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Post by antiram on Jan 28, 2018 3:35:04 GMT
I dunno. I just spraypainted "Clapton is God" on my neighbor's garage door. Let's see if this sparks a rediscovery.
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Post by blahdiofile on Jan 28, 2018 5:33:40 GMT
I was shocked and dismayed to learn that the cool cats today don't even groove to The Association or give two fucks about old people's music.
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Post by amygrant on Jan 28, 2018 6:21:56 GMT
thinkin bout the times we fukked in my car
thinkin that i mighta fukked ya too hard
now im thinkin bout a kid and how he fell out my window
BADGE rewrite
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Post by hoffa_nagila on Jan 28, 2018 7:04:21 GMT
I don't know man, heroin is still pretty "in" with the young folks.
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Post by Ago on Jan 28, 2018 8:11:32 GMT
Edit: didn't make sense, even to me.
Clapton is shite.
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Post by sₚⲁᵣₖydₒg on Jan 28, 2018 10:08:17 GMT
What?
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Post by hugofuguzev on Jan 29, 2018 6:17:05 GMT
thinkin bout the times we fukked in my car thinkin that i mighta fukked ya too hard now im thinkin bout a kid and how he fell out my window BADGE rewrite Ooh...that's cold! I like it... Somebody should set Clapton's racist "Enoch Powell" rant from Birmingham '76 to music.
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Post by amygrant on Jan 29, 2018 6:47:49 GMT
thinkin bout the times we fukked in my car thinkin that i mighta fukked ya too hard now im thinkin bout a kid and how he fell out my window BADGE rewrite Ooh...that's cold! I like it... Somebody should set Clapton's racist "Enoch Powell" rant from Birmingham '76 to music. We need a hero for that project! Hahaha! Kanye!
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Post by hugofuguzev on Jan 29, 2018 9:34:39 GMT
Just in case anyone has never read Clapton's rant in full, here it is:
"Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands. Wogs I mean, I'm looking at you. Where are you? I'm sorry but some fucking wog...Arab grabbed my wife's bum, you know? Surely got to be said, yeah this is what all the fucking foreigners and wogs over here are like, just disgusting, that's just the truth, yeah. So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country. You fucking (indecipherable). 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 and fucking [indecipherable] 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. We are a white country. I don't want fucking wogs living next to me with their standards. This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for fuck's sake? We need to vote for Enoch Powell, he's a great man, speaking truth. Vote for Enoch, he's our man, he's on our side, he'll look after us. I want all of you here to vote for Enoch, support him, he's on our side. Enoch for Prime Minister! Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!"
Apparently he has finally sort of apologized for these remarks 41 and a half years later, basically using the old "But some of my best friends are black" excuse.
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Post by AnalogRearEnd on Jan 29, 2018 11:13:06 GMT
I love how that quote comes from a man who claims to play the blues.
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Post by hugofuguzev on Jan 29, 2018 11:47:41 GMT
I love how that quote comes from a man who claims to play the blues. And all because some "Arab" grabbed Pattie Harrison-Clapton's ass. What can you say? I'm sure hers was a very grabbable ass back in those days...
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Post by antiram on Jan 29, 2018 17:32:26 GMT
I love how that quote comes from a man who claims to play the blues. Negruh bluesmen are just fine, as long as they remain in the Delta, where they belong. No need for them in England; Eric's got the blues covered over there.
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Post by antiram on Jan 29, 2018 17:44:11 GMT
Incidentally, if he had just stuck to Arabs, he might have gotten some sympathy. Not that there's anything wrong with Arabs, but at that time there was a (irrational) fear in England that they would buy all of London, just as Americans feared the Japanese would own all of Manhattan.
Unfortunately for Eric, he went apeshit postal that night and just sprayed every single non-white he could think of in his boozy horndog mind; it's not so easy to explain away all that...
Somehow, despite Rock Against Racism being formed as the anti-Clapton in response, old Eric has managed to never really suffer any significant long-term condemnation over that. He really has some bio, when you think about it. But he is very much the elder statesman, representing "values" to people far old enough to know better.
I like to think that deep inside, Clapton is a tormented soul filled with self loathing and feelings of inadequacy, and there is circumstantial and anecdotal evidence that that may in fact be the case. If that is true, then karma still works and hell is real. fwiw
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Post by Wanklein on Jan 29, 2018 20:00:50 GMT
My less intelligent contribution...
Never liked Clapton - a deeply unpleasant individual - just the look of him gives me the creeps.
I can just about understand his drug and alcohol soaked mind causing a misplaced racist rant but as he has been so called sober for 25 years he has no excuse for taking this long to apologise - that is if he is truly sorry. Anyone responsible for "Wonderful Tonight" cannot be trusted.
Fuck off you boring, bearded, strat playing cunt.
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Post by thisonehurts on Jan 29, 2018 21:09:17 GMT
He gets points with me for bailing Ronnie Lane out of bankruptcy after his circus tour disaster. He loses all those points by writing Wonderful Tonight in Ronnie Lane's farmhouse.
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