Saw Jack Bruce & Friends several times over the years, late 1970s in Boston, and then in New York decades later. That voice! Last time he closed the show with We’re Going Wrong, at a small dinner club on 42nd Street (BB King’s, since close). The whole room was completely spellbound…
Arthritis made him bitter and angry towards the end of his life and I can't blame him, I'd be heartbroken too if my body began to deteriorate like that.
Didn't notice whether they did, but besides Pete Brown's poetic lyrics, mention should be made of producer Felix Pappalardi, future and amazing bass player of Mountain, who wrote, or co-wrote, a handful or more of the Cream songs and played on a few of them. RIP Jack, Ginger (and Felix and Leslie West).
In terms of musicianship alone Cream are probably the greatest band of all time. Jack Bruce is sometimes overlooked when people talk about great bass players; but many of the great bass players themselves have said how much they admire Jack's ability. Eric Clapton has been at the top of his game right from the beginning, his playing has been admired by fellow musicians right from the early days of the yardbirds and John Mayalls bluesbreakers. Many people say that Clapton was inferior to Jimi Hendrix, but they are wrong. Hendrix was amazing at what he did, but that's all he did. Clapton on the other hand has a much bigger repertoire across multiple genres, in his early days he was fiercely loyal to only playing the blues but when he started playing different genres he once again showed the world his greatness. I love the blues and love what Cream were playing with the mixture of massive heavy blues and psychedelic rock. But after cream and blind faith Eric played with Delanie and Bonnie playing multiple styles and genres which Hendrix never did. Then there was Ginger Baker, by far and away the greatest drummer ever to play the drums. I'm a drummer myself and I also play piano and cello. I promise you that as a musician who knows what he is talking about. John Bonham, Keith Moon, Buddy Rich, Mitch Mitchell none of them come close to Ginger Baker because Ginger Baker understands time, all drummers think they understand time but none do like Ginger Baker does, the reason for the heavy sound of Cream was Gingers knowledge of time and how to create musical arrangements and the way time can change the way a piece of music sounds massively. The two years they were together was enough to show the world musicianship that is still admired 55 years later.
...loved Dot, and loved Eastenders¡☆! 😮 I met Grant Mitchell's former wife, quite accidentally, in a Publix on Miami Beach; she and her young daughter were very sweet. 🙂
What Jack Bruce said about Hendrix that he thinks the reason he’s not with us is because no one cared about him enough and that no one really cared about them back then either is very sad because things haven’t changed. Artists are still being exploited by management and corporate contracts. And then Ginger starts talking about Felix Pappalardi who was another great musician who also left us too soon (by murder)
I think creams music was far more sophisticated than heavy metal....no one surpassed spoonful live at the Fillmore as a jam. World of pain, were going wrong badge as you said...they did much more
The way I see it, rock music had been pushed to its boundaries by the end of 1968. From 1969 and onwards, there was certainly good music but nothing that could be called as original or ground-breaking. Nothing anyone has ever done since 1969 can be deemed as original, revolutionary or ground-breaking. Even The Beatles' Abbey Road album is derivative of The White Album. The culprits who were responsible for shaping and defining rock music as we know it were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream and The Who. Led Zeppelin brought nothing new to the table because their music is derivative of what was already done before. Led Zep fans make me laugh when they claim that Led Zep was somehow revolutionary.
I think the thing that sets Eric’s amazing guitar playing apart during the Cream era and which contributed to the magic of the live recording on Wheels of Fire is … look at the guitars he used: Gibsons! The incredible sound out of, for instance, the immortal Crossroads was his use of I believe it’s a Gibson ES 355, a lovingly crafted instrument made by talented artists. Not some bolted together machine. The story is he switched to Strat’s because Hendrix played them. Got an Afro too hoping the mojo would rub off, I suppose. His playing was still great but that thin sound afterwards was never as magical as those days with Cream. Ok, he got older and some of those early Les Paul’s with inimitable old growth wood are heavy, but the price of one built between ‘56 and ‘60 now, if they can even be found, are astronomical. A Fender? Not even close musically.
