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  • They switched the chorus, well except for a slight moment after the 2nd verse, instruments are amazing, it would be amazing to put this music to Howlin Wolf's soulful voice

  • It was sooo..hard to play this..

  • great song

  • I remember in the 60s when Hendrix and Clapton were at their peak, there were listener polls every year. And at that time one year Hendrix would win and the next Clapton would win. When Clapton was with Cream, on a good night, he was considered = to Hendrix.

  • perfect

  • He still does when he gets back into the BLUES! Cream is and was the Godfarther of jamming! The nearly 20 mins version of this piece on 'Those Were The Days' live @ Winterland, San Francisco 1968 is about as classic as any Beethoven sonata and the same goes for N.S.U. Saw them twice @ Fillmore before I starting dropping but that don't matter now. Jack slapping that bass, Ginger his drums like a music maniac, and Eric unbelieving he could be making such sounds! You ALL were!

  • i'm so glad clapton switched to strats and left cream

  • lol volume > speed?

  • @StopTheMoti0n yeah, that´s right. With power it is possible to get more out of the notes youre playing, while playing really fast all the time never gives you a chance to linger on one note for more than a split second.But afterall, it´s all about peoples opinions.

  • All the shit he writes now is soft.. this is fuckin badass. i mean i like crossroads and everything but c'mon

  • @erikbear9 - I agree, to some degree. I think the death of Hendrix played a part, also. It is very unpopular to admit that hard drugs actually played a part in that fierce beauty, and so I never said so out loud. It upsets sober people. And I've been sober 29 years. I have to sweat blood to align myself with that magic in my singing and playing. My best work, I admit, was enhanced by LSD, or at least that's how it felt.

  • the piller of blues ROCK!

  • Eric, what happened? You used to play. I mean play.

  • @bamboosa He got sober....

  • ....well Black Sabbath AND Deep Purple actually.

  • i dont understand why these guys are hardly ever credited with inventing metal. this is way heavier than blue fucking cheer

  • @daveceaser13 cream's spoonful is right up there with the heaviest blue cheer and MC5 songs, zep's dazed and confused, and iron butterfly's inna gadda da vida. this is pure blues rock at it's heaviest, nobody was able to top this for heaviness, until Sabbath came along.

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  • from mid '68 to late '69 I actually thought Eric Clapton was better than Jimi Hendrix....... LOL........ W R O N G !!! I was 17.

  • I hate the fact that although cream practically rewrote rock n roll history they are barley given any credit when the question comes up "who is your favorite blues hard rock band?" they always point to Zep Sabbath but this my friends is were it all started along with Hendrix.......

  • @zepher1494 dont forget about TEN YEARS AFTER,boy i wish i was around back then.just imagine all the peace and love garbage and you had these great bands throwing down the heaviest shit i've ever heard.damn i'm pissed i was born in 67 i wish i was born around 50 or so .then i could've seen it all go down.fuck.

  • I was front and center for this at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit. Never been the same. Mesmerizing

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  • who are you? An ignoramus? These guys recognized this as an homage...

  • who are you?  An ignoramus

  • This is obnoxious...After you hear Howling Wolf sing this song, this sounds like blasphemy

  • @nickeyparadise Agreed. 

  • not my favorite version. Willie Dixon, Etta James and Howlin Wolf are more to my liking. This is just loud noise. I feel where Cream is comming from though. Everybody likes to be loud and raunchy sometimes.

  • back when clapton used to take razor blades to a new amp, slash away at the speakers to give that over driven sound. ( i think ).. for sure is what he did in earlier yrs

  • @beyondalohas

    no that was dave davies of the kinks, thats how he got the sound on you really got me

  • HOWLIN WOLF MAN!!!!

  • A little bit on a spoonfull, cream and you, wowww...

  • I played this song at Guitar Center on one of those special Gibson SGS & A 1960 lead marshall stack. The shreaders there couldnt keep up to the power I was producing. Power > Speed.

  • Jack Bruce was a bad ass bassist

  • Holy balls! As much as I love Clapton, I feel that a lot of time in Cream, he was trying to keep up with the gods of Baker and Bruce. He's even said so recently. However, shit.......he actually took the lead here, the actual lead. That is one mean, raw solo. Probably the most aggressive stuff I've heard of him with Cream. Very, very raw. Well done sir!!!

  • @greenfruitface I have several live recordings with Cream, and the bootleg "Live at the Grande Ballroom" is the holy grail !

  • @greenfruitface

    IMO Clapton was at his best when he was being pushed. Nobody pushed more than Bruce and Baker.

  • @pedroV2003 well nobody except duane allman. but I agree totally.

