loudness is so needed. if you've recently started checking thes guys out. (that's awesome) put on some headphones and play as loud as you can. Listen to the entire show when they go off on their fucking jams and stuff and the loudness helps really meant to he heard at huge volume. Also thi music was created with the influence of and played for those under the influence of LSD. helps to be on acid, psilocybin, or mescaline. fucking Clapton is pulling sounds out of the air you know like the feedback and the shit and it all just comes together you think that man's gone too far out there, won't recover. dude never played a wrong note Clapton is God
@@semolinapilchard9768 I can just imagine the people in their 20s dropping acid and going to the Fillmore and lying on the floor while the light show went on and Cream was jamming. The sound of Acid Rock!
I Saw Cream June 1968 in Vancouver BC. Amongst Songs they Played was Spoonful. Of COURSE it was a different Version than Played Here. I STILL believe these 3 INCREDIBLE Musicians were my Favorite Band in Concert. I would love to have this Recording on CD just to Hear Bruce's Fantastic Bass Playing. Wow!
October 14, 1968, Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines, Iowa. Cream's farewell tour. A rare opportunity to see and hear rock & roll history as perhaps it has never been witnessed since. Such a great group. Provided the soundtrack of my youth. This concert was the most memorable I have ever seen/heard, and I've attended plenty, Rolling Stones,(when they were relevant) Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Leon Russell, Bob Dylan(granted, not in his prime when I saw him). My tastes are not purely rock & roll either. I've seen Stephane Grapelli(the grand old man of jazz violin - think "Du Hot Club De France" with Django Reinhardt), Cubanismo, Jesse Cook, Willie & Lobo, Rodrigo & Gabriella, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Allison Krause + Union Station, some very wonderful concerts, yet Oct 14, 1968 will always outshine all others.
@@pabloperez4063 have you not noticed how nobody and i mean nobody,has tried to play like clapton here,not in a tribute or anything,people play like Hendrix or srv,but not Clapton in cream cause it supernatural playing of the highest level.
The 'Wheels' version is still the Ultimate take! Grande Ballroom is great fun. The Grande Ballroom ;Sitting On Top Of The World' is an awesome beast too!
@@jefftateii9403if you listen to that show, around 9 minutes in, it sounds like someone rushed the stage and started talking into the mic. Does anyone know anything about that?
Phenomenal playing by all three musicians; improvising simultaneously. What a shame relentless touring killed this band and stunted their potential. As amazing as they were, as this track shows, their potential was unlimited.
One of the best bass, and fwd-mixed bass symphonies ever. Only in a power trio. Oh, and Bruce’s operatic vocals are way out there, what a voice box, Jack the Lad, had.
Tom Howland Most Indubitably. The three names I like to give the Cream members is, Ginger the mad-dog Baker Eric sick-lick Clapton an Jack the beast-mode Bruce. Nobody could carry the song as great and as long as Cream could. Any other band I listen too, about after 4 or 5 min of jamming, the solo becomes repetitive or just becomes noise; not with Cream, they carry it along an structure it the way a symphony does.
Apparently, not only did Eric never play a Cream solo the same time twice, but Jack never sang a Cream song the same way twice. The vocal ad Libistry we hear in this track is fresh Cream (do with that what you will).
Fascinating variation of Willie Dixon's Spoonful. Never heard this version before, thanks so much for this upload. What is cool is when Clapton and Bruce play in response to each other eventually leading to the point coming together in the coda.
I saw them in New York madison Sq. garden 11/2/68 (?). They played on this horrible revolving stage. Amps were only on one side, so when stage was turned away from my side of the hall, sound became quieter a bit muddy. They were OK, closed with a subdued Spoonful. I was very lucky to have seen them March 29th 1968 Hunter College NYC late show (around the time of the Brandeis show). That night they were killer. High energy jamming, on the same level with side 3 of wheels of fire... oh what a night!
No that is not true, according to multiple sources; Baker brought Clapton in, and Clapton insisted on Bruce. This was a point of significant contention because as you know Baker and Bruce had and continue to have a very acrimonious relationship. When Bruce was identified as the price for Clapton joining in with Baker, Baker reluctantly conceded. Clapton was very famous at the time, as were Bruce and Baker. That's why they were often identified as the First Supergroup- a Trio of Equals.
