And they still had that MAGIC decades later! R.I.P. Ginger & Jack. When Sis and I are Road Trippin', we always try to stop by the Crossroads if we're within 100 miles. We've had some terrific lunches in town. 😅 🎶❤🎶❤🎶
At this point, I pick up the closest guitar to hand and try, by Heck, do I try to play, love it! Absolute heroics in musical form, Cream are.😮Awesome!!
it will be forgotten. you music fans are off your heads. i really like this music but it is not likely to last 2000 years - just as well or some spinster will be preaching about it in a primary school
I've heard many guitarists, famous or not, cover Crossroads; nobody has the sound and feel Clapton has for it. That goes for the 1968 recording as well as this. He's still the gold standard!
Notice how - in the verse - Baker is dragging the beat by a shade and Bruce is pushing it by a similar shade. This sets up an incredible tension. They then settle into the middle of the pulse for the solos. Genius, pure genius. But then, they were probably the best rhythm section on the planet.
Me too. Don’t you think Eric played this much better in the 60s. I like his solos much better then. They jammed on this one. Butch Trucks of the Allman Brothers Band said they listened to Wheels of Fire and it occurred to them , they could jam too. 💙😎🎸👍🏻
I was just a child when these 3 went their separate ways. Jack and Ginger are both gone now but I’m still listening to their music. Just a bass guitar, Eric on the strat and Ginger banging on percussion. Simple but perfect.
Remember listening to this on the Wheels of Fire album back in '69 together with Spoonful. Totally blew my mind. Up intil then i was listening to bands like Jerry and the Pacemakers, Hermans Hermits, and my mate lent me this album. Changed my music direction completely. Today at 71 i still listen to that album. Timless and brilliant.
Ginger Baker He was a beast on the drums. After about two years of playing drums I discovered him and he revolutionized everything I thought I knew and he told me "boy, you're wrong." One of my heroes on the drums.
I was fortunate to meet with EC several times- He’s an avid fly fisher, and about 20 years ago he was trying to get his gf (now wife, and mom of 3 daughters, Melia) interested in the sport, so he brought her into our shop in SoCal, Bob Marriott’s Flyfishing Store, to outfit her for a trip to the Green River at Flaming Gorge in Utah. Anyhow, I got to meet him several times, and sold him probably a half dozen flyrods and other gear online over the next few years. He was a very nice gentleman and I was honored to be his fly shop contact for about 3 years!
I learned how to play lead guitar from Eric I was 17 at the time and listened and listened and kept say to myself I want to sound just like this. I owe it all to Eric for the way I play guitar now. thank you Eric. love to you always
This concert will always stand out in my mind as a superb demonstration of what a blend of rock, jazz and blues sounds like. I come back to it time and again.
Beautiful Combination when these come together.It tells that no band can ever play this without compassion.Only Eric Clapton,Jack Bruce & Ginger Baker can produce this Magic.
Brilliant performance!! Soo sad that Jack and Ginger are gone but thank God for UA-cam. Today's kids can still hear the Good Stuff. P.S. if you listen to Robert's original turn it down to .78 rpm to hear the original speed.
Just such a great classic Rock song! So many times that I have been in the mood to hear a Rock song, this one comes to mind and I put it on and CRANK IT UP! ❤
I was lucky to see the Cream on the Goodbye Tour at La's Forum which is stilling going strong today . Lots of great music back then but the Cream were far and away the best . Most influential trio . Deep Purple opened .
Incredible trio of outstanding musicians. It is a shame the band was so short lived. Clapton shows why he is one of the best playing a song written 40 years ago, with incredible leads that belong.
I love the groovy fusion-like style they put to Crossroads here. A different beast from the soaring, chaotic drug-fueled version of their heyday, but just as virtuoso!
@@greatunz67 They go for a cleaner, more polite sound nowadays. The playing is still there, I mean Clapton's solo here is fantastic, but he's playing a strat into some PA'd amp instead of the good ol' Gibson into a plexi with everything cranked to 10. Same goes for Jack. These guys were one of the loudest bands in the 60s and that's what contributed greatly to their sound. I do wish that were still the style, I love it.
@@torchmusic27 technically Clapton is much better than he seems he always makes playing look easy - But i agree the original Crossroads was iconic - this is a sanitised version using a set up (Fender) that doesnt suit the sound
I was very fortunate to get to spend a bit of time with Pete after his breakdown, he drank in the pub I worked at and he came in everyday at lunch time and I got to spend a lot of time chatting about everything and anything, he was such a gentleman.
2019 2024 (edit) A lot of guitar players would always choose Jimi over Eric...majority do that... but personally Eric is more melodic... more articulate... cleaner sound... Both are great; but to each his own. And EC is now pushing 80! Legend
Is it just me or did they get better with age? It's too bad that when they first started out,, they couldn't agree on what type of music CREAM should play. Three great musicians!
Compared to the runaway train that was 1968, this is like night and day. More space in the song, more feel, solid groove, lovely dynamics in Eric's vocals, and a dynamite fill by Ginger. Brilliant.
