all guitars have pros and cons... there is no "best" guitar. Seems clapton liked SGs and strats so he played both, unlike us lowlys who dont have enough money to do so. they are both great guitars. I myself play a tele
I did hear it, and everyone who commented on that page was saying bad things about his tone.Lets face it, Claptons style, Tone, choice of guitars, and intensity changed since the late 60s, and rightly so. He just cannot get that Tone (John Mayalls Bluesbreakers recordings) playing Stratocasters, and using Non Marshall heads,Its about TONE, and his , and how he attacks the strings, and what comes out as an EMOTIVE result.He was coined SLOWHAND after the Cream, and way after the Yardbirds. TONE
@ThePhallystorm Clapton was in the Yardbirds when he was dubbed “Slowhand“. When he would break a string he would take his time changing it. The audience would start to do a Slow Clap while waiting, hence the name “Slowhand“…
@186kms you made that up. that is NOT where that name came from.. wow... he got that name because if you watch him play he looks like hes playing slower then the notes you are actually hearing him play. In other words hes shredding but it looks effortless, he has the slow hand.. look it up.
@5H4V3D89 Actually if you read his autobiography, "slowhand" has nothing to do with his guitar playing. He got the name from tuning a new string on stage after breaking one and having to replace it. Slowhand was a nickname a man that owned a club he played at gave to him, because he was tuning in the middle of the show, and to lighten the mood and add some humor he would call Clapton "Slowhand" to poke fun at him.
@Jewel123 I believe you and your probably right, BUT there is an interview with clapton on youtube, "Funny Clapton Interview 1986 - Part Two" With Paula Yates, first question is "why are you the slow hand" and he says" I dont know, I guess its because I play slow, thats the only thing I can think of".. Then in the same youtube vid, another interviewer asks him a again and he says I dont really know, It must because of "slow hand clap" (a pun on his last name).. so who knows!!
@ThePhallystorm You dont know what you are talking about the Stratocaster is the most versitile guitar in the business. I was watching an interview that Clapton had and he said that he felt that Creams sound was just experimental, so clearly he is chosing to not to use the tone that he had with Cream and going towards a more straight blues tone now.
@showitormowit Sorry, but I have to agree with Phallystorm. I've been playing for years and this is the first time I've read that Strats are the most "versatile" guitars. Frankly, I don't understand what that means, really. Any axe can be set up to be "versatile," it's like Phally said, it's all about TONE. You can make an SG sound any way you like. Robby Kreiger made SG his sound differently from Clapton's. So did Frank Zappa. It about amp set up for the most part, plus what FX you use, or pups
@DoodlesMusic I have watched Beck quite a bit over the years. His whole playing style changed since he switched from plectrum to finger picking, which of course, changes your tone due to difference in attack. But that's only one piece of the over all puzzle. He may feel more comfortable with the Strat doing it that way, but it's strictly personal preference.
It seems It's Time to Step Out, cannot register on one, single college class because everything is closed and the sounds of Cream keep hanging me on...
The Best of ERIC is 'Steppin Out' right here. The Tone, the Intensity, the Soul, the feel is just God Like. In fact during the time Londoners would write ERIC Clapton is GOD on the wall.Total abandonment of rules, and boundaries. When he put down his glued in Neck joint GIBSONs, and started playing Fender Stratocasters, he went in a totally different direction. More mellow, and more vocal which is good too, but he lost something from back then in terms of ferocious playing
Check out the drum graphics! This wasn't Cream, this was Ginger Baker with the sticks! Saw these guys in Anaheim, California in the summer of 1968. From gig to gig ~ it was hard to beat "Slow Hands" on gutiar and Bruce wasn't exactly a punk on bass.
This massive performance (for any who are as yet unfamiliar with Cream) was the work of only three men playing live on a BBC stage with only six playing appendages between them!!!
It's nice u know, this peace of history. But let's make our own history today!! I don't wanna go down in history as one of the peeps who lived true the (justin, and those whimpy german emos from a few years ago) pop&emo-era. I want to live!!! Bring back the Funk! Rock! Blues! Psychedelic! And especially bring back the skills to perform and create!!!
