I'm not the world's biggest Cream fan, but It's amazing how great they sounded live, how kick ass jack bruce's vocals are, how effortlessly loose yet grooving they are, then clapton explodes. All live, with some shitty PA system. Amazing, kick ass musicianship not matched by anyone in today's world of Autotuned shit. Clapton's pinnacle before his slow decline into ego driven mediocrity, matched only by his output in the few years following.
Rock will return when the youngi'ins have had enough of the old one's bullshit and Rebel, that is what Rock and Roll is all about, not Disney manufactured American idol Bullshit. This Rock and roll spoke for a generation fed up with establishments bullshit. throwing our asses into a jungle a million miles away for some political bullshit theory of domino's and Communism spreading. 50,OOO youngins died for their bullshit. It was REBELLION without guns with drugs and free love, OH Yeah!!!!!!!
sounds like Joe T playing here-go to "englishbluesman"--his YouTube site--you'll see he is as good as Clapton was in this era---Clapton's best era is Joe T's normal way of playing.
people like bonamassa-mayer-shepard-lange-would kill to play like Joe t-
FECKIN BRILLIANT !! this is it folks !! there ain't nuttin like these three gents !!! just listen listen to this ! rock-n-roll at its best !!! raw-n-loud !!
I think its funny how the three legendary ex-Yardbirds guitarists (Clapton, Beck and Page) would at different times have the same looking haircut and look like each other.
@OldHawkHippie 68 might have been the best year in music. You've got The Beatles, The Who, The Doors, The Stones, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix all active.
@OldHawkHippie I was 14 cousin, just as plugged into these bands...and now with the likes of Youtube and The Pirate Bay I get to fill=in all the blank pages about the bands I have loved all these years and listen to their music that has been locked away and rarely heard. Bless musicians' pointy heads. Yours too!!!!!
Realmente estes sao deuses pois não existe , nem existirá algum ser humano na face da terra para ser uma banda destas e nunca vão ter o carisma q estes representam em tudo o q fizeram no curto tempo q permaneceram juntos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton and the great Jack bruce (eternal Fresh Cream1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
ROCK N ROLL HAS GONE NO WHERE IT'S JUST WAITING FOR THIS SHIT WATERFALL TO DRY UP CALLED ....RAP. OR SHOULD I SAY CRAP!!!! SOME DAY PEOPLE WILL LOOK BACK AT WHATS HAPPENED TO THIS ERA AND FEEL SORROW. OR DO LIKE I DO AND JUST LAUGH. WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE OTHER THAN COMEDY? A JOKE. AS A MUSICIAN IM TOTALLY OFFENDED WHEN THESE RAPPERS CALL THEMSELVES "ARTISTS" AND ARE GIVEN AWARDS A THE GRAMMY'S FOR BEST ARTISTS ETC. WHERE'S THE ARTISTRY? WHERE'S THE TALENT? I'LL TELL YOU WHERE IT'S NOT. THE RADIO
@BaconFrisbee well maybe so. however, a statement like can only be takin with a grain of salt coming from a guy named"baconfrisbee" sooooooo yeah nothing STUPID about that huh BF?
@BaconFrisbee well your point may be more well taken if it wasn't coming from a guy that calls himself "baconfrisbee" . it just makes you look STUPID!!! BOOOO YAH!! bro. lol rock n roll
@MrSprayMonet You honestly think "Rap" has shoved your precious R&R off to the side to "wait"?? I try very hard to ignore comments like these, but ignorance like this needs to be set straight. First off it's Hip Hop not "Rap" that's like calling Rock music "guitar" Rap is just one element to it, second; Rock and Roll came from the Blues which was played by a good many "illiterates" So if you can't see the similarities between The Blues and Hip Hop learn its history...
@bboymcgee bro I don t need to learn the history of Hip Hop, Rap what ever the fuck it's called. It aint the blues by any measure.lets put it this way if a person walked up to me and said " excuse me, I've never heard of the blues before. could you play some for me?" I certainly .wouldnt put on snoop dog or the like's of him. cuz that's not the blues my brother. maybe you need to listen better and more often. I just don't see the artistry in it bro. my opinion im sure i'm not alone.
@MrSprayMonet Listen....I not only did not call Rap the blues (I said it's called Hip Hop and merely inferred that the similarities of a repressed black culture spawning a very popular music form to later be accepted by ALL races and walks of life is very similar to the Blues - please tell me you understand the comparison...) And no of course you wouldn't play snoop dogg if someone asked you to play some blues....HE DOESN'T PLAY THE BLUES!!
