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Anything with Ginger Baker especially live, be it Cream, Blind Faith, Bakers Airforce/GBO, Baker Gurvitz Army or whatever else you can find, would be greatly appreciated! :) It may be annoying to find the "right" versions, but so worth it! Love the albums and this, but Crossroads is just a hint of what Cream could do, NSU, I'm so Glad, Sweet Wine, Spoonful, etc etc LIVE is what they really are about 🤘👹❤
Three absolute geniuses! ❤ I think you could enjoy Bakers stuff with Fela Kuti as well :) That dude was just different, pretty obviously my all time favorite drummer 😅
Even if it doesnt end up here, if you enjoyed this like that, you have to get into their catalog :) So much good stuff! Such great energy! And like i said, for me, especially LIVE
This was one of the super groups of the 60's. Everyone of the 3 guys (Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker & Eric Clapton) was super talented but they also had big egos. So they didn't always get a long. They all came from previous successful bands. But in the few short years they were together they produced some classic songs such as "White Room", "Badge", "Born Under A Bad Sign", "Tales Of Brave Ulysses", "Strange Brew", "Sunshine Of Your Love", "SWLABR" etc.
You are right, This was an old blues song. They sped up and then displayed their own musicianship. Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Ginger Baker on drums, and Jack Bruce on bass and singing. They were all recognized as leaders in their specialties at the time and ever since. They were all so good it was said by critics that they all seemed to try to outdo each other on every song and that drove the excellence. They didn't stay together very long, but several of their songs are classic rock greats.
This song was inspired by the legend of Robert Johnson the great Blues man who made a deal with the Devil to make him a great guitarist at the Crossroads.
If you’ve never heard it, Sunshine of your Love is amazing. As a guitar fan, if you’ve never heard it, George Harrison’s While my Guitar Gently Weeps will blow you away. God’s blessings 👩🏻✝️💙🐕🖤🎸
Ginger Baker was famous as a jazz drummer before he was brought into Rock and Roll music. He later migrated to Africa to learn more about rethemes from different cultures. He and Jack Bruce, the bassist knew one another from the Jazz, Classical side of music and Eric Clapton consciously searched for a rhythm section with such a background to bounce his blues rock style off of. Jack Bruce was not only a classical bass player from Scotland but was a great vocalist on much of the Cream material.
These live recordings of Cream at Royal Albert Hall I've always said and told my son that this was one of the greatest nights in Rock and Roll history. And at 71 I stand by that. This will be played at my funeral.
Saw them play this in Detroit in 67. Then I realized this was the best band ever. You had to see them live to understand. They changed everything. IMHO.
@@louisrondone1332 Actually it was a Gibson EBO the SG was the six string guitar with the same body style. The Humbucking pickups and the heavy guage flat wound strings along with the tube driven amplifier he used gave him the thick tone he got.
Thanks. I was just trying to keep things simple by referring to it as an SG. I figured the bass might have a different name than the guitar. I played a Gibson Thunderbird, which was the bass version of the Firebird guitar.😺
For the love of God, someone with deep pockets please request... "Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by the Spencer Davis Group. I want to see Polo's face when he hears 16 year old Steve Winwood's voice.
Nobody could make a bass sing and sound as lyrical as Jack Bruce could. He did most of the singing, too. His ashes are buried about ten feet from my family's, so whenever I pay them a visit I always say hi to Jack too. I saw their reunion concert at the Albert Hall in 2005 and it was unforgettable. When I was a teenager back in the 70s I used to smoke a j, put the headphones on and listen to Crossroads so I could hear the incredible guitar in one ear and the amazing bass in the other. Amazing !
ALL of the Crossroads Guitar Festival videos are incredible. Such an amazing group of talent from pretty much EVERY genre of music came together to benefit Clapton's Crossroads Recovery Centre. Hundreds of artists, thousands of fans, millions of smiles and TONS of help for those in need of addiction recovery.
Cream was so popular during their time in the Rock spotlight that people seemed to not get enough of them, yet Eric Clapton wanted to try many different bands and Ginger Baker (drums) and Jack Bruce (bass) knew they could play with anybody so they also moved on. The public finally got their wish when in 2005 they reassembled and played 3 nights at the Royal Albert Hall in London for a reported $15 Million. Why don't you get the TH-cam video of that reunion of a great band and enjoy that performance. It was a mammoth success with people from America buying tickets for all 3 nights and flying in for their memory and dream reunion. You will love it too,
This song is cover of one of the original blues guitarist and singer from the 1920's to the 1930's and his name is Robert Johnson . So awesome !!!! 🤘🔥🎸💯....
