Eric Clapton - Complete Clapton
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Canadian Music Store CD DetailsArtist: Eric ClaptonEdition: Music CD Audio: English (Unknown) CD Release Date: 2007-10-09 Music Label: Reprise / Wea Soundtracks: Music CD 1
Music reviews of Complete ClaptonMusic Review: A Crapton of Clapton that misses the hole and the pot
Oh wow, this is really kind of embarrassing. 77 people have reviewed this item as if there's anything new to be found. As if this isn't the umpteenth compilation of hits (mostly from the 60's and 70's) by Clapton and his handlers with a view to soaking up yet another dollar from his slavish and somewhat judgment impaired fan base. It's hard not to feel crapton when you've just handed down your money for something that's more or less identical to 55 other compilation ablums out there, save maybe a few newer songs who I'm sure no one is very interested in anyway. What is EC trying to tell us with this release, half of which is over 30 years old? That he has absolutely nothing left to say or contribute, but that of course should hardly be revelatory to any of us. As a guitar player, he's quite skilled. No one will dispute that. However, unless you are a guitar player, no one wants to hear his long winded solo's, particularly the blues derived ones, which is one of his sad fortes. Crapton is just another in the long line of aging British rock stars who plundered, stole, and fed the blues to a white audience without so much as changing a note. He is just another washed up wanna-be, who made his bones on blues derivative rock and roll. When I say blues derivative, I mean ripped off totally. Blues based rock, blues stolen rock if you will, is the most boring, inane waste of time in music rivaled perhaps only by Crapton's non-bluesy compositions and covers. He isn't any kind of a songwriter, which accounts for the inordinate number of covers he has released throughout his squalid career, many of which were released as singles as I'm sure his handlers advised him he had a much better chance of getting a hit with a carbon copy version of someone else's song than one of his own third rate compositions. Nothing of this kind can be as abhorrent as "his" version of Bob Marley's "I Shot the Sheriff". I've placed "his" in quotations because it can hardly be called his own as his chief goal seems to be to mimick this song to the point in which uninformed listeners might think Marley had an estranged English half brother. There is no point in covering someone's song unless you revamp it, turn it into your own. When you cover someone's song and go to great lengths to imitate the person, release the sad creation as a single, you are merely trying to make a buck. Not content to rip off blues alone, Crapton plunges deep in to the heart of Jamaica and brutally assualts reggae as well. Musically, it is a carbon copy of the original Wailers song. But the real disgrace is Crapton's pathetic and poorly conveyed Jamaican accent. I'm sure young Gordon Sumner aka Sting was taking notes. This is no longer just a case of a very untalented hack trying to make a buck, but now borders on offensive.
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