1. Eric Clapton.Quote from: "SPECTRE"
If Eric Clapton was indeed God, then heaven would be a very dull and dreary place indeed. Clapton spent his early career jumping from band to band, developing a reputation as a guitarist...and not much else. His nickname of "Slow Hand" was not earned for his guitar playing, but for the time it took for him to tune his guitar before playing. On his own, he recorded one hit, a cover of a Bob Marley song...and outside of that, achieved very little. His best work was performed with real songwriters, like Jack Bruce, Steve Winwood and Duane Allman.
Um, yeah..how about Crossroads, Tears in Heaven, Layla, Change the World? You clearly missed his Unplugged album back in '92.
He has 18 Grammys. Three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. He's ranked the 2nd best guitarist on Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time list. He has The Order of the British Empire FFS and you put him on a list with Britney Spears?!?
You're truly cracked.
Did you read the OP. It says OVERRATED. You've simply described how truly overrated he is.
Clapton has always generated a kind of mystique that towers above his true accomplishments. "Crossroads" was performed by Cream, not Eric Clapton. Much of Cream's sound came from Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker...yet people saw it as a Clapton band. It never was.
"Layla" was a Derek and the Dominos song. Again, not Clapton.
At the risk of being repetitive, this thread isn't necessarily about dud artists...just those who's fame is not fully justified.
Thank you for READING.
Layla was written by Clapton with Jim Gordon and it really hit the stage on Clapton's Unplugged.
If you didn't ignore the 90s, you wouldn't have put him in this shit list.
