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Alexsander Zivojinovic

That's it...that's the list.

what about B.B. King?

If it were a fight to death I'd take Jimi he was a marine.

three distinct styles of playing that cant be compared.

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I agree with WingNut. Clapton and Vaughn were excellent white blues guitarists. Hendrix was a phenom.

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he was a terrible marine. Thats why he was discharged. Him and Garcia could not cut it in any military anywhere.

As for those three what are we talking here? It comes down to taste. WHat style someone prefers. Jimi could wail and had showmanship galore. Clapton? understated style. and Vaughn had soul AND technique. Comes down to listener preference.

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Clapton loses points for bringing in a vagina, Sheryl Crow in order to perform "Little Wing". Then again, he kinda' lost all his points for not checking the screens on his apartment's windows...

I don't have a turntable, and this album buried in storage, but if memory serves it has the best version of Little Wing I ever heard.

Have never been able to find it on Youtube...................

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According to Wikipedia:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimi_Plays_Berkeley_%28soundtrack%29

Little Wing in that compilation was performed at the Royal Albert Hall. This is from there:

Yeah, I think that's it.

Thanks, bra.

Very much appreciated.

Concise, and he just nails some really pure sweet blue notes in that.

FLEA

A Minor Threat

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Michael Peter Balzary plays bass...

I will anger millions by saying:

Hendrix
Vaughn

And Clapton doesn't even come close to deserving to be on the list.

Neither. All of them, lousy wrestlers, rejected by the WWF

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Agreed. I never understood why Clapton gets so much praise as a guitarist. He is a good songwriter, but there is really no logic in ranking these three on that criteria because Hendrix is so far above the others that Clapton and SRV are effectively in the same class. Therefore you need to compare them by guitar mastery. When SRV and Hendrix play at their best you definitely can feel it. Clapton's playing gives no such experience. It's so vanilla.

I am a complete douchebag.

Clapton and the other Yard Bird guitarists get a certain amount of credit for making Americans blues accessible to middle class white kids in London. Clapton was always the most radio friendly style compared to Paige and Beck.

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IMO you can't say who was better, only whether they belong in the same league or not, which they do. It comes down to who's style you prefer. I would pick Hendrix over SRV, because Jimi was the master and SRV was the student.

Clapton? He's good and he helped popularize blues and blues-based rock, but I don't put him on that top level. And as a solo artist I don't care for his songwriting. Layla is a horrible song, Cocain is about the best he can pull off. As a member of Cream and Blind Faith he fits right in, and there he's got Jack Bruce and Steve Winwood to do the real songwriting duties.

JJ Cale wrote Cocaine. Layla is a great song, though the best playing on it was from Duane Allman, not Clapton.

Also, taste has nothing to do with it. You may prefer Norman Rockwell over Picasso, but Picasso will always be the more important artist. The same applies to Hendrix versus SRV or Clapton.

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I'll take Blackmore or Page over all 3 any day.

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youuuuuu...... might be a redneck.

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> And as a solo artist I don't care for
> his songwriting. Layla is a horrible song, Cocain
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> Cream and Blind Faith he fits right in, and there
> he's got Jack Bruce and Steve Winwood to do the
> real songwriting duties.

That's the problem - Clapton can't write songs. He does other people's songs or collaborates. I've got no problem with him as a person, I just think he's one of the most over rated musicians out there.


Erik Clapton's Best of: http://www.amazon.com/Timepieces-Best-Eric-Clapton/dp/B000001F26


1. I Shot The Sheriff (Written by: Bob Marley)
2. After Midnight (Written by: J. J. Cale)
3. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Written by: Bob Dylan)
4. Wonderful Tonight (Written by: Eric Clapton)
5. Layla (Written by: Eric Clapton and Jim Gordon)
6. Cocaine (Written by: J. J. Cale)
7. Lay Down Sally (Written by: Eric Clapton, Marcy Levy, and George Terry)
8. Willie And The Hand Jive (Written by: Johnny Otis)
9. Promises (Written by: Richard Feldman, Roger Linn)
10. Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Written by: Unknown - African-American spiritual folk song)
11. Let It Grow (Written by: Eric Clapton)



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Excellent post. I agree wholeheartedly. What's even more amusing is that out of those that he hand a (slow)hand in writing, the best one is Layla - and Duanne Allman recorded the best guitar work on that song!!

