@@allenruss2976 The ‘60s and ‘70s were absolutely the greatest period of music. There was some “not-so-great” stuff for sure, particularly in the’70s, but the greatness far outshines the other stuff
I'm 73 years old and grew up on this music. It always brings a smile to my face when I see younger people react to music from my generation in such a positive way.
Me too! MR WAYNEGRAY I was going to say EVERY WORD you just said. I'm 73, 74 in February, as you can tell from the numbers in my username. Again, Me Too!
@@kallsop2 Real artist use sequencers, samplers & drum machines as the are real instruments as well. Real heart and soul comes through them as well. You're out of touch with the world. Is painting real art while photography and collage art not? Of course not that would be ridiculous just like your initial statement.
You originally listened to Eric Clapton’s “Layla” acoustic version. You need to listen to the original electric guitar, full band version. That’s the classic version everyone knows and it’s absolute FIRE! There’s a 1999 live version with over 158 million views!
If you want the best version of Layla on TH-cam, check out the Derek & The Dominos album version. This was Eric Clapton’s other group, and the sound quality is far better than the live version. It already has 53 million views for a reason!
The unplugged was a unique take on the song, but it is hard to choose that over having Duane Allman playing a slide guitar with Eric Clapton on the studio recording.
Lyricist Pete Brown's original idea for the song revolved around a hippie girl titled "Cinderella's Last Goodnight", but when that did not work, he dipped into an earlier eight page poem he had written about a new apartment he had moved into with white walls and bare furnishings, where he gave up drinking and drugs. The personal demons he battled while living in the white room spawned the imagery of the poem, which was eventually whittled down to a few verses for the song lyric. The music was a tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Hendrix visited the group in New York as they were recording it and commented "I wish I could write something like that", only to be told it had been directly inspired by him.
the cream song sunshine of your love by cream was written after jack bruce first ever watched an hendrix gig..he went straight home and writ the bass line..hendrix covered it and loved it
Oh crap. An author used that white room as an inspiration in a book (fiction) I read, and I can't place it. I remember the visuals I got from reading it, but I can't place which book it was!
Your explanation has truly opened my eyes. Been listening to White Room since it first hit the airwaves back in the late '60's. I guess I never thought about the lyrics. Just heard 4 instruments...Eric's masterful guitar which was at least a decade ahead of it's time, Ginger pounding the skins like he had a blood vendetta, Jack's thumping bass and soulful mourning voice. Still rocks my world today...some 55 years after the songs release.
still depends on talent now. it still shines through. the truth is that this generation doesn't care about rock music as much as yesteryear. its time for a change no doubt.
Stop trying to apologize by skirting you are just a rap artist. Come on. Own it. You are witnessing once in a lifetime talent BP. Own it. Lol😂 no excuses. You are not just rap listener anymore. You are better for it.
Not everything. There was some dumbass music back then, too. Don't get me wrong. Some of the best music was from that era. But, you ever hear of The Shaggs? Or remember the song Hanky Panky?
The music to this was was written as a tribute to Jimmy Hendrix. Jimmy visited the band while they were recording it and stated he wished he'd come up with the song only to be told that he inspired it. The lyrics were written by the poet Pete Brown, who usually wrote with Jack Bruce, about a bare white walled apartment where he gave up drinking and drugs.
Cream were a British rock supergroup 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. Formed by members of previously successful bands, they are widely considered the first supergroup. Cream were highly regarded for the instrumental proficiency of each of their members.
It wasn't a "super group". Clapton was a relative unknown by the public at that date. Ginger Baker & Jack Bruce had exposure in John Mayall's Blues Breakers. To be a super group, all these people would have had to have instant recognition with a large discography supporting that recognition.
@@diceportz7107 Before Cream Clapton get allready fame in Yardbirds and later de John Mayall's Blues Breakers with the Bueno album. Ginger did't play with Blues Breakers but Jack bruce did.
@WakeUp-p6h You clearly don't know much about the listening public then. Up until the mid-60s, most people knew who sang their favorite songs, not who the musicians were. If you look on early records, musicians were not even listed. It wasn't until high profile people like the Beatles that the other members of the band were considered. Then venues like The Filmore (East), Mar-A-Sol, Woodstock, Newport, helped to cement the notion that members of the band were worthy of note. I never said that Clapton, Baker or Bruce were not great musicians. I was just objecting to the term "super group", a term that was invented decades later and retroactively applied to any band with now recognizable members.
I am 75. I lived it and I have given up trying to explain it to younger people. They could never truly understand Beatlemania. Now it is Swift and Kpop. In the 150 top downloads only 2 of them are bands who write and play. The rest are single artists with corporate industry background music. Gen Z thinks it is Just great. I am glad I had the years 63 thru 73.
Jack Bruce was a Scottish Classically trained musician who left university against the wishes of his parents to play blues rock music. All 3 are absolutely outstanding musicians. 100% Supergroup
We really thought this level of music, inspiration, and talent would go on forever. We couldn’t have imagined that machines would take over and human vocals would be replaced or manipulated by auto tune or other artificial means. We didn’t appreciate what we had, nor what made the music so great. I’m hoping that these reaction videos will reintroduce new generations to what has been lost, and will encourage musicians to take up real instruments, develop a mastery of them, and then use their human emotions, experiences, and creativity to create memorable songwriting and music.
@@katherinebosse5706REN is about the Only one keeping REAL One-Take "Live" music going at the moment who Also has some phenomenal talent.. More young musicians need to up their game! & The industry needs to stop pushing rubbish acts when there are great young musicians who cant get played
There's only one problem, the "music industry" doesn't want to PAY real musicians and if everyone is auto tuned and pitch corrected, then looks are more important than talent and mediocrity becomes the standard! ☮🖤🤘
I'm so glad I was raised on all of this kind of music! Every group that Clapton has been a part of is absolutely amazing! Please, please, please listen to the song Change The World! 🙏 It's Eric solo!
