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  • totally awesome!

  • Not the Smothers Brothers appearance. This is for french TV, recorded in December 1967, at Revolution Club in London, alongside Tales of Brave Ulysses and Spoonfull.

  • This is heavy metal.

  • It would have been funny if Clapton would've said to Bruce after this performance, "Little pitchy there, dog. Just sayin'."

  • That guitar.... it's beautiful.... I need it :O

  • Excellent !!

  • man erics fuckin perfect note solos are just unreal

  • @cbblazer too bad the camera man blew the shot.. never saw a note of the solo only the back of the neck.. great video otherwise..saw cream reunion MSG.. awesome..

  • @filltheline It was actually Jack Bruce's wife filming. So that's why she spends a lot of time on Jack lol.

  • Ginger Baker plays the drums like a stoned caveman :D but hes the best

  • Three guys, a guitar, a bass and a drum kit. Guitars plugged directly into amps, no light show, no swirling airborne drum kit. No auto tune or back up singers just massive talent with minimum technology.

  • This is the guy that ended John Lennon fest in Olmito Texas. videos tell all

    but Mr Baker He rocks and so to that other guy whats his name/ was to S____d to reM____ oh well,.

  • This is the guy that ended John Lennon fest in Olmito Texas. videos tell all

  • In 1992,at the now defunct"the Ritz" in Roseville Michigan.I had the awesome opportunity to see old man Ginger Baker playing drums for the little known but bad-ass"Masters of Reality". The funny part was,they had chicken wire in front of the stage.Old Ginger beat that drum kit like it owed him money.Also saw Robin Trower there,never heard such a depressing(but awesome)version of"Bridge of Sighs" .I wanted to shoot heroin after hearing it live.

  • @bonhambaker I disagree. That's all I can say.

  • for you Ginger Baker fans...t.here is some killer footage of him with the Baker-Gurevitz Army on Youtube, including an amazing solo.

  • Cream what a great band. you had Ginger Baker Pounding on the drums Eric Clapton playing some killer riffs and Jack Bruce Playing some tight bass. They should have stayed together longer and made some more great music.

  • JACK BRUCE,...

    that is all,...

  • love this part 2:40- 2:50

  • baker just hangs his mouth open because it lessens the tinitus (ear ringing) pain caused by bruce's amp. he's not that much of a psycho. get all the baker and bruce footage you can, neither one of them will be alive in 5 years.

  • GINGER BAKER IS A DRUM GOD !!

  • I didn't read all the posts, but this is NOT FROM SMOTHERS BROTHERS! That live clip has Jack and Eric facing large mirrors with their backs to the audience. Ginger is in the middle and faces the audience.. This is a great clip tho! And Eric played the guitar line with double notes during the verses on the Smothers Brothers clip.. (the audio is on the CREAM box set)

  • @TTmaniax

    actually jimi needed time to do that, he only started to be the better one after cream stopped, his 67 early 68 live shows are not freed of the studio solos, which hold him back, and without claptons change to fender who knows how good clapton would have been in the 70s with a les paul or sg.

  • Who considers Eric Clapton the father of guitar?? He is amazing and obviously one of the greatest guitar players that have ever lived. However he learned how to play by watching American jazz and blues guitarists....

  • @kingermcflip

    he didn't watch, he listened to the lieks of robet johnson (his biggest infleunce)

  • @666frankiller Eric Clapton is on lead guitar, Jack Bruce on bass guitar, and the out-of-his-stoned-mind, Ginger Baker is on the drums. I saw them in 1967 at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit and them were great!.. The roadies had to nail Bakers drum set to the floor because he played so violently.

  • who gives a shit, haha

    not i

    not i sir

  • thumbs up if you dig Clapton's MUSTACHE *-*

  • @ThaisMakita totally makes him look like john bonham with the blurry focus

  • Love Ginger Baker (drummer) oooooh, those hippie days lol

  • My band is opining with this tomowow at a club in our town (its a 2 hour set leading bringing in the new year)

  • @aaronaaronjarvis Knock em dead!

