Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 2:24 PM by Gene

And in more crusading press re -- NEWS from the ASSociated Press:

"I thought that it might be giving the wrong message to people who were in the same boat as me," Clapton recently told The Associated Press.

"But further investigation proved [SIC!!!!!] ... the song, if anything, if it's not even ambivalent, it's an anti-drug song. And so I thought that might be a better way to do it, to approach it from a more positive point of view. And carry on performing it as not a pro-drug song, but just as a reality check about what it does."

Clapton's band shouts out "dirty cocaine" during the song.

"It's one of those songs that you can take it any way you like," Clapton told the AP. "But it very clearly says in the opening verse, `If you wanna get down, down on the ground,' I mean, that's, I think, the focal point of the song. That's what the song's about, is that, you know, there's a price."

Clapton also said he missed playing "Cocaine," with its signature guitar riff, "just purely from a musical point of view."

Clever marketing Eric! Sorta like Cheech and Chong saying they were an ANTI-DRUG stoner act!

A Neuharthism of the Week Award to another ANONYMOUS hack!