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Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Anonymous — Sun, 2 Feb 2014 23:39:20 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 02/03/2014 04:39

José González wins, 10 - 7

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 03:06:37 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/28/2014 08:06

fair enough

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Jasonconfused — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 01:30:04 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 01/28/2014 06:30

Jhereko wrote:

the beauty of hindsight, huh? It just so happens that Gonzalez is winning so you can say this but if he wasn't you wouldn't have been surprised because there's no evidence to support the idea that BEA in general is fond of him.

Vote to Gonzalez for me. he's fantastic.

Yea I'd honestly never heard of this guy, but I based it on some of the unfavorable things that have been said about Clapton here before.

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Anonymous — Tue, 28 Jan 2014 00:34:56 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/28/2014 05:34

Jasonconfused wrote:

On BEA? No way.

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

benpaco — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 22:09:40 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 01/28/2014 03:09

Jasonconfused wrote:

On BEA? No way.

Eh, 8-5 isn't quite a shoe in and honestly all I'd reawlly heard about Jose in the past was "he's alright, but he's too inoffensive" (doesn't sound like any of my other noms ...) I just assumed people would more vote against him than vote for Clapton, its just been the exact opposite so far

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Jasonconfused — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 20:24:30 GMT

Author: Jasonconfused

Posted: 01/28/2014 01:24

benpaco wrote:

I fully expect that Jose Gonzalez is gonna have a hard time with this one.

On BEA? No way.

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Mercury — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 18:25:21 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 01/27/2014 23:25

Well wrote:

Last year I went to a Mark Kozelek concert. He was very tired (hadn't slept for twelve nights according to himself), so his communication with the crowd was either him yawning, complaining about just about everything, or telling some half-assed jokes. He seemed to wonder what kinds of sick freaks who voluntarily went to his concerts, so he also asked us a bunch of questions. At some point he asked if we could name him some artists that we liked; "And please don't fucking tell me shit like José González or Bon Iver", he added (so people said Bill Callahan and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy instead). When he actually sang and played, one of the songs he performed was Livingstone Bramble which includes the line, "I hate Eric Clapton and I hate Nels Cline"

Moral of the story: I'll abstain

Really? Is that a true story? If so, bad ass... But why hate nels cline? He's a sweet
Guitarist.

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 17:58:41 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/27/2014 22:58

Last year I went to a Mark Kozelek concert. He was very tired (hadn't slept for twelve nights according to himself), so his communication with the crowd was either him yawning, complaining about just about everything, or telling some half-assed jokes. He seemed to wonder what kinds of sick freaks who voluntarily went to his concerts, so he also asked us a bunch of questions. At some point he asked if we could name him some artists that we liked; "And please don't fucking tell me shit like José González or Bon Iver", he added (so people said Bill Callahan and Bonnie 'Prince' Billy instead). When he actually sang and played, one of the songs he performed was Livingstone Bramble which includes the line, "I hate Eric Clapton and I hate Nels Cline"

Moral of the story: I'll abstain

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

RockyRaccoon — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:43:17 GMT

Author: RockyRaccoon

Posted: 01/27/2014 18:43

lethalnezzle wrote:

Eric Clapton grew up in roughly the same area as me, claims to support the same football team. When he was struggling for relevance some time in the '80s, he asked the football club if he could perform at the stadium at half-time in order to drum up some local publicity etc.; the club said yes and this happened a few times. When the football club was then struggling in the early 1990s, lower in the league than it had ever been, Clapton was enjoying a major resurgence. The club attempted to get him back, a sort of "return the favour" thing. He was "too busy". You'll struggle to find evidence of this online, but I've been informed by many older fans than me that this is pretty much what happened. Also, his music is shit. tl;dr, fuck Eric Clapton.

Somehow this totally doesn't surprise me. I think there's a reason he's been in and left so many bands, he seems to be relatively hard to work with.

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

meccalecca — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:38:31 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 01/27/2014 18:38

lethalnezzle wrote:

thank you for that. made me even happier to vote against Clapton

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Anonymous — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:36:19 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/27/2014 18:36

Eric Clapton grew up in roughly the same area as me, claims to support the same football team. When he was struggling for relevance some time in the '80s, he asked the football club if he could perform at the stadium at half-time in order to drum up some local publicity etc.; the club said yes and this happened a few times. When the football club was then struggling in the early 1990s, lower in the league than it had ever been, Clapton was enjoying a major resurgence. The club attempted to get him back, a sort of "return the favour" thing. He was "too busy". You'll struggle to find evidence of this online, but I've been informed by many older fans than me that this is pretty much what happened. Also, his music is shit. tl;dr, fuck Eric Clapton.

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

meccalecca — Mon, 27 Jan 2014 13:17:02 GMT

Author: meccalecca

Posted: 01/27/2014 18:17

Norman Bates wrote:

I voted against Clapton more than anything else.

This. Jose Gonzalez is pleasant but I hardly see him as anything special. but he's still better than Clapton

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:06:01 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/26/2014 23:06

I have a similar feeling to Norman, but I dislike both, and at the moment I don't want to vote for someone who I dislike less. So I abstain.

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Norman Bates — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 18:01:26 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 01/26/2014 23:01

Voted for Gonzalez. He has some fine tunes & voice.

But honestly I voted against Clapton more than anything else.

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Mercury — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:18:32 GMT

Author: Mercury

Posted: 01/26/2014 22:18

Clapton sometimes makes me want to vomit.

His brand of safe soft/blues rock he's been working since about 1970 just annoys the shit out of me.

Jose Gonzalez, well, he has moments of kind of pissing me off with how monotonous the mood of his music is. But mostly I love his fluid and gorgeous acoustic guitar playing. I like his haunting voice mostly. He's a pretty good lyricist too.

Gonzalez. Easily.

Re: BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

benpaco — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 17:13:22 GMT

Author: benpaco

Posted: 01/26/2014 22:13

I fully expect that Jose Gonzalez is gonna have a hard time with this one. However, I honestly believe he's the better musician, I'm not just voting for him cuz he's my nom. His original songs kick ass:

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and he has the ability to cover songs in totally new and incredible ways. He puts his own soul into everything he does and can really transform whatever song he wants to into a masterpiece.

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BSAT Round #1: José González vs Eric Clapton [CLSD]

Anonymous — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 10:53:39 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 01/26/2014 15:53

BSAT

Round 1

Jose Gonzalez

Captain: benpaco

Eric Clapton

Captain: Antonio-Pedro