@oneoldgit Are you kidding me? Page, Clapton, Nash, Young, Winwood, Crosby, Sonnyboy, were all part of monster supergroups. It can be said that all North American music we see and hear today was spawned from 5 Supergroups (exclude Beatles and Stones). What are the 5 supergroups buddy?
@XMIR10C sorry mate not sure you are replying to a comment from me which was in response to a comment about zep. Cream had broken up before zep became famous which was the comment i made
@MaceMn Proves that the rest is bullshit except from the real talent within a musician and or together with a group, Which seem's to lack in mainstream and music industries throughout the modern times.
@MaceMn i would much rather live in a time before cell phones and videogames. and you can't smoke a doob but you can play call of duty 10 hours a day. fuckin economics.
@MaceMn the way of listening changed over the years. music for the masses today is business, just business! seriously, we have a lot of great musicians...but hardly one knows them. what a shame!
Interesting that Clapton :"sounds like Hendrix";guitar solo was recorded,I think, before Hendrix met Clapton. Hendrix chose Chas Chandler as manager partly because Chandler could introduce him to Clapton. Clapton's work with Cream was astonishingly good- he copied the same musicians Hendrix was The Longhorn bass; Bruce had a Fender VI bass on the first Cream.The Fool's paint job damaged it, and Bruce preferred short scale basses then. The Long Horn was bought recording DIsraeli Gears in NYC.
@garygomesg Short scale basses make it easier for someone to do those fast runs jack did, especially if you had normal hands, and not gigantic spider fingers lol. jack uses short scales and frettlesses now, because they are both much easier on small/normal hands.
Oh sure; Bruce was trying to fill in because there were only two guitars and one was normally soloing (Clapton). Jack does use long scale basses now, by the way.
In a similar line up, the Who's bassist was a huge guy but Townshend was a lot less of lead player and would chord more. Townshend is a great guitarist but did not have the inclination or (at that stage) the ability to improvise like Clapton.
As the late great Bill Hicks (check him out) said, if it wasn't for drugs you wouldn't have all that incredible music. Zeppelin, Cream, Hendrix, etc. I'm not saying that these aren't great musicians, I'm just saying...
@fredsassy5 As someone said here, I read it in Clapton's Bio, they had basicly the same musical influences. He also described Hendrix as his Soulmate. And when Jimi was imported to England they ruled the Clubs together.
Bonjour, vous aimez les sixties ? écoutez et podcastez mon émission "le super son des 60's" sur le site de plumfm. You like the 60's ? please, listen and podcast my broadcast "le super son des 60's", connect to "plumfm". Salut et faites gaffe au rock and roll.
This is awesome! I've been looking for a long time for some glimpses of the Cream of legend, that, along with Hendrix, created rock guitar. This is the real stuff, much better than the later footage recorded after Bruce had completely forgotten about the concept of groove and left Clapton to either try to fill the bass role himself or solo as if he was up there by himself. Thanks!
Can anyone play that "stubborn donkey "of a bass ( Dan Electro "Longhorn") like Jack did ?He recorded most of" Disraeli" with one.Don't know at what point he found the Gibson EB3 though.anyone?
@tobbelobbe666 Then what is the attraction ? The Longhorn's neck feels like a oar handle,the action is a mile high,the frets look as if they were fashioned from squeezing a penny nail in a vise,& the bridge ?-a popsicle stick..Even the late ,great John Entwhistle played a long scale model during one early days of the Who-yet all managed to make killer music.Jeez.
why doe slife suck haha kinda pessimistic. If you are a musician make good music and spread. I understand man, its hard. most people like the jonas shit, but you appreciate good music so.. show it to people !
not all technology is bad. we got electric guitars XD facebook and misuse of tech. does suck
well its up to us young people to make a difference just like cream and all the other revolutionary bands did. lets not complain on the internet. lets make good music of our own
Folks, the music has died. It died about 2001. Go back in the past and hear things like this, and you'll learn quickly that Gaga and Britney can't keep up.
Maybe the music will be reborn soon. The 90s gave us some of the most memorable music in decades. Are those days gone forever?
Baker talks about all of them being like.. 'possessed' on stage sometimes. ''It feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is. And that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes.'' ........... It actually almost looks that way in this video... that's kind of nuts.
clapton looks cooler with an sg and played better than with a strat for me strats are just too thin sounding where as gibsons are easier to play and sustain forever
@iddottaw Baker is a jazzer, always has been. It's people who don't know him who label him as a rock drummer. Ginger has ALWAYS insisted he's a jazzer!
