My column on Clapton down, down on the ground @latimesopinion latimes.com/opinion/story/…
To spark memories. Here is Eric Clapton on Jimi Hendrix in 1968 in Rolling Stone. 
And of course this classic diatribe from the stage in 1976:
On his routine rape and battery of the photographer and model Pattie Boyd:
And now he’s smashing the place up by discouraging vaccination, though he’s vaccinated himself.
His 10-day side-effects from the second shot of the vax were evidently tied to his serious neuropathy, itself a side effect of his alcoholism. Which he blamed for his rape habit.
His 10-day side-effects from the second shot of the vax were evidently tied to his serious neuropathy, itself a side effect of his alcoholism. Which he blamed for his rape habit.
And if you’ve ever argued about whether Clapton or Hendrix is better—“on the merits”—remember that a Clapton promoter had London graffiti’d with “Clapton is God” in the mid-60s. So any reference to his being a deity is a callback to that PR campaign.
And THEN Clapton seeded the racist bullshit that Hendrix was a phony who was nothing but a sexual fetish object.
One way he could meaningfully honor to the bluesmen he copied is to pay royalties to the estates.
Bo Carter wrote and copyrighted “Corrine, Corrina” in 1929. He died without a headstone. Clapton never credited him—much less paid royalties.
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Bo Carter wrote and copyrighted “Corrine, Corrina” in 1929. He died without a headstone. Clapton never credited him—much less paid royalties.
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People who have downplayed the virus, rejected masks or lockdowns, or promoted anti-vax bs who are themselves vaccinated:
Boris Johnson
Sir Desmond Swayne
Ted Cruz
Most performers at Fox
Eric Clapton
Boris Johnson
Sir Desmond Swayne
Ted Cruz
Most performers at Fox
Eric Clapton
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