Jack Bruce a lot of times would play whatever the heck he wanted to play... never keeping the tempo uninterrupted! LOL Ginger had to follow HIM it seems to me. This seems much more the case here on Spoonful (and on other live recordings) than with Jack having to listen to Ginger. In one of the now available books containing past interviews with Ginger, Baker said that Jack played so freakin' loud on stage that one time both he and Eric stopped playing altogether and Jack didn't even notice it! Now, that is loud! LOL I look upon Jack Bruce as a great songwriter and singer. I never liked his tone with that Gibson EBO or EB3 or whatever it was and why in the world would anyone choose a Marshall stack for a bass amp, even back then?Marshalls looked cool on stage (and still do) and sounded great (usually lol) for lead guitar, but for BASS GUITAR? I say, no way! Even now, Marshall doesn't have a decent bass setup. I do like Jack's studio bass playing and I admit he is gifted and innovative on the bass on their "Wheels of Fire" live tracks. And Felix Pappalardi was a great producer and musician... almost a clone of Jack Bruce. I love cello. The Beatles utilized cello's in a few of their best tracks. Jack Bruce's cello playing added to Wheels of Fire's minor songs. "Passing the Time" and "As You Said" are good examples. It is still a wonder to me how Cream stayed together as long as they did (which was not that long at all really) with their drug abuse and the way Bruce and Baker fought so much. They even screwed with each other's stage setups. Childish stuff really. Eric was talked out of quitting several times by their manager, Robert Stigwood.
Sorry, but I must disagree, Tom. He is depicted in several photos taken during during the Farewell Tour (including the Oakland show) with the "Darkburst" (traded the next year to Paul Kossoff) as his backup to the Firebird. He indeed played the Darkburst at a few shows as well. This cut sounds does sound much thicker than a Firebird, as Frank commented.
I cannot say what guitar he was definitely playing on this track, but a Firebird can sound a little "fatter" by rolling the tone knob off a bit. There are photos of him shown with the Darkburst during soundcheck and during the show of the Oakland concert. Other than a show done soon after the Disraeli Gears sessions of EC playing a 3-pu Custom I have not seen any photos of him playing, or even holding one while touring.
I love Jack's tone on that bass, nice growly midrange. It's hard to believe that he's getting such good tone from what I assume is a short-scale Gibson EB-3.
Jim Nesta Yep, Gibson short scale EB3 played through three Marshall 100 watt stacks. Eric only used two Marshall stacks, so Jack could definitely keep his volume level up with Clapton as the low frequencies are harder to push then highs.
Nah, it's the classic tube overdrive of a short scale with Sidewinder on the neck and a mini humbucker on the bridge. They are extremely versatile, not like a jazz bass of course, but they have their own unique sound palette.
For the guitarists out there, to me it sounds like Eric was using a Les Paul- I've seen him in pictures at this show with a sunburst LP. At that time, I know that was also using his Firebird I during this period (I think that by this time, the Fool SG was starting to fall apart, and may have been retired). This does not sound like a Firebird to me. Any thoughts?
Oh yeah, best thing about the evening was Terry Reid the opening act. He was booed by the teenyboppers and the johnny-come-lately to Cream lumpenrocksters (these would be the people in the future who did downers up in the cheap seats and dug black sabbath). He was gracious though and played a wonderful set. The college friend I went with, we looked at each other and said about Terry Reid, "This guy is good." Check out Terry Reid. He has the voice still.... get his album Live in London. If you're not familiar with him you'll see what I mean. Also, introduced to the middle act that night, "The Buddy Miles Express" very good, seven or nine piece including a horn section. R'n'B/soul, absolutely one of the best. Their first album Expressway to your skull, & later ones are quite good.
