“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 declared.
“I think of it as a frat boys club that happened to lure in,” Clapton said during a recent interview with
But despite the triple honor, Clapton believes he was duped into ever getting involved in the first place.“I think the fact that they had Ahmet Ertegun was the ticket for me,” he explained. “He was doing it for people like Ruth Brown and the Drifters, all those early Atlantic artists that were being forgotten. And then, it just kind of started to snowball.”
He said that even though it felt good to reunite with Cream at the 1993 induction ceremony, he eventually concluded that the influential names that haven’t been inducted into the Rock Hall, such as late guitarist J.J. Cale, spoke volumes.
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