Why is Eric Clapton so roundly disliked among guitarists?

We often forget that these iconic artists are people. Eric Clapton is a person. When you go around for years (or decades) with people fawning over your influence and your genius, and you’re rich and successful, you simply don’t have to try as hard. Not to mention, you essentially have no one to bounce ideas off of anymore because everybody has become a “yes man” and no one says “no” to you anymore.

David Gilmour, of Pink Floyd, recently announced a new album, and one of the things he’s talked about was the producer he’s working with, Charlie Andrew. Of Andrew, Gilmour said, “He has a wonderful lack of knowledge or respect for this past of mine. He’s very direct and not in any way overawed, and I love that. That is just so good for me because the last thing you want is people just deferring to you.”

And as with everything, once you start losing your mojo, creatively or culturally, there are plenty of people eager to just tear you down. Younger generations come along, and at some point you’re just seen as a dinosaur, a relic of an age that has passed. That’s when the demonstrative, participatory hate comes in, when people begin to prove their edgy independent bona fides by flinging invectives at the dinosaurs that the pack has now defined as irrelevant. Clapton isn’t the only artist to suffer this fate. Most massively successful artists do eventually. The run out of gas creatively, and then they get trashed by popular culture for running out of gas. It doesn’t matter what your past work was, you’re defined as a has-been who can no longer “bring it”, even if on your worst day you could easily run circles around your detractors.

Why do flat Earthers run away like whipped dogs with their tails between their legs when asked simple questions that expose their delusions as fantasy?

Which bring us back to Clapton. Eric Clapton had that arc. He reached that point where no one was telling him “no”. He was so famous and iconic that all he had to was walk out on a stage and people were grateful for the experience. So I think he stopped trying. I mean, if people get excited over every little note you play, does it really matter after a while what notes you play? I remember hearing this one live recording of Clapton in the 1990s or, and he had played this really cool Bluesy lead that had some of the fire of his younger days, and then he played this one note which he sort of bent into a sustained it with just some vibrato. You know, just sort of shaking the note and the beat of the band. And THAT was when the crowd went wild. When Clapton played the most simple thing he’d played in the entire solo. One sustained note with vibrato.

Anyway, I guess the only point I was trying to make is that success changes people. Your perception is your reality, and what is your reality when people all but worship you everywhere you go? Who are you once you’ve achieved all your dreams, have millions of dollars, the adulation of millions, and you’re flying around in private jets, being driving around in limousines, and staying in 5 star hotels where you’re brushing elbows with other famous people who all adore you? You’re not going to making the same music you did when you were young and hungry. How could a millionaire do that?

When you’re as famous as Gilmour, or Clapton, people defer to you. As an artist who works within a certain ecosystem, I’m sure it’s exhausting to always have people following your lead. And after a while it doesn’t matter what shite you come up with; people are like “Brilliant!”. Fans are the same. How many artists have you heard put out substandard shite, only to have the public be like, “Take my money!” That’s because most people follow the pack, and if the pack agrees that this person or that person is an icon and a genius, these folks go along with the pack. At that point it’s a product being marketed, because what you’re selling is a brand more so that good music. The music is almost secondary at that point, because you can literally release almost anything and it’ll sell. At least for a while.

Hello,hope y'all doin good, i came to Quora to share my strange story , a very weird one , a story when luck smiled at me ,maybe u will enjoy it , let's begin,have fun... A year ago ,I was a real porn addicted(btw I was 18) ,but never had sex before, I don't have a gf I didn't try to find one even ,always thinking to go to find a sex worker but then I just don't , everyday watching different bodies getting fucked and everyday enjoying. One day, I was watching porn, a big ass lady with big boobs ,just after seeing her the image of my female cousin poped in my mind, (let's introduce her : she's 35 years old , very big ass , nice boobs ,not very big but nice,always wearing tight clothes , she's divorced ) and I thought of me fucking her ,I never had sexual desires for her but now I do days went by and when I met her I was so horny ,I couldn't stay with the family cz my penis was clearly erected , I realized this is my first time I get horny for one of my family ,it not illegal in my country.well to make a long story short( if u want details just text me I will tell u 😊),I decided to give her signs that I want to fuck her,finally I decided to have sex and with my cousin , I thought it is the best beggining for me, i started touching her when I came across her in a narrow place , make her feel my hard cock when we hug , I thought it will hard and I will be ashamed but no , I felt nothing and she said nothing , probably she thought it was by mistake,anyways, I decided then to talk with her about sex, waited for her to be alone in a room and talk with her, I confessed everything about me watching porn and addicted..etc,she said it's normal and u are growing up and u must have sex,well at that time I was like whaaat????? Well I didn't control myself and asked her for sex ( horny like I Ve never been before) she said that she will think Abt it ,2 weeka went by then she called me ,telling that she reserved a room in a hotel and we meet tonight ,we met,and bruuhh, sex is great , I mean, I had to find a pirstitue ,what I was waiting for to have such a feeling ????, I will never forget that night, I started kissing her she was kissing hard ,she misses sex so bad , she sucked my dick and swallowed my semen ,I felt I'm in a dream , then when fucked ,her ass was very big and the anus was open ,didn't struggle to get my hard cock inside it , she was obviously missing sex , she was shouting ,fuck me yh fuck me , I go fast after every word until I cum , we did that 3 times , then we went to her pussy , using condoms I fucked her so hard the moans were higher , everything was perfect ,in the end I asked her to lick her body , licked pussy ,ass, boobs,then she sucked my cock until we sleeped ,all I know that she was dirty ,well before even having sex with her I knew she is an open minded woman , and a woman that looks that she donesnt know anything , but she knows everything, but never expected having sex with her ,well she was horny and that helped...but no one of us regretted that sex ever.. We still have sex from time to time ,and I started having sex with sex workers , joining threesomes..etc If u want pics of her text me.

All artists reach a point where it’s no longer their moment in the sun, when they’re just an old lion resting its tired bones in the sun. And that’s when the jackals come for you.

Simple. It’s fashionable to hate on Clapton. Just like there’s a performative “me too” on hating on bands like Nickelback, a lot of folks try to prove their discerning bona fides by following popular narratives, and one popular narrative is “Clapton sucks”, or however that’s expressed. But really, all that happened to Clapton was, essentially, that he ran out of fire. It happens to most creative people. I mean, think about it (no one ever does, though). Think of all the artists who’ve put out great music for years, and then suddenly that have that one runaway smash success that is essentially a high-water mark in their career. That changes who you are as an artist, because there’s before, and there’s after.