2 second hate
For whatever reason Eric Clapton has always grated on me. I think it was one of those arbitrary middle school/high school decisions that I’ve never really had reason to revise. Anyway this cell phone commercial has been on non-stop during the olympics and I’m super sick of it. The thing I hate the most is the “move” Clapton does at 0:15. Other lowlights include the song (“I get off on ’57 Chevys” cannot think of a less interesting thing to get off on) and Clapton doing his best Earthworm Jim impression at 0:11.
February 19th, 2010 at 4:20 pm
zach, I’ve never particularly cared for clapton’s music myself. there was always something about that whole british blues thing that I thought was kind of cheesy. I’m not sure what you mean by earthworm jim though, just that he looks like him? and is the move you’re talking about just turning the phone over deliberately???
that being said, I haven’t watched any of the olympics this year, any good
February 19th, 2010 at 4:26 pm
mark, the earthworm jim thing is clapton kind of going chinless for a second there. The “move” is the little head-bob and shoulder shrug he does in the video of him playing that they show on the phone. i know it’s a dumb thing to hate but you can’t always explain this stuff.
olympics pretty depressing. for whatever reason i remember the summer olympics being a more 24/7 thing, whereas the winter olympics get this like 2hr “best of” treatment before returning to regularly scheduled programming.
February 19th, 2010 at 4:46 pm
ah! I see the move now. you’re right it’s pretty lame.
nbc probably has the olympics running continuously on the cable channels and save the highlights for the networks. but I think in general people just don’t care as much about the winter olympics. and, I mean, snowboard jumping wtf
February 23rd, 2010 at 1:20 pm
could not agree more. barf.
March 2nd, 2010 at 3:42 pm
I’ve never really liked Clapton either. He’s possibly the least emotive and bloodless of the 60s/70s generation guitarists. There’s only so far that studying the blues and treating the form like a museum piece can take you. While Keith Richards is certainly (far) less technically proficient than Clapton, he gets the blues in a way that Clapton absolutely does not. And let’s not even start on the mighty Jimmy Page, who couples Clapton’s chops with a far more emotive and powerful style of playing. If you want to hear an electric blues song that Clapton could never pull off, check out Led Zeppelin’s “Since I’ve Been Loving You.”
March 2nd, 2010 at 6:03 pm
now we’re talking. definitely digging the 3/4 time signature in that song.
March 2nd, 2010 at 8:23 pm
Yeah Dave, “Since I’ve Been Loving You” is pretty amazing. Can’t really say anything more about that.