I have 3 Bradford pear trees and I planted them all one year ago, 1 of them is flowering and blooming very nicely and the other two have cracks in the trunk of the tree that you can see pretty far in to the tree.
The Yardbirdsâ manager, Giorgio Gomelsky, gave Eric Clapton the nickname âSlowhandâ in early 1964. The Yardbirds rhythm guitarist, Chris Dreja, recalled that whenever Eric Clapton broke a guitar string during a concert, Eric would stay on stage and replace it.
But the strong pulse of the blues has powered his guitar playing since the beginning: from the Yardbirds when he was 18, through his stints with John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Cream, and Derek and the Dominoes, to today. Now 62, the legendary guitarist is the author of a new autobiography, Clapton. In the first of a two-part interview, Clapton talks to Melissa Block about his musical influences as a young man. 'Uncle Mac' and the Blues. His first guitar, which he got when he was 13, was a steel-string Hoyer made in Germany. It was about as big as he was, Clapton recalls. It was a very cheap guitar. And most cheap guitars, as anyone will tell you who tries to play a cheap guitar ...