little-to-no creativity and evolution, I might add)

You call it, “imprisonment in reeducation,” I call it being set free by the truth.

Perhaps you are right about Clapton disgusting alleged words... I never read them...i reacted to your phrasing ideological use of word...

But i dont like "culturally appropriated" concept... At all...

@mahgister I agree that leveling a charge such as cultural appropriation is not to be taken lightly, or tossed around willy-nilly.  For instance, is Eminem culturally-appropriative, or just exceptionally good at what he does?  I think these are good, interesting debates to have.  
However, such a charge may have merit in Clapton’s case when his music’s progenitors received little to no recognition, in either a relative sense or a general sense, and then here comes another young British dude doing that stuff and enjoying the era’s fetishization with young white dudes playing “blues,” and thusly receiving commercial success some 100x that of the originators. 
At least in Eminem’s care, there were a dozen-or-so originators who had enjoyed a lot of commercial success for a good 15 years preceding him, whereas, again, most of the originators of the blues barely made a living and still had to hold regular jobs.

I think these are important things to look at.  History is always written by the winners, and it’s always easy to cry “foul” in the face of criticism when you are the exploiter, while the other side remains the exploited.