[Slowhand] R: Blackie

[Gaetano Villari]

DeltaNick,
 
Blackie is probably the most famous among EC's guitars. Should we go figure
it didn't deserve the highest bid just because Eric played it while he was
most inclined to drinking and expressed the music YOU like least?
 
Gaetano
 
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>DeltaNick deltanick at comcast.net 
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>>> My working relationship with that guitar was exclusively and extensively
>through the '70s and early '80s." <<
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>The above is a quote from EC himself, regarding Blackie.
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>Allow me a bit of analytic room here:
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>The 70's and early '80s are not exactly Clapton's best period. In fact,
this
>period coincides -- exactly -- with EC's most inebriated existence and,
<arguably, his worst music.
 
>So, the guitar with which Clapton was drunk the most fetched the most money

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>"Wonderful Tonight" and "Cocaine."
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>Go figure.
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> DeltaNick