Oh they knew all about American bands: to quote Clapton "we heard them play (Jefferson Airplane etc) and just thought they must be listening to the wrong records"
Re Haight & Ashbury? There is a clip of clapton being interviewed on musical influences...they hadnt a clue about San Fransico until they wenbt there...disreali gears at time of writting that they hadnt a clue about Airplane The Dead or any of that stuff
they probably discovered them after the realease of Disreali Gears when they tour intensively the US for this album... they cannot miss all those good american bands ...but well we were just at the end of 67...the best was yet to come...and a lot of great american bands were just beginin' ...with often not even a thing recorded...
@jte1974 it can be important... it can influence their music ... you don't play the same if you've smoke pot or if you took cocaine...i ...uhm well ... that's a fact...
but i've got to admit that most of that turbulent time bands did not record under the effect of lsd... some have tried (the beatles and others) and the result was so bad that they don't do it twice... but some bands in Germany (Krautrock) and other countries have recorded under the lsd effect...it was easier for jambands...
yes , you are correct that most didnt record on it but at live show's were under the influence and then going back at a later time and listening to those shows gave them ideas for future songs. I dont play the same after i've eaten , sick , happy , sad , on coffee , beer , after sex and any other drug that i do but in the studio i'm straight and my ideas come from recorded shows. I wish to keep who i am private because i am signed with a label in a rock band and i have been there. Respectfully
yes ...i understand... live shows can influence the (future) direction...it's a sort of laboratory... or maybe it's only for some kind of music....some sorts of rock n roll , jazz and others but surely less for boys bands and "commercial" artists.
Like Santana at Woodstock...i don't know if it's true ...but some said that he was under the lsd effect and he saw his guitar like a serpent! I don't know if it's another Rock n roll myth or a reality ...i think i will ask 2 my little bro too
*****D*R*U*G*S*****D*R*U*G*S******D*R*U*G*S*****this music was inspired and driven by drugs. Like it or not, this music would not have been created without DRUGS.
Which drug do you mean specifically? In his autobiography, Clapton says the only drug they used was weed. LSD didn't come into the picture till later, and they didn't write music under that influence.
For the most part, this music was created by musicianship.
Musicianship AND drugs = Cream. Look at Ginger Baker's eyes 1:30 he was blasted on heroin. Have you ever heard Clapton's song Cocaine? They were doing all sorts of stuff besides weed.
I know, I meant in the early days of the band. According to Clapton, him and Jack Bruce's first acid trip was at a club listening to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Bruce's popcorn was spiked, that was accidental.
Clapton later did cocaine, I think mostly because of Patti Boyd. But I haven't read that far into the book yet.
The music and the lyrics might seem drug influenced, but they didn't write most of the lyrics, they had a poet work with Bruce, Pete Brown.
jte1974 I didn't say Eric wrote Cocaine. But it is indeed known as his song. To tell ya the truth I don't care who does drugs, and who doesn't. That should be an individual decision. And I also don't care if Cocaine is a pro or anti drug song-lol By the way I think I Feel Free is a fabulous song:)
@demravager Apparently you mustve overlooked the part where Cream was in San Fran.- Clapton talks about playing while tripping on LSD & the guitar was controlling the crowd through angels & demons,whichever he desired to project...
my favorite bands are Derek and the Dominos and LedZeppelin, Ive heard wedding bands that were better than U2 ,lol,U2 really suck! they are a proto-type for record companies who`s REAL art is making shit bands like U2 look like they can play! lol, geez!
I saw Cream at the Santa Monica Civic in '68 ($4) and the L.A. Forum in '69 - $6.50! I went to high school with rich kids, my brother and I were the poorest kids in the school, he sold a bit of weed so he had money but for me $6.50 was a HUGE investment. There were $1 concerts at the Pasadena Rose Palace every weekend. I saw Deep Purple (original lineup), Albert King, and the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor there one night. Yeh, this generation blows.
its hard to create new songs especially now in 2009 when evry melody ever invented has been used six ways from sunday,its really hard to come up with any sort of a melody that hasnt already been used,so yeah the music these days BLOWS! crapola bands like U2 and Coldplay are selling out arenas ,that tells you the 'music scene', is dead! I wouldnt pay a nickel to see U2 or Coldplay,no guitar solo`s `cos the musicianship is terrible and they dont wanna put off the older CD buyers .PATHETIC!
Saw them live in Chicago in 1968, The Mothers of Invention opened for them, Frank Zappa and Eric Clapton on the same bill for about $5 a ticket. The Stones played the Aire Crown Theater for $2.50 a seat in 1966. Saw the Beatles best seats in the house were $5.50 1965. No band today is worth $50 a ticket. Doors in "68 for $4.00, Jefferson Airplane Free in the park...........
