This solo is so ferocious and starts out a such a frenetic pace. Baker is working his tail off and Bruce's pounding bass. Still my all-time favorite group.
Yeah Cream were the Greatest...they had real class..and they did it FIRST!( and most Milenials can't see past the over~inflated cock~rock of Led Zep...don't know what they're Fucking missing!)
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Speaking as a drummer, I cannot over- emphasize how intricate -- how complex -- Baker's playing is on this song. Well- applied rudiments (and lots of them) all around his kit, highly effective and sparing use of his cymbals (a significant facet of Baker's style), interspersing of *constantly changing* double- bass- drum patterns, and wonderful dynamics... He was the master; no doubt about it.
Best blues rock trio ever...pure power...these guys in best shape really rockin the place...NSU in a wonderfull powerloaded version...that's real handmade music without any gimmicks...so sad that only Eric is still alive 💪👍👍
I have used the "Live Cream" version of this as an examples of improvisatory jamming (to those who don't understand the concept). and this version only proves my point.
That's why I love when Ginger says on DVD about Jack to Eric when forming Cream. But your right he's a fucking good bass player. Couldn't say it better.
@@arminiushermann09I have read that Ginger disapproved of Jack Bruce's busy Bass style. Ginger wanted to lock in to Bruce's Bass and give Eric Clapton more of a solid foundation but Bruce continued improvising.
@@raulmacias6146 I think that was an earlier conflict between Jack and Ginger. But from comments I have heard from Ginger about Jack, it was pretty obvious he respected Bruce but they had personalities that conflicted greatly. For Ginger, a lot of the issue with Jack was, according to Ginger, Jack's volume that irritated him most. That sounds more like a Rolling Stone comment than a Ginger Baker comments, although Baker could find a dozen ways to criticize someone. But Cream wouldn't have been as exciting without Bruce's inventiveness. And there were live songs in which Bruce wasn't nearly as busy as he is here. This was a song I used to jam on with friends. It encouraged players to stretch out, I think.
I thought the live version of NSU on "Live Cream Volume I" was great ... and it still is. But when when this version came out on the boxed-set, I had to conclude it was even better.
Ginger Baker was sui generis, a musical genius who goes to places on nobody else's map - the great integrator, like nobody before or since: integrating his hands & feet and head & heart
I've mentioned on several occasions that the first time I saw Cream was at the Fillmore Ballroom in SF in fall of 67. I had taken some acid and got separated from my friends. I lost my ticket to the concert and only because the girl at the ticket booth remembered me I got into the concert. I couldnt find my buddies and I was rushing big-time. I started to freak so I went and sat under an open window. The act ahead of Cream was Charlie Musselwhite and for some reason I wasnt liking the concert and was getting upset. THEN, Cream came on.. starting with Cats Squirrel and I felt better. The next played NSU and that got me out of my funk completely and I made my way to the front of the ballroom and camped out just in front of Eric and Jack. I had the perfect spot. I can still remember the sparks coming off of Claptons guitar! The fuzziness of Jack Bruce's bass and his powerful singing! And, of course.. the fabulous Ginger Baker, who was killing his drums and making such wonderfully hard hitting patterns. It was the best concert I have ever seen. Still is. Nothing will ever be that way again. I love the fact that I can find these tapes and videos on UA-cam. It is soooo cool.
Bruce, you were so lucky. I saw Cream at one of their 2005 London reunion shows, and it was great. But still prefer their summer of 1967 and 1968 sound.
A friend saw Cream play in San Francisco in 1968. He said Ginger Baker was so physically involved in maintaining his own pounding wall of sound that when he became nauseous and threw up, he never changed tempo. He turned his head and vomited to the side and kept playing. I play guitar, but I'm all out of playing while I upchuck. I couldn't pull it off. I would hug the guitar while I puked my guts out.
God.....this was AWESOME! Great pics too! And to think that these guys had no group previous to them where they could call up inspiration. Like Neil Peart said in the film: they WERE the archetype! They invented the “jam band.”
Wow, what a TREAT to Hear these Alternative Takes of Cream! The Recording even Sounds good on My PHONE. Thr interaction between Band Members is INCREDIBLE. Baker just WAILS. And Clapton's Guitar Tone is WONDERFUL I would DEFINITELY Buy these Tracks on CD.
