Speaking of total fire, don't forget your namesake, Duane Allman. Everything Duane touched was gold! They can always play some Allman Brothers Band. They're on a fantastic journey that's fun to watch. Thanks!
@@mikemicrael5749 …He’s my favorite guitarist…..the tone of his guitar was incredible 🍑🎸 The whole Allman Brothers Band was a cast of Master Musicians …everyone of them were phenomenal at what they did ✌️….. I recommend You Don’t Love Me…from their Fillmore East Album….I’m hopeful these guys will react to it…it’s a 19+ minute jam of 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Crossroads is Cream's rocked-up version of an old Robert Johnson blues classic, recored by Robert back in the 1930s. The story, now myth, is Robert was supposed to have sold his soul to the devil at a place where two roads intersect... the crossroads. You should listen to the old Robert Johnson version. There's something haunting about his guitar playing and vocals. Robert was an extraordinary talent who seemed to capture some of the strange magic of Mississippi Delta, the birthplace of the blues.
"Cream" - A British rock band formed in London in 1966. The group consisted of bassist Jack Bruce, guitarist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker. The name came because they were considered to be the Cream of musical talent.
“That wasn’t a regular guitar solo. That was definitely above average.” 😂 hell yeah, dude. It’s literally considered one of the greatest guitar solos ever recorded. I love your response. You knew you just heard something special
Recently on Alice Cooper’s radio show he said, “Cream was selling out every show, their albums were flying out the door, so why not break up?” He couldn’t understand it.
Eric Clapton's iconic guitar solo is a master class on phrasing and how to mix major and minor pentatonic scales over a classic 1-4-5 blues progression. This is probably one of the most copied solos of all time and was a HUGE influence on almost all rock/blues guitar players. This from Clapton: "It’s so funny, this,” Clapton says. “I’ve always had that held up as like, ‘This is one of the great landmarks of guitar playing.’ But most of that solo is on the wrong beat. Instead of playing on the two and the four, I’m playing on the one and the three and thinking, ‘That’s the off beat.’ No wonder people think it’s so good-because it’s f**ing wrong.” The second solo is even better. Scorching, playing that made Clapton a legend. Monumental.
Saw a BBC doc about Cream. Jack Bruce was sent to a symphoy place at 14. They made him play? Oboi. Or a boring thing. They sent everyone home but made him write a concert? He did it. Or was it a freanch horn?
Bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker were from a jazz background and had played together previously in a jazz quartet, whereas Clapton came from a blues background, so the trios ended up playing blues & rock but also playing a lot of improvisation like in jazz.
Cream is a British band and the song was written by the great Robert Johnson. Eric Clapton was first the featured guitarist in the Yardbirds (1963-1965) - a very successful British pop/rock band, famous for the fact that they had in their membership over the years, the three greatest rock guitarists of the era, Eric Clapton, followed by Jimmy Page, followed by Jeff Beck. After the yardbirds, Clapton joined the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. It was during this time that the famous graffiti, "CLAPTON IS GOD," first appeared. He left John Mayall after one year and went on to for the band Cream with Ginger Baker (a well established jazz/rock drummer) and Jack Bruce ( a we'll known bassist and songwriter), both of whom had been members of the Graham Bond Organisation. After Cream broke up, Clapton formed the group Blind Faith with Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood (keyboards, guitars, vocals, songwriting - formerly with the Spencer Davis Group, and the jazz-rock band, Traffic) and Rich Grech ( bassist, formerly with the band Family). This band lasted about 7 months. By this time Clapton had tired of the hard rock scene and joined a folk/roots rock band, Delaney, Bonnie and Friends. He also began writing songs and performing with many different bands. After Delaney and releasing his first solo album, "Eric Clapton," and still seeking to evade the public spotlight, he joined with Duane Allman, keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Ladle, and drummer Jim Gordon to form Derek and the Dominoes. After that Clapton pursued a solo career as well as performing with a myriad of big named artists.
It was Beck who came after Clapton. Page first joined the Yardbirds as the bass player when bassist Paul Samwell-Smith left. Soon after that he and guitarist Chris Dreja swapped instruments and for a brief period, the Yardbirds had both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page as guitarists.
Ned again, speaking as a drummer myself, Ginger was the guy that I copied the most, 2 bass drums, multiple stacked cymbals, the whole 9. Ginger taught me a lot as did all the rest of the late 60s crew, Mitch Mitchell, Bonham, Ian Paice, Keith Moon, Ringo and Charlie Watts too....
they were all from England. Their idols and music dreams came from the US, but Jack Bruce was a classically trained bassist, Ginger Baker was the most famous drummer in England who went and lived in Africa to learn percussions and drum rhythms. Clapton, obviously was the best blues guitarist in England, best friend of the Beatles and was brought in to work on some of their music. Cream was all English guys, but they too the US by storm with their hard rock blues show in the 60's.
