@@roybean7166 They had very few concerts and were together for about a year. I had to look this up: I saw them on August 24, 1969. It might have been their last concert. I got the vinyl at about the same time. PS At one time I had Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" on a 45 and might still have it.
I love the way Clapton breaks into his solo after Winwood's great spaced out keyboard fest. Ginger's counterpoint with Clapton's solo is 2nd only to Ginger Baker's insane solo at the end.
Every radio station on earth should be required to air this piece once a day as a “public service”. Can you imagine what it must have felt like in the studio that day? Magic!
Ginger's drumming is so tasty! One of my all time favorite songs. Cruising the rolling hills of my youth in my Mustang, blasting this album, stoned out of my head!
Baker lived last 25 yrs of his life in South Africa. Where I live. First in Kwazulu Natal province, last 15 or a bit more maybe, in A small village in the western cape, 120 km from Cape Town. The village name is Tulbagh, he had a farm there, raised horses, I think polo. He raised some hell in the town !
+Andy Thomas Then you'll never realize all the licks Clapton stole over the course of his illustrious career!!! Besides all that, Music is interpreted differently by every individual in my Humble opinion.
+Denny Mcfastlane Don't be absurd. I'm well aware of where a lot of his riffs come from thanks. How does that make him any different from every other guitarist you listen to?
this song is fantastic! i got high this morning and have been taking a lovely trip down memory lane. traffic, cream, the animals, pink floyd. music and pot! who'd a thunk it! :) i'm 57 and still love the stuff i grew up with!
I saw Cream at the Grande Ballroom in DetroitI It was and still is Magical! Someone said "Spiritual". I get high just listening to them right now. Close your eyes! Windwood controlled the stage, his voice is incredible. But when Clapton played, the jam was on MFer's. Ginger Baker, toothless, smiling big, playing the hell out of those drums. (My dentist played Polo with Ginger here in Hawaii. He's the dentist that fixed up his teeth). What an era!
Seems pretty clear to me that SW is singing on "In The Presence Of The Lord". Note to the confused - Steve is the one behind the keyboards, and Eric is the guitar guy. The video link is from the rare live footage from the Hyde Park concert in 1969
@@richardlucero1265 When you do psychs listening to mind blowing music it's always an experience and hopefully a good one. I remember playing Can't Find My Way Home after dropping some really pure windowpane in the early '70s and I ended up at a party at a friend's house and I got caught in one of those loops where the same thing keeps happening and I see the same faces over and over. I finally was able to get out when I came down a bit and realized that "Yes Toto there's no place like home"....
people have done reviews about this song-it's too long, had to rush to complete the album, etc. FACT IS it's a dynamite song period. I LIKE Ginger Bakers' drum solo. He WROTE the song, so he SHOULD get to show off what aof the best3-4 drummers of all time sounds like!
its great that Brubeck's Take Five inspired this great song.. Better yet, I dont see any kind of copying.. other than that quiet, addictive cool feeling it sends out.. and whattabout the lyrics, awesome/ eternal genius!
It is kind of like "Take Five" in that it's in 5/8 (I think), but that's where the similarity ends for me. Great lost track, Clapton is God on this for sure. Really sounds like Traffic also, don't know who wrote it presumably Stevie Winwood...His organ transcends time and space, what a gifted man...Thanks, A
@TheJcfclark That is great that he`s still kickin, I`ll give him that. Too bad it aint with Clapton and Winwood; ANYTHING beats what we got goin on today, that`s for sure. LOL
LOL. Good way to look at it. One guy said there`s no way Clapton coulda hit those high notes there. Im thinkin, "How, when he wrote the damn thing?" LOL. But I been wrong before. You`re right, tho; somebody gotta prove this to us.
This was my music as "a kid". I transitioned into jazz fusion with the likes of Return To Forever, Lennie White, Weather Report and a few others. My life has been well textured and now at 62 I feel ageless because of this genius.
One of the canon of rock of its era. Love the jazz like notes Clapton plays early in the son. Gonna go listen to Brubek's piece right away and listen for the connections. Does Winwood to all the vocals in this song, or do we hear Clapton too? Did Clapton sing on any of the other songs on their album?