Nothing like Eric on a Gibson. On the other hand, he went on to define the classic Strat sound as well. Apple and oranges. Love them both. Would have loved to hear him more with the Gibsons. Saw him use the 335 a lot between ‘94-‘97. Saw him do Layla with the LP in Portland in the early 2000s. Wonderful.
I thought black Sabbath were the first heavy metel band 😄 smh...i hate when that title gets thrown around the wrong bands. Black Sabbath started the heavy Rock metal. Not cream or that collage band Zeppelin.
I sincerely hope the person that commented on Ginger being bested on drums by John Bonham has followed thru with a labotomy. Baker's training wth Graham Bond Organization manufactured a top end jazz,blues drummer! Bonham would be completely dominated by Baker as far as timing, endurance and overall talent. Bonham was for a four year period,a top rock,blues drummer. Gonger was for ten years or so a great rock,blues and jazz drummer!
I think Ginger is hitting on the truth at 9:16 that once you get over the ego clashes that existed within the group, Cream was a greater force and energy than 3 individuals and that it was special. Probably took him some years to realize that in retrospect.
Ginger 6,05,-------"I am getting a band together" Eric------what members have you recruited...? Ginger - - - nobody yet. Eric------have you written much stuff...? Ginger - - - - nothing yet. Etic---------at least you have come up with the name...? Ginger - - - - - no name yet. ❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌
Im sure Eric could give you a blue print of what SRV was doing and how he did it. Eric is never going to understand how Hendrix and SRV turned on the soul. Eric doesn't have it. He's boring
His later years sure…but the first thing Jimi Hendrix did when he arrived to London was find Clapton and sit in with Cream so Hendrix would disagree with you. He loved Cream
I'm from Texas and Winter was blowing the doors off Houston's The Cellar club , long before a one speed blender named Vaughn , or Gibbons ( a real prick if I ever met one)@mystic7splace
That was a good band. Ginger and Eric's egos were beyond their expectations. They were young kids thinking they are. Hendrix made Clapton pee himself. Bonham made Baker do the same.
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Saw Cream in summer 66 and Jimi in Nov 66. A new world created.
Nice documentary on Cream. Nice to see Ginger in a good mood.
Looks like he should of smoked pot more often.
I was 12 when I first heard Cream 1967.. Till this day I still listen..
Blue Condition 😎
Definitely agree that Cream was the forefathers of “heavy” blues rock. This was a year or more before Zeppelin or Black Sabbath
Don't let Zeppelin fanboys hear you say that 😂
My favorite group of all time. Jack Bruce lit the musical fire in me back in 1967 and I've never been the same. Wish we had music like this today.
It's so bad, people use AI to clone the great voices of before my time.
Bruce,Baker, and Clapton were great together
Cream - My Favorit Band 👏👏👏💯💯💯
Saw Jack Bruce & Friends several times over the years, late 1970s in Boston, and then in New York decades later. That voice! Last time he closed the show with We’re Going Wrong, at a small dinner club on 42nd Street (BB King’s, since close). The whole room was completely spellbound…
I saw Clapton during the sunglasses & mustache period! Anaheim Convention Center!
S & M period😊
Never seen Ginger so happy as the day his interviews were taken from . Nice to see .
Arthritis made him bitter and angry towards the end of his life and I can't blame him, I'd be heartbroken too if my body began to deteriorate like that.
@@bluerazor7049 Nonsense. He was always an a-hole.
Didn't notice whether they did, but besides Pete Brown's poetic lyrics, mention should be made of producer Felix Pappalardi, future and amazing bass player of Mountain, who wrote, or co-wrote, a handful or more of the Cream songs and played on a few of them. RIP Jack, Ginger (and Felix and Leslie West).
Ginger talks about Felix starting ~ 16:50
Possibly one of the greatest understatements ever he is a fucking good bass player LOL
Cream war eine großartige Band
One of the greatest things in this life is having lived in a world that had a band like Cream!
Warrior for Cream since Dec. 66.This series of interviews is now in my "Upper Strata" playlist.
Jack Bruce is the greatest bass player rock ever had. And his vocals are phenomenal.
I’d put John Entwistle in that category too, as a bass player.
Agree on voice. However I would argue Entwistle instrumentally
I agree! His voice really evokes 1967 for me. I was just 13 and I fell in love with their sound. Jack brings it all back.