I’ve seen you react to a few blues songs that are popular covers. “When the Levee Breaks”, and “Crossroads (blues)” were both cover songs, the originals were written in 1929 by Memphis Minnie, and 1936 by Robert Johnson, respectively. I know it’s not popular with the TH-cam crowd, but I think you should at least hear the originals. These blues artists created the foundation for blues, and rock n roll that the British popularized and became rich off of, while the original artists died penniless. I’m not telling you how to live your life, but I hope you can pay homage to the original creators of the blues we love so much. ✌🏽❤
+1 for this! would love to see you go back and listen to some of the original blues greats, now that you've heard the generation that got rich bringing their work into the mainstream!
The gen that got rich off, hung up much? You gotta let it go these are great musicians and songwriters that just happened to pay homage to someone they liked. I'll leave it at that.
@@Zak_Nike no, not hung up on it, I think the Stones, Zeppelin, the Animals, Bob Dylan, and many, many others, are great artists in their own right, I'm just saying I'd ALSO like to see people acknowledge some of the folk and blues greats that preceded them. 👍
@@Zak_Nike Yes, they paid homage, but that is about it. Let’s be real, Eric Clapton would shit his pants if someone got rich off of his songs and he never saw a penny. Or more accurately, Clapton’s label. Wouldn’t be the first time someone was uncredited, and unpaid. I think now, a lot of the wrongs are being corrected, and a lot of these blues artist’s estates are being paid for their songs. Unfortunately, for many blues originators in the south, that was just the way it was back then. They were just poor black artists from the south. They couldn’t call up their lawyers, because they didn’t have any.
I listened to the album with crossroads on it at 2:00 in the morning on FM radio. I waited all night for the record store to open. I bought the album the next morning when the record store owner unlocked the door. A very special group.
“This reminds me of the blues.” That’s funny, considering a lot of early classic rock music was a bunch of white guys (often British) playing electrified, amplified, and distorted classic blues songs.
He has turned into a horrible human being. But I was blessed to see him once, and he is that rarified air of the truly great guitarists. God’s blessings 👩🏻✝️💙🐕🖤🎸
@@randi_godspeed2063you must be a Christian. Running down someone you don't know while virtue signaling with your false blessings. Knock it off judgemental judy.
@@randi_godspeed2063 , sorry to hear about the ugliness, wow. I also seen him too in St. Louis, I actually won 2 tickets from a radio station. The radio station shuttled a bus for all the winners and provided a lunch for us all. We were able to bring our own alcohol, we were 1 hour on the road and had to make a stop to get more alcohol. His album Pilgrim was released at that time, we had a great time. I bought a tee shirt at the concert and never wore it because I decided to frame it along with the ticket and photo that was taken there.
I was 15 when this song first appeared. Had just bought my first "component stereo" system. Found myself immediately turning the treble way down and the bass all the way up. It's still how I like listening to this incredible track!
Someone also mentioned Eric Clapton’s “Layla”. Great guitar in that. The backstory is that Layla is Patty Boyd, who was married to his good friend George Harrison of the Beatles. Then Eric fell in love with her and married her. Quite the scandal. “I tried to give you consolation When your old man had let you down Like a fool, I fell in love with you You turned my whole world upside down” Also, Eric wrote the hit song “wonderful tonight” about her, AND George Harrison wrote the classic song “Something” and a couple of others for her as well.
I was impressed that you gave props to the bass and drums before you even made mention of the guitar. Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were the backbone of this group.
Polo comes from a hip hop and r&b background and tends to lock in on bass and drums more than guitar. Luckily in this case there was a lot there. I hope he gets to hear the bass line for "badge"... the song might be less to his liking but the bass work is tasty.
I was 14/15 when this was released, so growing up as a teenager listening to that and the other tracks from the double ‘Wheels of Fire’ album, especially the live album, was thrilling. They were/are my favourite group. I went on to love solo artist John Martyn, who Eric Clapton held in high regard, and said on his passing he was “so far ahead of everything, it’s almost inconceivable’. Try John Martyn’s ‘Don’t Want to Know’ from Solid Air, ‘Big Muff’ from One World, ‘Grace and Danger’ from the album of the same name, or the wonderful ‘Hurt in Your Heart’ from the same album. Honestly, there are so many great songs on about 20 albums. I saw him live more than any other artist, solo, duo, quartet, quintet. An extraordinary man who had a leg amputated towards the end of his career, but still continued touring; he hardly stopped. Anyway, please do try listening to his wide variety of styles.
after 55 years I still cannot believe 3 guys can make this much music. The driver not mentioned was Ginger Baker getting more frenetic from 5.35 onwards. He does it even more pronounced fashion in the latter half of "White Room" with his double kicks on the bass drum
Absolutely love that Cleveland Story man. I played in so many different kinds of venues including so many dive bars in so many different situations and somehow that totally resonates with me. Especially as kids man I could just see it.
