Cream - "Meet Me In The Bottom" - 1966

Cream - "Meet Me In The Bottom"
Live at Klooks Kleek, London November 15th 1966.
Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton at the start of their short career as Cream.

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Music

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• Cream
• Eric
• Clapton
• Jack
• Bruce
• Meet Me In The Bottom
• 1966
• blues
• Ginger
• Baker

[bamboosa]

I think Eric just gave up after Hendrix died. Just a theory.

[xjulitox]

I'm a guitarrist and I know that Clapton is great, but if you want to worship him go to eric clapton videos. This is Cream; Ginger, Jack And Eric made this all together.

[javiceres]

Cool song! I wasn't aware of it...

[mrtruck420]

B-aker B-ruce C-lapton-----------the origional BBC

[Ruckweiler73]

I've always thought it funny that a bunch of '50s English kids from the Beatles, Animals, and Cream among MANY others saved the blues as an art form when even American blacks here in America were moving away from it. Simply amazing because without these various groups Robert Johnson, B.B. King, Muddy, and Wolf would never have become so well known outside of juke joints, clubs, and black establishments. .

[kathmandoo]

@pokeboy73

Yes - this is what I was brought up on as a Young guitarist in the 60's. This sound thrilled to to the soul.

[pokeboy73]

Great great great tone on EC's guitar. Raw as it gets.

[mazzarellisteve]

great version, love that driving power chord bit! Haha funny how at the end he forgets what to sing!

[bryanswagerty]

Doesn't hold a candle to Ten Years After Klooks Kleek.

[DirtyDeck]

I've seen an interview where Baker talks about the mutual respect Jimi and Eric had for eachother. I'm sure Clapton was in awe of Hendrix's wild creativity. I'm equally sure that Hendrix was in awe of Clapton's touch, feel, original phrasing style and his ear for slight pitch bends, the latter a skill that young Clapton was king of.

[DirtyDeck]

@stratovani A lot of those riffs, and the way he phrased them, i think, were part of an original style that he developed. I think the genious is in how he phrases things, listen to the opening few licks of the solo, its that stuttering thing that impresses me so. I sometimes wonder is it his own warped sense of timing that makes him play this way, or is it an intentional mini-stroke of genious?

[jcghooker]

@janicewilsonify I agree. Bruce is the man