  • Van Halen was influenced as well by this band

  • que viva cream y la madre que los parió

  • WOW!! Best version of Spoonful i've heard since Wheels of Fire. Would've given my soul to be frozen in time in '67 as a Cream roadie; sure feels crummy to now somehow be 60, but what times those were!

  • CREAM=====gOD

  • Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton. Man they are the real gods in this world

  • 'some nights they even sounded like Hendrix.' A fair assessment.

  • clapton should have stayed with gibson, and cream

  • @xijack I wish. But Jack and ginger were so hostile to each other. To the point where Clapton would start crying.

  • @Heroeshere I think Clapton crying is a bit of an overstatement...

  • @mikexlong He says that in his autobiography.

  • @Heroeshere ...I guess he was on a lot of acid...

  • @mikexlong lol, probably.

  • @xijack

    Absolutely. Strats are fantastic, but they just don't suit Eric's style of playing.

  • @xijack I totally agree!

  • when old blues hooksup with bad ass rockers its gold

  • Spoonful of heroin et al of course. Though everyone knows that. Wheels of Fire, my favorite 8 track back in the days.

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  • Spoonful of heroin.

  • we have to be thankful to Mr.Willie Dixon,cause he is the Songwriter..........

  • you all wankers its just music fuck this talking on you tube i hate it and i will do it no more just for you all one more time

  • Clapton kicks ass, but lets be real about it lol

  • The song is so Black Sabbath-esque....

    Just with even more blues influence.

  • if you don't understand clapton, the change at around 7:00 pretty much clears up the greatest guitar player. Soul is personal, and thats it

  • Clapton was, now he is working in an ad agency peddling pap

  • I dunno about their version....

  • Eric Clapton or Jimmy Page? I can't decide.

  • @dubbly1 you know what man? you dont have to choose or deside! that way its easier to respect both of those great musicians!

  • mmm this sounds amazing!

  • baddest rock song, ever recorded!

  • @teleevangelist well it is a blues song actually :)

  • @chvaky /blues song, how old, were you, when this song was recorded here?

  • @teleevangelist well I think that is irrelevant because this is a blues song, no matter what any of us says or does.

  • @chvaky

    Sounds more like Rock, or Blues-Rock.

  • @teleevangelist I WAS 14 AT TIME OF THIS RECORDING, AND WHEN THEY RELEASED WHEELS OF FIRE IN 68 WITH ANOTHER LIVE VERSION OF THIS, I WAS JUST STARTING TO PLAY BLUES HARMONICA, AND HAVE BEEN PAYING NOW FOR 40 YEARS, STILL LOVE DOING THIS SONG ON STAGE

  • get lives people.....

  • Well, on religion and worship: why replace one outdated 'God' for another one (mortal, artistic, chemical, etc) - Just because you need to have one but can't 'conform to the old thinking' and need to find one with a new name? By doing so, you're STILL conforming to the old thinking, ironically...

  • This is so FUCKING HEAVY!!!

  • @thestratlars No, brutal death metal is fucking heavy! This is groovy, bluesy, and worth listening to. Get it right!

  • what are you saying all of you?cream influenced by willie dixon you cant compare it dixon is the real thing the real blues so give a little respect to him...

  • Best version !! Where can I get the CD of this concert. Cream at their best here.

  • black sabbath were influenced by this band

    ?

  • @adelhssn

    Oh yeah !

  • @adelhssn Just listen to the dark, crushing chords and the searing leads. It's not all about dungeons and dragons lyrics. Sabbath is a parody of Cream at BEST. (and they probably would even have admitted so early on, they worshipped these guys)

  • @adelhssn it's more than propably

  • @adelhssn blues in Chicago in '40-'50 influenced this band ;)

  • @adelhssn

    i guess nearly every good rock band has been influenced by them

  • @adelhssn Eric Clapton was Tony Iommi's idol...

  • @mikexlong And he did a version of this with his band before sabbath called mythology, its on youtube somewhere, sounds pretty good.

  • @nw781 yeah ive heard it, but either Tony wasn't playing loud enough, or the audio was just that terrible lol.

  • @mikexlong yeah its a pretty shit bootleg in terms of sound quality.

  • @nw781 ...of course Tony didn't have Bill and Geezer to back him up, or Jack and Ginger for that matter...lol

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  • this version doesnt make me bounce like the howlin wolf version does

  • Agreed.

  • im sry u think that way

  • How can anyone compare Howlin Wolf with Cream. Cream played a classic blues number and took it to the next level. When it comes to jamming blues/rock no one beats Cream, !

  • well there kidna a lot different

    one singer happens to be black..

    so dont try to label everything as better or worse jsut listen and enjoy

  • You don´t get my point, I have the deepest respect for HW as one of the greatest classic bluesmen, but is Cream is not classic blues, it´s a step between blues and hard blues/rock, so just listen and enjoy !