Yea I saw Hendrix 1 year later in '69. Amazing eh? 5 dollar ticket hehe. The Beatles were playing at the Auditorium next to the stockyards? hehe I saw Janis In Fillmore west in 68' for like 2-3 dollars. Sorry I cant remember the price hehe.
@megadethrulez actually i went to my local cd store and found cream live at the royal albert hall for $7,00, while the last johnas brothers and the last justin bieber were around $25 to$30,thats hard but its true, becouse unfortunatly what sells in this generation isnt clapton,but the johnas.
intead of buying classic,jazz,folk,blues or even classic rock, kids spend theire pocket on these shit we cant call music
@megadethrulez really?? everything is about money today. not then, back then it was about music. and your pissed about how they cost less? it means much more and it's much more sentimental. grow the fuck up, money doesn't put a value on music, let music speak for itself. and it definitely does here..
You'd have to adjust for inflation, too, though. I mean $5 back then is probably like $30 now, or something like that. After Reagan freed up the markets, godawful prices popped up on everything, so in that case, man...
I'd pay $500 or so to have a chance to see Led Zeppelin or the Doors or Jimi Hendrix... too bad that won't ever get to happen!!!
Btw, I'm very poor, so that says a big something about my devotedness, haha.
I'd pay up to $100 to see Cream, though. I mean, they're gerat.
Plus, back then, musicians went on tour to promote albums. These days, musicians go on tours to make money (and make more money than they do selling albums).
OTOH, back then musicians were robbed blind by their labels, managers, lawyers, promoters ... you name it. Much as I hate the prices today, I just can't hold it against them.
Something about Jack Bruce's mannerisms, singing and bass playing style, reminds me of a young Rick Danko for some reason. I wonder if I'm the only one to think that.
hahhaha...that's true...today kids listen to crap music mostly....but don't worry there are more of us,I'm 17 too and Cream is definetly in my top 5 bands...
i'm not a clapton fan. this is his best period in my book. in a band with 2 other guys very able to shout the odds etc etc. this is also my favourite cream song. so to see them this is terrriffic. love the lack of edits. that way: you KNOW it's live!
claptons hair is epic here
shredmaster100 1 month ago
best band productions ever ade
jajus125100 2 months ago
What a performance.
GeneralParadigm 3 months ago
IS GINGER HAPPY OR SAD?
FRANCECHILD 5 months ago
@FRANCECHILD never happy
sherrymajor1 5 months ago
Does Clapton look tense here,or what ? Probably just saw Hendrix for the first time then.
PAULLONDEN 7 months ago
@PAULLONDEN Or he's probably tired/ coked off the planet?
floofynut 5 months ago
@floofynut Heroin addict. Pretty proud of it too.
phengren 4 months ago
The best band ever (fullstop).
nickshel 9 months ago
Never understood why people chose Zep over these guys. That's almost like preferring crackers over a steak dinner.
Snotra 10 months ago 5
@Snotra Cream broke up in 1968, Led Zep were just getting going
oneoldgit 8 months ago in playlist MUSIC :CREAM
@oneoldgit Are you kidding me? Page, Clapton, Nash, Young, Winwood, Crosby, Sonnyboy, were all part of monster supergroups. It can be said that all North American music we see and hear today was spawned from 5 Supergroups (exclude Beatles and Stones). What are the 5 supergroups buddy?
XMIR10C 8 months ago
@XMIR10C sorry mate not sure you are replying to a comment from me which was in response to a comment about zep. Cream had broken up before zep became famous which was the comment i made
oneoldgit 8 months ago
as bad as the quality is here, CREAM ROCKS!!! just had to add that
telecasterman081095 10 months ago
baker brought us rock drumming.thank u ginger baker
RickyRocker821 10 months ago
Funny how the best bassists are called Bruce :D
masterofscotland 11 months ago
man... one thing about the sixties, the quality isn't always 100 percent. Pioneers, all of the 60's musicians.
dpramirez66 1 year ago
@dpramirez66 Funny how the 60s had great musicians & shitty electronics. Now we have great electronics & shitty musicians? Go fig.
MaceMn 11 months ago 42
@MaceMn Proves that the rest is bullshit except from the real talent within a musician and or together with a group, Which seem's to lack in mainstream and music industries throughout the modern times.
Alithecomedian 11 months ago
@MaceMn ROTFL!
