Posted on 09/26/2022 10:39:17 AM PDT by Red Badger
Clapner was one of the best, Jocelyn. What instrument did he play?
I agree with John Kerry, though. RAP is easily the finest musical form of all time. Which are John’s favorites? “ALL of them!”
What does Fetterman have to say about the Steelers or has he lost any memory of them?
It’s hard to argue with that.
Debate will be interesting.
Yep, kinda what I was thinking.......just doing his best captain potatohead impression.
We’ll know he nailed it when he starts yelling at the clouds.
Yeah, I think he's got us there.
What about Eric Clapton?
“No way should he be a Senator”
And yet thousands will blindly vote for him
Will not play well with those who just hate the Eagles: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-JlmvtAHhnc
Ooh, ooh, they just scored a football.
Sadly for him the Senate doesn’t have proxy voting.
Who??? lol
Jocelyn Elders once said that “Eric Clapner is one of my favorites.” She was Surgeon General under the Broaddrick rapist-in-chief.
Sounds like a Kamala Harris speech. You know repeating the things she repeats as she repeats them repeatedly.
It must be contagious................
“Yeah? Well, you know, that’s just like uh, your opinion, man.”
Eric Clapton
What I most remember about him was his Number One solo hit from 1974, “I Shot the Sheriff,” a Bob Marley reggae song.
Here’s the broad brush description of his career from Wikipedia:
Eric Patrick Clapton CBE (born 30 March 1945) is an English rock and blues guitarist, singer, and songwriter. He is regarded as one of the most successful and influential guitarists in rock music. Clapton ranked second in Rolling Stone’s list of the “100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time” and fourth in Gibson’s “Top 50 Guitarists of All Time”. He was also named number five in Time magazine’s list of “The 10 Best Electric Guitar Players” in 2009.
After playing in a number of different local bands, Clapton joined the Yardbirds in 1963, replacing founding guitarist Top Topham. Dissatisfied with the change of the Yardbirds sound from blues rock to a more radio-friendly pop rock sound, Clapton left in 1965 to play with John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers. On leaving Mayall in 1966, after one album, he formed the power trio Cream with drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce, in which Clapton played sustained blues improvisations and “arty, blues-based psychedelic pop”. After Cream broke up in November 1968, he formed the blues rock band Blind Faith with Baker, Steve Winwood, and Ric Grech, recording one album and performing on one tour before they broke up. Clapton embarked on a solo career in 1970.
Alongside his solo career, he also performed with Delaney & Bonnie and Derek and the Dominos, with whom he recorded “Layla”, one of his signature songs. He continued to record a number of successful solo albums and songs over the next several decades, including a 1974 cover of Bob Marley’s “I Shot the Sheriff” (which helped reggae reach a mass market), the country-infused Slowhand album (1977) and the pop rock of 1986’s August.
Following the death of his son Conor in 1991, Clapton’s grief was expressed in the song “Tears in Heaven”, which appeared on his Unplugged album, and in 1996 he had another top-40 hit with the R&B crossover “Change the World”. In 1998, he released the Grammy award-winning “My Father’s Eyes”. Since 1999, he has recorded a number of traditional blues and blues rock albums and hosted the periodic Crossroads Guitar Festival. His most recent studio album is Happy Xmas (2018).
Clapton has received 18 Grammy Awards as well as the Brit Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music.
In 2004, he was awarded a CBE for services to music.He has received four Ivor Novello Awards from the British Academy of Songwriters, Composers and Authors, including the Lifetime Achievement Award. He is the only three-time inductee to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame: once as a solo artist and separately as a member of the Yardbirds and of Cream. In his solo career, Clapton has sold more than 280 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling musicians of all time.In 1998, Clapton, a recovering alcoholic and drug addict, founded the Crossroads Centre on Antigua, a medical facility for recovering substance abusers.
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