77 thousand Cream Bootlegs and half of them good. Y'all are spoiled rotten. Thank you for this, they changed my life, twice, Jimi once. Of course I play pretty much an SG. SGs love OG Clapton. Yes, as a thirteen year old child I saw Cream, as a 14-year-old I saw Cream. How I fenagled that out of my mom I'll never understand. Clapton is God.
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack be jammin' with lots of licks, booms, and picks. The best sounding disease of all time (Non-Specific Urethritis; just imagine if Clapton had the clap). Lyrics: Driving in my car Smoking my cigar The only time I'm happy's when I play my guitar Sailing in my yacht What a lot I got Happiness is something that just cannot be bought I've been in and I'm out I've been up and down I don't want to go until I've been all around What's it all about Anyone in doubt I don't want to go until I've found it all out [Jam .. Jam some more ... Cream Jam] Hey yeah, hey yeah (repeat) What's it all about Anyone in doubt I don't want to go until I've found it all out Thank you. Source: Musixmatch Songwriters: Jack Bruce
I love listening to the 2005 Albert hall stuff and comparing them to these early recordings.Shows how they matured over the years.Absolutely love I’m so glad on the Albert hall dvd will have that played at my funeral,all hail one of the greatest bands ever.
I never thought back in 1968 when I was a kid that in 2014 that this would be my favorites-I remember the rock experts at the time in 68-69 stating that music was reverting back to 3 chords -- yes but look at what talent can do with 3 chords I like the original but this one is awesome cream forever...
*Susan Reed* I hate to be contrary. I've been a big fan since 1967. But I honestly can't say that the reunion concert at Madison Square Garden knocked my socks off. It lacked.... energy.
I love this song. Listened to it a thousand times on my FOUR TRACK tape player. It only had two tracks, the A side of the album and the B side. You could switch to one or the other. No way to fast forward or replay or rewind. You just stuck it in and played one side or the other all the way through. It was for a car but I adapted it to play in my room. Some of the other albums I had for it were Guess Who American Woman and The Who Live at Leeds and CCR Green River. Only played it through one mono speaker, but it sounded fantastic when most of the time we were on acid anyway. What a time to be 14 years old. None better.
Cream is one of few bands that can go into a long jam and all the musicians are playing something that is interesting enough on its own. Isolated tracks on this one, please.
Even in the 80,s...And in 90,s , you can find better playing from Eric than here....but you must look for It well...not the first vídeo you come across Try "no one else...live in Germany 1983"...or from ThE cradle tour 95-95...to name a few
of course young guns that follow , struving to fgo aster , add more drums in their kit..but NO rock drummer could drive the tempo ,respond ,to what the other instruments were doing or lay back like a tiger ready to pounce like this red haired DEMON.
NSU isn't three chords. It's structure is a bit different and a bit odd for a rock song of the day. It's actually a seven chord song--but they are jamming off of one chord. And for the record (pun intended), most (exclusively) rock critics know next to nothing about the components of music. If they dabble in jazz or classical musical criticism, the critics usually know a bit more. But Cream had more in common with an improvising jazz group than with other rock groups of the time.
Gary Gomes Yep, but they added a lot of elements to their music as well. Ginger was of African an Jazz background; Jack was from a Classical and Indian (from India) and Jazz background; As Eric was strictly Blues but with knowledge of jazz thanks to John Mayall. So with them mixed all together, you get the Cream of the crop, the greatest live band ever, or rather, the greatest live improv band that started so many other great bands who followed suit strictly because of them. They set the standard of a new style of music much like their counterparts did from the classical era. And it's as to why some of the famous classical musicians like Bernstein, Stravinsky as others, loved them so much and it was also actually the American audience that pushed Cream to play long improv jams that are just out of this world.
Susan Reed As several here comment, you can’t keep this kind of intensity going for years and years. It’s like the Dead; they put it all out there for a couple years and then just naturally felt like they wanted to move on, tone down a bit, explore songs and melodies. I think in some way you burn out of that intensity, maybe you start to think it’s all sounding the same, time for a new sound and direction. Still, happy we have these recordings to remind us of the brief flash of genius.