@@toreckman8899 Apples and oranges. Why pick?
@@bunnybgood411 🥴. Huh?
Thank you!
In terms of musicianship alone Cream are probably the greatest band of all time. Jack Bruce is sometimes overlooked when people talk about great bass players; but many of the great bass players themselves have said how much they admire Jack's ability. Eric Clapton has been at the top of his game right from the beginning, his playing has been admired by fellow musicians right from the early days of the yardbirds and John Mayalls bluesbreakers. Many people say that Clapton was inferior to Jimi Hendrix, but they are wrong. Hendrix was amazing at what he did, but that's all he did. Clapton on the other hand has a much bigger repertoire across multiple genres, in his early days he was fiercely loyal to only playing the blues but when he started playing different genres he once again showed the world his greatness. I love the blues and love what Cream were playing with the mixture of massive heavy blues and psychedelic rock. But after cream and blind faith Eric played with Delanie and Bonnie playing multiple styles and genres which Hendrix never did.
Then there was Ginger Baker, by far and away the greatest drummer ever to play the drums. I'm a drummer myself and I also play piano and cello. I promise you that as a musician who knows what he is talking about. John Bonham, Keith Moon, Buddy Rich, Mitch Mitchell none of them come close to Ginger Baker because Ginger Baker understands time, all drummers think they understand time but none do like Ginger Baker does, the reason for the heavy sound of Cream was Gingers knowledge of time and how to create musical arrangements and the way time can change the way a piece of music sounds massively.
The two years they were together was enough to show the world musicianship that is still admired 55 years later.
Ginger Baker reminds me of Dot Cotton from that show the East Enders.
...loved Dot, and loved Eastenders¡☆! 😮
I met Grant Mitchell's former wife, quite accidentally, in a Publix on Miami Beach; she and her young daughter were very sweet. 🙂
hahaha Each,cigarette always in hand, and Cockney accent as thick as Christmas pudding.
I saw them once. April 1968 at a small venue in a Chicago suburb. I still have Ginger's drum stick from that show. 🥁
I got Hendrix plectrum when he played in RAH in London in the late 60's
Baker’s face lights up when he recalls sitting in with Clapton.
What Jack Bruce said about Hendrix that he thinks the reason he’s not with us is because no one cared about him enough and that no one really cared about them back then either is very sad because things haven’t changed. Artists are still being exploited by management and corporate contracts. And then Ginger starts talking about Felix Pappalardi who was another great musician who also left us too soon (by murder)
When you grow up you realize if you don't care about yourself nobody else will
Call and response was blues and jazz a nd you can hear it in their jms
I love cream love you eric for ever❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Waiting for Cray to apologize to Clapton.
For what?
Why would he do that? Robert Cray stood up for what he thinks is right and Eric Clapton is doing just fine, what is there to apologize for?
It was Buddy guy not Cray.
I read the diss from CRAY, not Guy.@@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw
Me too.
I think creams music was far more sophisticated than heavy metal....no one surpassed spoonful live at the Fillmore as a jam. World of pain, were going wrong badge as you said...they did much more
I used to own this on VHS tape.
Ginger Baker woulda made a GREAT punk rocker. Drumming and attitude.
Didn't he actually do something with Sid Vicious or Johnny Rotten?
He hated that shit
Ginger was into African. drums and jazz
He would've made the Hell's Angels ,by unanimous vote.
The way I see it, rock music had been pushed to its boundaries by the end of 1968. From 1969 and onwards, there was certainly good music but nothing that could be called as original or ground-breaking. Nothing anyone has ever done since 1969 can be deemed as original, revolutionary or ground-breaking. Even The Beatles' Abbey Road album is derivative of The White Album. The culprits who were responsible for shaping and defining rock music as we know it were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream and The Who.
Led Zeppelin brought nothing new to the table because their music is derivative of what was already done before. Led Zep fans make me laugh when they claim that Led Zep was somehow revolutionary.