  • Listen to this song high. You will be overwhelmed and overpowered by the riff. Fucking Great.

  • let's see if we can finish the song before the cigarette finishes

  • @TTmaniax Clapton came first, he was already "God" when Jimi was nobody.

  • This is NOT the Smothers Brothers show.

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  • anybody notice how on 1:41, eric clapton has to dodge the camera man with his guitar? like "wooooo, ya almost got me there!" ......

    This camera man was fucking retarded lmfao

  • All in Cream were doing things with improvisation that most bands of the time couldn't touch & Ginger Baker did things others COULDN'T do. Actually I think there are more technically good musicians now but with less individual creativity. You'd have to know what most guitarists were doing at the time to know how great Clapton was.Camera on drummer during guitar solo only tells you how stupid the cameraman was but w/ Cream all of them improvised during a solo.

    I'm 99%sure not the SmotherBros Show

  • Some of you realize that one should look at this in the context of the time 1967 ish and some are only thinking of current standards. At the time there were basically 4 or 5 guitarists that were thought of as the 'cream of the crop' , Jimi Hendrix, Jimmy Page, Jeff Beck, Eric Clapton and maybe Alvin Lee (of 10 Years After) most everyone else was thought to be lesser (I'm sure people will add Frank Zappa or other more obscure guys to the top tier but if so they were'nt as widely known as those 5)

  • WOMAN TONE!

  • @originalwolfboy Keep your sexual fantasies to yourself.Eric clapton is nothing special,at all.a good guitarist yeah,but basically a follower,not a leader,not an innovator,just a translator thats all...

  • i love you jack bruce. alot.

  • Classic.

  • if you pause on 4:38 it looks like clapton didn't like the way bruce was singing "i was waiting soo long" xD

  • @enteei666

    ROFL.

  • Listen to Ginger's fills. Amazing. Gotta love all those triplets he throws in there, with a little African feel to them.

  • OMG that hat ... lol.... and the cigarette stuck in the strings near the headstock...PRICELESS !!! CLAPTON FUCKING RULES

  • @wildh0rse you do know the guy with the hat and cigarette which is more likely to be a joint, is jack bruce not eric clapton right?

  • @CJbass420 Yes that's Jack Bruce and most assuredly that is NOT a cigarette! LOL The camera DOES show you Jack Bruce's fingerings though not Claptons (dammit!) Ginger Baker is the shit, man...he's lovin' it :D

  • @wildh0rse yeah theyre all amazing and baked outta their gords.

  • @CJbass420 Dude... baked to a crispy crunch indeed! And loving every minute of it. Dont you just love it when Bruce and Clapton sing together? I think that both voices are amongst the most identifiable in rock and roll.

  • @wildh0rse yeah i prefer jakcs voice but they go to together like a bread and butter, all thre of these guys do they're three of the most musically talented human beings on the face of the earth and i i wish i could just watch them jam even if for just a few minutes its would be amazing and a half. i also want lessons from jack for bass and vocals.

  • @CJbass420 Read about Jack on Wikipedia... he is supposedly considered not just great, but one of the GREATEST rock/jazz/blues bass players of all time. Oh and I re-read your original comment lolol yeah I did know the fur hat was on Jack (it looks soooo cool on him, even in 2010, no?)

  • REAL

  • frickin' awesome

  • I wish every 15 year old would watch this video once. They would quickly realize that the current state of popular music is a disgrace. This was, AND IS, what innovation and musical creativity is all about.

  • @lancetop Im watching it! :D

  • @lancetop you cannot be more right... I'm 15 and I hate every single new "song"... I hate this generation's music....

  • @jawadperson Jack + Ginger + Eric = CREAM!!!!

  • This is Mecca for those seeking the higher levels of Rock history... Absorb, and create a fresh new Cream for the future we need it!

