Thanks for posting asatbender!
When I first started playing guitar, my guitar teacher used to say "there are at least 2 people in every suburb of Sydney that can play better than Clapton..."
....for me though, it isn't what he plays but how he plays it.
This is one of the songs that made me want to play guitar in the first place...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jpSHNW96fEQ