I look at guitar playing with a tiered approach. Clapton is good but he is much lower than Hendrix, who is most certainly in that top tier, and SRV, who is somewhere in the 2 or 3rd tier. Look at their styles too - Duanne Allman for example, top tier for slide players but I would not even rate him next to hendrix - they are way too different stylistically. Like comparing apples and potatoes.

Not to harp on Duanne Allman, but look at some of the guitar players in the Allman Brothers over the years - Duanne, Dicky Betts, Warren Haynes, Derrick Trucks. Not a great fan of their music but they have some great guitar lineage.

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> tomahawk Wrote:
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> > And as a solo artist I don't care for
> > his songwriting. Layla is a horrible song,
> Cocain
> > is about the best he can pull off. As a member
> of
> > Cream and Blind Faith he fits right in, and
> there
> > he's got Jack Bruce and Steve Winwood to do the
> > real songwriting duties.
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> He does other people's songs or collaborates.
> I've got no problem with him as a person, I just
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> 1. I Shot The Sheriff (Written by: Bob Marley)
> 2. After Midnight (Written by: J. J. Cale)
> 3. Knockin' On Heaven's Door (Written by: Bob
> Dylan)
> 4. Wonderful Tonight (Written by: Eric Clapton)
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> 5. Layla (Written by: Eric Clapton and Jim
> Gordon)
> 6. Cocaine (Written by: J. J. Cale)
> 7. Lay Down Sally (Written by: Eric Clapton, Marcy
> Levy, and George Terry)
> 8. Willie And The Hand Jive (Written by: Johnny
> Otis)
> 9. Promises (Written by: Richard Feldman, Roger
> Linn)
> 10. Swing Low Sweet Chariot (Written by: Unknown -
> African-American spiritual folk song)
> 11. Let It Grow (Written by: Eric Clapton)

I don't put Clapton in a league with Hendrix or Jerry Garcia or Elmore James, etc, but he's a damn fine player, and his best work (Disraeli Gears; the solo on While My Guitar Gently Weeps, etc) either belongs in or is knocking on the door of the Pantheon.

Re songwriting: I love Duane Allman - how many redneck guitarists were strongly influenced by Miles Davis' modal harmonies? - but as great a player as he was he doesn't have a whole lot of songwriting credits.

Before he reached the age of 19 years, law enforcement authorities had twice caught Hendrix riding in stolen cars. When given a choice between spending time in prison or joining the Army, he chose the latter and enlisted on May 31, 1961.[36] After completing eight weeks of basic training at Fort Ord, California, the Army assigned him to the 101st Airborne Division and stationed him at Fort Campbell, Kentucky.[37] He arrived there on November 8, and soon after he wrote to his father: "There's nothing but physical training and harassment here for two weeks, then when you go to jump school ... you get hell. They work you to death, fussing and fighting."[38] In his next letter home, Hendrix, who had left his guitar at his girlfriend, Betty Jean Morgan's house in Seattle, asked his father to send him the guitar as soon as possible, stating: "I really need it now."[38] His father obliged and soon after the red Silvertone Danelectro on which Hendrix had hand-painted the words "Betty Jean", arrived safely at Fort Ord.[39] His apparent obsession with the instrument contributed to his neglect of his duties, which led to verbal taunting and physical abuse from his peers, who at least once hid the guitar from him until he had begged for its return.[40]
In November 1961, fellow serviceman Billy Cox walked past the service club and heard Hendrix playing guitar inside.[41] Cox, intrigued by the proficient playing, which he described as a combination of "John Lee Hooker and Beethoven", immediately borrowed a bass guitar from the club and the two jammed.[42] Within a few weeks, they began performing at base clubs on the weekends with other musicians in a loosely organized band called the Casuals.[43]
Hendrix completed his paratrooper training in just over eight months, and Major General C.W.G. Rich awarded him the prestigious Screaming Eagles patch on January 11, 1962.[38] By February, his personal conduct had begun to draw criticism from his superiors. They labeled him an unqualified marksmen and often caught him napping while on duty and failing to report for bed checks.[44] On May 24, Hendrix's platoon sergeant, James C. Spears filed a report in which he stated: "He has no interest whatsoever in the Army ... It is my opinion that Private Hendrix will never come up to the standards required of a soldier. I feel that the military service will benefit if he is discharged as soon as possible."[45] On June 29, 1962, Captain Gilbert Batchman granted Hendrix an honorable discharge on the basis of unsuitability.[46] Hendrix later spoke of his dislike of the army and falsely claimed that he had received a medical discharge after breaking his ankle during his 26th parachute jump.[47][nb 8]