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Semper Fi - 1775
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Much respect for Clapton - he discusses in the article how the Hollywood elite have begun distances themselves from him now…

**LINK ** What happened to Eric Clapton?

Robert Cray was stunned when he first heard “Stand and Deliver.” Eric Clapton, his onetime musical hero, who became a mentor and friend, had released his first protest song in 56 years of recording. Only it wasn’t about George Floyd or global warming. Clapton’s midtempo shuffle, a collaboration with Van Morrison released in December, went full anti-lockdown, taking aim at the government for trying to control a global pandemic by temporarily shuttering restaurants, gyms and concert halls.

What grabbed Cray’s attention was the second verse.

Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna be a free man
Or do you wanna be a slave?
Do you wanna wear these chains
Until you’re lying in the grave?

Cray — one of the great blues guitarists of his generation, a five-time Grammy winner and Black man born in segregated Georgia — emailed Clapton immediately. Was the 76-year-old guitar great comfortable singing Morrison’s words, which compared the lockdown to slavery?




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Cray should commend Clapton.

Slavery of any iteration, is wrong, or it is not.




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I'm not a huge Eric Clapton fan, but have a lot of respect for him to take a stand against the Covid idiots. On his recent tour he would only perform in venues where they had no Covid requirements. I can get with that all day long.
 
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