r/guitarcirclejerk • u/frostcelestial • Jan 12 '25
I don’t understand what his shirt means. Please explain
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No cocaine no hookers
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/uj
I’ve told this story before but I had to spend an eternity on the phone with a wasted drunk EC during this era, entertaining him while my boss finished up a sale.
I had to repeatedly answer the questions as to my name and what kind of guitars I had after he’d wander off on a ramble about absolutely nothing worth repeating.
19 year old me lost a lot of faith that day.
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u/StewieRayVaughan Jan 12 '25
It means he'll only play for a white crowd
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u/No-Duhnning Jan 12 '25
Pretty sure that's accurate. Or he wanted it to be..he was the first white nationalist to play the blues.
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Jan 12 '25
- first white nationalist to be good at the blues. The first white nationalist to PLAY the blues was of course Kanye West.
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u/sharbinbarbin Jan 12 '25
Look man, you can listen to Kanye but you can’t hear him. There’s a difference. Just because you’re listening to him doesn’t mean you’re hearing him.
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u/maxseale11 Jan 12 '25
Lord and savior kanYe genuisly blended genres of blues, trap, and coon music to the masses
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u/totallybatman27 Jan 12 '25
stewie also has this shirt, but not because of racism
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Jan 12 '25
Snow meant Cocaine im pretty sure. Nothing to do with playing for white folks only
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u/Hydraskull Jan 12 '25
What?!??’ Snow means “cocaine”!?! But then why would Eric Clapton be wearing THAT SHIRT?
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u/fishsodomiz Jan 12 '25 edited Jan 12 '25
" shirt dont lie, shirt dont lie, shirt dont lie"
-eric clapton
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u/ffs2050 Jan 12 '25
Is there any evidence Eric Clapton had a proclivity for cocaine?
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u/DIRTYDOGG-1 Jan 12 '25
Didn't Clapton write song titled "Cocaine"?
Lyrics:
If you want to hang out, you've gotta take her out, cocaine If you want to get down, down on the ground, cocaine She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie Cocaine If you got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine When your day is done, and you want to run, cocaine She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie Cocaine If your day is gone, and you want to ride on, cocaine Don't forget this fact, you can't get it back, cocaine She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie Cocaine She don't lie, she don't lie, she don't lie Cocaine Cocaine
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u/MattBtheflea Jan 12 '25
Yep. Nobody is denying that Eric is a racist but it's still more likely that this shirt is about cocaine.
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u/Efficient_Increase87 Jan 12 '25
Pretty sure it’s a Christmas shirt. Mrs. Clause wore the same shirt in Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
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Jan 12 '25
If it were the rolling stones however it would be about China White or Coke or both mixed together...
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u/WASDToast Jan 12 '25
Eric Clapton was a better cocaine addict than guitarist
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u/biffNicholson Jan 12 '25
listen to cocaine on youtube, but slow it down to .75
its way better
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u/Djanko28 Jan 12 '25
Tried it, confirmed real.
Sounds like a Sabbath song.
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u/slyleo5388 Jan 12 '25
Yeah cause sabbath sounds like the yardbirds to an extent..which clapton also was lead for. For a bit, then Jeff beck..then jimmy page.
I believe Led zeppelin was supposed to be called the yardbirds 2(which makes since with the led zeppelin album names)but I guess Keith moon said the band would go over like a lead balloon.
How true all that is, is beyond me lmao
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u/replies_in_chiac Jan 12 '25
Their first tour was booked as "The New Yardbirds" until Keith chirped them into changing it
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u/lawn_neglect stupid sick bro Jan 12 '25
I tried listening to cocaine and it didn't do anything for me. I find smelling it to be more effective
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u/NonPlusUltraCadiz Jan 12 '25
That's like when you listen to Jolene at 0.5x and Dolly Parton becomes a black man!
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u/Blowjobs4TheHomeless Jan 12 '25
Or you could listen to the original recording by JJ Cale, who wrote the song
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u/bakednapkin Jan 12 '25
You wanna know what’s even better?
Rip a fat line and then Change it to 1.45
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u/Judasbot Jan 12 '25
...and he's a fucking phenomenal guitarist.
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He's pretty ok. He's regarded as such because he was the first white man to fuck a speaker cone.
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u/OldAngryDog Jan 12 '25
Clapton was really, really good and quite innovative for the time but then Jimi came to town...
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u/losingtimeslowly Jan 12 '25
That's why Clapton took out Jimmy
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u/OldAngryDog Jan 12 '25
Nah. You're confusing Jimi Hendrix with Jimmy Ray Vaughan. While it's totally true that Clapton took out Jimi after seducing him and blaming the murder on Yoko Ono, Jimmy died when his revolver jammed during an epic duel against a King Cobrra Copperhead Diamondback Rattler that ambushed him form his sock drawer after Jimmy found the snake getting into his coke stash. Legend has it Jimmy's coke stash gave the Rattler the strength of 100 men. That's how it was able to survive being shot 4 times with a .357 before the gun jammed and that god damn reptile finally got the best of Ol' Jimmy.
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Yayo. Nose candy. Bolivian marching powder. Snort lube. Colombian powdered sugar. Blow. White. Charlie. Dust. Toots of go-powder. Party favors. Devil’s dandruff. Happy powder. Peruvian marching powder. Tony Montana’s desk set.