@jasper2252 dont know what happened there with that reunoin show,,,it kinda looks like theyre just going thru the motions ,i mean even ginger seems to be bored out of his mind,,,but still kicked ass as much as he ever did,,and there is something lacking on the forefront,,,no acid or lsd ,,man cream came into all of that stuff at the right moment with all of the psychedelic movements,,a blues band ,,yeah maybe,but i consider them more ,,,they were the psychedelic band of the time music was grt
@Winterstick549 The BBC was a pretty great run. Some of the best stuff by a lot of bands in that time period were on that program outside the studio recordings and Cream's work was phenomenal. Today we have things like American Idol to showcase the world's "talent" :/ oh well
@Luxmaxnike Please, pay royalties??? There's not copy, ilegal reproduction neither plagiarism in Lazy. The melody is not exactly the same. There is a inspiration, mentioned for Blackmore. It's simple.
well i think i am better in playing drums and playing bass and playing guitar and singing. if i were three people i would be the best rock band in the world. or maybe i just drank too much.
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Peart, Moon, Bonham,Ward, Palmer, and all the rest,are great rock drummers,but they don't have the rhythm and groove, and they don't swing like Ginger,he really is a class apart.
Absolutely mustard. Stellar playing from all parties. That ole' sly fox Ginger Baker really cooks like a mutha... Jack Bruce's bass is so phat, minimal and in the pocket - Clapton? He's just totally sublime. What feel and tone... For my money, never has a Les Paul sounded better.
This type of groove is called a 'Jump Blues' because of its anticipated feel and tendency to'jump' onto the next beat. It's a feel that's very closely related to Bebop jazz from a syncopated perspective.
clapton causes you to step out of the beat (laid by the bass and drums) and your soul follows some insane dance of nature. Who knows how it happens, it's just Clapton!!! The other two although great at what they do are just setting the beat line down.
Yes, Jack Bruce and Ginger Backer set the beat, and the 'man' mixes it up and causes our cells to dance out of our shoes, our souls follow... shrugs, 'THAT's' Clapton!! geesh!
The thing that always stuns me about this band is how fertile Bruce's parts are (although that's not all). He takes the stupidest two-note lick in the world, and gets an endless set of variations out of it. By the end he's playing all these figures that are more horn section parts than they are true basslines. There may be faster and cleaner bass players, but never better composers on the instrument.
Oh yeah -- and that little half-measure rest after Ginger's drum solo is deadly.
Maybe one of the all-time saddest examples of how drugs can burn you out. What an incredible player Eric was, but for so short a time. As far as music goes, he might as well have died like Jimmy and Janice, because he was a different person after the sixties, spending a lifetime of putting out albums that were mediocre at best, never recapturing that fire of his past. I don't blame Eric, those guys were the first generation to have all these insane drugs around, with no example to warn them.
@masonpa1 ? eric's playing only got better, after he quit drugs, so i have no idea what you're ranting about...and who are you anyways? a nobody whose done nothing, but likes to sit in his little room and theorize about shit he knows little of.....(pathetic)
@junipree Some of the Derek & The Dominoes stuff was great, but then there was the long, embarrassing "Cocaine" era, when he just became a bad industry joke, and since then, always a disappointment to real players. Btw, what the heck do you know about me? I think you must be describing yourself, because you obviously have no clue what pros think of Clapton (ignorant).
@masonpa1 There were plenty of jazz musicians who did buckets of junk and after quitting the quality of their work didn't go down at all. John Coltrane was a joke in the industry when he was on heroine and played with Miles Davis, then after he quit all his best stuff came out. Miles Davis had great stuff before and after. A lot of musicians only improved after quitting drugs. I don't think drugs led Clapton/Dylan/etc into that era, it was something else...
UNREAL jam. Listen how tight these dudes are, ANY band is alsways greater than the sum of its parts, no superstars....but the rivalry between baker and bruce was thick, yet listen to what a smackdown tight ryhthm section they make. The intro is kick ass with those triplet figures. Niiiice...
jack bruce gets his credit in songs like I Feel Free, ginger baker gets his credit in things like Toad, and Clapton gets the credit for Crossroads or Cat's Squirrel. i think this is very obvious --- those 3 guys are fundamentally different and they shouldnt have been in a single band at all, but, gosh, when they were indeed together, God give ways.
what i mean was that they have exceptionally strong personal styles (they were from different sub-genres, at the end of the day) and when u mix it together it is so exotic, and the skills make it even more of an APEX of british psychedelia.
@ dlm9293-in my non-music degree lay opinion, yes, it is a general 12-bar blues structure, with lots of Earl Grey English Tea & natural Bergamot thrown in-haha. Regards, The '62 Mathew St. Band (1 Man-Full Group Retro)
I have so much admiration for Clapton on this song. At the speed Clapton plays it it's all emotion, there's no time to think. To be that melodic in a 3 minute improv is just great.
