Re: HoL EMI Booklet

[Dongerous! <fastslow@idt.net>]

At 4:11 AM -0700 8-2-97, Robb McCaffree wrote:
>Dongerous! wrote:
>
>>
>> Granted, Clapton did some fine work at one time, but he's been pretty
>> tapped out since the Derek & the Dominos days were over. What's with that
>> song about his kid falling out of a window? That nearly bored ME to
>> death...
>
>Are you being serious?

Oh, yeah. That song is terrible.

> Whether you're joking or not, this was an
>offensive thing to say. I don't have a problem with your
>disliking a song and saying so, but insensitivity to another's
>pain -- especially in grief -- is simply not done.

I think that the turning of his son's death into a money-making venture is
offensive. It's not like he wrote the song to express his grief and kept it
to himself. He exploited the situation, much to the pleasure of the NARAS
people (who give out the Grammys).

>I know you
>like to swagger in your posts -- and usually your assertiveness
>makes me smile, but in this area it truly is best to step
>lightly.

Why? I found everything surrounding "Tears From Heaven" to be disgusting.

>I'm sure one of the reasons KB chose Clapton to work on ASIL was
>that he'd just experienced such a horrible loss -- much as she
>had done with her mother. And the fact that he is a guitar god
>probably didn't hurt her decision.  :-)

Or that he might help sell a few records.

- Don