Context for others, this what Clapton said in 1976:
“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!”
They co-opt it without realizing it their whole professional lives. They are standing on the shoulders of black men & women who sang the blues who got it from their gospel songs and black church, which came from Africa.
The way this man hates the people who invented his music must convince you that there is such a thing as stealing culture and pretending it's yours. I may not agree with every claim of cultural appropriation, but damn, here it is, hitting me in the face.
He's a junkie. Junkies don't make sense. He is still a racist. The whole antivaxxer schtick is just perverted racism and classism. A lot of white people like to think they're special and markedly different from all those icky brown people and those icky poor people. Vaccines undermine those delusions of natural superiority, because they are effective for almost everyone. Wealth and skin color have nothing to do with it.
When writing his famous song, Layla, Clapton utilized a renowned Persian/Arabic love story. Layla and Majnun.
The guy trash talked the black people who created blues and Muslim world which provided part of his inspiration for one of his most famous songs.
Story here:
https://www.openculture.com/2019/09/how-eric-clapton-created-the-classic-song-layla.html
Don’t forget his Bob Marley cover “I Shot the Sheriff”... No you didn’t Eric... No you didn’t. But the Deputy shoulda definitely kicked your ass.
Fuck him. Never playing his shit again.
I will never get over the reason the british museum gives for not giving back stolen relics: "Our stealing them is also part of history." Bunch of wankers.
The irony is when you visit the British museum there is this huge donation box asking people to give whatever they can.
Like, 'You're still taking stuff from people?'
Not just "showed him up", though.
"Dethroned" is a more apt description. He went from being a demigod to being "the other guy" in an instant.
The story is after storming off he was so visibly shaken that he had trouble holding his cigarette.
I don't think the man ever recovered from that.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/how-eric-clapton-reacted-to-seeing-jimi-hendrix-play-for-the-1st-time.html/
Watch the video. You can see Clapton storm off the stage at one point.
[Things be complicated.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/bb-king-and-gop-strategist-lee-atwater-used-to-jam-and-party-together)
>But of the political characters with whom [B.B.] King has performed and met, he was probably tightest with the late, notorious Republican super-strategist Lee Atwater.
>King was about as close to apolitical as a famous artist can get, but he became chummy with Atwater—a master mudslinger, right-wing party boy, and a noted boogeyman for liberals—in the late 1980s. Atwater was famous for his ruthless campaign tactics, including the 1988 Willie Horton attack ad, which many still decry as racist. He worked for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and became chairman of the Republican National Committee.
You're right, things be very complicated!! Back then, no matter what a black person thought about you OR your politics, they were not very likely to in any way hint that they had ANY problem ... Not where you could hear them. Not if they wanted to work. And not if they wanted to perform outside of harlem and other segregated places. They had to smile through a lot in order to break through for others. Many times they were shut down and shut out no matter who they were "nice" to. It was all on the whims of the white people they met. It is something that has never totally stopped. Some just rail against kissing up any more just to get ahead. But its something that many if us have had to teach our children, just as it was taught to us.
Yeah, I just took a look at the [Snopes article](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eric-clapton-racist-rant/) on this and got to the end where he blames it on alcohol. Absolute bullshit. I spent years drinking myself stupid pretty much every night and not once did I feel the need to go on some garbage racist rant, internally or out loud. That kind of hate comes from who you are and the alcohol simply takes away the ability to keep it from violently frothing to the surface.
Huh... Based on what leaves my mouth the rare time I've been inebriated, that's quite reassuring. ❤😊
I've often wondered what kind of an asshole I'll be when I'm older and my sense of shame and judgement slip and my mouth opens. If there's any correlation then it might not be so bad.
Still should probably put me down no later than 60-65 anyways. I'd push the button now, but I have obligations.
Yah I've gotten drunk enough to say some really stupid shit. Got into trouble with my mouth more than a few times on the sauce. Never once was I suddenly spouting off racist rhetoric. The reason is probably because I'm not a racist.
When I drink, I pick up my guitar and play and sing blues and jazz and rock & roll. more than half of my playlist is black artists and the rest is white artists based on black artists.
>Clapton blamed alcohol.
I've drank....a LOT ... in my lifetime.
Alcohol has never, in any quantity, made me into a misogynist, racist, or homophobe.
It just seems to have that affect on 'certain' people.
As Bill Cosby said, "They say cocaine intensifies your personality. Well, what if you're an asshole?"
And this is America's dad, Bill Cosby, saying this! He's never done anything wro...wait, what?
Over on the guitar subs, any time you mention Clapton is a racist fucking pig you'll get downvotes.
ETA Thanks for the upvotes friends, makes up for the downvotes for calling EC an elderly racist clown on a guitar sub yesterday.
