Actually, Eric Clapton only became known for his use of strats in the early 70's, when he started to play Blackie, Brownie and others on the Derek & The Dominoes album and with Bonnie and Delaney. Prior to that, he'd used mostly Gibsons, most notably a Les Paul in the Bluesbreakers. He also used a SG and an ES-335 during his Cream period.
The "woman tone" he is sometimes associated with actually refers to that original Les Paul + Marshall combination he used in the Bluesbreakers, hence why he is being considered an "iconic" Les Paul player.
Heh, looks like you got more info on Clapton's guitars than you ever wanted to know:-)
(and we haven't even started talking about "Blackie" and "Brownie" yet...)
Actually, although he's mostly a Strat player these days (since the mid-1970's), Clapton was known as a Gibson guy in the 60's. His red sunburst Les Paul was quite famous (he eventually gave it to George Harrison, I think) and, while in Cream, he also became associated with a red ES-335 and a psychedlic SG.
Considering the timing of the Waters quote, it fits.
Actually, Eclipse's been around for much longer than that. I dunno where you get the March to June thing from. There might have been a spike of interest around the 3.X releases but the Eclipse project has been making waves in the Java world for a few years now (2001? or 2002?)
Every Java dev I know uses either one of 3 IDEs: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA (my fav), or emacs:-)
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Actually, Eric Clapton only became known for his use of strats in the early 70's, when he started to play Blackie, Brownie and others on the Derek & The Dominoes album and with Bonnie and Delaney. Prior to that, he'd used mostly Gibsons, most notably a Les Paul in the Bluesbreakers. He also used a SG and an ES-335 during his Cream period. The "woman tone" he is sometimes associated with actually refers to that original Les Paul + Marshall combination he used in the Bluesbreakers, hence why he is being considered an "iconic" Les Paul player.
Heh, looks like you got more info on Clapton's guitars than you ever wanted to know :-)
(and we haven't even started talking about "Blackie" and "Brownie" yet...)
Actually, although he's mostly a Strat player these days (since the mid-1970's), Clapton was known as a Gibson guy in the 60's. His red sunburst Les Paul was quite famous (he eventually gave it to George Harrison, I think) and, while in Cream, he also became associated with a red ES-335 and a psychedlic SG.
Considering the timing of the Waters quote, it fits.
Actually, Eclipse's been around for much longer than that. I dunno where you get the March to June thing from. There might have been a spike of interest around the 3.X releases but the Eclipse project has been making waves in the Java world for a few years now (2001? or 2002?) Every Java dev I know uses either one of 3 IDEs: Eclipse, IntelliJ IDEA (my fav), or emacs :-)