That Jack Bruce is one bad mama jama !

00Funk · #1 09-15-2007, 08:37 PM

I bought a video tape of Jack Bruce. "Cream of cream"

Im just now watching it. Its GREAT !

Far from funk, but im thuroughly enjoying it.

Its got Gary Husband on drums. He plays with my favorite funkateer, Mark King.

JDHayes · #2 09-15-2007, 08:53 PM

Get the DVD where cream is playing at the Royal Abert Hall in 2005. I became a big fan of Jack Bruce after that. His fretless work on that warwick is just awsome. I'm gassing for some hartke gear now too

00Funk · #3 09-15-2007, 08:59 PM

I just heard, "Sleepy time" for the first time. WOW thats an excellent tune !

I had a chance to buy a Jack bruce singnature Warwick fretless at GC 5 years ago for 300 bucks.
I cant beleive I passed that up.

I dont feel so bad about my facial scars after watching Brian Moore on lead guitar.

pedro · #4 09-16-2007, 12:51 PM

You fellas are late to the Jack Bruce appreciation club by about 40 yrs. LOL!!

I started listening to Jack Bruce around 1966 and have been a huge fan ever since. IMO he's easily one of the most gifted musicians in rock. A true multi-instrumentalist, Jack plays, upright, bass guitar, piano, cello and harmonica and does so extremely well. He was boy singer in his youth traveling extensively and has the most powerful voice I ever heard live. The guy has an unflappable sense of time and syncopation.

Take a listen to what Jack Bruce did to a classic blues tune in 1967.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=l16jlallB...elated&search=

If you want a more informed opinion about Bruce you might want to look up what Jeff Berlin says about the guy.

BellBottomBlues · #5 09-16-2007, 02:48 PM

Screw Clapton

Jack Bruce is GOD!!!

Sneckumhaw · #6 09-16-2007, 06:46 PM

I don't know about screw Clapton, but the second half of that statement could not be truer.

oldrocker · #7 09-16-2007, 09:16 PM

Here's another one - Spoonful. Is there anything better than a Jack singing and playing his EB-3?

http://youtube.com/watch?v=_TbhG0U7I...elated&search=

pedro · #8 09-16-2007, 09:46 PM

I'm attaching two pictures. The first is Cream at the Miami Baseball Stadium in around November 1968 when I first saw them. If you look you'll see behind them the great Terry Reid who opened for them (IMO one of the great pure rock voices). You'll note that there are no microphones on the amps or drums. The PA that night was a Sure Vocalmaster which kept cutting out.

The second was a photo taken by my former keys player of Jack Bruce in St Louis around 1967 (guess on my part).

Enjoy.

Bob Clayton · #9 09-19-2007, 07:33 AM

listen to the solo from "powerhouse sod" from back when he was in a band called "west, bruce & laing".

which consisted of leslie west, jack bruce, and corky laing

GM60466 · #10 09-20-2007, 07:02 AM

I saw Jack the first time in 1968. He used a Fender 6 through two Marshall 100 bass stacks that were daisy chained. The next night he was playing a Gibson EB3 with the same amp setup. Back then his tone was pure low end distortion. Over the years he has raised the mids tones and lower his volume. His hands are still like lightning.
BTW: The ticket price back in '68 $4.50. The memories -priceless.

G

pedro · #11 09-20-2007, 08:36 AM

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I saw Jack the first time in 1968. He used a Fender 6

You sure it wasn't earlier than that? 'Cause I was pretty sure he'd stopped using the 6 by '67.

Fealach · #12 09-20-2007, 11:10 AM

I saw him a ways back, before his illness sidelined him before the Cream reunion, in a small show at a casino, with "A Walk Down Abbey Road" which was basically like Ringo Starr's All Starr Band but without Ringo. He was nuts, walking off the stage and along the backs of the booth seats, never losing his place. As great as his playing (and his bandmates' - who knew Christopher Cross was a sick guitarist!?) was that night, the best part of that show (and, really, pretty much any I've seen) was Jack's performance of "Eleanor Rigby." A capella, just Jack singing into the mic without backup. It was moving and chilling at the same time, really made me appreciate his voice when all of my life I'd been focusing on his playing.

pedro · #13 09-20-2007, 11:16 AM

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was Jack's performance of "Eleanor Rigby." A capella, just Jack singing into the mic without backup. It was moving and chilling at the same time, really made me appreciate his voice when all of my life I'd been focusing on his playing.

Good God I would've loved to have heard that.

jpark369 · #14 09-20-2007, 11:38 AM

i love in "crossroads" where jack just destroys that song. pretty much leaves clapton is the dust. dont get me wrong, clapton owns, but bruce owns a bit more in that jam.
is there a way to get a tone like the one he has in crossroads? its pretty much the best OD tone, IMO, and id love to get that sound. any ideas?

pedro · #15 09-20-2007, 11:41 AM

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and id love to get that sound. any ideas?

None aside from a Eb3, played hard into over driven Marshall.

jpark369 · #16 09-20-2007, 11:47 AM

thats the answer i was expecting i guess. hmm...nothing else huh? jack is nasty so i guess it would probably take years to even try to duplictae a tone and sound like his.

pedro · #17 09-20-2007, 11:50 AM

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thats the answer i was expecting i guess. hmm...nothing else huh? jack is nasty so i guess it would probably take years to even try to duplictae a tone and sound like his.

I’m sure there is a way to approximate the sound perhaps with a distortion box.

jpark369 · #18 09-20-2007, 11:56 AM

im sure there is. any ideas on a od/distortion that keeps the low end and isnt too much? that vintage crossroads od sound? they sould make a jb pedal, clapton got one...haha

pedro · #19 09-20-2007, 11:59 AM

I don't use any pedals or effects, so no I can't suggest anything.

Buzzgroove · #20 09-20-2007, 01:27 PM

Saw Jack Bruce live more than 23 years ago now and his solo spot on fretless was amazing.