an absolutely amazing british blues guitarist born in ripley surrey england, and from a youn gage had picked up a guitar and went from that, listening to blues for hours upon end clapton learned from his idols such as muddy waters and robert johnson clapton started his first band at a young age, this band was the yardbirds, they had a pop following with the song for your love but clapton didnt feel right and soon left the yardbirds, he later joined john mayall and the blues breakers and enhanced his blues sound, from there he went to cream, by this point clapton had a large following of fans and his name was scrawled onto the wall of a london building saying clapton is god...from that point clapton left cream after a few years and went to blind faith a band that didnt last as long as cream or have as many records which broke up in 1970 , clapton then sponsored and played guitar for an england tour for delaney and bonnie, after that clapton tried a more low key band with derek and the dominoes derek being eric, this rouse didnt fool many people, claptons signature sound had been recognized, but while with the dominoes eric wrote his arguably most famous love song "layla" which critics originally hated due to its meaning (claptons love for george harrisons wife), after the dominoes ended clapton started his long solo career and played with many other artists off and on, and he continued to produce his hits through his solo career with songs like "let it grow" "wonderful tonight" which debued on the slowhand album "tears in heaven" which was made in honor of his son who had died falling off a balcony, and "cocaine" clapton suprised many in 91 when he played many acoustic versions of famous songs for the hit show "unplugged" among these songs were acoustic versions of "before you accuse me" "layla" and claptons instrumental "signe", through all these years clapton remains a steeple of blues music, and will always be remembered as one of the greatest guitarists of all time
by thenextslowhand February 10, 2007
Idiot: Whoa! Jesus and Eric Clapton are one in the same?
Me: Did you not hear Tears in Heaven? (Commences Bitchslapping.)
Me: Did you not hear Tears in Heaven? (Commences Bitchslapping.)
by Juan David Martos Alsina Tafares February 09, 2008
Eric Clapton, is quite the white blues guitarist. And indeed, quite the former cokehead. He AND Roger Waters have diff. styles, so you needn't whine.
by Erp the Wizard August 17, 2004
Clapton is the greatest Guitarist to Bless this sweet earth i see u guys writing about roger waters and thats pathetic that u would compare someone like him to clapton clapton is un doubtably the god of the guitar nobody compares and nobody competes
eric clapton played in bands such as the yardbirds, cream, derek and the dominoes, blind faith, john mayalls blues breakers and he also did solo work
by Collin Johnson April 14, 2006
Very influential guitar player that played with some of the best groups of all time (Cream, Derek and the Dominoes, The Yardbirds, etc...) Also influenced Hendrix who for some reason became more influential but sucked at playing the guitar when it came to technicality and ability.
JIMI IS WAY TO OVERATED LISTEN TO OTHER GUITARIST AND YOU WILL REALIZE JUST HOW MUCH HE IS PWNED BY THEM. And I don't mean any of that punk or nu-metal crap i mean the Soloist.
by thelumberjack April 29, 2005
A blue-meanie
Many people have a premise that Eric Clapton is God. That is wrong. To find out who is the real God see Roger Waters
Many people have a premise that Eric Clapton is God. That is wrong. To find out who is the real God see Roger Waters
by CatherineInRock January 08, 2004
by WistfulThinker March 31, 2004