@@monty70 There is a famous audio recording of the Beatles discussing John Paul Jones as the Governor. Considering they had a great bass player that is high praise.
Just read an article in Far Out Magazine that claimed Cream couldn't perform I Feel Free live because "it was too hard". They're making it look easy in this clip.
Love this Cream song. Saw them live at the Family Dog in 67'. Excellent, I was just a few feet from Jack Bruce, that man could sing with such power and tone, amazing vocalist, not to mention being a superb bass player. Extraordinary, really.
Thanks for sharing your memory - sounds like it was an awesome concert. If you saw them at Family Dog, then, "you were there." I saw them in NYC, they were very good that night.
I know there are a lot of theories about where hard rock or heavy metal came from, but this song is the best candidate I've ever heard from that period! It's just so different from all the other things at that time, even from Hendrix!
One of the only times I've ever seen Clapton play with a fierce attitude. Blazing riffs, sweating, singing and tripping all at once. He never looked this good since.
There used to be the clip of them performing "We're Going Wrong" also from the same set that this was taken from, on RUclips...it appears to be gone now! Massive shame, it was brilliant!!
GrayearlMusic That's what you'll look like when you mix cocktails of Heroin, Coke an LSD, in a needle. No, Heroin an LSD was his drug of choice. He did say though him an Graham Bond did mix cocktails like that from time to time.
Clapton said recently that Cream did experiment playing live while under the influence of LSD. Can’t imagine playing through two 100 watt Marshall stacks cranked to 10 while tripping your balls off. Pete Brown said that Cream actually scared him when playing live.
Great performance , too bad the sound quality is not better. Great Jack vocal; incredible singing and stinging Claptone. Can't imagine why Cream didn't do this in every show. This is the song that turned me on to Cream; it jumped out of the speakers and smacked right between the ears!
@@Deliquescentinsight no, it was just the fashion of the day for electric guitarists. All those Watts, you know? Later on when Clapton used to become boring his hairdo changed to boring, too.
Randy Bachman , guitarist- singer from BTO and Guess Who. as he hosts the CBC late night radio from Canada, this is the band musicians strive to become. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Tribute to Cream- Crossroads , bands- Rush Alex Geddy Neil, Heart the original band!
Could someone with knowledge of music explain why this song was difficult to play live? I recall Eric saying they tried rehearsing it for the 2005 Albert Hall reunion gigs, but couldn’t get it right.
It´s difficult cause there are 2 guitars on the studio track, so you have to fill the gap when playing live with just 1 guitar. Then you got to switch between rhythm and lead parts quite accurate, as it´s a fast song without much time to do so. On top of that Eric sings second voice, and doing so while trippin´ is a kind of demand itself. That thy couldn´t get it right in 2005 is because especially this song needs a certain feel they simply lost, compare their gig in 2005 with anything from the 60s. Clapton played a different instrument through a completely different amp system, all of them lost a big part of their original fire, the sound today is much more accurate and sterile.
i guess jack was one of the best vocalists back in the day. hi powered trio, for sure. just a shame that more of their songs weren't as tight as this little gem was.
chev202 Yeah, real pity *eyeroll* that the rest weren't as tight as this...seriously? I think you may have missed a few of their albums, or something there, sport. I wouldn't change one song for the world.
+105449562371434841639 no kidding. Spoonful, White Room, Sunshine, I'm So Glad and Outside Woman Blues...those are all filler? Lol This band was nearly perfect. I love all their songs.
Ginger is playing fine, but he looks 'on the nod,' as they say. Early performance. Soon after and for the rest of their brief stint together, Clapton always set up to Ginger's left and Bruce on Ginger's right. Sightlines are a bit easier that way playing guitar right-handed.
1:12 This is in a crazy class of heaviness for 1967. Just on another musical level.
that snare intro into that part goes crazy - so heavy
Killer vibrato from Clapton.
Killer tone as well. Legend.
Jack was in a class by himself - greatest rock bassist ever. RIP - well done sir.
