in ’70 he didnt get aboard
Claptons blue-eyed blues trainhe didnt even turn to wave goodbye as it left the
station
Good riddance
Clapton jumped the Yardbirds the
Bluesbreakers Cream
a real whore
although he was sure Clapton would think otherwise
Clapton the Purist
although he was sure Clapton would think otherwise
Clapton the Purist
willfully hanging his hat from that peg
he likened purists to
fundamentalistsand Gawd knows he never got along with their ilk
yet
there was something about After Midnight that always
spoke to him mumbled never explicit like quicksandwhich he found himself in up to
his knees before he realised it
he had no idea how that happenedand
he was an antsy muthafuckeralways at the bitchiding Its harder to hit a moving
target
he resented Clapton the Purist(who
was desperately trying to cop Lennons look: dark sunglasses burns center-parted
long hair) wouldnt a purist have pulled
together black backup vocalists and have them sing behind the band he
thought Clapton had when he learned
Clapton hadnt he free-ranged imagining smearing Delaney and Bonnie Coolidge
Stills Whitlock(Americanised at Ellis from Wetcock – Immigration had no intentions of contending
with Wetcocks trying to assimilate into their veritable White Christian nation) and
Allisons faces with black shine as Hollywood did shining White actors and
actresses red for Westerns because they didnt want to hire Indian extras to
play Indians
he wished he had the Jewish moxie
and money to make a movie of red and brown and black people done up in white
face for Ku Klux Klan and White Nationalists roles genius nothing
compliments better than copying an original
say Birth of an Illegitimate Nation after W D-40 Griffiths(yes he wasnt an eidget he knew it was D W) infamous film and
particular to Woodrow Wilsons racist White House Couldnt you smell tar boiling under the smell
and pop of popcornhear the hemp ropes twisted into nooses bellicose bloodhounds hankering for the chase Bubbas and
Bums and Bulls(hed like to see a black man not in whiteface playing Alabamas
Commissioner of Public Safety wearing a cheap 50s hat) bellowing southernly Sic em!
fundamentalists ranging scot-free unblemished tabula rasas on the scent of the
Word passed down from-on-high always wound him up tight
Aw man youre real dark
No no hellno Im not I play a mean tambourine( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5Vz-z4PEkk
)
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2 9. 17
0948, Twosday,
12 9. 17
Eric Clapton After Midnight
Bull Connor https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j9kT1yO4MGg Birmingham Alabamas Commissioner of Public
Safety
Lemon Pipers Green Tambourine