  • nobody cares what u think king faggot

  • Totally agree....Wolf's version is child's play compared to this!!!

  • @kinggreenbaum1966 I hear Clapton was shocked by how good Hendrix was compared to him. Not sure what percentage better/worse or whatever, it's not really an issue, but are you saying that Hendrix couldn't beat Cream on a good day? I'm sure he could, or vice versa, sure...

  • @Saighton I dont believe in "best guitarist" in the world, but different styles and l just prefer guys like Clapton, Peter Green & Duanne Allmann before Hendrix. And Cream´s "Live at the Grande Ballroom" together with ´Peter Green´s Fleetwood Mac "Live at the Boston Teaparty" is in my book the best jam liverecordings I ever heard. have a nice day !

  • @kinggreenbaum1966 please dont get it twisted without Wolf there would be no cream and this cover wouldnt be.who do you think they have in mind while playing this song? Great music is simply great music.

  • @kinggreenbaum1966

    True, but you gotta gives props to the originals, the US black blues artists who after all gave those English white boys the inspiration to follow in their footsteps...

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  • @kinggreenbaum1966 Howlin' is better at what he does though, in his genre.

  • Nice rendition but once you've heard the Wolf lay this down, everything else pales by comparison.

  • hate to disagree but tya version live at the filmore beta them all.

  • Brilliant it's  shame it wasnt all there though

  • it is so beautiful and powerful that I'm crying ! Jack Bruce is really the greatest singer of the sixties, isn't he ?

  • i remember watching the cream farewell concert and thinking this was a fantastic version of spoonful...i`m so grateful for you guys for pointing out how mediocre it really is compared to those old black dudes...silly me, they`re white boys and used amplifiers...how could they possibly be any good?

  • Arthur, as the great philosopher Charlie Brown once said, "Some people just don't know sarcasm when they hear it..."

  • jp....how true...i always thought Charlie Browns philososophy superior to those idealistic twats they teach you about in college...

  • and his philosophy

  • My Philosophy class (Clemson) taught me how to learn the ideals of about 50 dead guys in four hours over some coffee at Waffle House...including the coffee, a generous tip, and the over priced book, around $1,000. Charlie Brown taught me to never try place kicking a football held by a feminist of questionable sexual orientation - didn't cost me anything and only took 30 minutes; and I actually still remember Charlie Brown's lesson!

  • Spot on mate..here in England we play with a round ball but the principle stands...AND i think ur right about that sneaky bixxx...i always thought she was a rugmuncher as we so delicately put it over here...Merry Xmas!

  • @jpboonexxvii 'EVERYBODY'S FIGHTIN ABOUT IT"

  • @jpboonexxvii Sarcasm is a form of cowardice, in my humble opinion, and I think that's an opinion stands up philosophically as well...

  • Howlin Wolf's version is the best and always will be the best.

  • i agree

  • izzy's version of spoonful is the best

  • clapton is god!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • Clapton is God!!

    (LOL).Man please.Clapton is good but he is no God.B.B King,Albert King,Muddy Waters,Buddy Guy,and the great John Lee Hooker and others.Man,Clapton should bow down and kiss the ground these legends walked on.

  • dude he did they are his idols

  • fuckin A...they're just people man. great musicians, but they're just people. i mean if you wanna blow em that's cool for you but shit ain't no point in sayin clapton should kiss the ground they walk on.

  • @pauljohngerorgringo No God is God eric just came face to face with Him. He is something to be else. don't know any other than les paul or chet actkins that can play like him jimmy page maybe ?  speedo

  • @pauljohngerorgringo he's good..not god

  • @tvicena You're right.

  • @pauljohngerorgringo Lets keep it real kid The wolf made them possible,so don't get it twist. This is coming from and older blk who loves him some cream AND THE WOLF TOO!

  • @pauljohngerorgringo

    Yeah..like God couldnt do a better solo than that? Man you have low standards. Let God be God and stop throwing around his name as if its a joke.

  • @Rizzy55 but god is a joke.

  • @Rizzy55 But if G-d DID sing the blues, "he' would be Howlin' Wolf. Sorry Jack.

  • Actually God is God, I think Eric believes that too now, but neither here nor there, this was a certain time in history, fueled by drugs but really a strong appreciation for the creators of this music, they just did not know American youth had been blinded from it by design, the kids in Britain thought we were all into it. And in the early to late fifties the white kids were...then it went away till the Beatles the Stones, The Yardbirds, The Kinks, and the rest brought it back to America.

  • Someone should put up NSU from The Grande Ballroom..

