{"id":8908,"date":"2012-02-09T15:31:44","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T23:31:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/?p=8908"},"modified":"2012-02-09T15:31:44","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T23:31:44","slug":"how-eric-clapton-got-the-nickname-slowhand","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2012\/02\/how-eric-clapton-got-the-nickname-slowhand\/","title":{"rendered":"How Eric Clapton Got the Nickname &#8220;Slowhand&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"pf-content\"><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/eric-clapton-slow-hand-orig.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8909\" title=\"eric-clapton-slow-hand-orig\" src=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/eric-clapton-slow-hand-orig.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"559\" height=\"800\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/eric-clapton-slow-hand-orig.jpg 559w, http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/eric-clapton-slow-hand-orig-340x487.jpg 340w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The nickname &#8220;Slowhand&#8221; was not, as is commonly thought, given to Clapton due to playing the guitar slowly.\u00a0 Rather, it was given to him because of audiences giving him a slow hand clap when he would replace guitar strings on stage.\u00a0 When most guitar players break a string on stage, a roady will typically bring them another guitar and fix the string on the old one off-stage.\u00a0 Clapton, on the other hand, had a practice of standing on stage and replacing and tuning the string in front of the audience.\u00a0 While he was doing this during one particular performance, the audience gave him a slow clap or a &#8220;slow hand&#8221; until he had fixed it and was ready to play again.\u00a0 This slow-clap ultimately became a common thing with Clapton, while with the Yardbirds, where whenever he\u2019d break a string during a performance, the audience would give him a slow clap until he was finished replacing it.\u00a0 According to Eric Clapton, the guy that managed the Yardbirds,\u00a0Giorgio Gomelsky, then gave him the nickname &#8220;Slowhand&#8221;: &#8220;He coined it as a good pun. He kept saying I was a fast player, so he put together the slow handclap phrase into Slowhand as a play on words.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Eric Clapton Facts\" href=\"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/until-he-was-nine-eric-clapton-thought-his-mother-was-his-sister\/\" target=\"_blank\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The nickname &#8220;Slowhand&#8221; was not, as is commonly thought, given to Clapton due to playing the guitar slowly.\u00a0 Rather, it was given to him because of audiences giving him a slow hand clap when he would replace guitar strings on stage.\u00a0 When most guitar players break a string on stage, a roady will typically bring them another guitar and fix [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":8909,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[689],"tags":[2144,1047,267,2143],"class_list":["post-8908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-quick-facts","tag-eric-clapton","tag-eric-clapton-facts","tag-facts","tag-slowhand"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8908"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8911,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8908\/revisions\/8911"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8909"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.todayifoundout.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}