Indeed. Cream was Jack’s band. He was known then as “The Governor”
@@monty70 There is a famous audio recording of the Beatles discussing John Paul Jones as the Governor. Considering they had a great bass player that is high praise.
How many bass players were ruined by trying to be Jack Bruce in Cream I wonder?
The Ox was better IMHO.
@@renoraider9817I love ox ,but no he wasn't. Bruce was more technical and skilled. Ox was raw power
Revolutionary for the era.
Just read an article in Far Out Magazine that claimed Cream couldn't perform I Feel Free live because "it was too hard". They're making it look easy in this clip.
Unutterable nonsense! Of course they could! Relatively easy for them!
My college band performed it and we were a three piece. It's totally playable, but how well is another question.
Everything cream played was "Too hard" LOL
E.C. during his Cream days is still an enigma and a rarity. In other words a "gem"
every unearthed recording of Cream live is like a diamond to me. thanks for posting!
More than just GOD'S Thanks very much, I LOVE IT.
May the gods bless whomever it was who so thoughtfully recorded this for future generations to enjoy.
Ghosts from yesteryear. Sublime musicians, for sure.
Clapton... last man standing!
Love this Cream song. Saw them live at the Family Dog in 67'. Excellent, I was just a few feet from Jack Bruce, that man could sing with such power and tone, amazing vocalist, not to mention being a superb bass player. Extraordinary, really.
Lucky guy!
Thanks for sharing your memory - sounds like it was an awesome concert. If you saw them at Family Dog, then, "you were there." I saw them in NYC, they were very good that night.
Great memories, thanks
Beato te!
Les 3 meilleurs dans leur catégorie. Super groupe
One of my favourite Cream song! And Jack Bruce played this marvellous Longhorn Dano! Great!
Live footage? Possibly. There are earlier live recordings from 1966 though.
+Christopher Mondy this isn't from 66 it even says the date in the video June 1st 1967
Rest in Peace Ginger - Legend !
Jack Bruce was a great player, singer and writer. Don’t think Clapton was quite as impressive as people used to think.
RIP Jack, thanks mate.
I know there are a lot of theories about where hard rock or heavy metal came from, but this song is the best candidate I've ever heard from that period! It's just so different from all the other things at that time, even from Hendrix!
As if heavy metal was the top of musical evolution.
@@wayneschlegel1340heavy metal was a regression
Great. Old fond memories. Thanks
God Bless ya Jack...you changed my life
nach über 40 jähren immer noch toll bin froh das ich die Platten habe
I'm so grateful for all this old footage. I totally missed seeing this when I was a kid.
Great to see Eric with the SG.
High as kites!
One of the only times I've ever seen Clapton play with a fierce attitude. Blazing riffs, sweating, singing and tripping all at once. He never looked this good since.
Some extraordinary playing from all three guys - particularly Bruce and Clapton through all the Cream albums!
0:55 such a badass EC lick, bends the string all the way up with just that one finger.
Lol
"I can't tell you how many times we went on stage tripping, but it was quite a few"-EC
die Frage ist doch eher welche Band "without tripping" zu der Zeit damals auf die Bühne ging.
fascinating to see Jack playing a Danelectro Longhorn bass
Really, maybe the best rock band of the '60s...
the 1st "Super" group.....
When they were Gods
Jack just return where he belongs
Wow what a find. Thank you
Such one camera footages are the best.
I like it, makes you feel like being there.
They're the worst! Can't see anything right.
Wow fantastic
What a Group.....Awesome
The drums in this version of I Feel Free are just the best! It beats the studio recording by a landslide.
wow i feel free
Love it
When Eric Clapton & Cream were the gods of Power Trio Rock!!
i never knew people had this man they sound good for 3 guys thats why there CREAM
There used to be the clip of them performing "We're Going Wrong" also from the same set that this was taken from, on RUclips...it appears to be gone now! Massive shame, it was brilliant!!
Kickass!!
