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If there is ever to be a guitarist that became a legend by his songs, Eric Clapton will be that man. He has the most convincing power over the strings of a guitar that eventually led him to win the Grammy Award. His works revolved around composition, singing, and song writing. Eric Clapton is by far one of the greatest and most successful musicians of the 20th and 21st century. Eric Clapton is also one of the rare and mesmerizing talents that have an established fan base that is increasing as the years go by. Harsh critics even label him as the greatest guitar of the living age. Though Eric Clapton is renowned for a mystifying variation in song writing, music composition and even guitar playing, his primal success catalyst has been the blues. He has been very successful in improving the overall persona of blues and has intrigued the millions of blues fans by vamoosing into different variations and styles. Eric Clapton is known for the creation of blues-rock music and is identified as the father of psychedelic rock. On the side lines, he has penetrated into pop and reggae and won accolodates with duets with the great Bob Marley and Derek and the Dominos. The early life of Clapton was not as exciting and rewarding as his later years as a song writer and avid musician. He was born in England to a young couple, Patricia Molly Clapton and Edward Walter Fryer. His mother was just 16 and his father was 24 when they had this young baby. Youth never seems to be at a mature age specially when love comes in and barging into a domain that is not mature. With his mother being so young and still going through life, Eric grew up with his mother?s parents. All his life Eric grew up believing that his original mother is his sister and Rose his grandmother was his mother. It was a family activity that imbedded into Eric a true love for family and principles. A couple of years down the life, Patricia married a Canadian soldier and moved to Canada leaving behind little Eric with his grandparents. At the age of 9, Patricia came to visit London again with Eric’s half brother. It was during that trip that Eric found out the truth and realized that all that was being experienced was a hoaxed and not true. This event shattered Eric and left indelible imprints of despair and loneliness in life. His entire life changed after this very moment. Eric lost concentration in school and mood swings became a normal practice. His family became a secondary compulsion. Though his early young age was darkened by an event that left an imprint that even showed in his later song writing, he was influenced greatly influenced by his household activities regarding music. His grandmother played piano and his uncle and mother both enjoyed listening to the sounds of the big bands. Even in his autobiography, Eric does indicate a heavy influence of music from his childhood days. Eric was living in an era that was being revolutionalized by music. People all around the world were delving into an epic revolution that would be carved by legends of rock and roll. Entire generations were kick starting the movement by attending local band shows, new bands populating the scene and a new generation of song writers breathing into rock and roll a completely new dimension of trends and impact. Being a part of the revolution like all others, for his 13th birthday, Eric asked for a guitar. The guitar changed the entire life of Eric as well as the millions of fans. Music became the only harmonious sound in the life of Eric. His fondness of music and guitar playing become a hindrance for all of other activities. In 1961 he was expelled from the Kingston College of Art for lack of progress as he had not submitted enough work. Hours of guitar player left his college life void of time and performance. His fascination with music grew especially with blues. Beneath the surface, Eric was a young man ridden by the waves of misfortune and was left to bare witness to the magic of the blues. There was an unsolicited harmony between blues and the solitude of Eric. Both became friends instantly. The passion to learn blues was such a sin qua non in his life that in 1962, he asked for his grandparents? help in purchasing a £100 electric double cutaway Kay (a Gibson ES-335 clone) after hearing the electric blues of Freddie King, B.B. King, Muddy Waters, Buddy Guy, and others. With an emerging talent, Eric started his early years as a vagabond shifting from one city to another in search of a part time gig. It was in the year 1963, at the age of 17, that Eric joined first band called the Roosters. The band was short lived and Eric eventually found himself being a part of different bands as a part time musician. Without known recognition and a song to his name, Eric could not rely on the sporadic amounts to cater to his basic needs, thus, Eric started supporting himself as a laborer at building sites, working alongside his grandfather, a master bricklayer and plasterer. Later on that same year, his hard work paid off and Keith Relf and Paul Samwell-Smith recruited him to become a member of The Yardbirds. The Yardbirds gave Eric his the opportunity to record his first album Five Live Yardbirds. It was with the same group that Eric was proclaimed as slowhand due to his in-depth strength in guitar playing. Within 18 months, Eric moved on since his passion of blues was not being catered to by this particular band. The second band that Eric joined was called the Bluesbreakers. The band gave him the recognition across the nation and cemented him as one of the greatest guitarist of all times. His fame for playing the guitar with such an exception method that an admirer spray painted graffiti on the wall of London’s Islington Tube Station that boldly proclaimed Clapton is God. The affinity towards the group was short-lived and in 1966, Eric left the group and teamed up with Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker to form Cream. The band completely changed the music scene and was extremely successful in generating thee solid albums Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears, and Wheels of Fire. The three albums combined cemented the existence and permanence of this band all over the world. It was during this time frame, that people started truly appreciating the contribution of Eric as a lead guitarist and started proclaiming him as one of the best in the entire music arena. He finally became the supernatural force that could easily move the guitar strings like no other. Like many other bands that Eric joined, the group dissipated within 2 years after continuous egoistic fights and useless arguments over the status of the band individuals. A few years later, Eric garnered other individuals to form the Derek and Dominis with Jim Gordon, Carl Radle and Whitlock from Delaney & Bonnie?s band. The band was not only amazing in its performance but captured its audience with the only single album Layla and other Assorted Love Songs. Another set back for Eric was that this band too like the rest could not accomplish a second album and collapsed with the same momentum as it had started. This came along with a lower reciprocation from the music lovers regarding the album. All this sequential failures finally took a toll over the young guitarist and he sunk into another dimension of loneliness and depression addled by heroin addiction. Several of years went by as the guitarist sunk deeper into an ocean of doubt and solitude. In 1973, Eric finally came out of the state and performed at the Rainbow Theater in London. This began another monumental era in the life of Eric Clapton. He finally decided to go solo and created several very success albums like August, Journeyman and Crossroads. His final finale was the Unplugged album and his Grammy winning single Tears in Heaven in 1992. in 1994, Eric returned to his original blues roots and released From the Cradle. Eric Clapton will always be known as the man who revolutionalized music in a from that is not only unique but carves his own name in the annals of history. For more information about Eric Clapton Tickets visit: http://www.ticketluck.com/concert-tickets/Eric-Clapton/index.php
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