I wish Eric Clapton would hurry up and DROP DEAD!

[devilgrrl]

Man, I abhor that guy.

[MadHound]

1. Why?

I actually think that he is rather talented, and has actually aged pretty well.

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[Shell Beau]

8. What is so prick-ish about him?

Just wonderin' if you have a personal story.

:)

[radwriter0555]

38. LOL! as in, "hasn't he suffered enough and REMINDED us about it, OVER

and OVER and OVER again..."

He is a tolerable guitar player, good artist, but the pity party should end soon.

[devilgrrl]

39. It's all about him!

:shrug:

[Rising Phoenix]

2. he bugs me too

I know I'm SUPPOSED to like him, but I just don't

[Rabrrrrrr]

3. I will second that one!

Though I want Billy Joel and, especially, Bon Jovi out first.

[Shell Beau]

9. I like Billy Joel!

So nah!! :P

[Rising Phoenix]

32. ew...Bon Jovi...don't even get me started...

[no name no slogan]

43. "Never Say Goodbye" was my HS senior class "song" in 1987

I still don't know how they picked that one, because all my friends thought it totally sucked ass.

[Rising Phoenix]

52. mine was "Time Stand Still" by Rush

don't ask me why...we all wanted the fuck out of there...

[Beetwasher]

4. Well, Then I Would Think You'd Want Him To Live Forever

When he dies, it will be all Clapton all the time for quite some time. That should really annoy the piss out of you.

[slybacon9]

5. But then we get Cheney as our President and oh sorry wrong thread

my bad.

[Shell Beau]

7. Jeez! Tell us how you really feel.

I love him and his music, I certainly do not wish death upon him.

[hfojvt]

25. for the most part I do not like his music

okay, there is alot of it that I hate, but in this day of ipods when I have not really listened to radio for four years, I do not have to listen to it any more.
Why not like his music - who has a choice really about what they like, but I would say, for me, it is too mellow and bluesy. Also I am not fond of cocaine as a drug, or as something to sing about. Another example would be his old hit song "rock and roll heart" - "I get off on a 57 chevy, I get off on a screaming guitar ... I've got a rock and roll heart." Only that song is not rock and roll. There are no screaming guitars. It is far more like a Bette Midler or Barry Manilow song than it is a Van Halen or Dokken song. It ain't what I call rock and roll. Most of his radio hits are like that - Leila, You look wonderful tonight. Mellow ballads, he's like a male Celine Dion without the intonation or vocal range.

[Shell Beau]

27. I personally like him but I don't care if others don't.

Obviously not everyone will love Clapton. But wishing death upon him? That is kind of freaky. I know it was probably meant in jest, but some other statements said (not by you) kind of weirded me out.

[hfojvt]

44. tanj! I must be losing my touch

if I cannot weird people out with my statements. I can kinda understand some of the hyperbolic vitriol. I was very happy that Garth Brooks retired, instead of still being out there foisting his 'music' on the rest of us. Then, just before he retired, he was in alot of Dr. Pepper commercials. These days I have seen Eric Clapton is alot of ads. Some of them kinda funny, like the one where the husband is playing "she's wondering what clothes to wear" over and over until his wife/date tells him to knock it off.
Anyway, his sheer ubiquitousness may seem like the bane of some people's existence, as in "I was having a good day until I saw my third ad featuring Eric Clapton or one of his insipid pieces of dreck".
So you goto the lounge to talk about the rockers that you hate. Just include the disclaimer "no geriatric rock icons were injured in the making of this thread"

[Rabrrrrrr]

50. Cool - you used "Tanj!"

:applause:

I bet Clapton could never use that word, the ass. Probably has no idea what the hell it is.

[hfojvt]

57. I use it alot here

but no one has ever noticed or commented on it either to say "I love Larry Niven" or "wtf does that mean?"

