Jack Bruce Owns This Video! Cream Rules!!!

de la mocha · #1 02-02-2008, 03:49 PM

I was cruising around youtube and stumbled upon this! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FI8SUc2SV4k

El-Bob · #2 02-02-2008, 03:54 PM

great band, i love bruce's playing. cream is actually one of my favorite bands, even up there with all of the black & death metal that i listen to. you just have to love it

BellBottomBlues · #3 02-02-2008, 04:17 PM

I'm trying to figure out what animal his hat came from...

de la mocha · #4 02-02-2008, 04:29 PM

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I'm trying to figure out what animal his hat came from...

LOL, I like how his bass is smoking!

blowfly · #5 02-02-2008, 04:31 PM

Could "Sunshine of Your Love" be the greatest riff of all time?! When I was a kid learning to play the guitar it was the first thing I sat down and figured out by ear. Now I'm 50 and the teenage children of my friends all want me to show them how to play it, and the young guys in my Praise band at Church whip it out at every sound check!! Jack Bruce rules! I saw an interview where he talked about coming up with the riff while playing double bass.

El-Bob · #6 02-02-2008, 04:39 PM

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Could "Sunshine of Your Love" be the greatest riff of all time?! When I was a kid learning to play the guitar it was the first thing I sat down and figured out by ear. Now I'm 50 and the teenage children of my friends all want me to show them how to play it, and the young guys in my Praise band at Church whip it out at every sound check!! Jack Bruce rules! I saw an interview where he talked about coming up with the riff while playing double bass.

it was the first riff i learned by ear on bass

i_got_a_mohawk · #7 02-02-2008, 05:22 PM

Love that song, was rocking it out on guitar earlier

Gotta love Ginger tho, now THERE is a drummer!

BellBottomBlues · #8 02-02-2008, 07:00 PM

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LOL, I like how his bass is smoking!

Its an old thing where you put your cigarette between the E string and the headstock. Thats why you'll see old guitars with Cigarette burns on the head stock (even the clapton blackie relic!)

SgtKoi · #9 02-02-2008, 07:24 PM

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Its an old thing where you put your cigarette between the E string and the headstock. Thats why you'll see old guitars with Cigarette burns on the head stock (even the clapton blackie relic!)

It's the owners that force them to do it, after a while the instruments don't care because they're still getting second hand smoke.

Valerus · #10 02-02-2008, 07:36 PM

Nice video!!

doktorfeelgood · #11 02-02-2008, 08:05 PM

This video is amazing. Gives you an idea of just how excellent and powerful they were. The very first song I learned to play on bass was Crossroads. That song and that band inspired me to give up drums and start playing the bass. I saw Cream at their very last US show in Providence, RI Nov.4, 1968 four rows from the front and dead center aisle. Words can't describe how truly incredible they were that night. )-(

doktorfeelgood · #12 02-02-2008, 08:12 PM

One other thing.....this video proves that with Cream what you saw was what you got...they could play like that night after night and pull off those tunes. No studio trickery. They used the studio and the recording process to enhance their recordings, but they could sound just as good Live. )-(

**petch** · #13 02-02-2008, 08:33 PM

Awesome! THE power trio of choice...

Sneckumhaw · #14 02-02-2008, 10:29 PM

He is the man. They are the band.

Dr. Cheese · #15 02-02-2008, 10:45 PM

OP, thanks for the clip!

Slax · #16 02-02-2008, 10:49 PM

God, I've seen this video so many times and it never gets old! I love Cream!

I also love how this was most of the repliers (including myself) first ear trained song.

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It's the owners that force them to do it, after a while the instruments don't care because they're still getting second hand smoke.

Hmm.. might have learned of a new way to save my smoke while I play.

(Kidding of course, there'll be time after...

)

gweimer · #17 02-03-2008, 12:16 AM

I watched Jack Bruce from 20 ft. away when I saw West, Bruce and Laing. My old drummer taped it on cassette. Now that he's a recording engineer, he made a lo-fi CD of that show. It was probably the most memorable show I ever saw. When I went home, I wanted to throw rocks at my bass.

The Golden Boy · #18 02-03-2008, 12:51 AM

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Gotta love Ginger tho, now THERE is a drummer!

In watching that clip again, that was actually what struck me. Look how he's really attacking with the kick. You don't see too many drummers doing it like that.

I remember reading something- either Felix or Tom Dowd, that the end of "White Room" where the kick gets louder, that was all control from Ginger, they didn't change or boost the volume- it was just off of his dynamic from the pedals.

I've always hated Jack Bruce's Cream bass tones... *hides*

de la mocha · #19 02-03-2008, 08:11 AM

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OP, thanks for the clip!

No problemo!

JamesTheBassBoy · #20 02-03-2008, 08:27 AM

one of my best friends is ginger bakers granddaughter

she goes for lunch with him and eric clapton everynow and then (lucky girl)