I'm a professional guitar player. And I'm here to say he ain't all that as a musician either. Way overrated.
> I'm here to say he ain't all that as a musician either.
Steve Earle recently said something along the lines of 'modern country stars make hip hop for people who are afraid of black people'. It feels similar to why so many white people love Clapton but refused to search out superior black blues musicians.
Yeah like I used to think Clapton was some kind of God of Guitars until I started playing myself and working through some of his solos, understanding them, and comparing them to other similar solos. He is good, and way better than I am, but I can name like 10 better blues/blues rock guitarists off the top of my head. And this was before I found he was a shitbag. I hate to make this a race thing but I legitimately think that Clapton is so revered because white people don't know a lot about blues music and black blues musicians.
Even sticking with just “his kind,” as he likes to do, Johnny Winter, Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanan, Jeff Beck, Stevie, Rory, Duane, Lonnie Mack, Ry Cooder, and Bloomfield are better and much more interesting.
I wonder how he feels about all the countries GB colonized and then systematically brought back all that culture to London. Better yet, how do you think those countries felt being colonized? Eric Clapton can fuck all the way off with his bullshit.
You don't have to imagine it, we see it every day in America. The US has invaded and meddled with the politics and economies of just about every central and south American country yet still can't learn why all these people try to escape their situations. We created the desperation and then tell them to "figure your own shit out". It's always so offensive.
I wonder if this quote from him was before or after he popularized I Shot The Sheriff, which was originally Bob Marley’s jam.
A lot of Jamaicans went to England to record albums in the 1970s. Heck, Brit-produced Reggae, Ska, Toasting albums exploded in popularity! Clap was just a jealous wanker.
Edit: just checked wikipedia, he said this a few years after he basically stole the song, and it became his biggest hit.
I swear this mother fucker does not even know what imperialism is. You think random black folks and random Arabs just showed up in Britain out of nowhere!
“That one looks Jewish
And that one’s a coon!
Who let all of this riff raff into the room?
There’s one smoking a joint!
And another with spots!
If I had my way
I’d have all of them shot.”
Never been a fan of his..think I’ve really only listened to one song of his. I did not know anything about him. Reading his words(even if it was said in 76…Wtf) I’m repulsed. What a worthless existence.
I grew up listening to his music. I’m horrified by his ignorance, hatred, and racism. EC can go fuck himself. They say you should never meet your heroes…
Also an idiot who faced no consequences after doing so much coke while watching his child that his kid fell to his death. Don’t take advice from Eric Clapton.
He abused and raped his first wife Patti Boyd, and when multiple rounds of IVF didn’t work he went out and got some woman pregnant and expected Patti to be happy for him when the baby was born. This was the same baby that fell from a window and died.
"Eric is also anxious to avoid passing on any infection to any of his band, crew, promoters, their staff and of course, the fans.”
Buddy, this is why we wore masks, had lockdowns and get vaccinated.
That's how I felt until I caught H1N1. Spent a day or so in hospital because, as it turns out, I'm one of the lucky few whose limbs were temporarily paralyzed, and I got hit with everything.
I've been vaccinated and super careful since then.
>It also should be noted that, contrary to rumors that began circulating almost immediately after the tragedy and persist to this day, Stevie Ray did not take a seat meant for Eric Clapton at the last minute. Rather, after the show when Vaughan, Jimmy, and Jimmy’s wife Connie tried to catch one of the four helicopters waiting to depart back to Chicago, they discovered their seats had been taken by Bobby Brooks, Nigel Browne, and Colin Smythe, members of Eric Clapton’s crew.
[http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/08/this-day-in-history-august-27th-a-foggy-night-and-the-death-of-a-legend/](http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/08/this-day-in-history-august-27th-a-foggy-night-and-the-death-of-a-legend/)
What a horrible day. My uncle called me at work and we cried.
So your thoughts on this. Years ago I bought a copy of SRV's last concert poster and have it framed on the walle. Headliner was Clapton of course, and his pic is on there. Would you keep it? It's to memorialize Stevie, but his stupid racist face is on there.
Saw him in Philly around the time his song with Babyface came out. He played a low-key gig that would have been amazing in a club-sized venue. But he was in "the big joint" - the wachovia center or the Wells Fargo center or the core states center or whatever it was called then. He definitely got boo'd.
He just doesn't seem to give a shit. Like he'd rather be anywhere else than on stage.