So, is your appreciation enough for me to overlook what you said about Bon Jovi and your dislike of happy music and the Red Sox? :dilemma:

I know very little about Clapton, and have no desire to learn, He could be the most intelligent, humble, well-read, self-effacing, and funny person on the planet and I still would not like his oeuvre. It is nice though, when people whose music I like, such as, say, Bon Jovi, do other admirable things - like campaign for John Kerry.

[Shell Beau]

58. I felt like I was supposed to know what it meant!

I felt dumb for asking!! :blush:

[hfojvt]

95. you probably understood what it meant by context

It is a euphamism for 'dang'. It can be googled, but like most googling you never know if the results you get are what the person meant. Maybe I meant "Trial Attorneys of New Jersey". or "There Are No Jabberwockys" or "There Ain't No Justice" Anyway, it is not a bad thing to be inquisitive, because nobody knows everything (except that Moderator person, but only because he/she is omnipresent) Asking is one of the most direct ways to learn, and it helps to puff up my battered ego. :puffpiece:

[rene moon]

10. Karma will get you for that

Never good to wish death upon another. Be careful.

Dont like his music? fine, I dont either. But I do think he's a great guitarist. I wish i could play like that.

But never wish harm, ever!

[Spider Jerusalem]

And he should take Paul McCartney with him.

Proof that there is no god: the wrong two Beatles are dead, and it was Stevie Ray Vaughan and not Eric Clapton on that helicopter in Chicago in 1990.

[Shell Beau]

13. Stevie Ray is WONDERFUL!

But Clapton is good. Has he ever claimed to be better?

[Bridget Burke]

49. Stevie Ray Vaughan was a really good blues guitar player.

I'm glad he got off heroin & it sucks that he died. But he got to be a bit repetitive.

[sakabatou]

11. Or as the Japanese call him, Eric Crapton

[Initech]

12. I think I've found the perfect CD for you then!

[democracyindanger]

14. Anybody who loses his baby son

especially in such a freakish way deserves to sing the blues.

[Shell Beau]

15. Freakish way?

Was does that mean? Doesn't every parent love their children in "freakish" ways?

[democracyindanger]

16. Walked out of a 53rd floor window

so yeah, I consider that pretty freakish.

Did you confuse "loses" with "loves"?

[Shell Beau]

18. Yes, I did!! Oops!!

:blush: Sorry and yes that is very freakish and tragic.

[devilgrrl]

17. Oh, you mean the child he never saw????

He didn't give a flying fuck about that kid until that accident happened. He sang that to himself! :puke:

[Shell Beau]

20. How do you know?

That is a harsh thing to say about someone who I assume you don't know.

[devilgrrl]

22. Was he present when it happened?

Was he living with the child's mother at the time of the accident? Was he a good parent?

I say NO!

[Shell Beau]

24. So if he wasn't living there, he wasn't a good parent?

You basically just described a good bit of families in the US. How can you be so judgmental?

[democracyindanger]

23. Wow, and here I thought

this was just because you didn't like his music, and the 'drop dead' thing was just snark, but it appears you really do wish he'd die.

Yikes.

[devilgrrl]

28. It certainly wouldn't bother me.

BTW, my utter abhoration of the man was prompted by the accident that caused the death of his son. Where the fuck was he????

Most likely boffing some other 25 year old cocktail waitress elsewhere.

He treats fans like shit too!

[democracyindanger]

33. Probably in the lobby

He showed up five minutes later. He was picking up Conor to go to the Central Park Zoo.

[nini]

64. How the hell do you know the background of his relationships

with his son and the mother?


I was not WITH my son 24 hours a day. Does that make me a bad mother?


Normally, I let this kind of stuff go but you're over the top on being so judgmental of anyone over the death of their child.


Jesus Christ. Don't listen to his fucking music, but leave out the personal judgments regarding this role of a father. None of us are in a position to know.