I saw Cream (at the time Fresh Cream) on my 15th birthday (1967). I feel like the era I grew up in was possibly the last time in America it was really great to be a kid.
Funny you should mention dancing to old blues tunes in Cleveland, this is likely one of those songs you remember. This track is a cover of an old blues tune (indeed, sped up a lot) written by a hugely prolific blues man, Robert Johnson. Google him, he wrote some of the best music of the 20th century and all before he died in 1938 at age 27!
Damn I'm not sure I've ever heard a reactor say it quite that specifically before about how you can focus in on different parts. As a musician of so long, it's the only way I can listen to music and I tend to do exactly what you're saying all the time, but I'll bounce around from different parts and check it out from different angles and then I'll start listening to combinations of Parts like the Rhythm Section for example. So it might be bass and drums and a keyboard or rhythm guitar included in there, and then I'll listen to the singing or the background vocals if there are any and then I'll just sit back and try to put all those things together into a whole, and enjoy things on that overall level. And this is also why I will listen to certain things several times in a row, because now you can check out different things in different combinations of things once you kind of know the landscape and just really focus in and then just step back out and really just feel it. And you can do this with every single genre of music, and I absolutely love it. Music is one of the best things in this multiverse.
Having grown up at the time this music is part of my soul I know every word and every note. I was lucky to have gone through the era when this music bloomed.
Cream is considered the first "Super Group" and first "Power Trio" with three all-star musicians who became famous in other bands, and came together to create magic.
Mr.Robert Johnson would be happy if he´d listen to this version of this song he recorded in the 1930es.The three members of Cream playing at their best.As I told you in my comments to your Sunshine of your love reaction this is the Cream I would pour in my coffee!
Eric Clapton has an annual Crossroads Guitar Festival to benefit the Crossroads drug rehab center in Aruba. There are some great live performances available on youtube. The one with BB King is a great clip.
The drummer, Ginger Baker, and bassist, Jack Bruce, spent years as elite, professional jazz musicians prior to Cream, so they were veterans of jazz improvisation when playing live, and Cream, although their studio Lps were great, they were best when live. To further appreciate their live improv, I would recommend one of the live videos of thei cover of the blues song I'm So Glad from their 1968 goodbye tour.
eric clapton was on guitar, and he was huge. HYYUUUUUGE. one of his nicknames was "slow-hand," although i never really understood it because the notes in those solos weren't slow at all. he put in a couple of years (at least) in the early through mid-60s with the yardbirds (which also produced jimmy page), a group that combined the blues and psychedelic rock. he went on to play for john mayall and the blues breakers, where he met jack bruce. bruce, the bassist and ginger baker, the drummer, had both previously been in "blues incorporated," as well as at least one other band, where they clashed horribly. why they elected to work together again is a mystery, but cream was formed 1966 and broke up just two years later in 1968, mostly because they were at each other's throats, quelle surprise! baker had a reputation as a wild man, and he lived up to it but he was considered one of that era's best drummers. bruce, a scots guy, ranks #8 on a list of best bass players of all time compiled by "rolling stone magazine." he was also the main vocalist and writer of many songs for the group, although i think the one you just reacted to was all clapto. and that concludes our lesson for today.
@@shobudski6776 True. I love Strats but Clapton's tone is not my favorite. I much prefer the neck pickup tone of Gilmour, Vaughn, etc, although they do use other positions, too. I just think Claptone's tone is too thin. My other fav is the immortal Les Paul.
Yeah, saw Cream at the Anaheim Convention Center in 1968. One of the best concerts I've been to and I saw most of the big groups in late 60's early,70s. Growing up in the LA area.
"The entire band is hittin on all cylinders" is right bro. This is one of the best numbers played by a three piece ever. My goodness, it's kinda like three individual obtuse parts that somehow fit perfectly together.
This was first released on the Wheels of Fire double album and I can remember the day I bought it. For me, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, and Fleetwood Mac (the original blues band with the guitar virtuoso Peter Green and not the later more commercial band) were my favourites in the 60s. Just about the three best guitarists at the time. Great to be in London then - no place like it…….unlike now!
A good knowledge base of the blues is the first step towards rock n roll understanding. Without the blues we wouldn’t have Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and so many others.