The iconic Cream, one of the landing vessels of the British invasion, featuring the great Eric Clapton guys!! In his early years. He venerated the blues. I strongly suggest you take a deep dive into Cream and all songs Eric Clapton.
Cream was one of the British Invasion bands of the 1960s and early 1970s; others were The Animals, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, The Rolling Stones, and many more. The Brits (and other European bands) brought the Classic Black Blues of the 1920s-1940s back to the U.S. but they had ELECTRIFIED THE BLUES; the "bedraggled, beat-down" blues lyrics can still be enjoyed and sympathized with, but the faster and louder beat was primary. The BLUES live on with an assist from these Europeans. A whole new generation, several generations actually, have relished the amplified, juiced-up BLUES! Long live The Blues!! Eric Clapton was the guitarist, Jack Bruce on bass, and Ginger Baker on the drum kit.
The young British musicians of the 1960's really embraced the blues and reinvented the sound. Cream was one of many British groups that embraced the blues. There were many like the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Traffic, John Mayall, The Animals, Ten Years After and so on. I was 14 when I saw Cream in Sacramento. Incredible night of music. Nice reaction to a super group from that era.
Cream were a British rock band formed in London in 1966. The group consisted of bassist Jack Bruce, guitarist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker. Bruce was the primary songwriter and vocalist, although Clapton and Baker contributed to songs.
Cream was a British rock band! Eric Clapton the guitarist has been inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame 3 times For Cream , The Yardbirds, and solo career
Every decade of rock has 1 or 2 bands that not only change the course of music history but have a sound and style so unique it is endlessly mimicked. Cream was one of these bands in the 60's. And the Clapton solos on this performance was the absolute zenith of his skills and abilities.
Guys, this was 1966! Clapton in front of a live audience playing a 335 through a Marshal amp with absolutely no effects. And singing while doing it. It was earth shattering at the time.
At the time, they were together in 1967, Eric Clapton was asked by a reporter, "What kind of music do you play?" He said: "Blues, ancient and modern". Yep.
Cream was the first power trio out of England that had a true standout lead guitarist. This is the band that made Eric Clapton a big name on the FM radio stations. The best music was heard either on FM stations, college stations or the record/head shops back then. Their most popular song, Sunshine of your Love, at that time broke some sexual lyrical barriers. This band was a huge influence to many bands that came after.
Another band with Eric Clapton in it. Cream had some nice music, and musicians. White Room is my suggestion for your next Cream song, or maybe Sunshine of Your Love. BTW don't give up on SD. They have a lot more good music for you to react to. I suggest you refresh with some of Donald Fagen's solo stuff. Back on point, I loved Cream when I was young, and I'm glad you found them. Clapton went on to do Layla with Derek and The Dominoes after he and Cream parted ways. Nice reaction.
Crossroads by Robert Johnston was THE song. This was most people's introduction to the blues. Arguably the most famous blues song of all time. Cream were English. English bands brought the blues back to an unenlightened white population in America.
The Cross Roads is where ' Robert Johnson. sold his soul to the devil ' in exchange for his magical blues ability, Eric Clapton , Jack Bruce , bass , vocals, Ginger Baker , drums ( introduced the double bass drums)
If you like this, you're gonna like everything these guys did. They, like Zeppelin, Beatles, and the stones, were a gathering of genius musicians. There were more insanely great bands, as you know, but these were the best of the best.
Yup, hard to believe they hadn't heard of Cream- as much music variety they were raised on. But it's SOOO exciting to see their reactions!!! Takes me back to when I first got my new album by Cream. Their reactions show that what we grew up listening to still stands up today!! 👍🏼🔥
Power trio to the MAX... hell'uva jam session and inspiration for lots of musicians thereafter... Hell Yeah Eric Clapton guitar Jack Bruce. Bass Ginger Baker drums
Hey guys, the "Crossroads" solo was and is considered to be the greatest rock solo of the rock genre based on a blues/jazz format. Clapton was Van Halen's MAIN guitar influence when he growing up. I spoke with him briefly. This was his comment to me personally.
The first Supergroup!! The Brits loved the blues! Clapton's nickname is Slow-hand. And for a while in the 70s, "god", lower case. If you ever see Clapton play, which I did about 40 years ago in Philly, he's called Slow-hand because those notes are jamming and you can't see the hand moving. Amazing! Which begets the 2nd nickname, god.
Chronology of Clapton's career -- John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Derek and the Dominoes and then solo.
All 3 were great musicians and didn't last in each other's presence near long enough IMO but their legacy has lasted almost 60yrs and still played all over the world! Ginger Baker was on a whole other level...
This is Terry VonCannon. They were considered the first so called super group. Signs around England stated Clapton was God. He was until Hendrix came on the scene. Great reaction. Check out some live Cream versions. They were all virtuoso players and would really jam out.