I like both live Winterland versions, but the one issued on Live Cream Vol 1 is clearly superior. They were tighter, and there was a better composition in the solo that resolved nicely into the chorus. They were just tighter that night, at least for that song. But I like both versions. What a power trio. They've got no equal at all in this style of music.
Was there ever a rock star who could look completely different in EVERY picture than Clapton??-----------He NEVER played this incredibly after Cream IMO--and he was just 22 or 23 years old!!!!
wasn't there something like that at one of the Grammy's, a lot of actors come out dressed with wigs an stuff through all the diff styles of hair he had. I know Jim Carrey was one of them.
+keith wilson eric was very street wise and fashion conscious. As soon as a new trend appeared he was on it. He had some great haircuts. My favourite is the Farewell Show era. Almost a crop after his shaggy afro and tache. A real style icon.
This is the one from the box-set "Those Were The Days"...It sounds as if it was the day before or the day after the one on "Live Cream"...equally as good...
I think the Vol 1 version has a bit more focus from beginning to end. This is kind of a juiced up version of Sweet Wine. Up and down a lot. You can't teach this kind of talent to a 22 or 23 year old. You either have it or you don't.
Cream had so many "Firsts": The first band too sell a million albums-thus being the first platinum disc sellers. They were also the first band to literally change the market place. People started buying albums for good now and the Top 40 was now relegated to second class status. Long playing albums beat out the 45 rpm records in sales for good. The first band to bring the bass guitar upfront along with drums. For that matter along with the Jimi Hendrix experience they were first in having a standout lead guitarist. And every member of Cream could read and write music.
the drumming here is phenomenal. suddenly reminds of keith moon, but with a real beat and rhythm, and not just marching time. baker is all over this song, he is totally in control of this song. the guitars are struggling to fill it.
First heard this in Listen in Cambridge Street. On the cans.Listened to nothing else till I worked out a quarter of it. It's still one of my favourite noises.
By far my favorite live version. So not the version on Live Cream? Is this not captured on a released vinyl format? There were a few other live versions of other songs that were recorded stateside and then used later as overdubs on a few of the songs from RAH in Nov, '68.
Yes, I agree. They did the same thing with Sweet Wine and Sleepy Time Time as well. They all sound like they were from the same show. Anybody know for sure?
" agree that the Live Cream Vol 1 version is the better one. Where was it recorded can anybody say ?" If I remember correctly from reading the album jacket it was recorded March 10, 1968 at the Fillmore West in San Francisco..
I'm starting a Cream Tribute band right now. I need two ferocious players. Well, not fanged, but if y'all want to interpret Cream in a groove, or silence, or whatever way serves, say, Tales of Brave Ulysses. Slow to molten-metal tempo? who knows. Serve the music, not your ego, man...Cream is infinite to me, I was born for progressive blues. I sing, play bass and guitar and rock-steady percussion. Also a requirement: You can count.
They weren't as alert to cues in this version, so there some missteps. Anybody know if this version was recorded BEFORE the on on Live Cream Vol 1? Sounds to me like it was.
From a compositional standpoint, The Live Cream Vol. 1 version is by far superior to this. I like this version, it has different elements than the Live Cream Vol. 1 version and stands on it's own, but as an overall piece, the Live Cream vol. 1 version is for me definitive. They just seemed to improvise a perfect piece, as though it was a symphonic composition. It had a beginning, middle, and end, a cohesive theme that runs throughout. Baker's drumming is far superior on the Vol. 1 version.
@@DouglasMBrockie Thanks. A little jaunt to the past. I remember playing this at the school dances and parties on my SG. Still can play some of those phrases. Takes huge energy and attitude. Anyone want to start a band or jam?!Used to 'prep' myself for a gig by lying on the bed in the dark and listening to live sides of Wheels of Fire, Crossroads, Spoonful. Inspiring at the time.
Magnus Hartelius Todd Rundgren bought it from Jackie Lomax... he repaired it and played it for several years. Now it's owned by a private collector who bought it to benefit Clapton's Crossroads charity.