Swing & kick that groove - Ginger sounds like a high-speed, coal-powered steam train jumping the tracks, with Jack & Eric breathing down his neck and hard on his heels. Regards, The '62 Mathew St. Band (1 Man-Full Group Retro)
It's in G but the tuning is off, they probably didn't have a tuner around so they all matched to Eric's tuning. It's slighty over G, so just gotta get the G right and then you can 'calibrate' the other strings.
this is fucken epic. anyone know what key he is in and what scales he is using to solo. i want to play this song but with my own solo but my ear sucks so i need some help.
and if you want to train your ear, you shouldn't start with this kinda stuff. start off with clapton's infuences so you can know where he got a lot of his sfuff from.
or you could buy the Cream- BBC Sessions cd and slow this song down in windows media player
a thanks a lot. i have been playing guitar for a while but my soloing is barely mediocre. my phrasing sucks and my ear too but i think i am getting better.
why is everyone so fixated on claptons playing in this? no doubt it is fantastic but so is jack bruce's and ginger baker's. i wish they would get a bit more credit
@SamBTBass You can really hear the jazz influence on it, Jack and Ginger were in jazz bands wernt they? Bass players and drummers tend to to be more in the background but not so much here, really great playing from them all.
@SamBTBass don't worry in the drumming community baker is viewed as a god, perhaps moreso than clapton is by guitarists today. can't speak for bruce, but we all know how amazing he is
@SamBTBass Yeah so true, CREAM was really with 3 good artists. Jack Bruce's singing was always great and Ginger Baker's drumming is wilder than Mitch Mitchell (it's like the pre-Don Brewer from Grand Funk Railroad)
after the drum solo they *launch*
impala327 2 months ago
Whoop whoop. Memphis slim made the original one :P
besie0 2 months ago
sounds great
shaneh1983 3 months ago
all guitars have pros and cons... there is no "best" guitar. Seems clapton liked SGs and strats so he played both, unlike us lowlys who dont have enough money to do so. they are both great guitars. I myself play a tele
AdmiralBarackbar 3 months ago
I've always loved bass with a good dose of amp distortion, this is why just so full of meat and energy
kissyxander 3 months ago
Great Ginger Baker solo as well. :)
zubrycky 3 months ago
Great Jack Bruce solo as well. :)
zubrycky 3 months ago
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ratbag42 5 months ago
I did hear it, and everyone who commented on that page was saying bad things about his tone.Lets face it, Claptons style, Tone, choice of guitars, and intensity changed since the late 60s, and rightly so. He just cannot get that Tone (John Mayalls Bluesbreakers recordings) playing Stratocasters, and using Non Marshall heads,Its about TONE, and his , and how he attacks the strings, and what comes out as an EMOTIVE result.He was coined SLOWHAND after the Cream, and way after the Yardbirds. TONE
ThePhallystorm 5 months ago
@ThePhallystorm Clapton was in the Yardbirds when he was dubbed “Slowhand“. When he would break a string he would take his time changing it. The audience would start to do a Slow Clap while waiting, hence the name “Slowhand“…
186kms 5 months ago
@186kms you made that up. that is NOT where that name came from.. wow... he got that name because if you watch him play he looks like hes playing slower then the notes you are actually hearing him play. In other words hes shredding but it looks effortless, he has the slow hand.. look it up.
5H4V3D89 5 months ago
@5H4V3D89 Actually if you read his autobiography, "slowhand" has nothing to do with his guitar playing. He got the name from tuning a new string on stage after breaking one and having to replace it. Slowhand was a nickname a man that owned a club he played at gave to him, because he was tuning in the middle of the show, and to lighten the mood and add some humor he would call Clapton "Slowhand" to poke fun at him.
Jewel123 4 months ago
@Jewel123 I believe you and your probably right, BUT there is an interview with clapton on youtube, "Funny Clapton Interview 1986 - Part Two" With Paula Yates, first question is "why are you the slow hand" and he says" I dont know, I guess its because I play slow, thats the only thing I can think of".. Then in the same youtube vid, another interviewer asks him a again and he says I dont really know, It must because of "slow hand clap" (a pun on his last name).. so who knows!!