Eric Clapton had a guitar festival called Crossroads Guitar Festival played at different locations until one was held at Dallas in 2019. Eric also helped to establish rehabilitation place named Crossroads Centre located at Caribbean Islands: Antigua and Barbuda. Money raised from the festival are used for the Centre.
The bass player was the great Jack Bruce, who was also the band's principal songwriter and lead vocalist, although not on this one. Bruce is generally regarded in the top 2 or 3 bassists in rock history. He was also proficient on harmonica, cello and piano among others.
Clapton can do some blues that's for sure! You need to see this live. I just saw Eric last year again for the second time and age has not slowed this man down. He was stellar!
All three were monster players. You can't miss Clapton's two incendiary solos, but Jack Bruce plays some of the boldest and powerful yet nimble bass runs I've ever heard. And Ginger Baker, who shared Jack's jazz background, changed the way thousands of drummers set up their kits. In answer to your question, Jack was Scottish. Ginger was English and Eric still is.
Crossroads written by Robert Johnson in 1936 the original member of the 27 club . Allegedly Robert made a deal with the devil to become a blues guitar player and may have been poisoned by a jealous husband and died at 27 years old . The song basically put Eric Clapton in the class of one of the greatest guitar players in history.
Cross roads was the first solo that put an electric chill up my spine. Robert Johnson was OG. Eric Clapton"s first love is the blues. He trained in it, played in blues bands when he first started out. They were from England. American Blues was a huge influence on English rock. Led Zeppelin, anyone? Jack Bruce did amazing work on bass!
Robert Johnson wrote this in the thirties. These boys were early twenties Englishmen contemporary with the Beatles. Lead guitarist and vocalist Eric Clapton was George Harrison's best friend.
Cream is part of the deep dive into Eric Clapton that I mentioned in one of your other reactions. His stint with Cream coincides with the time that “Clapton is God” graffiti started appearing in cities across Europe! Crossroads is another cover of a Robert Johnson song from the 1930’s. Johnson was one of Clapton’s biggest influences.
This is Cream live in 1968. Pure and organic improvised blues/jazz, highly amplified. This was the precursor to fusion, heavy/hard rock and ultimately metal.
The Crossroads Festival in Clarksville, MS (home of Muddy Watters and Eric Johnson) has witnessed many appearances of Eric Clapton and other great Blues artists paying tribute to the origins of blues music!!! The title of this song is homage to the Mississippi Delta blues area!!!! The Crossroads (two local Highways) being where Eric Johnson allegedly sold his soul to be able to play the blue music the way he did.
Ginger Baker, drums, Jack Bruce, Bass, Eric Clapton, Guitar. Three hugely talented musicians, each one of if not the best of their kind then and now. Formed in the UK and set out to change the view of both Rock and Blues - they succeeded. Neither Rock nor Blues was seen in the same light after they hit the scene.
Song is an old Robert Johnson. Band is possibly the first super group. Ginger Baker on drums, Jack Bruce on bass and vocals and Eric Clapton on guitar and vocals.
Saw this band in Columbus Ohio May 1968. What a show! 3 superstars together. Dave Workman a hometown guitar genius opened. One in a lifetime stuff. They learned from Muddy Waters Howlin Wolf Buddy Guy Willie Dixon. Blues by black artists had been here all the time it took British Rockers to introduce it to us. We listened and the rest is history.
First Power Trio! Listen to their cover of Willie Dixon's "Spoonful" on Cream Live at Carnegie Hall. They were the inspiration for groups like The Allman Bros. to do lengthy jams in their live performances.
Discovering that rock is born of the blues. Uh huh. Cream was the first super group - a group formed with members from other successful bands. Jack Bruce on bass, Ginger Baker on drums, and the guy considered the best blues guitarist in England.
It's really cool seeing people react to this not knowing who this is or the origin of the song. It's a pure reaction with no preconceived notions. Eric Clapton is a big enough name that if you had realized it was him, it might have guided your reaction a bit. That wasn't the case and you still sensed the quality of it. Good stuff.
When you asked if this was original or a cover I spit my coffee. 😂❤ Mr. Johnson wrote and performed this classic. R.I.P. Robert Johnson. He died tragically too young in 1938, but miraculously he managed to get recorded in 1936-37..
Robert Johnson cover. Cream was the first power trio, psychedelic/blues/rock band from this era. They are British. Eric Clapton on lead guitar. Jack Bruce on bass. Ginger Baker on drums.
Cream < England based band. Ginger Baker , drummer, always considered himself a jazz drummer and often played duos with his jazz drum heroes. He also summered himself in African drum culture, usually on an almost tribal drum level. He seemed to despise western drum culture. Jack Bruce the bassist , insane. And Eric Clapton.