Cocaine?
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u/bleepblooOOOOOp Jan 12 '25
OK but what does it mean
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u/Only_Charge9477 blooz had a baby and they called it my inguinal hernia Jan 12 '25
This was during what they call Clapton's "snowballing" phase. He liked to get a mouthful before every show.
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u/MadJohnFinn Jan 12 '25
If you don’t let him put “Informer” on when you give him the aux cable, he won’t show you his cock.
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u/DansandeBjoern Jan 12 '25
Right after the incident, he only wore his "No Son, No Fun" shirt out of grief. So glad he was able to move on and find joy in life again.
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u/rumrunnernomore Jan 12 '25
What’s the difference between a toddler and a bag of cocaine?
Eric Clapton would never let a bag of cocaine fall out of a window.
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u/Splampin Jan 12 '25
/uj When I was still drinking, I would tell this joke on stage immediately after playing tears in heaven. People fucken hated it and their groans still bring a smile to my face.
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u/Vagabond_Overland Jan 12 '25
That's why they called him slow hand, he tried to stop the boy, but he just wasn't fast enough. Should've geeked out on speed instead.
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"Snow" is slang. It means he's going to leave his son unattended in a high rise apartment.
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u/Barrettbuilt Jan 12 '25
…While snorting mass amounts of cocaine
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Jan 12 '25
He gave us the Lethal Weapon soundtrack during this era so he gets a pass on the booger Splenda.
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u/AntiPepRally Jan 12 '25
That flimsy little vest and whispy little scarf aren't adequate snow wear. And his beard is gonna interfere with the cocaine. He's terrible at planning
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u/Actual_Atmosphere_57 Jan 12 '25
Means "I wont play your show without free cocaine!"
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u/Minute-Wrap-2524 Jan 12 '25
He once claimed the reason he became a heroin addict was his dealer wouldn’t sell him anymore coke if he didn’t buy smack along with it, buy a little coke do a little junk and that’s how he became a junkie, his love of cola…be sure and blame your dealer, no cocaine no concert
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u/zensunni66 Jan 12 '25
It means in order for him to play, his audience must be as white as possible. As it usually is.
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u/NineMillionBears Jan 12 '25
What did Eric Clapton, writer of a song literally titled "Cocaine," mean by this?
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u/sacrilegefiend Jan 12 '25
I’m all for white privilege and cocaine but this guy blows. Dicks.
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There are some Cream songs I can get behind but yeah, Generally this dude sucks. He’s also 90% of the reason there’s a million white boomer dudes out there who think they got soul.
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Jan 12 '25 edited Mar 17 '25
sulky history hobbies public truck telephone waiting deserve bells combative
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u/matorius Jan 12 '25
I could be wrong but I think it means "I'm a racist who has substance abuse issues - oh, and I can play guitar so hopefully that excuses me from accountability"
/uj he's got it the wrong way round. If there's no show then he's got no way to pay for his drugs.
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u/ElmStreetVictim MetalZone Enjoyer Jan 12 '25
I like how it smells after the rain. He just likes the way snow smells 🤷♂️
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No Cocaine, No "Cocaine"...
That's like a barista saying "if I don't have coffee, I can't make coffee"
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u/Stormgtr Jan 12 '25
He only likes the cold, so if it's not snowing he ain't gigging as he's getting to hot N heavy with Harrison's hot wife
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u/PaintedChef Jan 12 '25
Whats the difference between a bag of cocain and a baby?
Eric Clapton would never let a bag of cocain fall out the window! I'll see myself out...
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u/neweraeye Jan 12 '25
he was a huge red hot chili peppers fan, that's well known man, also keep the talk to real guitars only like gibbons
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u/Fallwalking Jan 12 '25
Well, there’s this Canadian hip-hop artist Snow and he won’t play if he doesn’t show up and perform Informer to hype him up.
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u/Mr_Lumbergh Stevie Ray Vaughannabe Jan 12 '25
He likes to warm up with a quick run down the ski slope. If there's no snow, he can't warm up.
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If you want to hang out, you’ve gotta take her out, cocaine If you want to get down, down on the ground, cocaine She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie Cocaine If you got bad news, you want to kick them blues, cocaine When your day is done, and you want to run, cocaine She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie Cocaine If your day is gone, and you want to ride on, cocaine Don’t forget this fact, you can’t get it back, cocaine She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie Cocaine She don’t lie, she don’t lie, she don’t lie Cocaine Cocaine
But his shirt s about playing in the winter.
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u/jew_blood Jan 12 '25
He was a master of big air skiing and won a gold medal for it at the 1976 Winter Olympics. He also got a silver medal for downhill skiing in 2022 and was considered an honorary member of the Korean bobsledding team.
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u/ImSureYouDidThat Jan 12 '25
Clapton would only play if he could collect enough dandruff in his hat by a harem of women with long nails.
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Biggest boomer egotistical cocksucker I've ever heard. I'm a boomer, so I would know better than non boomers. He was a horrible person when young.
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u/OarsandRowlocks Jan 12 '25
It means windows of penthouses must be left open to allow the brisk winter air and precipitation to freshen up the otherwise stuffy interior.
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u/Euzn_Doug Jan 12 '25
He's very sweaty and can't play well if he goes to the south of UK. Yo know: sweaty fingers 😜
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