I'm 18 years old now, but I remember watching this when I was 9, just completely in awe of the ease in which Clapton produces such sounds. It sounds like it's coming from a whole different universe. Clapton, Hendrix, Page, and many others... a league of their own.
This isn't just the best version of 'White Room' around, but probably the best recorded 'homage' if you will to the sheer power these guys had. Clapton's solo is a force of nature!
I think one of the reasons it sounds so good is the amount of reverb from them being in a huge arena like Royal Albert Hall. Listen to the echoey reverb at the beginning of his solo, it sounds so thick and great. I still think this is one of Clapton's greatest solos, though he has many.
Clapton's phrase from 3:36-3:40 is... OMFG. I wish he'd played this hard and this raw a lot longer. I know he wanted to get away from this type of power performance, but it's amazing with an intensity that I miss. The version of 'White Room' he did on the Eric Clapton and Friends tour in the 80's carried the sound he had evolved at that time and was 'classic' Clapton and I enjoyed that immensely as well. This I enjoy for the raw power and edge. My 2nd favorite performance of his is from the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers album on 'Stepping Out.'
The whole 2nd show was recreated with the actual 2nd show White Room ( this is the 1st show White Room) coming from a Japanese DVD bootleg called The Last Goodbye on the Millvalley label. Good luck finding a copy it may be all ready out of print
White Room Cream In the white room with black curtains near the station Black-roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings Silver horses run down moonbeams in your dark eyes Dawn-light smiles on you leaving, my contentment I'll wait in this place Where the Sun never shines Wait in this place Where the shadows run from themselves You said no strings could secure you at the station Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows I walked into such a sad time at the station As I walked out, felt my own need just beginning I'll wait in the queue When the trains come back Lie with you Where the shadows run from themselves At the party she was kindness in the hard crowd Consolation for the old wound now forgotten Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings I'll sleep in this place With the lonely crowd Lie in the dark Where the shadows run from themselves
I think I have heard every live Cream concert that was recorded, it is a remarkable thing that their best live performance ever was their final one and, in my opinion, the best song of that night was White Room. Thanks for posting this. 👍
The cameras had a tremelo speed and depth knob in those days..... didn't you know? I'm pretty sure the wobbly camera was not the choice of the camera man more the producer/director. I'd love to hear from someone who was there and describe the volume- tinnitus for a week I bet!
Yeah, you've got that right! The reverb of the venue really adds to their performance. This is why I absolutely despise the close miking of guitar/bass cabinets and drums that is so prevalent in today's recordings, both live and in the studio. An overhead mic is essential. It is the distance of the mic and the sound of a given venue that really adds depth, scale, tone and nuance to a recording in a way that close miking can never achieve.
Cream was together for far too short a time, but the statement they made was a solid imprint on the music scene of the late sixties, and they laid the foundation on which Led Zepellin built upon in the seventies and took power blues to another level
@@martshankleman It used to. The delay was two seconds. The Albert Hall was known to be the venue where a composer would at least have his music heard twice. The ceiling mushrooms were installed in the late 1960s.
@@martshanklemandefinitely not artificial, audience recordings from the final show (where EC played the 335) show that the reverb in the hall was as present as ever
I'd never seen Clapton play a Firebird. I prefer his Gibson days more than his Fender. I guess I understand his desire to delve into the roots of the blues but he was doing something truely unique in Cream kind of mixing psychedelia and blues with a little jazz. At some point there's only so much u can do within tradition.
Probably due to the fact that some of the crowd are trying to get on stage and also because the tension within Cream was just so bad that he couldn't wait to leave.
@@zoe-janesutherland4359 quite true. very sad for me. this music and this band meant so much to me, I'll never be the same. boo hoo........for real, very sad
Wow! Listening to this particular recording, though ragged sounding, it does capture the deep reverb & "heavy" sound they had..., I remember from years ago what a guy who actually saw them in concert described it; he said it took him a few days to get over it!? Never heard a description of a performance like that since!
