God doesn't need to know what time it is.

@tylermunns You forgot to answer this part of my questions:

Has your band ever been invited by one of the blues greats to open for him or has one of the blues greats ever opened for you? Does or did Buddy Guy, B.B. King or Muddy Waters enjoy jamming with you?

Clapton has been a respected guitarist among the best of the Blues and Rock guitar playing community for decades. It is the nobodies who have never played with anyone except their highschool buddies that tend to criticize his playing. What has that got to do with McDonalds?

Also, I forgot to mention Jimi Hendrix as one of the people who enjoyed jamming with Clapton. I could add a lot more guitarists to that list, but you get the idea.

...' I'm not wholly off the deep end with the conspiracy theorists and racists either'...

Pardon my ignorance as I live in a country where there is just one race, but I always thoght that beeing a 'racists' meens that you do not like the presence or existance of other races or that you think that you are somehow 'better' than the others.

I have seen Clapton playing with many other different folks, so I guess he does not fit in that category or that word (racist) has some other meaning that I do not fully know yet?. 

On the other hand, calling somebody a 'conspiricy theorist' just because he has different personal experince (his words on vaccine are based on his condition after he took one) and despite many similar claims from many other people or even after published Pfeizer data which shows many registered death and heavy conseqences of their 'medicine' is just plain dumb, but above all, rude.

Such talk should not be present in any decent comunication between civilised men  or even on forums despite the fact that some people obviously take advantage and shelter behind anonymity of their comuter keyboards

Still I find such behaviour despicable, even in this form.

@djones51 

"Then again,  I'm not wholly off the deep end with the conspiracy theorists and racists either." 

Something you and I have in common, then. 

Pardon my ignorance as I live in a country where there is just one race

Then I’ll just pardon your ignorance.

"I'm not racist I ride on the bus with different races and work with them!"

The watch referenced in the link above has that estimated price because it’s a possibly unique Rolex of iconic design. Clapton’s ownership isn’t adding much to the price, after 20 years

Separately, but relatedly, the watch market has gone bananas in the last 24 months

Clapton does collect Patek Philippe watches, often built for him with customized dials (in great taste). These he sells from time to time, with the proceeds going to charitable causes. These pieces are expensive both because of the customized dials (one has to be a great customer for Patek to customize a dial, and so these variation are often unique) and because directly from Clapton’s collection - these customized Clapton pieces, eventually sold for charity, are a “thing” in their own right and have been for a long time

(Only a strict Marxist thinks anything has intrinsic value, so who cares how people spend their money?)

Just a comment from the peanut gallery….