Eric Clapton, no slouch with the guitar himself, said that Stevie Ray Vaughan was an open channel, that the music flowed through him. Eric was part of the big show Aug 26, 27, 1990 at Alpine Valley, Wisconsin along with SRV, the night Stevie boarded that helicopter that went down.
Both Jack Bruce (the bassist and lead singer) and Ginger Baker (the drummer) have roots in jazz while Eric Clapton, guitarist (2nd vocal) came from the blues side, the Yardbirds (that birthed Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page) and then John Mayall and the Blues Breakers.
When the British invasion occurred, the Brits brought back American roots music back to America. Creme emphasized the Blues and honored the Blues music and musicians they heard while growing up in England. The Who was closer to R&B from the 60's. Their music was so popular, radio stations started playing Blues and R&B because the British bands were selling so many records. This helped the American music bands, and sounds like MoTown get mainstream radio play. The Eric Clapton solo in Crossroads is considered one of the best guitar solos in the last 60 years.
Jazz drummer, Jazz virtuoso on bass and Eric Clapton all Rock and Roll legends from England in their first step into the world wide stage. They shook the world in the late 60's and early 70's.
This is one of the greatest rock & roll performances ever recorded, and also as close to the feel of jazz as I've ever heard from a rock band. Among bands that are remembered today, Cream was the first "hard rock/heavy blues" band, and they are the oldest band I regularly hear on my local "hard rock" radio station.
Jack Bruce is all over the place here. This was always their opening number. Growing up I didn't know a single person who didn't have Live at Fillmore East album.
Jack Bruce (bass,singer) Eric Clapton (guitarist,singer) Ginger Baker (drums)
These guys were total fire !
Speaking of total fire, don't forget your namesake, Duane Allman. Everything Duane touched was gold! They can always play some Allman Brothers Band. They're on a fantastic journey that's fun to watch. Thanks!
@@mikemicrael5749 …He’s my favorite guitarist…..the tone of his guitar was incredible 🍑🎸
The whole Allman Brothers Band was a cast of Master Musicians …everyone of them were phenomenal at what they did ✌️….. I recommend You Don’t Love Me…from their Fillmore East Album….I’m hopeful these guys will react to it…it’s a 19+ minute jam of 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
@@skydog6376 You Don’t Love Me- Great Song. Along with 'Done Somebody Wrong.' That entire album is totally sick.
@@barrycohen311 …The Fillmore East Album is preserved in the Library of Congress
That album is total jamfest ….great live shows
yo "skydog" ever imagine jack and duane hooking up?? GOOD LORD!!
Crossroads is Cream's rocked-up version of an old Robert Johnson blues classic, recored by Robert back in the 1930s. The story, now myth, is Robert was supposed to have sold his soul to the devil at a place where two roads intersect... the crossroads. You should listen to the old Robert Johnson version. There's something haunting about his guitar playing and vocals. Robert was an extraordinary talent who seemed to capture some of the strange magic of Mississippi Delta, the birthplace of the blues.
There is also a movie named "Crossroad" about Robert Johnson and the contract with the devil. The devil's guitar player is made by Steve Vai.
The original Crossroads is definitely a deep classic blues song seeped in Mississippi Delta blues hauntingly by Robert Johnson.
Check out Allman Brothers version of this classic tune.
@@erikahlander3489with the karate kid?
@@metaphoria3 Yes!
"Cream" - A British rock band formed in London in 1966. The group consisted of bassist Jack Bruce, guitarist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker. The name came because they were considered to be the Cream of musical talent.
“That wasn’t a regular guitar solo. That was definitely above average.” 😂 hell yeah, dude. It’s literally considered one of the greatest guitar solos ever recorded. I love your response. You knew you just heard something special
One of the great guitar solos of it's era. Clapton does not repeat a riff. Perfectly structured.
Jack bruce is often regarded as one of the finest bass players in rock history
Scotland's genius
The were a short lived band but left a big legacy in music. The lead guitarist and singer was the great Eric Clapton.
Jack Bruce also sings lead
It's hard to say there was a stand out lead singer. Jack and Eric traded off so effortlessly most people are unaware Sunshine of Your Love is a duet.
Recently on Alice Cooper’s radio show he said, “Cream was selling out every show, their albums were flying out the door, so why not break up?” He couldn’t understand it.
Eric Clapton in my humble opinions one of the best musicians to sing and play blues.
Amen
Eric Clapton's time in Cream was legendary, Sunshine of Your Love has one of the best riffs of all time
Jack Bruce was actually the one who came up with that riff.
up s down s the blues
Eric Clapton's iconic guitar solo is a master class on phrasing and how to mix major and minor pentatonic scales over a classic 1-4-5 blues progression.
This is probably one of the most copied solos of all time and was a HUGE influence on almost all rock/blues guitar players.
This from Clapton:
"It’s so funny, this,” Clapton says. “I’ve always had that held up as like, ‘This is one of the great landmarks of guitar playing.’ But most of that solo is on the wrong beat.