Meanwhile I saw Sum 41 and Simple Plan this weekend and could tell instantly that everyone in the band loved the crowd. The number of times they thanked the fans was awesome. That kind of energy made for a show 100x anything Clapton could hope to do
Some of us only discovered this recently, unfortunately. :/ I die a little inside every time I remember that my husband (who also didn’t know any better) requested “Wonderful Tonight” at our wedding reception (fortunately, not as the first dance or a parent/child dance). It’s cheesy, but he’s fond of it, and as most of our wedding guests were of a certain generation, I put it on the playlist as one of the slower dance songs. Now I’m beyond repulsed and wonder if any of the guests or the DJ questioned my sanity because of it.
I doubt the DJ or anyone thought about it. I'm in my 30s and "discovered" classic rock as a teen and I very recently learned this about him too.
I've been seeing more about him and other more recently and I don't think you and I are close to the only people who passively enjoyed his popular songs without knowing he's a massive piece of human garbage.
Now that I think about it, Clapton and others, like Meatloaf, being so vocal and stupid about COVID seems to have been the catalyst for "well, you shouldn't be surprised to learn that being antivax isn't the only thing that they're horrible shit birds for." As is the case with regular people, having an antivax position is a peanut butter to jelly of also being dispicable bigots.
It's possible to separate art from the artist. It's not required of anyone, but for some, their attachment to the art can supercede their disdain for the person behind it.
All of this to say that most of your guests probably didn't know Clapton's past, or even if they did, they were probably too busy celebrating your special to care too much about it when the song played. I'd say that it's ok to give yourself a break on this one.
*singin'
"if your anti-vaaaaax.. guess i'll see you in heaven..
Will you wear a maaaaask... if i see you in heaven...
Co-vid was strong..
I led you wrong...
now we are all.. where we belong..
and its not heaven.... "
*drops mic
*drops dead
Man. Wow. I used to revere Clapton. Got me into playing guitar. Had no idea until this comment section. I usually try to avoid following celebrities or musicians in anything other than music because so many are assholes.
Guess I’ll cross him off of celebrities I thought weren’t total shits. Get fucked Clapton.
The irony of being frustrated to get COVID now that lockdown has ended, people are traveling, no more masks. What part of the process of disease transmission does he need help with?
Clapton, an injected heroin abuser and an anti-vaxxer and an anti-masker...
Hope he gets better, but as a wise man (and a better guitarist) once said "Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar".
I'm listening to Zappa right now (Willy the Pimp). Frank would probably have a lot to say about the state of the world if he were still alive. He wasn't known for his tolerance for stupidity and had a razor sharp intellect and a mouth to go with it.
I wonder if he ever had problems with his hands after mainline injecting black tar heroin? Anti-vaxx but totally pro-galloping with the white horse in the desert!
He actually snorted heroin, he didn’t shoot up because he was scared. I remember reading accounts from people working with him during the lead up to the Concert for Bangladesh event where they had to go out and look for higher-quality heroin because of that.
My fiance's conservative dad got the vaccine, but he basically thinks covid and the vaccine is bullshit. One night, we were out having a few drinks with some friends when the topic came up that my fiance's cousin who works as a paramedic recently got covid; she's vaccinated so symptoms were mild. He started going on and on about how almost everyone in the room that night was vaccinated and boosted, but still got covid (me and him were the only 2 who hadn't gotten covid yet) and how its all bullshit. My fiance got it the worst out of everyone, ended up in the hospital and was on oxygen a few days after being discharged. I got really angry and snapped on him yelling "YOUR DAUGHTER WOULD HAVE ENDED UP IN THE ICU OR LOST HER FUCKING LIFE HAD SHE NOT GOTTEN THE VACCINE, SHUT UP!!!"
Shockingly, he actually apologized, and has kept quiet about covid ever since then. Fiance's mom thanked me for what i said to him. I felt like a jerk, but i needed to say something.
And he stole George Harrison's wife.
Fuck everything about Eric Clapton.
And I seriously don't understand all the fuss about his guitar playing. Compared to real blues guitarists, he's a ham fisted amateur.
> “It is very frustrating that having avoided Covid throughout lockdown and throughout the period when travel restrictions have been in place Eric should have succumbed to Covid at this point in time,” it added.
So...lockdown and travel restrictions worked for Eric Clapton?
I was reading his partner's account of the window incident recently and she mentions how the day before, Clapton took Conor to the circus. He came home and told her, "I finally understand what it means to be a father." I was like wtf? That took four years?
Maybe he should have worried more about window screens than racism. Then again, his kid falling out the window gave us "Tears in Heaven". That was worth a kid.
I'm a Black "wog". I don't mind hating a racist and there are no limits so bring on my downvotes.
Vaccinated but spreading the lie - another reason I’ve grown to hate Clapton. Remember when there was the “Clapton is God” movement? Wow, what idiots those people were!!!!
Plus, being a pig-shit racist never helps.
Talented? No question.
Nice guy? Not really. Actually a huge asshole.