THE 3-man combo that set the standard for late-1960s blues-rock! Next, listen and react to "Crossroads." You'll go crazy over Jack Bruce's handling of the bass part.
You give me so much joy. I often let my TV run rampant when I am gone for the cat. I came home tonight and your reaction to Stevie Ray Vaughn was just starting and now this. To see you so taken in by our music warms my heart. My kids who are your age grew up listening to all of this because, as my middle son put it, I just love music. I love seeing you experience what I grew up with as a child, teen and young adult.
1967 was THE year for some of the best albums ever made. Jim Hendrix, Doors, Cream, Beatles alone are all amazing records that sounded so different than anything before.
Cream is often considered one of rock’s first supergroups. Jack Bruce (lead vocals/lead bass) was known from the Graham Bond Organisation as well as John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, where he met Eric Clapton (lead guitar/vocals) who had also previously been in The Yardbirds. Ginger Baker (lead drums) had been a member of Blues Incorporated, and also played alongside Bruce in the GBO. The power trio played their own brand of virtuoso hard-edged blues rock with dashes of psychedelia. Musically they gelled from day one, but the mixture of personalities proved to be a volatile one, and the band was destined to shine brightly for a short time. They were active for three years, between 1966 and 1968, only reuniting for a live performance at their Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1993, as well as doing a stint of seven shows in 2005.
The other thing you need to remember about the 60s and 70s is this was all new experimental music. We were listening to so much great music and then incorporating it into rock and roll plus all the new electronics that were coming out in music that had never been seen before. From mono to stereo to four track to 8-track to 64 track. Equalizers and mooc synthesizers and all other sorts of electronic stuff was coming out that we had no idea what to do with so we just experimented did whatever came into our minds. Read some of the Beatles older Studio sessions and how strange some of the ideas they put into things like Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Yellow Submarine Etc
A most cool song back in the day. The whine of the guitar from Eric and Bruce s voice and Ginger s drum beating made this a great song. One that helped define rock n rolls growth. This was from the 60 s psychedelic ( black light ) age and getting high constantly during that decade.
Cream was one of the formidable "psychedelic" and "acid rock" power groups from the mid-late 60's! They definitely had their own original sound and vibe. Unfortunately they broke up around "69 and Clapton & Baker formed Blind Faith while Bruce moved to a solo career. Awesome reaction Black Pegasus :)
In 1968 I was lucky enough to see Cream in Vancouver, my very first concert. Man they had swagger big time. They were indeed the “Cream” and they knew it. As I recall, Clapton was playing his fool SG and at various points he would face the Marshall stacks, back to the audience as he ripped off solos. Swagger in the extreme. What a time that was for 14 y/o kid.
This Album was my 1st album in the Capital Record Club 1968,😮 l was in the 8th grade Junior High, Music wise this is when l awakened and 1969 High School and Woodstock, there was no going back! Peace 😊✌️ your 70 year old forever Young Hippie Gary 🕺💃 Great Reaction👍
Take the world's best drummer, the world's best guitarist, and the world's best bass player of the 60s, put them in a group, what do you get? The Cream! This song is about depression and hopelessness, but the setting is an empty apartment. The lyrics were written by a poet named Pete Brown, who was a friend of Cream bass player Jack Bruce, the lead vocalist on the track. Brown also wrote the words for "Sunshine Of Your Love," "I Feel Free" and "SWLABR."
The first "Super Group!" They adopted the name Cream, because they were the Cream of the Crop! Eric Clapton on the Wah-Wah. Yes, this song relates a depressed mood, but it is an epic rendition.
Listen to the drumming by Ginger Baker which is really complex for rock drumming. This guy was playing several beats in one song and constantly doing fills. It's a masterclass on rock drumming. What is cool is that Ginger according to the rock press was a cranky guy but one helluva drummer.
If you were some old guy, like me, reacting like this to this epic song, I'd be like yeah yeah yeah, we heard all this before, But you're not. You're young and from a whole different genre, and that's what makes this reaction special. And it is special. Great job, again, Happy New Year!!
Music of the time, 1963 thru 73 was incredible. You had soul, rock and blues, You had the California sound, the Motown sound, The Beatles. Social issues abounded but the music and, yes, the cars were all about energizing and entertaining you. We needed it to get us thru the racial tensions and the Vietnam war. I M 75 and I lived it from adolescence thru to adulthood. Greatest decade in music.
to understand this song u must understand the, shall we say, hallucinogenic nature of the 60s. the writer of the song lived in a flat that had a white room w Black curtains that over looked a train station. his girlfriend had dark mysterious eyes that her gaze was like moonbeams w silver horses on them. when she broke it off she left from the station. then at a party a girl was kind to him . her eyes were predatory like crouching tigers. and that's how simple it is.😮
Some people think that their time is the best. I grew up in the 60's. The 60's and the 70's Had the best music, it is nice to see younger people hearing it for the first time, and see how they enjoy it. It will last forever.
Everybody's doing what they do best, but Ginger is killin' those drums. The songwriter was waiting somewhere to go somewhere else and stranded in the room he described. And yes, at least the first time, just go with the groove lol. You can only hear it the first time once, dissect it the next 6 times!
I was born a year before this album came out, but I had an older sister that loved this kind of music and I would listen to it with her (several years later, of course). I also had a couple of aunts that were heavily into this music and the whole 60's and early 70's vibe. Love this stuff.
