Eric Clapton

It was awesome. Every performer on stage, all close friends of Harrison's, agreed. Dhani couldn't contain himself. What more do you want?

 

It's not like they were surprised Prince showed up. He was invited, and the act was rehearsed. See the camera angles and spotlight use for proof.

You don't invite Prince to join you if you don't expect him to hog the spotlight. His talent is equaled only by his ego. But he rocked it.

And I didn't mind the Jeff Lynne/Tom Petty duet. Steve Winwood was pretty poor, though. Clapton would have been ideal.

 

Springsteen's a better axe guy. [crossthread]

 

The fact that this thread only has one or two mentions of Stevie Ray Vaughan hurts my soul.

My firm belief: Had that plane not gone down in the Mississippi swamp on Oct. 20, 1977, we'd be endlessly debating "Best Steve Gaines guitar solos." Had Skynyrd broken up after the Street Survivors tour -- which Ronnie Van Zant had repeatedly alluded to, because he had decided he wanted to do country music -- a solo Steve Gaines would have redefined rock 'n' roll guitar.

Oh, Clapton? Loved him until about 1990. Has been fairly irrelevant to me since.

 

Love that song.

 

Billy Gibbons was an absolute master of down and dirty Texas blues and boogie but sadly ZZ Top doesn't play much of that anymore. On the other hand, Johnny Winter is still tearing it up.

 

Billy Gibbons is awesome.

Zappa said in an interview that Gibbons was his favorite guitar player.

 

Before moving to Texas, I only knew ZZ Top from MTV hits like Sharp Dressed Man.

They are an unbelievable Blues/Rock band.

 

Hendrix was also a huge fan.

 

In his autobiography Clapton tells the story of sitting around one day with Harrison who basically said he should divorce Patty Boyd and Clapton replied that if Harrison divorced her Clapton would have to marry her.

Clapton is the best guitar player ever from where I sit. If you guys think he's mellowed, you obviously haven't seen him lately.

We saw him in July 2010 and his guitar solo on I Shot The Sheriff was as hot as anything I've ever seen. Scorchingly hot. Was shocked it came on that song. I've seen him about six or seven times in 30 years and that was by the far the best show of his I've ever been to.

Guy can still bring the heat when he wants to.

Time I saw him before that he closed with Over the Rainbow. Brought tears to my eyes. Maybe he's not the Eric Clapton from 1969 but he is in his 60s and is still pretty damn good.

 

Until this thread, I never realized that Clapton is the Terrell Owens of guitarists.