The music generic and pathetic. But the lyrics really take the cake. Did he write them in five minutes? It's some lazy shit...
This has gotta stop
Enough is enough
I can't take this BS any longer
It's gone far enough
If you wanna claim my soul
You'll have to come and break down this door
I knew that something was going on wrong
When you started laying down the law
Eric Clapton - This Has Gotta Stop (Official Music Video)
Eric Clapton's 'This Has Gotta Stop' Appears to Take On Covid Vaxx - Rolling Stone
In what appears to be his latest salvo against Covid-19 vaccinations and the lockdown, Eric Clapton has surprise-released a new single, "This Has Gotta Stop," with an accompanying animated video that also addresses climate change disaster.
A bluesy shuffle, "This Has Gotta Stop" appears to reference some of the medical issues that Clapton said he experienced after receiving an AstraZeneca vaccination earlier this year with what he claimed were "disastrous" results: "My hands and feet were either frozen, numb or burning," he wrote at the time. As he sings in "This Has Gotta Stop," "I knew that something was going on wrong/When you started laying down the law/I can't move my hands, I break out in sweat/I wanna cry, I can't take it anymore." In the chorus he sings, "This has gotta stop/Enough is enough/I can't take this BS any longer."
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The video includes images of people turned into marionettes or staring zombie-style at their phones; politicians or government officials addressing crowds; and others holding signs that say "Liberty" and "Enough Is Enough." It also includes an illustration of Jam for Freedom, the anti-lockdown UK street-performer group that Clapton supports, as well as imagery of a world on fire from environment disaster.
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"This Has Gotta Stop" ties in with Clapton's recent and controversial comments about the pandemic lockdown. In July, Clapton announced he would "not perform on any stage where there is a discriminated audience present." Clapton's U.S. tour, which is confined to mostly indoor arenas in the South, is scheduled to start Sept. 13 in Fort Worth, Texas, before wrapping up Sept. 26 in Florida.
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Oh, man - Van Morrison is shit too. Sigh.
Anti lockdown songs
In November 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, Clapton and Van Morrison collaborated on an anti-mask, anti-lockdown single title "Stand and Deliver", the profits from which were donated to Morrison's "Lockdown Financial Hardship Fund".
and like beyond all that he also just fucking sucks at guitar. One of the more baffling dudes to ever be a “guitar god” in the mainstream conscious.
Kinda steams my nut that Rory Gallagher isn't Clapton-level popular even though he was a far better guitarist of the same generation of blues rock musicians - hell Hendrix called him the best guitarist in the world.
and like beyond all that he also just fucking sucks at guitar. One of the more baffling dudes to ever be a “guitar god” in the mainstream conscious.
Holy shit yes this has always baffled me everything I've ever heard by him is soft rock bullshit with blues licks thrown in, like who honestly listens to that?
and like beyond all that he also just fucking sucks at guitar
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You really really don't need to be a good musician to play almost all classic rock. People shit on punk for being simple but it's the same as most rock songs but eight times faster.
does anyone under 45 know who he is anymore? i feel like as the years have worn on, clapton has (rightfully) dropped out of the top tier of the 60s/70s canon. he's certainly not talked about as much as dylan, the beatles, the stones, etc.
Shocking that the guy who said that shit on stage ends up here:
Clapton’s U.S. tour, which is confined to mostly indoor arenas in the South, is scheduled to start Sept. 13 in Fort Worth, Texas, before wrapping up Sept. 26 in Florida.
It’s ironic that for a man so associated with windows that he’s not a fan of Bill Gates
If you wanna claim my soul
Melodramatic much? Anti-mask/vaxxers are such fucking babies.
Wow can't believe Eric Clapton's musical talent is the latest thing of his to go out the window.
I'm reminded of the death/corner rant about clapton getting way too much credit. I guess there are less ethiccal ways to make your money is the best I can say about him.
death/corner rant about clapton getting way too much credit
I don't know what you mean.
the podcast death is just around the corner, the host went on a rant about how clapton basically debuted distortion as a guitar concept in the setting of an album, but people just thought he was a genius who made guitars sound like that.
Idk how true it is exactly
made guitars sound like that.
Woman tone...
Woman tone
The Fool is an essential part of what Clapton called the "woman tone", "a sweet sound ... more like the human voice than the guitar". Clapton demonstrated the Woman Tone in a videotaped interview in 1968 included in the BBC movie from their final Royal Albert Hall farewell concerts, using The Fool SG and a Marshall amplifier; he said it is accomplished by turning the tone way down and the volume full up, and it is exemplified in the opening and the guitar solo of "Sunshine of Your Love".
I think Clapton was an excellent guitarist in the 1960s and 1970s. Cream. Blind Faith. Derek and the Dominos. His solo stuff. But in the 1980s like so many musicians - he realized he could pump out commercial dreck and make mountains of cash.
The 1980s were a sad decade because so many musicians bands best days were behind them they kept going. Some of them until even today. The Who. Aerosmith. Van Halen. ZZ Top. AC/DC. The Rolling Stones. Genesis. Etc. By the mid 80s - they went on cruise control and just grabbed all the cash. And their many of fans (and hordes of new fans) totally loved them anyway.
The dude from AC/DC who still to this day dresses up as a schoolboy must be pushing 70 now :cringe:
The video includes images of people turned into marionettes or staring zombie-style at their phones; politicians or government officials addressing crowds; and others holding signs that say “Liberty” and “Enough Is Enough.” It also includes an illustration of Jam for Freedom, the anti-lockdown UK street-performer group that Clapton supports, as well as imagery of a world on fire from environment disaster.
damn dude that's deep.
Eric Clapton, famed non-boomer. Dude was also always super racist.
“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 removed 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 removed 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 removed 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!”
- Eric Clapton, 1976
He’s always been a fucking piece of shit
marx voice under no pretext should you hand it to him; any attempt of the workers to hand it to him must be frustrated by force, if necessary
van morrison did this same shit
hope i get tried and convicted by a people's tribunal of zoomers before I turn into this, all I ask ya'll youngins is don't make it too painful