An article I read back then described the best Cream songs as “dueling solos” by all 3 of the musicians, and you definitely hear that in this live track. Another of the greatest live tracks ever is Spoonful off the Wheels of Fire album. It’s this quality but 3x longer. Brilliant improvisation where they play off each other to perfection. It’s also an old blues tune, like Crossroads.
Jack Bruce's bass playing is legendary. How can you go wrong with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.....it's delicious... you are really getting into great stuff Polo
What we have here is three of the greatest musicians ever jamming on a Robert Johnson classic Blues number, and then suddenly catching on fire, with Eric Clapton spontaneously improvising one the greatest electric guitar solos ever ...... why his guitar didn't burst into flames remains a mystery ......
First, I'm from Cleveland. I was born in Berea lots of years ago. Lived in California, Michigan and Illinois for about 30 yrs, and have been back here for 10 yrs. I live about 25 minutes from downtown.Second, the drummer is Ginger Baker. He's so good when Queen was forming their band, they advertised for "Ginger Baker-like drummer".
Saw them twice. First tour in St. Louis at the "late" Kiel Auditorium and their Farewell Tour in Chicago, where familiar Cream music morphed into a psychedelic free-for-all with each player fighting for fearless dominance. Those were the days.
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Anything with Ginger Baker especially live, be it Cream, Blind Faith, Bakers Airforce/GBO, Baker Gurvitz Army or whatever else you can find, would be greatly appreciated! :)
It may be annoying to find the "right" versions, but so worth it!
Love the albums and this, but Crossroads is just a hint of what Cream could do, NSU, I'm so Glad, Sweet Wine, Spoonful, etc etc LIVE is what they really are about 🤘👹❤
This sounded like old school blues because it was a cover of Robert Johnson's Crossroad, just sped up and rockified.
Three absolute geniuses! ❤
I think you could enjoy Bakers stuff with Fela Kuti as well :)
That dude was just different, pretty obviously my all time favorite drummer 😅
Shotout to the supporter that send that one in indeed
Even if it doesnt end up here, if you enjoyed this like that, you have to get into their catalog :)
So much good stuff! Such great energy! And like i said, for me, especially LIVE
That's three people. Three. They all play extraordinary music.
This was one of the super groups of the 60's. Everyone of the 3 guys (Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker & Eric Clapton) was super talented but they also had big egos. So they didn't always get a long. They all came from previous successful bands. But in the few short years they were together they produced some classic songs such as "White Room", "Badge", "Born Under A Bad Sign", "Tales Of Brave Ulysses", "Strange Brew", "Sunshine Of Your Love", "SWLABR" etc.
Artists want to see their vision produced. When you have three, will always clash.
Nailed it!
I approve of this message! 😉♥
Agreed, though BADGE should be capitalized, given that it's the chord progression.
You are right, This was an old blues song. They sped up and then displayed their own musicianship. Eric Clapton on lead guitar, Ginger Baker on drums, and Jack Bruce on bass and singing. They were all recognized as leaders in their specialties at the time and ever since. They were all so good it was said by critics that they all seemed to try to outdo each other on every song and that drove the excellence.
They didn't stay together very long, but several of their songs are classic rock greats.
Jack Bruce is off the fuckin charts incredible bass player Scotland is extremely proud
This song was inspired by the legend of Robert Johnson the great Blues man who made a deal with the Devil to make him a great guitarist at the Crossroads.
It's a cover of a Robert Johnson song.
There's an 80's movie about that legend.
Yeah it was originally by Robert Johnson. It was called Cross Road Blues when he did it.
Isnt ry cooder the original? If not i think its the best one
If you’ve never heard it, Sunshine of your Love is amazing. As a guitar fan, if you’ve never heard it, George Harrison’s While my Guitar Gently Weeps will blow you away. God’s blessings 👩🏻✝️💙🐕🖤🎸
Ginger Baker was famous as a jazz drummer before he was brought into Rock and Roll music. He later migrated to Africa to learn more about rethemes from different cultures. He and Jack Bruce, the bassist knew one another from the Jazz, Classical side of music and Eric Clapton consciously searched for a rhythm section with such a background to bounce his blues rock style off of. Jack Bruce was not only a classical bass player from Scotland but was a great vocalist on much of the Cream material.
This an old Robert Johnson delta blues tune from WAY back in the day that Clapton, Baker, and Bruce made a rock classic.
These live recordings of Cream at Royal Albert Hall I've always said and told my son that this
was one of the greatest nights in Rock and Roll history. And at 71 I stand by that. This will be played at my funeral.
This is the famous version from Wheels of Fire. It was recorded 10 March 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco, California.