5H4V3D89 4 months ago
@186kms Just watch how slow his hand moves in this video!!!
cappel95 5 months ago 4
@ThePhallystorm You dont know what you are talking about the Stratocaster is the most versitile guitar in the business. I was watching an interview that Clapton had and he said that he felt that Creams sound was just experimental, so clearly he is chosing to not to use the tone that he had with Cream and going towards a more straight blues tone now.
showitormowit 5 months ago
@showitormowit Sorry, but I have to agree with Phallystorm. I've been playing for years and this is the first time I've read that Strats are the most "versatile" guitars. Frankly, I don't understand what that means, really. Any axe can be set up to be "versatile," it's like Phally said, it's all about TONE. You can make an SG sound any way you like. Robby Kreiger made SG his sound differently from Clapton's. So did Frank Zappa. It about amp set up for the most part, plus what FX you use, or pups
KUTVgroucho 4 months ago
@KUTVgroucho Well, search for a few youtube videos and watch Jeff beck on a Strat. Doubt he could do what he does on any other type of guitar.
DoodlesMusic 1 week ago
@DoodlesMusic I have watched Beck quite a bit over the years. His whole playing style changed since he switched from plectrum to finger picking, which of course, changes your tone due to difference in attack. But that's only one piece of the over all puzzle. He may feel more comfortable with the Strat doing it that way, but it's strictly personal preference.
KUTVgroucho 1 week ago
It seems It's Time to Step Out, cannot register on one, single college class because everything is closed and the sounds of Cream keep hanging me on...
Montery12 5 months ago
The Best of ERIC is 'Steppin Out' right here. The Tone, the Intensity, the Soul, the feel is just God Like. In fact during the time Londoners would write ERIC Clapton is GOD on the wall.Total abandonment of rules, and boundaries. When he put down his glued in Neck joint GIBSONs, and started playing Fender Stratocasters, he went in a totally different direction. More mellow, and more vocal which is good too, but he lost something from back then in terms of ferocious playing
ThePhallystorm 5 months ago
@ThePhallystorm You obviously haven't heard "I shot the sherrif" from Crossroads 2004!
sebasredspecialfan 5 months ago
great band that ginger formed!!!
zappahart 5 months ago
Check out the drum graphics! This wasn't Cream, this was Ginger Baker with the sticks! Saw these guys in Anaheim, California in the summer of 1968. From gig to gig ~ it was hard to beat "Slow Hands" on gutiar and Bruce wasn't exactly a punk on bass.
MrRonnieG 5 months ago
YOUNG AND HUNGRY WERE THEY
Sincopare 5 months ago
Wow!
808ichbanluva 6 months ago
Good solo played by clapton on a les paul
gabrielrocks69 6 months ago
Smokin' EC old school smokin' blues. Dee best! If you dig this--- check us out as well on youtube - johnnyguitar335
johnnyguitar335 6 months ago
CLAP[TON KILLIN IT
RRyyNNee 6 months ago
MAN THIS IS FANTASTIC!!!!
ura239 6 months ago
Some great guitar by Clapton here. He was awesome in 1966.
johnthehulk1 7 months ago
MAN, DO I MISS THOSE JOHN PEEL SESSIONS!
apachescalp 7 months ago
These guy are the total governors of R&B. Nobody can mess with the Cream when it comes to 'jump' blues, Chicago style—Nobody...
The bass & drums just sizzles and that guitar? That's why they used to call him God...
kewlfonz 8 months ago
Bass reminds me of Batman. :P
MrManonthemoon69 8 months ago 3
Track 23 Disc one on Crossroads box set if i am not mistaken.
DannyIIIvb 8 months ago
Does anyone know if you can get this on a cd package?
chooseyourblues 8 months ago
@chooseyourblues - Yes, Cream Volume II I think
tedfio1tedfio1 8 months ago
This reminds me of when Eric would invest his entire being into every note like the Devil was on his ass.
bamboosa 8 months ago
@bamboosa Never a truer word said. Watching and listening to EC live back in those days was almost a religious experience.
Sadly, I saw him recently at O2 and practically fell asleep. Rocking chair music.
cheyne15 6 months ago
very groovy style i like this a lot
kahlan4182 8 months ago
Groovin
nerael 8 months ago
Bow down!
Jedelshein 9 months ago
Seems funny seeing Clapton with a Les Paul.
sirjim1221 9 months ago
@sirjim1221 What about his SG days?
ricaard 9 months ago
@sirjim1221 And The es335 Days? (see Farewell Concert Tour.,)
TheGrayRevolution 9 months ago
Just fucking listen to Ginger's groove!
claptonbrucebaker 9 months ago
Never heard Clapton play like this ... never before or after... humingbird at sea!
macehualtzin58 9 months ago
best song ever
burchmatt86 9 months ago
This massive performance (for any who are as yet unfamiliar with Cream) was the work of only three men playing live on a BBC stage with only six playing appendages between them!!!
