Yardbirds rhythm guitarist Chris Dreja recalled that whenever Eric broke a guitar string during a concert, Eric would stay on stage and replace it. The English audiences would wait out the delay by doing what is called a “slow handclap”.
Eric told his official biographer, Ray Coleman, that “My 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.”
Slowhand nu are nimic de-a face cu viteza lui la chitara.