Cream - Sitting On Top Of The World (Farewell Concert - Extended Edition) (7 of 11)
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- Cream - Sitting On Top Of The World live at Royal Albert Hall, London.
November 26th, 1968
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"Farewell Concert" is the live recording of the Cream's final concert at the Royal Albert Hall on November 26th, 1968.
Directed by Tony Palmer, the film incorporates pieces of six performances with narration by BBC announcer Patrick Allen, along with interviews with the band members themselves, showcasing their playing abilities.
The film has often been criticized for both its mediocre sound and visual effects.
In 2005, a special extended edition of the concert appeared featuring full versions of all songs separated from the narration and interviews. The new version featured digitally remastered sound and video including three bonus songs.
My all time favorite blues song preformed by my favorite band with my favorite bass player.
Cream was just way too epic...
Jack is just on another playing field that others can't get to as most don't understand his greatness. That's why I love the story when he first came to Alexis Korners I believe it was. They tried playing a really fast jazz piece to throw him off an to try an to cut him but he picked it up no problem an played right along with the rest. And he was only a 19 year old kid. Jack will always, ALWAYS, be number 1 in my book.
You and I need to jam then!!
We would be friends! My thoughts EXACTLY!
same same same
Saw them in Chicago in 68, a 15 year old kid and now a 70 year old geezer…. I LOVE CREAM…🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
It's not the best recording but that is some thick, dirty, greasy bluesy music and the guy bending the bass notes with flat wound bass strings with his head tilted is wailing on vocals that is beyond belief.
Pure virtuosity! The bass line in this song is really amazing. R.I.P Mr. Bruce.
I've heard Cream say they thought this was a poor performance...to me it sounds like they're absolutely on fire!
This is probably the best number from the Farewell show
I love this show!!! So raw!! So powerful!! Cream at thier best!!
Really?? Wow. This is my favorite version of this song.
@@curlyfro97 Yeah, they basically said this original Farewell concert was rubbish. Crazy.
it's just the sound and video quality isn't the greatest
Jack Bruce and John Entwistle were, for me, the two best rock bass players ever. Bruce was a hell of singer and a good songwriter too.
And both played through stacks of Guitar Amps, instead of the big bass amps of the time
The best guitar player alive; the one of the best bassists ever; and one of the best drummers all the time. CREAM!
Ever hear of Jeff Beck???
@@rossb.4773 Not even in the same league as Clapton, let alone Ginger Baker an Jack Bruce. Cream is 13.8 billion ly ahead of Jeff Beck as he is not even in just a single light year as Clapton, let alone Becks band compared to Baker an Bruce. Like I said, Cream was the big bang that started it all.
@@arminiushermann09 . . . and JB might well agree!
@@rossb.4773 lol. Ok
What's amazing about Cream is, each listen you can zone in to just one instrument and be captured. Jack's playing on this is so much more interesting and clever than most other bass lines on straight blues tunes.
Yeah. Totally. 🎶👌
@@maxinemckenzie6076 Just an unbelievable band. Both Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker had a jazz background, which gave Cream a dimension that few other rock bands had. Prior to Cream they had played together in the Graham Bond Organization, one of the earliest jazz-rock bands. Unfortunately, Jack and Ginger hated each other for some lunatic reason, which led to the breakup of Cream after two years.
He was the prototype for playing the bass like a lead instrument. He and Les Claypool are, in my humble opinion, the greatest players of that instrument to have ever walked the earth. They have very different styles but a complete mastery of their craft
That's exactly why Eric wanted to play with Jack
another thing that is amazing, is Clapton never again played like this,
Eric Clapton plays lead for 3/4th of the song, yet not one clip. Maybe he was doing the filming while he played!
I did see an interview of Eric saying that he didn’t want the camera facing him cause he was wired up on some drugs
Maybe that was because the cameraman realized that it was Jack not Eric that was the REAL GOD
The entire camera crew for this concert should be hung. It’s like they hired people off the street, gave them acid and a camera.
@@LuisFlores-gl7ke Not so. Eric was furious with Director Tony Palmer for not shooting him and the band like other concert films.
@@guitar1067 and not paying the band
One of the worst camera work in rock cinema and that's saying a lot!
THe whole film was a disgrace. Bloody Tony Palmer and the BBC.. Fucking morons.
very true and sad what a shame
Man you got that right! Top of Jack’s head and not a frame of Clapton through the whole solo. Must’ve been high, lol
@@meatballcrusher they prolly didnt know which "guitar player" was playing the solo lmao
Yes folks this is the famed, eric clapton cream tone-always copied, never bested.