The studio version of "Sunshine" sent chills all thru me when i first heard it in 68 as I was turning 13 yrs old. But this live version is incomparable, just f-----g great. Jack Bruce's vocals here are more creative, spontaneous, with better improvised phrasing than in studio version. This RAH concert footage brings back all the energy and the magical power of this song.
Wow, I don't ever remember seeing Clapton play a Gibson Firebird before. I don't know why he gave up the Gibson's and went to Fender. Unfortunately the camera work was truly atrocious. Thought I was having an epileptic seizure.
Geekstinkbreath123 Yea, I guess it was around the time right after or during Blind Faith that he says he bought a whole bunch of Strats fairly cheap. He gave one to George Harrison and had one to give to jJmi Hendrix and kept some for himself. I guess Brownie was one of those strats.
I love Fender too, every guitar has a different sound and he found his sound through Fender, although he still does pull out his Gibsons from ntime to time!
He wanted a strat for a very long time, long before he joined the great bands but unfortunately it wasn’t available in UK at that time....I think that’s what EC said or something like that
At the very end of the clip it shows Clapton's guitar looking like a semi-hollowbody(Gibson ES-335?), whereas throughout the performance he's using a Gibson Firebird.
The reason that they don't show Clapton's hands actually playing notes on his guitar neck is because Clapton (and Page) wanted their playing techniques to be secret back in the day. Contrast that with Hendrix playing 'Red House' at Woodstock, where the cameras show closeups of his hand playing on his guitar neck. But even though you see a closeup of Hendrix's hands on the guitar does not mean that there is anyone who could play what he is playing. Same with Clapton. Watching this footage now, it is a bit alarming to see moments where Ginger Bakers eyes apparently go completely black. The same with Clapton's tongue apparently uncontrollably darting in and out of his mouth ...
We must remember that this was Cream's farewell concert. Jack was suffering. He didn't want to split up. Eric and Ginger left him to form a failure called Blind Faith. Still, Jack's performance was paramount, as usual.
I can say in my opinion, Jack Bruce was the driving force behind Cream. Others will say it's Clapton or Ginger Baker. But we can all agree it's all three of these icons of British blues rock that have touched our heart and soul!
This wasn't Clapton's best guitar playing by a long way....but it was arguably way better than anything he has ever strung together since, The problem is that so much of Clapton's 'cream' work with Cream was never captured on video because cost-affordable video shooting just didn't exist in, say, the early 1970s.
Hey! All the sounds in youtube clips are also other way equalized in the youtube compression so eg. much lows rolled out! I'm a guitar player too who like fixing up some sounds all the time! May I see some your plays? You're very interested analyze sound things! Peace! Assa!
To any doubters, play some loud music and listen to a full song carefully from a normal distance. Then listen to the same song within 6 inches of the speaker (replicating close miking). Notice how compressed and dull it sounds in comparison. This is due to the ear's inability to decipher nuance and depth because the eardrum is being overloaded. This translates to recording loud rock music as well. A mic can only be a close facsimile of what our ears naturally hear, FROM A REASONABLE DISTANCE.
@videomaniac108 It looks like they spliced in a cut from the next song and it was his ES-335 because right before that the far away shot had him still with the Firebird. Chalk it up to crappy film editing.
3 piece band all playing lead. Brilliant
All playing lead ??? Seriously
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I'm 18 years old now, but I remember watching this when I was 9, just completely in awe of the ease in which Clapton produces such sounds. It sounds like it's coming from a whole different universe. Clapton, Hendrix, Page, and many others... a league of their own.
Peter green, Pete townshend, Peter Edward baker, and Peter frampton, in they're own league too. the league of Pete's
Lots and lots of practice!
@@CreamBootlegs I would agree Obi-Wan
you have incredible parents if they had you watching this when you were 9
😂this is the real mckoy.....!!!! 🎉
Old rockers don't die, they go to that White Room in the sky...
R.I.P. Ginger Baker...
