Have you seen Eric Clapton at his best?

There is no debate that we all have our personal favorite guitarists and my thread was to alert you towards a great concert if you have the opportunity. I loved Eric with the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Derek and the Dominoes and the "From The Cradle" sessions. My personal favorite is Jeff Beck, but is irrevalent to the thread. I just thought if you love lead guitar talent, you would get a kick out of Eric and Derek's interplay, especially if you are as big a "Layla" album fan as I am. Hopefully I'll see him do "Keep On Growing" live before either of us goes, but he will need to have two other awesome guitarists sharing what he did with solo overdubs.

Dweller, you are absolutely right EC is a master of the guitar. Tswhitsel, please share how you determine whether or not a musician is a master of an instrument, if you don't think EC has mastered his instrument then IMO that is an outrageous statement, laughed so hard coffee flew out of my nose.....forget music genre, consider only sheer ability to communicate through a given instrument.

I do agree with you claiming someone is the best in the world at anything is means for debate.

How many guitarists could play Eric's "Double Crossing Time" and "Have You Heard" solos from "John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers featuring Eric Clapton" or 28 years later play a solo like "Groaning the Blues" on "From the Cradle"?
Master of electric guitar - Da!

I think the only true way to measure a muscian's greatness is by what their peers think. The respect that has been shown to Clapton by countless guitar greats that came before and after him speak's for itself. Even Steve Morse sites Clapton as a major influence on his playing! Mabey Clapton isn't a Jazz or Classical master of the Guitar but he is a master of the Blues! I do not like all the music he has done over the years but I will say all that he plays truly comes from the heart.

" The greatest living Guitarist " BUDDY GUY!!!!!!!

Right on Blblues!