Re: One More Reason To Hate Eric Clapton

As if the infamous 1976 Enoch Powell stage rant didn't make explicitly clear, Eric Clapton leave a lot to be desired. His Anti-vaccination stance is a different kind of troubling, but now he's crossed a line. I just saw that he sued a woman who sold her dead husband's CD collection and for a £8.45 bootleg she was selling on ebay, Clapton took her to court. He won the case, and now the woman has to pay his legal fees of £2,889! It must be great to be a multi-millionaire and have enough time on your hands to find…and sue, widows selling off their dead husband's CDs on ebay!

When my wife saw that in The Guardian, she said that someone should start a fund to pay the defendant's legal bills, and I came up with a great name for it:

Rock Against Clapton International Solidarity Movement!

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Every note he recorded post-Derek and the Dominoes, i.e. the last 50 years, has been reason enough for me to not give a shit about him. His last five decades of output have been the musical equivalent of the color taupe.

While Jimi Hendrix was alive, why were people spray painting "Clapton is God" around London?

> While Jimi Hendrix was alive, why were people spray
> painting "Clapton is God" around London?

At that time, Clapton was rising to fame with the Yardbirds, while Hendrix was still a backing musician for the Isley Brothers and Little Richard. Also, because the people who were spreading that accolade around London were nitwits.

I agree with Reno: pretty much all of Clapton's recorded output after his Derek & the Dominos trip is a dull slog, from valley to trough and then onward to the next rut. I couldn't grasp why people creamed themselves over his MTV Unplugged disc; all I heard was an artist smothering what little there had been to enjoy in his past catalog. And his autobiography was enough to shift me from dismissing him as an artist to disliking him as a person. (Pattie Boyd's autobiography solidified that feeling ... and didn't do anything for my opinion of Pattie either.)



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