'Layla And Other Assorted Love Songs'

Eric Clapton is the world's greatest session guitarist. He jumped from The Yardbirds, John Mayall, Cream, Blind Faith, and Delaney and Bonnie and Friends.

All the while, he jammed and recorded who knows how many others including The Beatles and John Lennon's and George Harrison's solo albums.

What happened with Derek and the Dominos stems from all of this. He met his Dominoes while with Delaney and Bonnie and Friends. He wrote his all-time greatest hit while being friends with George Harrison.

I'm not a huge Eric Clapton fan. He's too much of a blues guy. He stole George Harrison's wife (Harrison is either hte sweetest man in the world ... or he was tired of it already). And he was a drug addict.

But I do like the fact that he was always doing whatever he wanted whenever he wanted. Clapton was always a guy that wanted to play guitar with his friends for the rest of his life. Not unlike what I or million others did when they were 15 years old. Get good enough, sell enough records and you can do it.

Then again, Clapton's always been on the move. He could've stayed in one place and probably made a ton of money and retired. Instead, he'd go from one project to the next looking for the next great jam. That's something I can appreciate.