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I really can't see how any clapton fan in this country could not know about it- it's received so much publicity over such a long period, was the catalyst for RAR/ANL etc
 
anyway. this little video fuzzy phone video strangely captures their live act better than all the other ones i've seen. no poo or nudity either, so totally safe for work.
 
I really can't see how any clapton fan in this country could not know about it- it's received so much publicity over such a long period, was the catalyst for RAR/ANL etc

Agreed, but I meet so many. Maybe it's just denial. Maybe they want their bland hero to stay just bland and not racist and bland. I've had Clapton fans get really angry at me and demand immediate proof that this ever happened. Which I am always very happy to supply.
 
i will no longer click on their songs on spotify, if I ever get the urge to. I haven't ever had the urge to listen to them since spotify was invented but i guess i might do one day and I won't do.
 
I think it's safe to say there's zero point arguing any more over whether someone who drunkenly questions the literacy rate of 'niggers' is racist. You win.. It was a stupid drunken comment by someone who is clearly not a racist fuckwit.

I'm still curious tho editor about my alleged status as Eric Clapton's biggest fan. He's marginally better than most of the shit you put on at the Albert, but that's as far as I'll go.
 
I'm still curious tho editor about my alleged status as Eric Clapton's biggest fan. He's marginally better than most of the shit you put on at the Albert, but that's as far as I'll go.
Fuck me that's some weird denial you've got going on there. Here's your very own words, praising Clapton while refusing to make any mention of his well documented racism.
One of the great guitarists of his generation. Or any generation. A genuine bluesman, probably the best white guy to ply his trade in that genre.
And here you are dismissing claims that the legendary Peter Green was a better guitarist
We'll have to agree to disagree there. Peter Green was nowhere near technically as good as Clapton. As for the soulful part - I guess that its in the ear of the beholder.
And here you are defending poor old racist Clapton:
Do you think Robert Johnson for instance had 'soul'? If so, how was he any different from Clapton? They both lived chaotic lives - who's to say if Johnson had been born in our day and time he might not have ended up on Unplugged to revive a flagging career? Why the particular antipathy towards Clapton in other words?
Consider yourself well and truly pwned.
 
I cant figure out if i have come out of this thread looking like a righteous truth searcher or a right cunt. I guess it is somewhere in the middle. Anyway in the meantime lots of people had fun and the band got famous. OVER AND OUT!
 
dammit. they're quite good.
They were fucking brilliant. Wheels is one of my favourite albums of all time I think. But there's no reason why being a good musician and holding repellent ignorant views should be mutually exclusive afaics.

Regarding 'fans' being unaware of Clapton's behaviour, I don't think that's odd or unfathomable at all. I personally wouldn't class myself as a Clapton 'fan' so it's not so surprising it was news to me, but there are a few spots for his stuff in amongst my dad's eclectic music collection - but I severely doubt he has the foggiest about this stuff. Some people just listen to the music and have no interest in anything beyond that. He simply wouldn't spend the time reading about that kind of thing when he could be mending the car or insulating the loft or something...
 
I cant figure out if i have come out of this thread looking like a righteous truth searcher or a right cunt. I guess it is somewhere in the middle. Anyway in the meantime lots of people had fun and the band got famous. OVER AND OUT!

Ha ha....yeah do shut up now....you've done your job!
 
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Fuck me that's some weird denial you've got going on there. Here's your very own words, praising Clapton while refusing to make any mention of his well documented racism.

And here you are dismissing claims that the legendary Peter Green was a better guitarist

And here you are defending poor old racist Clapton:

Consider yourself well and truly pwned.

Get a life dude. That's seriously fucking pathetic. Jesus Christ.

You have supported a group of recently arrived to brixton group of hipsters protesting against recently arrived to brixton hipsters, and are too fucking thick to even see how fucking ironic that is.

Oh I suppose the fact they're mildly racist also doesn't matter. Only two bar staff of your two favorite fucking local pubs have accused them of being so.

What were the roots of urban75 again. Anti racism or some shit? Where's that gone then?
 
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