TumbrelJockey 11 months ago
@MaceMn That is the BEST Music Comment I have ever seen on YouTube
TheRealJamDawg 10 months ago
@MaceMn i would much rather live in a time before cell phones and videogames. and you can't smoke a doob but you can play call of duty 10 hours a day. fuckin economics.
myfairvanity 10 months ago
@myfairvanity Me too.
MaceMn 10 months ago
@MaceMn the way of listening changed over the years. music for the masses today is business, just business! seriously, we have a lot of great musicians...but hardly one knows them. what a shame!
50L0NE 8 months ago
That is a Dan Electro "Longhorn Bass" not made any more.
thebansheeman 1 year ago 5
@thebansheeman thanks!!!!
joeythestud 1 year ago
@thebansheeman thomann sells them ??
travisbutlerrocks 8 months ago
@thebansheeman Yea i saw someone bring one in to the Antiques Roadshow........
littlequeen64 7 months ago
@thebansheeman ???
thomann.de/se/danelectro_dead_on_58_longhorn_bass.htm
HitSandman 7 months ago
@HitSandman Thanks for the link!
thebansheeman 7 months ago
@thebansheeman
They sell them at the music store in Abington PA. they specialize in danelectroz
HueySunrise 3 months ago
What kind of bass is the bassist there using?
joeythestud 1 year ago
@joeythestud I think that bass was borrowed from Spok after he was done jamming with the space hippies.
UnderStoryProd 1 year ago
@joeythestud Actually, the Danelectro Longhorn is still being made. I have a 2009 reissue. They're pretty affordable too!
ccrholland 1 year ago
what about Tony Meehan?
2949james 1 year ago
Interesting that Clapton :"sounds like Hendrix";guitar solo was recorded,I think, before Hendrix met Clapton. Hendrix chose Chas Chandler as manager partly because Chandler could introduce him to Clapton. Clapton's work with Cream was astonishingly good- he copied the same musicians Hendrix was The Longhorn bass; Bruce had a Fender VI bass on the first Cream.The Fool's paint job damaged it, and Bruce preferred short scale basses then. The Long Horn was bought recording DIsraeli Gears in NYC.
garygomesg 1 year ago
@garygomesg Short scale basses make it easier for someone to do those fast runs jack did, especially if you had normal hands, and not gigantic spider fingers lol. jack uses short scales and frettlesses now, because they are both much easier on small/normal hands.
willwelsh816 1 year ago
@willwelsh816
Oh sure; Bruce was trying to fill in because there were only two guitars and one was normally soloing (Clapton). Jack does use long scale basses now, by the way.
In a similar line up, the Who's bassist was a huge guy but Townshend was a lot less of lead player and would chord more. Townshend is a great guitarist but did not have the inclination or (at that stage) the ability to improvise like Clapton.
garygomesg 1 year ago
where is their best song venus?
danielhernandezful 1 year ago
i feel free!
jmaxcamp 1 year ago
As the late great Bill Hicks (check him out) said, if it wasn't for drugs you wouldn't have all that incredible music. Zeppelin, Cream, Hendrix, etc. I'm not saying that these aren't great musicians, I'm just saying...
bamboosa 1 year ago
why does eric sound so similar to hendrix
fredsassy5 1 year ago
@fredsassy5 As someone said here, I read it in Clapton's Bio, they had basicly the same musical influences. He also described Hendrix as his Soulmate. And when Jimi was imported to England they ruled the Clubs together.
JhWlo 1 year ago
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Bonjour, vous aimez les sixties ? écoutez et podcastez mon émission "le super son des 60's" sur le site de plumfm. You like the 60's ? please, listen and podcast my broadcast "le super son des 60's", connect to "plumfm". Salut et faites gaffe au rock and roll.
supersondessixties 1 year ago
Sopranos <33
scarface980 1 year ago
Back in the very dark ages when the mammoth ruled.,back in the 1960´s and the we were actually dancing to songs like these.
69MC97gc 1 year ago 2
haha look at clapton with the coke jaw... nice
mike72887 1 year ago
what? clapton on the left and bruce on the right!! this is awesome
Antonovich74 1 year ago
This is awesome! I've been looking for a long time for some glimpses of the Cream of legend, that, along with Hendrix, created rock guitar. This is the real stuff, much better than the later footage recorded after Bruce had completely forgotten about the concept of groove and left Clapton to either try to fill the bass role himself or solo as if he was up there by himself. Thanks!
jimirymodestoca 1 year ago
Claptons 'Fro <3
MonkeyMarieSmexi 1 year ago 2
Can anyone play that "stubborn donkey "of a bass ( Dan Electro "Longhorn") like Jack did ?He recorded most of" Disraeli" with one.Don't know at what point he found the Gibson EB3 though.anyone?