It's also the name of a sexually transmitted disease. Non-specific urethritis. I think it was named for that, although the NSU cars were really cool LOL!
This solo is so ferocious and starts out a such a frenetic pace. Baker is working his tail off and Bruce's pounding bass. Still my all-time favorite group.
Right on!
Yeah Cream were the Greatest...they had real class..and they did it FIRST!( and most Milenials can't see past the over~inflated cock~rock of Led Zep...don't know what they're Fucking missing!)
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Speaking as a drummer, I cannot over- emphasize how intricate -- how complex -- Baker's playing is on this song. Well- applied rudiments (and lots of them) all around his kit, highly effective and sparing use of his cymbals (a significant facet of Baker's style), interspersing of *constantly changing* double- bass- drum patterns, and wonderful dynamics... He was the master; no doubt about it.
This recording is absolutely remarkable , it's 1968 , the balance is wonderful the playing exemplary , why Cream were CREAM.
Amazing how polite audiences were back then. During the quiet parts of a song, there was no drunken shouting.
respect , awe, wonder, from this weekend hippy.
They were on LSD. Different than alcohol.
@@mns8732 Set and SETTING !
Baker wasn't kidding. His drumming on this song is just dominating. I love his aggressiveness.
A violent Scotty - bashng Jack for pure fun!
@@martinkent333 right you are.must be ,something in the water
For me, this was what the late 60 was all about. Just one long, intensive jam. And we haven't had the pop scene revisit it since.
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This is the version I love the most, they took it off spotify, The bass is huge in this song
This version is all about texture and tone. Super sound for 1968!
3 CHORD DRUGGIES ARE EVERYTHING?
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@@dallaswoodson4504 THE JUNKIE DRUMMER AND BASSIST FOUGHT LIKE DOGS 24/7.
Best blues rock trio ever...pure power...these guys in best shape really rockin the place...NSU in a wonderfull powerloaded version...that's real handmade music without any gimmicks...so sad that only Eric is still alive 💪👍👍
I have used the "Live Cream" version of this as an examples of improvisatory jamming (to those who don't understand the concept). and this version only proves my point.
Absolutely Cream is JAMMING 101 👑👑👑
One of the best sounds coming out of Jack Bruce's bass and amplifiers on this particular song
That's why I love when Ginger says on DVD about Jack to Eric when forming Cream.
But your right he's a fucking good bass player. Couldn't say it better.
@@arminiushermann09I have read that Ginger disapproved of Jack Bruce's busy Bass style.
Ginger wanted to lock in to Bruce's Bass and give Eric Clapton more of a solid foundation but Bruce continued improvising.
@@raulmacias6146 I think that was an earlier conflict between Jack and Ginger. But from comments I have heard from Ginger about Jack, it was pretty obvious he respected Bruce but they had personalities that conflicted greatly. For Ginger, a lot of the issue with Jack was, according to Ginger, Jack's volume that irritated him most. That sounds more like a Rolling Stone comment than a Ginger Baker comments, although Baker could find a dozen ways to criticize someone. But Cream wouldn't have been as exciting without Bruce's inventiveness. And there were live songs in which Bruce wasn't nearly as busy as he is here. This was a song I used to jam on with friends. It encouraged players to stretch out, I think.
Bruce's voice here is soooooooooooooooo powerful !!!
I thought the live version of NSU on "Live Cream Volume I" was great ... and it still is. But when when this version came out on the boxed-set, I had to conclude it was even better.
Ginger Baker was sui generis, a musical genius who goes to places on nobody else's map - the great integrator, like nobody before or since: integrating his hands & feet and head & heart
This is from another dimension.... wow!
I've mentioned on several occasions that the first time I saw Cream was at the Fillmore Ballroom in SF in fall of 67. I had taken some acid and got separated from my friends. I lost my ticket to the concert and only because the girl at the ticket booth remembered me I got into the concert. I couldnt find my buddies and I was rushing big-time. I started to freak so I went and sat under an open window. The act ahead of Cream was Charlie Musselwhite and for some reason I wasnt liking the concert and was getting upset. THEN, Cream came on.. starting with Cats Squirrel and I felt better. The next played NSU and that got me out of my funk completely and I made my way to the front of the ballroom and camped out just in front of Eric and Jack. I had the perfect spot. I can still remember the sparks coming off of Claptons guitar! The fuzziness of Jack Bruce's bass and his powerful singing! And, of course.. the fabulous Ginger Baker, who was killing his drums and making such wonderfully hard hitting patterns. It was the best concert I have ever seen. Still is. Nothing will ever be that way again. I love the fact that I can find these tapes and videos on UA-cam. It is soooo cool.