saw these three on LSD . aEric Clapton is god. comin or goin who hoves a fuck so beautiful my body was gonna spotaneousy combust at an momentwas amd also gonna melt into the floor Changed my head to pu it mildly. listening to these now listen to him as loud as you can headphones or whatever and just listen like where where is some of the are some of those sounds coming from I mean clap it is like pulling music thin air man that you know make that noise not a single note wrong he's just like right on yeah I did you never got lost it was just didn't fucking Ginger Baker is a complete psycho but man he's cool he well was cool and Jack Bruce is if I could be anybody I'd be Jeffrey's haha I found out the other day that Jack Bruce played on the Berlin album by Lou Reed big fucking deal ha but it is big deal
John Doughty - I could be wrong about this but I'm not sure that that's a Firebird Clapton's playing here. It seems to have the meatier tone of a hum bucker pickup, maybe a SG or LP? There is a YT video with Cream playing "Sunshine" on the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and Clapton is playing a Firebird there, very thin tone. I could be wrong about this and would like to know from somebody who knows more about these guitars.
Don't think so. Saw them Nov. 3 1968, their next to last US gig at the Baltimore Civic Center with EC on the Firebird. It has a much thinner tone with a single (bridge) pickup. The best recorded concert from this tour using the Firebird (one of the best recorded Cream shows period) is Cream San Diego Carylguitar avail on youtube. Might be the Gibson 335 which he used on the Farewell Concert.
I know I watched a vid awhile back with Eric talking about how after he got rid of his fool guitar because of it chipping badly an the damge done to it, he had to go with his black burst for a gig or two I believe. Which of course was when he was out west. I can't tell which guitar he's playing but like I said I know Eric said after he got rid of the fool out west he had to go with his backup.
@metart93 I've heard that one. I don't think it was the full vocal melody that was the problem---if you remember the studio track, on the main verses it was just Ginger Baker or Jack Bruce singing the lyric over a calliope and cello and glockenspiel, and good luck with Cream's stage lineup reproducing that!
can any one tell which Amp Clapton was playing on this song? I heard On the John Mayall recordings he was using an old Marshall jtm 45 combo. I think this amp might be a jtm 45/100. I am a amp geek and totally nerd out on this stuff!
No, he wasn't. His 335 only came out for the second house of Cream's farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall, November 1968. There is no photographic or anecdotal evidence to support otherwise.
+GucciTheGlacier You are right about EC already was know that time as one of the greatest guitar player (EC is God). But TheLiberalAtheist is right about Cream WAS NOT Clapton's band. People say it because Clapton became famous later and they've never heard of Baker nor Bruce. But he/she is wrong: Baker asked Clapton to join and Clapton wanted Bruce to be the bassist. But I agree (IMHO) Baker and Bruce were better than Clapton. But the main stuff here is that WE ALL ADMIRE CREAM!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
But Willie Dixon was adamant that his song wasn’t about using narcotics. “People who think ‘Spoonful’ was about heroin are mostly people with heroin ideas,” he wrote in his autobiography, I Am The Blues.
This is NOT Clapton's band. The other guys were much bigger than him at the time so stop calling this Clapton and Cream because its disrespectful towards Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce who actually found the band than called Eric to join.
TheLiberalAtheist actually Baker found it but wanted Bruce on bass after jamming out with him with gigs for John Mayall and the blues breakers. That was only condition for Clapton to join. Essentially, Bruce completed the Trio. It was Baker's thing. He started it.
Millennial Monty you mean Eric. Eric said to Ginger what about a bass. To which Ginger replied, hmm, I don't know, to which Eric replied, what about Jack as he played with him in John Mayall's band for 6 months I believe. As Ginger said; because Eric didn't know that Ginger an Jack played before together. Anyway, Ginger went, hmm, I really don't know, but your right, he's a fucking good bass player. And the rest is history.
Baker once remembered it this way: "I said [to Clapton] I'm getting a band together, do you want to do it? And Eric said what about Jack? Cause Eric was working a bit with Jack, you know, playing with him. I said ohhhhhhhhhhhhh . . . I'll have to go see him. So I went round and said I'm getting a band together and Eric's going to do it and he suggested you as the bass player---do you want to let bygones be bygones and do you want to do it? And he said yeah. Right away. And that was Cream." (Bruce: "Ginger came round to my wife's mother's flat in Boundary Road and, and ate humble pie, basically.")