@MrSprayMonet ...and I listen VERY well and VERY often, you might want to take your own advice on that...and if you don't like it, that's completely understandable and that is your opinion and obviously you are not alone in it. I just don't see the point of trying to put down another form of music to prop up your ideas of what music is...Cream and Rock N Roll does not need you to defend it from the scourge of rap music....it is doing just fine with or without you....
@flipdry I agree 100%...and yet could you not say that about any fucking genre?? I have never heard one form of music that didn't have it's imposters and bad musicians. I absolutely love Cream and yet I don't love EVERYTHING they've ever done, Does that take away from them in any way? No I don't think so, just means you have to dig a little deeper to find the gold....
whoever filmed this is a terrible camera man, on claptons solo i think id rather see him playing his guitar rather than his face while the camera shakes
haha....hey, I love Cream a lot. But Queen was much ore sophisticated in what they did in terms of songwriting, harmonies, using studio to create new worlds.
In saying that, I am not saying May is better than EC, or that Freddie sang better than JAck.....more a question of the sum of its parts is greater.
in case there was any confusion, the singing was coming from Jack's mouth. How can I be sure? Because the cameraman zoomed in far enough for me to see the damn bumps on his tongue while he sang. Otherwise, I would have thought the sound was coming from somewhere else.
@MrRobin14669 They were all amazing musicians. With that came ego. They broke up because they all had massive egos and personalities. Basically, they were all in a competition to be the best of the other.
we are seriously arguing about this? what does it matter what guitar he was using, clapton himself is the creator of this heavan come to earth like sound
Something just occurred to me-why doesn't anyone ever talk much about The Cream's LYRICS? No matter who played what on this song, it wouldn't be the same without them.
Jack Bruce had one of the best voices, certainly perfect for the style. Awesome live version.
That said, this video is seriously effed up - no disrespect to you rockngabo - I mean, would it kill the camera operator to maybe SHOW ERIC CLAPTON playing some guitar for more than two seconds?????? Are Jack Bruce's lips so interesting they have to be the featured close up????? I want to see EC playing guitar. Jaysus, it's maddening.
@kathmandoo There is another, perhaps fanciful, reason. I sometimes think that back then Clapton was very secretive with regards to his playing technique. In the promo video's for 'Tales of Brave Ulysses' and 'Sunshine of your Love' we barely see Clapton playing at all. The same goes for the Farewell Concert. Maybe he had developed a attitude whereby he didn't want anyone stealing his style. Then again, we do see something of his style during the interviews on the DVD.
I just seen Ginger Bakers kid in this Cream cover Band in San Diego (Classic Cream), the musicians were fantastic, three stellar musicians, with long complex solos. It was a treat they did a phenomenal job, even with the vocals. I was impressed, go see it
The zoom lens had just been introduced to television cameras. It gave technical directors an excuse to tell cameramen to "shake" the picture as though the loud music was causing an earthquake. You'll see the same thing in other '60s rock music show clips.
As much as people obsess over fucking musical equipment it should come as no surprise that the age of great songwriting has clearly, clearly passed into yesteryear. Without Bruce's music put to Pete Brown's lyrics Cream is just a very good (okay, GREAT) jam band--but just one of many. Like the Allman Brothers after Greg and Dickey Betts' songwriting abilities abandoned them. they're still around, but so what?!
Saw them live on August 6th 1967 in a club in Edinburgh's Royal Mile called Magoo's. Nothing compares to this type of intimate, live, packed, small venue for sheer atmosphere. Brilliant.
I was visiting Stratford, near Warwick Castle in England a few years back. The waiting room in the train station was white with black curtains. And this song immediately came to my head! Is that what it is about?
The lame mindless cameramen who failed so miserably in capturing Eric's performance, should be damned for life. All head shots no hands working the guitar, stupid just inexcusably stupid!
I think the cameraman was almost as high as the drummer... But Ginger is still great. Even though he drums with his eyes closed and his mouth wide open, he never misses a beat.
Eric the Ego . . was only brought back down to earth by the ability of "Sir James Marshal Hendrix", who showed the young eric a thing-or-two of what potential the Guitar could have, when played in the "proper" hands of an expert . . .
@Diogenes1360 - don't know why you find it necessary to run down Clapton when everyone knows that he and Jimi were friends and respected each other greatly. Also, it was Hendrix who requested he meet and jam with Eric when he first got to England and was unknown.
@Diogenes1360 Hey what's with all this firing arrows at each other.They are and shall remain both guitar players that will always stand the test of time....JMH now we should all be looking for the last recorded stuff JMH was working on ..'Black Gold' is the title he gave too those songs...If find it then keep it close ..
