On my phone, those people get one ring tone, which is the opening bars of Derek and the Dominos' "Layla," because no matter where I am, I am going to recognize that Eric Clapton and Greg Allman riff. So it cuts through anything.
Musicians. How many sad songs do we hear? Eric Clapton's "Tears in Heaven", about the loss of his son, is heartbreaking. But major depression is more than just sadness.
What have you done in the last six years? And Clapton said, well, I've been playing guitar. And the journalist said, well, you're the best one in the world.
How do you like that? Watch Clapton. He only uses his first and third finger. Because they're not-- And he's called the god of guitar.
We were looking for some action, also known as trouble, as young man often do. But Clapton, he wouldn't be in it.
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So nothing comes. Harry Belafonte is singing. And so Eric Clapton is next to me and goes, [SIMULATING ELECTRIC GUITAR SOUNDS. And I'm standing here, just trying to play the song diligently and read the chart.
So these guys sit together and they play guitars all between themselves. I said to myself if Clapton is the god of guitar-- and sorry for the blasphemy. He meant it as inspiration.
One of them I was a journalist for music. And one day I had the chance of interviewing Eric Clapton with five or six other journalists. And I was 22.
OK, again, what's this got to do with anything? or you pick your favorite whatever-- an Eric Clapton song, whatever.
We might go on tour in the summer if it's possible for bands to tour in a safe way. I thought I had to be like, Eric Clapton or Jimi Hendrix to make it in a band.
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Like, you know, and he wants to play with me. That's amazing. And we would play songs by Cream or Eric Clapton or play the 12 bar blues or whatever, and I just got to glom onto his world. And then he graduated high school.
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video. The greatest guitar solo, period. learned, it's embarrassing that I didn't know the stories behind the music, but I learned that Eric Clapton was married for 10, for a decade
And I was 22. I was like, oh, my God, Eric Clapton. My heart was-- And one of the journalists said, Eric, you have not been recording a record for many, many, many years.
And then once I got a little older and started really kind of expanding my taste in music, and not just kind of listening to whatever my parents were listening to, it's like I had this foundation of my parents music that was like Carole King, James Taylor, Clapton, and the Beatles, Michael Jackson. And then I also had-- I was a kid in the '90s, so it was like NSYNC, Britney Spears, Christina, like all this super poppy '90s stuff.
one of the things in landscape photography; you don't wanna cut the scene in half with the horizon line. So, this is good. We know we're good, but the fourth stage is the coolest, is the coolest stage. Before I tell you what that stage is, imagine this. How many people here like Carlos Santana playing guitar? Ok, Clapton? Ok, name another great guitar player. Anybody? Who? John McLaughlin? Amazing guy. I saw him in 1974 with John Luponte, remember him? On the, right? He's going like this. He was amazing. Anyway, let's go to John Luponte. He was a