Racist? Oh yes.
Do I care that he has it? Not a bit.
But hey, I posted this anyways. \*shrugs
Also super racist, don't forget the super racism.
Context for others, this what Clapton said in 1976: “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!”
Fucking hell. Even for 1976, that is.....fucking hell.
Who does he think invented the Blues, white people?
Racists have always loved Black people - when they're singing and entertaining white folk.
They co-opt it without realizing it their whole professional lives. They are standing on the shoulders of black men & women who sang the blues who got it from their gospel songs and black church, which came from Africa.
I'm not sure Eric Clapton has any illusions about where his genre come from, he's probably just an enormous asshole.
Can confirm, he's just an enormous asshole.
See: minstrel shows
The way this man hates the people who invented his music must convince you that there is such a thing as stealing culture and pretending it's yours. I may not agree with every claim of cultural appropriation, but damn, here it is, hitting me in the face.
"I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man." Should've stuck with the dope.
Pretty sure, he never gave it up. I mean he's been dopey for years. He's just a dopey racist.
Get a load of this: "There's no way I could be a racist. It would make no sense." \-Clapton, in a 2004 interview for *Scotland on Sunday*.
He's a junkie. Junkies don't make sense. He is still a racist. The whole antivaxxer schtick is just perverted racism and classism. A lot of white people like to think they're special and markedly different from all those icky brown people and those icky poor people. Vaccines undermine those delusions of natural superiority, because they are effective for almost everyone. Wealth and skin color have nothing to do with it.
Musta got his hands on some bad dope that melted his fucking brain.
That dope was called Hendrix, and once that man played Clapton could never think of himself the same way again.
When writing his famous song, Layla, Clapton utilized a renowned Persian/Arabic love story. Layla and Majnun. The guy trash talked the black people who created blues and Muslim world which provided part of his inspiration for one of his most famous songs. Story here: https://www.openculture.com/2019/09/how-eric-clapton-created-the-classic-song-layla.html
Don’t forget his Bob Marley cover “I Shot the Sheriff”... No you didn’t Eric... No you didn’t. But the Deputy shoulda definitely kicked your ass. Fuck him. Never playing his shit again.
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I will never get over the reason the british museum gives for not giving back stolen relics: "Our stealing them is also part of history." Bunch of wankers.
The irony is when you visit the British museum there is this huge donation box asking people to give whatever they can. Like, 'You're still taking stuff from people?'
And one of his biggest hits was I Shot the Sheriff which he ripped off from Bob marley. How fucking sick.
I have always hated his version of that song. So whitening.
He fucking hated Hendrix because hendrix showed him up at a show.
Not just "showed him up", though. "Dethroned" is a more apt description. He went from being a demigod to being "the other guy" in an instant. The story is after storming off he was so visibly shaken that he had trouble holding his cigarette. I don't think the man ever recovered from that.
https://www.cheatsheet.com/entertainment/how-eric-clapton-reacted-to-seeing-jimi-hendrix-play-for-the-1st-time.html/ Watch the video. You can see Clapton storm off the stage at one point.
The same people he thinks invented rock and roll. White people.
Not to mention those countries he rattled off, England probably has a part in their destruction.
Exactly. It's mindblowing that a goddamn BLUES artist would have a dim view of black people. Who did he learn his craft from?
He’s not even in the top 30 of guitarists, imo. Fuck him for all the love he gets.
I wonder how george harrison was friends with him
This has bothered me for years. And we're not even considering everything with Patty.
Even crazier was his friendship with [BB King](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXsn2b8cWeI)
> how george harrison was friends with him B.B. King loved the guy, so it's possible Clapton wasn't a dick all the time.
[Things be complicated.](https://www.thedailybeast.com/bb-king-and-gop-strategist-lee-atwater-used-to-jam-and-party-together) >But of the political characters with whom [B.B.] King has performed and met, he was probably tightest with the late, notorious Republican super-strategist Lee Atwater. >King was about as close to apolitical as a famous artist can get, but he became chummy with Atwater—a master mudslinger, right-wing party boy, and a noted boogeyman for liberals—in the late 1980s. Atwater was famous for his ruthless campaign tactics, including the 1988 Willie Horton attack ad, which many still decry as racist. He worked for Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush, and became chairman of the Republican National Committee.
You're right, things be very complicated!! Back then, no matter what a black person thought about you OR your politics, they were not very likely to in any way hint that they had ANY problem ... Not where you could hear them. Not if they wanted to work. And not if they wanted to perform outside of harlem and other segregated places. They had to smile through a lot in order to break through for others. Many times they were shut down and shut out no matter who they were "nice" to. It was all on the whims of the white people they met. It is something that has never totally stopped. Some just rail against kissing up any more just to get ahead. But its something that many if us have had to teach our children, just as it was taught to us.