HIGHLY recommend Cream's "White Room". Great wah-wah guitar soloing by Clapton
Saw them play this in Detroit in 67. Then I realized this was the best band ever. You had to see them live to understand. They changed everything. IMHO.
Changed my life too back in 1967 !!!! I can never forget listening to this for the first time...out of this world and still is.
Grande Ballroom with Uncle Russ!
Same, in 67. I cried they were so Otherworldly , never to be duplicated
An amzing band...first super group. Jack Bruce is a monster bass player. Fretless bass, at that.
Later he did play a fretless bass but back then he played a Gibson SG.
@@louisrondone1332 Actually it was a Gibson EBO the SG was the six string guitar with the same body style. The Humbucking pickups and the heavy guage flat wound strings along with the tube driven amplifier he used gave him the thick tone he got.
Thanks. I was just trying to keep things simple by referring to it as an SG. I figured the bass might have a different name than the guitar. I played a Gibson Thunderbird, which was the bass version of the Firebird guitar.😺
I remember dancing to 'Sunshine of Your Love' at my grade 8 graduation in 1969 - I still have my original album! So many classics on it!
For the love of God, someone with deep pockets please request...
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down and Out" by the Spencer Davis Group.
I want to see Polo's face when he hears 16 year old Steve Winwood's voice.
It seems that their instruments were only created for them... and no one before and after !!!Those 3 guys are unbelievable !!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
This IS an old school blues song, by the great Robert Johnson. It's a modern interpretation of one of Johnson's masterpieces.
I knew Eric then and was lucky enough to get to see most of their gigs. My friends and I were enjoying life to the full…
3 stellar musicians all soloing at the same time!
Nobody could make a bass sing and sound as lyrical as Jack Bruce could. He did most of the singing, too. His ashes are buried about ten feet from my family's, so whenever I pay them a visit I always say hi to Jack too. I saw their reunion concert at the Albert Hall in 2005 and it was unforgettable. When I was a teenager back in the 70s I used to smoke a j, put the headphones on and listen to Crossroads so I could hear the incredible guitar in one ear and the amazing bass in the other. Amazing !
Baker, Bruce, and Clapton. The cream of the crop.
This is why Clapton is a famous guitarist. Everybody who came after learned from him.
Strange Brew and White Room next if you can please! So glad you enjoyed this! ❤
White room is always the first to come to mind when I think of Cream
@@DMB088…and their best song too.
@@DMB088 It and "Sunshine of Your Love" both do for me.
Love White Room
We’re going wrong old version
Crossroads is also the name of the drug and alcohol treatment clinic that Eric founded to pay it forward
ALL of the Crossroads Guitar Festival videos are incredible. Such an amazing group of talent from pretty much EVERY genre of music came together to benefit Clapton's Crossroads Recovery Centre. Hundreds of artists, thousands of fans, millions of smiles and TONS of help for those in need of addiction recovery.
Cream was so popular during their time in the Rock spotlight that people seemed to not get enough of them, yet Eric Clapton wanted to try many different bands and Ginger Baker (drums) and Jack Bruce (bass) knew they could play with anybody so they also moved on. The public finally got their wish when in 2005 they reassembled and played 3 nights at the Royal Albert Hall in London for a reported $15 Million. Why don't you get the TH-cam video of that reunion of a great band and enjoy that performance. It was a mammoth success with people from America buying tickets for all 3 nights and flying in for their memory and dream reunion. You will love it too,
That beautiful solo is Mr Eric Clapton,
This song is cover of one of the original blues guitarist and singer from the 1920's to the 1930's and his name is Robert Johnson . So awesome !!!! 🤘🔥🎸💯....
Eric Clapton's Derek and the Dominos full lp, Traffic's John Barleycorn Must Die lp also
What you know is that you like it and that's what matters.
I’ve seen you react to a few blues songs that are popular covers. “When the Levee Breaks”, and “Crossroads (blues)” were both cover songs, the originals were written in 1929 by Memphis Minnie, and 1936 by Robert Johnson, respectively. I know it’s not popular with the TH-cam crowd, but I think you should at least hear the originals. These blues artists created the foundation for blues, and rock n roll that the British popularized and became rich off of, while the original artists died penniless. I’m not telling you how to live your life, but I hope you can pay homage to the original creators of the blues we love so much. ✌🏽❤
Ronert Johnson's recordings are unearthly.
+1 for this! would love to see you go back and listen to some of the original blues greats, now that you've heard the generation that got rich bringing their work into the mainstream!
