Clapton's Shameful Slide

[bern1]

Memory lapses are one thing. Completely forgetting important chunks of a life is another. I’ve heard him refer to Journeyman as one of the best records he made. Around that time he was “dating” Carla Bruni, I seriously doubt he forgot about that.

 

[AtomEve]

Funny, I did not find one thing shameful in that article.

 

[garywright]

Memory lapses are one thing. Completely forgetting important chunks of a life is another. I’ve heard him refer to Journeyman as one of the best records he made. Around that time he was “dating” Carla Bruni, I seriously doubt he forgot about that.

 

[au_rick]

Don't all artists at some point refer to their last record as "the best record I've made yet" (excpet AC/DC who simply refer to it as "exactly the same as the last 13 records")

 

[bern1]

In my recollection, EC said that about Journeyman a long time after it was recorded, so I don’t think he was pressing that angle.
Of course, I could be wrong, which wouldn’t be the first time. Not that this issue is really of any importance whatsoever!

 

[garywright]

Don't all artists at some point refer to their last record as "the best record I've made yet" (excpet AC/DC who simply refer to it as "exactly the same as the last 13 records")

my response was related to the mention of Carla Bruni

 

[IMMUSICRULZ]

Eric Clapton also had a very good Afro in the Sixties. I used to have the City Of Angels soundtrack with Further On Up The Road on it.

This version from The Last Waltz is one of my favorites:

I should also probably buy an Eric Clapton signature model Gibson Explorer while I'm at it. Gibson made a few in the 2000s, and I've heard they're pretty good.

 

[Pat Boyack]

Eric Clapton also had a very good Afro in the Sixties.

Yeah, it was a perm.

 

[deytookerjaabs]

If IMM isn't a bot, I'm scared for the human race.

 

[ourmaninthenorth]

I reckon he's just a young 'un.

Weren't we all, once?

 

[deytookerjaabs]

I reckon he's just a young 'un.

Weren't we all, once?

You sounded like a random factoid generator when you were young? At best I was a random sarcasm generator.

 

[J.D.]

A random name generator

 

[ourmaninthenorth]

You sounded like a random factoid generator when you were young? At best I was a random sarcasm generator.

Life when I was 20, as I believe this young lad is, was very well described as random.

The only thing that's changed is I give a shit a whole lot less now than I did then, and then I didn't give a shit much either.

 

[Doc Sausage]

Life when I was 20, as I believe this young lad is, was very well described as random.

The only thing that's changed is I give a shit a whole lot less now than I did then, and then I didn't give a shit much either.

Glad to see EC is still sufficiently being raked over the coals!

I couldn’t agree more, Ourman, but the irony of this whole maligned tome is, in a time when trifling topics like this should mean little to nothing to anyone, butt’s are being laid bare the world over. An arse ache on a scale humankind has never seen.

We have become the swollen, suffering labia lips on the pussydom of mankind. Harden the fook up, y’all!

 

[goldtop0]

Social media spawns every conceivable nincompoop voice known to mankind, with twitter, tik tok and others, a veritable cesspool of idiocy and stupidity the likes of which has never been seen before.
I prefer to play R'n'R

 

[J.D.]

OMFG what a wonderfully horrible trainwreck we have here

 

[Amp360]

I like Eric Clapton's guitar playing and I would still go see him live. I don't own all his albums but I have The Cream ones and a bunch of others I've picked up over the years. I didn't click the link but everyone has done/said dumb things. These days everyone is out to demonize everyone else and even if someone did something dumb 60 years ago even apologizing isn't enough. I don't spend much time on forums because it seems like it's always politics/class warfare even when the rules say otherwise.

Personally I think the people writing and spreading whatever about whomever need to get a life. Chances are their pasts aren't perfect either.

 

[rialcnis]

I missed this thread till this morning.

I saw the word "slide" in the title and looked.

Lots of "politics" I shouldn't comment on but after 10 pages of politics. Dare I comment?

I have to admit Clapton's recent comments about lockdowns, greatly revised my opinion of him personally. I felt a new found warmth towards him.

And turns out...and is turning out he is right. The politicians are not doctors and alot of "doctors" are not doctors either.

After years of loving and hating Clapton, I can now return to loving him.

Reality.is, Clapton went through a long nightmare with bad drugs and has atoned for it.

Once in the 90's I had lunch with 2 of his Yardbirds band mates, who had much love for him, but relayed a story about walking down the street in London and they see Eric coming and he seemed in a daze and walked by, ignoring them and never even replying with a "Hi." They were just worried about him. He had some serious tragedy in his life.

Wasn't his "drunken rant" more of a case of English patriotism then "racism?"
politicians with one-world ideology who seek to destroy borders. encouraged lots of migration that changes a country at it's core.

What if an entirely "foreign" large group of people who hate you, move into your town? Is it "racist," to blame the politicians for doing (facilitating) it?

At any rate, I'd be more interested in Clapton's slide playing, then some other kind of slide.

 

[IMMUSICRULZ]

At any rate, I'd be more interested in Clapton's slide playing, then some other kind of slide.

Me too buddy

 

[rialcnis]

Clapton's Slide