Impressive line-up. Good to see Roger McGuinn and Robbie Robertson involved. Buddy Guy appears to be gone-deaf. The last two times I've seen him he was playing so overly loud that I had to walk away.
Mayer with bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan. As Pino replaced John Entwistle in The Who and Steve replaced Charlie Watts in The Rolling Stones, they have a pretty good pedigree:
Yes, Ken, there are several people of color on the bill. No need to keep sandbagging Clapton for an idiotic remark he made over 45 years ago in the midst of heavy alcohol and cocaine abuse.
They're actually very good. It's Blues-Rock played by highly skilled players who have good chemistry. They're also not flogging the same old tired, played out Grateful Dead songbook. Maybe try being a little more open-minded?
Nothing wrong with that, but at least for this seems done with improvisation. I'm sort of fascinated by the $100 million gap in Jam Band touring next year and how it is going to be filled.
He occasionally still has the flash. Unplugged and his soundtrack work for the film Rush are both very solid work from the early 90's. As the musical director, his work was crucial to the success that was The Concert For George tribute for George Harrison. I've seen lots of great live clips of him from the last 35 years. At least he didn't fail at getting sober, devolve into a shadow of himself onstage, and die at 52.
Couldn't care less. Even if he's a talented guitarist, Clapton is a world class douche bag. I lost any respect for him eons ago. Wouldn't support him for anything.
On 5 August 1976, Clapton provoked an uproar when he spoke out against increasing immigration during a concert in Birmingham.[193] Visibly intoxicated on stage, Clapton voiced his support for the right-wing British politician Enoch Powell.[194][195][196] He addressed the audience as follows:
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 vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch's our 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 coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking 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 fuck's sake? Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white![197]
"Keep Britain White" was, at the time, a slogan of the far-right National Front (NF).[198][199] This incident, along with some controversial remarks made around the same time by David Bowie,[200] as well as uses of Nazi-related imagery by punk artists Sid Vicious and Siouxsie Sioux (who has stated that the punks were anti-establishment who were deliberately provocative to their parents' generation, as opposed to having any affiliation with Nazi ideology)[201] were the main catalysts for the creation of Rock Against Racism, with a concert on 30 April 1978.[202]
Clapton's response
In an interview from October 1976 with Sounds magazine, Clapton said that he did not "know much about politics" and said of his immigration speech that "I just don't know what came over me that night. It must have been something that happened in the day but it came out in this garbled thing."[203] In a 2004 interview with Uncut, Clapton referred to Enoch Powell as "outrageously brave".[204] He said that the UK was "inviting people in as cheap labour and then putting them in ghettos".[205] In 2004, Clapton told an interviewer for Scotland on Sunday, "There's no way I could be a racist. It would make no sense."[206] In his 2007 autobiography, Clapton said he was "deliberately oblivious" to racial conflict.[207] In a December 2007 interview with Melvyn Bragg on The South Bank Show, Clapton said he was not a racist but still believed Powell's comments were relevant.[200]
After watching unedited footage of the 1976 outburst, which is included in Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars—a documentary which also covers his daily alcohol and drug abuse prior to his sobriety—in 2018 Clapton stated he was "disgusted" with himself for his "chauvinistic" and "fascistic" comments on stage. He added: "I sabotaged everything I got involved with. I was so ashamed of who I was, a kind of semi-racist, which didn't make sense. Half of my friends were black, I dated a black woman, and I championed black music."[208]<<<<<
No question that he said some horrible things in 1976, but he has expressed remorse and displayed contrition.
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Impressive line-up. Good to see Roger McGuinn and Robbie Robertson involved. Buddy Guy appears to be gone-deaf. The last two times I've seen him he was playing so overly loud that I had to walk away.
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So what is the John Mayer
So what is the John Mayer Trio?
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Are "wogs" and "coons"
Are "wogs" and "coons" welcome?
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Mayer with bassist Pino
Mayer with bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan. As Pino replaced John Entwistle in The Who and Steve replaced Charlie Watts in The Rolling Stones, they have a pretty good pedigree:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Mayer_Trio
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Yes, Ken, there are several
Yes, Ken, there are several people of color on the bill. No need to keep sandbagging Clapton for an idiotic remark he made over 45 years ago in the midst of heavy alcohol and cocaine abuse.
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Yeah ken he's way more than
Yeah stop treating him like he's just some drunk old racist
he's a COVID denier too
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Judge not least ye be judged
Judge not least ye be judged is a phrase that comes to mind.
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you gotta reap just what you
you gotta reap just what you sow
that old saying is true
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Um, he's performing a benefit
Um, he's producing a benefit to help provide treatment for those struggling with substance abuse and addiction.
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What, no Van Morrison?
What, no Van Morrison?
They could do their little fascist single.
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>>>Mayer with bassist Pino
>>>Mayer with bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan.
I was wondering how he would pivot post Dead & Co. Oteil and Russo would have been interesting.
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>>>>>Mayer with bassist Pino
>>>>>Mayer with bassist Pino Palladino and drummer Steve Jordan
Sounds brutal.
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They're actually very good.
They're actually very good. It's Blues-Rock played by highly skilled players who have good chemistry. They're also not flogging the same old tired, played out Grateful Dead songbook. Maybe try being a little more open-minded?