Instead of playing on the two and the four, I’m playing on the one and the three and thinking, ‘That’s the off beat.’ No wonder people think it’s so good-because it’s f**ing wrong.”
The second solo is even better. Scorching, playing that made Clapton a legend. Monumental.
Jack Bruce is killing the bass!
Saw a BBC doc about Cream. Jack Bruce was sent to a symphoy place at 14. They made him play? Oboi. Or a boring thing. They sent everyone home but made him write a concert? He did it. Or was it a freanch horn?
Jack Bruce Scotland's genius what a beautiful bass player he was his voice live was outstanding
That second solo is just IT!! The bass covering the back beat is just nuts!!!
Jack Bruce was a magician on the bass one of the best Scotland's genius RIP jack
A top British rock band covering a classic American blues song - fantastic skill
Incredible how fast the 3 of them are playing Jack Bruce's bass playing is off the radar
Bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker were from a jazz background and had played together previously in a jazz quartet, whereas Clapton came from a blues background, so the trios ended up playing blues & rock but also playing a lot of improvisation like in jazz.
Cream is a British band and the song was written by the great Robert Johnson.
Eric Clapton was first the featured guitarist in the Yardbirds (1963-1965) - a very successful British pop/rock band, famous for the fact that they had in their membership over the years, the three greatest rock guitarists of the era, Eric Clapton, followed by Jimmy Page, followed by Jeff Beck.
After the yardbirds, Clapton joined the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers. It was during this time that the famous graffiti, "CLAPTON IS GOD," first appeared. He left John Mayall after one year and went on to for the band Cream with Ginger Baker (a well established jazz/rock drummer) and Jack Bruce ( a we'll known bassist and songwriter), both of whom had been members of the Graham Bond Organisation.
After Cream broke up, Clapton formed the group Blind Faith with Ginger Baker, Steve Winwood (keyboards, guitars, vocals, songwriting - formerly with the Spencer Davis Group, and the jazz-rock band, Traffic) and Rich Grech ( bassist, formerly with the band Family). This band lasted about 7 months.
By this time Clapton had tired of the hard rock scene and joined a folk/roots rock band, Delaney, Bonnie and Friends. He also began writing songs and performing with many different bands. After Delaney and releasing his first solo album, "Eric Clapton," and still seeking to evade the public spotlight, he joined with Duane Allman, keyboardist Bobby Whitlock, bassist Carl Ladle, and drummer Jim Gordon to form Derek and the Dominoes.
After that Clapton pursued a solo career as well as performing with a myriad of big named artists.
Thanks for the fascinating history!
It was Beck who came after Clapton. Page first joined the Yardbirds as the bass player when bassist Paul Samwell-Smith left. Soon after that he and guitarist Chris Dreja swapped instruments and for a brief period, the Yardbirds had both Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page as guitarists.
@@davescurry69 You're right, my bad. That's what I get for going from memory without double-checking.
@@WMalven All cool.
That was live recorded on tape. The name Cream because each was considered the best musician on their instrument- hence Cream of the Crop
this is a master class of a walking bass line by Jack Bruce
That's all I hear when this one comes on
that bass needed a cig, a dab, a massage, and some counseling after that THOROUGH fingering.... lol
But it stumbled and fell
Jack Bruce Scotland's genius what a beautiful bass player he was fantastic musicianship
This is a cover of the great Robert Johnson the KING of the Mississippi Delta Blues, highly influential.
Ned again, speaking as a drummer myself, Ginger was the guy that I copied the most, 2 bass drums, multiple stacked cymbals, the whole 9. Ginger taught me a lot as did all the rest of the late 60s crew, Mitch Mitchell, Bonham, Ian Paice, Keith Moon, Ringo and Charlie Watts too....
"Guitar Solo definitely above average!" Dude, you're hearing Mr. Eric Clapton. It's so cool to hear young people's reactions!
they were all from England. Their idols and music dreams came from the US, but Jack Bruce was a classically trained bassist, Ginger Baker was the most famous drummer in England who went and lived in Africa to learn percussions and drum rhythms. Clapton, obviously was the best blues guitarist in England, best friend of the Beatles and was brought in to work on some of their music. Cream was all English guys, but they too the US by storm with their hard rock blues show in the 60's.
Ah, Jack Bruce was Scottish, so best to describe them as British.
The iconic Cream, one of the landing vessels of the British invasion, featuring the great Eric Clapton guys!! In his early years. He venerated the blues. I strongly suggest you take a deep dive into Cream and all songs Eric Clapton.
Jack Bruce is a genius Scotland is extremely proud
Amazing .... The Southern Blues reached across the pond and sucked them in ... Clapton loved the Southern sound ...