TheLiberalAtheist---At the time Cream formed, Eric Clapton WAS the best known of the threesome in England; he'd been a Yardbird and then made his splash playing with John Mayall's Blues Breakers. (Remember the billing on the album: "John Mayall with Eric Clapton.") Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in the Graham Bond Organisation had a big reputation among musicians and clubbers but not on records. (They were barely known in the U.S. prior to Cream. Bruce did join Manfred Mann for a spell, but he didn't stay long enough to gain any elevated profile for being with them.) When you married Clapton's public profile at the time to Bruce and Baker's reps, that where you had a supergroup so far as England was concerned.
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NOBODY IN THIS WHOLE WORLD CAN EVER TOP THE STRENGH AND HEAVINESS OF THUS BAND U CAN TRY BUT GOOD LUCK.
This is Cream's epic rock masterpiece. Play this as LOUD as you can.
and it's not enough loud ...
loudness is so needed. if you've recently started checking thes guys out. (that's awesome) put on some headphones and play as loud as you can. Listen to the entire show when they go off on their fucking jams and stuff and the loudness helps really meant to he heard at huge volume. Also thi music was created with the influence of and played for those under the influence of LSD. helps to be on acid, psilocybin, or mescaline.
fucking Clapton is pulling sounds out of the air you know like the feedback and the shit and it all just comes together you think that man's gone too far out there, won't recover. dude never played a wrong note Clapton is God
@@semolinapilchard9768 I can just imagine the people in their 20s dropping acid and going to the Fillmore and lying on the floor while the light show went on and Cream was jamming. The sound of Acid Rock!
And will you buy me another earphones...?? 🎸
@@pabloperez4063 What????, can't hear you.
I Saw Cream June 1968 in Vancouver BC. Amongst Songs they Played was Spoonful. Of COURSE it was a different Version than Played Here.
I STILL believe these 3 INCREDIBLE Musicians were my Favorite Band in Concert.
I would love to have this Recording on CD just to Hear Bruce's Fantastic Bass Playing. Wow!
Whenever I want to go to a great classic rock concert, I surf to RUclips and find a live Cream performance.
One of my favorite groups, was so great, a real legend i love it.
I wish more people would listen to this
It amazed me then and now how a trio could be so overwhelming.
Amazing, these fellows defined not just one, but several generations of what was considered the best music of their respective instrumentation.
They were CREAM!
Great JAZZ trio!
Jack Bruce’s bass is wild as hell haunting sound.
October 14, 1968, Veterans Memorial Auditorium, Des Moines, Iowa. Cream's farewell tour. A rare opportunity to see and hear rock & roll history as perhaps it has never been witnessed since. Such a great group. Provided the soundtrack of my youth. This concert was the most memorable I have ever seen/heard, and I've attended plenty, Rolling Stones,(when they were relevant) Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Leon Russell, Bob Dylan(granted, not in his prime when I saw him). My tastes are not purely rock & roll either. I've seen Stephane Grapelli(the grand old man of jazz violin - think "Du Hot Club De France" with Django Reinhardt), Cubanismo, Jesse Cook, Willie & Lobo, Rodrigo & Gabriella, Willie Nelson, Sheryl Crow, Allison Krause + Union Station, some very wonderful concerts, yet Oct 14, 1968 will always outshine all others.
They.were so damn good..just lived wild & paid for it..amazing the one who.survived.
Jack's voice is great here. Loving it!
Right you are......Jack's singing his ass off. Great version.
@@ireneruthfox He always put a lot of solid effort into his singing. I loved that about him.
Timeless classic, and with the usual slight deviations everywhere, but totally recognizable and done only as Cream could.
This has an amazingly CLEAN and CLEAR bass guitar signal foe "Cream-Back-in-the-Day". Very enjoyable listening.
I wonder if Tom Dowd had any impact on the band's live sound.
Jack Bruce!!!!!
Ginger Baker!!!!
Too bad Clapton never learned how to play rhythm guitar.
Still one of my all time favorite bands.
@@AFaceintheCrowd01 i don’t think so
@@FramrodLiggins you must be joking
Jack's tone is CLEAN? Now, THAT is funny.