I envy you, Bruce............Charlie Musselwhite?!
Bruce, you were so lucky. I saw Cream at one of their 2005 London reunion shows, and it was great. But still prefer their summer of 1967 and 1968 sound.
Come and join this group Bruce and share your memories ...... facebook.com/groups/128825440579657/
Wow! You know that Several million of us wish we coulda seen them back then! (Tripping too huh?, Whoooooo!)
Bruce Woodward Cream, August ‘67, The Fillmore, San Francisco. Opening act, Southside Sound System. Headliner, Paul Butterfield Blues Band. Coca Cola.
These guys opened it up for all that followed
Susan Reed Had to come back to say their 2005 reunion version of We’re Going Wrong is fabulous.
The legend around this band can be understood in the playing we hear at this show , and the song itself .
Love how Baker plays drums while he smokes. This is a fantastic drumming piece.
A friend saw Cream play in San Francisco in 1968. He said Ginger Baker was so physically involved in maintaining his own pounding wall of sound that when he became nauseous and threw up, he never changed tempo. He turned his head and vomited to the side and kept playing. I play guitar, but I'm all out of playing while I upchuck. I couldn't pull it off. I would hug the guitar while I puked my guts out.
@@___---__ABSOLUTELY RIDICULOUS, and none of that is true! Trust me. thank you 🎌 🚩 🧑🎤 🏁
Most likely on speed as well at that time.
One of Bruce's finest live performances.
We will never know because there were so many performances that we have never even heard.
God.....this was AWESOME! Great pics too! And to think that these guys had no group previous to them where they could call up inspiration. Like Neil Peart said in the film: they WERE the archetype! They invented the
“jam band.”
Well, the Grateful Dead too; but the Dead's jams just didn't have the drama or excitement of Cream, in my opinion.
Wow, what a TREAT to Hear these Alternative Takes of Cream! The Recording even Sounds good on My PHONE. Thr interaction between Band Members is INCREDIBLE. Baker just WAILS. And Clapton's Guitar Tone is WONDERFUL
I would DEFINITELY Buy these Tracks on CD.
I would have liked to see this band!
incredible performance! - Ginger Baker = Hammer of the Gods!!
1968 was just an incredible peak all around.
One Led Zep fan dislikes lol.
Oroborus Also, 1966, 1967.
Zeppelin's recording engineer just didn't catch it good all the time
One of the COOLEST toones -the rhythem, solo etc. twin to "Live 'Cream version-well damn near -WOW smknnfrknht !!!!!!!
77 thousand Cream Bootlegs and half of them good. Y'all are spoiled rotten. Thank you for this, they changed my life, twice, Jimi once. Of course I play pretty much an SG. SGs love OG Clapton. Yes, as a thirteen year old child I saw Cream, as a 14-year-old I saw Cream. How I fenagled that out of my mom I'll never understand. Clapton is God.
Jack be nimble, Jack be quick, Jack be jammin' with lots of licks, booms, and picks. The best sounding disease of all time (Non-Specific Urethritis; just imagine if Clapton had the clap).
Lyrics:
Driving in my car
Smoking my cigar
The only time I'm happy's when I play my guitar
Sailing in my yacht
What a lot I got
Happiness is something that just cannot be bought
I've been in and I'm out
I've been up and down
I don't want to go until I've been all around
What's it all about
Anyone in doubt
I don't want to go until I've found it all out
[Jam .. Jam some more ... Cream Jam]
Hey yeah, hey yeah (repeat)
What's it all about
Anyone in doubt
I don't want to go until I've found it all out
Thank you.
Source: Musixmatch
Songwriters: Jack Bruce
I love listening to the 2005 Albert hall stuff and comparing them to these early recordings.Shows how they matured over the years.Absolutely love I’m so glad on the Albert hall dvd will have that played at my funeral,all hail one of the greatest bands ever.