Cream was one of the British Invasion bands of the 1960s and early 1970s; others were The Animals, John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, The Rolling Stones, and many more. The Brits (and other European bands) brought the Classic Black Blues of the 1920s-1940s back to the U.S. but they had ELECTRIFIED THE BLUES; the "bedraggled, beat-down" blues lyrics can still be enjoyed and sympathized with, but the faster and louder beat was primary. The BLUES live on with an assist from these Europeans. A whole new generation, several generations actually, have relished the amplified, juiced-up BLUES! Long live The Blues!! Eric Clapton was the guitarist, Jack Bruce on bass, and Ginger Baker on the drum kit.
The young British musicians of the 1960's really embraced the blues and reinvented the sound. Cream was one of many British groups that embraced the blues. There were many like the Yardbirds, Led Zeppelin, Traffic, John Mayall, The Animals, Ten Years After and so on. I was 14 when I saw Cream in Sacramento. Incredible night of music. Nice reaction to a super group from that era.
Heavily influenced by blues greats like Howlin Wolf.
That's a very British interpertation of the blues but it ain't what we call the blues stateside. Not even close
@@coonshine1 Blues based Rock.
Cream were a British rock band formed in London in 1966. The group consisted of bassist Jack Bruce, guitarist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker. Bruce was the primary songwriter and vocalist, although Clapton and Baker contributed to songs.
Cream was a British rock band! Eric Clapton the guitarist has been inducted into the rock and roll hall of fame 3 times
For Cream , The Yardbirds, and solo career
I was 13. Rock and Blues. What a time for music .
Cream was considered 1st supergroup as all 3 were legends already!
Every decade of rock has 1 or 2 bands that not only change the course of music history but have a sound and style so unique it is endlessly mimicked. Cream was one of these bands in the 60's. And the Clapton solos on this performance was the absolute zenith of his skills and abilities.
“White Room” and “Sunshine of your love” are must listens of Cream! You will especially like Ginger Bakers drum work. Love your reactions
Yes! Guys give these songs a listen, please.
I love BADGE.........
Guys, this was 1966! Clapton in front of a live audience playing a 335 through a Marshal amp with absolutely no effects. And singing while doing it. It was earth shattering at the time.
At the time, they were together in 1967, Eric Clapton was asked by a reporter, "What kind of music do you play?" He said: "Blues, ancient and modern". Yep.
Cream was the first power trio out of England that had a true standout lead guitarist. This is the band that made Eric Clapton a big name on the FM radio stations. The best music was heard either on FM stations, college stations or the record/head shops back then.
Their most popular song, Sunshine of your Love, at that time broke some sexual lyrical barriers.
This band was a huge influence to many bands that came after.
Sunshine of Your Love, another must listen to song by Cream.
good job getting to this 1, classic tune, its rock blues, great blues
Another band with Eric Clapton in it. Cream had some nice music, and musicians. White Room is my suggestion for your next Cream song, or maybe Sunshine of Your Love. BTW don't give up on SD. They have a lot more good music for you to react to. I suggest you refresh with some of Donald Fagen's solo stuff. Back on point, I loved Cream when I was young, and I'm glad you found them. Clapton went on to do Layla with Derek and The Dominoes after he and Cream parted ways. Nice reaction.
Crossroads by Robert Johnston was THE song. This was most people's introduction to the blues. Arguably the most famous blues song of all time. Cream were English. English bands brought the blues back to an unenlightened white population in America.
The Cross Roads is where ' Robert Johnson. sold his soul to the devil ' in exchange for his magical blues ability, Eric Clapton , Jack Bruce , bass , vocals, Ginger Baker , drums ( introduced the double bass drums)
If you like this, you're gonna like everything these guys did. They, like Zeppelin, Beatles, and the stones, were a gathering of genius musicians. There were more insanely great bands, as you know, but these were the best of the best.
"GOD" on Lead Guitar. In the 60's-70's Eric Clapton was called "God" for his guitar playing skills. This is a Classic among Classics.
Until he watched Jimi 👌
It is funny to watch their heads Bob up and down together for 4 minutes!
Here we go. This is a cover song written and first recorded by blues legend Robert Johnson.
Yep, they have no idea where this is going..... we do.
They must have lived under a rock to have never heard of cream.
Yup, hard to believe they hadn't heard of Cream- as much music variety they were raised on. But it's SOOO exciting to see their reactions!!! Takes me back to when I first got my new album by Cream. Their reactions show that what we grew up listening to still stands up today!! 👍🏼🔥
In the early 80s I was learning the bass aged 14. I then heard this and it changed everything for me. I remember ripping my headphones off in shock
Cream changed everything in music. Power trio. Everything came after them. Clapton is God was a favorite slogan back then.
Power trio to the MAX... hell'uva jam session and inspiration for lots of musicians thereafter...