Funny how Eric never revealed his great singing voice 'til years later... He is ON that fuckin geetar on this night though... I'm an old git who had the pleasure of seeing Cream live, couple of times , back in the day. You never "grow out" of RnR !!!, (although you can develop a parallel taste for GOOD Country as you get older)...
I always thought of the story of this song taking place in Amsterdam Centraal... I guess it's inspired in a British place, but I can't help. Anyway it's a song I don't like to listen too often, a wonderful song, but it makes me extremely sad for no good reason (nope, I never had anybody leaving me in such a way). The same happens with Tales of Brave Ulysses, it just make me want to cry.
@YngwieSchenker I dont think it wouldve matched up very well in cream everybody was the star/soloist but the experience was all about hendrix and two stars wouldve muddied the sound up.
You may be right. But I was thnking that the heavier sound of Baker would take the Experience to another level, if that was even possible, lol.
Yeah Hendrix preferred a heavier bass as opposed to heavier drums. Buddy Miles hit the skins harder than Mitchell, but Hendrix got rid of him, so I don't know you may be right, still it would have been AMAZING to hear Baker and Hendrix jam, though.
watch this and you know why they were called the Cream, the cream of british musicians at that time, and their music to this day is timeless and priceless.
Great song. Never seen Eric play a Firebird before. The videography sucks, though. The in and out shots make me a little sick. Not enough of Eric playing.
It's a nice clip. it's film but definitely NOT HD, as defined by today's understanding of what HD resolution is. And certainly not HD as youtube defines it, so kind of a misleading title. Great band, one of history's greatest to be sure.
gillan5: well said. My oldest brother Mike used to listen to this band, and I really couldn't take it. After he returned from Nam I distanced myself from his hippie anti government attitude only to come full circle and learned to understand and open myself to him and love this music that can never be duplicated. I love you brother Mike, and im glad your still here for me to say it!
this echoed voice of the Jack Bruce guy is dragging me in like nothing else. Absolutely unique his voice. The fabulous song (maybe the best Rock song ever I guess) does the rest to give them the iconic status they deserve.
So much prefer this Eric Clapton to the easy listening version of later years.
bustermk2 10 hours ago
Thanks for this great video. I Love Cream!! The original is always the best!
ElDuderino59 23 hours ago
I'm not the world's biggest Cream fan, but It's amazing how great they sounded live, how kick ass jack bruce's vocals are, how effortlessly loose yet grooving they are, then clapton explodes. All live, with some shitty PA system. Amazing, kick ass musicianship not matched by anyone in today's world of Autotuned shit. Clapton's pinnacle before his slow decline into ego driven mediocrity, matched only by his output in the few years following.
bklynbass 2 days ago
This sounds so great!
michaelsendaniel 3 days ago
LOVE IT!!!!!!
rimbaud108 3 days ago
the band who influenced everyone like santana, gary moore, phil collins, jeff healey, van halen and hendrix
phenixreturns 4 days ago
The real thing!
xxxItchyxxx 5 days ago
Ginger "baked" Baker, a superb drummer
Gilmourinski 6 days ago
Rock will return when the youngi'ins have had enough of the old one's bullshit and Rebel, that is what Rock and Roll is all about, not Disney manufactured American idol Bullshit. This Rock and roll spoke for a generation fed up with establishments bullshit. throwing our asses into a jungle a million miles away for some political bullshit theory of domino's and Communism spreading. 50,OOO youngins died for their bullshit. It was REBELLION without guns with drugs and free love, OH Yeah!!!!!!!
MrFastfreddebklyn 6 days ago
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sounds like Joe T playing here-go to "englishbluesman"--his YouTube site--you'll see he is as good as Clapton was in this era---Clapton's best era is Joe T's normal way of playing.
people like bonamassa-mayer-shepard-lange-would kill to play like Joe t-
JOANIET18 1 week ago
One for the ages, what a song! The Godfather was forty today
k247a 1 week ago
no airs or graces just play the hell out of it, but with great feel and musicianship.
richardgification 1 week ago
just feckin listen to that Clapton play that guitar !!!
456japan 1 week ago
FECKIN BRILLIANT !! this is it folks !! there ain't nuttin like these three gents !!! just listen listen to this ! rock-n-roll at its best !!! raw-n-loud !!
456japan 1 week ago
LOL
oxiuro26 1 week ago
jack bruce is one hell of a mother on bass and singer.
richardgification 1 week ago 3
@richardgification Indeed, sir.
mcbrowncb 1 week ago
classic rock once again 3 rock greats in action just the best thing since sliced bread.
richardgification 1 week ago
Farewell concert?
jersonmajin 1 week ago
HOT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks for posting this!
marsha1467 1 week ago
I think its funny how the three legendary ex-Yardbirds guitarists (Clapton, Beck and Page) would at different times have the same looking haircut and look like each other.