[devilgrrl]

19. Eric Clapton Coming To Terms With Age - It's all about him.

Eric Clapton Coming To Terms With Age
October 7, 2005, 6:31:15

ERIC CLAPTON has finally accepted he is no longer a sex symbol at 60.

The veteran rocker struggled at first to come to terms with his diminishing attraction to the opposite sex.

Clapton - married to 31-year-old MELIA McENERY - says, "At first there was a little regret that women didn't look back any more when I looked at them.

"I was also concerned about whether I was a dirty old man.
"But then I found it was a tremendous relief not to be ruled by my sex drive."

The millionaire rocker though will carry on working until he dies, because he leads such an extravagant lifestyle.

Despite an estimated fortune of around $216 million (£120 million), 60-year-old Clapton insists he and wife MELIA McENERY, 31, spend so much their bank account will run dry if he ever stops singing.

Clapton says, "It's not a pretence. I will have to work to support the way we live"

http://www.femalefirst.co.uk/entertainment/98402004.htm

[skygazer]

66. Um - being that the article is about HIS coming to terms with his age

It wouldn't make a lot of sense for it to be about someone else. Jesus Christ, you sure have a lot of venom stored up for someone you don't know jack about.

What the hell are you so bugged about? He's a fucking musician. Don't listen to him. Don't read articles about him. But wishing someone dead just because you don't like them is a pretty nasty and miserable trait - hell, I don't even wish that on *. I just wish he'd get the hell out of the oval office.

[Fight_n_back]

21. How very sweet of you

Alas, he is indestructible.

[devilgrrl]

26. For measely $17,500 you can dry up at Eric's drug clinic in Antigua!!!!!

What a bargain!!!!! :sarcasm:


http://www.crossroadsantigua.org/website/admission/admission1.html

[Shell Beau]

29. That really isn't unusual.

The Betty Ford Clinic averages at $16,500 for 28 day stay.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/US/West/10/20/ford.clinic.ap/

[devilgrrl]

31. Some much for helping out the general public...

because he cares :sarcasm:

[Shell Beau]

37. I am not trying to talk you out of your hate, but at least he has

a clinic. Most celebs don't even do that. You will find fault where there is none, but to wish death on someone is freaky and unstable. Especially someone you don't know. You think you know a lot about him, but what do you REALLY know? What you read?

[sasquatch]

30. If you have $17,500, you don't have a problem

[devilgrrl]

34. Bet most of his fans don't have that kind of money...

not that he would care. At least he doesn't have to worry about mingling with the little people at his clinic.

[Shell Beau]

53. Have you ever even researched all of the

charity concerts he has done and how much he gives to charity. How horrible of him! :sarcasm:

[kwassa]

55. So, did he refuse to sleep with you?

Exactly why are you so incredibly angry with him?

What did he do to you?

[Fight_n_back]

35. Then you get 24 hrs of Clapton on the radio

E specials, biographies on 60 minutes, VH1 all Clapton all the time.


At least then maybe someone would give the Yardbirds some credit for driving music in the 60s.

[miss_kitty]

70. the yardbirds was one of my favourite bands growing up

Thank god for The Beatles. They made it possible for us to hear all the other great stuff coming out of Blighty at the same time.

[devilgrrl]

71. Yardbirds were better with Jeff Beck...

Jimmy Page too.

They're better guitarists as well.

[miss_kitty]

75. m'kay

but who pissed in your cornflakes this AM?

[johnnie]

36. Yikes

I have never wished *anyone* would just drop dead, especially not a guitar player.

Has he really made your life a living hell?

[kwassa]

40. Clapton is God! Therefore, he might smite you .....

Has been for the past 40 years or so, the fundamentalists just haven't recognized it.

Since he is the Supreme God among the Pantheon of Guitar Gods, you must worship him. If you wish to be an apostate, you might suffer the consequences.

He is also healthy, probably has another 30 years left him before he shuffles off this mortal coil, and transcends to a higher plane.