Hell Yeah
Eric Clapton guitar
Jack Bruce. Bass
Ginger Baker drums
Hey guys, the "Crossroads" solo was and is considered to be the greatest rock solo of the rock genre based on a blues/jazz format.
Clapton was Van Halen's MAIN guitar influence when he growing up. I spoke with him briefly. This was his comment to me personally.
The first Supergroup!! The Brits loved the blues! Clapton's nickname is Slow-hand. And for a while in the 70s, "god", lower case. If you ever see Clapton play, which I did about 40 years ago in Philly, he's called Slow-hand because those notes are jamming and you can't see the hand moving. Amazing! Which begets the 2nd nickname, god.
This is like one of the 1st superstar bands that just couldn't hold it together
they had to go their separate ways
Chronology of Clapton's career -- John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, Delaney and Bonnie and Friends, Derek and the Dominoes and then solo.
Bass player a jazz man Drummer a jazz man and the guitar man a Blues and rock man . Nothing can go wrong . All english
Jack Bruce is Scottish
All 3 were great musicians and didn't last in each other's presence near long enough IMO but their legacy has lasted almost 60yrs and still played all over the world! Ginger Baker was on a whole other level...
This is Terry VonCannon. They were considered the first so called super group. Signs around England stated Clapton was God. He was until Hendrix came on the scene. Great reaction. Check out some live Cream versions. They were all virtuoso players and would really jam out.
Eric Clapton had a guitar festival called Crossroads Guitar Festival played at different locations until one was held at Dallas in 2019. Eric also helped to establish rehabilitation place named Crossroads Centre located at Caribbean Islands: Antigua and Barbuda. Money raised from the festival are used for the Centre.
The bass player was the great Jack Bruce, who was also the band's principal songwriter and lead vocalist, although not on this one. Bruce is generally regarded in the top 2 or 3 bassists in rock history. He was also proficient on harmonica, cello and piano among others.
Scotland's genius RIP jack
Clapton can do some blues that's for sure! You need to see this live. I just saw Eric last year again for the second time and age has not slowed this man down. He was stellar!
All three were monster players. You can't miss Clapton's two incendiary solos, but Jack Bruce plays some of the boldest and powerful yet nimble bass runs I've ever heard. And Ginger Baker, who shared Jack's jazz background, changed the way thousands of drummers set up their kits. In answer to your question, Jack was Scottish. Ginger was English and Eric still is.
Jack Bruce was a beautiful bass player one of the best Scotland's genius RIP jack
Jack Bruce is all over that bass! One of the best bassist ever. Played in fusion \ jazz bands too.
Jack Bruce was a beautiful bass player he was one of the best Scotland's genius RIP jack
Crossroads written by Robert Johnson in 1936 the original member of the 27 club . Allegedly Robert made a deal with the devil to become a blues guitar player and may have been poisoned by a jealous husband and died at 27 years old . The song basically put Eric Clapton in the class of one of the greatest guitar players in history.
Cross roads was the first solo that put an electric chill up my spine. Robert Johnson was OG. Eric Clapton"s first love is the blues. He trained in it, played in blues bands when he first started out. They were from England. American Blues was a huge influence on English rock. Led Zeppelin, anyone?
Jack Bruce did amazing work on bass!
Jack Bruce Scotland's genius
gut-wrenching guitar work… thanks to Cream
Robert Johnson wrote this in the thirties. These boys were early twenties Englishmen contemporary with the Beatles. Lead guitarist and vocalist Eric Clapton was George Harrison's best friend.
Cream is part of the deep dive into Eric Clapton that I mentioned in one of your other reactions. His stint with Cream coincides with the time that “Clapton is God” graffiti started appearing in cities across Europe! Crossroads is another cover of a Robert Johnson song from the 1930’s. Johnson was one of Clapton’s biggest influences.
Growing up with stuff like this on the radio..no wonder my generation is so cool...
This is Cream live in 1968. Pure and organic improvised blues/jazz, highly amplified. This was the precursor to fusion, heavy/hard rock and ultimately metal.
A must! Cream - White Room
Cream has fantastic music. Enjoy it all! 🎶🎶🎶❤️❤️
The Crossroads Festival in Clarksville, MS (home of Muddy Watters and Eric Johnson) has witnessed many appearances of Eric Clapton and other great Blues artists paying tribute to the origins of blues music!!! The title of this song is homage to the Mississippi Delta blues area!!!! The Crossroads (two local Highways) being where Eric Johnson allegedly sold his soul to be able to play the blue music the way he did.
Jack Bruce, the Scottish bass player, was rated as just about the best going. He came from a jazz background as did Ginger Baker, the drummer.
Scotland's genius RIP jack
"The Blues Had A Baby, And They Named It Rock n Roll" Muddy Waters
Ginger Baker, drums, Jack Bruce, Bass, Eric Clapton, Guitar. Three hugely talented musicians, each one of if not the best of their kind then and now. Formed in the UK and set out to change the view of both Rock and Blues - they succeeded. Neither Rock nor Blues was seen in the same light after they hit the scene.
