Better start saving your pennies!

[D.o.S.]

He will take the best body and live on through them, resuming drinking and doing massive piles of drugs, looking to score that one last #1 hit even if it takes him 3000 people and 200 years.

...that does sound like a pretty good plan...

[DuoSonicII]

SLOW HAND MADE

*obliterates own face with shotgun*

$1400 for a vibro champ

For that kind of cash, I'd better be getting a SLOW HAND JOB too.

[DuoSonicII]

I was never a fan of Clapton except Cream era.

Derek and the Dominoes was alright too, but that was probably because of Duane Allman anyway. Everything he has done in the last forty years is total garbage. Forty years! That blows my mind. And he played Gibsons on every decent thing he ever did anyway. I realized that I did not need to pay one bit of attention to the Cream reunion when I saw that he was playing a strat through a tweed amp.

tl;dr: Post-junk Clapton = pure crap.

[theactionindex]

Wait, I can buy Eric Clapton?

They better not cheap out on the fuckin' HSC for my Eric Clapton.

[snipelfritz]

I was never a fan of Clapton except Cream era.

Derek and the Dominoes was alright too, but that was probably because of Duane Allman anyway. Everything he has done in the last forty years is total garbage. Forty years! That blows my mind. And he played Gibsons on every decent thing he ever did anyway. I realized that I did not need to pay one bit of attention to the Cream reunion when I saw that he was playing a strat through a tweed amp.

tl;dr: Post-junk Clapton = pure crap.

This is so true. Clapton was a great player, but a terrible songwriter. It's a shame that he is demonstrates the positive effect drugs have on musicians, not that there's anything wrong with drugs or anything...

[DuoSonicII]

Clapton was a great player, but a terrible songwriter.

That's pretty much it right there. I listened to some Clapton when I was 16 and in a blues phase...but it didn't take long for even stupid 16-year-old me to realize that all his best songs were either a.) written with other people [Yardbirds, Mayall, Cream, Dominoes] or b.) directly stolen from good artists.

Just for fun, I looked up his list of solo US Top 40 "hits" (writers in parentheses), it's pretty staggering:

1970.10.17 After Midnight (J.J. Cale)
1974.07.13 I Shot The Sheriff (Bob Marley, obviously, and God is this a horrid cover)
1974.11.02 Willie & The Hand Jive (Johnny Otis)
1976.10.16 Hello Old Friend (apparently he actually wrote this turd)
1978.01.07 Lay Down Sally (co-written by Marcy Levy and George Terry)
1978.05.13 Wonderful Tonight (George Harrison should get co-credit since it was about his wife)
1978.10.14 Promises (Richard Feldman, Roger Linn)
1979.02.24 Watch Out For Lucy (only made #40, not sure I've even heard this)
1980.06.21 Tulsa Time (Danny Flowers)
1981.02.28 I Can’t Stand It (Clapton)
1983.01.29 I’ve Got A Rock N Roll Heart (Steve Diamond, Troy Seals, Tony Seals, Eddie Setser)
1985.03.09 Forever Man (Jerry Lynn Williams)
1992.02.08 Tears In Heaven (co-written by Will Jennings)
1992.10.03 Layla Unplugged (co-written by Jim Gordon, heroin & George Harrison's tramp of a wife)
1996.07.20 Change The World (Tommy Sims, Gordon Kennedy, Wayne Kirkpatrick)
1998.02.21 My Father’s Eyes (Clapton)

[univalve]

brahaha, at these prices any top notch builder with a german engenieer salary will beat that price!
Srsly