I have 3 Bradford pear trees and I planted them all one year ago, 1 of them is flowering and blooming very nicely and the other two have cracks in the trunk of the tree that you can see pretty far in to the tree.
The Yardbirdsâ manager, Giorgio Gomelsky, gave Eric Clapton the nickname âSlowhandâ in early 1964. The Yardbirds rhythm guitarist, Chris Dreja, recalled that whenever Eric Clapton broke a guitar string during a concert, Eric would stay on stage and replace it.
Clapton told his official biographer, Ray Coleman, in the mid-80s that âMy nickname of 'Slowhand' came from Giorgio Gomelsky. 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.â. In a June 1999 online chat, Clapton gave a slightly different version of how his nickname came about: âI think it might have been a play on words from the âClapâ part of my name.