Cream has so many great songs...some of their best music doesn't get the airplay like White Room did...check out Tales of Brave Ulysses, Strange Brew, and my favorite Deserted Cities of the Heart.
Their producer was Felix Pappalardi, who went on to create Mountain with Leslie West and Corky Laing. They're well worth a look, too. Try their songs Nantucket Sleighride, Flowers of Evil, Mississippi Queen.
62 years old and I have become a huge fan of yours. You introduced me to Krizz. Your absolute excitement and your comments about vibing absolutely had me crying with laughter. Keep up the amazing content you have a fan here waiting for more reaction videos.
Ginger baker babe - no loop He was a Monster. I saw him with an all percussion band, maybe 15 of them. When some people yelled for oldies he told them to get out if they were stuck in the past , he chased 1/3 the crowd out. Amazing Show 🎉
It's about depression and hopelessness. The lyrics were written by a friend of Jack Bruce, Pete Brown. And yes, Jack Bruce is the lead singer on this track.
The song started out as a song about a hippie girl and evolved into a poem he wrote as he was working his way off drugs living in a plain white apartment and the depression around that
Eric Clapton on guitar, mostly known as a blues guitarist till this group. Jack Bruce on bass, mostly known as a jazz player. And Ginger Baker on drums, also known as a jazz drummer. They get together and form a hard rock band that produced great music. The crazy thing is Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker disliked each other before the band was even formed. That relationship went south as time passed, thus the short lifespan of Cream.
So glad to hear and see your reaction to this great band. I was lucky to have seen Cream in Sacramento, CA in March of 1968. White Room was the opening song of their set that night. They were playing in San Francisco for several nights and came over for a night. What an epic time for music. I had just seen the Doors a couple of months before and saw Hendrix 6 months later.
Pure, unadulterated FIRE 🔥 Jack Bruce slapping that Bass and singing his heart out! Greatness we probably will never witness again! Watching you enjoy this little “ditty” was the best part of the New Year for us!
Amazing song! (And, fyi, lyrics are "shadows RUN from themselves). Cream, along with CCR, Steppenwolf, Doors, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, were the original idols for me as a young teenager learning guitar back in the day. This song encouraged me to purchase a wah wah pedal!) Also, Jack Bruce created/recorded some amazing music after Cream broke up (check out "Rope Ladder To The Moon", "Theme From An Imaginary Western", "Tickets To Waterfalls").
This is a true story. Back in October '68 I saw Cream at The Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston (tickets were $3, $4, $5, and $6). I don't remember what price mine were, but we were just happy to be there. Before the show began we hit the snack bar to load up on crap before taking our seats. While we were waiting our turn, some random dude walked by and said that we could see the band up close if we walked down to a roped off area a little further away. We followed his lead and came to a stairwell where we could see a little way downstairs. After standing there for a couple of minutes, we saw movement coming up the staircase towards us. There were 2 security guys standing close by, but that was it. We walked up to get as close to the ropes as possible, and stood there getting excited. After less than a minute, lo and behold, here they came. First came Jack Bruce, followed by Eric Clapton, followed by Ginger Baker. Jack and Eric just passed us by without so much as a glance in our direction. They all came within 3 feet of us on the way to the stage. Ginger walked by last, and he looked over at us and sort of grinned. They all must of thought "Who are these punks" as they passed us by. We were all in 7th heaven though. Great show that night and this was one of gems they played. Absolutely true story.
I remember this as a child thinking what are they singing about? I had no clue...from Songfacts: This song is about depression and hopelessness, but the setting is an empty apartment. The lyrics were written by a poet named Pete Brown, who was a friend of Cream bass player Jack Bruce, the lead vocalist on the track. Brown also wrote the words for "Sunshine Of Your Love," "I Feel Free" and "SWLABR." The music was written first. Pete Brown's first attempt at a lyric was something about a "doomed hippie girl" - the song was called "Cinderella's Last Goodnight." Jack Bruce wasn't buying it, so he scrapped that idea and pulled up an eight-page poem he had written earlier, which he reworked into "White Room." In a Songfacts interview with Pete Brown, he told the story: "It was a meandering thing about a relationship that I was in and how I was at the time. It was a kind of watershed period really. It was a time before I stopped being a relative barman and became a songwriter, because I was a professional poet, you know. I was doing poetry readings and making a living from that. It wasn't a very good living, and then I got asked to work by Ginger and Jack with them and then started to make a kind of living. And there was this kind of transitional period where I lived in this actual white room and was trying to come to terms with various things that were going on. It's a place where I stopped, I gave up all drugs and alcohol at that time in 1967 as a result of being in the white room, so it was a kind of watershed period. That song's like a kind of weird little movie: it changes perspectives all the time. That's why it's probably lasted - it's got a kind of mystery to it."
Of the 40+ Cream recordings, this might be my favorite: lyrics by band outsider Peter Brown (wrote most of the band’s lyrics like Robert Hunter for the Grateful Dead, Bernie Taupin for Elton John, etc. , . . . ) Jack Bruce’s gut wrenching melodies with his cutting vocals, Ginger Baker slapping the h*ll out of his drum kit and Eric Clapton choking the life out his guitar. The producer Felix “Don’t Buy Your Wife a Derringer” Pappalardi on violas. The song is about Peter detoxing in an empty apartment that was painted white, as he fought his demons.
I've listened to this for years and didn't know what it was about! It's a good read...and written/inspired to honor Jimi Hendrix. The White walls and unfurnished apartment was where Pete Brown withdrew from alcohol and drugs- and the demons he fought doing that. Wow! Love it!!
