Best blues guitarist, Clapton or Green

Between the two, I'll take Peter Green. Both Clapton and Green are blessed with marvelous melodic gifts and both are great when on their game, but....
Both guys run hot and cold, both had big-time drug problems.

Check out Fleetwood Mac's "Man of The World". A friend of mine who has toured profesionally playing rhythm guitar for The Cult for 2 decades put it nicely:

If that playing doesn't reduce you to tears, you have no heart.

Marty

Rok,

Have you seen Clapton in concert over the last decade or so? He basically plays ONLY the blues: straight up, and - more often than not - acoustic. You may (or may not) dig his playing, but the music is every bit as much the blues as anything BB has played. In fact, it's often exactly the same songs. And BB's influence is very much evident in EC's style.

Marty

BTW Fans have been bitching about these shows since "From The Cradle". Personally - when he's having a good night - I like them just about as much as I liked the rock 'n' roll shows that he used to do.

A related question:

Was Peter Green the best blues guitarist in his own band? That's no shot at Peter Green who is an unquestionably amazing player, but here's a clip of Fleetwood Mac's Jeremy Spencer playing "The Sky is Crying":

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M530K4lc578&feature=relmfu

A little talent in that band, huh?

Strange thing about Oh, Well.

You'd have to look long and hard to find two guitarists with more divergent styles than Peter Green and Lindsey Buckingham. In concert, Buckingham (duetting with Neal Heywood) often plays one Peter Green song - Oh, Well. The song contains an acoustic section that actually snugs up against Buckinham's style. (Check out Family Man to see what I mean.) AFAIK it is the only piece in Green's catalog that does so, so the choice of Oh, Well might seem like a natural for Buckingham to cover live. But he never plays that acoustic part of the song. Always thought that was a little strange.