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Post by Boozin' Susan on Aug 11, 2021 19:45:37 GMT
Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands. So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country. I don't want you here, in the room or in my country. Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch's our man. I think Enoch's right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans don't belong here, we don't want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don't want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for fuck's sake? Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white! Eric Clapton is a racist, anti-vax asshole. I’m thrilled I’ve never bought, borrowed, rented, nor stolen any of his records.
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Aug 11, 2021 20:20:44 GMT
I always thought it is dangerously close to -if not- muzak. It's the kind of sound you hear when you are put on hold while calling an insurance company. I like the first part well enough. It's one of the few clapton things i heard that does not suck. Back before The Weather Channel became alarmist Extreme Weather and Survivalist shows at night, they would show a loop of weather info with instrumentals in the background. Layla was one they played often. Also strangely enough the opening of Gut Feeling by Devo. The Devo song was used in The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou - it took me an entire day after seeing it to work out what it was, but once I realised that Mark Mothersbaugh was the soundtrack supervisor, it made more sense. Still, it was almost as weird as hearing Carried Away by Television used in an episode of How I Met Your Mother.
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Post by Flat Transfer on Aug 11, 2021 20:26:39 GMT
Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands. So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country. I don't want you here, in the room or in my country. Listen to me, man! I think we should vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch's our man. I think Enoch's right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking Jamaicans don't belong here, we don't want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don't want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for fuck's sake? Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white! Ugh, I get chills reading that again. It's so u_g_l_y. It should have killed his career, just like with Michael Richards. And then years later, this was his excuse: I was so ashamed of who I was, a kind of semiracist, which didn’t make sense. Half of my friends were black, I dated a black woman and I championed black music.
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Post by graucho on Aug 11, 2021 21:04:33 GMT
I guess he was probably 3 brandy bottles gone, and a raging alcoholic mess, but is that any excuse? Strangely, I think this was the same year that Bowie was doing Seig Heils. He tends to get a pass, or some of his misdemeanours get conveniently forgotten cause, you know - it's Bowie.
So what's the deal - should Bowie get a pass. Or does Jimmy Page get away with stuff, cause he's Jimmy Page, but Gary Glitter a pariah?
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Post by respiratoryproblems on Aug 11, 2021 21:57:46 GMT
I guess he was probably 3 brandy bottles gone, and a raging alcoholic mess, but is that any excuse? Strangely, I think this was the same year that Bowie was doing Seig Heils. He tends to get a pass, or some of his misdemeanours get conveniently forgotten cause, you know - it's Bowie. So what's the deal - should Bowie get a pass. Or does Jimmy Page get away with stuff, cause he's Jimmy Page, but Gary Glitter a pariah? Bowie’s explanation is that he was waving and got caught mid-gesture in what looked like a salute and it wasn’t intentional. I don’t care enough to check whether this was true or not, but I’d say that he generally wasn’t predisposed to being a racist piece of shit any other time (unlike Clapton) so it seems plausible.
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Post by daved on Aug 11, 2021 22:49:04 GMT
I think we’ve heard enough about Bowie to know he was a decent human being. I think we’ve heard enough about Clapton to know he’s a piece of shit.
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Post by essayceedee on Aug 12, 2021 1:13:22 GMT
The difference between Page and Glitter is that Page was fucking girls, so people are more likely to look the other way. Bowie fucked underage groupies too and it’s tragic that this shit was allowed to happen.
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Post by essayceedee on Aug 12, 2021 13:13:30 GMT
Yikes heh, got my creepy pedos mixed up. I could have sworn Glitter was gay.
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Aug 12, 2021 14:20:47 GMT
Could it just be that Gary Glitter didn't have the right friends in the right places?
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Post by The Discerning Consumer on Aug 12, 2021 18:00:15 GMT
Who the fuck wants to listen to some English schoolboy regurgitating studied and borrowed blues riffs? Not me. I don't even like those first couple Fleetwood Mac albums, even though Peter Green and pals seem less lame than the other groups you mentioned.
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Post by daved on Aug 12, 2021 18:06:33 GMT
Who the fuck wants to listen to some English schoolboy regurgitating studied and borrowed blues riffs? Not me. I don't even like those first couple Fleetwood Mac albums, even though Peter Green and pals seem less lame than the other groups you mentioned. The only think I'll say about the Bluesbreakers is Clapton's guitar isn't the worst thing about it. Mayall has the worst voice. Just god awful.
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Post by essayceedee on Aug 12, 2021 18:15:09 GMT
I've never even heard the Bluesbreakers. Just the stupid white-boy name alone turns me off.
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Post by The Discerning Consumer on Aug 12, 2021 18:15:13 GMT
Not me. I don't even like those first couple Fleetwood Mac albums, even though Peter Green and pals seem less lame than the other groups you mentioned. The only think I'll say about the Bluesbreakers is Clapton's guitar isn't the worst thing about it. Mayall has the worst voice. Just god awful. You bring up a good point. White blues singing may be worse in general than white blues guitar playing. Even the Animals sounded much better by the time they learned to competently rock out on Brill Building tunes. Like British Monkees. Heh!
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Post by daved on Aug 12, 2021 18:19:11 GMT
I've never even heard the Bluesbreakers. Just the stupid white-boy name alone turns me off. Which is better? Stick it out for Mayall's awful voice!
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Post by graucho on Aug 12, 2021 19:07:31 GMT
Come to think of it, the Yardbirds guy wasn't that great a singer either. Animals - better singer, but rubbish guitarist - Hilton Valentine. But Valentine probably an OK guy. I doubt he had any intoxicated racist meltdowns..
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