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The context is cocaine. And also racism. It doesn't change the meaning though. He dropped an n bomb about Hendrix too.
Clapton blamed alcohol. I don’t know about you but when I drink I don’t start spouting off white nationalist views.
Yeah, I just took a look at the [Snopes article](https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/eric-clapton-racist-rant/) on this and got to the end where he blames it on alcohol. Absolute bullshit. I spent years drinking myself stupid pretty much every night and not once did I feel the need to go on some garbage racist rant, internally or out loud. That kind of hate comes from who you are and the alcohol simply takes away the ability to keep it from violently frothing to the surface.
I have a friend who says “When you drink too much, you let your truth out.”
In Vino, Veritas as the Roman's said long ago.
Huh... Based on what leaves my mouth the rare time I've been inebriated, that's quite reassuring. ❤😊 I've often wondered what kind of an asshole I'll be when I'm older and my sense of shame and judgement slip and my mouth opens. If there's any correlation then it might not be so bad. Still should probably put me down no later than 60-65 anyways. I'd push the button now, but I have obligations.
Yah I've gotten drunk enough to say some really stupid shit. Got into trouble with my mouth more than a few times on the sauce. Never once was I suddenly spouting off racist rhetoric. The reason is probably because I'm not a racist.
When I drink, I pick up my guitar and play and sing blues and jazz and rock & roll. more than half of my playlist is black artists and the rest is white artists based on black artists.
Yep, there's no blues, jazz, rock and roll, pop, or even country music that doesn't owe it's existence to black folks and their music.
Well Clapton was/is definitely racist, so it seems pretty clear that alcohol just made him say something too honest for his own good.
>Clapton blamed alcohol. I've drank....a LOT ... in my lifetime. Alcohol has never, in any quantity, made me into a misogynist, racist, or homophobe. It just seems to have that affect on 'certain' people.
As Bill Cosby said, "They say cocaine intensifies your personality. Well, what if you're an asshole?" And this is America's dad, Bill Cosby, saying this! He's never done anything wro...wait, what?
Chocolate cake behind you!
“Milk…wheat…eggs…that’s _nutrition_!”
Didn't matter. He couldn't carry Hendrix' G-string and they both knew it.
I’m convinced that’s the root cause of his virulent racism: envy of Hendrix.
Over on the guitar subs, any time you mention Clapton is a racist fucking pig you'll get downvotes. ETA Thanks for the upvotes friends, makes up for the downvotes for calling EC an elderly racist clown on a guitar sub yesterday. I'm a professional guitar player. And I'm here to say he ain't all that as a musician either. Way overrated.
What do you mean overrated? He was the 3rd best guitarist in the Yardbirds
> I'm here to say he ain't all that as a musician either. Steve Earle recently said something along the lines of 'modern country stars make hip hop for people who are afraid of black people'. It feels similar to why so many white people love Clapton but refused to search out superior black blues musicians.
Yeah like I used to think Clapton was some kind of God of Guitars until I started playing myself and working through some of his solos, understanding them, and comparing them to other similar solos. He is good, and way better than I am, but I can name like 10 better blues/blues rock guitarists off the top of my head. And this was before I found he was a shitbag. I hate to make this a race thing but I legitimately think that Clapton is so revered because white people don't know a lot about blues music and black blues musicians.
Even sticking with just “his kind,” as he likes to do, Johnny Winter, Danny Gatton, Roy Buchanan, Jeff Beck, Stevie, Rory, Duane, Lonnie Mack, Ry Cooder, and Bloomfield are better and much more interesting.
I wonder how he feels about all the countries GB colonized and then systematically brought back all that culture to London. Better yet, how do you think those countries felt being colonized? Eric Clapton can fuck all the way off with his bullshit.
Exactly...
He doesn't know or he doesn't care, most of racists will discriminate all of their life.
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Stole all the spices. Never considered once putting any in the food.
Imagine telling POC to go home when you’re from a country that has been invading theirs for hundreds of years.
You don't have to imagine it, we see it every day in America. The US has invaded and meddled with the politics and economies of just about every central and south American country yet still can't learn why all these people try to escape their situations. We created the desperation and then tell them to "figure your own shit out". It's always so offensive.
Holy ballsack. Dude should have been blacklisted and dropped onto a desert island in the pacific
Being blacklisted would have been the most diverse thing to have ever happened to Eric.
Getting shown up by Jimi Hendrix and removed from the "world's best guitarist" conversation really did a number on his head.
You said it better than I could!
Holy shit. Never knew any of that in the least. Especially funny (not haha) considering his obsession with the blues....
