Eric Clapton In a Stomp Box...

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...so I went into GC today an there was this Eric Clapton stomp box with like ten presets...each one set to match the tone of his guitar as played in his greatest hits through Cream, Blind Faith, Traffic and recent solo efforts. $149.00...There was an actual picture of EC on the cardboard box that the stomp box was packaged in, too...


...I don't think so...


What's next? The Robert Johnson stomp box? The Jimi Hendrix stomp box? The Beethoven stomp box?
 
Depending on sales...

What's next? The Robert Johnson stomp box? The Jimi Hendrix stomp box? The Beethoven stomp box?
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...you can count on it. We have the EVH Phase 90 already. Nevermind it wasn't 'the EVH' when he started using it.

What would be the absolute worst? A Roy Clark stomp? A John Lennon stomp?
I mean what's the absolute best example of 'they just don't get it' that is possible?
 
No stomp box is going to provide the tone of E.C.'s tube amps that he used for those "eras'. You gonna tell me that a BC rich thru a cheap crate amp will magically sound like Clapton's strat thru a perfectly tweaked tweed bassman 4x10 or an early marshall "bluesbreaker"? I don't think so!!! Unfortunately, a lot of naive players who still think that all they need is the right stompbox to get "the tone" will spend hard earned cash only to be dissapointed. I'm surprised that Clapton would be a part of a marketing ploy like this..... Surely the cash flow can't be that low that he would need to put his name on one of these. Obviously, judging by the price of this piece of crap, a big chunk goes into Eric's pocket.
 
I've been looking for the 'Sex-On-Demand' stompbox.

If anybody finds one, please PM me.
 
Buck62 said:
I've been looking for the 'Sex-On-Demand' stompbox.

If anybody finds one, please PM me.
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Yup...They have a jewelery in them and are only good for a couple of stomps..expensive though :D
 
Larry Gude said:
What would be the absolute worst? A Roy Clark stomp? A John Lennon stomp?
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Perhaps an Ashlee Simson stomp?


:D


Lennon did come up with one or two great signature tones, though
 
goldtopchas said:
No stomp box is going to provide the tone of E.C.'s tube amps
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But no 13-16 year old kid (silver spoons excluded) are going to be playing through one of EC's tubes amps anytime soon. :D
 
Larry Gude said:
What would be the absolute worst? A Roy Clark stomp? A John Lennon stomp? I mean what's the absolute best example of 'they just don't get it' that is possible?
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Gee, that would be the Ashlee Simpson stomp box - you step on it and it blames your drummer for you not having any musical talent...
 
Disturbed

Dan Donegan from Disturbed has had one out for a while. I am sure neither Dan nor EC would have anything to do with thier own pedals...
 
Obviously, judging by the price of this piece of crap, a big chunk goes into Eric's pocket.
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No, it goes to the Crossroads Center charity...
 
Well, now actually...they may be on to something herre...if they can just omtominate the right parameters in ruhspect to the tonulocity, they may be a chance...albeit a very itty bitty actuality of realizations, to accomplish such an endeavor of mimicry. Technically put, as long as they don't "grind the bearings" so to speak...than everything should go according to plan. Anything is possible...I heard that Morrissey just recorded a duet version of, "I will always love you," with Celion Dion, and many a nay sayers said this was beyond a do'able feat.

Word.

P.S. I'm still waiting for that Tom Waits vox box to hit the market. Promises, promises...
 
I can get Eric Clapton in a stompbox?!?!?! Wow, how do they fit him in there??!?! :eek:

I can't wait for the Hendrix one, if not just to see how poorly they "reproduce" his sound.
 
Roflmao!!!!

Perhaps an Ashlee Simson stomp?
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You step on it, it goes flat, then sharp and then rolls, seemlessly, into an off tempo Irish jig.

All while making a hissing noise in the drummers monitors!

STOMP!

Wait! A 'Stomp' stomp box? Think of the marketing plan! Think of the uses! At any point, you can summon up a near real live, marching, tap dancing army instead of some boring old souped up lead that you actually have to work out of your fingers, into a guitar and through *GASP* an amplifier.

We await.
 

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Aint techknowlogy a fasinating thing? For years I tried to get thet "Clapton" sound the old fashioned way, Strat>Marshall, now along comes a gadget that will save countless thousands of aspiring guitarists the agony and frustration which I have experienced. By the way, is there a disclaimer on the box which says this device only works if you can play like Clapton?

Gawd, I love the chance to be sarcastic occasionaly.
 
The same market that is going to buy the Eric Clapton stomp is the same that spent $20,000 on Epiphone’s special edition Paul McCartney Acoustic guitar. Never mind that Paul played one because he didn’t think he could afford a better guitar, has used Martins since then and has admitted to not thinking too much about equipment and tone. It’s “hey that’s the guitar he played “Yesterday” on the Ed Sullivan show with.” Syndrome.

But hey there must be a market for the “weekend musician” or the guy who has the money and wants a pretty guitar to put on the wall.

If they are going to come out with an Ashley Simpson stomp box, I’d like to see a Brittany Spears / Lindsey Lohan stomp. Punch it and your breasts grow 3 cup sizes and you get in a cat fight with another teen sensation.
 
this device only works if you can play like Clapton

Then what's the point? I don't wanna practice. I don't wanna buy gear. I wanna sound like somebody the EASY way.
 
lpdeluxe said:
Then what's the point? I don't wanna practice. I don't wanna buy gear. I wanna sound like somebody the EASY way.
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I think the point is for middle aged guy who has the money and already has a killer set of golf clubs to have something else to invest in. I don’t think it’s for those of us who spend hours of our free time trying to get a good solid tone. Then again I shouldn’t knock the box before I’ve heard it.
 
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