No rockers, 2 jazz players and 1 blues player
Or more fitting, the Grey Haven in the west!
RIP Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker
I want more close-ups of Jack's fillings please, fucking 60s cameramen.
More close up of Jacks mouth than the playing which sucks .
yeah, cameramen on bad acid
This isn't just the best version of 'White Room' around, but probably the best recorded 'homage' if you will to the sheer power these guys had. Clapton's solo is a force of nature!
no led zep no metallica..without those guys!
RIP Ginger 😔
So emotional at this moment.
His fill at 02:10... So casually amazing.
'a force of nature' so true... :)
I prefer the solo on the album!
I think one of the reasons it sounds so good is the amount of reverb from them being in a huge arena like Royal Albert Hall. Listen to the echoey reverb at the beginning of his solo, it sounds so thick and great. I still think this is one of Clapton's greatest solos, though he has many.
And Jack's voice is just booming here! The reverb makes it sound like hes singing in a colosseum! Very powerful!
The Royal Albert Hall isn't exactly huge, but it did have appalling acoustics at the time.
All three of them were just bursting with talent in 1968
Genius times three...but you had to know it couldn't last. At least Baker and Bruce didn't exchange gun shots
Ginger Baker, one of the true great drummers
+Nathan McDaniel Certainly has a personality too!
+Amiga For Life no doubt lol
Did you watch the documentary "Beware Of Mr Baker" ? Well worth a watch :)
+Amiga For Life that's what got me into him originally very good watch
Sweet :)
"Yellow tigers, crouched in jungles, in your dark eyes." Christ on a bike! That cannot be a compliment!
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes.
I'm Scottish I completely understand when you say what you see ❤
Pete Brown's wonderful hippy poetry/lyrics were a great companion to Jack Bruce's timeless music.
Christ on a bike?
Clapton on a 1964 Firebird I. Those Were The Days.
NOTE they can all play no faking no miming no synths- refreshing!
- ToTally...~
Clapton at his zenith!
Jack’s voice was such a power
Jack s voice was a weapon, as far as i'm phucking concerned.
Damn, this might be the best vocal I’ve ever heard from Jack Bruce
Clapton's phrase from 3:36-3:40 is... OMFG. I wish he'd played this hard and this raw a lot longer. I know he wanted to get away from this type of power performance, but it's amazing with an intensity that I miss. The version of 'White Room' he did on the Eric Clapton and Friends tour in the 80's carried the sound he had evolved at that time and was 'classic' Clapton and I enjoyed that immensely as well. This I enjoy for the raw power and edge. My 2nd favorite performance of his is from the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers album on 'Stepping Out.'
Possibly the coolest song ever (I can't say for sure because I have not heard all songs ever played).
We can assume for sure ha
Ccr-Fortunate Son
I have.
Somebody should re-edit the original film if it still exists, this is such a good show would love to see a more watchable version.
This is the only cut. Everything else filmed on the night has long been discarded.
Clearly the cameraman thought he was a member of the band.
The whole 2nd show was recreated with the actual 2nd show White Room ( this is the 1st show White Room) coming from a Japanese DVD bootleg called The Last Goodbye on the Millvalley label. Good luck finding a copy it may be all ready out of print
Beginning of heavy rock imagine if Clapton would’ve kept that passion for that kind of guitar playing! Sighhhh
White Room
Cream
In the white room with black curtains near the station
Black-roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings
Silver horses run down moonbeams in your dark eyes
Dawn-light smiles on you leaving, my contentment
I'll wait in this place
Where the Sun never shines
Wait in this place
Where the shadows run from themselves
You said no strings could secure you at the station
Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows
I walked into such a sad time at the station
As I walked out, felt my own need just beginning
I'll wait in the queue
When the trains come back
Lie with you
Where the shadows run from themselves
At the party she was kindness in the hard crowd
Consolation for the old wound now forgotten
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes
She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings
I'll sleep in this place
With the lonely crowd
Lie in the dark
Where the shadows run from themselves
I think I have heard every live Cream concert that was recorded, it is a remarkable thing that their best live performance ever was their final one and, in my opinion, the best song of that night was White Room. Thanks for posting this. 👍
That solo... no words to explain that magic.. the amount of reverb is massive, the sound is just heavy. that music was just magic...