TumbrelJockey 1 year ago 4
@TumbrelJockey I hate 'em. Ugly as hell!
tobbelobbe666 1 year ago 3
@tobbelobbe666 Then what is the attraction ? The Longhorn's neck feels like a oar handle,the action is a mile high,the frets look as if they were fashioned from squeezing a penny nail in a vise,& the bridge ?-a popsicle stick..Even the late ,great John Entwhistle played a long scale model during one early days of the Who-yet all managed to make killer music.Jeez.
TumbrelJockey 1 year ago 3
@TumbrelJockey I don´t know, man. I guess some people thought it looked cool and new.
tobbelobbe666 1 year ago
why doe slife suck haha kinda pessimistic. If you are a musician make good music and spread. I understand man, its hard. most people like the jonas shit, but you appreciate good music so.. show it to people !
not all technology is bad. we got electric guitars XD facebook and misuse of tech. does suck
michaelopeztrenche 1 year ago
wow the sound is really low from this
Luigia525 1 year ago
well its up to us young people to make a difference just like cream and all the other revolutionary bands did. lets not complain on the internet. lets make good music of our own
TheGeneLightShow 1 year ago 8
Folks, the music has died. It died about 2001. Go back in the past and hear things like this, and you'll learn quickly that Gaga and Britney can't keep up.
Maybe the music will be reborn soon. The 90s gave us some of the most memorable music in decades. Are those days gone forever?
lancetop 1 year ago
sure this isn't '66?
dlm9293 1 year ago
they're so unique it's hard to really say ones better than another
shinybald36 1 year ago
They sound like a punk band here.Cool
RockNRollOverDose 1 year ago
Drugs Drugs Drugs! The world needs more drugs!
lancetop 1 year ago
no need to compare the who to cream.
they both owned their stage.
cuthbertallbad 1 year ago 5
Baker talks about all of them being like.. 'possessed' on stage sometimes. ''It feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is. And that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes.'' ........... It actually almost looks that way in this video... that's kind of nuts.
boarderis4snow 1 year ago
Bruce is a badass, nobody can beat him. Intouchable
xcinthyas 1 year ago 4
bruce can sing and play a mean bass
scottyb43 1 year ago 5
fucken love this era
TheMullerFan 1 year ago
Entwistle is better.
Moon is better.
And I guess Clapton wins, but Townshend definately wins for extraordinary showmanship.
scartissue94 1 year ago 2
keith
jack
and clapt'n
fact
SamuBolado 1 year ago
clapton looks cooler with an sg and played better than with a strat for me strats are just too thin sounding where as gibsons are easier to play and sustain forever
shredmaster100 1 year ago
@WhiteVolta7
maybe I like Entwistle a little more (I like his phrasing more than Bruce's)
poor Townshend I really like his style but, as they say, Clapton is God
aportieri8 2 years ago
it seems that the bass line gone wrong so Clapton looked to Bruce for interacting..!?!?
sandrocduarte 2 years ago
Baker vs Keith Moon
Bruce vs John Entwistle
Clapton vs Pete Townshend
Who's the best?
aportieri8 2 years ago
@aportieri8
you're an idiot and you have no clue who the greatest(s) are.
Jimmy Page = greatest guitar player with clapton in a very close second
ItsTheDevilsWayNow 1 year ago
ehm... actually it was just The Who vs Cream
can't you read?
ItsTheIdiotsWayNow = classic frustrated guitar player with Kurt Cobain in a very close second
what's up? your mommy couldn't teach you black dog?
P.S. Jimmy Page is a genius, you're just stupid
aportieri8 1 year ago
@ItsTheDevilsWayNow HInt: The idiot is YOU. :-) Well done.
Nigelxman 1 year ago
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TumbrelJockey 1 year ago
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TumbrelJockey 1 year ago
Baker
as much as i wanna say bruce, entwistle gets my vote
Clapton easy
dykstrark 1 year ago
baker beats moon
entwhistle beats bruce
clapton beats townsend
genericgeorge 1 year ago 2
@genericgeorge
But can Entwhistle sing or compose lyrics like Jack Bruce
Don't care what anyone says,, Bruce=Legend
EdmundIrishKilmacow 1 year ago 3
Clapton's long been associated with Strats, so it's interesting to see him flogging an SG here.
citizenfitz 2 years ago
Jack Bruce must have made all you men and boys jealous.
janicewilsonify 2 years ago
No us men dont think like petty females
genericgeorge 1 year ago
Invention of the power-trio, epic.
