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“It was something complimentary, along the lines of, ‘Hey, it’s Eric - great work you’re doing,’ ” McLaughlin says. But when McLaughlin emailed the account listed with the donation, he received a text from the 76-year-old British guitar hero himself. “I’m, like, this could be fake,” McLaughlin recalls. And one day this past spring, he was shocked to see a £1,000 donation on the site from Eric Clapton. This past spring, the car the group used to transport its gear was rendered nearly unusable after an accident, so McLaughlin started a GoFundMe page to help pay for transportation, gas, and legal fees. musicians that plays for free in public spaces, spreading the anti-lockdown word and sometimes singing songs with lyrics like “You can stick your poison vaccine up your arse.” For their efforts, Jam for Freedom are often hassled by police, and McLaughlin himself says he was arrested for what he calls “breach of Covid regulations” during one show. An unapologetic opponent of lockdowns and Covid-19 vaccine skeptic - he is, as he puts it, “pro-medical choice”- the 27-year-old Brit is founder of Jam for Freedom, a group of U.K. Cambel McLaughlin thought he was being punked.