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Originally Posted by Skully
Throughout the book. What were you expecting?
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Ummm... no. They weren't.
I was expecting something more than a paragraph. His relationship with Muddy Waters is explained in 3 sentences (not consecutive). His writing about his boat amounted to almost as much as everything he wrote about all of his music.
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Originally Posted by Skully
On the nose rhapsodizing? "Ah, it was my dream come true, working in the very same studio with one of my childhood heroes, seeing his now aged ebony fingers move up and down the rosewood fretboard..."
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I think even Clapton knows to stay away from trite imagery.
I'll say that I was certainly not expecting him to suddenly become a member of the intelligentsia, but he's clearly an intelligent man who has spoken very eloquently about his music in interviews in the past. I'd expect a man who is known as a musician to include at least some of that in his book, and I'd hope for more detail than he could include in interviews, which are always limited by air time or column inches. None of that (and I do mean none) was in the book.