They speeded it up, and played it LOUD. My first concert. I was still vibrating a week later.
Song is an old Robert Johnson. Band is possibly the first super group. Ginger Baker on drums, Jack Bruce on bass and vocals and Eric Clapton on guitar and vocals.
Saw this band in Columbus Ohio May 1968. What a show! 3 superstars together.
Dave Workman a hometown guitar genius opened.
One in a lifetime stuff.
They learned from Muddy Waters Howlin Wolf Buddy Guy Willie Dixon.
Blues by black artists had been here all the time it took British Rockers to introduce it to us. We listened and the rest is history.
First Power Trio! Listen to their cover of Willie Dixon's "Spoonful" on Cream Live at Carnegie Hall. They were the inspiration for groups like The Allman Bros. to do lengthy jams in their live performances.
Discovering that rock is born of the blues. Uh huh. Cream was the first super group - a group formed with members from other successful bands. Jack Bruce on bass, Ginger Baker on drums, and the guy considered the best blues guitarist in England.
THIS is why I Love reacts, they have no idea they listening to Eric Clapton on guitar!! Beautiful!
This is a cover of the late great Robert Johnson. Robert Johnson is where rock n roll was born. It all started with him.
Many great songs by Cream, thanks 😎👍
The Cream was the real deal in the 60's
Love this song one of the best rock song ever really great 😊
It's really cool seeing people react to this not knowing who this is or the origin of the song. It's a pure reaction with no preconceived notions. Eric Clapton is a big enough name that if you had realized it was him, it might have guided your reaction a bit. That wasn't the case and you still sensed the quality of it. Good stuff.
Jack on that fretless bass, Ginger magic on drums and Eric on guitar - wild.
Legend has it that Robert Johnson met the devil at the crossroads and sold his sold in exchange for becoming the best blues guitarist in the country.
When you asked if this was original or a cover I spit my coffee. 😂❤ Mr. Johnson wrote and performed this classic. R.I.P. Robert Johnson. He died tragically too young in 1938, but miraculously he managed to get recorded in 1936-37..
eic clapton a mild mannered englishman , he led the charge with the psychedelia music very early stuff along with pink floyd
Robert Johnson cover. Cream was the first power trio, psychedelic/blues/rock band from this era. They are British. Eric Clapton on lead guitar. Jack Bruce on bass. Ginger Baker on drums.
Cream < England based band. Ginger Baker , drummer, always considered himself a jazz drummer and often played duos with his jazz drum heroes. He also summered himself in African drum culture, usually on an almost tribal drum level. He seemed to despise western drum culture. Jack Bruce the bassist , insane. And Eric Clapton.
Eric Clapton, no slouch with the guitar himself, said that Stevie Ray Vaughan was an open channel, that the music flowed through him. Eric was part of the big show Aug 26, 27, 1990 at Alpine Valley, Wisconsin along with SRV, the night Stevie boarded that helicopter that went down.
Both Jack Bruce (the bassist and lead singer) and Ginger Baker (the drummer) have roots in jazz while Eric Clapton, guitarist (2nd vocal) came from the blues side, the Yardbirds (that birthed Jeff Beck and Jimmy Page) and then John Mayall and the Blues Breakers.
When the British invasion occurred, the Brits brought back American roots music back to America. Creme emphasized the Blues and honored the Blues music and musicians they heard while growing up in England. The Who was closer to R&B from the 60's. Their music was so popular, radio stations started playing Blues and R&B because the British bands were selling so many records. This helped the American music bands, and sounds like MoTown get mainstream radio play. The Eric Clapton solo in Crossroads is considered one of the best guitar solos in the last 60 years.
Drummer Ginger Baker did a lot of jazz drumming. There's a documentary about him called Beware Mr. Baker. And then there are Jack Bruce's bass lines.
Jazz drummer, Jazz virtuoso on bass and Eric Clapton all Rock and Roll legends from England in their first step into the world wide stage. They shook the world in the late 60's and early 70's.
Rolling Stone All-time Greatest Guitarist, Bassist, Drummer #2, #4, #3 - Jack Bruce bass - Listen to solo work
I saw them in 1968 in St. Louis at the Kiel Opera house. I was 14 and my first concert. Jim
This is one of the greatest rock & roll performances ever recorded, and also as close to the feel of jazz as I've ever heard from a rock band. Among bands that are remembered today, Cream was the first "hard rock/heavy blues" band, and they are the oldest band I regularly hear on my local "hard rock" radio station.
Loved the look on your faces when Jack Bruce says, "Eric Clapton on the vocal".
Jack Bruce is all over the place here. This was always their opening number. Growing up I didn't know a single person who didn't have Live at Fillmore East album.