Posted on 02/14/2019 2:04:22 PM PST by Rummyfan
Mrs. Miller.
Yes!
Single Handed Sailor is one of my favorite songs...
I attended Clapton’s 461 Ocean Boulevard concert at the Capital Center in the summer of ‘74. Eric shows up very late, plays for 25 minutes then leaves the stage. Announcer apologized, said Claton was I’ll. Never again.
“I’ve heard Eric Clapner....I think it was a thing that Eric Clapner the musician did...So I think that’s the wonderful part about it, but listen - I like Eric Clapner!”
Joycelyn Elders
USSurgeon General
Thank you, BJ
Here are my worst
Yoko Ono
David Hasselhoff
Justin Bieber
Insane Clown Posse
Clay Aiken
One Direction
Jonas. Brothers
Yanni
NSYNC
Ja Rule
Milli Vanilli
“Everyone” does not know it. I lived through the mania, and never caught the disease.
The Beatles were a very good band with consistently high quality. So were some others. I have three of their albums, and I listen to them very occasionally.
I prefer middle-period (1965-73) The Beach Boys, or Tori Amos, or Delerium, or Alan Parsons, or Depeche Mode, or U2, or Led Zeppelin, or Lynyrd Skynyrd, or The Who, or The Eagles, or Pink Floyd, or Larry Norman, or Daniel Amos, or Sixpence None the Richer, or The Sundays, or... (the list goes on).
They were not gods, and they were not sheer perfection.
Rocky Raccoon? If any other band had published that, it would have been, at best, a minor cult hit - or an unequivocal embarrassment.
They were easily the most overrated of all time: No one is that good. No one.
Lennon knew art and marketing, and they had enormous help from the media creating their image.
Just like Obama.
I am an audiophile and a musician. Do not presume to speak for me and for “everyone”.
Clapton had gotten over a heroin addiction when he recorded that album, but he switched to alcohol. He was also living with George Harrison’s wife at the time.
But when it comes to his singing voice, he's no Russ Columbo or Vaughn Monroe.
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