Eric Clapton Collabs With Van Morrison On Anti-Lockdown Song, Gets Called ‘White Supremacist’

National File ^ | November 27, 2020 | GABRIEL KEANE

[PallMal]

Yes, but it’s really stretching it when you see close to half the protesters aren’t white (or don’t seem to be white).

[SamAdams76]

The Beatles were the original white supremacists, don't you know. How can you get more white than those four guys? I heard they threw out Pete Best only because he had darker skin tones - guess he got to spend his summers away from rainy Liverpool. And they never let Billy Preston join the band, preferring instead to keep him at a distance and allow him to refer to himself as "The Fifth Beatle" and everytime he did so, they'd all laugh among themselves at the inside joke.

[dfwgator]

I think you had them confused with The Rutles

[simpson96]

“Where do they get the notion that the anti-lockdown movement is “white racism”?”

Even they don’t believe it - it’s a lie - they’ll simply say anything to bully and intimidate people. Unfortunately it usually works.

[minnesota_bound]

It sounds like the composer of “Baby Shark Dance” has more talent as a musician and lyricist then Eric Clapton and his band..... Maybe Eric Clapton should partner with the composer of “Baby Shark Dance” to produce more hits : )

[SE Mom]

Dear me I laughed so much my tummy hurts.

And yet, this is what high intellectuals substitute for actual thought now.

[Drew68]

“Kinda like “I Shot the Sheriff”...” Bob Marley wrote and made this song a classic. EC did a nice cover of it...

Nobody outside of Jamaica would ever have heard of Bob Marly had Clapton not covered his song.

Bob Marley died a very wealthy man thanks to Eric Clapton.

[Drew68]

WTH justifies calling him a racist? Oh, probably he said something nice about a right-wing politician, or maybe he said something uncomplimentary about a left-wing politician. Old white men are not permitted opinions.

In 1976 an alcoholic and totally sh*tfaced Eric Clapton took the stage in Birmingham, England and said some unkind words.

"Do we have any foreigners in the audience tonight? If so, please put up your hands … So where are you? Well wherever you all are, I think you should all just leave. Not just leave the hall, leave our country … I don’t want you here, in the room or in my country. Listen to me, man! 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 coons out. Keep Britain white … The black wogs and coons and Arabs and f*cking Jamaicans don’t belong here, we don’t want them here. This is England, this is a white country, we don’t want any black wogs and coons living here. We need to make clear to them they are not welcome. England is for white people, man … This is Great Britain, a white country, what is happening to us, for f*ck’s sake? … Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white!"

He's since apologized repeatedly and profusely for these comments, his battles with drugs and alcohol well-known. He's donated millions to recovery centers and supported the thriving careers of countless musicians of all colors.

But he's speaking against the lockdowns, so it's time to dredge up the past.

[Night Hides Not]

Good points...those comments were made nearly 45 years ago.

I thank Eric for the best concert I ever attended, and I've seen some good ones over the years: the second night of his Crossroads Guitar Festival, September 2019.

I went solo, none of my family members wanted to go...their loss. Eight, that's right, eight hours of the best music you can imagine: Clapton, Los Lobos, John Mayer, Doyle Bramhall II, Tedeschi-Trucks Band, Keb Mo, Buddy Guy, Joe Walsh, Vince Gill, etc. I think my favorite memory was Los Lobos performing "Made to Break Your Heart", with Clapton doing the guitar solo. Clapton's encore song was Purple Rain.

[Drew68]

I thank Eric for the best concert I ever attended, and I've seen some good ones over the years: the second night of his Crossroads Guitar Festival, September 2019.

Eric Clapton was the first concert I ever saw.

Red Rocks, Colorado, July 17th, 1983.

I was 14 years old, and at the time absolutely obsessed with the electric guitar (still am).

I delivered papers to save money for a concert shirt (wish I still had it).

I had nothing to compare it to, but he played a quiet, subdued set (he was probably drunk) and I didn't care. Clean Stratocaster out of Music Man amps. No distortion. No energy. I didn't care. I was seeing a real-life Rock God. I would assume all rock concerts were this polite and subdued.

A few months later I would see my second ever rock concert. The Scorpions. McNichols Arena.

Their show would have a decidedly increased level of energy.

[Rebelbase]

A good measure of the current state of music can be viewed by looking the Trending category on Youtube. IMO, it is depressingly sad.

[raccoonradio]

Working lyrics to Get Back
We don’t want to have no bloody Pakistanis
taking up our British jobs
Get back get back, go back to where you
once belonged

Bootlegs of their stuff do have a
track called No Pakistanis

[Paul R.]

True. But, then I go watch something like this and take solace that there are a few of us left...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpYHgbjOIq0

[BBB333]

“Nobody outside of Jamaica would ever have heard of Bob Marly had Clapton not covered his song (I Shot The Sheriff).”

Horse Hockey!

Sorry to ping you Bagster, but Bob Marley’s success was not based upon Eric Clapton...

[bagster]

“Nobody outside of Jamaica would ever have heard of Bob Marly had Clapton not covered his song (I Shot The Sheriff).” Horse Hockey! Sorry to ping you Bagster, but Bob Marley’s success was not based upon Eric Clapton...

Horse hockey is right.

Marley crossed over with this album.

Clapton as as a small child in the presence of a giant to Marley. He butchered 'I Shot the Sheriff'.

(thanks for the ping)

[BBB333]

Thanks, Bags.

Hope you have a GREAT week, FRiend.