Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton

[Il Medico]

I was watching the movie The dreamers a couple nights ago, and the argument between two of the main characters was who is better, Jimi Hendrix or Eric Clapton? I say Hendrix. What do you guys think?

[mykittyhasaboner]

Hendrix, hands down.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sVvtIS2YGVI

[Il Medico]

Good Stuff Comrade! Here is more!http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BCwCBh0z3Hs

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

Thats a toughie...they've both done some amazing stuff but Clapton has done a few shit songs. So I went with Jimmy

Oh and Clapton is a twat

[Sasha]

Hendrix,

not only on the quality of his music but also because clapton is a racist piece of shite

Controversy over remarks on immigration

On 5 August 1976 Clapton provoked an uproar and lingering controversy when he spoke out against increasing immigration (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immigration_to_the_United_Kingdom_%281922-present_day%29) during a concert in Birmingham (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham). Visibly intoxicated, Clapton voiced his support of controversial political candidate Enoch Powell (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enoch_Powell) and announced on stage that Britain was in danger of becoming a "black colony". Clapton was quoted telling the audience: "I think Enoch's right ... we should send them all back. Throw the wogs (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wog) out! Keep Britain white!" (the latter phrase was at the time a British National Front (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_National_Front) slogan).[49] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton#cite_note-48) This incident, along with some explicitly pro-fascism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fascism) remarks made around the same time by David Bowie (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Bowie), were the main catalysts for the creation of Rock Against Racism (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rock_Against_Racism).
In a 2004 interview with Uncut (magazine) (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Uncut_%28magazine%29), Clapton referred to Powell as "outrageously brave", and stated that his "feeling about this has not changed", because the UK is still "... inviting people in as cheap labour and then putting them in ghettos."[50] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton#cite_note-49) In 2004, Clapton told an interviewer for Scotland on Sunday (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland_on_Sunday), "There's no way I could be a racist. It would make no sense".[51] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton#cite_note-50) In his 2007 autobiography, Clapton called himself "deliberately oblivious to it all" and wrote, "I had never really understood or been directly affected by racial conflict... when I listened to music, I was disinterested in where the players came from or what colour their skin was."[52] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton#cite_note-51) In a December 2007 interview with Melvin Bragg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melvin_Bragg) on The South Bank Show (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_South_Bank_Show), Clapton reiterated his support for Enoch Powell and again denied that Powell's views were racist.[53] (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton#cite_note-52)

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[Jazzratt]

What possible reason would anyone have for voting Clapton?

[Pirate Utopian]

Clapton is just absolutely shit.
Hendrix has some goodies.

[Sam_b]

Clapton's a dick. That is all.

[progressive_lefty]

Hendrix.

Clapton = racist.

[Angry Young Man]

The really weird thing is that Clapton saw Jimi - a black immigrant (for some reason, BNPistas and the like don't seem to mind immigrants from other 1st world countries) - as like a mentor.

But Jimi, irrefutably the best guitarist ever. I have a theory that somewhere in the medieval period, there was a woodcraftsman in Andalucia sat down and invented the guitar in anticipation of Jimi Hendrix, the guitar messiah as prophesised.

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

Thats what I dont get about Clapton, he made albums with BB King and loved the bules players (mostly black) and yet was racist!

[Killfacer]

i accidently voted for clapton.

[Module]

Neither.

[Il Medico]

Something I found quite funny based on the results is that in the movie the commie was arguing Clapton while the cappie was for Hendrix! Ha! how different reality is!:lol:

[brigadista]

jimi simple as
clapton = bbking tribute act and not a very good one- er with some real plagarism from albert king..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FouKZ9HtmvA&feature=related

[gorillafuck]

I listen to mainly punk and folk punk music, but Jimi Hendrix just makes me cream my pants.

Clapton on the other hand is as boring as watching grass grow.

[Y Chwyldro Comiwnyddol Cymraeg]

Red House is a hell of a tune!

I've got a Hendrix plays Blues album with all sort of covers and his own songs. It has a hell of a cover on it!
http://img46.imageshack.us/img46/4830/jimihendrixbluessg5.jpg

[Dóchas]

you kinda have to vote fo hendrix...like did clapton ever burn his guitar on stage??? NO!!!! hendrix hands down :cool:

[ÑóẊîöʼn]

Jimi Hendrix, no contest.

[JimmyJazz]

No John Mayer, abstained

[Pogue]

Clapton's a fucking fascist so fuck him. Seriously, he was oen of the main reasons for Rock Against Racism being formed, cos he said Enoch Powell was right and that we should send all black people home, and some other rubbish.

[Chapter 24]

Clapton wishes he was Hendrix.