3 chord druggies!!!!!!!!! You are owned by the Star Machine, Dude............
I never thought back in 1968 when I was a kid that in 2014 that this would be my favorites-I remember the rock experts at the time in 68-69 stating that music was reverting back to 3 chords -- yes but look at what talent can do with 3 chords I like the original but this one is awesome cream forever...
No one could jam like Cream,,even their reunion concert in 2005 will knock your socks off...
Susan Reed you are quite right. Give them a starting set of chords and then watch them go. My favorite group.
Forever and Ever
*Susan Reed*
I hate to be contrary. I've been a big fan since 1967. But I honestly can't say that the reunion concert at Madison Square Garden knocked my socks off. It lacked.... energy.
azul8811 bad acoustics at MSG hurt the entire vibe.
Saw them late show March 29th (yep, 7 days from 50 years ago!!) at Hunter College auditorium in NYC. Incredible. On Fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Love the soloing this version of N S U. Sweet momma
Classic and haven't heard it in a while. Man, I wish I had all my old albums even though I wore them out. Thx for this
I love this song. Listened to it a thousand times on my FOUR TRACK tape player. It only had two tracks, the A side of the album and the B side. You could switch to one or the other. No way to fast forward or replay or rewind. You just stuck it in and played one side or the other all the way through. It was for a car but I adapted it to play in my room. Some of the other albums I had for it were Guess Who American Woman and The Who Live at Leeds and CCR Green River. Only played it through one mono speaker, but it sounded fantastic when most of the time we were on acid anyway. What a time to be 14 years old. None better.
I posit that there is no better expression of art, than this, in the history of western culture.
It's better stoned.
Cream is one of few bands that can go into a long jam and all the musicians are playing something that is interesting enough on its own. Isolated tracks on this one, please.
Isolated tracks would cool but in this case you will need to find them yourself if indeed they do exist.
Cream Live sweet wine is still is the most remembered master of Cream.Especially solos of EC..I think he never played at that standard ever since..
Love this era and Cream were are & still R
In ThE Dominoes played even better
@@pabloperez4063 I think So to
Even in the 80,s...And in 90,s , you can find better playing from Eric than here....but you must look for It well...not the first vídeo you come across
Try "no one else...live in Germany 1983"...or from ThE cradle tour 95-95...to name a few
The sound of that EB 3 was tight
Ginger was IT at this time in rock drumming
of course young guns that follow , struving to fgo aster , add more drums in their kit..but NO rock drummer could drive the tempo ,respond ,to what the other instruments were doing or lay back like a tiger ready to pounce like this red haired DEMON.
One of Jack's favorites. This and White Room.
NSU isn't three chords. It's structure is a bit different and a bit odd for a rock song of the day. It's actually a seven chord song--but they are jamming off of one chord. And for the record (pun intended), most (exclusively) rock critics know next to nothing about the components of music. If they dabble in jazz or classical musical criticism, the critics usually know a bit more. But Cream had more in common with an improvising jazz group than with other rock groups of the time.
Like Bruce said: they were a jazz trio, only they didn't tell Clapton. :-)
I googled. It sounds like this
" we were a jazz band - we just didn't tell Eric ! "
Gary Gomes Yep, but they added a lot of elements to their music as well. Ginger was of African an Jazz background; Jack was from a Classical and Indian (from India) and Jazz background; As Eric was strictly Blues but with knowledge of jazz thanks to John Mayall. So with them mixed all together, you get the Cream of the crop, the greatest live band ever, or rather, the greatest live improv band that started so many other great bands who followed suit strictly because of them. They set the standard of a new style of music much like their counterparts did from the classical era. And it's as to why some of the famous classical musicians like Bernstein, Stravinsky as others, loved them so much and it was also actually the American audience that pushed Cream to play long improv jams that are just out of this world.
I love that.according to Clapton's autobio they ran out of numbers and improvised at their first gig and the crowd loved it and so a legend was born.
+Arminius Hermann : Yessss .The greatest band of all time !CREAM !!!
