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Clapton tops best guitar man survey

By | Published on Friday 19 November 2010

Eric Clapton is the best guitar player ever, and anyone who says otherwise has no respect for informal surveys conducted at busy trade fairs by insurance companies.

Insurers Allianz asked the (probably quite old and seemingly quite predictable) guitar fans who visited their stall at last weekend’s Guitar Nation Live show in London to name their number one guitar hero. Presumably the average person being surveyed was old enough not to answer “oh, the third one on the Playstation was my favourite”. The most favourited guitar players were as follows…

1. Eric Clapton
2. Jimi Hendrix
3. Jimmy Page
4. Jeff Beck
5. Chuck Berry

The insurers also asked people what guitar from history they’d most like to own, and Clapton came top there too.

1. Blackie Stratocastor, played by Eric Clapton
2. Double neck Gibson, played by Jimmy Page
3. Number one strat, played by Stevie Ray Vaughan
4. Les Paul, played by Les Paul
5. Red Special, played by Brian May



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