Man, it’s so funny. Seeing you young people discover music like this. me and my crew used to get hammered and listen to this and many others just like it and pick a different instrument to copy and jump around like a bunch of fools. It was epic. the best time of my life! Of course we still do that but we used to too! 😂
Happy New Year!! For a real musical treat you'll fall in love with immediately, listen to Cream's live recording of Crossroads. It's an old Blues song, written & originally recorded by Robert Johnson in 1937. Cream elevated it to iconic Blues/Rock classic. BTW - Cream was supposed to be a Blues band, in the 60's style they helped create, so yes, many of their songs have a melancholy edge.
Back in the day when dairy was delivered to the home one would pop the paper cap off the glass jar of milk. The prize is the CREAM at the top. Best of the Best.
Love me some Cream! I’m too young to have grown up listening to them, but I did anyway, because my dad had an EXCELLENT record collection and a good hifi!
Cream was ounce for ounce the most talented group of musician out there. Ginger Baker was amazing on drums, Jack Bruce just killed it on bass, and they round it off with Eric Clapton on guitar. Led Zeppelin was similarly a band made of all-star session players with only one untested member- Robert Plant (he worked out OK). The groups coming out at this time was simply amazing. Sadly, the members of Creams couldn't stand each other, so they didn't last long, but while they were together, they made magic. One of my all-time favorite pieces of recorded music is the version of the blues classic Crossroads Cream did at a music festival in the late 60s. It's worth a listen... they took it to the next level.
There were two people who worked alongside Cream and played a big role in their success: 1) London poet Pete Brown, who wrote lyrics for many of their songs (especially those written by Jack Bruce); and 2) Felix Pappalardi, the bass player for the American band Mountain, who produced Cream's records and played with them in the studio.
Now you see why us old folks have a high standard for music
I'm getting old ...lol
True that. We really hard it great.
Yep..we're from a time when bands knew how to write songs, write/perform music, play instruments..no autotune..just talent..
@@julindahiggins1582 There still are a ton of encredible rock bands today but they are ignored....
@@allenruss2976 The ‘60s and ‘70s were absolutely the greatest period of music. There was some “not-so-great” stuff for sure, particularly in the’70s, but the greatness far outshines the other stuff
I'm 73 years old and grew up on this music. It always brings a smile to my face when I see younger people react to music from my generation in such a positive way.
So agree!!! I'm...argh...73 as well. June
Goes for us 60 year olds, too!! :)
Me too! MR WAYNEGRAY I was going to say EVERY WORD you just said. I'm 73, 74 in February, as you can tell from the numbers in my username. Again, Me Too!
@zimjun7 yeah, youngster😊 I will be 74 in June. This is one of my bands. 👍
Same Age n Same Page dude.
No drum loop… it’s the swinging pulse of the great Ginger Baker… the amazing bass of Jack Bruce… the genius guitar of Eric Clapton.
Exactly. Real artists playing real instruments with real heart and soul.
And Jack Bruce singing...I loved his voice and he was an amazing bass player.
@ Jack Bruce was also a child prodigy.
@ back when musicianship was valued more than hype.
@@kallsop2 Real artist use sequencers, samplers & drum machines as the are real instruments as well. Real heart and soul comes through them as well. You're out of touch with the world. Is painting real art while photography and collage art not? Of course not that would be ridiculous just like your initial statement.
You'll like Sunshine of Your Love just as much. One of rock's all time greatest riffs. Love Jack Bruce's voice.
Two months ago.
One of those guitar licks that every beginner tries!
You originally listened to Eric Clapton’s “Layla” acoustic version. You need to listen to the original electric guitar, full band version. That’s the classic version everyone knows and it’s absolute FIRE! There’s a 1999 live version with over 158 million views!
If you want the best version of Layla on TH-cam, check out the Derek & The Dominos album version. This was Eric Clapton’s other group, and the sound quality is far better than the live version. It already has 53 million views for a reason!
acoustic sucked, studio only
@@deborahpaley21 Agreed!
The unplugged was a unique take on the song, but it is hard to choose that over having Duane Allman playing a slide guitar with Eric Clapton on the studio recording.
@richardfromtexas and the live version doesn't have Duane Allman on it.
Lyricist Pete Brown's original idea for the song revolved around a hippie girl titled "Cinderella's Last Goodnight", but when that did not work, he dipped into an earlier eight page poem he had written about a new apartment he had moved into with white walls and bare furnishings, where he gave up drinking and drugs. The personal demons he battled while living in the white room spawned the imagery of the poem, which was eventually whittled down to a few verses for the song lyric. The music was a tribute to Jimi Hendrix, Hendrix visited the group in New York as they were recording it and commented "I wish I could write something like that", only to be told it had been directly inspired by him.
Fascinating, Thank you!
the cream song sunshine of your love by cream was written after jack bruce first ever watched an hendrix gig..he went straight home and writ the bass line..hendrix covered it and loved it
Oh crap. An author used that white room as an inspiration in a book (fiction) I read, and I can't place it. I remember the visuals I got from reading it, but I can't place which book it was!
Your explanation has truly opened my eyes. Been listening to White Room since it first hit the airwaves back in the late '60's. I guess I never thought about the lyrics. Just heard 4 instruments...Eric's masterful guitar which was at least a decade ahead of it's time, Ginger pounding the skins like he had a blood vendetta, Jack's thumping bass and soulful mourning voice. Still rocks my world today...some 55 years after the songs release.
Now you see why we say we had the best music??!! Everything depended on TALENT. ❤
still depends on talent now. it still shines through. the truth is that this generation doesn't care about rock music as much as yesteryear. its time for a change no doubt.