1953jazzman 9 months ago
It's nice u know, this peace of history. But let's make our own history today!! I don't wanna go down in history as one of the peeps who lived true the (justin, and those whimpy german emos from a few years ago) pop&emo-era. I want to live!!! Bring back the Funk! Rock! Blues! Psychedelic! And especially bring back the skills to perform and create!!!
jasper2252 9 months ago
@jasper2252 clapton is god,,,remember that!
phatboy1967 9 months ago
@phatboy1967 i won't forget^^
jasper2252 9 months ago
@jasper2252 dont know what happened there with that reunoin show,,,it kinda looks like theyre just going thru the motions ,i mean even ginger seems to be bored out of his mind,,,but still kicked ass as much as he ever did,,and there is something lacking on the forefront,,,no acid or lsd ,,man cream came into all of that stuff at the right moment with all of the psychedelic movements,,a blues band ,,yeah maybe,but i consider them more ,,,they were the psychedelic band of the time music was grt
phatboy1967 9 months ago
@jasper2252 I DIDNT THINK SO ,,,COOL ROCK ON
phatboy1967 9 months ago
That bass is something else
GaryBiggs8 10 months ago 2
Nice! Great to hear Eric a bit unbridled.
smoovegittar 10 months ago
Great!
siri0te 10 months ago
Awesome- just awesome.... Eric's on fire...!
CosmicNed 10 months ago
In 2 years these 3 achieved more than the fab 4 achieved in 10.
lipi29 10 months ago
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lipi29 10 months ago
is this a power trio? i think i've heard 5 sax, 3 hammonds and a gospel choir.
60'S POWER TRIO REALLY ROCKS!
andreastrato 10 months ago 22
Love these BBC sessions. Thank God for Britains old, archaic radio laws. Great for us!
Winterstick549 11 months ago
@Winterstick549 The BBC was a pretty great run. Some of the best stuff by a lot of bands in that time period were on that program outside the studio recordings and Cream's work was phenomenal. Today we have things like American Idol to showcase the world's "talent" :/ oh well
111WWEEBB 10 months ago
Ritchie Blackmore clearly mention that Lazy was inspired in this piece. At least, he was honest.
chikerialost 11 months ago 45
@chikerialost Ritchie is my favorite guitarist and if one thing is always true, he always reveals the sources of his 'inspiration'
57250tr 6 months ago
@chikerialost yet they never credited them
Luxmaxnike 5 months ago
@Luxmaxnike To the contrary, they mentioned that influence.
rodolfolaterza 5 months ago
@rodolfolaterza they never credited them or payed royalites to them.
Luxmaxnike 5 months ago
@Luxmaxnike Please, pay royalties??? There's not copy, ilegal reproduction neither plagiarism in Lazy. The melody is not exactly the same. There is a inspiration, mentioned for Blackmore. It's simple.
rodolfolaterza 5 months ago 2
I love the announcer
ZeppelinRules 11 months ago
This... I want to be able to drum.
FredAndXaveloy 1 year ago
COOOOOL!!! - Ginger -
natlan 1 year ago 2
anyone else notice the simlilarities between this and "Lazy" by Deep Purple.
beatlemaniac1966 1 year ago
@beatlemaniac1966 ritchie said he used this riff for inspiration on that song; it's so neat to hear!
Cam1092 1 year ago
Jack Bruce is frickin' sick! Listen to that fat juicy tone.
brianpage100 1 year ago 2
@brianpage100 hell yeah!
Alkali64 1 year ago
@AbigailParesky430 what is doht cohm??? i baddly want this audio please let me know
Ukabumba 1 year ago
If only I were alive during this period in history. Cream is, indeed, one of the greatest bands of all time.
MisterTuxedo 1 year ago
well i think i am better in playing drums and playing bass and playing guitar and singing. if i were three people i would be the best rock band in the world. or maybe i just drank too much.
amicuslibertatis 1 year ago
@amicuslibertatis you drank too much pal.
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supersondessixties 1 year ago
Why a picture of Jeff BEck?
kingofallwhites 1 year ago
@kingofallwhites hahaha you're not serious right?
