Yeah I was there. Deep Purple, Buddy Miles Express and Cream headlined. Stunning show since it was my first concert at the ripe age of 12. My Mom took me and a neighbor kid as a Bday gift. Pretty cool Mom huh !!
I actually think this is from the LA Forum (Inglewood). The only three tracks to surface from San Diego are: Traintime, Toad and Spoonful. The San Diego recordings are superb (as is this) :)
Me too, if this was at the San Diego Sports Arena. In fact it was my first concert,I was 14. Ginger Baker was amazing. Made me want to play the drums, I've been playing ever since.
I was at the Forum that night and I recorded one hour (the tape ran out) of the Farewell concert. My mom gave the tape to a hoodlum and I never saw it again. This could very well be my tape.
I wasn't there!!! Probably the only one that wasn't by the looks of it! How can you compare Cream to Jethro Tull? Like chalk and cheese. There will never be another 'Cream' they were unique. 3 talents, 3 big egos, and the forerunners of what was to come....when they perished there was a ready made audience for the likes of Led Zeppelin. Mountain and a host of less talented groups.
Nice version of Crossroads. Doesn't sound like another San Diego, Oct. 20 1968 bootleg elsewhere on YT. So this may be another show? Thanks for posting this anyway. Always like hearing the different Crossroads solos. Sounds like Eric Clapton may be playing the Gibson Firebird here.
I was at this as well. They were well fucking out-played by J. Tull. I was just a kid . But now as then, I know everything.No wonder he wanted to quit the band and join The Band.
According to the original program I've seen, Deep Purple warmed them up. Jethro Tull from my research, never warmed up Cream as they didn't first tour the United States until 1969.
Eric Clapton originally purchased this Gibson SG after his "Bluesbreakers" Gibson Les Paul was stolen. It has been speculated, but never officially confirmed that this guitar originally belonged to George Harrison of The Beatles. It is known that Harrison owned an SG and recorded the song and iconic riff "Day Tripper" with one, and that he later gave it up around the same time Clapton acquired his. This is all speculation of course, and neither party has ever confirmed the story.
You guys got your San Diego locations wrong. Cream played at Golden Hall. That's where most of the touring 'underground' bands played at the time.Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Country Joe all played there. Also when Cream was in town they managed to get arrested in Chula Vista by my friend's dad who was a policeman. The story was in the local paper the Chula Vista Star News.I'm sure it's in their archieves.
By this time, these dudes did not like each other very much anymore. They wanted to get outta there as quickly as possible. This is one of their last concerts on the farewell tour.
Just listening to this, and the other live versions here, so far this is not nearly the best for clapton. My background on this is years following them on tour in the U.S. Chicago Philidelphia, and Des Moines Iowa for the farewell tour. By the time they got to Cali, maybe they were really burned out.
The guitar tone seems to have no depth compared to the version on Wheels Of Fire and the tempo is almost comically too fast. Phrasing in the solos is just a mad scramble and there is very little “color” in the melody compared again to the WOF version. It’s like he was playing only with his fingers and not his heart this time.
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I've been a Cream fan since sunshine of your love these guys are the BEST power trio of ALL Time
1967-68 both good years. I was bummed when I saw Clapton with a Strat
I was there too. It was my 15th birthday. I was so excited...I loved the whole experience.
My first concert at the Arena. I was 16. Great concert! Deep Purple was good too. Thanks for sharing. (DH, Oklahoma City, 9.30.2021)
Eric's voice sounds great here.
Yeah I was there. Deep Purple, Buddy Miles Express and Cream headlined. Stunning show since it was my first concert at the ripe age of 12. My Mom took me and a neighbor kid as a Bday gift. Pretty cool Mom huh !!
You gotta be shittin' me...
No one co-headlined with Cream on the Farewell Tour
yes
Agree with Tina. Cream, Deep Purple, Buddy Miles Express
Tina...me too! It was faaaannnnnnntastic! (DCH, Oklahoma City, 8.15.21)
I was at this show...yikes that was a while back. RIP Jack.
Me too [at the San Diego Sports Arena concert] in fact it was my first concert, I was 14. I have been playing the drums ever since.
in the beginning you can hear him dial back the tone knob on the one pickup firebird
Thanks for posting this masterpiece !!!
According to San Diego Concert Archive, Deep Purple were the openers.