Lennyofbassist 1 week ago
The sound of that Firebird is so unique & nobody comes close.
lizgough 1 week ago
Absolutely electrifying! Cream makes me feel like speeding, taking risks, and living life as fast and frenzied as I can. Thanks for posting!
AdamPalatine 2 weeks ago
@Kraken, don't forget that was the year that Led Zeppelin formed.
johnathan72984 2 weeks ago
@johnathan72984 Yeah I mentioned Zeppelin in that list. I did however neglect to mention Jefferson Airplane and Iron Butterfly.
kraken589 1 week ago
Was 17 in 68 and loved Cream.
Just old enough to catch the Beatles from the very start. making me ready for Stones, Blind Faith, Jefferson Airplane, Doors - the lot.
And the best thing is: Still love it all!!
OldHawkHippie 2 weeks ago 5
@OldHawkHippie 68 might have been the best year in music. You've got The Beatles, The Who, The Doors, The Stones, Cream, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Jimi Hendrix all active.
kraken589 2 weeks ago
@OldHawkHippie I was 14 cousin, just as plugged into these bands...and now with the likes of Youtube and The Pirate Bay I get to fill=in all the blank pages about the bands I have loved all these years and listen to their music that has been locked away and rarely heard. Bless musicians' pointy heads. Yours too!!!!!
blzebra66 1 week ago
Realmente estes sao deuses pois não existe , nem existirá algum ser humano na face da terra para ser uma banda destas e nunca vão ter o carisma q estes representam em tudo o q fizeram no curto tempo q permaneceram juntos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton and the great Jack bruce (eternal Fresh Cream1!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
1williamsantos 2 weeks ago
rock and emotion will rule the world.....positive..
TheRebalancer 2 weeks ago
the best solo ive ever heard!!!
kekin23 2 weeks ago
Need more Cream with my coffee please!!!!
armstronglance 2 weeks ago 2
This is why oi love rock, it simply has no age
JotaePe 2 weeks ago 3
Excellent video from 44 years ago
RichardZombie 2 weeks ago
DE IMPACTO.......CREAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
facundozxt 2 weeks ago
ROCK N ROLL HAS GONE NO WHERE IT'S JUST WAITING FOR THIS SHIT WATERFALL TO DRY UP CALLED ....RAP. OR SHOULD I SAY CRAP!!!! SOME DAY PEOPLE WILL LOOK BACK AT WHATS HAPPENED TO THIS ERA AND FEEL SORROW. OR DO LIKE I DO AND JUST LAUGH. WHAT ELSE COULD IT BE OTHER THAN COMEDY? A JOKE. AS A MUSICIAN IM TOTALLY OFFENDED WHEN THESE RAPPERS CALL THEMSELVES "ARTISTS" AND ARE GIVEN AWARDS A THE GRAMMY'S FOR BEST ARTISTS ETC. WHERE'S THE ARTISTRY? WHERE'S THE TALENT? I'LL TELL YOU WHERE IT'S NOT. THE RADIO
MrSprayMonet 2 weeks ago
@MrSprayMonet Your point may be more well-taken if you don't type in all caps. Just makes you look stupid.
BaconFrisbee 2 weeks ago
@BaconFrisbee well maybe so. however, a statement like can only be takin with a grain of salt coming from a guy named"baconfrisbee" sooooooo yeah nothing STUPID about that huh BF?
MrSprayMonet 2 weeks ago
@BaconFrisbee as in Butt Fuc....Naw I can't go there. Keep Rockin bro. just don't go around making yourself look STUPID!! lol JK
MrSprayMonet 2 weeks ago
@BaconFrisbee well your point may be more well taken if it wasn't coming from a guy that calls himself "baconfrisbee" . it just makes you look STUPID!!! BOOOO YAH!! bro. lol rock n roll
MrSprayMonet 2 weeks ago
@MrSprayMonet You honestly think "Rap" has shoved your precious R&R off to the side to "wait"?? I try very hard to ignore comments like these, but ignorance like this needs to be set straight. First off it's Hip Hop not "Rap" that's like calling Rock music "guitar" Rap is just one element to it, second; Rock and Roll came from the Blues which was played by a good many "illiterates" So if you can't see the similarities between The Blues and Hip Hop learn its history...
bboymcgee 2 weeks ago
@bboymcgee Rap - Retards Attempting Poetry.