Noseheros 1 year ago 3
@kingofallwhites thats not jeff beck dude.
flaviolima91 1 year ago
This tune is a shagger alright :D
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Peart, Moon, Bonham,Ward, Palmer, and all the rest,are great rock drummers,but they don't have the rhythm and groove, and they don't swing like Ginger,he really is a class apart.
sebastiansap2003 1 year ago
@sebastiansap2003 don't forget Mitch M. in that class...
MrSixstringjohnny 1 year ago
@MrSixstringjohnny Yes, i love mitch as well, he's a great drummer, with his jazz flourishes, He had to be great to improvise with Jimi
sebastiansap2003 1 year ago
@MrSixstringjohnny Mitch's best performance was on the track KILLING FLOOR at the monterey festival, he was on fire there! POWERHOUSE DRUMMING.
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sebastiansap2003 1 year ago
Tecumseh1812 LOL Yeah, mine too. I have a rock trio and always have Cream in mind for inspiration.
eslmc 1 year ago
Also, that is a 1959 Les paul if I remember correct. Anyhow, the blues really spills outta that guitar.
fvottoh 1 year ago
@fvottoh if you're referring to the beano... its a '60 to the best of eric's knowledge.
FeareBot 1 year ago
well I'll be damned this band is alot better than my band ~~
Tecumseh1812 1 year ago
...fixin to blow our mind
ohjames88 1 year ago
ginger ale!!!
drumcatf8 1 year ago
If anyone was wondering why Clapton is god... well, here's the answer!
Jedelshein 1 year ago
a true power trio..so much talent outa just 3 guys.
tremold2043 1 year ago
Seems like the blueprint for Led Zeppelin.
skydogz1 1 year ago
Gingers groove here is incredible
mickyp1960 1 year ago 3
Absolutely mustard. Stellar playing from all parties. That ole' sly fox Ginger Baker really cooks like a mutha... Jack Bruce's bass is so phat, minimal and in the pocket - Clapton? He's just totally sublime. What feel and tone... For my money, never has a Les Paul sounded better.
This type of groove is called a 'Jump Blues' because of its anticipated feel and tendency to'jump' onto the next beat. It's a feel that's very closely related to Bebop jazz from a syncopated perspective.
ElectricLoveland 1 year ago 3
@ElectricLoveland Mustard!!!!giving your age away with that slang...lol
VooDooGeorge83 1 year ago
@VooDooGeorge83 Mustard? What does that mean?
p0llenp0ny 1 year ago
The Cream rules!
lowmazda626 1 year ago
i'd like to hear jimmy page do a version of this i wonder if he has ever
TasOMW 1 year ago 4
@TasOMW i'm sure it would be more than exquisite.
LedZeppelinisgod100 1 year ago
check out Eric Johnson's version at Woodlands
mtforbes67 1 year ago
Sweet...
VelanneSanity6511 1 year ago
this is good, but claptons a little too clean for me.
PapaBear747 1 year ago
isnt there any video footage of them playin this song? i cant find any
Savatage420 1 year ago
bit noodly.........
poffy8888 1 year ago
Only reason why Clapton can hose us with his machine-gun-guitar is 'cause Jack and Ginger are literally tearing down the walls.
pchiare 1 year ago 3
clapton causes you to step out of the beat (laid by the bass and drums) and your soul follows some insane dance of nature. Who knows how it happens, it's just Clapton!!! The other two although great at what they do are just setting the beat line down.
cboyer1951 1 year ago
Yes, Jack Bruce and Ginger Backer set the beat, and the 'man' mixes it up and causes our cells to dance out of our shoes, our souls follow... shrugs, 'THAT's' Clapton!! geesh!
cboyer1951 1 year ago
My favorite Clapton era hands down. The tone he got from a Les Paul through a Marshall was unbeatable.
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29brandon93 1 year ago
One of my many little regrets in life is that I never saw Cream perform live in 1968 when I had numerous opportunities.
imjustpassinthru 1 year ago
fantastic performance, nothing less!
Stopandthink69 1 year ago
seems like yesterday! Ginger
GINGERBAKEROFFICIAL 1 year ago
fuckin amazing
the guitar is solid, drums got a good beat goin, and the bass just rippin out those bass notes cleanly
crazydudekorf07 1 year ago
Question: Could there be a better version than the "Beano" session? Answer: I JUST heard it. No wonder these guys were worshipped.
cranie4 1 year ago
The thing that always stuns me about this band is how fertile Bruce's parts are (although that's not all). He takes the stupidest two-note lick in the world, and gets an endless set of variations out of it. By the end he's playing all these figures that are more horn section parts than they are true basslines. There may be faster and cleaner bass players, but never better composers on the instrument.