1968 - Greatest year in RnR !!
I actually think this is from the LA Forum (Inglewood). The only three tracks to surface from San Diego are: Traintime, Toad and Spoonful. The San Diego recordings are superb (as is this) :)
Every Eric Clapton bootleg making the rounds is incorrect right now. Every one of them. Especially the ones from the 80's.
Me too, if this was at the San Diego Sports Arena. In fact it was my first concert,I was 14. Ginger Baker was amazing. Made me want to play the drums, I've been playing ever since.
Jim Irsay, owner of the Indianapolis Colts is the current owner of Harrison's SG. He puts it on display from time to time at different venues in Indy.
Powerful...
Sounds like Eric's playing his Firebird
🥀🖤🥀AMAZING JOB GUYS🥀🖤🥀🤘
My mom was there
I was at the Forum that night and I recorded one hour (the tape ran out) of the Farewell concert. My mom gave the tape to a hoodlum and I never saw it again. This could very well be my tape.
I wasn't there!!! Probably the only one that wasn't by the looks of it! How can you compare Cream to Jethro Tull? Like chalk and cheese. There will never be another 'Cream' they were unique. 3 talents, 3 big egos, and the forerunners of what was to come....when they perished there was a ready made audience for the likes of Led Zeppelin. Mountain and a host of less talented groups.
The down beat / tempo is a bit off but that’s perfectly ok, timing really didn’t matter it was all improvised
No I was at the San Diego Concert, and they Did play this.
Wow ! They went high speed, and Ginger Baker is playing it like a 2 beat dixieland, except with double bass drums.
Johnnyc drums Thats why the Fillmore version cooks! Baker shifts it to the 3rd and gives it some momentum. This trots!
+Andy Thomas *winterland.
And nothing of Cream, trots, ever.
Don't be a nit wit!
+Andy Thomas nothing from cream sucks. You think that, you are knit wit.
I was there!!!!! I think??
Nice version of Crossroads. Doesn't sound like another San Diego, Oct. 20 1968 bootleg elsewhere on YT. So this may be another show? Thanks for posting this anyway. Always like hearing the different Crossroads solos. Sounds like Eric Clapton may be playing the Gibson Firebird here.
I was at this as well. They were well fucking out-played by J. Tull. I was just a kid . But now as then, I know everything.No wonder he wanted to quit the band and join The Band.
You know nothing!
Tull never shared an American gig with Cream
According to the original program I've seen, Deep Purple warmed them up. Jethro Tull from my research, never warmed up Cream as they didn't first tour the United States until 1969.
guitar1067 - True dat because Tull didn't come to America, first, until 1969.
i thought it was the rolling stone mag. interview
Eric Clapton originally purchased this Gibson SG after his "Bluesbreakers" Gibson Les Paul was stolen. It has been speculated, but never officially confirmed that this guitar originally belonged to George Harrison of The Beatles. It is known that Harrison owned an SG and recorded the song and iconic riff "Day Tripper" with one, and that he later gave it up around the same time Clapton acquired his. This is all speculation of course, and neither party has ever confirmed the story.
The CD sleeve information is incorrect (as is the case with many bootlegs).
You guys got your San Diego locations wrong. Cream played at Golden Hall. That's where most of the touring 'underground' bands played at the time.Pink Floyd, Janis Joplin, Country Joe all played there. Also when Cream was in town they managed to get arrested in Chula Vista by my friend's dad who was a policeman. The story was in the local paper the Chula Vista Star News.I'm sure it's in their archieves.
Newspaper articles and archive records indicate they played the Sports Arena.
Is thus soundboatd?
the tempo seems a bit rushed don't you think.
yes
By this time, these dudes did not like each other very much anymore. They wanted to get outta there as quickly as possible. This is one of their last concerts on the farewell tour.
Just listening to this, and the other live versions here, so far this is not nearly the best for clapton. My background on this is years following them on tour in the U.S. Chicago Philidelphia, and Des Moines Iowa for the farewell tour. By the time they got to Cali, maybe they were really burned out.
The guitar tone seems to have no depth compared to the version on Wheels Of Fire and the tempo is almost comically too fast. Phrasing in the solos is just a mad scramble and there is very little “color” in the melody compared again to the WOF version. It’s like he was playing only with his fingers and not his heart this time.