The first few seconds of Clapton's solo sounds so vocal with its phrasing and vibrato that it sent chills down my spine
My favourite Clapton solo
The best of the best...
Same
Eric shredding that guitar... pure genius.
Ginger might be dead but he is still the greatest of all time drummer.
Incredible! Nothing else comes close, except for Sunshine of Your Love.
This is the primordial ooze for every significant modern rock genre for decades that followed.
The cameras had a tremelo speed and depth knob in those days..... didn't you know? I'm pretty sure the wobbly camera was not the choice of the camera man more the producer/director. I'd love to hear from someone who was there and describe the volume- tinnitus for a week I bet!
5:03 that lick is awesome.
Yeah, you've got that right! The reverb of the venue really adds to their performance. This is why I absolutely despise the close miking of guitar/bass cabinets and drums that is so prevalent in today's recordings, both live and in the studio. An overhead mic is essential. It is the distance of the mic and the sound of a given venue that really adds depth, scale, tone and nuance to a recording in a way that close miking can never achieve.
Cream was together for far too short a time, but the statement they made was a solid imprint on the music scene of the late sixties, and they laid the foundation on which Led Zepellin built upon in the seventies and took power blues to another level
The brightest flames burn for the shortest time...
The sound Clapton pulls out of that Firebird during the solo is unreal. Throw in the reverb from the venue and it takes it to another level.
I think the reverb has been added in post production. The echo in the Albert hall doesn’t sound like.
@@martshankleman It used to. The delay was two seconds. The Albert Hall was known to be the venue where a composer would at least have his music heard twice.
The ceiling mushrooms were installed in the late 1960s.
@@Rich6Brew I’m familiar with the reverb! But I still think the reverb on this track sounds a bit artificial. Maybe it’s me!
@@martshanklemandefinitely not artificial, audience recordings from the final show (where EC played the 335) show that the reverb in the hall was as present as ever
I'd never seen Clapton play a Firebird. I prefer his Gibson days more than his Fender. I guess I understand his desire to delve into the roots of the blues but he was doing something truely unique in Cream kind of mixing psychedelia and blues with a little jazz. At some point there's only so much u can do within tradition.
Best 3 piece band ever! Dang! No matter how often I hear it, I want to hear it again. Loudly!
Eric looks like he can't wait to get off the stage.
Probably due to the fact that some of the crowd are trying to get on stage and also because the tension within Cream was just so bad that he couldn't wait to leave.
@@zoe-janesutherland4359 quite true. very sad for me. this music and this band meant so much to me, I'll never be the same. boo hoo........for real, very sad
Two jazz musicians, bass player and drummer and a blues guitarist.
Wow! Listening to this particular recording, though ragged sounding, it does capture the deep reverb & "heavy" sound they had..., I remember from years ago what a guy who actually saw them in concert described it; he said it took him a few days to get over it!? Never heard a description of a performance like that since!
REST IN PEACE JACK!! YOU WERE THE BEST EVER
THE BEST DRUMER IN THE WORLD GINGER BAKER ERIC CLAPTON AND BRUCE MAN THEY WERE THE SOUNDS AND STILL ARE
THE GREATEST classic ROCK BAND OF ALL TIME
Everything thing about this is epic, but Eric's solo is the standout.
The simplicity this incredible music is timeless. No studio mixing board tricks to make it sound better. Three artists three instruments.
I think it was the best live version I have heard. The singer was in top form it was awesome but oh so long ago.
The studio version of "Sunshine" sent chills all thru me when i first heard it in 68 as I was turning 13 yrs old. But this live version is incomparable, just f-----g great. Jack Bruce's vocals here are more creative, spontaneous, with better improvised phrasing than in studio version. This RAH concert footage brings back all the energy and the magical power of this song.
