Cream

I have always found them boring. In the studio, too shy and restrained. Live, bolder, but after a few listens, you realize that even those long improvisations were nothing but endless ups and downs of Clapton in pentatonic over the same three minor chords. And the distorted hard guitar sound was already there from others before. Just listen to Shake With Me by the Outlaws (1964). Clapton didn’t invent shit.