Do people not realize Clapton has not played anything memorable in over 40 years?
We're not asking him to play anything memorable, though that 40 years is a stretch. But he is still alive and that was the only criteria for putting together our groups. And as blues guitarists go, he's right up there at the top and will go down in the annals of music history as a legend. And it will be his guitar, not his voice, that keeps him there though he wasn't that bad a singer.
[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxTWQD91b5c]YouTube - Eric Clapton: Groaning The Blues[/ame]