The gen that got rich off, hung up much? You gotta let it go these are great musicians and songwriters that just happened to pay homage to someone they liked. I'll leave it at that.
@@Zak_Nike no, not hung up on it, I think the Stones, Zeppelin, the Animals, Bob Dylan, and many, many others, are great artists in their own right, I'm just saying I'd ALSO like to see people acknowledge some of the folk and blues greats that preceded them. 👍
@@Zak_Nike Yes, they paid homage, but that is about it. Let’s be real, Eric Clapton would shit his pants if someone got rich off of his songs and he never saw a penny. Or more accurately, Clapton’s label. Wouldn’t be the first time someone was uncredited, and unpaid. I think now, a lot of the wrongs are being corrected, and a lot of these blues artist’s estates are being paid for their songs. Unfortunately, for many blues originators in the south, that was just the way it was back then. They were just poor black artists from the south. They couldn’t call up their lawyers, because they didn’t have any.
I listened to the album with crossroads on it at 2:00 in the morning on FM radio. I waited all night for the record store to open. I bought the album the next morning when the record store owner unlocked the door. A very special group.
“This reminds me of the blues.”
That’s funny, considering a lot of early classic rock music was a bunch of white guys (often British) playing electrified, amplified, and distorted classic blues songs.
Best bass and lead solo combo in music history? Yes for my money. Proper good.
Oh yeah, this is going to be great ENJOY! Clapton is just one of my favorite guitarists, love him!
He has turned into a horrible human being. But I was blessed to see him once, and he is that rarified air of the truly great guitarists. God’s blessings 👩🏻✝️💙🐕🖤🎸
@@randi_godspeed2063you must be a Christian. Running down someone you don't know while virtue signaling with your false blessings. Knock it off judgemental judy.
@@randi_godspeed2063 , sorry to hear about the ugliness, wow. I also seen him too in St. Louis, I actually won 2 tickets from a radio station. The radio station shuttled a bus for all the winners and provided a lunch for us all. We were able to bring our own alcohol, we were 1 hour on the road and had to make a stop to get more alcohol. His album Pilgrim was released at that time, we had a great time. I bought a tee shirt at the concert and never wore it because I decided to frame it along with the ticket and photo that was taken there.
the original version of this song is Crossroad Blues by Robert Johnson in 1936 for sure a blues song
Wow I will look up Robert Johnson Crossroad Blues 1936! Thanks for the comment.✌🏼🌻
This was not just inspired by the story of Robert Johnson. It is a cover of the Robert Johnson song, with Cream's interpretation.
Old school blues sped up….. that’s exactly what this is.
For a song that was recorded live, in 1968 no less, the quality of the sound is incredible.
Oh wow, I got lucky and came across this one minute before it starts! You will love Clapton on guitar.
The bass line ruled every Cream song.
I was 15 when this song first appeared. Had just bought my first "component stereo" system. Found myself immediately turning the treble way down and the bass all the way up. It's still how I like listening to this incredible track!
This band has been my #1 favorite since 1967 and continues to be my favorite. Great reaction, nice that you appreciated that talent .
Reference to the crossroads where Robert Johnson sold his soul to the devil in exchange for his musical genius.
Yes! Clarksdale Mississippi plus Rosedale Mississippi- down by the river side!
This is most powerful band to ever play a note. RIP brothers!
Someone also mentioned Eric Clapton’s “Layla”. Great guitar in that. The backstory is that Layla is Patty Boyd, who was married to his good friend George Harrison of the Beatles. Then Eric fell in love with her and married her. Quite the scandal.
“I tried to give you consolation
When your old man had let you down
Like a fool, I fell in love with you
You turned my whole world upside down”
Also, Eric wrote the hit song “wonderful tonight” about her, AND George Harrison wrote the classic song “Something” and a couple of others for her as well.
I was impressed that you gave props to the bass and drums before you even made mention of the guitar. Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were the backbone of this group.
Polo comes from a hip hop and r&b background and tends to lock in on bass and drums more than guitar. Luckily in this case there was a lot there. I hope he gets to hear the bass line for "badge"... the song might be less to his liking but the bass work is tasty.
"Beware of Mr. Baker" on Netflix was awesome good watch
Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were awesome..Baker one if not the best rock drummer...
Good find. 'Badge' is a seldom mentioned song of theirs. All 3 players were way above talent, though Clapton was not the same after his 'comeback'.