The only recording that I'm aware of that Clapton sings Presence of the Lord is the live Fillmore Dominoes album. Even on his Rainbow Concert album, Winwood is singing.
@excompost I'm pretty sure he haven't sing on this song nor eny other on this record. I think songs are mostly composed for Winwood's voice, which is way higher and different, than Clapton's so it would be hard for Eric to keep up. ALso Eric Clapton tried to remain low-profile in this particular project, be just one of the band members to rest after Cream's succesful years.
Andy, it's jazz. Actually an homage to Paul Desmond's "Take 5." 5/4 time and all. Everyone takes a solo.....Clapton's is astounding. Back then, he wasreally something.
William Charles I know what it is thank you! I know its in 5/4. You make my point for me. Baker gets a credit because he has a solo and so on....Agreed Clapton's solo on this is extraordinary. The section between 4.45 & 4.55 is the bit that gets me everytime. The way he pulls out of the hammered section with that devastating lick! Magic! The live Spoonful on 'Wheels' is Clapton's, and Cream's high water mark for me. Its a improvisation that ranks alongside things like Coltrane's Stockholm '61 version of 'My Favourite Things'! Clapton is still good. You play me 2 or 3 notes and I'll tell you if its him! Same applies to Miles!
@excompost - I hear you loud and clear with Dave Brubeck; but it's only a basic touch. It's just too sad these guys only did one album in that formation. Clapton was second voice as in the refrains; this is music way beyond it's time. And I love it 'cause it's a long version. Much to the dismay of certain customers at the pub where I was and played that as GOOD NIGHT"
@greatcomedian18 Are you guys sure Clapton didn`t sing on "Prescence Of The Lord"? Someone awhile back said Clapton couldn`t have sung on that one cause of the high notes. But Clapton wrote it; I DO know that much: how could he not hit those high notes since he wrote it???
@estyle40 yep i just listened again thats definitely steve. but i know clapton does sing the song later in his career like when derek and the dominos performed at the fillmore
I thought so, too: a part of me STILL does. But no, a couple of the guys here I talked to swear up and down that its not Clapton. They might be right. Hard to say..........
I got it when I was 17 and am 60 now going on 19. I listen to the new stuff but Blind Faith never gets old. Reminds me of good times and easy living..
Me as well, it's a long time ago. But still have the vinyl.
@@roybean7166 I have the vinyl and saw them in concert in Honolulu.
@@kailuamick8071 lucky you, seeing them play live. Don't think they played many live shows, correct or not ? And how long you have had the vinal ?
@@roybean7166 They had very few concerts and were together for about a year. I had to look this up: I saw them on August 24, 1969. It might have been their last concert. I got the vinyl at about the same time. PS At one time I had Dave Brubeck's "Take Five" on a 45 and might still have it.
Me too I’m 69😊
I love the way Clapton breaks into his solo after Winwood's great spaced out keyboard fest. Ginger's counterpoint with Clapton's solo is 2nd only to Ginger Baker's insane solo at the end.
YES!...love Clapton's solo....love the whole thing!
Every radio station on earth should be required to air this piece once a day as a “public service”. Can you imagine what it must have felt like in the studio that day? Magic!
Clapton's absolute best solo of all time. IMO
have to agree with that. Any idea what guitar he used on this?
can't decide: this, Stormy Monday @ RHA 2005, or when he took over from Billy Preston @ Concert for George / Isn't it a pity...
Amazing solo, I'm getting a Robby Krieger vibe which is a good thing.
Eric played his 1964 cherry red Gibson ES 335 on this track.
one of the most finest rock ever played, and one ginger's best performances ever.
as a drummer I know wht I am talking about.
Thanks for this!!
Agreed. Toad is allegedly his masterpiece, but I like this better.
I WAS ALWAYS WONDERING 🤔 💭! DOES THE HEARING OF A DRUMMER GET AFFECTED IF AND WHEN HE GETS TOO MUCH BEATING OF THOSE DRUMS?❤❤❤❤❤😮😮😮😮😮😮😮
This takes me back to my teenage years-OH MAN!
Winwood's voice was as haunting then, as it is now.