TheLagunaSunrise 1 week ago
@bboymcgee bro I don t need to learn the history of Hip Hop, Rap what ever the fuck it's called. It aint the blues by any measure.lets put it this way if a person walked up to me and said " excuse me, I've never heard of the blues before. could you play some for me?" I certainly .wouldnt put on snoop dog or the like's of him. cuz that's not the blues my brother. maybe you need to listen better and more often. I just don't see the artistry in it bro. my opinion im sure i'm not alone.
MrSprayMonet 1 week ago
@MrSprayMonet Listen....I not only did not call Rap the blues (I said it's called Hip Hop and merely inferred that the similarities of a repressed black culture spawning a very popular music form to later be accepted by ALL races and walks of life is very similar to the Blues - please tell me you understand the comparison...) And no of course you wouldn't play snoop dogg if someone asked you to play some blues....HE DOESN'T PLAY THE BLUES!!
bboymcgee 1 week ago
@MrSprayMonet ...and I listen VERY well and VERY often, you might want to take your own advice on that...and if you don't like it, that's completely understandable and that is your opinion and obviously you are not alone in it. I just don't see the point of trying to put down another form of music to prop up your ideas of what music is...Cream and Rock N Roll does not need you to defend it from the scourge of rap music....it is doing just fine with or without you....
bboymcgee 1 week ago
@bboymcgee Sorry to tell you but most rap isn't music just consumible sounds of voices.
flipdry 1 week ago
@flipdry I agree 100%...and yet could you not say that about any fucking genre?? I have never heard one form of music that didn't have it's imposters and bad musicians. I absolutely love Cream and yet I don't love EVERYTHING they've ever done, Does that take away from them in any way? No I don't think so, just means you have to dig a little deeper to find the gold....
bboymcgee 1 week ago
whoever filmed this is a terrible camera man, on claptons solo i think id rather see him playing his guitar rather than his face while the camera shakes
kantanaman525 2 weeks ago
this video makes me hope that one day rock n roll will rule the world once again
robertjmessenger 3 weeks ago 43
@robertjmessenger i dont care if its rock, i just want real musicians to rule once again
Pedr6500 1 week ago
semidioses
Abrohill 3 weeks ago
I'm sick to death of people debating about bands being better than other bands.. JUST FUCKING LOVE IT ALL. DON'T COMPARE GREATNESS TO GREATNESS!
TimReloaded 3 weeks ago
this song prevented me from shooting up a children's library out of anger from fred getting a TV show
Pedr6500 3 weeks ago
best band ever
VIDARMATHISEN 3 weeks ago
@VIDARMATHISEN Hi I agree that Cream were awesome, would you agree that Queen were That good?
HAILTHEGR8LFC 3 weeks ago
@HAILTHEGR8LFC - i like queen a lot, but those are two completaly different bands, but since i like blues more then life itself i choose cream.
VIDARMATHISEN 3 weeks ago
@HAILTHEGR8LFC
haha....hey, I love Cream a lot. But Queen was much ore sophisticated in what they did in terms of songwriting, harmonies, using studio to create new worlds.
In saying that, I am not saying May is better than EC, or that Freddie sang better than JAck.....more a question of the sum of its parts is greater.
gtrrobster 3 weeks ago
in case there was any confusion, the singing was coming from Jack's mouth. How can I be sure? Because the cameraman zoomed in far enough for me to see the damn bumps on his tongue while he sang. Otherwise, I would have thought the sound was coming from somewhere else.
eternalround 3 weeks ago
Never understood why such an awesome band broke up so soon.
MrRobin14669 3 weeks ago
@MrRobin14669 Stevie Winwood?
AvirtualSwitzerland 3 weeks ago
@MrRobin14669 They were all amazing musicians. With that came ego. They broke up because they all had massive egos and personalities. Basically, they were all in a competition to be the best of the other.
Evan42881 3 weeks ago
HEY Guys, i dont think we got enough footage of Jack, zoom in on him more...
Pedr6500 4 weeks ago
Oh Thank You for posting this! Love it!!!
bd9598 4 weeks ago 16
2 things we don't want to see during a guitar solo, are the fucking bass player or their heads zoomed in and out at speed!
joee75 1 month ago
@joee75 True that man.., that was some shakey ass camera work!!
even seeing the back of CLapton's guitar neck is better. At least you get a sense of his vibrato.
gtrrobster 3 weeks ago
Why did everybody give up the wah wah pedals?
DisneysFrogPrincess 1 month ago 2
@DisneysFrogPrincess overkill mate :/
now reverb is being hammered lol
floofynut 1 month ago
@DisneysFrogPrincess Because they can't walk and chew gum at the same time.
