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.

@alwilson3204

Жыл бұрын

Looks like he should of smoked pot more often.

I love Cream

Definitely agree that Cream was the forefathers of “heavy” blues rock. This was a year or more before Zeppelin or Black Sabbath

I was 12 when I first heard Cream 1967.. Till this day I still listen.. Blue Condition 😎

Bruce,Baker, and Clapton were great together

Cream war eine großartige Band

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.

@LoyalOpposition

11 ай бұрын

It's so bad, people use AI to clone the great voices of before my time.

Cream - My Favorit Band 👏👏👏💯💯💯

Never seen Ginger so happy as the day his interviews were taken from . Nice to see .

@bluerazor7049

Ай бұрын

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.

Jack Bruce is the greatest bass player rock ever had. And his vocals are phenomenal.

@clu4u

Жыл бұрын

I’d put John Entwistle in that category too, as a bass player.

@toreckman8899

Жыл бұрын

Agree on voice. However I would argue Entwistle instrumentally

@bunnybgood411

9 ай бұрын

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.

@bunnybgood411

9 ай бұрын

@@toreckman8899 Apples and oranges. Why pick?

@toreckman8899

9 ай бұрын

@@bunnybgood411 🥴. Huh?

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).

@nnylg

5 ай бұрын

Ginger talks about Felix starting ~ 16:50

I saw Clapton during the sunglasses & mustache period! Anaheim Convention Center!

@KittyCarlile-490

10 ай бұрын

S & M period😊

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…

Thank you!

Warrior for Cream since Dec. 66.This series of interviews is now in my "Upper Strata" playlist.

One of the greatest things in this life is having lived in a world that had a band like Cream!

Ginger Baker reminds me of Dot Cotton from that show the East Enders.

@SuperAmin1950

Жыл бұрын

...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. 🙂

@anauticalgate5496

5 ай бұрын

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. 🥁

@MrJenklns

3 ай бұрын

I got Hendrix plectrum when he played in RAH in London in the late 60's

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)

@marshallderriek1858

Жыл бұрын

When you grow up you realize if you don't care about yourself nobody else will

Baker’s face lights up when he recalls sitting in with Clapton.

Waiting for Cray to apologize to Clapton.

@bobd9868

Жыл бұрын

For what?

@debomb721

Жыл бұрын

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?

@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw

6 ай бұрын

It was Buddy guy not Cray.

@anauticalgate5496

5 ай бұрын

I read the diss from CRAY, not Guy.@@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw

@JamesElliott-ne9rg

3 ай бұрын

Me too.

I love cream love you eric for ever❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Call and response was blues and jazz a nd you can hear it in their jms

Ginger Baker woulda made a GREAT punk rocker. Drumming and attitude.

@johnnebocat1397

Жыл бұрын

Didn't he actually do something with Sid Vicious or Johnny Rotten?

@aladdinlamp118

11 ай бұрын

He hated that shit

@aladdinlamp118

11 ай бұрын

Ginger was into African. drums and jazz

@anauticalgate5496

5 ай бұрын

He would've made the Hell's Angels ,by unanimous vote.

I used to own this on VHS tape.

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.

@ibberman

5 ай бұрын

👍👍👍👍👍

@JamesElliott-ne9rg

3 ай бұрын

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.

If Cream had managed to stay together and Hendrix had lived Zeppelin would have never got big as they did!

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

Excerpts sans music from Strange Brew DVD.

Cream was psychedelic blues rock --Black Sabbath was the Metal -the doom & gloom that left you spell bound

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 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.

@joeshoe6184

Ай бұрын

I thought the same thing. Black Sabbath is completely different than Cream or Zeppelin.

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

@michaelarkinstall9162

Жыл бұрын

Have u ever listened to cream like at all😂 they have lots of jazz aspects

@johnsolis7631

Жыл бұрын

That dude don’t know anything, Bruce and baker played with john McLaughlin in graham bond, their the best white jazz players from Europe.

@clu4u

Жыл бұрын

Man, the history of jazz/rock is amazing, saw John play with Santana in Mahavishnu, somebody named Billy Cobham on drums.

@awesomenesssquash

Жыл бұрын

You know Jack Bruce played with Tony Williams lifetime right? They both played with John Mclaughlin before he left for NYC.

@anauticalgate5496

5 ай бұрын

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.

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

@humanbeing5300

Жыл бұрын

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

@johnsolis7631

Жыл бұрын

Charlie don’t know music leave him alone.

@mystic7splace

Жыл бұрын

I was working at a motorcycle repair shop and I had the radio going with a mix tape I had, and this guy comes in, and as he's standing at the counter he says "My man, Stevie Ray!". No, sorry, I said, that's Johnny Winter. SRV may have been good but he was a copycat, not an original.

@anauticalgate5496

5 ай бұрын

wtf are you here for -some political axe to grind ?Go cancel yourself.

@anauticalgate5496

5 ай бұрын

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.

@cu6454

Жыл бұрын

What ? Think that through 🙂

@elainekerslake6865

Жыл бұрын

That's the sound of an empty vessel

@cu6454

Жыл бұрын

That's not true😃

@anauticalgate5496

5 ай бұрын

get the f..outta here. If i only had Ginger's blade..

@Smokey_da_Bear

3 ай бұрын

Bonham???