Ginger's drumming is so tasty! One of my all time favorite songs. Cruising the rolling hills of my youth in my Mustang, blasting this album, stoned out of my head!
one of the greatest song of our Generation..I was 17 in Bucharest were was difficult to catch music von West..
Each one of their solos is absolutely sublime!
Thanks for posting this song. Ginger Baker is THE man. Great jazz drummer.
GB's drum solo is the best I've ever heard !
That's because it IS the best drum solo ever recorded in the 65 years of my life!
Ginger Baker died today. Listening attentively, one can hear the drumbeat of a battery among the dust of the stars.
Baker lived last 25 yrs of his life in South Africa. Where I live. First in Kwazulu Natal province, last 15 or a bit more maybe, in A small village in the western cape, 120 km from Cape Town. The village name is Tulbagh, he had a farm there, raised horses, I think polo. He raised some hell in the town !
Take 5, Dave Brubeck!
4.45-4.55! Thats the one that hits the spot! The way he comes out of that hammered section is a keeper!
+Andy Thomas I agree Andy, but Clapton Copped the Caper from Winwood ealier At 2:41 & Clapton At 4:44
Although that's a great little lick that Winwood plays at 2.41..I don't see how it relates to EC at 4.50
+Andy Thomas Then you'll never realize all the licks Clapton stole over the course of his illustrious career!!! Besides all that, Music is interpreted differently by every individual in my Humble opinion.
+Denny Mcfastlane Don't be absurd. I'm well aware of where a lot of his riffs come from thanks. How does that make him any different from every other guitarist you listen to?
+Andy Thomas Oh, i don't know--maybe can you say...Robert Fripp? How about John Mclaughlin, i could go on Andy, but i think You get the point.
I'm glad this song hit so many views, and thank you fir that and for all the valuable comments you had posted.
Named my 105mm Howitzer after them...eternal jam for me
Ginger Baker's solo on the drums is the best!
that's da best message Winwood!, everybody DO WHAT U LOVE!
this song is fantastic!
i got high this morning and have been taking a lovely trip down memory lane. traffic, cream, the animals, pink floyd.
music and pot! who'd a thunk it! :)
i'm 57 and still love the stuff i grew up with!
Read & heard recently (3/11) that Ginger Baker is alive and still playing. excellent kudos!
Blind Faith's tribute to Dave Brubeck's "Take Five." Never could get the hang of the ending,though. Ginger's drums are awesome.
Yes, this is not your average blues band.
I read where someone said jazz drummers are better than rock drummers , what say all of you ?
@@bonniecondict5250 Ginger Baker, I think, was originally a jazz drummer. So there could be something there.
Only one Album. Only three very talented Musicians. Only what could have been???
Wow. Dave Brubeck is/was my 3rd cousin-once removed. Never knew this about this tune! Now I like it even more!
Amazing, great cousin !
@@roybean7166 ALL my cousins are GREAT!
@@DaiyuHurst well, I have some great cousins As well, but none are great musicians, unfortunately.
@@roybean7166 Jimmie Lawrence Vaughan (and his late brother Steve) are my 6th cousins.
Well this is what I listen to when I am creating in my studio...DOIN' WHAT I LIKE!
I saw Cream at the Grande Ballroom in DetroitI It was and still is Magical! Someone said "Spiritual". I get high just listening to them right now. Close your eyes! Windwood controlled the stage, his voice is incredible. But when Clapton played, the jam was on MFer's. Ginger Baker, toothless, smiling big, playing the hell out of those drums. (My dentist played Polo with Ginger here in Hawaii. He's the dentist that fixed up his teeth). What an era!
I never knew before now that this was inspired by Dave Brubeck's "Take Five". Now that I've had that pointed out, it's so obvious. Amazing musicians.
i just keep playing it over and over.
song of life
Clapton’s guitar solo is smooth..........
La migliore versione dei Blind Faith ....
59 years, grandefull too max, is incredible, thank you
Seems pretty clear to me that SW is singing on "In The Presence Of The Lord". Note to the confused - Steve is the one behind the keyboards, and Eric is the guitar guy. The video link is from the rare live footage from the Hyde Park concert in 1969
Michael Nelson it doesn't show him playing "his solo" just the keyboard solo and drum solo
The first time I heard this a few of my friends and I were enjoying some Lebones Blond ah yes youth.!!!
