Re: [Harp-L] clapton

["Rob Paparozzi" <Chromboy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Excellent post and recap HB! You are quite right and he himself has said 
that his amongst his STRONGEST blues influences are Robert Johnson, BB King, 
LITTLE WALTER and Ray Charles..

I think the point I was trying to get across is that if he is going to use 
TERRIFIC & Diverse players like Phillanganes, Gadd, Nathan East...

it'd sure be great if he did the same with a harp player and not even 
necessarily a Chicago style player but a player in the caliber of these 
others and let them add to to the color of his already BEAUTIFUL music, but 
that is just my own biased opinion,-)....but your point that this is guitar 
driven is well taken and I LOVE his music and respect his love for the Blues 
as an art form.

PS...I'm paying tribute to Eric on my new CD with a Harp Instrumental of 
'Strange Brew' with Will Lee on Bass, Shawn Pelton on Drums, Hugh McCracken 
on Bass Harmonica and Leo Nocentelli on Guitar and me on lead Harp...

I'll never forget hearing Eric and Cream at a local High School here in New 
Jersey...in the late 60's....I became a HUGE fan that night and later felt 
compelled to go to the last wheels of fire show at Nassau coliseum....we 
befriended a few of the roadies after the show as they were loading the 
truck and one took out Clapton's Gibson Sunburst Firebird let us hold it for 
a few seconds!!!


Long Live Eric!
Rob Paparozzi
www.myspace.com/hudsonriverats



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To: <kenneth.d@xxxxxxxxxxxx>; <harp-l@xxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, June 08, 2008 6:36 PM
Subject: Re: [Harp-L] clapton


> I think we are giving Clapton a bad rap where the harp is concerned.
> First, he played early on with a few different harp players, Sonny boy 
> Williamson
> being one, and John Mayall being another.
> His recording 'From the Cradle' features alot of the old Muddy Waters band
> featuring Jerry Portnoy on harp. He also used Jerry on a few tours in his 
> band
> after this recording.
> He is a guitar player, writing and performing guitar
> generated rock/blues for many years, not primarily a harp driven music
> (Let's not forget Jack Bruce played harp on some Cream recordings)
> Lastly, in the Blind Faith band Clapton did cover Sam Myer's tune
> 'Sleeping in the Ground'. When Sam was still alive, when we did a benefit
> to raise money for Sam's hospital expenses, a representative of Clapton's
> called me and Clapton sent a 2K donation.
> He may not prefer harp in his band, I don't know, but he has done quite
> a bit for it in his musical lifespan.
> HB
>
>
>
> > i have heard more than one say that clapton doesn't really care for
> the harp.
>
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