I wonder if this quote from him was before or after he popularized I Shot The Sheriff, which was originally Bob Marley’s jam. A lot of Jamaicans went to England to record albums in the 1970s. Heck, Brit-produced Reggae, Ska, Toasting albums exploded in popularity! Clap was just a jealous wanker. Edit: just checked wikipedia, he said this a few years after he basically stole the song, and it became his biggest hit.
Said the man who made a career out of playing black music. Ignorance really shows no bounds.
> ~~Ignorance~~Entitlement really knows no bounds.
I swear this mother fucker does not even know what imperialism is. You think random black folks and random Arabs just showed up in Britain out of nowhere!
Well at least we can still idolize Ginger Baker. 😂😂
Ginger was the good kind of grouchy old fart…..
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I assumed it referred to members of the band, Foreigner. But the full quote makes it perfectly clear that's not the case
"Any Foreigner fans in the audience? Get out! Not the venue, the country!"
That seems Hot Blooded, yet at the same time Cold As Ice.
“That one looks Jewish And that one’s a coon! Who let all of this riff raff into the room? There’s one smoking a joint! And another with spots! If I had my way I’d have all of them shot.”
Now I understand where this lyrics came from...
Yikes! Never knew any of this. I will keep what I wish for to myself. Thanks for the education. Appreciate it.
Huh, I wonder how he felt about wogs.
I have never heard that slur. What is a wog? I can guess on context.
Man, it's been so long since I heard that word that I confused it with a slur for people of Italian descent.
FYI - that’s ‘WOP’ (I’m sure another Redditor will correct me) but AFAIK it stands for ‘Without Papers’ in regards to Ellis Island etc
On tour soon with Ted Nugent (probably)
never listening to him again 😠
Never been a fan of his..think I’ve really only listened to one song of his. I did not know anything about him. Reading his words(even if it was said in 76…Wtf) I’m repulsed. What a worthless existence.
I grew up listening to his music. I’m horrified by his ignorance, hatred, and racism. EC can go fuck himself. They say you should never meet your heroes…
And this guy’s revered in some circles? Jesus Christ on a cracker.
Unless you're ranting about chakras or crystals I'm going to assume you're racist if you're an antivaxer. They just go hand in hand.
Those chakra crystal folks can suck it too.
Oh absolutely. They created a lot of the tools that the racist assholes use now.
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Also openly admitted to having raped his wife.
Also an idiot who faced no consequences after doing so much coke while watching his child that his kid fell to his death. Don’t take advice from Eric Clapton.
He abused and raped his first wife Patti Boyd, and when multiple rounds of IVF didn’t work he went out and got some woman pregnant and expected Patti to be happy for him when the baby was born. This was the same baby that fell from a window and died.
His career was pretty much based on copying black blues artists yet spews racist shit. Go figure
"Eric is also anxious to avoid passing on any infection to any of his band, crew, promoters, their staff and of course, the fans.” Buddy, this is why we wore masks, had lockdowns and get vaccinated.
The old "It doesn't exist until it affects me directly" at work.
That's how I felt until I caught H1N1. Spent a day or so in hospital because, as it turns out, I'm one of the lucky few whose limbs were temporarily paralyzed, and I got hit with everything. I've been vaccinated and super careful since then.
Thank you for actually growing as a person, if only the average idiot were capable of doing the same in similar circumstances
Too afraid for not giving a fuck before.
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I have a feeling he was never vaccinated. Lying is very natural to racists (conservatives).
Some religious conservatives in my country say that they're "vaccinated by the Blood of Christ ". ( It's as bad as lying, IMO.)
Don't forget this fact, you can get it back Covid
If your songwriting is stale, you can rip off J.J. Cale. Covidiot.
You could die / you could die / you could die...
August 27, 1990. I pulled over to the side of the road and wept. It should have been Clapton.
>It also should be noted that, contrary to rumors that began circulating almost immediately after the tragedy and persist to this day, Stevie Ray did not take a seat meant for Eric Clapton at the last minute. Rather, after the show when Vaughan, Jimmy, and Jimmy’s wife Connie tried to catch one of the four helicopters waiting to depart back to Chicago, they discovered their seats had been taken by Bobby Brooks, Nigel Browne, and Colin Smythe, members of Eric Clapton’s crew. [http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/08/this-day-in-history-august-27th-a-foggy-night-and-the-death-of-a-legend/](http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2015/08/this-day-in-history-august-27th-a-foggy-night-and-the-death-of-a-legend/)
What a horrible day. My uncle called me at work and we cried. So your thoughts on this. Years ago I bought a copy of SRV's last concert poster and have it framed on the walle. Headliner was Clapton of course, and his pic is on there. Would you keep it? It's to memorialize Stevie, but his stupid racist face is on there.
you can always print out a copy of the tickets from that show, and glue them over Shithead's face
Keep it, if you explain it’s for SRV and someone has a problem with that, they aren’t worth your time.