[TallahasseeGrannie]

41. Only if he takes Neil Young with him.

[BreweryYardRat]

42. Grr...

Why so bitchy about the poor man?

[NYYFan]

45. Lordy !

What did he ever do to you ? :shrug:

[RedstDem]

46. You Need To Chill

He Was Nice To My Parents So He Can't Be All Bad..

[merh]

47. I like Clapton

and I think this place is filled with a bunch of snobs.

So there.

Music, like any art form, does not have to appeal to all to be good.

[Shell Beau]

48. Woohoo! You said it best!

How are you doing these days? :hug:

[merh]

54. I'm hanging in there --

it's been a little chilly in the FEMA trailer these last few nights, but nothing a few blankets can't remedy! :silly: Thanks for asking. :hug:

I come to the lounge to giggle and what do I run in to but music snobs - wishing death on a musician because you don't like their music is just twisted. It sounds so "fundie" - definitely not very liberal. :crazy:

[Shell Beau]

56. You got that right!

Anyway, I'm glad you're doing well. It has been chilly these past few nights. Stay warm!

[TX-RAT]

60. Grew up on Clapton

Even bought one of his Guitars at a Humane Society Auction.

[merh]

62. Guess some folks don't appreciate guitar players.

:shrug:

Lucky you for owning one of his guitars. :hi:

[TX-RAT]

65. 1200 dollars, hangs on the wall in my office

I kneel and pray to it every day at noon.

[merh]

67. I hope you don't let any fundies (or the OP)

see you do that, they might want to burn you at a stake or something. :crazy: :silly:

:hi: :rofl:

[Bridget Burke]

51. If he'd choked on his own vomit at 25, he'd be a Legend.

As it is, he's a human being who plays real good guitar.

[Rabrrrrrr]

61. And would have died at the height of his talent and relevancy, too!

He'd be worshiped like Hendrix, I bet.

[Bridget Burke]

100. Since when should guitar players be judged by "relevancy"?

Jimi Hendrix had more wide-ranging talents & I'm still sad about what we lost when he died. I saw him on the first US tour (Soft Machine opened). Yes, he played wild, amazing stuff on the guitar. But "Red House Blues" impressed me the most.

[Jim__]

59. Just out of curiousity ...

Couldn't you just avoid listening to his music? It doesn't seem like it would be that hard to avoid bumping into him and/or listening to his music.

Abhoring him seems like an awful waste of energy. It's probably bad for your health too. :)

[RetroLounge]

63. Wow, maybe YOU should work out your own issues

after reading down thread and your comments, I think maybe you have some issues...

RL

[devilgrrl]

69. Would you prefer that I said that I wished Dick Cheney dead?

Had I started a thread wishing Dick Cheney or Tom Delay to drop dead would you whine as much?

BTW, where did you get Doctorate in Psychiatry?

[RetroLounge]

76. Why would you wish *anyone* dead?

or blame them for their son's tragic death?

That's pretty whacked out, and your reaction tells me all I need to know, and I don't need a PhD to figure things out...

or did Clapton kick your dog?

RL

[devilgrrl]

79. He kicked my cat.

and it pissed me off.

[RetroLounge]

80. OK, maybe I can buy that.

Death to Clapton-The-Cat-Kicker!

:eyes:

RL

[Shell Beau]

98. I don't think it is healthy or wise to wish anyone death!

If you could just hear yourself.

[Saphire]

72. ding, ding, ding.

[Bombero1956]

73. I don't like Rod Stewart

if I hear one of his songs come on the XM, I switch channels, end of story. On my Ipod right now is a broad range of music from CCR to Linkin Park, Godsmack, Sublime, System of a Down and Hall & Oates. Those who belittle anothers taste in art, music and cinema belittles his own IMO.

[skygazer]

68. Grow up n/t

[ghostsofgiants]

77. Don't count on it

[devilgrrl]

83. When this thread dies....

in a few weeks, I'll post another one but I'll replace Clapton with a member of the Bush Crime Family. It will be amusing to see the reaction - which I bet will be completely different.

