"Cocaine" is not about cocaine.

[sundog]

It's Eric Clapton's tribute to Italian neo-realism. He was primarily interested in Fellini's work & was simply using cocaine as a metaphor.

[texas1928]

1. yeah and I got two legs.

:eyes:

[sundog]

2. you doubt me?

:eyes:

[texas1928]

3. Uh

YEAH!!!

:eyes:

[Maddy McCall]

8. LOL

You are too funny. :7

[Spider Jerusalem]

4. Clapton? Don't you mean John Cale?

[swag]

7. pssst - JJ Cale

(John Cale was the Welsh violist with the Velvet Underground, and in spite of a long subsequent solo recording career, he was not JJ Cale, who wrote "Cocaine.")

[sundog]

9. SNAP!

:P

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. They're both named John, actually...

"JJ" probably decided to call himself that because there was already a John Cale on the music scene.

[swag]

13. Excuse me for saying so, but now you're sounding a bit like

Karl Rove's Attorney.

Wikipedia has this to say about JJ: "He was born Jean Jacques Cale in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma and raised in Tulsa."

[swag]

5. Cocaine is usually about more cocaine. And not much else.

But a lot of things are usually about more of themselves, and not much else.

Dollars, for instance.

[hfojvt]

6. What about Jackson Browne's song? n/t

[Crazy Guggenheim]

10. Didn't Jackson Browne get arrested for assult on his girlfriend

at one time?

[Tallison]

12. Explains "Doctor, my eyes!"