SAW2MUCH 68 first time I heard this I was 15, hitchhiking to Lake Tahoe, frying on "Acid"!
@@richardlucero1265 When you do psychs listening to mind blowing music it's always an experience and hopefully a good one. I remember
playing Can't Find My Way Home after dropping some really pure windowpane in the early '70s and I ended up at a party at a friend's house and I got caught in one of those loops where the same thing keeps happening and I see the same faces over and over. I finally
was able to get out when I came down a bit and realized that "Yes Toto there's no place like home"....
Más feliz con esta música en mi❤
Top music !!
Loved Blind Faith. ! Each member so talented. 2 bad only one album
DO WHAT YOU LIKE, LOVE THIS SONG BRINGS BACK SUCH GREAT MEMORIES, THANK YOU ..........
I got the blind faith album when i was 18, im 60 now still enjoy it as much as i did then
I'm a little younger than you, I got the album about 1970.
Two words. Ginger Baker........... Enough said.
Escribo de El Salvador C.A el Fe Ciega. gran grupo lLa música la conoci por mi hermano.
spirituality at his best!
deep soul
some of the first music I listened to at a very early age...my sister's are 10 years older thank God...they had such good taste...in music.
Yes , drum solo's the greatest !
MASTERPIECE!
Do what you like, Do it Right 🇬🇧🇵🇷
super music
I would very much watch them live doing this song, I grew up with
this music, maybe I did see this live maybe I was too high
I remember a DJ in Mexico, he used to play this song all the time. This one and Butterfly Bleu by Iron Butterfly.
Great Song !!!
This jam is out of sight like Rainbow Brite.
it has to be Clapton at 3:16 it sounds so much like his style listen to John Mayalls Looking at Tomorrow 1971 Back to the Roots album awesome songs
FINALLY SOMEONE UPLOADED THIS!
Heard that bro ...take a hit for me!!!
if you ever get an opportunity to see mr windwood live..please do yourself a huge favor and get there if possible
yea. i think Stevie started playing pro when he was 15!
people have done reviews about this song-it's too long, had to rush to complete the album, etc. FACT IS it's a dynamite song period. I LIKE Ginger Bakers' drum solo. He WROTE the song, so he SHOULD get to show off what aof the best3-4 drummers of all time sounds like!
its great that Brubeck's Take Five inspired this great song.. Better yet, I dont see any kind of copying.. other than that quiet, addictive cool feeling it sends out.. and whattabout the lyrics, awesome/ eternal genius!
This to me has always been Winwood, Winwood.
top top top
It is kind of like "Take Five" in that it's in 5/8 (I think), but that's where the similarity ends for me. Great lost track, Clapton is God on this for sure. Really sounds like Traffic also, don't know who wrote it presumably Stevie Winwood...His organ transcends time and space, what a gifted man...Thanks, A
ahh yes!!!!!
Do what you like )
@TheJcfclark That is great that he`s still kickin, I`ll give him that. Too bad it aint with Clapton and Winwood; ANYTHING beats what we got goin on today, that`s for sure. LOL
LOL. Good way to look at it. One guy said there`s no way Clapton coulda hit those high notes there. Im thinkin, "How, when he wrote the damn thing?" LOL. But I been wrong before. You`re right, tho; somebody gotta prove this to us.
Great tune
Btw, on Presence of the Lord by Blind Faith, Steve Winwood is singing. Look up the vid on it and it shows him singing.
1969....YO ERA UN PEPILLO.
Most of your kids got there too late I'm 71 I was there when it started and throughout the whole ride
This was my music as "a kid". I transitioned into jazz fusion with the likes of Return To Forever, Lennie White, Weather Report and a few others. My life has been well textured and now at 62 I feel ageless because of this genius.
One of the canon of rock of its era. Love the jazz like notes Clapton plays early in the son. Gonna go listen to Brubek's piece right away and listen for the connections.
Does Winwood to all the vocals in this song, or do we hear Clapton too?
Did Clapton sing on any of the other songs on their album?
The only recording that I'm aware of that Clapton sings Presence of the Lord is the live Fillmore Dominoes album. Even on his Rainbow Concert album, Winwood is singing.
