Cream - Crossroads (Farewell Concert - Extended Edition) (5 of 11)

[MrJohnnyVolume]

totally apropos that the tempo matches the age of these timeless artists - fast and furious - young and reckless, hehe . . . .

[triplejudy]

Horrific camera work !

[luisgarzap]

Well this one of my favorite, I play guitar whit a trio in Venezuela, and this piece was explosive every time we can play.

LG Lobo Blanco.

[dorisu]

My god, Ginger's a beast here, not to mention Clapton...

[W3R4P3STUFF]

My 3 favorite guitarists: Hendrix, Page & Clapton

[axelmct]

it was the end of an era, Clapton was cranking out a solo and the camera man was pointing it at his face :(

[swearymary1967]

hendrix does still have his place as an inovator as does clapton.just soak it all up.

[facundozxt]

 MADE IN ENGLAND

[urizzle7]

@facundozxt

AMERICAN DESIGNED

[MURRA1]

Eric Clapton at his best Also the whole band Just shows the blues will never die out

[mistad00m]

they're speeding up at times, it sounds cool/weird

[macadoodlesmom]

lived it  wish I could go back!!

[macadoodlesmom]

classic cream...best of the best!!!!

[alphaacton]

the white man's inheritance

the blue's

[timelmore2]

So there is at least one idiot in this world.



[INDLIS]

Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath also played a Gubson SG.

[morpheusplaysguitar]

@INDLIS Eric Clapton does not play a Gibson SG here this is a Gibson Es 335

[mcnowski]

@INDLIS So did Angus and Zappa!

[macstop999]

Hi , Leelovesmartza , Green Manalishi , Black Magic Woman , Albatross , Ho Well , Man Of The World , not many , but not his commercial side i like , his blues guitaring for me . Anyway this is only my opinion , like i said get the Jumping At Shadows cd , read somewhere hes the 38th best guitarist of all time on some list , Peter as influenced , Gary Moore , Joe Parry , Jimmy Page ,Andy Powell , even Eric Clapton acknowledged Green's skills as a guitar player meeting him in the mid 1980s:

[macstop999]

Any you guys heard of Peter Green , the best british blues guitar player ever , (for me anyway) , even bb king raved about peters playing , the guy was a legend , just get yourself Jumping At Shadows cd , and see what i mean , ho and by the way peter played a les paul mostley , but with one of the pickups the wrong way round , wich gave him a distinctive sound . dont get me wrong Clapton and Hendrix are great but , GREEN IS GOD lol

[leelovesmaritza]

@macstop999 peter green's greatest accomplishments - inventing fleetwood mac - creating a tune that santana made famous - black magic woman

[Soulmaster420]

Clapton said Robert Johnson was "the most important blues singer that ever lived"

[shutterbugblues]

Clapton is a stud

[magicpen6666]

People play strats cus they are cheaper. A current model standard strat is like seven hundred dollars, a new Gibson les Paul or sg can be like eleven or twelve hundred, and the old sixties models are sometimes over 3000 bucks

[jacopman]

@magicpen6666 Nope price is not the determiner........strats have a single coil sound and the neck pickup is where the 24 fret would be (harmonics) they have a clean bluesy sound that clean and driven hard without distortion has that SRV tone.......

[Lupinych]

@Teelux Aye indeed

[jroxx11211]

great music but my 5 year old son could've filmed it better!!!

[101Restoration]

The best version EVER. Rush R30 live in Frankfurt is a close second :)

[Lupinych]

Hendrix was arguably a better guitarist, and certainly wrote more of his own stuff than Clapton did. But what I love about Clapton, more than any of the other guys, is that he makes it look so fucking easy. Effortless

[Teelux]

@Lupinych In response to your comment, I think Hendrix was more creative, but Clapton's more "tight" in his playing. In Cream, he rarely fluffs a note, and uses a relatively clean sound in comparison to Hendrix.

Overall, they are my 2 favorite guitar players. I love them both.

[phillip4644]

@Teelux I think you give a good description of the differences between the two. There is a high degree of difficulty in the playing on this video.

[MrBleunez]

The cameraman was more stoned than the band!

[jahrastapack]

why dont u actually show the fucking guitar on one of the greatest GUITAR solos of all time?!

[blueguitarz17]

Clapton goes raging head first into the solo, Bruce follows suit on bass, Baker follows suit on drums, this solo could go anywhere, between Clapton, Bruce and Baker! That's the beauty of Cream!

[bigguy4570]

Listen to Baker's drumming damn man

[MrGuitarZeppelin]

And that, my friends, is how you play a guitar solo

[lcolby11]

He is much better than Page

[lafleurdumal76]

@lcolby11 i would prefer saying he´s different... both very talented & innovative...... please don´t compare rock giants,they´re way above all others... ;-)

[ivanyhy]

Whoever filmed this concert must have had fun with these varying camera angles and techniques...