  • Well, they did a good job not filming the entire guitar solo...

  • @Sincopare I know right! Us guitar players and onlookers need to see the badass solo's of the Clapton, there's just not very many even on tales of brave ulysses they don't film the solo! One of the most epic wah wah solo's to date in my book too! We all love Ginger but fuck filmin' his high herione usin' ass, Clapton! Every Zeppelin vid I watch the camera's film every one equaly and zoom in nice an close on Jimmy Page's solo's when he doesn't turn his back on them. True statement thow man.

  • @Nigel1792 come on! Guitarists get all the love all the time. Let us bassists have some glory for a bit! It's tough to film a band like this when you have 3 phenominal, gifted musicians. No matter what, you miss one of them doing something amazing.

  • @montereypopfestiva67 Your right this is for you guys and I respect your comment. Don't get me wrong thow I love the bass and drums but they could have shown a little more of Clapton on some of his best solo's, what they needed was at least two camera men filming everyone that would have been great, but yeah your right man, bassist's and drums don't get enough credit and they are the foundation of the band, more bass pplayers need to come up with stuff thow so it will be more evened out ya know?

  • @Nigel1792 haha I was just teasing. People with no knowledge of music think guitar solos are what defines a great gutiarist and musician. They don't care about bass and drums. Clapton could tear the neck apart, and he did, but he proved throuought his career that just because you can doesnt mean you need to. I agre with you, it would have been nice to see more of Clapton.I would have loved to see 3 cameras and a 3 way split screen. You wouldnt miss a thing. The world needs more Cream!

  • @Nigel1792 I'm not implying you dont know music or are someone I am criticizing, so dont take that the wrong way. I'm just saying that your average person doesnt pay attention to drums or bass anymore because they dont see them as essential. thats why people need to see more of this old stuff, where drums and bass are not only amazing, but showcased. (The Who, Zeppelin, Cream, etc)

  • @montereypopfestiva67 I agree with everything you said 100% man it's the trith people don't give a flyin' flippin' fuck about music anymore or at least most people, at least there are people like me and you out there who know what good music is and cherish it :)

  • @Nigel1792 I hope you're kidding. On EVERY Zeppelin video is something alike:

    40% Jimmy Page, 35% Robert Plant, 20% John Bonham and 5% John Paul Jones.

  • @VictorRechnageL For real man from a young a very ealry age music had a big effect on me, unlike most kids I try to deciffer the lyrics to find out the true meaning behind a song or what it means to me, music is my everything and I'm happy to share my thoughts and feelings on what it's becoming and what music is, you have some valid and very good points I agree with you completely.

  • @VictorRechnageL To say that Page was almost 10 times as important or skilled as John Paul Jones is an insult to your intelligence.

  • @xKinseh You have troubles reading?

    What I'm saying is not, that Jimmy was a better musician, just saying that he got a lot, lot more time on the camera, whereas Jones was almost never filmed.

  • @VictorRechnageL I don't think the trouble is with my ability to read, but your ability to properly articulate points using text. There's no point in the post you made that specifies that you mean camera time.

  • @xKinseh There is, there clearly is. You should try reading the whole conversation before jumping to conclusions.

  • @Sincopare - maybe the camera person was a bass player?

  • @Sincopare They did get a good shot at that upper lip though. Stiff if I've ever seen one ; )

  • I love the camerawork on this.

  • Ginger seems to be having a great time hitting things! I always have thought Ginger and Jack were one of the best rhythm sections of all time.

  • and what is? I would like to download the entire concert.. what do I have to search 4? ty!

  • Yeah, we have to keep it real. Jimi Hendrix > Eric Clapton. He even admis to it lol. However both bands they played in = Fuel me equally.

