Recently, Tom and I ventured out to my favorite Heights antique store because I was looking for something specific (which I found), but of course, I had to browse. I picked up a few little things, including some buttons, and this Eric Clapton button in particular.
I’m a fan of Eric Clapton’s guitar playing, though I’ve never seen him in person. My friends Christine and John did and tell an amusing story about him glaring at people at the concert. Honestly, people at concerts can be jerks, and they probably deserved it. [ETA in 2022: Boy, has Eric Clapton behaved badly through the pandemic. Whatever, I don’t take medical advice from musicians (nor superstar guitarist advice from physicians, probably), but it isn’t EC’s behavior about Covid that soured me on him. It was Patti Boyd’s memoir. Ugh.)
One of the reasons I love YouTube is because I can see so many great blues guitarists in concert together. I can’t even imagine the vibe when some of the brightest lights in the rock firmament shine from the same stage. I get chills watching the videos. The energy in person has to be incredible.
I never made note on here of the fact that former Fleetwood Mac guitarist Peter Green died back in July. In the Eighties and Nineties, I was an avid reader of magazines featuring/books about guitarists. I’ve probably forgotten most of what I used to know, but I remember many stories about Peter Green and Eric Clapton. They were always compared, particularly because Green replaced Clapton in John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers.
If you aren’t immediately able to identify Green’s original songs, I’ll name one that you can’t have missed, though you probably know it best as recorded by Santana: “Black Magic Woman.”
About a month before Green died, a good article about him was published by Guitar World. If you like blues guitarists, or guitarists, Fleetwood Mac, Eric Clapton, and blues rock and roll history, it’s a detailed, informative read.
One day, maybe I’ll stumble over a Peter Green button in my exploring.
Do you know how many buttons you have?
No. I should take a current photo of the container they’re in to show an idea of it.
I will say that not every button on my blog is in my collection. I just snag their photos from the Internet if I want to follow a theme or express a certain feeling.