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Beethoven vs Clapton

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SkeetMasta
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who is/was more of a musical Genious?(sp)
Mar 16 2006 7:49PM
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MitchPee
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the most retarded question ever
Mar 16 2006 7:52PM
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JockinJLoads
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how can you compare them?
Mar 16 2006 7:53PM
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SkeetMasta
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well, imo they are the two greatest musicans of all time so...
Mar 16 2006 7:56PM
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Snowcase
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classical makes you smarter
Mar 16 2006 7:57PM
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CooksCorner
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Clapton was asked what it was like to be the greatest guitarist in the world. He replied "I dont know, ask Trey Anisasio from Phish."
Mar 16 2006 8:15PM
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Zhot1218
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i agree
Mar 16 2006 8:26PM
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garrett.
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Beethoven...he was fucking deff
Mar 16 2006 8:28PM
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III
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i would never get anywhere near calling Eric Clapton one of the best musicians of all time. Hes good. Hes not a genius.
Mar 16 2006 8:28PM
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Ski-hobo
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WTF? Beethoven!
You think people are gonna be celebrating Clapton 150 years after his death, doubt it.
Mar 16 2006 9:17PM
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switchskier88
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Clapton is one of the greatest guitar players ever, a lot better than trey in my opinion,
Mar 16 2006 9:44PM
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skisebski
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wow, thats a dumb question.
Mar 16 2006 9:51PM
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pwallstreet
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you cant even compare the two. their two completely diff genres. thats like saying whats better eating or free falling...



ps. the big B had crazy hair!! he wins
Mar 16 2006 10:01PM
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Ski-hobo
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actually you can, one man wrote a 4 minute song entitled "Cocaine", the other man wrote an nearly hour long testament to human emotion and the beauty of music, and it is the anthem of the European Union, seems like one man had a little more upstairs than the other.
Mar 16 2006 10:18PM
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MitchPee
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Beethoven was actually a sketchball. If anything, Clapton had way more upstairs than Beethoven.
Mar 16 2006 10:20PM
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MitchPee
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Another thing, today's society wouldn't listen to an hour long hit. I'm sure Clapton could easily have written an hour long segment of all his thoughts and emotions, but who would have cared about it.
Mar 16 2006 10:21PM
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Ski-hobo
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hah, true there, he was definalty a passionate man. But musically
Mar 16 2006 10:22PM
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wilkesyachtingco
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in the progression of what makes music music, people will mention a few of innovators that usually reads like this:

bach, mozart, beethoven. maybe chopin and liszt, but not as much as the first three. they are the reason that western music is what it is. you cant say that about clapton.

it would be a task for anyone to come up with anything comperable to beethovens 9th.
Mar 17 2006 3:01AM
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ThisAngelicRage
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beethoven isn't the greatest classical musician of all time.....
Mar 17 2006 3:04AM
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Deafboy
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they are both on a completely different level.
Mar 17 2006 3:41AM
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Petey.
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this is true, it is fact that if a mother listens to classical music while boring her baby, the baby will be smarter once born
Mar 17 2006 11:59AM
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wilkesyachtingco
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im not saying youre wrong, but who would you say is the greatest? i think its a lot to do with personal preference.
Mar 17 2006 12:41PM
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will987654321
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free falling, unless of course you have been starving for days
Mar 17 2006 2:29PM
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