@thirdstone3
Good call broseph, thanks for the share!
I've been forced to split the song into two parts, RUclips wouldn't accept such a long video.
Perfect spot to split it up! Thank you!
Now it does. RIP Ginger Baker.
@excompost The connection to Brubek's Take Five is basically the time signature of 5 over 4. Clapton may be singing in the back-ups.
5/4 timing I think
Para concluir, es un temazo, pero tendría que ser completo, más de quince minutos, René Kaloyereas Reyes, desde santiago de chile, con respeto!!!
il mio primo l.P. straniero.......
bet they couldnt bear to have the full version of someone singing "Do What You Like" in these dark days
@excompost I'm pretty sure he haven't sing on this song nor eny other on this record. I think songs are mostly composed for Winwood's voice, which is way higher and different, than Clapton's so it would be hard for Eric to keep up. ALso Eric Clapton tried to remain low-profile in this particular project, be just one of the band members to rest after Cream's succesful years.
I believe Ginger Baker has the song writing credit on this track.
William Charles Duh! Its basically a Drum Solo! What do you expect?
Andy, it's jazz. Actually an homage to Paul Desmond's "Take 5." 5/4 time and all. Everyone takes a solo.....Clapton's is astounding. Back then, he wasreally something.
William Charles I know what it is thank you! I know its in 5/4. You make my point for me. Baker gets a credit because he has a solo and so on....Agreed Clapton's solo on this is extraordinary. The section between 4.45 & 4.55 is the bit that gets me everytime. The way he pulls out of the hammered section with that devastating lick! Magic! The live Spoonful on 'Wheels' is Clapton's, and Cream's high water mark for me. Its a improvisation that ranks alongside things like Coltrane's Stockholm '61 version of 'My Favourite Things'! Clapton is still good. You play me 2 or 3 notes and I'll tell you if its him! Same applies to Miles!
Ginger wrote the lyric and crafted the 5/4 time. This is according to Nettie
@excompost - I hear you loud and clear with Dave Brubeck; but it's only a basic touch. It's just too sad these guys only did one album in that formation. Clapton was second voice as in the refrains; this is music way beyond it's time. And I love it 'cause it's a long version. Much to the dismay of certain customers at the pub where I was and played that as GOOD NIGHT"
THE STUDIO VERSION LASTS 15:18 ... SO ... WHERE'S THE DRUM SOLO BY THE COMPOSER OF THIS PIECE ... GINGER BAKER ?
I don't know what the rest of you are listening to, but all I hear is Ric Grech on bass.
@greatcomedian18 Are you guys sure Clapton didn`t sing on "Prescence Of The Lord"? Someone awhile back said Clapton couldn`t have sung on that one cause of the high notes. But Clapton wrote it; I DO know that much: how could he not hit those high notes since he wrote it???
SE LLAMA BLIND FAITH
@wickedTornado - only in America do people have perfect looking teeth !
@makapaci He did write and sing on "Prescence Of The Lord". Dont think thats spelled right, but you get the idea.
Of course.
Found a time machine. Tomorrow im gonna be in 1969, Hyde Park.
Mein Lieb Christin❤
@estyle40 yep i just listened again thats definitely steve. but i know clapton does sing the song later in his career like when derek and the dominos performed at the fillmore
@makapaci Well I gotta hear that again, cause I swear that`s Clapton. But it has been awhile.........
@excompost presence of the lord
@wickedtornado Smoke the ganja Man , keeps one sane ! I do it legally here in CA , don't tell the Feds though.
ok just for the record people eric never sang in the album. he didnt want to be band leader and he also really liked stevies vocals.
I thought so, too: a part of me STILL does. But no, a couple of the guys here I talked to swear up and down that its not Clapton. They might be right. Hard to say..........
the drum solo is part two... but i must admit, it would have been nicer if youtube didn't decide to split the track...
@estyle40 No, he only wrote it. Winwood sung on it, Clapton wouldn't be able to hit as high notes.
wtf??? BIG THUMBS DOWN ON THIS .....NO DRUM SOLO.....HALF TH ESON?G??? WTF????
Why is this song on Disraeli Gears on my iPod?
pasa a ser musica de culto un buen grupo
@blapis89 oops no winwood again, sorry