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WHEN ERIC CLAPTON’S BIGOTED 1976 RANT SPARKED ROCK AGAINST RACISM
UltimateClassicRock ^ | August 5, 2021 | Allison Rapp

Posted on 08/05/2021 5:21:07 PM PDT by nickcarraway

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To: nickcarraway

Wow. Didn’t know my respect for Clapton could go any higher. Wonder what’s beyond the stratosphere?


21 posted on 08/05/2021 6:04:38 PM PDT by softengine
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To: nickcarraway

Eric was onto something there. The uk is a third world pit in most urban areas.

Wow i am re-evaluting him more and more. I am just sad he took the covid vax, its gonna take him out prematurely. He had an incredibly bad reaction to it. Long term it will kill him within 3 years.


22 posted on 08/05/2021 6:08:50 PM PDT by Secret Agent Man (Gone Galt; Not Averse to Going Bronson.)
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To: nickcarraway

Clapton has spent a lifetime paying tribute to Black musicians.


23 posted on 08/05/2021 6:09:22 PM PDT by Huskrrrr (Alinsky, you magnificent Bastard, I read your book!)
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To: nickcarraway
Let us suppose, for the sake of argument, the article's author were 100% in condemning Clampton as a despicable bigot.

So now, it seems when it comes to the unvaccinated, the article's author is demonstrably more bigoted than a despicable bigot.

24 posted on 08/05/2021 6:09:42 PM PDT by AndyTheBear
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To: softengine
Wow. Didn’t know my respect for Clapton could go any higher. Wonder what’s beyond the stratosphere?

Lol, have to agree.

25 posted on 08/05/2021 6:21:15 PM PDT by broken_clock (Go Trump! Still praying.)
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To: broken_clock

Clappner should run for office.


26 posted on 08/05/2021 6:26:56 PM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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To: BenLurkin

// Wouldn’t be because Clapton is opposing Covid Big Brother, could it?

Yup. You can’t go against the experimental drugs the governments of the world are pushing. They will CANCEL you.


27 posted on 08/05/2021 6:33:04 PM PDT by zeugma (Stop deluding yourself that America is still a free country.)
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To: nickcarraway
At the link below there's a photo of the bitch who tries here to cancel the great Eric Clapton.

I'd hotlink it but I don't want to see her repulsive face in my old posts.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/author/allisonrapp/

28 posted on 08/05/2021 6:38:35 PM PDT by TChad (The MSM, having nuked its own credibility, is now bombing the rubble.)
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To: BenLurkin
This is being dredged up 45 years later?

A few of my wife's cousins haven't forgiven me for an intemperate remark I made at the interfamily softball game over 30 years ago.

One of my BIL's pointed out the other team had more men than women. I casually remarked, "it's ok, they've got "Junior" playing for them", a reference to his less than stellar athleticism.

29 posted on 08/05/2021 6:44:26 PM PDT by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: broken_clock

Stratocaster ...


30 posted on 08/05/2021 6:54:38 PM PDT by Chode (there is no fall back position, there's no rally point, there is no LZ... we're on our own. P144:1)
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To: KevinB

That’s a very good record.


31 posted on 08/05/2021 7:17:40 PM PDT by Mariner (War criminal #18)
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To: broken_clock

No tears in Heaven.


32 posted on 08/05/2021 7:24:32 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: M. Thatcher

Plus Rush Limbow


33 posted on 08/05/2021 7:26:53 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? Homer Simpson)
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To: nickcarraway

I never liked Eric Clapton.
I was all wrong.
Sorry.


34 posted on 08/05/2021 8:33:00 PM PDT by Born to Conserve
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To: nickcarraway

To think Powell was talking mostly about the imminent arrival of 50,000 of mostly Indian descent thrown out of Uganda and Kenya. What would he think of today’s situation ?


35 posted on 08/05/2021 8:52:01 PM PDT by 1066AD
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What would he think of 1066 and all those illegals?


36 posted on 08/05/2021 9:02:52 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

He’s 100% right about Enoch Powell.


37 posted on 08/05/2021 9:04:45 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: monkeyshine

Well Roger couldn’t have been too upset with Eric, Eric played guitar on his “Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking” album.


38 posted on 08/05/2021 9:06:11 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: nickcarraway

Just discovered this the other day.

Eric, John Lennon, Keith Richards (on bass), and Mitch Mitchell “Yer Blues”, from The Rolling Stones “Rock and Roll Circus”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JeFwaWFTGYU


39 posted on 08/05/2021 9:08:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Sheesh it’s been at least 30 years since I listened to that album. It may have been a CD but in any case... I like EC a lot, always have. But David Gilmour is something else entirely. Maybe he was overshadowed by Waters’ ego but his guitar phrasing is like none other.


40 posted on 08/05/2021 9:10:33 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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