Cool!
what a band
1:34 I honestly can’t tell if drugs or just feeling the music so much. Such amazing footage to see
ginger baker, great upload, this song just came into my head, reminds me of my bro
There was NOBODY to touch Cream. My opinion.
Tony Music That's my opinion as well.
@@zubrycky And I agree to your opinion, to be absolute, 100% fact.
What about Jimi Hendrix?
I concur
@Tony: your opinion, obviously. Thank you for the information.
RIP Jack. According to Ginger Baker, "he had time" (musically )
And now RIP Ginger
I read somewhere that Baker said that "Jack Bruce couldn't hold a beat if his life depended on it."
That's how it's done folks!
I swear Ginger is always tripping when he plays live.
Heroin
speeed
GrayearlMusic That's what you'll look like when you mix cocktails of Heroin, Coke an LSD, in a needle. No, Heroin an LSD was his drug of choice. He did say though him an Graham Bond did mix cocktails like that from time to time.
Wouldn't surprise me 😂
Clapton said recently that Cream did experiment playing live while under the influence of LSD. Can’t imagine playing through two 100 watt Marshall stacks cranked to 10 while tripping your balls off. Pete Brown said that Cream actually scared him when playing live.
Great performance , too bad the sound quality is not better. Great Jack vocal; incredible singing and stinging Claptone. Can't imagine why Cream didn't do this in every show. This is the song that turned me on to Cream; it jumped out of the speakers and smacked right between the ears!
Awesome performance! Thank you for uploading this! :) Gotta luv Clapton's perm lol.
Yeah that perm was in honor of Jimi Hendrix I heard -haha
Michael Gorman yes and Hendrix played Sunshine in honour of Cream
redsfanstan2012 Then Clapton covered Little Wing with Derek And The Dominoes
Michael Gorman Are you sure it was in honor because Jimi got his haircut to look like Dylan.
@@Deliquescentinsight no, it was just the fashion of the day for electric guitarists. All those Watts, you know? Later on when Clapton used to become boring his hairdo changed to boring, too.
didnt know they had this awesome
Best live version of this song... but incomplete track.
really? What a detailed observation.
@@wayneschlegel1340Its about the same tapeing start a bit thats all
rare Danelectro appearance. Good shit.
Randy Bachman , guitarist- singer from BTO and Guess Who. as he hosts the CBC late night radio from Canada, this is the band musicians strive to become. Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Tribute to Cream- Crossroads , bands- Rush Alex Geddy Neil, Heart the original band!
Awesome
I can drive down the road
My eyes don't see
Tho' my mind wants to cry out loud-
Tho' my mind wants to cry out loud!
Amazing lírics
This is 54 years ago 😲
Dance floor is like the sea 🌊
yeah so this is the best ever
That Fool SG is the best sounding guitar Eric ever played.
Wow!
danelectro bass. cooooool!!!!!!
I wonder how Eric feels about that perm today lol.
I thought it was Terry Jones from Python a few times.
he looked his best with it imo, or at least, one of his bests :d
Looks like John Reid of Strife,,another great british band.
Search eric clapton at frank skinner late night, they show him a picture from back then and he talks about it, quite funny
1:40 Ginger Baker !!!!!!!
Yep
Ginger Baked
@@Arctic4Ferdinand more like heroin lol
Trying to play this bassline is both a mental and physical workout
yes? but but you get it doesnt leave ya
Ensinando a fazer Rock a 50 anos atrás....
grandi
RIP Ginge
RIP Jack
If I didn't know any better, I'd say Ginger was high on smack at this particular moment. His glazed over expression is a dead giveaway.
Clapton was working bloody hard in this band and it paid off, not an easy song to play live!
Not at all. Try at home. And do the second vocals additionally. AND do that alltogether while trippin.
That’s a danelectro longhorn jack is playing. I never realized he played anything besides the fender 12 and the sg bass
He used that in the “Disraeli gears” sessions. Listen for the bass on “Strange brew”.
