Re: I don't care what Fender is paying him
I have to admit I'm kind of surprised that most of the posters here seem to be satisfied with Clapton using the strat for the reunion.
The one fact that I thought seemed unassailable here is that the Strat & the LP just are not the same, and sometimes you just need one and not the other.
In Cream's case, just about all of their music was recorded & performed with LP's & SG's, humbucker equipped guitars with a lot of thick tone.
It's fine to say that Claptons tone is good no matter what he plays, blah, blah, blah, but in this case his tone did not allow the music to be sound as it should have, or in my case how I remembered it to be and wanted it to sound.
I have to admit I am not a big fan of most of what Clapton has done since Derek & the Dominoes (on the Dominoes live album I thought he had his greatest strat tone by far, better than any current tone he uses).
It's not a trajedy by any stretch, but it's just dissappointing and strangely curious that he just couldn't bring himself to play one Gibson guitar. I have a feeling Fender might have had something to do with it, the more I think about it it just makes no sense.
BTW, if Led Zep could have a reuinion and Jimmy Page showed up with a strat and played that exclusively, I think that would also be dissappointing.