There is a TH-cam video of this live performance, which adds to its greatness
I was 14/15 when this was released, so growing up as a teenager listening to that and the other tracks from the double ‘Wheels of Fire’ album, especially the live album, was thrilling. They were/are my favourite group. I went on to love solo artist John Martyn, who Eric Clapton held in high regard, and said on his passing he was “so far ahead of everything, it’s almost inconceivable’. Try John Martyn’s ‘Don’t Want to Know’ from Solid Air, ‘Big Muff’ from One World, ‘Grace and Danger’ from the album of the same name, or the wonderful ‘Hurt in Your Heart’ from the same album. Honestly, there are so many great songs on about 20 albums. I saw him live more than any other artist, solo, duo, quartet, quintet. An extraordinary man who had a leg amputated towards the end of his career, but still continued touring; he hardly stopped. Anyway, please do try listening to his wide variety of styles.
A song from my youth,great stuff
I never this song (going on 60 years now) and just hear the guitar.
These 3 guys cooked!
after 55 years I still cannot believe 3 guys can make this much music. The driver not mentioned was Ginger Baker getting more frenetic from 5.35 onwards. He does it even more pronounced fashion in the latter half of "White Room" with his double kicks on the bass drum
Saw them in concert in the 60s. Amazing!
There are many groups from my time of youth that were great musicians and/or still are. I loved them all. Cream and many other are among these groups,
All three of these guys in the group were great in all their talents.
It’s as time bluesy, because it’s a Robert Johnson song!
Had this band stayed together, absolute super stardom! All 3 were unbelievably talented! Now 1 left
You know what the world knew, what Scorsese knew, that this band was something special, for however long they stayed together.
To me, these solos by Clapton are among the best in rock. Just superb guitar work!
Absolutely love that Cleveland Story man. I played in so many different kinds of venues including so many dive bars in so many different situations and somehow that totally resonates with me. Especially as kids man I could just see it.
The CREAM OF THE CROP. The reason for the band name. They were considered some of the best musicians of their time.
I saw Cream (at the time Fresh Cream) on my 15th birthday (1967). I feel like the era I grew up in was possibly the last time in America it was really great to be a kid.
Funny you should mention dancing to old blues tunes in Cleveland, this is likely one of those songs you remember. This track is a cover of an old blues tune (indeed, sped up a lot) written by a hugely prolific blues man, Robert Johnson. Google him, he wrote some of the best music of the 20th century and all before he died in 1938 at age 27!
One of my favorite songs. My son played guitar and I challenged him to learn this for me…he did!
Damn I'm not sure I've ever heard a reactor say it quite that specifically before about how you can focus in on different parts. As a musician of so long, it's the only way I can listen to music and I tend to do exactly what you're saying all the time, but I'll bounce around from different parts and check it out from different angles and then I'll start listening to combinations of Parts like the Rhythm Section for example. So it might be bass and drums and a keyboard or rhythm guitar included in there, and then I'll listen to the singing or the background vocals if there are any and then I'll just sit back and try to put all those things together into a whole, and enjoy things on that overall level.
And this is also why I will listen to certain things several times in a row, because now you can check out different things in different combinations of things once you kind of know the landscape and just really focus in and then just step back out and really just feel it. And you can do this with every single genre of music, and I absolutely love it. Music is one of the best things in this multiverse.
Spoonful is the one.............on "Wheels of Fire",.......…. Only Claptón is alive,.... Tremendóus blues hippy band....... Get dvd..
Ah what great memories-
RIP Jack Bruce. Amazing artist. RIP Ginger Baker,. Definitely the Cream of the Crop.
Having grown up at the time this music is part of my soul I know every word and every note. I was lucky to have gone through the era when this music bloomed.
Cream is considered the first "Super Group" and first "Power Trio" with three all-star musicians who became famous in other bands, and came together to create magic.
Mr.Robert Johnson would be happy if he´d listen to this version of this song he recorded in the 1930es.The three members of Cream playing at their best.As I told you in my comments to your Sunshine of your love reaction this is the Cream I would pour in my coffee!
Yeah …. Genius.
Eric Clapton has an annual Crossroads Guitar Festival to benefit the Crossroads drug rehab center in Aruba. There are some great live performances available on youtube. The one with BB King is a great clip.
The Supergroup of all Supergroups.
Other amazing Cream songs are Strange Brew and Tales of Brave Ulysses
Great reaction to arguably 2 of the best lead runs ever recorded.
My generation had superb musical talent
I saw them do this live in my home town, Cleveland, Ohio, 1968. Great show.
It's phenomenonal.
Been viewed that way since the 60s.