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^^At least it's reliably
^^At least it's reliably Mayer with his supersized ego and 12-year old boy mentality as he carries on his Taylor Swift feud from the stage.
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>>>It's Blues-Rock
>>>It's Blues-Rock
Nothing wrong with that, but at least for this seems done with improvisation. I'm sort of fascinated by the $100 million gap in Jam Band touring next year and how it is going to be filled.
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>> No need to keep
>> No need to keep sandbagging Clapton for an idiotic remark he made over 45 years ago in the midst of heavy alcohol and cocaine abuse.
I'm more a fan of sandbagging him for being a fallen guitar god, who hasn't done anything of value since 73 at worst and 83 at best.
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He occasionally still has the
He occasionally still has the flash. Unplugged and his soundtrack work for the film Rush are both very solid work from the early 90's. As the musical director, his work was crucial to the success that was The Concert For George tribute for George Harrison. I've seen lots of great live clips of him from the last 35 years. At least he didn't fail at getting sober, devolve into a shadow of himself onstage, and die at 52.
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Couldn't care less. Even if
Couldn't care less. Even if he's a talented guitarist, Clapton is a world class douche bag. I lost any respect for him eons ago. Wouldn't support him for anything.
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You're just holding a grudge.
You're just holding a grudge. Dude has done a ton of charitable work, and his work with Crossroads saves lives.
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Humans are complicated. Some
Humans are complicated. Some are simply assholes, but many have both good and bad qualities. Seems like Clapton falls in this category.
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Yeah, and Mussolini had the
Yeah, and Mussolini had the trains on time.
How about all the musicians who were drunk on stage who didn't spew racist crap?
Leopard, spots.
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I'm going to play the devil's
I'm going to play the devil's advocate here and ask, if we're canceling Clapton, do all the downbill artists then get canceled too?
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He did fine work at the MSG
He did fine work at the MSG Dylan tribute
Having Steve Cropper and Donald "the Duck" Dunn backing you up can't hurt
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xrST5cELzyw&list=RDxrST5cELzyw&start_rad...
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To err is human, to forgive
To err is human, to forgive is divine.
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Is this forgive-able yet?
Is this forgive-able yet?
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You must really consider the
You must really consider the circus,
'Cause it just might be your kind of the zoo.
I can't think of a place that's more perfect,
For a person as perfect as you.
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Life sure was easier when we
Life sure was easier when we didn't have to think about all this stuff. Unless of course you were Sinead at the Dylan tribute.
https://youtu.be/y4fVxcT00Sc
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Clapton's racist rant and his
Clapton's racist rant and his response:
From Wikipedia>>>
Racism and August 1976 drunken rant
"Keep Britain White"
On 5 August 1976, Clapton provoked an uproar when he spoke out against increasing immigration during a concert in Birmingham.[193] Visibly intoxicated on stage, Clapton voiced his support for the right-wing British politician Enoch Powell.[194][195][196] He addressed the audience as follows:
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 vote for Enoch Powell. Enoch's our 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 coons out. Keep Britain white. I used to be into dope, now I'm into racism. It's much heavier, man. Fucking wogs, man. Fucking Saudis taking over London. Bastard wogs. Britain is becoming overcrowded and Enoch will stop it and send them all back. The black wogs and coons and Arabs and fucking 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 fuck's sake? Throw the wogs out! Keep Britain white![197]
"Keep Britain White" was, at the time, a slogan of the far-right National Front (NF).[198][199] This incident, along with some controversial remarks made around the same time by David Bowie,[200] as well as uses of Nazi-related imagery by punk artists Sid Vicious and Siouxsie Sioux (who has stated that the punks were anti-establishment who were deliberately provocative to their parents' generation, as opposed to having any affiliation with Nazi ideology)[201] were the main catalysts for the creation of Rock Against Racism, with a concert on 30 April 1978.[202]
Clapton's response
In an interview from October 1976 with Sounds magazine, Clapton said that he did not "know much about politics" and said of his immigration speech that "I just don't know what came over me that night. It must have been something that happened in the day but it came out in this garbled thing."[203] In a 2004 interview with Uncut, Clapton referred to Enoch Powell as "outrageously brave".[204] He said that the UK was "inviting people in as cheap labour and then putting them in ghettos".[205] In 2004, Clapton told an interviewer for Scotland on Sunday, "There's no way I could be a racist. It would make no sense."[206] In his 2007 autobiography, Clapton said he was "deliberately oblivious" to racial conflict.[207] In a December 2007 interview with Melvyn Bragg on The South Bank Show, Clapton said he was not a racist but still believed Powell's comments were relevant.[200]
After watching unedited footage of the 1976 outburst, which is included in Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars—a documentary which also covers his daily alcohol and drug abuse prior to his sobriety—in 2018 Clapton stated he was "disgusted" with himself for his "chauvinistic" and "fascistic" comments on stage. He added: "I sabotaged everything I got involved with. I was so ashamed of who I was, a kind of semi-racist, which didn't make sense. Half of my friends were black, I dated a black woman, and I championed black music."[208]<<<<<
No question that he said some horrible things in 1976, but he has expressed remorse and displayed contrition.