And boy did we have a lot of it to choose from. All authentic. No auto dubs lip synching or fake crap.
Stop trying to apologize by skirting you are just a rap artist. Come on. Own it. You are witnessing once in a lifetime talent BP. Own it. Lol😂 no excuses. You are not just rap listener anymore. You are better for it.
@@Jane-d4w “talent” and fantastic skill developed from years of practice and professional experience.
Not everything. There was some dumbass music back then, too. Don't get me wrong. Some of the best music was from that era. But, you ever hear of The Shaggs? Or remember the song Hanky Panky?
This old lady gets such happy vibes when you listen to the music of my younger years ❤❤❤❤
So with you! I don't care what my mirror tries to show me. When you play this, I'm young again. 😂
Brings back good memories from my coming of age years. Always enjoyed listening to Cream.
DITTO.....I completely agree with you LoraH
I remember loving this song when I was 12 when this song came out.
Ditto that!
The music to this was was written as a tribute to Jimmy Hendrix. Jimmy visited the band while they were recording it and stated he wished he'd come up with the song only to be told that he inspired it. The lyrics were written by the poet Pete Brown, who usually wrote with Jack Bruce, about a bare white walled apartment where he gave up drinking and drugs.
Thank you. I never knew.
Ginger Baker’s drum licks, Clapton s wah-wah guitar solo, tripled with the vocals; EPIC!
SO AGREE!!!
Jack was no slouch on the bass while he was singing, either.
@ oh I agree. Didn’t mean to exclude the bass
Cream were a British rock supergroup 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. Formed by members of previously successful bands, they are widely considered the first supergroup. Cream were highly regarded for the instrumental proficiency of each of their members.
Lot of lyrics are written by poet Pete Brown. So also "White Room"
It wasn't a "super group". Clapton was a relative unknown by the public at that date. Ginger Baker & Jack Bruce had exposure in John Mayall's Blues Breakers. To be a super group, all these people would have had to have instant recognition with a large discography supporting that recognition.
@@diceportz7107 Before Cream Clapton get allready fame in Yardbirds and later de John Mayall's Blues Breakers with the Bueno album.
Ginger did't play with Blues Breakers but Jack bruce did.
@@diceportz7107you clearly Don't know much about Clapton or the Blues scene in London from the 60s then 🙄
@WakeUp-p6h You clearly don't know much about the listening public then. Up until the mid-60s, most people knew who sang their favorite songs, not who the musicians were. If you look on early records, musicians were not even listed. It wasn't until high profile people like the Beatles that the other members of the band were considered. Then venues like The Filmore (East), Mar-A-Sol, Woodstock, Newport, helped to cement the notion that members of the band were worthy of note. I never said that Clapton, Baker or Bruce were not great musicians. I was just objecting to the term "super group", a term that was invented decades later and retroactively applied to any band with now recognizable members.
I'm 65...we had the best cars and the best music! Late 60s until the middle 80s...that was it.
Agree and I was born in 77.
I am 75. I lived it and I have given up trying to explain it to younger people. They could never truly understand Beatlemania. Now it is Swift and Kpop. In the 150 top downloads only 2 of them are bands who write and play. The rest are single artists with corporate industry background music. Gen Z thinks it is Just great. I am glad I had the years 63 thru 73.
I was born in '65 and youve got it right there
And the best women!!!
you're not wrong Julie
We were spoiled, my generation, with so much great music! This is one of my favorite jams, Eric's wah pedal work is kick ass!
'Tales of Brave Ulysses', 'Badge' and 'Strange Brew' are all a must!!
YES YES AND YESSSSSSS
Jack Bruce was a Scottish Classically trained musician who left university against the wishes of his parents to play blues rock music. All 3 are absolutely outstanding musicians. 100% Supergroup
I love the way you can't keep the music out of your soul. Happy New Year
THE best music!
We had it, we revel in it, it stands today!
Clapton, yes.
Psychedelic rock baby! 🎸🎵✌🏽
Eric Clayton's guitar, Jack Bruce's vocals, & Ginger Baker's percussion skills!!! Impeccable & Epic!!!
We really thought this level of music, inspiration, and talent would go on forever. We couldn’t have imagined that machines would take over and human vocals would be replaced or manipulated by auto tune or other artificial means.
We didn’t appreciate what we had, nor what made the music so great. I’m hoping that these reaction videos will reintroduce new generations to what has been lost, and will encourage musicians to take up real instruments, develop a mastery of them, and then use their human emotions, experiences, and creativity to create memorable songwriting and music.
TRUTH!!
👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼. I think it is starting to happen. Kids are picking up instruments & listening to records, on turntables in many places again…
@@katherinebosse5706REN is about the Only one keeping REAL One-Take "Live" music going at the moment who Also has some phenomenal talent.. More young musicians need to up their game! & The industry needs to stop pushing rubbish acts when there are great young musicians who cant get played
There's only one problem, the "music industry" doesn't want to PAY real musicians and if everyone is auto tuned and pitch corrected, then looks are more important than talent and mediocrity becomes the standard! ☮🖤🤘
@@jskit92380 HOW TF DID WOKETUBE DELETE MY FCKUNG COMMENT!?!?
I'm so glad I was raised on all of this kind of music! Every group that Clapton has been a part of is absolutely amazing! Please, please, please listen to the song Change The World! 🙏 It's Eric solo!
Yes, please react to Eric Clapton's Change The World. It is so amazing!!!
Holy moly, another song I had forgotten about.. thanks for the reminder!!
'River of Tears ' live , from the album 'One More Car, One More Rider ', the best.