Clapton full of young fire here
Susan Reed As several here comment, you can’t keep this kind of intensity going for years and years. It’s like the Dead; they put it all out there for a couple years and then just naturally felt like they wanted to move on, tone down a bit, explore songs and melodies. I think in some way you burn out of that intensity, maybe you start to think it’s all sounding the same, time for a new sound and direction. Still, happy we have these recordings to remind us of the brief flash of genius.
He was never the same after heroin and a Strat.
I like both live Winterland versions, but the one issued on Live Cream Vol 1 is clearly superior. They were tighter, and there was a better composition in the solo that resolved nicely into the chorus. They were just tighter that night, at least for that song. But I like both versions. What a power trio. They've got no equal at all in this style of music.
Real music from back in the day.
I wish this was on film.
Was there ever a rock star who could look completely different in EVERY picture than Clapton??-----------He NEVER played this incredibly after Cream IMO--and he was just 22 or 23 years old!!!!
blind faith aint bad....but that's it
wasn't there something like that at one of the Grammy's, a lot of actors come out dressed with wigs an stuff through all the diff styles of hair he had. I know Jim Carrey was one of them.
+keith wilson We talked about that 45 years ago! The ultimate changeling.
+keith wilson eric was very street wise and fashion conscious. As soon as a new trend appeared he was on it. He had some great haircuts. My favourite is the Farewell Show era. Almost a crop after his shaggy afro and tache. A real style icon.
Derek and the dominoes
This is the one from the box-set "Those Were The Days"...It sounds as if it was the day before or the day after the one on "Live Cream"...equally as good...
the Gibson/Marshall footprint.
I think the Vol 1 version has a bit more focus from beginning to end. This is kind of a juiced up version of Sweet Wine. Up and down a lot. You can't teach this kind of talent to a 22 or 23 year old. You either have it or you don't.
Check out the Grand Ballroom version from October '67. Nearly 16 minutes of jamming at an even more frantic pace.
Cream had so many "Firsts": The first band too sell a million albums-thus being the first platinum disc sellers. They were also the first band to literally change the market place. People started buying albums for good now and the Top 40 was now relegated to second class status. Long playing albums beat out the 45 rpm records in sales for good. The first band to bring the bass guitar upfront along with drums. For that matter along with the Jimi Hendrix experience they were first in having a standout lead guitarist. And every member of Cream could read and write music.
Clapton didn't read or write.
@robrtfranchina That is gibberish
wow those were the days. San Fran was the place.
the drumming here is phenomenal. suddenly reminds of keith moon, but with a real beat and rhythm, and not just marching time. baker is all over this song, he is totally in control of this song. the guitars are struggling to fill it.
Moon is strong but GB is his own league 🎉
Awesome track.
Cream ,one of a kind ,the best trio ever
Closely followed by Rush.
To co oni odpierdolili to przechodzi ludzkie muzyczne pojecie...🤯🤯🤯😵💫🤔🫠🤪
Yeah, I agree totally. That said, I think the "alternate" Winterland version is a gem in its own way.
Just plain WOW!
Winterland Ballroom and the Fillmore West in March 1968, on the Farewell Cream tour.
Performance with intensive
dynamics.
First heard this in Listen in Cambridge Street. On the cans.Listened to nothing else till I worked out a quarter of it. It's still one of my favourite noises.
Fantastic version! Have my doubts about it being at Winterland. The acoustics at Post and Stiner were unmistakable. Thanks for posting.
What blows me away, is that Clapton never played this good again,.........this was Alpha Male Clapton
Great version here. Anyone know whether this take is from the early set or late set on March 9 '68?
By far my favorite live version. So not the version on Live Cream? Is this not captured on a released vinyl format? There were a few other live versions of other songs that were recorded stateside and then used later as overdubs on a few of the songs from RAH in Nov, '68.
Yes, I agree. They did the same thing with Sweet Wine and Sleepy Time Time as well. They all sound like they were from the same show. Anybody know for sure?
Eric also played a Gibson 335.
I remember those long-collared shirts.
Glad they went out of style, something
Cream's music will never do.
I still wish I could do this. Of course, no one would hire me . . .
pressed rat was written by ginger baker and mike taylor
SUPREME…AUM❤
" agree that the Live Cream Vol 1 version is the better one. Where was it recorded can anybody say ?"