My favorite Cream song; I love Spoonful
On fire, all 3 of them,,best damn jammin' band ever
Susan Reed Robin Trower Far Better
Trevor Graham Welch dream on
@@trevorgwelch7412 Robin would be ThE First to deny it
@@pabloperez4063 have you not noticed how nobody and i mean nobody,has tried to play like clapton here,not in a tribute or anything,people play like Hendrix or srv,but not Clapton in cream cause it supernatural playing of the highest level.
@@slowhand8301 Yes, I've noticed that.
This is just phenomenal! I saw them in concert I 67 absolutely astonishing! I turned my nephew on to them he loves em
The 'Wheels' version is still the Ultimate take! Grande Ballroom is great fun. The Grande Ballroom ;Sitting On Top Of The World' is an awesome beast too!
Don't know. The October 1968 LA Forum Spoonful where Jimi Hendrix, George Harrison, and Mitch Mitchell were in front row is still my favorite.
@@jefftateii9403 how do you know?...
🧡⚡️🧡👍🏼
@@jefftateii9403if you listen to that show, around 9 minutes in, it sounds like someone rushed the stage and started talking into the mic. Does anyone know anything about that?
Phenomenal playing by all three musicians; improvising simultaneously.
What a shame relentless touring killed this band and stunted their potential.
As amazing as they were, as this track shows, their potential was unlimited.
Agree
Yes...but the best is brief
One of the best bass, and fwd-mixed bass symphonies ever. Only in a power trio. Oh, and Bruce’s operatic vocals are way out there, what a voice box, Jack the Lad, had.
Slowhand then and still rocking.Go old folks,I"m 70 Hah
Rock and Roll; Phase II - invented by these guys.
RIP Jack.
Great. Shows yet again their ability to improvise -differently- each show. This certainly rivals 'Wheels of Fire' version
Ginger F***ing Baker. My god he can Drum.
Tom Howland Most Indubitably. The three names I like to give the Cream members is, Ginger the mad-dog Baker
Eric sick-lick Clapton an
Jack the beast-mode Bruce. Nobody could carry the song as great and as long as Cream could. Any other band I listen too, about after 4 or 5 min of jamming, the solo becomes repetitive or just becomes noise; not with Cream, they carry it along an structure it the way a symphony does.
Tom Howland he’s almost as good as Mitch Mitchel Of Hendrix Don’t You Forget It !!!!
@@trevorgwelch7412 Are you kidding me?
@@trevorgwelch7412 dream on little boy
@@arminiushermann09 extremely well put
Best version I've heard yet !
Thank you.
GREAT post ! Excellent photo selection, really cool. Really takes me back to "The Day". Rgrds
Apparently, not only did Eric never play a Cream solo the same time twice, but Jack never sang a Cream song the same way twice. The vocal ad Libistry we hear in this track is fresh Cream (do with that what you will).
Not even ghe worst blues guitarist kn gge World can play the same sólo 2
Sure glad we have the Wheels of Fire 🔥 version.
@@russberry3240 Yeah, this one kind of sucks. I do like some of Ginger's playing here however. :)
Fascinating variation of Willie Dixon's Spoonful. Never heard this version before, thanks so much for this upload. What is cool is when Clapton and Bruce play in response to each other eventually leading to the point coming together in the coda.
Nuthin' like this since!!!!
I saw them in New York madison Sq. garden 11/2/68 (?). They played on this horrible revolving stage. Amps were only on one side, so when stage was turned away from my side of the hall, sound became quieter a bit muddy. They were OK, closed with a subdued Spoonful. I was very lucky to have seen them March 29th 1968 Hunter College NYC late show (around the time of the Brandeis show). That night they were killer. High energy jamming, on the same level with side 3 of wheels of fire... oh what a night!
Wow, still must have been a lot of un to see them live. I have a couple of songs from that show up on my channel too if you are interested!
This is so awesome
this is the correct speed recording of this concrete performance; there're someone with incorrect speed recording(faster). And one of the best
Enter class, put this on repeat. 3 hours never went by so fast :)
Spoonful & I Feel Free.