I'm so incredibly lucky to have come of age with Clapton, Baker, & Bruce.
this is a classic of classic rock
I'm laughing out loud at your reaction to cream! Nice to see you enjoying the music I grew up with. Love it
Yeah I loved how the power music elevated his spirit and his body at the same time. LOL
I am 76. This was part of our normal. Great music. All of them were. Always a new super group coming up next. Cream was another awesome listen.
I’m 74,and when people back then had their souls in the lost and found we found solace with music like this..feel the energy…enjoy
This is one of my favorite Cream songs!! Peace and Love from Canada ❤
This and Tales of Brave Ulysses
Much props to you for learning some of these bands and the members! This is an absolute classic.
Wow, the fact you are learning deep about these bands is amazing, There so much at once I know, but you got this!!! 40!
THE 3-man combo that set the standard for late-1960s blues-rock! Next, listen and react to "Crossroads." You'll go crazy over Jack Bruce's handling of the bass part.
You give me so much joy. I often let my TV run rampant when I am gone for the cat. I came home tonight and your reaction to Stevie Ray Vaughn was just starting and now this. To see you so taken in by our music warms my heart. My kids who are your age grew up listening to all of this because, as my middle son put it, I just love music. I love seeing you experience what I grew up with as a child, teen and young adult.
That "drum machine" was a "Ginger Baker Model #1". They only made one of those, often imitated, never duplicated.
Eric Clapton was also with "Derek and the Domino's", "The Yardbirds" not to mention his solo career, greatest guitarist!
Nobody but nobody reviews the Yardbirds!! Cannot understand because they were awesome no
Matter who the lead guitarist was!!
@@markgrace7181 The same with Blind Faith.
don't forget bonnie and delany
Let us not forget Blind Faith !
And John Mayall's Bluesbreakers!
1967 was THE year for some of the best albums ever made. Jim Hendrix, Doors, Cream, Beatles alone are all amazing records that sounded so different than anything before.
Cream is often considered one of rock’s first supergroups. Jack Bruce (lead vocals/lead bass) was known from the Graham Bond Organisation as well as John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers, where he met Eric Clapton (lead guitar/vocals) who had also previously been in The Yardbirds. Ginger Baker (lead drums) had been a member of Blues Incorporated, and also played alongside Bruce in the GBO.
The power trio played their own brand of virtuoso hard-edged blues rock with dashes of psychedelia. Musically they gelled from day one, but the mixture of personalities proved to be a volatile one, and the band was destined to shine brightly for a short time. They were active for three years, between 1966 and 1968, only reuniting for a live performance at their Rock’n’Roll Hall of Fame induction in 1993, as well as doing a stint of seven shows in 2005.
This was how I got through middle school, listening to groups like this.
The other thing you need to remember about the 60s and 70s is this was all new experimental music. We were listening to so much great music and then incorporating it into rock and roll plus all the new electronics that were coming out in music that had never been seen before. From mono to stereo to four track to 8-track to 64 track. Equalizers and mooc synthesizers and all other sorts of electronic stuff was coming out that we had no idea what to do with so we just experimented did whatever came into our minds. Read some of the Beatles older Studio sessions and how strange some of the ideas they put into things like Sergeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and Yellow Submarine Etc
A most cool song back in the day. The whine of the guitar from Eric and Bruce s voice and Ginger s drum beating made this a great song. One that helped define rock n rolls growth. This was from the 60 s psychedelic ( black light ) age and getting high constantly during that decade.
You can't change your past. Love how open-minded you are now about music. There is some wonderful stuff out there this is one of them.
Cream was one of the formidable "psychedelic" and "acid rock" power groups from the mid-late 60's! They definitely had their own original sound and vibe. Unfortunately they broke up around "69 and Clapton & Baker formed Blind Faith while Bruce moved to a solo career. Awesome reaction Black Pegasus :)
In 1968 I was lucky enough to see Cream in Vancouver, my very first concert. Man they had swagger big time. They were indeed the “Cream” and they knew it. As I recall, Clapton was playing his fool SG and at various points he would face the Marshall stacks, back to the audience as he ripped off solos. Swagger in the extreme. What a time that was for 14 y/o kid.
I’m 72 and was fortunate enough to grow up with this music
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 AH: MY YOUTH!! WOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! THANKS for THIS ONE, BP!!! SO HAPPY YOU LOVED IT!!! BANGER of a TUNE!!
You might enjoy Strange Brew as the next Cream experience!
I always loved the way Ginger's drums drove the whole thing.
Check out "Crossroads" and "Sunshine of your Love". Played the second one at my wedding - perfect!
This Album was my 1st album in the Capital Record Club 1968,😮 l was in the 8th grade Junior High, Music wise this is when l awakened and 1969 High School and Woodstock, there was no going back! Peace 😊✌️ your 70 year old forever Young Hippie Gary 🕺💃 Great Reaction👍
I remember Capitol Record Club!
My favourite band from their beginning .... how can a 3 piece band sound so good!
one of the all time great rock songs & bands! dbl ♥
I sold my Barbie to buy this album!! ❤😂
Take the world's best drummer, the world's best guitarist, and the world's best bass player of the 60s, put them in a group, what do you get? The Cream!
This song is about depression and hopelessness, but the setting is an empty apartment. The lyrics were written by a poet named Pete Brown, who was a friend of Cream bass player Jack Bruce, the lead vocalist on the track. Brown also wrote the words for "Sunshine Of Your Love," "I Feel Free" and "SWLABR."
The first "Super Group!" They adopted the name Cream, because they were the Cream of the Crop! Eric Clapton on the Wah-Wah. Yes, this song relates a depressed mood, but it is an epic rendition.
