The Slow Hand Eric Clapton. The Yardbirds manager Giorgio Gomelsky gave Eric Clapton the nickname Slowhand in early 1964The 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. Where have all the rebels gone.
Rated 451 in the best albums of 1977. He kept saying I was a fast player so he put together the slow handclap phrase into Slowhand as a play on words. While the Stratocaster was of course not exactly affordable its high asking price came from the combination of its rare nature anyway as well as its extensive use by Clapton for five years.
Great album of course we all know that.
The English audiences would wait out the delay by doing a slow handclap. Cocaine Wonderful Tonight Lay Down Sally Next Time You See Her Were All the Way The Core May You Never Mean Old Frisco Peaches and Diesel. - Remastered from the Original Olympic Studios 14 Flat Analog Master Tapes. Released 25 November 1977 on RSO catalog no.