Rhakiel23 2 years ago
Baker was born looking like a junkie. Despite that virtue he became rock's first super drummer.
iddottaw 2 years ago 38
@iddottaw
I always thought Ginger looked like 'Cat Weasle' (before Cat Weasle was even invented).
Still rock's 1st super drummer though (before better standards were created).
maccafan10 1 year ago
@iddottaw not quite. Keith Moon came first.
RubHerSoul1 1 year ago
@iddottaw Baker is a jazzer, always has been. It's people who don't know him who label him as a rock drummer. Ginger has ALWAYS insisted he's a jazzer!
tonylast47 1 year ago
@iddottaw That was to his advantage lol
ToothyGus 1 year ago
@iddottaw what about keith moon?
SiKxBlAzEr 1 year ago
Gran cancion!
evanseeworld 2 years ago
It was true about the snake!! He wanted to play right away, because he was so high he diden't he was going to beable to play!
Mr400756 2 years ago
Oh they knew all about American bands: to quote Clapton "we heard them play (Jefferson Airplane etc) and just thought they must be listening to the wrong records"
stunned1 2 years ago
Re Haight & Ashbury? There is a clip of clapton being interviewed on musical influences...they hadnt a clue about San Fransico until they wenbt there...disreali gears at time of writting that they hadnt a clue about Airplane The Dead or any of that stuff
Maguirearch 2 years ago
they probably discovered them after the realease of Disreali Gears when they tour intensively the US for this album... they cannot miss all those good american bands ...but well we were just at the end of 67...the best was yet to come...and a lot of great american bands were just beginin' ...with often not even a thing recorded...
BohemianConspiracy 2 years ago
ginger waswell out of the question but never missed a beat.
lifereguard 2 years ago 2
drugs just make the groove heavier, get some
dubsdrops 2 years ago 4
ginger so wrecked' and awful.
jack bruce and eric clapton were on...those were the good old days.
strat8383 2 years ago
yeh baby! another cream tour now! ..LOL!
TheKenzie99 2 years ago 3
Drugs are awesome. I never criticized drugs or people who use them.
lancetop 2 years ago
@lancetop nice song and all. but, i know it is your opino, but you think something that has a 90% chance for killing you is awesome?
francoboy100 2 years ago
I reckon lancetop's silence is the most apt answer to that question.
;^)
WhiteCamry 2 years ago
CATERVA!
TheMindfx 2 years ago
man who gives a shit if they were on drugs or not. Drugs or no drugs you cant beat Cream .
jte1974 2 years ago 23
@jte1974 it can be important... it can influence their music ... you don't play the same if you've smoke pot or if you took cocaine...i ...uhm well ... that's a fact...
but i've got to admit that most of that turbulent time bands did not record under the effect of lsd... some have tried (the beatles and others) and the result was so bad that they don't do it twice... but some bands in Germany (Krautrock) and other countries have recorded under the lsd effect...it was easier for jambands...
BohemianConspiracy 2 years ago
yes , you are correct that most didnt record on it but at live show's were under the influence and then going back at a later time and listening to those shows gave them ideas for future songs. I dont play the same after i've eaten , sick , happy , sad , on coffee , beer , after sex and any other drug that i do but in the studio i'm straight and my ideas come from recorded shows. I wish to keep who i am private because i am signed with a label in a rock band and i have been there. Respectfully
jte1974 2 years ago
yes ...i understand... live shows can influence the (future) direction...it's a sort of laboratory... or maybe it's only for some kind of music....some sorts of rock n roll , jazz and others but surely less for boys bands and "commercial" artists.
Like Santana at Woodstock...i don't know if it's true ...but some said that he was under the lsd effect and he saw his guitar like a serpent! I don't know if it's another Rock n roll myth or a reality ...i think i will ask 2 my little bro too
BohemianConspiracy 2 years ago
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@jte1974 nope cause if you do you get Butter.
jmorrow22 1 year ago
@jte1974 Amen to that - MOST of the great Rock music we all love was made by folks on drugs.
SO WHAT ? CREAM Rules - especially after an ounce of mushrooms - YEAH !
PRETALIATION 11 months ago
I do believe Jack was playing a Dan Electro bass...how cool is that?
En3usiast 2 years ago 3
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*****D*R*U*G*S*****D*R*U*G*S******D*R*U*G*S*****this music was inspired and driven by drugs. Like it or not, this music would not have been created without DRUGS.
lancetop 2 years ago
@lancetop So?
VoodooFlintstone 2 years ago
Which drug do you mean specifically? In his autobiography, Clapton says the only drug they used was weed. LSD didn't come into the picture till later, and they didn't write music under that influence.
