Eric Clapton - Crap / Not Crap

[Iona56]

Classical Gas - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

I genuinely never knew that

 

[petee]

The John Mayall I'm Your Witchdoctor single is good as well.

first concert in an actual hall i saw, age 15, was john mayall. he rocked.

 

[petee]

I had no idea Classical Gas was associated with Clapton.

neither did i !

I hate it even more now.

nah, it's a great track, not just the guitar playing but the time changes, only pros could have played that.

 

[Raheem]

I'm not a huge BB King fan, but his 1969 studio album "Completely Well" is one of my all time favourite albums.

This is the type of thing London taxi drivers might say once racism has been abolished.

(Disclaimer: Stereotype may be outdated. I am not a Londoner, but have tended to be subjected to "don't get me wrong" racism, homophobia and/or Krays apologisism on rare occasions when I have used a black cab.)

 

[Sprocket.]

I cannot say he’s a crap guitarist but he comes across as a pretty miserable example of a human being.

 

[blossie33]

first concert in an actual hall i saw, age 15, was john mayall. he rocked.

I saw John Mayall's band a couple of times at Mothers club in Birmingham.
Eric Clapton had left by then.

 

[danny la rouge]

neither did i !



nah, it's a great track, not just the guitar playing but the time changes, only pros could have played that.

It’s not the skill level required to play it (intermediate, btw), it’s the fact that it isn’t a pleasing sound.

 

[metalguru]

This is the type of thing London taxi drivers might say once racism has been abolished.

(Disclaimer: Stereotype may be outdated. I am not a Londoner, but have tended to be subjected to "don't get me wrong" racism, homophobia and/or Krays apologisism on rare occasions when I have used a black cab.)

Whoa...Bit of a stretch there.

 

[Sasaferrato]

This just came up in my YouTube feed

Eloquently put.

 

[Knotted]

Well he's gone for the Covid as mass formation hypnosis thing now. I'm actually quite glad we have idiot celebrities out there promoting this stuff because its out there anyway and we need a public conversation about it. Joe Rogan platforming it in the first place was where the real harm was done IMO.

 

[RainbowTown]

Well he's gone for the Covid as mass formation hypnosis thing now. I'm actually quite glad we have idiot celebrities out there promoting this stuff because its out there anyway and we need a public conversation about it. Joe Rogan platforming it in the first place was where the real harm was done IMO.

Proof indeed that in Eric's case, at least, the drugs didn't work. They frizzled his brain.

On the other hand, Neil Young has demanded that his music be removed from Spotify in response for them allowing Joe Rogan on their platform in order to spread "false information about the vaccines." Top man. And, of course, a vastly superior talent to Mr Slowhand (who now should really slow down and fade away).

Neil Young tells Spotify to delete his music over ‘false information about vaccines’

‘They can have Rogan or Young. Not both’

www.independent.co.uk

 

[Magnus McGinty]

Eric Crapton

 

[marty21]

Someone on Twitter tweeted Eric Clapton's apology (40+ years after that gig) when he said he must have been semi-racist when he did the racism, so he was only racist at weekends? Or in the Summer?

 

[Raheem]

Maybe it's just not the most racist he's been.

 

[editor]

The quicker he dies the greater the chance that he won't be looked back on as a 100% total and complete cunt.
Maybe just 95%.

 

[Pickman's model]

The quicker he dies the greater the chance that he won't be looked back on as a 100% total and complete cunt.
Maybe just 95%.

if he'd od'd in 1975 everyone would remember him as one of the greats.

 

[Chilli.s]

Certainly crap now, and a wanker to boot

 

[SpookyFrank]

if he'd od'd in 1975 everyone would remember him as one of the greats.

Yeah, instead of the coke-addled racist bullshit and anti-vax shitcuntery we'd remember him for his many memorable songs that will live forever in the public imagination, such as...um...well there's that one that goes...no that was someone else...um...wait why is this cunt even famous?

 

[Pickman's model]

Yeah, instead of the coke-addled racist bullshit and anti-vax shitcuntery we'd remember him for his many memorable songs that will live forever in the public imagination, such as...um...well there's that one that goes...no that was so eone else...um...wait why is this cunt even famous?

i'm not really sure what he's done for the past 45 years

 

[danny la rouge]

Yeah, instead of the coke-addled racist bullshit and anti-vax shitcuntery we'd remember him for his many memorable songs that will live forever in the public imagination, such as...um...well there's that one that goes...no that was someone else...um...wait why is this cunt even famous?

 

[SpookyFrank]

Sounds like a lot of tedious boomer bends played with all the timing and melodic wit of a piano falling down some stairs.

 

[surreybrowncap]

Ironically dubbed Slow Hand for his wank guitar playing....

 

[Raheem]

Ironically dubbed Slow Hand for his wank

C4u

 

[The39thStep]

I liked Cream and his contribution to them, especially Badge, but after his racist outburst lost all interest.

 

[The39thStep]

There have been some great posts on Twitter this week about Asian resistance to racism in the 1970s , the death of Blair Peach and the formation of the ANL and RAR. This by Clapton came up :

 

[redsquirrel]

I'm surprised by how successfully Clapton is still managing to dodge his horrible racist past compared to other musicians/actors etc

 

[Voley]

I'm surprised by how successfully Clapton is still managing to dodge his horrible racist past compared to other musicians/actors etc

It is odd, I agree. Some artists seem to get a pass and I wonder this, too. It's only recently that i read that awful quote above - it gets skirted around, or it used to, anyhow.

Funnily enough, I read this article recently wondering why Michael Jackson and others get a pass. No mention of Clapton.

Who’s bad? From Michael Jackson to David Bowie, why are some stars uncancellable?

A Michael Jackson jukebox musical has just opened – with no mention of sexual allegations – and a biopic is coming. What makes some celebrities immune to cancel culture? We examine who gets ostracised and who doesn’t

www.theguardian.com

 

[Magnus McGinty]

There have been some great posts on Twitter this week about Asian resistance to racism in the 1970s , the death of Blair Peach and the formation of the ANL and RAR. This by Clapton came up :

View attachment 419279

And yet was fine covering/plagiarising music from black people. What an utter shitbag.

 

[Voley]

And yet was fine covering/plagiarising music from black people. What an utter shitbag.

I saw him onstage with Buddy Guy, both really enjoying themselves. Dunno how the fuck he squares that circle tbh.