Cream is absolutely amazing band and there is another song by cream that is called train time that has the most amazing harmonica
The drummer, Ginger Baker, and bassist, Jack Bruce, spent years as elite, professional jazz musicians prior to Cream, so they were veterans of jazz improvisation when playing live, and Cream, although their studio Lps were great, they were best when live. To further appreciate their live improv, I would recommend one of the live videos of thei cover of the blues song I'm So Glad from their 1968 goodbye tour.
eric clapton was on guitar, and he was huge. HYYUUUUUGE. one of his nicknames was "slow-hand," although i never really understood it because the notes in those solos weren't slow at all. he put in a couple of years (at least) in the early through mid-60s with the yardbirds (which also produced jimmy page), a group that combined the blues and psychedelic rock. he went on to play for john mayall and the blues breakers, where he met jack bruce. bruce, the bassist and ginger baker, the drummer, had both previously been in "blues incorporated," as well as at least one other band, where they clashed horribly. why they elected to work together again is a mystery, but cream was formed 1966 and broke up just two years later in 1968, mostly because they were at each other's throats, quelle surprise! baker had a reputation as a wild man, and he lived up to it but he was considered one of that era's best drummers. bruce, a scots guy, ranks #8 on a list of best bass players of all time compiled by "rolling stone magazine." he was also the main vocalist and writer of many songs for the group, although i think the one you just reacted to was all clapto. and that concludes our lesson for today.
One of those rare moments where incredible talents come together. It cant last. But ain't it great while it does.
Clapton used a Gibson SG for this song. It was just before he went to Fender Stratocasters.
And he never had this awesome humbucker tone again after going to Fender Strats.
@@shobudski6776 True. I love Strats but Clapton's tone is not my favorite. I much prefer the neck pickup tone of Gilmour, Vaughn, etc, although they do use other positions, too. I just think Claptone's tone is too thin. My other fav is the immortal Les Paul.
Yeah, saw Cream at the Anaheim Convention Center in 1968. One of the best concerts I've been to and I saw most of the big groups in late 60's early,70s. Growing up in the LA area.
as others have suggested sunshine of your love, and white room. the later having some of the most amazing mind numbing guitar playing in rock
There is a reason they called their band Cream, Clapton, Baker, and Bruce were the cream of the crop.
"The entire band is hittin on all cylinders" is right bro. This is one of the best numbers played by a three piece ever. My goodness, it's kinda like three individual obtuse parts that somehow fit perfectly together.
Song based on Robert Johnston selling his soul to the devil for his fame
Clapton plays on George Harrison's "While my guitar Gently Weeps" A MUST LISTEN.
Ooh yes... seconded 😊
This was first released on the Wheels of Fire double album and I can remember the day I bought it. For me, Cream, Jimi Hendrix, and Fleetwood Mac (the original blues band with the guitar virtuoso Peter Green and not the later more commercial band) were my favourites in the 60s. Just about the three best guitarists at the time. Great to be in London then - no place like it…….unlike now!
A good knowledge base of the blues is the first step towards rock n roll understanding. Without the blues we wouldn’t have Cream, Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones and so many others.
An article I read back then described the best Cream songs as “dueling solos” by all 3 of the musicians, and you definitely hear that in this live track.
Another of the greatest live tracks ever is Spoonful off the Wheels of Fire album. It’s this quality but 3x longer. Brilliant improvisation where they play off each other to perfection. It’s also an old blues tune, like Crossroads.
Agreed.
Rest in power Jack Bruce and Ginger baker. A rhythm section of doom.
Jack Bruce's bass playing is legendary. How can you go wrong with Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.....it's delicious... you are really getting into great stuff Polo
Oh boy as said before me many🎸 songs 🎸listed, waiting for the NEXT!💯
What we have here is three of the greatest musicians ever jamming on a Robert Johnson classic Blues number, and then suddenly catching on fire, with Eric Clapton spontaneously improvising one the greatest electric guitar solos ever ...... why his guitar didn't burst into flames remains a mystery ......
Eric Clapton turned this song into an annual concert tour name for years. They were phenomenal.
First, I'm from Cleveland. I was born in Berea lots of years ago. Lived in California, Michigan and Illinois for about 30 yrs, and have been back here for 10 yrs. I live about 25 minutes from downtown.Second, the drummer is Ginger Baker. He's so good when Queen was forming their band, they advertised for "Ginger Baker-like drummer".
Brother this was a band of all virtuoso’s trying to out play each other every song!
CREAM! What can I say, jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and guitar God himself Eric Clapton!!!! Does not get any better- Tyler
Saw them twice. First tour in St. Louis at the "late" Kiel Auditorium and their Farewell Tour in Chicago, where familiar Cream music morphed into a psychedelic free-for-all with each player fighting for fearless dominance. Those were the days.