Yeah.... using the 335 on this one... check out this live Sleepy Time Time version.
ruclips.net/video/5azvGKGbEjI/видео.html
Jack Bruce what a feeling what a black soul and voice in WHITE Scottish man... Handsome, talented unbelievable guys... Long live Eric, R.I.P. gentleman Bruce and Baker
what Jack played on the bass is a song in itself!
OxFan iii
This was recorded nearly 50 years ago. I never get tired of listening to this. Truly stands the test of time.
I'm playing bass today because the moment I heard Jack in 1967 there was nothing else I wanted to do! Jack's the one to blame! :-D
Fantastic singing by Bruce! So beautifully passionate...
Greatest rock singer I've ever heard. And to think Cream was the first band he was lead singer in!
Regarding the end of the band, and playing their last shows here, he was the one who took it the hardest, and it often shows.
Jack Bruce IS a force of nature.
Left it all on that stage.I can ask no more of them.What they brought forth ,can never be reversed , or forgotten.
These guys toured so so so much throughout the mid 60’s I can see why they would want out
I saw them in 1966 at Union Catholic High school, they played 1 hour and left. They were totally burned out.
Jack was my muse.........what a bass tone.. He was the reason I play bass. RIP.
"jack had great sidemen". Great comment man.
Three guys who had the gift of swing. Amazing time. That’s what made many of the 60s rock so much better. Gift of swing
Swing and bombast! Accenting and dynamics. My favorite band
They did this SOOOO well!! It’s the most INTENSE rendition I’ve heard by either an individual or group. Beautiful!
goddamn what a voice
Jack was a good old boy , I love ya ,and you were fuckin great
Another epic performance of that night, cream at there finest, going out with a f***ing bang!
Interesting though isn't it how all Cream members didn't rate it as a performance? It's mindblowing, to me. But by their standards, maybe not.
the vibrato jack puts on his bass is soo sweet!
Useless camera work: Clapton is virtually ignored, even when soloing!
Sad!
David Brown We get a little when he did Crossroads
you cant blame them, their was no president, before this it was covering glen miller
David Brown it was jacks wife
@@emailercc3565 There are many well-shot concerts from this time, including Jimi at this same Royal Albert Hall.
out of this world..... this song is just pure JACK.
Fuck alone knows why the music press kept ignoring him and kept harping on about Eric......
Couldn't they HEAR ? what he did on that bass was fucking nuts....and that VOICE....
THERE'S NO ACCOUNTING FOR TASTE...!!
YES. The whole Wheels of Fire was pure Jack, there was Pressed Rat and Warthog in it, was Ginger's thing alright, but still the harmony, the lyrics, instruments...I mean Jack Bruce was the practical front man
Well said Ur spot on
Clapton is the Father of Hard Rock Guitar... does anyone else hear the various licks stole by page to make zeppelin I?? Yep, but Eric played so much smoother and precise.
And Clapton "stole" those licks from freddie king, buddy guy, etc. That's just how blues works man, everyone borrows from someone
Yer stole is to strong of a word. I will agree that Clapton was a smoother player than page, page was ‘sloppy’ live sometimes but still managed to sound good
In 66-69 it was Clapton or Hendrix at the top of the rock guitar game. It’s hard to stand out against Hendrix, but EC doesn’t get enough credit with how precise and fluent his phrasing was… Ginger always said he was gifted with time. I honestly think at that time period, EC coulda played Hendrix’s stuff (with some practice), but Hendrix could never play what EC played during those live Cream gigs.
Page definitely was sloppy in his live shows but i personally think his studio work is untouchable for that era. Clapton was amazing with his licks and so was Page.
I don’t think Page plays in the same way Clapton does at all. Clapton is more contained in his playing and blues phrasing. Page has his own approach which is much more spontaneous, wild and chaotic yet still controlled . Page is a wilder and more gutsy player than Clapton, go listen to celebration day live in Japan 1971. He’s playing it on the double neck and alternating between 12 and 6 strings throughout the song and what he’s playing is essentially so heavy, it’s basically almost metal . Clapton could and would never play something like that . Clapton has different strengths, his knowledge of the blues but also the soul in his playing. He was his heaviest and imo best with cream.
Best ever blues...of cream ...great!!...more than awesome ...magnifico
Jack bruce is just awesome
Gotta love Jack Bruce in this one!
drugs were better back then; look at now, the music Haha
I really want to be recommended some songs like this
Este blues-rock es muyyyyyy buenooooos, esa fantástica guitarra de Erick, me trae muchos recuerdos de los años 70'
ruclips.net/video/9a2s0iMkGt0/видео.html Verdad !