Oh yeah -- and that little half-measure rest after Ginger's drum solo is deadly.
jbarbri 1 year ago
whats teh different between todays music and this.. this has style in every sense!!!! sexy fucking song.
jimmyredpant 1 year ago
bloooow my mind....
WhiteDwarf18 1 year ago
Jack Bruce running thru a Marshall plexi in the dirty input. Clapton playing some nice rhythmic pentatonic phrases.
theShowStopper321 1 year ago
Maybe one of the all-time saddest examples of how drugs can burn you out. What an incredible player Eric was, but for so short a time. As far as music goes, he might as well have died like Jimmy and Janice, because he was a different person after the sixties, spending a lifetime of putting out albums that were mediocre at best, never recapturing that fire of his past. I don't blame Eric, those guys were the first generation to have all these insane drugs around, with no example to warn them.
masonpa1 1 year ago
@masonpa1 ? eric's playing only got better, after he quit drugs, so i have no idea what you're ranting about...and who are you anyways? a nobody whose done nothing, but likes to sit in his little room and theorize about shit he knows little of.....(pathetic)
junipree 1 year ago 3
@junipree Some of the Derek & The Dominoes stuff was great, but then there was the long, embarrassing "Cocaine" era, when he just became a bad industry joke, and since then, always a disappointment to real players. Btw, what the heck do you know about me? I think you must be describing yourself, because you obviously have no clue what pros think of Clapton (ignorant).
masonpa1 1 year ago
@masonpa1 There were plenty of jazz musicians who did buckets of junk and after quitting the quality of their work didn't go down at all. John Coltrane was a joke in the industry when he was on heroine and played with Miles Davis, then after he quit all his best stuff came out. Miles Davis had great stuff before and after. A lot of musicians only improved after quitting drugs. I don't think drugs led Clapton/Dylan/etc into that era, it was something else...
Asjh89 1 year ago
@Asjh89 he was famous befoe that, than got deep on the needle, almost exactly like miles.
ddecto 1 year ago
UNREAL jam. Listen how tight these dudes are, ANY band is alsways greater than the sum of its parts, no superstars....but the rivalry between baker and bruce was thick, yet listen to what a smackdown tight ryhthm section they make. The intro is kick ass with those triplet figures. Niiiice...
wildh0rse 1 year ago
when i heard this one i quickly grabbed guitar and was like TODAY I DONT SLEEP INSTEAD I LEARN THIS!
Cvan242 1 year ago
jack bruce gets his credit in songs like I Feel Free, ginger baker gets his credit in things like Toad, and Clapton gets the credit for Crossroads or Cat's Squirrel. i think this is very obvious --- those 3 guys are fundamentally different and they shouldnt have been in a single band at all, but, gosh, when they were indeed together, God give ways.
defaultoasis 1 year ago
@defaultoasis
what i mean was that they have exceptionally strong personal styles (they were from different sub-genres, at the end of the day) and when u mix it together it is so exotic, and the skills make it even more of an APEX of british psychedelia.
defaultoasis 1 year ago
This is music from heaven!
This kind of blues is my life..
MagnusNoach 1 year ago 24
man the rhythms in this are timeless, how bass, drums and guitar could be in such harmony together,its mesmorising to hear, fuk i love it!
rollituplightitup85 1 year ago 2
this song is so intense i love it
MotorheadDrew 1 year ago 2
@ dlm9293-in my non-music degree lay opinion, yes, it is a general 12-bar blues structure, with lots of Earl Grey English Tea & natural Bergamot thrown in-haha. Regards, The '62 Mathew St. Band (1 Man-Full Group Retro)
OlRetro 1 year ago
I have so much admiration for Clapton on this song. At the speed Clapton plays it it's all emotion, there's no time to think. To be that melodic in a 3 minute improv is just great.
hunt1622 1 year ago
now i'm young, so don't bite my damn head off with ball-busting comments, but would this amazing jam be considered 12bar blues?
dlm9293 1 year ago
@dlm9293 yes
andthedominoes103 1 year ago
they are so fluid, overflowing with confidence and talent.