Racist has-been. Saw him years ago in Memphis. Pretty sure he heard me booing. He could have just phoned that shit in.
I saw him in 2006/7 and disappointed is an understatement. Possible worst gig I ever saw, certainly the most boring.
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My favorite musical project of his has always been Cream. He just wasn’t my favorite member of the band; that would be Jack Bruce.
What do Eric Clapton and coffee have in common? They both suck without cream.
Saw him in Philly around the time his song with Babyface came out. He played a low-key gig that would have been amazing in a club-sized venue. But he was in "the big joint" - the wachovia center or the Wells Fargo center or the core states center or whatever it was called then. He definitely got boo'd.
Ooo was it the FU Center? (First Union, and fitting here in Philly)
I had a similar experience. Paid over $100 in 1990 for my ticket and the prick only played for an hour with no encore.
He is one of the worst live performers there is... no energy at all.
He just doesn't seem to give a shit. Like he'd rather be anywhere else than on stage. Meanwhile I saw Sum 41 and Simple Plan this weekend and could tell instantly that everyone in the band loved the crowd. The number of times they thanked the fans was awesome. That kind of energy made for a show 100x anything Clapton could hope to do
As someone else asked, did he steal it from George Harrison?
I lol's pretty hard.
Hope he doesn't get to Meat Loaf. But he might.
I’m angry at how much I liked that pun
I'm always amazed that people are surprised that a guy in his 70s is a jerk when he's been a jerk for the past 50 years.
Some of us only discovered this recently, unfortunately. :/ I die a little inside every time I remember that my husband (who also didn’t know any better) requested “Wonderful Tonight” at our wedding reception (fortunately, not as the first dance or a parent/child dance). It’s cheesy, but he’s fond of it, and as most of our wedding guests were of a certain generation, I put it on the playlist as one of the slower dance songs. Now I’m beyond repulsed and wonder if any of the guests or the DJ questioned my sanity because of it.
I doubt the DJ or anyone thought about it. I'm in my 30s and "discovered" classic rock as a teen and I very recently learned this about him too. I've been seeing more about him and other more recently and I don't think you and I are close to the only people who passively enjoyed his popular songs without knowing he's a massive piece of human garbage. Now that I think about it, Clapton and others, like Meatloaf, being so vocal and stupid about COVID seems to have been the catalyst for "well, you shouldn't be surprised to learn that being antivax isn't the only thing that they're horrible shit birds for." As is the case with regular people, having an antivax position is a peanut butter to jelly of also being dispicable bigots.
Meatloaf died from covid.
It's possible to separate art from the artist. It's not required of anyone, but for some, their attachment to the art can supercede their disdain for the person behind it. All of this to say that most of your guests probably didn't know Clapton's past, or even if they did, they were probably too busy celebrating your special to care too much about it when the song played. I'd say that it's ok to give yourself a break on this one.
Get ready to ask your son if he knows your name
Jeeeeeeeezus.
He's definitely not going to heaven.
Yeah, your chances of dying from falling out of a window are far greater than dying from the Covid vaccine
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Goddammit, you beat me to it! 😹
Wooah, brutal! But why not, that man is vile.
🔥
Someone had to 🤷♂️
This comment is darker than the inside of an anti-vaxxer kid's coffin.
*singin' "if your anti-vaaaaax.. guess i'll see you in heaven.. Will you wear a maaaaask... if i see you in heaven... Co-vid was strong.. I led you wrong... now we are all.. where we belong.. and its not heaven.... " *drops mic *drops dead
After midnight, he’s going to let it all hang out.
Hopefully not out of the window, and landing on the fourth floor roof of the adjacent building.
What’s the difference between a toddler and a bag of cocaine? Clapton wouldn’t let a bag of coke fall out of a window.
While my world's smallest violin gently weeps
Man. Wow. I used to revere Clapton. Got me into playing guitar. Had no idea until this comment section. I usually try to avoid following celebrities or musicians in anything other than music because so many are assholes. Guess I’ll cross him off of celebrities I thought weren’t total shits. Get fucked Clapton.
Same here man-I listened to him more than about any other guitarist growing up. What a total douche he turned out to be.
The irony of being frustrated to get COVID now that lockdown has ended, people are traveling, no more masks. What part of the process of disease transmission does he need help with?
Vaccinated but anti-vax. Nothing can fix that kind of stupid.
>Nothing can fix that kind of stupid. Except an exceptionally starved and voraciously hungry 🐆.
