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."

[...]

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.

[...]

"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.

Edit

Oh, man - Van Morrison is shit too. Sigh.

Eric Clapton

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".

  • vertexarray [any]
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    3 years ago

    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

    • inshallah2 [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      made guitars sound like that.

      Woman tone...

      Fool (guitar)

      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.