Originally Posted by Neapolitan

I like Clapton and he's critically acclaimed & well noted blues guitar player, but when you think about his technique he fiddles around on the guitar in a pentatonic box and people think it's sheer genius. Clapton's level of playing isn't the same level as other guitar players outside the blues genre.

I've seen bands play in bars and when a guitar player does something as simple a bend a note and the bar goes crazy but if the guitarist does something complicated - no response. Technical ability and what sounds cool aren't always mutually inclusive so the fans reaction doesn't mean much as a gauge for how great he is as a guitar player other than they like him (in this case) when a fan shouted that about Clapton, he could had been on acid and tripping on Clapton's painted guitar when he yelled that - who knows. He was just searching for a superlative to describe his affinity for EC playing - it was only a opinion, not necessarily a dogmatic epithet.