Re: Rolling Stone's 100 Greatest Guitarists

[Trent Thornton <blisstrent@xxxxxxxxx>]

Anybody -- *ANYBODY* -- who rates Eric Clapton as a better songwriter, 
performer, technician or anything else than Jimmy Page has my permission to go 
fuck himself.  I would drop my best friend of 10+ years if he ever said 
something that stupid.

I'm sorry but Clapton is the guitarist that people with absolutely no taste in 
*anything* gravitate to.  He's the safe, easy and thoughtless choice.  You 
repeat Clapton's name often enough and, hey, you just might convince yourself 
that all of his post-Derek & the Dominoes material isn't absolute horse shyte.  
The guy has somehow made a fortune recording albums that are the musical 
equivalents of coffee table books.

As for Vaughan displacing Page... he's the one guy you could possibly make that 
claim about.  I would never make that claim myself but at least you could have 
an intelligent conversation about it.  But Clapton?  Are you serious, Rolling 
Stone???

Lay down THIS,

- t