Irish65. Clapton is the ultimate blues guitarist. There was an album out in the sixties called Clapton,Beck,Page.
A cut called "Tribute to Elmore " by Clapton is a blues masterpiece. Good luck finding the album. I was a teen in the sixties and was into Clapton big time. He was hot. He was bigger than Hendrix. Jimi was great with effects and feedback, but he avoided jamming with other guitarists like the plague. Hendrixs' biggest weakness was spontaneous
improvising. When Hendrix went on stage with other guitarist's, he would fly into his own thing and wouldn't
blend in. His intent was to overide to avoid improvising.
Clapton was the Grand Master of improvising. You really need to spend a lot of time to hear the best blues guitar ever, Clapton, and listen to his works between 1965 and 1968. There are many albums of blues work from Clapton from
that time that would knock you out of your sit, but those albums are hard to find. Check out John Mayall and the Blues Breakers with Clapton from the sixties, a masterpiece. Clapton took blues and advanced it to a whole new level, intergrating blues with hard rock themes. Clapton intergrated blues with the structures
of heavy metal and hard rock, which he invented, so it was
an easy ride for Hendrix and others to ride on his coat tails of what he pioneered.
A cut called "Tribute to Elmore " by Clapton is a blues masterpiece. Good luck finding the album. I was a teen in the sixties and was into Clapton big time. He was hot. He was bigger than Hendrix. Jimi was great with effects and feedback, but he avoided jamming with other guitarists like the plague. Hendrixs' biggest weakness was spontaneous
improvising. When Hendrix went on stage with other guitarist's, he would fly into his own thing and wouldn't
blend in. His intent was to overide to avoid improvising.
Clapton was the Grand Master of improvising. You really need to spend a lot of time to hear the best blues guitar ever, Clapton, and listen to his works between 1965 and 1968. There are many albums of blues work from Clapton from
that time that would knock you out of your sit, but those albums are hard to find. Check out John Mayall and the Blues Breakers with Clapton from the sixties, a masterpiece. Clapton took blues and advanced it to a whole new level, intergrating blues with hard rock themes. Clapton intergrated blues with the structures
of heavy metal and hard rock, which he invented, so it was
an easy ride for Hendrix and others to ride on his coat tails of what he pioneered.
