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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: dfwgator

And I don’t think Waters’ is any great fan of the Jews, for whatever that is worth.

I wonder if “The Jews” would be a good band name.


41 posted on 08/05/2021 9:12:10 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: dfwgator

The Dirty Mac


42 posted on 08/05/2021 9:12:32 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: monkeyshine

Gilmour begged Roger for PF to do Pros and Cons, instead of The Final Cut. But Roger was so upset at Thatcher for The Falklands that it won out.

And that was the end of Pink Floyd with Roger.


43 posted on 08/05/2021 9:13:41 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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The Dirty Mac

Always wondered if that was meant as a slam on Paul. Anyway, it's a shame they didn't do more together.

44 posted on 08/05/2021 9:14:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Have you seen the movie from Rock and Roll Circus? It’s entertaining. Great acts. I think the Rolling Stones were on acid or something.


45 posted on 08/05/2021 9:15:00 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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To: dfwgator

Mac = jacket in British.


46 posted on 08/05/2021 9:16:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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The dirty mac. Interesting. It could have been a slam on Paul. I’m sure you are acutely aware of the dueling solo albums Ram and “How do you sleep” etc. And of course the “rivalry” between The Stones and Beatles.

Of course the best dis track imo was “No Vasoline” by Ice Cube. I’m not a huge hip hop fan but Cube lays it bare against his former bandmates.


47 posted on 08/05/2021 9:20:28 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Yes, I know, but still, I can’t think it was a coincidence, since I think that was when Paul and John were on the outs.


48 posted on 08/05/2021 9:20:49 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Aha! Thanks for the vocab expansion! Still doesn’t rule out a double entendre though.


49 posted on 08/05/2021 9:21:30 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Of course, The Who blew them all away with “A Quick One While He’s Away”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJv2-_—EY4

This is why The Who at their peak was the greatest band ever.


50 posted on 08/05/2021 9:22:12 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Nowhere near as good as Sly & the Family Stone. Unfortunately, they weren’t working very long.


51 posted on 08/05/2021 9:24:57 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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I also learned from Rock and Roll Circus, that Tommy Iommi was briefly a member of Jethro Tull.


52 posted on 08/05/2021 9:24:58 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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Live at Leeds is one of my favorite all time.
He didn’t get credit for it but I always thought John Entwhistle wrote A Quick One While He’s Away.


53 posted on 08/05/2021 9:31:08 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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One Sly and the Family Stone story is that he broke up with his old lady, and paraded a whole host of paramours into the studio to record the female vocals of “It’s a Family Affair” so much so that they wore out the tape re-recording over the previous paramour. Every time I hear that song I listen for the flaws in the tape.


54 posted on 08/05/2021 9:34:59 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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I never made that connection. I have a good old friend who swears that Sweat Leaf is the greatest love song of all time. He’s only half jesting.


55 posted on 08/05/2021 9:39:48 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Tommy’s comments

“I learned quite a lot from [Anderson], I must say,” Iommi said. “I learned that you have got to work at it. You have to rehearse. When I came back and I got the [Earth] back together, I made sure everybody was up early in the morning and rehearsing. I used to go and pick them up. I was the only one at the time that could drive. I used to have to drive the bloody van and get them up at quarter to nine every morning; which was, believe me, early for us then. I said to them, ‘This is how we have got to do it because this is how Jethro Tull did it’.”


56 posted on 08/05/2021 9:43:33 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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He’s right. As the Coen brothers said in several of their films “it’s not all fun and games”. I only recently saw a Rush documentary on Netflix - Lord knows what took me so long to watch it. But one of their first major tours they opened for KISS and Gene Simmons said “we had all these women, booze drugs and these 3 guys just went to their rooms after the show and read books at night”.

KISS were not my flavor either, but they were no slouches when it came to work ethic either.


57 posted on 08/05/2021 9:49:50 PM PDT by monkeyshine (live and let live is dead)
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Mac = jacket in British

Yes, but Lennon was a master of the double entendre.

58 posted on 08/06/2021 6:57:19 AM PDT by KevinB (''... and to the Banana Republic for which it stands ...")
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Ask the english girls who were passed around like sex toys at a nympho convention by muslims if they think Powell was right


59 posted on 08/06/2021 11:59:18 AM PDT by willfulknowledge
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And where was he wrong?


60 posted on 08/08/2021 9:39:22 AM PDT by PhineasSpear (PhineasSpear)
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