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Guitarist Robert Cray Drops from Eric Clapton Tour over Anti-Lockdown Song
breitbart.com ^ | 11/12/2021 | Simon Kent

Posted on 11/13/2021 11:18:13 AM PST by rktman

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To: rktman
" . . . after the latter released a song last year comparing lockdowns to slavery."

It seems obvious that the song is using "slavery" and "chains" in their common metaphorical sense, and not as a literal comparison to slavery.
21 posted on 11/13/2021 11:39:57 AM PST by Steve_Seattle
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To: sauropod

He appeared as a member of Otis Day & the Knights in Animal House.


22 posted on 11/13/2021 11:40:46 AM PST by Night Hides Not (Remember the Alamo! Remember Goliad! Remember Gonzales! Come and Take It!)
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To: SmokingJoe

Robert Cray is well known guitarist.

“Strong Persuader” is the tune I’m most familiar with.

He’s played with Clapton in the past.


23 posted on 11/13/2021 11:41:53 AM PST by Cboldt
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To: Lurker
I saw Robert Cray a few years ago. It was a decent performance, but the guy played for 50 minutes!! That was AFTER the encore. It was literally the biggest musical ripoff ever.

I've had opening bands play longer sets. I've attended longer Christmas Plays in elementary school, longer sets in a bar, and I didn't have to pay $50 for a ticket in those cases.

Maybe the REAL problem, is Robert didn't want to play as long as Clapton wanted him to play, and he now has air cover.

Regardless, Let's Go Robert!

24 posted on 11/13/2021 11:44:50 AM PST by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2 )
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To: Cboldt

But not no mo.


25 posted on 11/13/2021 11:45:12 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman
It'll be all fun and games for Bobby Cray until he gets the sixth, seventh or eighth boost.

He should check in with Hank Aaron and Colon Powell.  winking face

26 posted on 11/13/2021 11:50:00 AM PST by kiryandil (China Joe and Paycheck Hunter - the Chink in America's defenses)
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To: rktman

So nobody can use the world “slave”, anywhere in the world, unless you were born black in America, 90 years after it ended.

Idiot.

It would be nice if Cray worried as much about actual oppression and slavery as much as the word itself.


27 posted on 11/13/2021 11:51:04 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: rktman

A black snowflake. Interesting...


28 posted on 11/13/2021 11:53:40 AM PST by DesertRhino (Dogs are called man's best friend. Moslems hate dogs. Add it up....)
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To: rktman

Nothing like throwing a pity party for yourself and having the Washington Post back you up. The Washington Post knows who props up White Liberal Elite power...and who they can help cancel... Thugs.

Let’s go Bradon.


29 posted on 11/13/2021 11:53:59 AM PST by GOPJ (Black Lives Matter & ANTIFA - the true "domestic terrorists" of our time. Hello FBI - hello...)
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To: GOPJ

From the Swedish chef: “Ferk Jer Berden!”


30 posted on 11/13/2021 11:57:02 AM PST by rktman (Destroy America from within? Check! WTH? Enlisted USN 1967 to end up with this? 😕)
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To: rktman

“Smoking Syringe.”


31 posted on 11/13/2021 11:59:45 AM PST by rfp1234 (Comitia asinorum et rhinocerum delenda sunt.)
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To: Jeff Chandler
Too stupid to understand a metaphor?

Right. The term "cubicle slaves" in offices and "wage slaves" for most employees apparently will trigger civil rights indictments now. What about a term for Jews in Egypt forced to build monuments and pyramids under the Pharoahs? "Unpaid unwilling compulsory guest workers?"

32 posted on 11/13/2021 12:01:42 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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To: rktman

Robert Cray is one of the most notorious #$%#$%#hole musicians of all time.


33 posted on 11/13/2021 12:07:22 PM PST by Free Louie
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To: Night Hides Not

> He appeared as a member of Otis Day & the Knights in Animal House.

Bass player.


34 posted on 11/13/2021 12:07:34 PM PST by Slings and Arrows (My music: http://hopalongginsberg.com/ | http://mewe.com/i/hopalongginsberg)
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To: SmokingJoe
Eric Clapton I know. Great musician.

Robert Cray? Never heard of him.

But now you have. So this nobody, Cray, is going to get lots of woke worship and more gigs with the "right" kind of bands.

35 posted on 11/13/2021 12:09:55 PM PST by HandBasketHell
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36 posted on 11/13/2021 12:10:45 PM PST by Lazamataz (I feel like it is 1937 Germany, and my last name is Feinberg.)
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To: Eagles6

Yeah would have liked a Robert Cray stratocaster. Maybe I’ll just get the. Eric Clapton stratocaster.

Well, maybe someday


37 posted on 11/13/2021 12:12:33 PM PST by SaveFerris (The Lord, The Christ and The Messiah: Jesus Christ of Nazareth - http://www.BiblicalJesusChrist.Com/)
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To: rktman

Yuge fan of Eric Clapton since the thrilling Cream era where I saw the group many times, including traveling to NY to see the first appearances as my vacation.

No one here has mentioned the enormous controversy when Clapton spoke out in 1976 from the stage against unlimited immigration, and gave a nod to a right winger in England named Enoch Powell.

A little:
“England is for white people, man.”

“I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country,” Clapton declared. “Listen to me, man! .... I think Enoch’s right, I think we should send them all back. Stop Britain from becoming a black colony. Get the foreigners out. Get the wogs out. Get the #$@# out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I’m into racism. It’s much heavier, man. F#@#g wogs, man. F$%#@ Saudis taking over London.....”

From Tom Sykes article Eric Clapton Apologizes for Racist Past: ‘I Sabotaged Everything’
Jan. 12, 2018


38 posted on 11/13/2021 12:12:54 PM PST by frank ballenger (You have summoned up a thundercloud. You're gonna hear from me. Anthem by Leonard Cohen)
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Good Lord bands used to be anti social. Now they’re pro fascism.

My thoughts exactly. Rock n Roll used to be about being anti-establishment, questioning authority and individual liberty (if it feels god, do it). Now? Most, save a few like EC, have become what they used to rail about.

39 posted on 11/13/2021 12:13:26 PM PST by capydick (“Within the covers of the Bible are the answers for all the problems men face.)
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To: rktman

Clapton had a bad reaction to his clot shot. Totally understandable, his reaction. Check out this interview: https://youtu.be/vuP-bBlx374


40 posted on 11/13/2021 12:13:57 PM PST by Blue Turtle
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