Totally agree. The vocal is pure JB.
(4 of 11) Epp!
A sound full of improvisation that combines blues and jazz.
Would have been great if had better camera man that showed instruments clearly not just face close-ups and jumping all over the place😎
Love that song, have loved it for 50 years.
The only thing I would say to new generations is this: just listen and learn, son, listen and learn…
I like this version more than the original
It'd be so cool if Eric Clapton worked a Gibson Firebird I nowadays!!!Instead of the ubiquitous Stratocaster...
Wow, I don't ever remember seeing Clapton play a Gibson Firebird before. I don't know why he gave up the Gibson's and went to Fender. Unfortunately the camera work was truly atrocious. Thought I was having an epileptic seizure.
+NJcruiser Well, He probably prefers the feel of a Strat more than a Gibson nowadays. Which is a fair reason to change guitars.
Geekstinkbreath123 Yea, I guess it was around the time right after or during Blind Faith that he says he bought a whole bunch of Strats fairly cheap. He gave one to George Harrison and had one to give to jJmi Hendrix and kept some for himself. I guess Brownie was one of those strats.
I love Fender too, every guitar has a different sound and he found his sound through Fender, although he still does pull out his Gibsons from ntime to time!
I have a theory that the time he met jimi, he was always craving strat tone after that.
He wanted a strat for a very long time, long before he joined the great bands but unfortunately it wasn’t available in UK at that time....I think that’s what EC said or something like that
THE best version of this epic group and song!
Sound quality? Wheres the bass?
Probably the finest song by certainly the best 1960s band. I recorded this on a reel to reel tape from its original TV broadcast!
At the very end of the clip it shows Clapton's guitar looking like a semi-hollowbody(Gibson ES-335?), whereas throughout the performance he's using a Gibson Firebird.
The reason that they don't show Clapton's hands actually playing notes on his guitar neck is because Clapton (and Page) wanted their playing techniques to be secret back in the day.
Contrast that with Hendrix playing 'Red House' at Woodstock, where the cameras show closeups of his hand playing on his guitar neck.
But even though you see a closeup of Hendrix's hands on the guitar does not mean that there is anyone who could play what he is playing.
Same with Clapton.
Watching this footage now,
it is a bit alarming to see moments where
Ginger Bakers eyes apparently go completely black.
The same with Clapton's tongue apparently uncontrollably darting in and out of his mouth ...
A rock god on bass guitar !
The comments are really off.
Shut up and let the music speak!
The rawness and distortion on this recording is perfect.
Being a huge EC and Cream fan, I should have seen this a long time ago. No wonder they changed the world.
what a beautiful musicians
So visceral, such flights of musical inventiveness, and what lyrics!!! Those tiny purple fishes run laughing through my fingers every time I hear it.
Clapton and Hendrix...both GODS!!!
U go that right
By God what a song, immortal and great live version, thanks Cream 🙏💐
Just hearing the intro that makes me cry..
Clapton is God!!!
Francisco Sánchez Jack Bruce is GOD
Arnold Layne they were Gods :-)
edmack4me you’re making your religion very clear
Clapton is God and Jimi Hendrix The Devil
Ese Trash more other way around. Clapton is a satanic individual. Price comes with fame. Zeppelin ,The Who ,stones,Beatles etc all satanic
one of the greatest preformences ever!!!!!
Masters of music!
We must remember that this was Cream's farewell concert. Jack was suffering. He didn't want to split up. Eric and Ginger left him to form a failure called Blind Faith.
Still, Jack's performance was paramount, as usual.
Pretty sure they all wanted out at that point. Especially Ginger and Bruce.
Ginger and Jack were the reasons Cream broke up. Clapton was just there in the middle.
Jack and Ginger were the ones fighting, and they all wanted to split up.