For the most part, this music was created by musicianship.
demravager 2 years ago 5
Musicianship AND drugs = Cream. Look at Ginger Baker's eyes 1:30 he was blasted on heroin. Have you ever heard Clapton's song Cocaine? They were doing all sorts of stuff besides weed.
lancetop 2 years ago
I know, I meant in the early days of the band. According to Clapton, him and Jack Bruce's first acid trip was at a club listening to Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Bruce's popcorn was spiked, that was accidental.
Clapton later did cocaine, I think mostly because of Patti Boyd. But I haven't read that far into the book yet.
The music and the lyrics might seem drug influenced, but they didn't write most of the lyrics, they had a poet work with Bruce, Pete Brown.
demravager 2 years ago 2
dude i dont know where you get your facts but Clapton didnt write Cocaine. JJ Cale wrote it and its an anti drug song. give me a break.
jte1974 2 years ago
jte1974 I didn't say Eric wrote Cocaine. But it is indeed known as his song. To tell ya the truth I don't care who does drugs, and who doesn't. That should be an individual decision. And I also don't care if Cocaine is a pro or anti drug song-lol By the way I think I Feel Free is a fabulous song:)
lancetop 2 years ago
im just gonna leave you alone
dubsdrops 2 years ago
@demravager Apparently you mustve overlooked the part where Cream was in San Fran.- Clapton talks about playing while tripping on LSD & the guitar was controlling the crowd through angels & demons,whichever he desired to project...
hazor777 2 years ago
my favorite bands are Derek and the Dominos and LedZeppelin, Ive heard wedding bands that were better than U2 ,lol,U2 really suck! they are a proto-type for record companies who`s REAL art is making shit bands like U2 look like they can play! lol, geez!
PAULOcbi 2 years ago 3
60's concerts were plentiful and affordable,
many great times and shows right in our own backyard and not miles away.
samndbo 2 years ago 3
Very affordable, even in the 70's. I remember concerts with 3 bands for $7.50
NilezII 2 years ago 2
Call me crazy, but I think Greg Lake sounds a lot like Jack Bruce.
ClassicRockSovereign 2 years ago
I saw Cream at the Santa Monica Civic in '68 ($4) and the L.A. Forum in '69 - $6.50! I went to high school with rich kids, my brother and I were the poorest kids in the school, he sold a bit of weed so he had money but for me $6.50 was a HUGE investment. There were $1 concerts at the Pasadena Rose Palace every weekend. I saw Deep Purple (original lineup), Albert King, and the Bluesbreakers with Mick Taylor there one night. Yeh, this generation blows.
bamboosa 2 years ago 5
its not that this generation blows, but its just that you dont like the music. and neither do i lol. i would have loved to see cream
timmy47 2 years ago 2
its hard to create new songs especially now in 2009 when evry melody ever invented has been used six ways from sunday,its really hard to come up with any sort of a melody that hasnt already been used,so yeah the music these days BLOWS! crapola bands like U2 and Coldplay are selling out arenas ,that tells you the 'music scene', is dead! I wouldnt pay a nickel to see U2 or Coldplay,no guitar solo`s `cos the musicianship is terrible and they dont wanna put off the older CD buyers .PATHETIC!
PAULOcbi 2 years ago 2
I think Todd Rundgren owns Eric's SG these days...
stingray1964 2 years ago
what dont people understand about inflation. 5 dollars in 1968 is 30 dollars today. thats the same price you pay to get into most concerts today.
jubilaz 2 years ago
clapton with a fro? now that's a slice of fried gold
demravager 2 years ago
thats my favorite cream song
moneymakinZ 2 years ago 4
well guess what fuck gnr
wwwgotristancom 2 years ago 2
Saw them live in Chicago in 1968, The Mothers of Invention opened for them, Frank Zappa and Eric Clapton on the same bill for about $5 a ticket. The Stones played the Aire Crown Theater for $2.50 a seat in 1966. Saw the Beatles best seats in the house were $5.50 1965. No band today is worth $50 a ticket. Doors in "68 for $4.00, Jefferson Airplane Free in the park...........
thefabb 2 years ago 3
Yea I saw Hendrix 1 year later in '69. Amazing eh? 5 dollar ticket hehe. The Beatles were playing at the Auditorium next to the stockyards? hehe I saw Janis In Fillmore west in 68' for like 2-3 dollars. Sorry I cant remember the price hehe.
graymouser2 2 years ago 2
You guys talking about getting tickets to all kinds of classic rock gigs and seeing the legends do it live is making me jealous, man.
mussman717word 2 years ago
Me too. We missed a hell of a great peice of music history.