If I remember correctly from reading the album jacket it was recorded March 10, 1968 at the
Fillmore West in San Francisco..
Eric Clapton, the Zelig of Rock and Roll.
Love It
Wow!!! Rest east Mr. Baker ✌🏽
Live Cream and live Spoonful era was the height of Clapton’s career. Even though I liked Derrick and the Dominoes, it does not compare to this.
Eric also played a Gibson
Firebird.
Yes, but this is with the SG
I'm starting a Cream Tribute band right now. I need two ferocious players. Well, not fanged, but if y'all want to interpret Cream in a groove, or silence, or whatever way serves, say, Tales of Brave Ulysses. Slow to molten-metal tempo? who knows. Serve the music, not your ego, man...Cream is infinite to me, I was born for progressive blues. I sing, play bass and guitar and rock-steady percussion. Also a requirement: You can count.
I suggest their faster tempo rendition/version of, "Sunshine" -- just maybe (?) not QUITE as fast. 🥛
awesome
Hey and the lyrics of Pete Brown ... my fave
fucking brilliant!
They weren't as alert to cues in this version, so there some missteps. Anybody know if this version was recorded BEFORE the on on Live Cream Vol 1? Sounds to me like it was.
Folks talk about Zeppelin, but Zeppelin could never come close to this.
From a compositional standpoint, The Live Cream Vol. 1 version is by far superior to this. I like this version, it has different elements than the Live Cream Vol. 1 version and stands on it's own, but as an overall piece, the Live Cream vol. 1 version is for me definitive. They just seemed to improvise a perfect piece, as though it was a symphonic composition. It had a beginning, middle, and end, a cohesive theme that runs throughout. Baker's drumming is far superior on the Vol. 1 version.
This is from Live Cream Vol 1 album. We used to play this in my band late 60s early 70s. Just grit your teeth and grind away!! 😬🎸
THEY WOULD DO AFTERNOON & EVENING SETS...THIS ONE OF THE LATER SHOWS....FILLMORE WEST
@@DouglasMBrockie Thanks. A little jaunt to the past. I remember playing this at the school dances and parties on my SG. Still can play some of those phrases. Takes huge energy and attitude. Anyone want to start a band or jam?!Used to 'prep' myself for a gig by lying on the bed in the dark and listening to live sides of Wheels of Fire, Crossroads, Spoonful. Inspiring at the time.
have often wondered if Baker was inspired by the sounds of an air raid from when he was a kid during the war
He said it was the trains that ran under his home growing up. Watch the Cream film.
Marshall amps are cranked up to full volume.
Anybody know what happened to that 1 pickup Firebird?
Auctioned off with the rest of his Cream-era guitars, to benefit the treatment center in Antigua
@@bttmdweller That wasn't the Cream Firebird, though. I think Delany got that one.
What ever happened to Clapton´s painted SG? Anybody?
Magnus Hartelius Todd Rundgren bought it from Jackie Lomax... he repaired it and played it for several years. Now it's owned by a private collector who bought it to benefit Clapton's Crossroads charity.
Talk about letting it all hang out Cream did Nothing any of them did after matched their intensity when they were in sync & on their game
It's the name of a car made in the 50''s or 60''s.
It's also the name of a sexually transmitted disease. Non-specific urethritis. I think it was named for that, although the NSU cars were really cool LOL!
agree with every word
🤟👹❤
Had wedge monitors even been invented yet? I don't see any in the still images.
I saw them live only once at their last concert in the United States in Providence, RI. No monitors were involved.
Monitors are for girl bands.
Colossal!
A l époque, les versions "live" étaient souvent meilleures qu en studio !
Holy shit is he murdering that guitar the last few minutes or what?
Clapton must have been incredibly tiny back in sixties,that led Paul looks huge around his neck.
2:04
as in Beethoven...simplicity made manifest
I agree that the Live Cream Vol 1 version is the better one. Where was it recorded can anybody say ?
And a Gibson Les Paul.
SG
Eric's guitar was named
The Fool, right?
A 1961 SG, correct?
Loud and furious 1960s
style!