Listen to the drumming by Ginger Baker which is really complex for rock drumming. This guy was playing several beats in one song and constantly doing fills. It's a masterclass on rock drumming. What is cool is that Ginger according to the rock press was a cranky guy but one helluva drummer.
If you were some old guy, like me, reacting like this to this epic song, I'd be like yeah yeah yeah, we heard all this before, But you're not. You're young and from a whole different genre, and that's what makes this reaction special. And it is special. Great job, again, Happy New Year!!
Music of the time, 1963 thru 73 was incredible. You had soul, rock and blues, You had the California sound, the Motown sound, The Beatles. Social issues abounded but the music and, yes, the cars were all about energizing and entertaining you. We needed it to get us thru the racial tensions and the Vietnam war. I M 75 and I lived it from adolescence thru to adulthood. Greatest decade in music.
The 2nd vocal part is Eric Clapton singing. Love that back and forth. Always loved their overall sound!!
to understand this song u must understand the, shall we say, hallucinogenic nature of the 60s. the writer of the song lived in a flat that had a white room w Black curtains that over looked a train station. his girlfriend had dark mysterious eyes that her gaze was like moonbeams w silver horses on them. when she broke it off she left from the station. then at a party a girl was kind to him . her eyes were predatory like crouching tigers. and that's how simple it is.😮
Some people think that their time is the best. I grew up in the 60's. The 60's and the 70's Had the best music, it is nice to see younger people hearing it for the first time, and see how they enjoy it. It will last forever.
Everybody's doing what they do best, but Ginger is killin' those drums.
The songwriter was waiting somewhere to go somewhere else and stranded in the room he described.
And yes, at least the first time, just go with the groove lol. You can only hear it the first time once, dissect it the next 6 times!
It is greatness! You crack me up! This song a little before my time, but heard it all thru high school years.
I was born a year before this album came out, but I had an older sister that loved this kind of music and I would listen to it with her (several years later, of course). I also had a couple of aunts that were heavily into this music and the whole 60's and early 70's vibe. Love this stuff.
Cream has so many great songs...some of their best music doesn't get the airplay like White Room did...check out Tales of Brave Ulysses, Strange Brew, and my favorite Deserted Cities of the Heart.
Great reaction, great old song. Nice way to appreciate my first cup of coffee. Thank you.
I loved this song, and I was super young! Thanks for reacting to it!
“Tales of Brave Ulysses” and “SWLBR” are also phenomenal 👍🔥
Psychedelic Rock....ahhh the memories!!!
Their producer was Felix Pappalardi, who went on to create Mountain with Leslie West and Corky Laing. They're well worth a look, too. Try their songs Nantucket Sleighride, Flowers of Evil, Mississippi Queen.
Wonderful reaction. One of my favorite songs🔥🙌🏼🤘
62 years old and I have become a huge fan of yours. You introduced me to Krizz. Your absolute excitement and your comments about vibing absolutely had me crying with laughter. Keep up the amazing content you have a fan here waiting for more reaction videos.
Ginger baker babe - no loop He was a Monster. I saw him with an all percussion band, maybe 15 of them. When some people yelled for oldies he told them to get out if they were stuck in the past , he chased 1/3 the crowd out. Amazing Show 🎉
It's about depression and hopelessness. The lyrics were written by a friend of Jack Bruce, Pete Brown. And yes, Jack Bruce is the lead singer on this track.
Another Great 👍 Reaction to a Great Song!😊❤ Cream was the first "Power Trio". 3 fantastic musicians.
The song started out as a song about a hippie girl and evolved into a poem he wrote as he was working his way off drugs living in a plain white apartment and the depression around that
That subtle snare slip just a millimeter behind the beat, is everything.
Just three guys making this fantastic sound! The drum outro on this is epic. RIP Ginger Baker
Eric Clapton on guitar, mostly known as a blues guitarist till this group. Jack Bruce on bass, mostly known as a jazz player. And Ginger Baker on drums, also known as a jazz drummer. They get together and form a hard rock band that produced great music. The crazy thing is Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker disliked each other before the band was even formed. That relationship went south as time passed, thus the short lifespan of Cream.
disliked lmao, they hated each other. Arguments would turn into punch ups with poor Eric trying keep the peace.
I could not not wait to see your reaction to the solo. Epic.
I remember getting this album in high school and playing it constantly. Music in the 60’s was amazing.
So glad to hear and see your reaction to this great band. I was lucky to have seen Cream in Sacramento, CA in March of 1968. White Room was the opening song of their set that night. They were playing in San Francisco for several nights and came over for a night. What an epic time for music. I had just seen the Doors a couple of months before and saw Hendrix 6 months later.
Now imagine being 11-12 years old and hearing it for the first time. I’m almost 70, and I still have the same reaction that you’re now having.
Enjoy!
Pure, unadulterated FIRE 🔥 Jack Bruce slapping that Bass and singing his heart out! Greatness we probably will never witness again! Watching you enjoy this little “ditty” was the best part of the New Year for us!
Amazing song! (And, fyi, lyrics are "shadows RUN from themselves). Cream, along with CCR, Steppenwolf, Doors, Hendrix, Janis Joplin, were the original idols for me as a young teenager learning guitar back in the day. This song encouraged me to purchase a wah wah pedal!) Also, Jack Bruce created/recorded some amazing music after Cream broke up (check out "Rope Ladder To The Moon", "Theme From An Imaginary Western", "Tickets To Waterfalls").
WOW! My first psychedelic album! This is a great album, still remember every word from this song!