That was flat out great.GC.
broo when jack starts singing at 10:00 it is just so powerful
No that is not true, according to multiple sources; Baker brought Clapton in, and Clapton insisted on Bruce. This was a point of significant contention because as you know Baker and Bruce had and continue to have a very acrimonious relationship. When Bruce was identified as the price for Clapton joining in with Baker, Baker reluctantly conceded. Clapton was very famous at the time, as were Bruce and Baker. That's why they were often identified as the First Supergroup- a Trio of Equals.
1blynne Anyone For Tennis was so Gay
my favorite description of cream was by carlos santana who said seeing them was "an assault on the senses"
Jack Bruce a lot of times would play whatever the heck he wanted to play... never keeping the tempo uninterrupted! LOL Ginger had to follow HIM it seems to me. This seems much more the case here on Spoonful (and on other live recordings) than with Jack having to listen to Ginger. In one of the now available books containing past interviews with Ginger, Baker said that Jack played so freakin' loud on stage that one time both he and Eric stopped playing altogether and Jack didn't even notice it! Now, that is loud! LOL
I look upon Jack Bruce as a great songwriter and singer. I never liked his tone with that Gibson EBO or EB3 or whatever it was and why in the world would anyone choose a Marshall stack for a bass amp, even back then?Marshalls looked cool on stage (and still do) and sounded great (usually lol) for lead guitar, but for BASS GUITAR? I say, no way!
Even now, Marshall doesn't have a decent bass setup. I do like Jack's studio bass playing and I admit he is gifted and innovative on the bass on their "Wheels of Fire" live tracks. And Felix Pappalardi was a great producer and musician... almost a clone of Jack Bruce. I love cello. The Beatles utilized cello's in a few of their best tracks. Jack Bruce's cello playing added to Wheels of Fire's minor songs. "Passing the Time" and "As You Said" are good examples.
It is still a wonder to me how Cream stayed together as long as they did (which was not that long at all really) with their drug abuse and the way Bruce and Baker fought so much. They even screwed with each other's stage setups. Childish stuff really. Eric was talked out of quitting several times by their manager, Robert Stigwood.
All three are on fire.
He played his 'reserve' Gibson Les Paul on this gig. That's the meatier sound. The Firebird has a thinner sound.
Eric did have a black 1957 Les Paul Custom. ( Three Pickup ) That was his backup to the Firebird.
Frank Westwood I agree 100%
Sounds like the Firebird to me, the tone isn't enough beefy to be a Les Paul
Sorry, but I must disagree, Tom. He is depicted in several photos taken during during the Farewell Tour (including the Oakland show) with the "Darkburst" (traded the next year to Paul Kossoff) as his backup to the Firebird. He indeed played the Darkburst at a few shows as well. This cut sounds does sound much thicker than a Firebird, as Frank commented.
I cannot say what guitar he was definitely playing on this track, but a Firebird can sound a little "fatter" by rolling the tone knob off a bit. There are photos of him shown with the Darkburst during soundcheck and during the show of the Oakland concert. Other than a show done soon after the Disraeli Gears sessions of EC playing a 3-pu Custom I have not seen any photos of him playing, or even holding one while touring.
What a group!!😁😁
Ginger is the best drummer!!
I love Jack's tone on that bass, nice growly midrange. It's hard to believe that he's getting such good tone from what I assume is a short-scale Gibson EB-3.
Jim Nesta Yep, Gibson short scale EB3 played through three Marshall 100 watt stacks. Eric only used two Marshall stacks, so Jack could definitely keep his volume level up with Clapton as the low frequencies are harder to push then highs.
@@jefftateii9403 Probably correct, but given the poor reliability of JTM45's, I initially thought one was a back-up.
Both premises make sense.
Nah, it's the classic tube overdrive of a short scale with Sidewinder on the neck and a mini humbucker on the bridge. They are extremely versatile, not like a jazz bass of course, but they have their own unique sound palette.
@@RedArrow73I think that one was a backup
That overdriven bass sounds like it's going through a fuzzbox
For the guitarists out there, to me it sounds like Eric was using a Les Paul- I've seen him in pictures at this show with a sunburst LP. At that time, I know that was also using his Firebird I during this period (I think that by this time, the Fool SG was starting to fall apart, and may have been retired). This does not sound like a Firebird to me. Any thoughts?