LostGenerationX84 2 years ago
I wonder if there is anymore of that Paris concert besides I Feel Free and We're Going Wrong?
thebassplayer69 2 years ago
When and where's the next TARDIS to Haight & Ashbury?
WhiteCamry 2 years ago
inflation, remember you could buy a brand new corvette mako shark for 3 grand.
Danjd1 2 years ago
Stones also played for free in Rio 2007
utubebibobu 2 years ago
WHY DOES LIFE SUCK
ERIC CLAPTON FOR $5?!
JONAS FAGGETS FOR LIKE $300?! This generation blows, all we have is technology.... and losers.
megadethrulez 2 years ago 51
@megadethrulez you mean why does life rule? dude eric clapton for $5!!! :)
james123454321 1 year ago
@megadethrulez actually i went to my local cd store and found cream live at the royal albert hall for $7,00, while the last johnas brothers and the last justin bieber were around $25 to$30,thats hard but its true, becouse unfortunatly what sells in this generation isnt clapton,but the johnas.
intead of buying classic,jazz,folk,blues or even classic rock, kids spend theire pocket on these shit we cant call music
majinbunda 1 year ago
@megadethrulez it's called inflation, bro.
GuitarMan91 1 year ago
@megadethrulez Yeah cos the 50's and 60's never had rubbish pop stars... Idiot.
RedcoatMic24 1 year ago
@megadethrulez really?? everything is about money today. not then, back then it was about music. and your pissed about how they cost less? it means much more and it's much more sentimental. grow the fuck up, money doesn't put a value on music, let music speak for itself. and it definitely does here..
paniuroczy 1 year ago
You'd have to adjust for inflation, too, though. I mean $5 back then is probably like $30 now, or something like that. After Reagan freed up the markets, godawful prices popped up on everything, so in that case, man...
I'd pay $500 or so to have a chance to see Led Zeppelin or the Doors or Jimi Hendrix... too bad that won't ever get to happen!!!
Btw, I'm very poor, so that says a big something about my devotedness, haha.
I'd pay up to $100 to see Cream, though. I mean, they're gerat.
mussman717word 2 years ago
Plus, back then, musicians went on tour to promote albums. These days, musicians go on tours to make money (and make more money than they do selling albums).
btuc401 2 years ago
OTOH, back then musicians were robbed blind by their labels, managers, lawyers, promoters ... you name it. Much as I hate the prices today, I just can't hold it against them.
WhiteCamry 2 years ago
awesome video clapton rips
266jerimiah 2 years ago
Ginger rocks!
DKVillain 2 years ago 2
Yeah, I can see the Rick Danko thing. I prefer The Band over Cream., both great.
twinoak170 2 years ago
I love Jack Bruce's Longhorn bass from Danelectro.
KipptheCool 2 years ago 2
Something about Jack Bruce's mannerisms, singing and bass playing style, reminds me of a young Rick Danko for some reason. I wonder if I'm the only one to think that.
4rainbowed 2 years ago
fuckin ginger looks like he's on acid ha!
DaylightSanity 2 years ago
Ginger Baker is the Keith Richards of drummers.
paukenmeister 2 years ago
i think he's even better ahha
megadethrulez 2 years ago
this is so badass. Im 17 and Creams my favorite band. Nobody else my age listens to them =(
1251alexRR 2 years ago 2
s'okay bro
we're in the same situation
i cant get over creams talent
stuffstuff9 2 years ago
hahhaha...that's true...today kids listen to crap music mostly....but don't worry there are more of us,I'm 17 too and Cream is definetly in my top 5 bands...
Felexor7911 2 years ago
Don't be so sad, about 3 weeks I'm 17 too, and Cream is one of my favorite bands! Hardly no-one has a sound like these three musical geniuses! :p
huubramler 2 years ago
im 15 and i love them!!!
jeff4sox 2 years ago 2
I've also listened them at the age of 17.
abelf40 2 years ago
i'm not a clapton fan. this is his best period in my book. in a band with 2 other guys very able to shout the odds etc etc. this is also my favourite cream song. so to see them this is terrriffic. love the lack of edits. that way: you KNOW it's live!
pipeandslippersman 2 years ago
look at that calpton's afro man. long live rock!!!!
13tolo52 2 years ago 3
his afro looked fucking awesome
johnsy25 2 years ago 4
the cream were epic live
mangaspiked 2 years ago 3
great song
pb113355 2 years ago
Clapton's afro looks so sick :P.
Pagedrixton 2 years ago 5
i love that longhorn bass. sure they are bastards to keep in tune but they play and sound like no other.
andrewcasarsa 2 years ago