This is a true story. Back in October '68 I saw Cream at The Sam Houston Coliseum in Houston (tickets were $3, $4, $5, and $6). I don't remember what price mine were, but we were just happy to be there. Before the show began we hit the snack bar to load up on crap before taking our seats. While we were waiting our turn, some random dude walked by and said that we could see the band up close if we walked down to a roped off area a little further away. We followed his lead and came to a stairwell where we could see a little way downstairs. After standing there for a couple of minutes, we saw movement coming up the staircase towards us. There were 2 security guys standing close by, but that was it. We walked up to get as close to the ropes as possible, and stood there getting excited. After less than a minute, lo and behold, here they came. First came Jack Bruce, followed by Eric Clapton, followed by Ginger Baker. Jack and Eric just passed us by without so much as a glance in our direction. They all came within 3 feet of us on the way to the stage. Ginger walked by last, and he looked over at us and sort of grinned. They all must of thought "Who are these punks" as they passed us by. We were all in 7th heaven though. Great show that night and this was one of gems they played.
Absolutely true story.
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The lyric is "where the shadows run from themselves".
Thank you...he messed that part a bit, thinking, "shadows rise." Sun never shines...shadows run from themselves.
I remember this as a child thinking what are they singing about? I had no clue...from Songfacts: This song is about depression and hopelessness, but the setting is an empty apartment. The lyrics were written by a poet named Pete Brown, who was a friend of Cream bass player Jack Bruce, the lead vocalist on the track. Brown also wrote the words for "Sunshine Of Your Love," "I Feel Free" and "SWLABR."
The music was written first. Pete Brown's first attempt at a lyric was something about a "doomed hippie girl" - the song was called "Cinderella's Last Goodnight." Jack Bruce wasn't buying it, so he scrapped that idea and pulled up an eight-page poem he had written earlier, which he reworked into "White Room."
In a Songfacts interview with Pete Brown, he told the story: "It was a meandering thing about a relationship that I was in and how I was at the time. It was a kind of watershed period really. It was a time before I stopped being a relative barman and became a songwriter, because I was a professional poet, you know. I was doing poetry readings and making a living from that. It wasn't a very good living, and then I got asked to work by Ginger and Jack with them and then started to make a kind of living.
And there was this kind of transitional period where I lived in this actual white room and was trying to come to terms with various things that were going on. It's a place where I stopped, I gave up all drugs and alcohol at that time in 1967 as a result of being in the white room, so it was a kind of watershed period. That song's like a kind of weird little movie: it changes perspectives all the time. That's why it's probably lasted - it's got a kind of mystery to it."
Been rockin to this since 1968, and now in 2025. I'm here for it. Peace!
I absolutely love your reactions.......❤❤❤❤❤❤
Of the 40+ Cream recordings, this might be my favorite: lyrics by band outsider Peter Brown (wrote most of the band’s lyrics like Robert Hunter for the Grateful Dead, Bernie Taupin for Elton John, etc. , . . . ) Jack Bruce’s gut wrenching melodies with his cutting vocals, Ginger Baker slapping the h*ll out of his drum kit and Eric Clapton choking the life out his guitar. The producer Felix “Don’t Buy Your Wife a Derringer” Pappalardi on violas.
The song is about Peter detoxing in an empty apartment that was painted white, as he fought his demons.
Totally reminds me of my dad. He loved this song. A masterpiece
I've listened to this for years and didn't know what it was about! It's a good read...and written/inspired to honor Jimi Hendrix. The White walls and unfurnished apartment was where Pete Brown withdrew from alcohol and drugs- and the demons he fought doing that. Wow! Love it!!
I grew up on this music! So glad you reactors are exploring and appreciating it!
Man, it’s so funny. Seeing you young people discover music like this. me and my crew used to get hammered and listen to this and many others just like it and pick a different instrument to copy and jump around like a bunch of fools. It was epic.
the best time of my life!
Of course we still do that but we used to too! 😂
Happy New Year!! For a real musical treat you'll fall in love with immediately, listen to Cream's live recording of Crossroads. It's an old Blues song, written & originally recorded by Robert Johnson in 1937. Cream elevated it to iconic Blues/Rock classic.
BTW - Cream was supposed to be a Blues band, in the 60's style they helped create, so yes, many of their songs have a melancholy edge.
Back in the day when dairy was delivered to the home one would pop the paper cap off the glass jar of milk. The prize is the CREAM at the top. Best of the Best.
Thanks!
thank you so much for the extra support!
Love me some Cream! I’m too young to have grown up listening to them, but I did anyway, because my dad had an EXCELLENT record collection and a good hifi!
Cream was ounce for ounce the most talented group of musician out there. Ginger Baker was amazing on drums, Jack Bruce just killed it on bass, and they round it off with Eric Clapton on guitar. Led Zeppelin was similarly a band made of all-star session players with only one untested member- Robert Plant (he worked out OK). The groups coming out at this time was simply amazing. Sadly, the members of Creams couldn't stand each other, so they didn't last long, but while they were together, they made magic. One of my all-time favorite pieces of recorded music is the version of the blues classic Crossroads Cream did at a music festival in the late 60s. It's worth a listen... they took it to the next level.
The "normal" voice is Jack Bruce, the high one is Eric Clapton 🙂 All the best in New Year for you and your family! 🙂🎊🎈🥂
Wow I didn't know that and I'm 48 yrs old lol
There were two people who worked alongside Cream and played a big role in their success: 1) London poet Pete Brown, who wrote lyrics for many of their songs (especially those written by Jack Bruce); and 2) Felix Pappalardi, the bass player for the American band Mountain, who produced Cream's records and played with them in the studio.
Yeah. That's him playing. He is an amazing guitarist.