  • ginger kicks both their asses

  • @RastafariPoet agreed... they also influence eachother, you can tell in Cream's 3rd album in uses of the Hendrix dominant 7#9 and arpeggios he throws down... SICK. and hendrix used to play cream songs live. such as this one

  • My mates band supported BBM Baker ,Bruce and Moore ,man they were awful that night ,Baker tried to walk off stage half way through white room lol, but love cream ,was just dissapointed on the night

  • that is just outrageously awesome!

  • I don't see a need to argue about anything. The groups, you and wolverine mention are ALL at the tops of many 60's favorites list. I don't see a need for anyone to be critical of any of them.

  • Jack Bruce wrote the song. He sings the song. The cream of Cream is Jack.

  • Correction (wolverine37x): Cream were 3/3 British

  • Ginger baker is still alive and healthy today at 70yrs he must be doing something right :D

  • Ginger is on Auto-meth-pilot.

  • lol. funny shit man!

  • oh man agreed 100% :D

  • the album version is poor compared to this, thanx.

    hendrix took stuff from cream its in his book he loved em.

  • Even stevens I'd say. But, I'm guessing you're an American: remember that the Jimi Hendrix Experience were 2/3 British; and Mr Hendrix's talent was only recognised for what it was when, as an unknown, he came over to Swinging London.

    The thing is though it's all good to me: Cream, Hendrix, Doors, CCR, Airplane, The Stones & The Who. Don't matter what side of the Atlantic they were from as they were all the dog's bollocks, during Rock's golden age.

  • Hendrix was awesome, but he cant hold a candle to Cream

  • @emonster2001 oh pleeeeease man!!!Jimi Hendrix could hold 10 candles to anybody!!He could do Cream better than Cream..

  • It doesnt get any better than this..........

  • and rip a guitar!

  • ES MI CANCION FAVORIITA ES MUY GENIAL

  • This Disraeli Gears-era stuff gives me chills. I like Clapton with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, but Cream was something else. Cream wouldn't have been jack without Jack Bruce--what a great bassist, with a soulful voice--and Ginger Baker. Fantastic stuff.

  • also...this is the speed of the original song. They jacked up the speed over the years for the new generation because everything sped up.

  • Oh Jack Bruce. You sure could sing.

  • Lol Bass i was just joking. They was all on somethin!

  • Im glad Cream never did drugs

  • dude the cream DID Drugs TOns of them

  • This isn't the Smothers Brothers show - it's at the Revolution Club in London - without an audience.

    Why oh why did so much of Cream's live footage have to be so badly filmed? :-(

  • clapton yes, hendrix can never be overrated, guitarists still find it near impossible to match his standards and that was 50 years ago or whatever

  • Some of you criticize this but you dont realize how inovative this was for the time.I will say this,the quaity of rock music nowdays is pathetic.There were so many great musicians back then.

  • @akbill2 I agree, Cream ruled, and Zeppelin took it to the next level. great.

  • @akbill2 For the time? This song is still innovative by todays standards! One of my favourite features are the rests in the chorus, The pauses in between the next chords. Adds so much more depth to music! Very under used by artists of today.

  • @akbill2 There are many great rock muscians today, the only problem ut either A: They arnt recording anymore or B: They arnt famouse and cant get out of clubs cause of crap "artists" are taking up the limelight

  • @akbill2 Criticize? I would have to say that 129 likes to 0 dislikes is pretty fucking good. This is a great performance.

  • I feel as though the drummer set the stage for these guys. Like without him, they wouldn't be near as great of a band.

  • The first double kick in rock music.

  • @cheesebowls if any one of them wernt in the band it wouldnt be near as good as they are

  • @cheesebowls You realise Eric Clapton was in this band right. You realise he is considered the father of guitar. You sir are incorrect.

  • @maximusrvb You realize you spelled realized completely incorrect? That's factual. And you, in saying I am incorrect, are a fool because what I said is subjective. Also, you're a jackass for giving Eric Clapton alone so much credit. They're a BAND. Each member was just as important as the next, but you'll probably never understand that.

