Friday Night Cage Match/Fondue Party/Evolving Conversation/Dancing About Architecture Vol. 101
Country Mart has a deal where you get 5 meat items for $25. They aren’t the primo cuts but workable; country style ribs, sirloin, whole chickens…stuff like that. Most items would normally be in the $7-8 range so, it’s a good deal when you get five.
One of ‘em I got is a “Mock Tenderloin” roast which is really part of a chuck roast. I’ve done a couple before so, I had a grilling strategy worked out (scorch each side then, low and slow). But, 15 minutes after I fired up the grill a steady rain commenced so, I’m having to do the whole thing with the cover on.
I got a nice zucchini that I will split long ways, brush with olive oil and top with Parmesan. I’m going to try the new Bullseye Guinness Blend for sauce.
As I was working on this I thought of a tricky little FNCMFPECDAA…
Eric Clapton or Johnny Winter?
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Another tough one. For versatility and blazing the trail earlier on I have to go with Clapton.
HOWEVER, Johnny Winter is one badass boogie monster who can whup EC on slide in his sleep. JW has simply operated in a tighter niche than EC, making it difficult to select him overall.
JW is highly volatile,and EC has legendary tones, tunes and trademark licks.
Love ‘em both, but it has to be Clapton.
I’d braise that chuck in beef stock with some of that Bullseye, after searing it on the grill.
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Here’s how this came to mind: I was having dinner with Hodges the other night and he referred to Clapton as “the most successful guitarist of all time”. I thought to myself; “What an odd way to put it it. Was he more successful than Joe Pass?”
Obviously, it depends on how you measure success and obviously Gary was thinking units sold/dollars made. But, by that standard a huge batch of great artists were failures during their lifetimes (Robert Johnson, Mozart).
Anyway, I needed someone to compare with E.C. that had more parallels than Joe Pass.
Was Eric blazing the trail earlier that JW or, just more in the public eye. Johnny was cutting with Huey Meaux when Clapton was a Yardbird. But, this was the period Winter (at Huey’s insistence) was going for a pop record. He got out when he could and went for the rock/blues throat. Conversely, Clapton got less blues and more pop as he went along.
Johnny’s rock and roll had more blues edge than any of the other blues rockers of the period.
Is E.C. really more versatile? Who would you put your money on playing through rhythm changes?
Clapton threatened to put out a “real” blues album for years and years. Johnny did it in the 70s and it was a good one (Nothin’ But The Blues). When Clapton finally did get around to it it rang hollow to me.
JW eventually gave up the rock and stuck with the blues. But, in that framework he has evolved and further developed a unique electric fingerstyle approach.
Clapton, to me, seems to be stringing the same old licks together with an “updated” tone.
If I bought a ticket right now, I’d go see JW because I find what he’s doing more interesting.
Grilling meat is a standard Blues backdrop, by the way.
If this is a converse situation … “He got out when he could and went for the rock/blues throat. Conversely, Clapton got less blues and more pop as he went along. …” then I agree: Even if they are both playing a bar Mitzvahs.
Bluesy to Pop genre and back again, I feel like this is an apprenticeship. No one much mentions those futile years of Clapton, and that awful live album he cut when he could barely make a stage entrance.
Yet, in all respect to bing bang, and the need to work through one’s personality disorders, EC is the Sorcerer’s Apprentice in this cager.
Yep, that is how I see it. As we await the next generation of blues instruments to dawn, we can learn from the two distinct styles of hands lost. Winters is the Sorcerer Journeyman, Clapton is the Apprentice. [Note:Clapton is not my favorite due mostly to regional prejudices...] yet:
Johnny “Slide” Winters wins in the fourth stanza thirds notes, first verse. Both walk out of the cage, but the pecking order is forever established, before the roast is done.
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I’m converted. Jack says what I was afraid to say. Johnny Winter!
“…Every now and then I know it’s kinda hard to tell, but I’m still alive and well!”
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