IsidoreNabi 1 month ago
Single pickup Firebird. A rare bird indeed!
qautrofan 1 month ago
@qautrofan I always wanted one. I didn't think they still made them but i saw a video of Joe Bonamassa playing with Eric Johnson and he had one.
muttullu 1 month ago
@muttullu my old teacher had one, such a beautiful guitar. think he paid over £2000 for it
alex1x1x 1 month ago
we are seriously arguing about this? what does it matter what guitar he was using, clapton himself is the creator of this heavan come to earth like sound
Pedr6500 1 month ago
Something just occurred to me-why doesn't anyone ever talk much about The Cream's LYRICS? No matter who played what on this song, it wouldn't be the same without them.
NilezII 1 month ago
Clapton always made it look so easy.
kccaller1 1 month ago
Hey most of the camera guys that were shooting this were seriously stoned at the time. Give them a break.
TheMudman799 1 month ago
@TheMudman799
You would think that would ake the ORE in tune to the music and get the right shots, not less!
(unless they were swigging JAck Daniels too. Then, it's all over now, baby)
gtrrobster 3 weeks ago
After 40 years I am still trying to understand how Ginger is doing all that.
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@FredGandt
What is your problem as I was refering to his great talent...go sober up.
foonman50 1 month ago
Jack Bruce had one of the best voices, certainly perfect for the style. Awesome live version.
That said, this video is seriously effed up - no disrespect to you rockngabo - I mean, would it kill the camera operator to maybe SHOW ERIC CLAPTON playing some guitar for more than two seconds?????? Are Jack Bruce's lips so interesting they have to be the featured close up????? I want to see EC playing guitar. Jaysus, it's maddening.
judahhbo 1 month ago
@judahhbo lol obviously a camera man, not a musician
MrSPINKYMcGEE 1 month ago
@judahhbo I bought the DVD some years ago and, yes, I agree, the camera movement is annoying.
ScotRanger1960 1 month ago
@ScotRanger1960
I dont think the cameraman knew waht he was supposed to film!!
kathmandoo 1 month ago
@kathmandoo There is another, perhaps fanciful, reason. I sometimes think that back then Clapton was very secretive with regards to his playing technique. In the promo video's for 'Tales of Brave Ulysses' and 'Sunshine of your Love' we barely see Clapton playing at all. The same goes for the Farewell Concert. Maybe he had developed a attitude whereby he didn't want anyone stealing his style. Then again, we do see something of his style during the interviews on the DVD.
ScotRanger1960 1 month ago
fucking eargasmic
KaptainKashmir 1 month ago
I just seen Ginger Bakers kid in this Cream cover Band in San Diego (Classic Cream), the musicians were fantastic, three stellar musicians, with long complex solos. It was a treat they did a phenomenal job, even with the vocals. I was impressed, go see it
jsc1227 1 month ago
@jsc1227 Kofi's a great drummer.
claptonbrucebaker 1 month ago
who the fuch pressed dislike...
gethrodak1 1 month ago
ranga rock lol
johns78c 1 month ago
Liked the SG sound above all from where I sit.
1goodguitar 1 month ago
One person needs to have his head examined
five20one 1 month ago
the camera angles are fucking stupid.. seriously
0xlAFSftwlx0 1 month ago
No Dislikes ???
Yeah, this can happen with Real Music
xxxAdryan666xxx 1 month ago
the solo from Clapton is the best I've ever heard!!!
SchleckmeinenStaub 1 month ago
Nice Bruce bass clam @ 2:00-2:04
generatrix999 1 month ago
fantastic
kjf53 1 month ago
Why the hell does Eric play that strat now with that horrible "fuzz" tone. It's like he left his balls in the sixties!
beerTiAmo 1 month ago
Superb!
1950boots 1 month ago
That shaky camera almost gave me a fucking seizure
ihearthipsters 1 month ago
@ihearthipsters That's how they did film in the sixties ... shitty!
beerTiAmo 1 month ago
@ihearthipsters ,
The zoom lens had just been introduced to television cameras. It gave technical directors an excuse to tell cameramen to "shake" the picture as though the loud music was causing an earthquake. You'll see the same thing in other '60s rock music show clips.
WhiteCamry 1 month ago
I didn't know Cream did this, let alone without Eric singing it... I've been a classic rock fan forever, and I learned something new again...
rappy90 1 month ago
As much as people obsess over fucking musical equipment it should come as no surprise that the age of great songwriting has clearly, clearly passed into yesteryear. Without Bruce's music put to Pete Brown's lyrics Cream is just a very good (okay, GREAT) jam band--but just one of many. Like the Allman Brothers after Greg and Dickey Betts' songwriting abilities abandoned them. they're still around, but so what?!
dantean 1 month ago
My husband is gone. This was his favorite son on You Tube. I weep alone.
