Is Eric Clapton over-rated?
366507
He has played so many types of music. Check out his blues playing, something he was into forty years before it became so popular in white America.
469218
Ugh. I can't believe people think he's a great singer. He's not. He's a great WHINER.
1005844
Overplayed?  Sure.\n\nNot even close to representative as a Zeppelin song?  Yes.  Kashmir is more classic Zep sound.
154850
Never heard of him until you asked, but I listened to him just now.  He has a smooth sound.  But then isn't that characteristic of the R&B sound?  I think he's good-looking, too, if that counts.
1019975
Not just women but men too. However, I don't think they think it's easy. I know an outstanding musician and asked him once how come he's not famous--like Clapton. He said it's a lot of work and and equal part luck--being in the right place at the right time.
1158400
All of his songs are awesome, but yes.  Subterranean Homesick Blues is his best ever.\nHave you seen the video by INXS which showed Michael Hutchence throwing away signs with the lyrics like the video for SHB?
1077028
He is hot but I dont think his music is any good. when he was in blue I thought his voice was really good but now it it sounds out of tune. I actually prefer simon webb.
1091626
I think that it's too early to call him overrated much less underrated. When a star, any star player is given the torch to be the next great one, people should give them 2-3 years to prove it.  A good example is Eric Lindros. Before he even stepped on the NHL ice, he was christened the next great one. Lindros, if not injured flashed signs of brilliance but we'll never really know because of the concussions. I think Crosby matured a lot in his first year and looks to be a stud. But give him some time before we truly rate him.
334212
I think Herm Edwards is over rated..  I think he is good but until he takes a team deep in the playoffs on a regular  basis he is not a great coach..  Chiefs  do not make playoffs this year...
853138
yes definately. He is still the best performer of all time despite his scandals and bla bla. His music is one of the best in this century.
599260
It's old, and some would say it's over-rated, but Led Zeppelin's "Stairway to Heaven".
228908
There is no greatest guitar player ever! It depends on the persons personal likes? Reword your question use words like are instead of is and players instead of player, besides this questions been asked too many times. Youve got to come original!
954131
Not over rated.....he is awesome!!!!\nI am a Vikings fan so I have to deal with him twice a year every year......I hate what he does to my team, but if we had him, that would be fantastic.
963220
Claiming that it has always been an anti-drug song, Eric Clapton has returned the classic hit "Cocaine" to the play list for the North American leg of his current world tour. Clapton, who established the Crossroads Centre addiction recovery center on the Caribbean island of Antigua, stopped playing the song after he began recovery for addiction and alcoholism.\n"I thought that it might be giving the wrong message to people who were in the same boat as me," Clapton told The Associated Press. But the blues guitar playing icon recently changed his mind about playing the song and explained his reasoning.\n\n"But further investigation proved ... the song, if anything, if it's not even ambivalent, it's an anti-drug song. And so I thought that might be a better way to do it, to approach it from a more positive point of view. And carry on performing it as not a pro-drug song, but just as a reality check about what it does," Clapton told the AP reporter.\n\n"It's one of those songs that you can take it any way you like," Clapton said. "But it very clearly says in the opening verse, `If you wanna get down, down on the ground,' I mean, that's, I think, the focal point of the song. That's what the song's about, is that, you know, there's a price."\n\nClapton also admitted that he missed playing the song.\n\nBut is the song really an anti-drug song and is it perceived as such by loyal Slowhand fans? Following are the lyrics to "Cocaine" written by J.J. Cale. Read them and decide for yourself.\n\nIf you wanna hang out you've got to take her out; cocaine.\nIf you wanna get down, down on the ground; cocaine.\nShe don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie; cocaine.\n\nIf you got bad news, you wanna kick them blues; cocaine.\nWhen your day is done and you wanna run; cocaine.\nShe don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie; cocaine.\n\nIf your thing is gone and you wanna ride on; cocaine.\nDon't forget this fact, you can't get it back; cocaine.\nShe don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie; cocaine.
1054469
Usually the original is the best but in this case i liked Clapton's version because he influenced me in playing guitar. "Sunshine of your Love" was one of the first two riffs I played on my very first guitar when I was 11 years old. The other riff would be "Smoke on the water". GnR is also ok because of Slash's rocking guitar version. Dylan usually mumbles his way through his songs.
187440
This song isn't a love song in the context you are talking about, but it's a love song either way.  Eric Clapton, Tears in Heaven.  I'm sure you've heard he wrote that song after his son died.
1008791
Maybe a lil overrated, but the man has business skills.\nAnd ya gotta respect that.  I do like most of his stuff...\nbut not all of it.  Just depends...