Cream story came and went almost as a urban legend, as a myth. The bands life was so short it feels like a deja vu. Only 4 years. They split before The Beatles did. But the music they made was so intense. I get a similar feeling when I listen to Badfinger.
Actually only 2.5 years. June 1966 to Nov 1968.
Clapton never played that good after Cream, he kind of faded away from the spotlight, sure he continued
to play well,......but never like he did in Cream
I disagree, but I certainly "understand" your reasoning. I think when he switched to "Strats" he was attempting to focus more on compositions as opposed to "jamming" due to the much documented influence of folks like : "The Band" and American Roots musicians like Leon Russell, Delaney and Bonnie and JJ Cale among others of course.
After "Blind Faith", Eric got serious regarding his writing and he really blossomed....
If you listen to his first 1970 solo offering "Eric Clapton" this is clear, BUT his solo work w/ some of those "Roots" musicians, Bobby Whitlock, Carl Radle and Jim Gordon really gels and with Duane Allman setting fire to him Eric produced what many consider his Magnum Opus "Derek and the Dominoes, Layla and other assorted Love songs".
Cheers
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EC just slaying it here, all three of them going so well.
can you see that Jack's disappeared into a wee universe of his own during this song? that's where he is NOW..........I hope you grin that grin of utter ecstasy forevermore my dear Jack.......
Maybe with a little help from hes „friends“ ;-)
Are you mad ? Jack Bruce did not disappear anywhere, he died. After Cream he did ?
@@andy7823 ...a ton of interesting things? Yes.
One knows the best top three trios ever to play Rock and roll Hall of Fame stuff 👍😉😎
Jesus Jack Bruce was good!!
you show me three guys better at playing power blues and i'll eat my blues brothers hat!!
I swear Jack is singing to stay awake in this clip.
Wow!! Jack had some serious pipes. Among other things. Greatest rock band of all time right here.
Jack Bruce was a force of nature. Incredible.
Respect and salutations to the often coveted and copied Jack Bruce. A one in a million.
EXCELLENT LIVE VERSION !!!
I dont think clapton wanted his guitar work at the time filmed. If you lived back then you can remember how that style of playing seemed super natural. Now there are 5 year old kids on RUclips playing this solo note for note. It was way more fun when music was a mystery.
thank you I am arguing with people on another cream vid about that, I said the same thing an everyone is putting me down, cause I read that some were he didn't want to be filmed cause he didn't want people using his technique or whatever an not cause he was shy
idk about note for note...
+larkyleroy note for note is just note for note. It doesn't signify an ounce of feeling or soul in playing, which Jack, Ginger, and Eric had. Technique is one thing..
God I hated 60s videography.
Probably you hated yourself too. Are you in Hell or Heaven by the way?
@@MrErtunc what
I think the music was so good it melted Jack's mind at the end. Dat face.
think the terrible footage contributes to create the magic and super-human atmosphere of Cream's renditions... the way the camera hides clapton's and bruce's hands playing the instruments, the close-ups at their cathartic faces, all of this makes you believe this is a kind of spiritual ritual, like a baccanal or something, not just a gig
Jack had great sidemen..........
HAHAHAH a camera joke. That's a first, but I am late .......
The Power Trio
Esos efectos visuales son el símbolo de toda una época, irrepetible. Los 60, la mejor década (incluyo la primera mitad de los 70)
Totalmente de acuerdo.
I love how after this hell of a performance Jack looks just so bored 4:28
That’s the look of a man who’d rather be getting a fix is what that is.
Its actually a look of sadness that all that energy they shared was coming to a end
janeythebrit: absolutely could not agree with you more...although I think Ginger and Eric were there, too, no? 😜
1 YEAR WITHOUT JACK
Would have been nice to see Eric, at least during his solo, a little more than 15 seconds from behind.
Absolutely superlative! Bruce is a fucking beast! I love how he DGAF what u think he's just gonna make that bass his bitch! His vocals don't even matter. LOL!
I guess that's Ginger Baker doing the song intro. He sounds very bitter and hostile!
Would have been nice to see Clapton, dear Mr. Director.
Jack..... you sooooo BAD!!!
love this.
This concert took place on the same date which The Band gave their final concert in 1976 in San Francisco in 1976, 8 years later!!
That is insane lead ,,no filler and such a human cry
Such a shame that there is so little video of this fantastic trio. The playing on this is great but face it the filming is terrible. Someone should have told the camera man that there was an actual guitarist there too.
Richie Rollo - worst camerawork of all time. it ruins the whole thing !
The 'camera man' was Jack Bruce's girl friend. So, just forget EC.
Richie Rollo don't worrie to much about the video. man these music is staggering brilliance.
