What is the Difference between Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix?

Question

Ok, I know this sounds a little dumb but what is the difference? I, personally, believe that Clapton is better because he wasnt the one that died from drugs. But also because he has been playing longer than Jimi Hendrix. When Hendrix was alive, he apparantly wanted to meet Clapton... ???

While many of you may disagree and say that Clapton was mesmerised by Hendrix, it was vice versa as well. I have been to many concerts of clapton and he is better live than he is on CD...

Answer 1

Eric was the bomb at playing the guitar no matter what Jimi did to many drugs but still was great at the guitar but wasn't as good as Eric.

Answer 2

I don't know. They're both pretty overrated.

Why is Clapton better simply because he didn't die from drugs? He has had his share of dependency issues. As far as being better simply because he's played longer than Hendrix did, that's fallacious reasoning. You can pick almost any guitarist and they've likely played longer than Hendrix did. Longevity means nothing. As far as from a stylistic vantagepoint, Hendrix clearly had a more distinct recognizable style. Clapton played for years imitating the likes of Albert King before he finally hit upon something that sounded vaguely original. And while Hendrix may have died and not gotten a chance to record a great deal of music, Clapton has gone on way too long and flayed his reputation with some seriously bad music. Oh, and while it may be true that Hendrix wanted to meet Clapton (never heard that, but it might be so), I can tell you for certain that Clapton was absolutely mesmerized by Hendrix's style of playing and has said so on many many occasions.

Answer 3

Hmmm, let's see...Hendrix was everything Clapton wishes he was. Hendrix's debut is arguably THE BEST DEBUT ALBUM OF ALL TIME. Clapton's best songs have always written by or with other people. Hendrix was a genius who taught the world how to play electric guitar properly. Clapton is a slightly better than average guitarist, but not much of a songwriter or band leader. Clapton eventually did WAY more drugs than Hendrix ever did and almost quit playing because he didn't think he was good enough.

Answer 4

Hendrix set the bar for lunacy, energy and unstoppable raw outburrst of emotion and talent that no one before or after could even see. Many were/are better, before him and after hism, in terms of technique, music theory, etc., but compared to him they are all bleak, boring and dull, like... I dunno, bank clerks. Among them, Clapton might be a shift supervisor and John Meyer might be the cleaner, but they're all calculated, careful, afraid... and Jimi was not. Naturally, any question about musicians involving "better" is imbecile - they're all different and valuable each on his own, but I thought maybe you'd get the point, so that's why I wrote the first part.

Answer 5

For me, spirituality is a sense of connection - with all things. I understand Freud defined the id (natural ancient "animal" aspect), the ego (sense of personal identity) and super-ego (which manages the ego through self-observation). So the personality is the public expression of all this. Whether that personality has any sense of "spirituality" is another matter. For some it seems to boil down to a belief in the supernatural. For me it is as defined above. So take your pick, or define your own.

Answer 6

eric clapton like eddie vanhalen was awsome until he realized he was awsome then it went to his head and he became just good jimmy never made it to that point he died first he also a right handed guitar that wasnt restrung to be left handed so he was playing upside down jimmy was deffinetly far beyond anything clapton could ever hav hoped to acheive

Answer 7

They played together the first day Jimi was in Britain, according to Rolling Stone.

Answer 8

You answered yourself in the second sentence.

Answer 9

loaded question friend, but one is white and one is black---list goes on from there.

Answer 10

DEAR
SIR THEY BOTH ROCK AND ROLL OK
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