37 Replies to “They Almost Killed Slowhand”

    2. Clapton confessed he doesn’t remember the Nineties.
      Still trust him more than the Government or Media.

  2. 3 times in the R&R Hall of fame, as a member of The Yardbirds, Cream, and solo. He earned it.

    The R&R Hall of Fame has become a crock of crap without the Monkees but with Leonard Cohen and a something like 7 rappers. Pure bullshit.

      1. Come on ma’aan … Belinda Carlisle was pretty good for a chubby girl. Giggle.

    2. I like Lenny, in very select and very limited doses, but I have no idea what he has to do with Rock & Roll.

    3. Rock and roll is systemically racist … right? All those white performers who “ripped off” black blues artists! They profited and didn’t give a “fair share” of their largesse to the old black men and women … right? So the R&R Hall of Fame has to admit enough black artists … to make them “appear” not-racist. White guilt and half truths … that’s what our culture has been reduced to.

    4. The Monkees were primarily actors with only Nesmith being an actual musician. Most of the musicians and writers (The Wrecking Crew) who made them sound good are in the hall, however. Admittedly Cohen isn’t rock’n’roll but, at least, Leonard wrote and played his own music. While, to my mind, there are many deserved groups and musicians that have been overlooked, just the same, I’d nominate The Monkees over Joan Baez. I have a bigger issue with Paul Henderson not being in the Hockey Hall of Fame while many women are. Nothing against the women but every single man who has played in the NHL is a better player.

      1. Davy Jones and Mickey Dolenz sang quit well – commercially well. Dolenz was the only actor and never did learn to play decent drums. Peter Tork was also a musician, a Greenwich Village folkie. Davy Jones did musical theatre in London and on Broadway. He already had a recording contract with Screen Gems. A lot of rockers used other people’s music. The Wrecking Crew were behind a whole whack of performers. Milli Vanilli may have been the rule, not the exception. The Monkees sold 75 million records. In 1967 they outsold the Beatles and Stones combined. They were good.

        1. They were good as long as The Wrecking Crew and session musicians were providing the music and professional writers the songs. To their credit, I suppose, they declined to do that anymore and insisted that they would play and write their own music. With a few exceptions, although it still sold, that music is now mainly unlistenable.

    1. Eric Clapton and Van Morrison were friends of the Band and performed on their classic final concert at Winterland in San Francisco in 1976. Clapton’s real father was a Canadian soldier who frigged off home. More rock trivia – Jimi Hendrix’s father was Canadian. His grandmother Nora Hendrix was a fixture in Hogans’s Alley in Vancouver.

    2. Damn! Great video and song. And good on Bournemouth for getting past the first leg of the Championship Play Off over Brentford!

  4. Which of course raises another question – Where are all the anti establishment American hippies of the sixties? Y’know, the “question everything” types like… Linda Rondstat… Neil Young…David Crosby and others from Laurel Canyon who told everyone Nixon the fascist was gearing up to kill them on college campuses if we didn’t wake up.
    Oh, right…they’re today’s wrinkled old hippie despots, who tweet once a year just to let their fans know they’re still alive so I’m sure they’re all jiggy with this sh*t. Well done you poseurs.
    Crosby is well on his way trashing his third liver and donating his essence to barren lesbians and Young drives around in his caddy fueled with chickenshit so I’ll give them a pass…what’s the others excuse?

    Good on Clapton and Van Morrison.

  5. Fear sells. High ranking NAZI Hermann Goring said the same thing while imprisoned in Nuremberg. Crimes against humanity once again by western Governments, all this criminality for the “Great Reset”. Piano wire meet lamp-post… I wish.

  6. What the Summit article does not explain is why the scientists would have wanted to instill fear. The virus was not that dangerous. It would not have been a devastating thing to let it run its course. Maybe they just wanted to see how much power they could muster. Given the lives that have been ruined, I don’t know how those fear-mongering “scientists” and politicians can live with themselves.

    1. “I don’t know how those fear-mongering “scientists” and politicians can live with themselves”

      I’ll take sociopaths for five hundred, LindaL…

    2. Incestuous and corrupt relationships with Big Pharma and gubmint ‘scientists’ are commonplace.

      What’s a few thousand innocent dead citizens when there’s millions to be made?

    3. What the Summit article does not explain is why the scientists would have wanted to instill fear.

      That tactic goes back a long time. I remember when we were to be paralyzed with fear that, in the early 1970s, we were going to run out of oil within the next 10 or 20 years. Having grown up with the oil industry, and having worked in it for a while, I knew that those gloomy predictions were horse manure, as did a lot of other people.

      Still, that didn’t stop the government from pushing that malarkey, even though we were told a year or two earlier that this country had at least a 400-year supply of oil.

  7. If there are any responsible journalists in Canada, they should be reporting on this.

    1. Hahahaha!!!
      Responsible journalists not sucking from the gov’t teat in Canada? You crack me up LindaL

  8. A$$ hole is old enough to know better but obviously not smart enough, no matter how much I like the riff in lay down sally. He might catch up to me in years if I take the shot, but that is not happening.

  9. They succeeded in defeating Trump did’nt they ? They knew that their income would’nt stop and did’nt care about the fall out in the country.Despicable.

  11. Is this covid disinformation, covid information, or perhaps covid dis-dis-information?
    Or some other permutation of government spin, messaging, PR, or other euphemism for government’s lying?

  12. Eric is a treasure. Van is The Man. Screw the pussies who got their panties in a knot over some actual rebel attitude.

  13. Love Eric Clapton…I always get teary eyed whenever I hear that song he wrote about his son “Free Fallin”

    2. Some friends and I rewrote “free fallin” about “the free clinic” and all of the circumstances and diseases that could get one there. I think we made up verses for about an hour and a half. Poor Happer. Much beer was drunk, many laughs exchanged. The (burn pit) campfire seemed to never die. Ah, memories. Ah, college life.

  14. When the government creates the covid panic by lying and admitting that they lied, and they also created draconian covid laws based on those same lies and dragged preachers out of churches and confined them based on the laws justified by the government’s own lies, where do we stand?
    When the government locks up travelers or fines them for not obeying the laws that they created based on the government’s own admitted lies, where are we at?

    When the government forces businesses to close based on laws justified by the government’s own admitted lies, is there a class action lawsuit coming?
    If not, then what?

  15. Well, whatever is in those vaccines, Ozzy and Keith Richards would not even notice.

  17. Saw Cream in Montreal years ago. Eric is the best!
    Van is the best too. These guys are legends.

    I just got around to reading this thread 5 minutes ago. Poor Eric.

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