JosephHuntington 1 month ago
@JosephHuntington RIP
fossie32 1 month ago
@JosephHuntington Sorry for your loss.
Richard2003 1 month ago
who the hell shot the film and edit, idiots!!
beerTiAmo 1 month ago
@beerTiAmo they where probably high as fuck
whatstillremains 1 month ago
I could listen to Clapton eating cornflakes
72poppet 1 month ago
Saw them live on August 6th 1967 in a club in Edinburgh's Royal Mile called Magoo's. Nothing compares to this type of intimate, live, packed, small venue for sheer atmosphere. Brilliant.
redrabfab 1 month ago
@MrKnisterable.......well, it was 1968!
imdrs 2 months ago
clapton is playing a Firebird.
imdrs 2 months ago 2
@imdrs you´re correct ! it´s a firebird ! sounds like the are on drugs :D
MrKnisterable 2 months ago
Looks and sounds fab, only ever seen it in black and white.
JoyceEmbleton 2 months ago
That echo they have on Gingers drums is fucking awesome .....3:57 baby!
teddysalad65 2 months ago
FIREBIRD!
tokingbiker420 2 months ago
Well, Ginger Baker looks the same!
ThomasMetal75 2 months ago
BAKER +CLAPTON + GIBSON S 335 PEDALE WAHWAH THE BEST GROUPE SIXTIES, vive les sixties !! rebel68
skeptyky 2 months ago
@skeptyky I think here Clapton was using a Firebird and not the 335.
ThomasMetal75 2 months ago
Oh man that is so fine, thanks for the post. I was listening then but now watching and listening. So much good music here
uradragon 2 months ago
I was visiting Stratford, near Warwick Castle in England a few years back. The waiting room in the train station was white with black curtains. And this song immediately came to my head! Is that what it is about?
abingdon66 2 months ago
462 - 0
ClaptonAddiction 2 months ago
The lame mindless cameramen who failed so miserably in capturing Eric's performance, should be damned for life. All head shots no hands working the guitar, stupid just inexcusably stupid!
pgiuliano7 2 months ago 2
Every time I hear the first riff of the solo... Its just... AGHHHH no words to explain it!
secretagentYTer 2 months ago
clapton is god, baker and bruce are the apostles
rusoope 2 months ago
I think the cameraman was almost as high as the drummer... But Ginger is still great. Even though he drums with his eyes closed and his mouth wide open, he never misses a beat.
guitardudebanjoman 2 months ago
clapton means something to me here
gerthie 2 months ago
E(p=r)ic clapton
bruncen 2 months ago
Serious bass line screw up at around 4:20, I think... lead break makes me fall backward though.
dannyjsat 2 months ago
Great music.. awful camera work. I don't really care about the faces of these guys when they're playing! Show FINGERS!!!!
anastasia869 2 months ago
and then... ... .... there was cream
hd4ms 2 months ago
Eric the Ego . . was only brought back down to earth by the ability of "Sir James Marshal Hendrix", who showed the young eric a thing-or-two of what potential the Guitar could have, when played in the "proper" hands of an expert . . .
Diogenes1360 2 months ago
@Diogenes1360 - don't know why you find it necessary to run down Clapton when everyone knows that he and Jimi were friends and respected each other greatly. Also, it was Hendrix who requested he meet and jam with Eric when he first got to England and was unknown.
tp10488 2 months ago
@Diogenes1360 Hey what's with all this firing arrows at each other.They are and shall remain both guitar players that will always stand the test of time....JMH now we should all be looking for the last recorded stuff JMH was working on ..'Black Gold' is the title he gave too those songs...If find it then keep it close ..
Mr121953 2 months ago
Funny how Eric never revealed his great singing voice 'til years later... He is ON that fuckin geetar on this night though... I'm an old git who had the pleasure of seeing Cream live, couple of times , back in the day. You never "grow out" of RnR !!!, (although you can develop a parallel taste for GOOD Country as you get older)...
longjonwhite 2 months ago
This live solo shows clearly how good clapton was back then.
Varpzor 2 months ago in playlist Favorite videos
Clapton is Absolutely amazing.
I'm so jealous....
losaface4 2 months ago
3:49 to start trippin'
upinthesmokeyaw 2 months ago
please can anyone tell me where is this live?please!!