[bluesriot2]

i remember they showed the farewell show on tv ,it was a gorgeous day and my folks made me stay home and babysit my kid brother ,i was so pissed off, and then on like channel 11 or something, i mean i was like 11 or 12 years old, and holy fucking fuck, this show, this concert comes on, man, sometimes i think it was s dream, but it was wild, the Cream, on the damn tv, amazing, a life altering experience , no doubt.

[wilddoggy424]

Ohhh...in the mid 60's....it was a war lol...trouble is American groups began to rely on studio musicians for a polished sound, then went out on the road to try to copy it. And seemed like few had their own real music. Thankfully that began to change. Some anyway. The Record companies do not care about talent, never did.

[keppoch1024]

if it wasent for robert jhonson none of this would exist

[lafleurdumal76]

the greatest musicians came from england;-))))

[Glassandcandy]

@lafleurdumal76

Mozart was from austria

bach was from germany

Gershwin, robert johnson, glen miller, coltrane, the three kings, leo kottke, john fahey, and duck ellington were all from america

[Glassandcandy]

@Glassandcandy

Duke ellington not 'duck'

[leelovesmaritza]

@lafleurdumal76 well...let's see, gotta include beethoven - i don't believe he was from england; mozart, which again i do not believe he was from england, and john coltrane - perhaps america's finest musician, artist, song writer who ever lived...ask any musician and he or she will tell ya - john coltrane.

[lafleurdumal76]

@leelovesmaritza since the beginning of this discussion i´ve been wondering how someone can misunderstand something like you did... it´s like comparing beans and apples, for example. thought it was cristal clear we were talking about rock music and not classic music...and again i´ve gotta demand that the best rock ´n roll musicians are all citizens of the u.k.!

[PBANDSNOW]

@lafleurdumal76 100%

[TheTammyrcarrillo]

@lafleurdumal76 THAT'S FOR SURE! I AGREE 100%

[kimmedavid]

@lafleurdumal76 i prefer hendrix

[lummyish]

@lafleurdumal76 Jack Bruce was Scottish.

[lafleurdumal76]

@lummyish you just don´t get the point:-)

[edgy3]

@lafleurdumal76 Jack Bruce is Scottish



[pixiemixer]

@lafleurdumal76 Jack Bruce is Scottish, from Glasgow

[newspapertaxis1]

@lafleurdumal76 Excuse me HENDRIX! NUF SAID!!!

[twongler]

@carlitosdavila - As an Englishman living in America and playing the blues, I thank you on behalf of any of my countrymen who play this, the best kind of music around!

[flyinv1967]

sounds as if his strings are a bit loose

[MrChubi123]

@jackgingeranderic sorry, you didnt understand the comment, i meant that god,is not as good as clapton, sorry for the misunderstanding!

[occa0800]

unfortunately the camera rarely focuses on claptons guitar....although nice video

[Bigbluesboy]

This is the video you should watch if you want to compare John Mayer to Eric Clapton...

[gloves71]

Last time Clapton played any decent music...

[TheIzabel11]

I know that after watching this video I the first thing I should've thought was how awesome the song was, but I kept freaking out about how HOT ERIC CLAPTON WAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!­!!!

[WATERFOWL3R]

Greatest band ever

[greenethump3]

Ah.... 60's camera work....

[BorisRhino]

I was there !!!

[lafleurdumal76]

@BorisRhino then you´ve experienced something that´s real hard to find in music business today-great live band,very special.... i wish i had been there too, but i was born eight years too late ;-) (still liquid at that time).......but,thanx to my dad for influencing my feeling for that kind of music so much!!!!!!!

[GangstaLink]

The original is still best.

Robert Johnson!

[SAHBfan]

@GangstaLink

Robert Johnson wrote the words - but the riff comes from elsewhere...

This is very much a Cream song :-)

[dannyunleashed19]

@SAHBfan The riff actually came from a different Robert Johnson song. Clapton just used it and made a rock tune out of it. Still awesome nonetheless. Clapton is the best ^^

[SAHBfan]

@dannyunleashed19

Not wishing to be pedantic - but it's the words that are a mixture of 2 Robert Johnson songs: 'Cross Road Blues' & 'The Riverside Song'.

I've heard many times that the riff comes from a different blues song by someone else - but it is difficult to establish with certainty the origin of the riff. With a blues scale a lot of the notes are the same, once you change the rhythm a bit it is hard to say what came from where! Clapton did change it in later versions.

[gibson492]

@dannyunleashed19 THIS IS WHEN CLAPTON WAS GOOD!!,

[Wizardus86]

@gibson492 he is still good, only he got a moustache and glasses :D

[lcolby11]

@gibson492 In his prime ,,,before the drug thang

[h4ckb0x7]

@gibson492 Clapton is still good. This is when Clapton was GOD!!!

