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Eric Clapton is coming to San Diego! He will be the ipayOne Center at the Sports Arena. Here’s a sweet picture of him playing his guitar in 1977. Love that button-down shirt. Anyway, so Erick Clapton is one of the most influencial guitarists in rock and roll. My dad used to force us to listen to Layla–especially the original version–so that we could appreciate real talent. I’m sure there’s lots of ways to get tickets, but here are a few suggestions for you.

You should check out AIW Tickets. They have tickets starting at $120. TicketsNow has seats starting at $310. StubHub isn’t showing they have tickets yet, but check back, they may have some in the future.

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Here’s some info on Eric Clapton from Wiki:

Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born March 30, 1945), nicknamed “Slowhand”, is a Grammy Award winning English guitarist, singer and composer, who is one of the most respected and influential musicians of the rock era, garnering an unprecedented three inductions into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.

Although Clapton’s musical style has varied throughout his career, it has always remained rooted in the blues. Clapton is credited as an innovator in several phases of his career, which have included blues rock (with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers and The Yardbirds) and psychedelic rock (with Cream). Clapton has also achieved great chart success in genres ranging from Delta blues (Me and Mr. Johnson) to pop (”Change the World”) and reggae (”I Shot the Sheriff”).

* Clapton employs Lee Dickson to take care of his guitars. They are kept in a controlled environment and at the moment he has about 750 guitars. Back when he was at his prime he had some 2,000 guitars.[citation needed]
* Clapton was ranked 4th in Rolling Stone’s list of The 100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time.[4]
* According to the aforementioned list, Clapton is the second greatest living guitarist (behind B.B. King).
* Eric Clapton is credited on Dire Straits’ Brothers in Arms album, as he loaned Mark Knopfler one of his guitars for the album.
* Clapton was banned from driving in France and had his British driving license confiscated after being clocked driving at 216 km/h (134mph) in a Porsche 911 Turbo on a French motorway in October 2004.[5]
* Minor Planet 4305 is named 4305 Clapton to honour him. It is an asteroid between Mars and Jupiter.[7]
* The soundtrack of Goodfellas contains two of his songs: “Layla” (by Derek and the Dominos) and “Sunshine of Your Love” (by Cream). Both of these songs have immediately recognizable guitar riffs (even to those who have never heard the songs in their entirety), although the portion of “Layla” used is the piano coda, and not the riff for which the song is best known.[8]
* Clapton performed at The Band’s farewell show, which is chronicled in The Last Waltz, a film by Martin Scorsese. While performing the beginning of “Further On Up the Road,” his guitar strap came undone. To cover for him while he fixed it, Robbie Robertson improvised a guitar solo.
* Clapton played two farewell concerts on November 26: Cream in 1968, and The Last Waltz in 1976. Ironically, The Band’s music is partly what inspired him to leave Cream in the first place.
* Once while playing a Cream concert, he and Ginger Baker suddenly stopped playing; Jack Bruce, apparently due to the volume of his amplification, did not notice.[9]
* When “Layla” from Unplugged hit #12 on the U.S. charts, Clapton became one of only two artists (the other being Neil Sedaka) to have made the Billboard Hot 100 with two versions of the same song.
* Clapton holds the #10 ranked guitar solo for the song “Crossroads” in Guitar World magazine’s 100 Greatest Guitar Solos. While this is his highest ranked solo, he also boasts four others.
* His name has appeared on some albums distributed in Japan as Eric Crapton, though this is most likely a case of bad Engrish rather than sabotage.
* Clapton was good friends with fellow 1960’s guitarist Jimi Hendrix. Both musicians went to the same concert the night Hendrix died; Clapton had bought a left-handed Stratocaster to give to his friend after the performance, but he never got the chance.