Dbalx 2 months ago
@Dbalx 1968 farewell show at Albert Hall.
yourtubesteak 2 months ago
@yourtubesteak yeah i find it..thanx u by the way
Dbalx 2 months ago
White Room has got to be one of my all time best riffs to play! Exceptional song, exceptional band!
andeegreen 2 months ago
I always thought of the story of this song taking place in Amsterdam Centraal... I guess it's inspired in a British place, but I can't help. Anyway it's a song I don't like to listen too often, a wonderful song, but it makes me extremely sad for no good reason (nope, I never had anybody leaving me in such a way). The same happens with Tales of Brave Ulysses, it just make me want to cry.
runlevel0 2 months ago
the most tasty use of wah padel before mayer in neon
metallica3604 2 months ago
Ginger Baker's drumming is incredible, it sounds like an earthquake. What would the Jimi Hendrix Experience have sounded like with Baker?? :)
Oh what I'd do to hear them in '67 / '68 ...
Killer band
YngwieSchenker 2 months ago
@YngwieSchenker Probably not much greater than it already did; they had MITCH MITCHELL!!!!!!
5jays5 2 months ago
@YngwieSchenker I dont think it wouldve matched up very well in cream everybody was the star/soloist but the experience was all about hendrix and two stars wouldve muddied the sound up.
thepolice911copeland 2 months ago
@thepolice911copeland
You may be right. But I was thnking that the heavier sound of Baker would take the Experience to another level, if that was even possible, lol.
Yeah Hendrix preferred a heavier bass as opposed to heavier drums. Buddy Miles hit the skins harder than Mitchell, but Hendrix got rid of him, so I don't know you may be right, still it would have been AMAZING to hear Baker and Hendrix jam, though.
YngwieSchenker 2 months ago
@YngwieSchenker Yeah it wouldve been sick to hear hendrix and baker trade fours
thepolice911copeland 2 months ago
okay, it's like heaven...multiple versions of one of the great songs of all time
MrCampy123 2 months ago
watch this and you know why they were called the Cream, the cream of british musicians at that time, and their music to this day is timeless and priceless.
BLUESMANRONCHICAGO 3 months ago
Great song. Never seen Eric play a Firebird before. The videography sucks, though. The in and out shots make me a little sick. Not enough of Eric playing.
luthierboy 3 months ago
@luthierboy You're totally right man, felt a bit epileptic during those weird shots.Love the version though!
Ferankooo 3 months ago
this is one of the biggest rock anthem ever made! Cream they are eternal gods
fuckujack 3 months ago
Eric Clapton + Gibson SG + Marshall Plexi's + Wah pedal = Sonic Perfection.
terryorr 3 months ago 8
@terryorr it's a gibson firebird
dckstrat90 3 months ago
@terryorr but Clapton played the Firebird, not SG (during this song).
antoniiio90 2 months ago 11
@terryorr However, in this one, EC has a Gibson Firebird.
JB's EB-3 is similar to an SG in color and shape, but EB is "Electric Bass" and SG is "Solid Guitar"
SamWattRock 2 months ago
@terryorr is not a Sg is a Gibson Firebird, the SG is the bass of Jack!
JaguarOrtiz 2 months ago
@terryorr Is not an SG, is a Thunderbird, the bass player is using an SG bass.
Georgedepinedo 2 months ago
@terryorr true, but he's using a gibson firebird here
joemama4570 2 months ago 2
@terryorr He's playing a single coil Gibson Thunderbird... But yea, that combo is pretty damn good too.
ripjacks2012 1 month ago
It's a nice clip. it's film but definitely NOT HD, as defined by today's understanding of what HD resolution is. And certainly not HD as youtube defines it, so kind of a misleading title. Great band, one of history's greatest to be sure.
chiphotoguy 3 months ago
This is Heavy Metal !!
ralacerda 3 months ago
Un grupo que abrió camino al rock de los 70, una pena que durasen tan poco tiempo juntos.
honkytonkwomen69 3 months ago
gillan5: well said. My oldest brother Mike used to listen to this band, and I really couldn't take it. After he returned from Nam I distanced myself from his hippie anti government attitude only to come full circle and learned to understand and open myself to him and love this music that can never be duplicated. I love you brother Mike, and im glad your still here for me to say it!
puppet003 3 months ago 2
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gillan5 3 months ago
this echoed voice of the Jack Bruce guy is dragging me in like nothing else. Absolutely unique his voice. The fabulous song (maybe the best Rock song ever I guess) does the rest to give them the iconic status they deserve.
gillan5 3 months ago
35mm film > HD
chat099 3 months ago
sunshine of your love is better :O
Knifemyself 3 months ago
this my favorite song of 60s
rustinpeace1992 3 months ago