Bit unfair to call blind faith a failure. they had a few good songs
I can say in my opinion, Jack Bruce was the driving force behind Cream. Others will say it's Clapton or Ginger Baker. But we can all agree it's all three of these icons of British blues rock that have touched our heart and soul!
What the hell was the camera man thinking? Jesus, can't even enjoy the video lol. Might as well have a plain black backround.
orgasmic solo! Slowhand can do anything with this Gibson!
Jack Bruce, the voice of the sixties....
CLAPTON IS GOD!!!!.... and the Riff Guitar is fucking Awsome and Monstruosity!!!
after 6:00 I love how Clapton's guitar roars back into the flow of the song at 6:14
CREAM! Jack Bruce. Ginger Baker. Eric Clapton.
Once in a lifetime performance. Both literally and figuratively.
AMAZING GUITAR SOLO AND SOUND!!!!!!!
Simply the best psycholdelic song ever
This wasn't Clapton's best guitar playing by a long way....but it was arguably way better than anything he has ever strung together since, The problem is that so much of Clapton's 'cream' work with Cream was never captured on video because cost-affordable video shooting just didn't exist in, say, the early 1970s.
As bandas antigas são como vinhos de qualidade, sempre ótimos. Essa música é muito linda e traz muita saudade dos tempos bons.
Hey! All the sounds in youtube clips are also other way equalized in the youtube compression so eg. much lows rolled out! I'm a guitar player too who like fixing up some sounds all the time! May I see some your plays? You're very interested analyze sound things! Peace! Assa!
To any doubters, play some loud music and listen to a full song carefully from a normal distance. Then listen to the same song within 6 inches of the speaker (replicating close miking). Notice how compressed and dull it sounds in comparison. This is due to the ear's inability to decipher nuance and depth because the eardrum is being overloaded. This translates to recording loud rock music as well. A mic can only be a close facsimile of what our ears naturally hear, FROM A REASONABLE DISTANCE.
This is gold I can listen to this everyday , best three man band ever imo RIP Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker
clapton is so awesome here,dude!
why oh why did he ditch the Gibson from a strat?
2:08 - 2:13 what a clean, precise drum fill. Shouldn’t be surprised but still am
Note at the beginning, the amp behind Jack is switched off. Must have been a spare. He already had 2 going...200W!
I still love Ginger Baker RIP!
I remember seeing the Fresh Cream in Sacramento California. It was Creams first time playing in California. Awesome 😎
RIP Jack Bruce. Wunderbare Erinnerungen...
Great performance, god-awful camera work. Broken Perception is right. What the hell was the cameraman thinking?
Such was the video editing fashion of the late '60s.
damn right!, almost impossible to watch, and the super close up shots of Jack's mouth are at some point very weirdly strange indeed...
I liked the crazy psychedelic fast zoom in and out earthquakey stuff.
To each their own. LOL
Brian Hay cameraman was not thinking, he was propably intoxicated or born simpleton.
0:48 頭
1:12 1A
1:48 1B
2:10 2A
2:43 2B
2:46
3:07 頭
3:30 3A
4:07 3B
4:26 頭
4:51 ソロ1
5:11 ソロ2
5:28 ソロ3
5:45 ソロ4
6:01 ソロ5
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Guitar out of this world @ 6:22 sounds like its going through a time warp!
🗣 For the first time I listened to the group *Cream (Live)* album. It was in 1974. at my brother's..
Favourite Cream song. Favourite song actually.
4:52 Amazing. Before Eric "Clapped out". An example of how drugs have done good things for music.
He turned down and started playing a strat.
Clapton be like - my Plexis bouncing off the back wall of the Royal Albert Hall. That's my slapback delay pedal ya silly kids.
@videomaniac108 It looks like they spliced in a cut from the next song and it was his ES-335 because right before that the far away shot had him still with the Firebird. Chalk it up to crappy film editing.
Cream, o primeiro mega conjunto da história...
I LOVE Bruce's voice!!!
4:50 solo clapton