>>127072357 (OP)
what does this old retard know?
he's always been the weak link of his band, a tremendously insecure and autistic loser
stuck to his repetitive chromatic noodling as if it was some sort of "style"
and his band has become a parody of itself since the 80s
just listen to his solo on Ladies of the Road, and tell me what merit does he hold as a guitarist

>>127072357 (OP)
Not sure if his words have been just been twisted there but he sounds like a massive faggot.

>>127072619
Clapton is a boring cunt though, he was right about that, I might add.

I was right to suspect

>"Hendrix, for me, is almost a classical composer. I don't think of Hendrix as a guitarist — he was a musician whose instrument was the guitar. He changed the vocabulary of the electric guitar."

Also

>“Clapton is a great player, but he’s not a pioneer. He’s a custodian of a tradition, whereas Hendrix or I try to extend the language of the guitar.”

>“Clapton’s approach is rooted firmly in the past; his role is more about sustaining the blues legacy than exploring new sonic territories.”

And yes, the "excessively tedious" quote is true (1974 interview with Guitar Player magazine)

>"I saw Cream live once and I thought they were quite awful. Clapton's work since, I think, has been excessively tedious."

So who did he think was fun?

>>127072753
Jeff Beck and Django Reinhardt.

>>127072714
>He’s a custodian of a tradition
Clapton himself would say something like that. He's pretty humble, yet everyone thinks it's cool to shit on him. He calls himself a journeyman. The guy doing odd jobs. Almost like a studio guitarist. He can jump in anywhere and help. I doubt there's any situation where he was ever stumped and couldn't just join any jam.

>>127072753
He also likes Tool, but claims he cannot see his own band's influence in them.

>>127072780
Yeah that's fair, at least before the 80s when he was still enternatining.

>>127072357 (OP)
He's just trying to bait people like old rockers tend to do nowadays.
>>127072714
>Hendrix or I
>Y'know... you can talk about both of us indistinctly
>>127072780
He has always been a tremendous wanker, far from humble. In fact, he "authorized" Steve Vai to play King Crimson songs for the recent Beat tour on the strict condition that he played Fripp's parts exactly note-to-note as he plays them. If that's not being a fucking pretentious anal faggot I don't know what is. He's also a massive scammer with his yoga/guitar workshops in the woods.
>>127072772
Those are literal opposites
>>127072787
To be fair, I can understand losing perspective when someone has been stuck all their life in the prog-rock scene. For any casual listener the resemblance is right there.

>>127072780
kek I just noticed you're talking about Clapton

>>127072996
>He has always been a tremendous wanker, far from humble. In fact, he "authorized" Steve Vai to play King Crimson songs for the recent Beat tour on the strict condition that he played Fripp's parts exactly note-to-note as he plays them. If that's not being a fucking pretentious anal faggot I don't know what is. He's also a massive scammer with his yoga/guitar workshops in the woods.
I'm saying Clapton is humble. Afaik.

>>127073097
Yeah, no prob.

>>127072357 (OP)
>the one player he thought was fun
Spoiler- it was himself

>>127072357 (OP)
Even if he did say that, he's not wrong. Crapton is tedious as hell. /pol/ tourist MAGA trash will defend him because of his politics but when it comes down to it, his guitar playing is mediocre. Completely mogged by Gilmour.

>>127073098
>he thinks throwing around "pretentious" makes him sound like he knows what he's talking about
opinion discarded.

Also, he wanted his parts played the way he wrote them. There's nothing wrong with that.

>>127073416
Did you mean to quote me? I never said anything about pretentiousness.

>>127073395
No one gives a fuck about MAGA. Wtf are you even smoking? How do you even acquire this level of political brainrot... then think everyone else is politically obsessed. Clapton has been around for like 60 years...and he isn't even American.

>>127073453
It's because he once gave a speech at a gig, in the 70s off his face on coke and booze, calling for immigrants to be sent home from Britain, including some rather politically sensitive language aimed at black people.

I think I would like to relieve him of is Les Paul

>>127072357 (OP)
Hendrix quote is out of context.
Clapton thing is contrarian but Fripp has the right to that, and objectively Clapton was mogged by at least Jeff Beck.

>>127072394
holy shit eric is that you?

>>127075003
No.
It's Fred Frith, the guitar player that Robert Fripp ripped off from, but never gave any credit to.

>>127075057
ah, well met, Fred

>>127075057
Hello, Frod. Fancy a cod?

>>127073435
I was referring to >>127072996

Also, Clapton is humble because he knows he's been astroturfed to shit.

>>127072619
they were twisted. the full quote is more of a praise of hendrix that the guitar is such a shitty instrument, it couldn't handle his full expressive genius, etc.
and i think he said he really liked clapton's early stuff with john mayall, but not his later stuff or some such.

I used to be a big Fripp stan, but ever since I learned more about his antics and his single-handedly retarded move to split the band in 1981, he's just come off as more of a absolute menace for the band's direction.

>>127073549
No one cares. Sjws are fucking annoying

>>127076598
A lot of the great King Crimson stuff happened in spite of him and not because of him that's for sure.

>>127072357 (OP)
He's right about Clapton but he's obviously wrong by Hendrix by simple fact that Hendrix played the guitar and playing the guitar makes you a guitarist.

>>127076686
Have you ever experienced awe? Because you're deftly an autist.

>>127072357 (OP)
dont care about his opinions, nor his autistic, soulless, fringe music

>>127075057
Henry Cow is painfully mid and at their absolutely best they sounded like Robert Wyatt outtakes or Larks' Tongues In Aspic-era B sides

>>127076736
What?

>>127073549
He was right then and the consequences of ignoring him have been a disaster for Britain.

>>127072357 (OP)
this dude can't even play standing up

>>127077558
no one can argue with this post because it's irrefutably true

>>127072996
I think Fripp kinda earned the
>Hendrix or I
when he called King Crimson the greatest band ever

Jimi Hendrix was a clown
Eric Clapton made great songs but hes a shitty guitar player

>>127072357 (OP)
I want to titty fuck his wife. That's all.

>>127079097
King Crimson was the greatest band ever, but in spite of Fripp, not because of him
if anything, he's been the one consistently pulling the band back ever since they started

>>127072650
Based

>>127077558
>He was right then and the consequences of ignoring him have been a disaster for Britain
Which is precisely why the media and their lackey sjws have spent the years since Clapton's startlingly prescient statement vilifying him.

It would undo decades of Kalergi Planning if the goyim being herded to the slaughterhouse had their awakening and rebellion started with the thought "Wait a moment...Clapton was right!"

>>127073549
>including some rather politically sensitive language aimed at black people.
Oh no! Leave it to me, I'll save them!

i fucking hate jimi hendrix.

>>127082948
He was alright

>>127082456
Some of them are alright, stop being a bitch. It's only funny on /pol/.

Of fuKKKing course he wasn't a guitarist. They don't know how to make music.

>>127075981
>astroturfed to shit.
so astroturfed lots of people spent making "clapton is overrated" threads all the time.