  • It's up now...their single greatest performance (captured, anyway). The GB show was their epiphany - someone said, and I agree. The drugs, the wall voltage hitting the Marshalls, the plate voltage hitting the Mullards, the chemistry that night was perfect.

  • I agree, have nearly every live recordings with Cream, and GB boootleg is simply the best jam I ever heard.

  • An epiphany (from the ancient Greek "ἐπιφάνεια", epiphaneia, manifestation, striking appearance) is the sudden realization or comprehension of the (larger) essence or meaning of something. The term is used in either a philosophical or literal sense to signify that the claimant has "found the last piece of the puzzle and now sees the whole picture," or has new information or experience, often insignificant by itself, that illuminates a deeper or numinous foundational frame of reference.

  • howlin wolfs version is the best that and maybe willie dixon's i think clapton and the lads would be the first to admit that

  • i don't know how you could "thumbs down" this comment. all three of the guys would say, "are you bloody, fucking mad? This never would have happened without Wille Dixon and Howlin' Wolf!"

  • Clapton is God!

  • ... fabulous!...

  • where can i get this audio?

  • It´s a bootleg called "Live at the grande Ballroom", try on bit torrent or Pirate Bay. Have several live recordings with Cream, and this one is out of this world, when it comes to jamming.

  • You"re right fab dat boy jack sure got some smarts

  • Only 10 minutes:(

    Youtube cut off the Cream.

  • Willie Dixon.

    But before that

    charley PATTON 1924  & beforrrrrre

  • This song always reminds me of doing mescalin and fucking in '69 ,,, or was it '68 ? Anyway, I'm from NYC and Mary Joe was from Tenn. I turned her on to Cream and she turned me on to Johnny Cash. We had our own little ring of fire for awhile.

  • Mescalin huh? My ex-boss said he did mescalin once and said it was crazier than any acid he had ever done before...

    Psychedelics scare me cause I am a deep thinker anyhow, I think I would freak out and lose touch with reality.

  • As far as we know man has always sought ways to expand consciousness and loose touch with "reality" . Plants, herbs, chemistry, music, dance, prayer, breath, hypnosis, s&m, meditation, etc etc. oh and virtual reality. lol

  • I know, right?

  • dude if your deep thinker than you would love psychedelics, its all about your mindset going into it...

  • i found some indian church in the southeast arizona desert fuckin wilderness. basically anyone can join so your peyote legal in 5 states. they give you 15 fuckin peyote buttons in tea and basically tell you go take off in their 150 acre wilderness by yourself...theres a website and shit but...what about trippin like flying through dimensions and running into rattle snakes, scorpions ect... and this is like 60 miles from any town....scary shit man

  • Ten Years After does a great cover of this as well.

  • To feel the blues you have to take a breath from the exhales from the deep black south. But cream proofs "White Man Can Jump".

  • And Jack Bruce is just greater as a poet than any American performance hands down. But because you can t say sh*t like that, it is not cool, then Bruce never got the recognition his genius should have gotten. As for originality, listen to the bass lines and the drums, realize the Clapton was fortunate to have this band. You cant touch this for greatness in its own right.......WTF i was there in 1968 and i saw it live

  • i was in Chicago for Cream in 1968, they did not try to hide the fact it was someone else's song. The simple fact is that the public did not know by that time what the Chess bros were doing or where to hear their artists and I lived in Chicago during the whole time. So you cant blame Clapton for America's white wash, at least it wasnt like Zepplin and Willie Dixon's Whole Lotta Love, He had to sue to get the recognition. Clapton did what he had to do.

  • no one plays with more passion or emotion than clapton.

  • clapton is a GOD of guitar playing, I'd like to see you play half as good as him

  • dude shut up about man being God, its old and useless

  • calm down dude, god means many different things to many people. so i suggest you shut your mouth or learn to accept that people think differently than you do

  • i was at the grande in detroit that night and this recording sure brought back a lot of memories. i was only 24 and truly this was one of the greatest moments of my life.

  • ohhhh fuck yeah!!!

  • I think that this song is so hard and heavy

    But is the best way to show the guitar style of the great Howlin Wolf

  • Hubert Sumlin, Dont forget him. He played behind Wolf forever and is still touring!!!!!

  • your a fucking tard monkey the jonas brothers have troble changing chords and clapton doesnt look at his giutar most of the time. And these people are Rocks first Super Group. I dare you to play this with your eyes closed

  • just a joke man but i'm happy to see that you dealt with this comment in the right way!

  • o ok sorry

  • no, its alright!

  • you must be american, only nation to produce these bad self-esteem youtube terrorist who stalk every fucking line of comment and text if there are any errors or radical opinions, so you can mock them.... small dick perhaps... hmm