When Clapton could really make the guitar wail.
pro cream
It’s like no wonder every musician was terrified of Ginger Baker lol.
shhhh / I think that's ginger looking down at us standing at the devils gate // rip Mr. Baker // cheers
Eric's Jimi-fro period.
great stuff! is this the earliest live footage we have of the band?
oh...haven't seen this film before....great clip....1967......wow....the french didn't know what hit them
Not bad vocals, I thought it'd be a bit ragged.
Great Great band..... but the worse thing Eric Clapton ever did wasn't 'Wonderful Tonight ", it was that Perm!!! :-D
Jack's new Star Trek look didn't last, fortunately. Nor did Eric's 'fro and Jimi-costume, again fortunately.
Could someone with knowledge of music explain why this song was difficult to play live? I recall Eric saying they tried rehearsing it for the 2005 Albert Hall reunion gigs, but couldn’t get it right.
It´s difficult cause there are 2 guitars on the studio track, so you have to fill the gap when playing live with just 1 guitar. Then you got to switch between rhythm and lead parts quite accurate, as it´s a fast song without much time to do so. On top of that Eric sings second voice, and doing so while trippin´ is a kind of demand itself. That thy couldn´t get it right in 2005 is because especially this song needs a certain feel they simply lost, compare their gig in 2005 with anything from the 60s. Clapton played a different instrument through a completely different amp system, all of them lost a big part of their original fire, the sound today is much more accurate and sterile.
I had a go at this song a few years back. It was hard to get it to sound good. Not difficult chords or anything. Some songs are just like that.
With all the breaks and stuff, this tune requires good timing, if your timing is off it's gonna sound like a mess.
For what it's worth, BBM nailed it (the second track in this video):
ruclips.net/video/xO8zutUsVX8/видео.html
what type of coat is Jack wearing? or what do you call that type of blazer?
Nehru ?????
i think it is thanks
Whenever I think of Cream it's of Ginger.
por que acá a Clapton se le nota un sonido un poco mas sucio?
Para mí por la forma que ataca a la guitarra.. le está pegando más fuerte
How did Eric Clapton's hair become straight later on?
he´s got boring, that´s how.
This was a perm, he doesn't have natural curls.
i guess jack was one of the best vocalists back in the day. hi powered trio, for sure. just a shame that more of their songs weren't as tight as this little gem was.
They have a lot of great material…
chev202 Yeah, real pity *eyeroll* that the rest weren't as tight as this...seriously? I think you may have missed a few of their albums, or something there, sport. I wouldn't change one song for the world.
+105449562371434841639 no kidding. Spoonful, White Room, Sunshine, I'm So Glad and Outside Woman Blues...those are all filler? Lol This band was nearly perfect. I love all their songs.
WTF???
@@KickflipGnasty Half of those are covers but I do agree with you...
Ginger was tripping his ass off
Clapton looks funny with the Afro. lol
+John Smith Tribute to Jimi Hendrix.
Yea, I bet he regretted that!
He looks like a sex God.
I was 15 at the time, and it looked totally in keeping with the look of the time, at the time. It still just looks like Clapton in 1967, to me!
I heard it was not a tribute to Hendrix but to Dylan.
Clapton is 'invariably about clapping and made millions doing so!
Eric looks like Gary Glitter in some shots!
What the hell was that mumble in the beginning could not understand a god damned word of it
Was Ginger on heroin in those days?
is there some way to drop kick the negative wankers with no game at all?
Ginger is playing fine, but he looks 'on the nod,' as they say. Early performance. Soon after and for the rest of their brief stint together, Clapton always set up to Ginger's left and Bruce on Ginger's right. Sightlines are a bit easier that way playing guitar right-handed.
Hey, they're not singing in French :-)
I feel Free - Then came Big Tech (Google, Apple, Twitter, facebook, MIcrosoft) and suddenly NO ONE IS FREE ANYMORE.
¿Por qué Piero Scaruffi acusa a Eric Clapton de ser copista y plagiario de JJ Cale?
OMG shaky , mkay drugs are bad
huh?