[wisesatyr72]

Thrash Blues

[MBledzephed]

Damn, who knew Vincent Van Gogh was such a beast on drums?!

[DestorosO]

best Perform EVER

and

Bad Camera man EVER

[honkytonkwomen69]

Es increible al nivel que toca la guitarra Clapton en este tema.

[jimmyyazz]

Clapton was a beast, all of em' were.

[kewlbreez77]

ssssssmOkin' !!!

[DoinThisSince1995]

hahaha fuck fender, they're over used. gibson is the way to go (:

[WATERFOWL3R]

@DoinThisSince1995 Gibson are way over used

[DoinThisSince1995]

@WATERFOWL3R hahahah are you serious? sooo many more people use fender than gibson. like les pauls are pretty widely used but sg's are like rare as hell it seems. i feel like every band i see is playing a strat

[WATERFOWL3R]

@DoinThisSince1995 Almost every one I know plays a gibson me and my bet friend are the only ones that use fender.

[INDLIS]

@DoinThisSince1995:Angus Young of AC/DC and Robby Krieger of The Doors played SG guitars.

[GoodOldFuzzy]

listening to this song was more awesome than a shark high-fiving a bear during an explosion in space!

[cdawg4391]

Awesome - can really hear Baker hitting those double bass drums.

[MrFerdell]

Clapton was at his best during this period..what a sound!

[GuitarSamurai62]

@MrFerdell He was playing Gibsons, that's why!

[MrFerdell]

@GuitarSamurai62 I totally agree, I have one just like he's playing here..

[carlitosdavila]

Who plays American music better than Americans? The British.

[joshua9312]

@carlitosdavila HEYO!

[willrobm]

@carlitosdavila ... Clapton would most likely say no one is better then Robert Johnson ... but yeah the brits got it down and from the gate ...

[beatlefool69]

@carlitosdavila Yeah.......tell that to Jimi Hendrix, SRV, Randy Rhoads, Eddie Van Halen, CCR, Chuck berry, Elvis, Little Richard, Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson....etc. Should i keep going? Now do you get the picture?

[Grendelmonster8u]

@beatlefool69 You're right & wrong. I think the guy meant the early-mid 60s. Hendrix was thrown out of American bands in the mid-60s...jazz/blues guys didn't like his electric guitar style. All the British guys did was take the blueprints of blues like RJ, J. Lee Hooker, et al & ramp it up electric. London recognized Hendrix 1st. These guys loved Elvis, Berry-The Animals, Stones, Yardbirds, Beatles, et al & did it better 1st w/ harder rock. Eddie V has no blues in his style. ctnd

[Grendelmonster8u]

@Grendelmonster8u It doesn't matter much b/c even the old blues guys borrowed songs & riffs from each other. So this song is from 2 songs, but it doesn't sound the same anyway. London was more hip on our blues. Really, people booed at Hendrix. Hendrix learned from Little Richard b4 LR threw him out then JH took it to London. SRV, yeah. Leslie West, BB&The Holding Co w/ Joplin, et al. Thankfully they led a path to blues-infused rock. Not a competition but love of music.

[carlitosdavila]

@beatlefool69 You can keep going all you want. All you're doing is proving my point. The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Queen. I can keep going but you get the picture, I hope. Those artist you named are great but the Brits are still better...

[straddlingtime]

@carlitosdavila I half agree..maybe you should say 'were' ...

[rhino805999]

@carlitosdavila good thing the Americans wrote it so they could sing it.

[carlitosdavila]

@rhino805999 That's right! Good thing an American wrote it. The Brits still do it better and that's my point.

[KENZOWAL]

Winterland, San Francisco, March, 1968, is the definitive version (on Wheels of Fire and Best of Cream). This solo is good, but Winterland is inspired, soaring, perfect.

[kamb26]

@KENZOWAL

i read somewhere that clapton himself hates that version. he said something like he didn't like the solo. o also wonder why he doen't play it this fast anymore. it sounds lame slow. i also read his book. i was excited to read the chapter about cream. man... he said they were burnt out after a year, but the only reason they stayed together was because they were contractually obligated. i was like eric, don't crush my dreams man.

[Trancejeremy]

Jack Bruce is amazing

[CrossroadsRoute6149]

Around this time Clapton's handsome

[MrChubi123]

@lopsidedobject please, god is not that good

[MotownMoJo64]

my soul has been saved

[roundaboutwrongway]

I love it. Its nice to hear real live music with all its wonderful flaws.

No voice auto-tune crap there!

[Juviex]

CREAM = GODS

[lilbazzer]

One of the greatest live performances EVER