  • @cheesebowls Perhaps if I lived in America with morons like you who believe the entire world strives to live as the great Americans do I would spell 'realise' as 'realize'. Eric Clapton is considered the father of guitar how can you argue with that? They all complement each other but saying the drummer makes the band is like saying you can run a v6 with 2 spark plugs.

  • You're really going to criticize a whole nation? I know the United States has some problems, but don't act like we're all the same. I'm not saying the drummer made the band, I was saying they all worked together so harmoniously. So, fuck youuuu haha.

  • @maximusrvb

    fuck you retard, im an american and i dont want everyone to be like us, and every country has shit tons of morons and retards.

  • the ultimate power trio

  • So has anyone else noticed that Eric is tuned down a half step in all the videos that take place in this theatre? I didn't know he tuned down ever until I just tried jamming to it.

  • Don't think he is tuned down dude. The video transfer of these clips was done at the wrong speed. It should be about 4% faster than this.

  • Zappa, is the shit. But is he better than Clapton? I really cannot make the decision. Although, I can say Zappa was smarter, and a greater visionary. Zappa was as smart as Einstein, and I'm really pissed how people now overlook him in classic rock. I personally think he was one of the greatest composers ever, his music mixed rock and Jazz, and it was AMAZING!!!! R.I.P Zappa, BTW I just say his son Dweezil Zappa play a concert, quite amazing.

  • Might as well end this whole drummer conflict, Danny Carrey? really? John Bonham I can understand, but seriously? Keith Moon, Neil Peart. Enough said.

  • LanceVsWild: OR Here's another end to it, maybe we can all agree that people have different Idea about what the "Best" drummer is, and coming to that conclusion, that not one person that anyone says is right or wrong, because no one's opinion can be wrong.

  • i want ginger bakers shirt!!!

  • he iiight, no john bonham or danny carrey

  • swig i think

    joe meant

    madre mia!!!

    ginger is god

    haha ok no

    sorry

  • and what does that tell us only joe? that the camera mans gay?

  • How often do you see the camera concentrate on the drummer when the guitar is soloing??tells you something!!!!

  • @onlyjoetee That this is awesome?

  • @viggetheman Yeah,that Ginger Baker is a truly great drummer,and was the true "star" in cream

  • @onlyjoetee well it was really his band,he started it......

  • @onlyjoetee Tells me that camerman had a "puff" of that "Cigarette" stuck in Jack's bass....:-P

  • @onlyjoetee yeah that the drummer is so goofy looking that its hard not to look at him

  • @bassgroove21 who gives a damn what he looks like?its not a beauty contest,this is the great Ginger Baker,you get a drummer like that behind you as a musician,its just heaven,believe me...he fucking swings man,just look at his technique..

  • @onlyjoetee i feel that a drummer also has a visual aspect he should have to appeal to. And personaly i dont like his technique.

  • @bassgroove21 - you're an idiot.

  • @aliceborealis how so, part of a live performance is a visual aspect, why would they through in light shows if it doesn't matter what you look like.

  • @bassgroove21 Thank you for proving my point. p.s.- "Through"= Throo or thru. If you want to THROW a ball, it's spelled like this T- H-R-O-W. Dumbass.

  • i meant to say song lol

  • this osng sounds awesome in this version, um jinger baker looks a lil bit like Aberham Lincoln in a way lol but hes an awesome drummer for the cream

  • No, just talent!!!!

  • not the smothers bros.show..eric played a firebird...still this is rock/roll..great vid

  • NOW THIS IS F...ING GREAT!!!!

  • AWESOME!!!!!!

  • this is where Iommi took all those phrases....

  • ARGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH god these guys rocked!!!!!!!! fuk hiphop _ fuk everything else

  • This is a great performance of this by my 2nd fav band of this era. But it is NOT the performance from the Smothers Bros show.

  • Yup. I saw the performance on the Smothers Brothers show, and I've seen clips since then. This is not it.

  • yeah!!!

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