Music Appreciation

Figarosmom

(12,354 posts) Tue Apr 14, 2026, 03:36 AM Yesterday

For Your Love

THE YARDBIRDS

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HUMBLE PIE

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For Your Love (Original Post) Figarosmom Yesterday OP

The Song That Drove Clapton To ... ProfessorGAC 21 hrs ago #1

He was always kinda an asshole. Figarosmom 21 hrs ago #2

Definitely ProfessorGAC 21 hrs ago #3

ProfessorGAC

(76,925 posts)

1. The Song That Drove Clapton To ...

Reply to Figarosmom (Original post)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 04:15 PM

21 hrs ago

...leave the Yardbirds.
He was quite the blues purist at that point, and hated the more commercial direction.

Figarosmom

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2. He was always kinda an asshole.

Reply to ProfessorGAC (Reply #1)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 04:23 PM

21 hrs ago

I don't think the cover by Humble Pie is very commercial. But anyway. Clapton is a good musician and made many commercial hits in the end, didn't he? I'd say just about everything by Derrick and the Dominos was commercial.

ProfessorGAC

(76,925 posts)

3. Definitely

Reply to Figarosmom (Reply #2)

Tue Apr 14, 2026, 04:51 PM

21 hrs ago

He got over the blues purism pretty quickly.
Cream was never a blues band. Even the blues tunes they did were fairly tight & glossy.
I've always guessed that he had more personality clashes with Relf than was advertised.

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