I think the thing that sets Eric’s amazing guitar playing apart during the Cream era and which contributed to the magic of the live recording on Wheels of Fire is … look at the guitars he used: Gibsons! The incredible sound out of, for instance, the immortal Crossroads was his use of I believe it’s a Gibson ES 355, a lovingly crafted instrument made by talented artists. Not some bolted together machine. The story is he switched to Strat’s because Hendrix played them. Got an Afro too hoping the mojo would rub off, I suppose. His playing was still great but that thin sound afterwards was never as magical as those days with Cream. Ok, he got older and some of those early Les Paul’s with inimitable old growth wood are heavy, but the price of one built between ‘56 and ‘60 now, if they can even be found, are astronomical. A Fender? Not even close musically.
👍👍👍👍👍
Nothing like Eric on a Gibson.
On the other hand, he went on to define the classic Strat sound as well.
Apple and oranges.
Love them both.
Would have loved to hear him more with the Gibsons.
Saw him use the 335 a lot between ‘94-‘97.
Saw him do Layla with the LP in Portland in the early 2000s. Wonderful.
Regarding erics comment, even as a late age teenager, I thought Led Zeppelin was Cream with a separate lead singer. Re
Excerpts sans music from Strange Brew DVD.
If Cream had managed to stay together and Hendrix had lived Zeppelin would have never got big as they did!
Cream was psychedelic blues rock --Black Sabbath was the Metal -the doom & gloom that left you spell bound
I thought black Sabbath were the first heavy metel band 😄 smh...i hate when that title gets thrown around the wrong bands. Black Sabbath started the heavy Rock metal. Not cream or that collage band Zeppelin.
I thought the same thing. Black Sabbath is completely different than Cream or Zeppelin.
Yeah, cream is proto-metal. Had metal sounds that would later go on to influence the creation of the genre, but they weren’t metal.
I sincerely hope the person that commented on Ginger being bested on drums by John Bonham has followed thru with a labotomy. Baker's training wth Graham Bond Organization manufactured a top end jazz,blues drummer! Bonham would be completely dominated by Baker as far as timing, endurance and overall talent. Bonham was for a four year period,a top rock,blues drummer. Gonger was for ten years or so a great rock,blues and jazz drummer!
Cream and Zepplin may have been proto or nascent metal,
Black Sabbath WAS metal.
A jazz aspect between Ginger and Jack. Yea right. Ask Miles and Charlie how much infulence they got from Ginger and Jack
Have u ever listened to cream like at all😂 they have lots of jazz aspects
That dude don’t know anything, Bruce and baker played with john McLaughlin in graham bond, their the best white jazz players from Europe.
Man, the history of jazz/rock is amazing, saw John play with Santana in Mahavishnu, somebody named Billy Cobham on drums.
You know Jack Bruce played with Tony Williams lifetime right? They both played with John Mclaughlin before he left for NYC.
Mingus & Davis, were older and on the scene, well before. Rivers don't flow backwards.Just talking out of your ass .Will bet your cats get bored too.
I think Ginger is hitting on the truth at 9:16 that once you get over the ego clashes that existed within the group, Cream was a greater force and energy than 3 individuals and that it was special. Probably took him some years to realize that in retrospect.
Ginger 6,05,-------"I am getting a band together"
Eric------what members have you recruited...?
Ginger - - - nobody yet.
Eric------have you written much stuff...?
Ginger - - - - nothing yet.
Etic---------at least you have come up with the name...?
Ginger - - - - - no name yet.
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Im sure Eric could give you a blue print of what SRV was doing and how he did it. Eric is never going to understand how Hendrix and SRV turned on the soul. Eric doesn't have it. He's boring
His later years sure…but the first thing Jimi Hendrix did when he arrived to London was find Clapton and sit in with Cream so Hendrix would disagree with you. He loved Cream
Charlie don’t know music leave him alone.
wtf are you here for -some political axe to grind ?Go cancel yourself.
I'm from Texas and Winter was blowing the doors off Houston's The Cellar club , long before a one speed blender named Vaughn , or Gibbons ( a real prick if I ever met one)@mystic7splace
That was a good band. Ginger and Eric's egos were beyond their expectations. They were young kids thinking they are. Hendrix made Clapton pee himself. Bonham made Baker do the same.
What ? Think that through 🙂
That's the sound of an empty vessel
That's not true😃
get the f..outta here. If i only had Ginger's blade..
Bonham???