maida1982a 1 year ago
Jack Bruce = awesome bass
NoriokoTheMagicSkunk 1 year ago 25
@NoriokoTheMagicSkunk More like revolutionary
Noseheros 10 months ago
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OlRetro 1 year ago
Swing & kick that groove - Ginger sounds like a high-speed, coal-powered steam train jumping the tracks, with Jack & Eric breathing down his neck and hard on his heels. Regards, The '62 Mathew St. Band (1 Man-Full Group Retro)
OlRetro 1 year ago
hell yeh love that fill at 2:08-ish so groovy
dlm9293 1 year ago 2
Ginger Baker
MotorheadDrew 1 year ago
Clapton is god!
blackopsJIM 1 year ago
It's in G but the tuning is off, they probably didn't have a tuner around so they all matched to Eric's tuning. It's slighty over G, so just gotta get the G right and then you can 'calibrate' the other strings.
nielsnielsniels 1 year ago
Great comments. I don't play, but it's cool to see an exchange of info that's real positive on this site.
baystategal 1 year ago
Love this old stuff .... haven't heard anyone who can match this today ... not even Eric himself.
FrankenBeenz 1 year ago 6
this is fucken epic. anyone know what key he is in and what scales he is using to solo. i want to play this song but with my own solo but my ear sucks so i need some help.
Gokuzombie 1 year ago
g minor pentatonic
and if you want to train your ear, you shouldn't start with this kinda stuff. start off with clapton's infuences so you can know where he got a lot of his sfuff from.
or you could buy the Cream- BBC Sessions cd and slow this song down in windows media player
blackmagswithcats 1 year ago
@blackmagswithcats
a thanks a lot. i have been playing guitar for a while but my soloing is barely mediocre. my phrasing sucks and my ear too but i think i am getting better.
Gokuzombie 1 year ago
dont worry about terms like "phrasing" either, just play!!
fromthenorthwest 1 year ago
its clapton, hes a penitontic manaic
its all in the key of G, standard 1 4 5 progression
so G C D
claptonisgod95 1 year ago
minor/major pentatonic (5 note) scales
fromthenorthwest 1 year ago
this shit is amazing
rmcnealy123 1 year ago
Don't shoot me but I like slower version on the Bluesbreakers album better.
121649able 1 year ago 4
great bass omg
lolix00 1 year ago
awesome bass line!!
jack bruce rocks
2473739 1 year ago
why is everyone so fixated on claptons playing in this? no doubt it is fantastic but so is jack bruce's and ginger baker's. i wish they would get a bit more credit
SamBTBass 2 years ago 61
@SamBTBass
Agreed. This is definately a team effort. Without Ginger and Jack Clapton's playing on this tune would be meaningless.
mtyemti 1 year ago
@SamBTBass You can really hear the jazz influence on it, Jack and Ginger were in jazz bands wernt they? Bass players and drummers tend to to be more in the background but not so much here, really great playing from them all.
13thfloor18 1 year ago
Clapton originally did this with John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers in 1966. That is where the jazz influence is from.
Blucius13 1 year ago
@Blucius13 I see, i can really hear it in Gingers drumming also, really great track
13thfloor18 1 year ago
@13thfloor18 Yes I randomly found Ginger Baker with an African Jazz-esque (Afrobeat) musician. it was phenomenal.
Blucius13 1 year ago
@Blucius13 I think i've heard a bit of that, i'll check it out
13thfloor18 1 year ago
@SamBTBass don't worry in the drumming community baker is viewed as a god, perhaps moreso than clapton is by guitarists today. can't speak for bruce, but we all know how amazing he is
lordieuan777 1 year ago
@SamBTBass god they're just impressed by clapton, stop complaining about everyone else and say how good jack and ginger are playing if you think so
PJWTh3R41N 1 year ago
@SamBTBass Yeah so true, CREAM was really with 3 good artists. Jack Bruce's singing was always great and Ginger Baker's drumming is wilder than Mitch Mitchell (it's like the pre-Don Brewer from Grand Funk Railroad)
sinning1966 1 year ago
@SamBTBass because no one had played guitar like that before...
daledrive44 1 year ago
@SamBTBass
exactly, these guys are three genius, one more excellent than the other.
titatho 1 year ago
@SamBTBass want a stupid answer? because the song is guitar heavy and focuses on him...
ragingstorm33 1 year ago
Turn it up LOUD !!! SOUND's good too me !
dustyndirk 2 years ago
mr temple - I'd like to hear you play this shit before you babble
raburg98 2 years ago
note this he its playing a gibson les paul
antovi 2 years ago
Very, very TOYT!
OrisLover 2 years ago
And this is why clapton is better than beck and page. 2 jazz musicicans, 1 blues aficionado: 1 great fucking rock band.
fairyfellermaster 2 years ago