Sounds to me like the SG.
I think it’s the Firebird.
Maybe a 335
@@pabloperez4063 I was luck to see the 1968 Tour in RI. Eric had the Firebird, and a black Les Paul custom on stage. But this sounds like a 335 to me.
Oh yeah, best thing about the evening was Terry Reid the opening act. He was booed by the teenyboppers and the johnny-come-lately to Cream lumpenrocksters (these would be the people in the future who did downers up in the cheap seats and dug black sabbath). He was gracious though and played a wonderful set. The college friend I went with, we looked at each other and said about Terry Reid, "This guy is good." Check out Terry Reid. He has the voice still.... get his album Live in London. If you're not familiar with him you'll see what I mean. Also, introduced to the middle act that night, "The Buddy Miles Express" very good, seven or nine piece including a horn section. R'n'B/soul, absolutely one of the best. Their first album Expressway to your skull, & later ones are quite good.
saw these three on LSD .
aEric Clapton is god. comin or goin who hoves a fuck so beautiful my body was gonna spotaneousy combust at an momentwas amd also gonna melt into the floor
Changed my head to pu it mildly.
listening to these now listen to him as loud as you can headphones or whatever and just listen like where where is some of the are some of those sounds coming from I mean clap it is like pulling music thin air man that you know make that noise not a single note wrong he's just like right on yeah I did you never got lost it was just didn't fucking Ginger Baker is a complete psycho but man he's cool he well was cool and Jack Bruce is if I could be anybody I'd be Jeffrey's haha I found out the other day that Jack Bruce played on the Berlin album by Lou Reed big fucking deal ha but it is big deal
I was there.
Yes
John Doughty - I could be wrong about this but I'm not sure that that's a Firebird Clapton's playing here. It seems to have the meatier tone of a hum bucker pickup, maybe a SG or LP? There is a YT video with Cream playing "Sunshine" on the Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour and Clapton is playing a Firebird there, very thin tone. I could be wrong about this and would like to know from somebody who knows more about these guitars.
+Jim Nesta This is indeed the single pickup Firebird 1 with its characteristic brittle sound.
He more than likely stopped using the "Beano" guitar after it was stolen during initial Cream rehearsals.
Don't think so. Saw them Nov. 3 1968, their next to last US gig at the Baltimore Civic Center with EC on the Firebird. It has a much thinner tone with a single (bridge) pickup. The best recorded concert from this tour using the Firebird (one of the best recorded Cream shows period) is Cream San Diego Carylguitar avail on youtube. Might be the Gibson 335 which he used on the Farewell Concert.
I know I watched a vid awhile back with Eric talking about how after he got rid of his fool guitar because of it chipping badly an the damge done to it, he had to go with his black burst for a gig or two I believe. Which of course was when he was out west. I can't tell which guitar he's playing but like I said I know Eric said after he got rid of the fool out west he had to go with his backup.
Les Paul Custom
If you would be so kind... I would love to hear how they did it live.
YYYYYYYYEEEEEEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
@metart93 I've heard that one. I don't think it was the full vocal melody that was the problem---if you remember the studio track, on the main verses it was just Ginger Baker or Jack Bruce singing the lyric over a calliope and cello and glockenspiel, and good luck with Cream's stage lineup reproducing that!
SHIT HOT!!!!
nada
Does that bootleg have Passing the Time on it?
This is da real shit
Wonderful!!!!
Is this the actual speed?
yes
. . . and Cream started off as a Jazz band with a Blues guitarist.
They never told Egic
can any one tell which Amp Clapton was playing on this song? I heard On the John Mayall recordings he was using an old Marshall jtm 45 combo. I think this amp might be a jtm 45/100. I am a amp geek and totally nerd out on this stuff!
Marshall 100x4
-2-100 watt plexis with 4 bottoms loaded with 12'' cellestions
@metart93 ah. I see. Thats dissapointing... but if it's not too much trouble, I'd still like to hear it.
