Covidiots in music

Eric, you really didn't have to work so hard at being the worst. You were already there the whole time.

Happy to be corrected on this, but I believe this is the first published piece where Clapton's bandmates (current or former) are asked about the 1976 racist rant.

...a campaign on the far right to stop the flow of South Africans into Britain

Er, what? Do they mean South Asians perhaps? Also where's this working class town called Ripley north of London? There's a village called Ripley in Surrey which looks kinda posh.

I'd never heard about that. The guy's always come off as a selfish knob, tho, so it's not surprising. Also, tbh, never really understood the hoopla? A lot of Black guys did and do this shit a lot better.

a lot of white guys too

East, who has been playing with Clapton since 1985’s “Behind the Sun,” prefers to write off the Birmingham incident as an unexplainable aberration.

“In the Olympics, they throw out the best score and the worst score,” he says. “You get the measure of a person not on the day they did the very, very best thing they did and not the day they did the very worst thing they did.”

Heh. Would love to read a 20th Century history book composed on the basis of dismissing a historical figure's best and worst action. 'Lee Harvey Oswald, an unremarkable US Marine...'; 'Lauded Paralympic champion Oscar Pistorius...'

Also very strong vibes of:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zUoT5AxFpRs

I found the thing Vernon Reid said about paternalism and the Lee Atwater thing really interesting and feels otm with regard to Clapton and probably other conservative Blues guys.

acclaimed songwriter Phoebe Bridgers slammed Clapton in an interview as making “extremely mediocre music” and being “a famous racist.”

otm otm

yeah clapton sucks, has sucked forever, his public opinions somehow suck worse than his music, but that first remark is, err, how you say, very pot kettle black

I have heard not great things about Phoebe Bridgers

Phoebe Bridgers, more like Burning Bridgers, say goodbye to that Clapton tour.

Mo' Bridgers Blues

I know nothing about Phoebe Bridgers beyond the toxic dudes she’s taken down along the way.

If he'd just written about, "Can't feel my hands," performed, of course, w recovered hands, that might have been---uh okay, one man's experience--but go from that to all the other o mang----was not expecting his cotton pickin' fantasy quotes, and would like to see Reid writing a piece about all this---he used to write for the Voice etc---though prob too depressing.

just typical rockstar shit, throwing fits about dumb shit, yelling at the crew, her band members, just unpleasant treating ppl like shit but nothing really out there

Les Claypool was the other one he was telling me about

more like Les Cesspool amirite

I can't imagine Claypool being difficult but then again, maybe

Wait, what's this about Les Claypool?

xxxxpost When older people suddenly revert-and-then-some, veering from established/restored image for inst (and others, not him, from lifelong norm), can be sign of dementia---like when the long-apparently-cleaned up Glen Campbell was arrested for drunk driving, mug shot v. don't-tread-on-me---leading to MRI and diagnosis.
And/or Clapton himself may have fallen off the wagon, if he'd actually been on it, as claimed.

I could see Claypool being difficult if he arrived at the venue thinking you were the weed guy and you turned out not to be the weed guy. But that's about it.

Is he over yet

Just don't live next to Claypool if you're a hoarder (1:30m)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l2VnjvrDX_A

(and here: https://losangeles.cbslocal.com/2021/11/12/hoarding-granada-hills/ )

He lives in Grenada Hills?

does anyone have his address? could be a good night for an intervention

I guess Les was as really pain in the ass

How does he tip?

lol different Les Claypool, though what are the odds?!

Sleuthing here:

Les Claypool lives in Sonoma County across the street from Mickey Hart. I went to his house once to pick up a 1" 16 track tape machine. A project came in with 1" 16 track tape and he was the only one in the area with a machine. The studio owner had a good relationship with him. Dude was super cool. He also used to put adds in a local paper looking for musicians to jam with.

Ha, was just thinking about posting that exact thing.

i just went into a really weird search wormhole to try to figure that out, and just learned there were 6 baby girls named "Ayn" last year, in the United States

trying to figure this out, i mean

lol different Les Claypool, though what are the odds?!

I’d wager that the odds are in some weird time signature.

I met an Ayn at Brooklyn comic arts festival a few years ago. She was cool & a fan of my comic. A weird variation on the “yeah my hippie parents” thing. Yeah my objectivist parents…

Sudden realization that I wouldn't recognize normie Les Claypool at all.

I think the voice would give it away.

🚨🚨🚨🚨 official retraction on Les Claypool 🚨🚨🚨🚨

after everyone expressed skepticism on Claypool being a dick I texted him and it was not about Claypool himself, who was fine, but the setup the Claypool Lennon Delirium and the crew. Was a radio in-studio session and they had so much gear that it barely fit in the room.

main point of contention w the crew chief was the fact they wanted to have a concert style drum riser in the studio and were upset that the station's freight elevator was not big enough to accommodate.

this all happened hours before Claypool showed up and he was pleasant


doubled down on Phoebe Bridgers - "she's a bully"

it's too late - there are roving groups of anti claypool fanatics currently searching hollywood for a hoarder yard

bringing a drum riser to a studio is hilarious

Miguel Bosé!

is this where we express our sadness for celebrities that caught covid? because bryan adams has it for the second time now. the first time was last month. he is fully vaccinated, so that sucks. i don't think he is a covidiot?

Have you ever really, really ever really done your own research?

There was this, more a-hole than idiot: https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-52630308

Punster, you probably want this thread: Rolling COVID-19 Notably Infected and/or Fallen Thread

oh thanks, emil.y. i knew there was one but i couldn't find it

Always the guys you least expect

4D224 U MURDER AN INNOCENT CHILD TO MAKE EACH COVID SHOT U GET. GET ANOTHER 1 & U WILL DIE & ENTER HELL
TheCovid19Vaccinated MUST Publicly Denounce ALL COVID Shots OR ENTER HELL For The 71 Billion CHILDREN Murdered To Make Each Covid Vaccine Shot.Get 1 More SHOT & ULL ENTER HELL! pic.twitter.com/WYth9MBRDF

— Viper (@RapperViper) November 28, 2021

you know, as a person who periodically does a google image search for stuff like "hell", "head down in arms", "anguish", "eternal anguish", and shit like that, for comedy posting purposes of course, i have to say, that is an excellent image of hell

it really captures the spirit of what it would be like to make a mistake on covid

71 billion children murdered for each shot, which puts me at 142 billion murdered children so far, 213 billion when i get boostered. that’s quite a few murdered children!