As names like Blind Faith, Yard Birds, and Cream and countless other successful British bands and performers came drifting by in my occasionally lucid mind, I began to realize that there was an underlying connection to these as well as just about every Brit band that achieved any real and lasting success or notoriety. I then recognized the same similarity holds true for American bands. I then rationalized that perhaps there are no great Brit or great American rock groups, and that there is only one true music greatness. That one true and undeniable greatness – that solitary link, that connecting thread, perhaps the DNA of rock music - The genetic link that connects rock music -Brit or American - to all other music life forms, past, present and future is none other than Eric Clapton.