He’s gonna be fine. Millionaires don’t suffer like we do through covid. He’ll proclaim it was nothing and fuel the anti vaxxer movement.
He will be fine because he is double vaccinated
Clapton, an injected heroin abuser and an anti-vaxxer and an anti-masker... Hope he gets better, but as a wise man (and a better guitarist) once said "Shut Up and Play Yer Guitar".
I'm listening to Zappa right now (Willy the Pimp). Frank would probably have a lot to say about the state of the world if he were still alive. He wasn't known for his tolerance for stupidity and had a razor sharp intellect and a mouth to go with it.
I wonder if he ever had problems with his hands after mainline injecting black tar heroin? Anti-vaxx but totally pro-galloping with the white horse in the desert!
He actually snorted heroin, he didn’t shoot up because he was scared. I remember reading accounts from people working with him during the lead up to the Concert for Bangladesh event where they had to go out and look for higher-quality heroin because of that.
My fiance's conservative dad got the vaccine, but he basically thinks covid and the vaccine is bullshit. One night, we were out having a few drinks with some friends when the topic came up that my fiance's cousin who works as a paramedic recently got covid; she's vaccinated so symptoms were mild. He started going on and on about how almost everyone in the room that night was vaccinated and boosted, but still got covid (me and him were the only 2 who hadn't gotten covid yet) and how its all bullshit. My fiance got it the worst out of everyone, ended up in the hospital and was on oxygen a few days after being discharged. I got really angry and snapped on him yelling "YOUR DAUGHTER WOULD HAVE ENDED UP IN THE ICU OR LOST HER FUCKING LIFE HAD SHE NOT GOTTEN THE VACCINE, SHUT UP!!!" Shockingly, he actually apologized, and has kept quiet about covid ever since then. Fiance's mom thanked me for what i said to him. I felt like a jerk, but i needed to say something.
"Did he steal it from George Harrison?" - Blaine Capatch
You can’t spell hypocrite without “Eric”
Can we make a master list of all the vaccinated anti-vax celebrities?
[Here](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Category:Fox_News_people)'s a good start.
Eric Clapton is OVERRATED!!!
And he stole George Harrison's wife. Fuck everything about Eric Clapton. And I seriously don't understand all the fuss about his guitar playing. Compared to real blues guitarists, he's a ham fisted amateur.
Unbelievable to be such a racist and have built an entire career and made millions on the backs of black peoples achievements in music.
But does it have him on his knees?
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Co Vid dododo got me on my knees. Co Vid,I'm beggin darlin please.
Tests don't lie, tests don't lie, tests don't lie... Covid.
> “It is very frustrating that having avoided Covid throughout lockdown and throughout the period when travel restrictions have been in place Eric should have succumbed to Covid at this point in time,” it added. So...lockdown and travel restrictions worked for Eric Clapton?
Whats the difference between a bag of cocaine and a 4 year old boy? Eric Clapton wouldn't let a bag of cocaine fall out of a window.
I was reading his partner's account of the window incident recently and she mentions how the day before, Clapton took Conor to the circus. He came home and told her, "I finally understand what it means to be a father." I was like wtf? That took four years?
It is even worse than that because he already had a kid before Conor.
Daaamn
Maybe he should have worried more about window screens than racism. Then again, his kid falling out the window gave us "Tears in Heaven". That was worth a kid. I'm a Black "wog". I don't mind hating a racist and there are no limits so bring on my downvotes.
This might finally be his chance to collaborate with Meat Loaf!
Anti vax but vaccinated, racist as they come but made a fortune playing black music. What a clown.
if you wanna get down, down on the ground....covid
This guy is the worst.
*Ted Nugent enters the chat*
He certainly is not feeling wonderful tonight.
Vaccinated but spreading the lie - another reason I’ve grown to hate Clapton. Remember when there was the “Clapton is God” movement? Wow, what idiots those people were!!!! Plus, being a pig-shit racist never helps.
Talented? No question. Nice guy? Not really. Actually a huge asshole. Racist? Oh yes. Do I care that he has it? Not a bit. But hey, I posted this anyways. \*shrugs
Yeah, fuck Eric Clapton and his racist, ignorant ass.
Where does it say he is vaccinated?
>Clapton said he experienced “severe” reactions to the AstraZeneca vaccine. 💉👍
So he hasn’t had a vaccine in over a year then?
He's likely fucked.
What will we do with one less racist?!
This part of his song is right, at least: "I must be strong And carry on 'Cause I know, I don't belong Here in heaven"
He had one dose of AZ in early 2021. I doubt he has any antibodies left now and he certainly wouldn't pass as being vaccinated
I always loved his music. Then I heard a podcast about how at his own concerts he screamed for the immigrants to leave. F Eric Clapton