This just in: Eric Clapton is a HUGE asshole

He’s as thick as pig shit.

I can honestly say I never liked him and didn't understand why other people did.

R2, I work in the critical care field, and am plugged into a network of ICUs.

Basically, about 95% of the ICU COVID patients in my area are unvaccinated, and the only vaccinated COVID patients who are sick enough to need ICU are immunocompromised - usually because they have cancer. And the out of all the COVID deaths that have happened, only vaccinated person who died of COVID did indeed have metasticizing cancer. So from what I've seen, and everything I've read from reliable sources, vaccination is absolutely worth the trouble! It may not completely keep you from being sick, but if the vaccines will keep people from getting deathly ill or dying, then it's absolutely worth the trouble to accept a free shot.

As for Clapton, I'd wonder if foolishness of this degree was a sign of impending dementia, if he hadn't been an asshole his whole life. If he gets taken down now, fine by me.

Does anyone have access to the whole story on Clapton? It's paywalled.

Wouldn’t it make more sense for Clapton to bankroll, I dunno, hotel window safety renovations?

I've always regarded him as a low-talent asshole who received undue praise for his mediocre playing. The only thing remotely good about his artistry is how Scorsese used the "Layla" instrumental in Goodfellas.

Here r5, but just go to Google, seriously. There are hundreds of stories out there about Clapton and his anti-vax songs and his anti-vax propaganda, plus that huge racist rant he went on that was so bad that a bunch of musicians created the "Rock Against Racism" event to try to make up for it.

Thank you, R6. I wasn't gonna post it.

I get Freemason vibes from him

I get Freemason vibes from him

Has anyone listened to antivaxx music? Is it satisfying artistically?

Great song writer, great guitarist, not a bad singer, awful person.

[quote] Great song writer, great guitarist

Wonderful Tonight and I Looked Into My Father’s Eyes weren’t all that. Certainly not the equal to his guitar playing.

Old rockers newer songs are never as good as their old songs.

What a surprise.

I didn't get the appeal for Eric Clapton back in the day and I certainly never understood it after he wrote a song about his baby falling out of a window.

He just seems ghastly.

And then licensed it for use in a trashy movie.

Not to defend him since he seems to be a jerk now. But he was something else in the 60s. No one was doing what he, Bruce and Baker were doing back then with Cream. No one.

I always thought he was something like Louie Armstrong. Dated now, but revolutionary then. It’s sad that Clapton became a douche, but on the other hand that’s what happens when stars are idolized. Music and movie.

When he was young he was a superlative guitar player. I'll give him that.

R20 I'm'na need proof.

This isn't news. It's been known for nearly 50 years.

Receipts.

Didn’t everyone know this? He murdered his son so he’d sell sympathy albums.

Looks like I'll have to add his CDs and records to the same fire that I tossed others into: Ted Nugent, Susan Sarandon DVD collection, Michelle Shocked, James Woods movies, The Champ DVD, Susan Olsen's book... At this rate I may clean house.

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Layla

Cunt. I’m crying no tears for him.

How does he feel about immigrants and non-whites?

That bad, huh?

Time to cancel this dude

[quote]Not to defend him since he seems to be a jerk now.

He's been a jerk for a LONG time R19. It's just that in the late 70s, before the internet, random news of a huge Rock Star being openly racist at a concert didn't really spead far and wide.

It's now been brought back up that, at a concert in Birmingham UK in 1976 he went on a racist rant. Excerpts from reports have been pieced together to report details of the rant. Here's perhaps not an exact quote but it's very much close:

Clapton asked "foreigners" to raise their hands and leave his show. He said, "not just leave the hall, leave our country... I don't want you here, in the room or in my country. The Black wogs and cunts 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 cunts living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. This is Great Britain, a white country. Throw the wogs out. Keep Britain white."

Just an FYi, "Keep Britain White" was the British Fascist Party slogan at the time.

His rant did raise awareness of racism in music and sparked Britain's Rock Against Racism campaign. But it got virtually no reporting about it outside Europe.

[quote] It's just that in the late 70s, before the internet, random news of a huge Rock Star being openly racist at a concert didn't really spead far and wide.

In this case it did, though. Clapton's racist rant and Bowie's snide remarks about how great fascism was spawned a "Rock Against Racism" event. This absolutely made the news. I don't know how far it went internationally but I do know I read about it in the 1980s in Rolling Stone, that's how I learned about it, in the context of Elton John reportedly telling someone in a studio session who was still put off by Clapton's racism to "just get over it."

Until relatively recently, people were happy to ignore this kind of thing for famous people and "rock gods."

Past his due date.

‘Layla’ is the new ‘Sweet Home Alabama’

His assholery was revealed way back, when he stole his best friend's wife.

He's never been a smart guy, his thinking is fairly dogmatic. No one will accuse him of sophisticated thought processes. As much as I love Van Morrison's music he can be a bit of a petty rebel as well.

R4, serious question, I don’t have an agenda.

What are the ages of the unvaxxed people who are in the ICU?

To be fair, R33, the "best friend's wife" was fed up with her husband fucking anything that would hold still enough.

But it's not like Clapton was a better deal.

[quote]Like his music, hate him as a person

I go back and forth on whether this position is sustainable about a songwriter or author.

For an actor, it's merely bringing life to another person's words. However, the words of an author or songwriter are always going to be a reflection of that person's ideas, beliefs, and feelings. The words are going to be a reflection of the key themes and messages that are important to them.

For someone like Clapton, his songs will be an outward reflection of his true beliefs. You simply cannot hide whatever hateful crap is rolling around inside his head - no matter how pretty the music you put to those words is.

I remember trying to read Eric Clapton's autobiography--I gave up....Let's just say, In terms of memoir-writing, he's no Grace Slick. But then, Grace is crazy and smart. Eric is, or was, a talented druggie, which just isn't that interesting.

Look way down there! It's Daddy!

Clapton is an average guitarist at best and a scummy asshole of a person. He is a putrid anti-vaxxer and possible Trump supporter. Certainly an Enoch Powell supporter. He's also a well known racist. In general a despicable "human being". All that being said, even though I hate him with the heat of 10,000 suns, I will still listen to all of the Cream recordings but nothing else he has ever done. I expect he was born to be an petty, mean spirited asshole.

He’ll always be a hero and an inspiration to me

Let’s file Clapton right next to Cosby. Bye.

Didn’t he kill his son for publicity?

In her autobiography, Rita Coolidge claims that she co-wrote what became the instrumental second half of Layla. She wrote and recorded it with another musician as a separate song and sent a demo of it to Clapton. According to her, Clapton simply added the composition on to Layla without her permission. He has no doubt raked in a fortune from the song over the years, while Coolidge has never seen a dime from it or been credited for co-writing it.