{"id":30345,"date":"2024-09-13T03:02:34","date_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:02:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eric-clapton-dismisses-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-as-a-frat-boys-club-its-not-a-place-for-rebels\/"},"modified":"2024-09-13T03:02:34","modified_gmt":"2024-09-13T03:02:34","slug":"eric-clapton-dismisses-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-as-a-frat-boys-club-its-not-a-place-for-rebels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/eric-clapton-dismisses-rock-roll-hall-of-fame-as-a-frat-boys-club-its-not-a-place-for-rebels\/","title":{"rendered":"Eric Clapton dismisses Rock & Roll Hall of Fame as a “frat boys club”: “It’s not a place for rebels”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Eric Clapton at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in 2005; Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Eric Clapton<\/strong> is the only artist to date who’s been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame three times \u2014 as a solo artist, and as a member of The Yardbirds<\/strong> and Cream<\/strong>. Despite that, he doesn’t think much of the institution.<\/p>\n

In an interview with The Real Music Observer<\/em><\/a>, Clapton reacted to the fact that guitarist J.J. Cale<\/strong>\u00a0isn’t in the Rock Hall by launching into a diss of its existence.<\/p>\n

“I came to that thing, whatever it is \u2014 I think of it as a frat boys club that happened to lure [me] in \u2014 I think the fact that they had [late Atlantic Records executive] Ahmet Ertegun<\/strong> was the ticket for me,” he said.<\/p>\n

Clapton said he initially admired the fact that Ertegun, who was then chairman of the Hall, was attempting to get recognition for early artists like Ruth Brown<\/strong> and The Drifters<\/strong> “that were being forgotten.” But then, he added, “It just kind of started to snowball.\u201d<\/p>\n

Clapton noted he became “suspicious” of the Hall because Rolling Stone<\/em> magazine was very involved with it and claimed it was his late friend Robbie Robertson<\/strong> who “persuaded” him to be a part of it as well. While Clapton did describe his reunion with Cream <\/strong>for\u00a0their induction as “magic,” he now calls the Hall “a get-together … a schmooze.”<\/p>\n

Clapton also complained, “The fact that someone like J.J. has never even been suggested is proof of what that thing is, or proof of what it isn’t … he’s too anonymous for those guys.”<\/p>\n

When the fact that neither Paul Rodgers<\/strong> nor his band Bad Company<\/strong> are in the Hall was brought up, Clapton said, “He\u2019s a rebel. It\u2019s not a place for rebels. It\u2019s establishment stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Eric Clapton at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame ceremony in 2005; Jeff Kravitz\/FilmMagic Eric Clapton is the only artist to date who’s been inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame three times \u2014 as a solo artist, and as a member of The Yardbirds and Cream.Read More →<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,43,4],"tags":[7,134,317,114,315,316,142,106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30345"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=30345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/101gold\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}