I don't like Eric Clapton. Let's get that out of the way immediately. And because I dislike Eric Clapton and refuse to do any research, I'm going to take Mojo Magazine at their word that all 15 tracks here have been covered by the "Tears In Heaven" performer.
The blues performers appearing here, covered by a former Enoch Powell-supporter, are all pretty awesome. And if a proto boomer's catalog brings you to Robert Thornton, Skip James, or Big Mama Thornton (to name three), that's a good thing, too. It doesn't let me forget every instance in my lifetime where the notorious anti-vaxxer was a total, egomaniac cock. But I can forgive grumpy old men yelling at clouds...or I can try to.
Now, would I rock a "No Snow/No Show" t-shirt onstage? Only in an ironic manner, friends.
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Thanks. I like his taste in comics!
@lemonflag: thank you for finding another positive aspect to this fella.
I already have this compilation, but (as someone who shares your opinion of Mr. Clapton himself) I do find your commentary here quite entertaining. Now, in all fairness, I do remember buying and enjoying the "461 Ocean Boulevard" album when it first came out. But I was about 14 at the time, and nowadays I think to myself what an ASSHOLE he was to boogify "Motherless Children" (turning it into a hey-let's-party sort of thing, as contrasted with the heartbreaker it'd be from, say, Blind Willie Johnson or the Carter Family) and what a DICK he was to cover "I Shot the Sheriff" in the first place.
Anti-vaxxers of the world unite. History of vaccine deaths and uselessness are heavily censored by the mass media, Big Pharma are interested only in money.
@Crab Devil: what I didn't share in my initial post is that my dad was a big Clapton fan, and played the shit out of his MTV Unplugged tape until it snapped. Fortunately, he also had Allman Bros., Little Feat, and Lynyrd Skynyrd tapes, so not all was lost.
@Anonymous: we can agree that Big Pharma can suck it, but I don't want my people to end up in iron lungs. I'll keep banging that shit into my arm.
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