THEY REALLY FUKIN WANTED SPOONFUL
Hendrix cream and alvin
It’s the only song of cream I will listen to .
"Freebird!" 0:19
How can it be Freebird when this jam is 5 years before it's release?
I think he using a Firebird 1. The first tour at least in LA he used a SG-Les Paul or whatever you call it.
SG and Les Paul are two different Gibson guitars. He used a Les Paul Custom for this tune.
At this point in time, EC was playing a Gibson 335, I wonder why he switched? Any body know?
No, he wasn't. His 335 only came out for the second house of Cream's farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall, November 1968.
There is no photographic or anecdotal evidence to support otherwise.
I never thought it could get any better than wheels of fire. oops!!
@TheLiberalAtheist You're wrong. Don't spread misinformation. Clapton was already regarded as the greatest guitar player in the world by this time.
+GucciTheGlacier
You are right about EC already was know that time as one of the greatest guitar player (EC is God). But TheLiberalAtheist is right about Cream WAS NOT Clapton's band. People say it because Clapton became famous later and they've never heard of Baker nor Bruce.
But he/she is wrong: Baker asked Clapton to join and Clapton wanted Bruce to be the bassist. But I agree (IMHO) Baker and Bruce were better than Clapton.
But the main stuff here is that
WE ALL ADMIRE CREAM!!!!!!!!!!!! :-)
8:32 was that Chuck Berry or one of the Kings? I not sure
BBking
Same with 20 Kgs less
Bbking
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That bass! Dare I say ,a better version than the one on record.?
that's a spoonful of heroin
But Willie Dixon was adamant that his song wasn’t about using narcotics. “People who think ‘Spoonful’ was about heroin are mostly people with heroin ideas,” he wrote in his autobiography, I Am The Blues.
Cream went as far as it could. They were best live. Many of their studio songs were not very good.
This is NOT Clapton's band. The other guys were much bigger than him at the time so stop calling this Clapton and Cream because its disrespectful towards Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce who actually found the band than called Eric to join.
TheLiberalAtheist actually Baker found it but wanted Bruce on bass after jamming out with him with gigs for John Mayall and the blues breakers. That was only condition for Clapton to join. Essentially, Bruce completed the Trio. It was Baker's thing. He started it.
Millennial Monty you mean Eric. Eric said to Ginger what about a bass. To which Ginger replied, hmm, I don't know, to which Eric replied, what about Jack as he played with him in John Mayall's band for 6 months I believe. As Ginger said; because Eric didn't know that Ginger an Jack played before together. Anyway, Ginger went, hmm, I really don't know, but your right, he's a fucking good bass player. And the rest is history.
Baker once remembered it this way: "I said [to Clapton] I'm getting a band together, do you want to do it? And Eric said what about Jack? Cause Eric was working a bit with Jack, you know, playing with him. I said ohhhhhhhhhhhhh . . . I'll have to go see him. So I went round and said I'm getting a band together and Eric's going to do it and he suggested you as the bass player---do you want to let bygones be bygones and do you want to do it? And he said yeah. Right away. And that was Cream." (Bruce: "Ginger came round to my wife's mother's flat in Boundary Road and, and ate humble pie, basically.")
TheLiberalAtheist---At the time Cream formed, Eric Clapton WAS the best known of the threesome in England; he'd been a Yardbird and then made his splash playing with John Mayall's Blues Breakers. (Remember the billing on the album: "John Mayall with Eric Clapton.") Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker in the Graham Bond Organisation had a big reputation among musicians and clubbers but not on records. (They were barely known in the U.S. prior to Cream. Bruce did join Manfred Mann for a spell, but he didn't stay long enough to gain any elevated profile for being with them.) When you married Clapton's public profile at the time to Bruce and Baker's reps, that where you had a supergroup so far as England was concerned.
The audience was pretty disappointed with goodbye cream. Cause they changed almost all of their song. I was there, I wanted to walk out.
sounds pretty good to me?
+michael Woods Real good.
Nothing is wrong with goodbye. I don't understand. Only fans who do that were the ones that cried when the Beatles broke up back in 1970. Pop kills.
@@VegetabIeMan LOL. Beatles were gods who got tired of each other.