According the the director, Tony Palmer, he supplied the BBC with plenty of good footage, but because they wanted to make an 'art film' most of it ended up on the cutting room floor. This footage is now considered 'lost'.
4 static cameras and two hand-held were used to film the concert, with Tony Palmer himself filming from the front of the stage with a 16mm film camera.
Damn, so so good, comparable is this live cut of Sleepy Time Time, the Clapton solo on this one is one of the, if not the most powerful rock/blues solo ever recorded... the timing is impeccable and the tone never equaled. Jack Bruce bass solo as well.
ruclips.net/video/5azvGKGbEjI/видео.html
one of my favorite songs!!!!!
Superb track, beautifully done by 'The Original BBC".
My God! Live wires!
never cared for this song much when I first saw the Farewell Concert doc but now I can't get enough of it. I thought he originally sang "Have a safe Christmas".
the album version is one of my favorites
SupernalOne the album version has a certain vibe n' slowheartbeat groove to it,that's killer!
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This can’t be from the Farewell Concert. I can see what the hell is going on
Reminds me about how much better the 335 sounded than the Firebird. I really love this version of that sound.
I always dug the way the SG Eric played as well. Watching Robben Ford in the early 70s and Carlton is what made me want to get a 335. Cheers
my favorite Cream song
you can sum this song up in two words, Power Blues!!! They took Howlin Wolf's tune and took it to another level, as the great British bands of the late sixties and early seventies did with all the blues legends tunes. Muddy, Willie Dixon, Howlin Wolf, john Lee Hooker and T Bone Walker's music was cherished by those musicians such as Clapton, Bruce, Jagger, Richards, Page, Plant, Allman, Winwood, and the list goes on!!!! What a great time for music!!!!!!
This is how its done folks
jack bruce is the man
long live baker!!!!
Jack in a daze at 4:28
I believe the entire band was using smack at this point. Too bad.
Nice. I just wish someone had told the cameraman that God was on stage left, playing guitar.
Bye Jack
Jeps. Cream are still the best. Can you name a better band ever ?
@matthewrotherham Chester Burnett, AKA Howlin Wolf is the man credited for writing this tune
One of my favorite Cream songs and Jack Bruce is excellent, but so is Eric Clapton who gets virtually no screen time on this version. As I understand it, Bruce's gf was the camera person. However Eric Clapton was the genesis for this genre of rock. Most everyone knows this and it is a shame not to see more of him on the epic cut.
Ehm no jacks gf did camera work for another video.
you’re talking about revolution club, that’s when jacks wife was the camerawoman
RIP JACK...
Wish I could see Clapton playing the guitar instead of all that 60's psychedelic bubble effects.
The chords Clapton Plays are really intricate almost jazz chords
When he goes into leads he goes to straight up penta blues leads
I don’t think there has been a larger sounding or better 3 piece band.
Check out Beck,Bogert and Appice out and be prepared to be amazed.
The Jimi Hendrix Experience?
@@thedrugstorecowboy2948 Aside from them.
@@thedrugstorecowboy2948 nah That's just Jimis band the drummer is really good but the bass player is average at best.
Maravilhoso!!!!
Masterpiece!
Simply amazing!?!?!?!?
Heroin
I’m going to audition tge house band to my pub in Malaga to this album amongst others.
I want LSD, now.
I really don't like Jack's girlfriend. The yoko of camerawork.
Is she really the cameraman of this concert
This was a weird dissonant version with all them wild chords he was playing.
whew..... the best. takes me to another place ....... wish I could stay here permanently !!!
That camera man might be the stupidiest one ever
A gdzie jest Eric Clapton???!!??
Geez, Eric was amazing - wtf happened after Blind Faith? "I'm rich now, I can kill foxes, buy loads of autos to fill my mansion's garage and never take a chance again."
I mean youre not completely wrong, he still did layla though.... then he basically died. Creatively at least.
I've been thinking the same thing. In my humble opinion E Cs' refinement is his Achilles heel. Dynamite player, but after cream he got boring. I don't advocate drug addiction at all. But atleast be exciting to listen to.
He picks up a Gibson Les Paul and suddenly sounds great again. See this.ruclips.net/video/CChQUNmi7cg/видео.html
@@j.f.699 - damn I was bitter on Eric. Yes, thank you, Gibson makes Eric sound better no debate. I have seen that video several times plus a couple of others where Eric, for some reason, uses a Gibson and a little bit o' magic creeps back in. I would be a Gibson Guy if I could afford it. Therefore I am an Epiphone Guy (my SG costs 226 bucks including shipping and with a week of work it is suddenly the best electric guitar on Earth). ruclips.net/video/p4vxOoSS5RY/видео.html
That's a Jack Bruce solo video.