2007-07-02 08:26:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music ➔ Rock and Pop
It was the wall. I guess nobody knows who put it there. But I hear the dog belonged to Jeff Beck!
2007-07-02 16:26:17 · answer #1 · answered by Toodeemo 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is directly from Wikipedia:
"With his 1960 Gibson Les Paul Standard guitar and Marshall amplifier, Clapton's playing by then had inspired a well-publicised graffito that deified him with the famous slogan "Clapton is God". The phrase was spray-painted by an admirer on a wall in an Islington Underground station in the autumn of 1967. The graffito was captured in a now-famous photograph, in which a dog is urinating on the wall. Clapton is well reported to have been embarrassed by the slogan, saying in The South Bank Show profile of him made in 1987, "I never accepted that I was the greatest guitar player in the world. I always wanted to be the greatest guitar player in the world, but that's an ideal, and I accept it as an ideal." Contrary to a popular myth (perpetuated by, amongst others, the South Bank Show programme itself), "Clapton is God" slogans did not appear all over the place but only on that wall."
2007-07-02 19:12:59 · answer #2 · answered by Jenyfer J 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
someone spray painted it on a wall in the 60s and the pic had a dog pissing on it. In a n interview, clapton said something like "i think that says it all"
2007-07-02 15:35:14 · answer #3 · answered by ? 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think that was primarily his style of playing during John Mayal's Bluesbreakers and later Cream. Nobody played blues like him, and in fact Cream are still considered one of the best in field, since there ain't gonna be another one. Then, when he went on to Blind Faith and the Derek and the Dominoes the "God" thing was just dragging along, although i do have a reason to think that he was far from feeling like one. He was the one named "God" though. Not Jimmy Page, nor anybody else....
2007-07-02 16:56:38 · answer #4 · answered by IggySpirit 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
I'd suggest that it was probably Clapton himself. Ha!
2007-07-02 15:33:59 · answer #5 · answered by crazylegs 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋
when he was becoming famous, someone spray painted it on a wall, and then lots of people started doing it
he said it was a big ego boost
2007-07-02 15:39:50 · answer #6 · answered by elizabeth 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Never heard of it, did you just start it? Lol.
He is a demigod of guitarists I heard, but only in his neck of the woods.
2007-07-02 15:35:37 · answer #7 · answered by QuiteNewHere 7 · 0⤊ 2⤋
No one knows. It was anonymous grafitti.
2007-07-03 02:05:32 · answer #8 · answered by Mrs.Aggie 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
he found god after he wrote tears in heaven for his son who died
2007-07-02 15:42:57 · answer #9 · answered by jo 5 · 0⤊ 2⤋