Until then. Eric Clapton still sucks.

[ghostsofgiants]

85. Interesting...

I won't be cheering on that one either, but there is a clear distinction between Eric Clapton, who is a musician and Bush and his cronies, who are responsible for the deaths of thousands of people, among other things that tend to be a little more serious than anything Eric Clapton might have done to offend you.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

88. I, for one... am a pacifist...

You may be surprised.... but I think few here wish DEATH upon folks.

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

74. Bitter much?

[devilgrrl]

78. Yep.

I am bitter. Bitter that Elvis hit with 'Hound Dog' and Big Mama Thornton didn't. Bitter that the Stones had a hit with 'Time is on My Side' and Irma Thomas didn't. Bitter that Eric Clapton is regarded as a guitar god when in reality, all of his riffs are ripped off of every blues guitarist from West Texas to the Mississippi Delta.

Yeah, I'm fucking bitter that the less than deserving are what general public as a whole views as brilliance. Kind of like the Bush Crime Family.

[Texasgal]

81. Your comparing Clapton

to the Bush CRIME FAMILY? WTF?

[devilgrrl]

84. America is in love with mediocrity...

The Bush Crime is the ultimate in mediocrity and Eric Clapton is quite mediocre compaired to BB King and Howlin' Wolf. And I'm sticking with it.

Eric Clapton sucks.

[merh]

86. Clapton will tell you that he thinks BB King is the better blues artist.

He will tell you that his music was inspired by the artists from the Delta.

I don't think BB resents Clapton as much as you do. :freak:

[devilgrrl]

87. Will that spare us from his Rolex commercials...

the official watch of the average citizen? :sarcasm:

[merh]

89. Tell you what, I'll work on the end to the Rolex commercial if

you work on the end to atheletes being paid millions for their short lived careers.

I really don't watch that much t.v. -- guess I missed the Rolex commercial. :shrug:

[devilgrrl]

90. It's a deal

:-)

[merh]

94. Deal! ;-)

:-)

[Cyndee_Lou_Who]

82. Hoookay... put the crack pipe down.

Comparing a musician to the BFEE is ridiculous. Did thousands of people die because I saw Clapton last summer? Will generations to come be responsible for a deficit because I like to chill to "Old Love"?

Snap into reality for a second... fer real.

[BlueIris]

91. What a mean thread.

Geez. Are you guys trying to kill my Fitzmas?

[devilgrrl]

92. Having to wait for Fitzmas prompted the thread....

with addition to the fact that Eric Clapton sucks.

I'm sick of the Bush Crime Family getting away with everything and people thinking that Eric Clapton is god... it's really annoying.

[Shell Beau]

99. No one has a problem with you thinking he sucks!

Wishing death upon him and attacking his parenting (which you know NOTHING about) is a different story. Why do you fail to see the difference? And furthermore, I do not wish death upon Bush, Cheney or any other rethug.

[donheld]

93. I like Eric

His latest is great IMHO

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

96. Time for the Eric Clapton & Jerry Garcia captured by cannibals joke.

Eric Clapton and Jerry Garcia are captured by cannibals.

As they sat in the slowly simmering stew pot, they were each offered a last request.

Garcia asked for his guitar, "so I can play "Truckin'" one more time and find peace in its sweet melody."

The cannibals turned to Clapton and said "What is your request?"

Clapton replied "Eat me first so I don't have to hear that fucking song."

:toast:

Thank you, ladies and gentlemen. I'll be here all week. Don't forget to order the shrimp cocktail!

:evilgrin:

[MrSlayer]

97. While I do not wish him death I don't particularly want him to live either

I'm just not a fan of his crapola music.

[Beware the Beast Man]

101. What the hell did he ever do to you?

Jeez, get a fuckin' hobby!