I've had 2 Near Death Experiences; nearly drowned as a child, and then clinically dead from a surprise food allergy decades later. I believe Chris knows about this beautiful tribute. Julian and Dad also do a gorgeous version. 😊❤🎶❤
This so extremely exciting to see and hear. The throbbing bass of Jack Bruce and the rhythmic drums of Ginger Baker completed by the compelling guitar of Eric Clapton makes tis trio timeless.
jimmy appudurai no way has he lost it,Look at how he played here,2005 i know, but listening to the guitar here is like having a conversation with it,and word for word ,it is so intense and clear,Absolutly fantastic.
Robert Johnson’s GHOST! I’m from the Mississippi Delta, originally. I lived near Clarksdale and Rosedale much of my life. This does my heart good to hear this again in my old age. Well done boys! 💙😎🎸✌🏻
Eric Clapton is the only guitar player to make me cry while playing solos,he manages to put so much soul,passion and power in his solos its unbelievable! Whem they played this live at the filmore back in 68 i believe erics solo in crossroads then was the greatest solo ever played by anyone,this version was pretty dam good i can tell you makes me cry all the same! What a band cream were im so sad i couldn't attend this reunion,to anyone that did go you were truly blessed!!
I would have died and gone to heaven to be there. Followed Clapton very early on, when he hit Cream, it was incredible- we were all entranced. Great reunion!
Famous people in the audience: 0:46 John Squire. 2:04 and 3:58 Christiane Amanpour. 2:19 Gloria Steinem. 2:44 Brian May. Anyone else famous on camera? 3:28 ? Ghislaine Maxwell ? Maybe?
Such an amazing song and group of musicians. I recently took a trip to the world famous cavern club in Liverpool. When the chap on stage asked for requests I asked for Crossroads. He'd never heard of it or Cream 😢
I’m not the “70es above all” kind of guy, and we can acknowledge that the world has been populate by some of the finest and most incredible power trio throughout the decades, many of them with a technical proficiency way beyond everything from that decade But none of them will ever and never played in the exact same way these three guys did. Never.
Fucking Awesome! A blues classic given love by young British blues men. Three guys at the end of their careers putting together perhaps their best performance. Be happy you saw this before two died and the other lost his mind.
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One of the best bands there ever was !
And they still had that MAGIC decades later! R.I.P. Ginger & Jack. When Sis and I are Road Trippin', we always try to stop by the Crossroads if we're within 100 miles. We've had some terrific lunches in town. 😅 🎶❤🎶❤🎶
Literally one of the greatest reunions of all mankind.
“ We were a jazz band. We just didn’t tell Eric “ - Jack Bruce
“Eric played blues through jazz” - Ginger baker
Love it
Nice one!
Ha ha, I don't think Eric is that naive
Ginger Baker also said something to that effect in an interview, that they were a jazz band but Clapton never realized it 😆😆
You may hear this song a million times by clapton or the others but it will never sound right without the three of them.
I agree with you but surprisingly Skynyrd did a pretty fine rendition.
And Rush, can’t touch Cream’s version from ‘68, but still pretty damn good
absulutly right
Agreed 👍
The original song was the best. I still listen to the old version at least once a week. 72 years young and still rocking. (Ricky)===:::
Jack Bruce's playing is absolutely superb. RIP old boy.
He couldn’t do it alone .
You're so right. I've played fretless - it's a b@st@rd, but Bruce was note perfect. What a musician.
Whatta man..ha have 😮
I’m 71 and still rocking. When I hear this music I’m on the road riding my Harley.
😊
No tengo moto....pero bueno...
At this point, I pick up the closest guitar to hand and try, by Heck, do I try to play, love it! Absolute heroics in musical form, Cream are.😮Awesome!!
@@gumersindoreguera4757
😂
75 and I'm right there with you!
100 years in the future your music will still be loved & never forgotten.
❤️RIP Jack & Ginger ❤️
it will be forgotten. you music fans are off your heads. i really like this music but it is not likely to last 2000 years - just as well or some spinster will be preaching about it in a primary school
Hope youre wrong, we still remember Baroque, Classical and Neo classical, dont we? Well maybe not you. @frereanaktom99
@@frereanaktom99If it makes us happy to believe that, then let's be happy.
100 years down line there would be Sharia law & music will be banned in UK & Europe
55 years of cream and I still can’t get enough !
I've heard many guitarists, famous or not, cover Crossroads; nobody has the sound and feel Clapton has for it. That goes for the 1968 recording as well as this. He's still the gold standard!
abso- fucking- loutely
Agreed....Lynryd Skynyrd did a hell of a job in 1976
Active circuits behind the pick guard plus Eric’s magic fingers!😉
Only Robert Johnson did it better than Clapton.
Clapton's gift of dynamics never equalled..the way he hangs on to the key note is exquisite..almost painful .
Notice how - in the verse - Baker is dragging the beat by a shade and Bruce is pushing it by a similar shade. This sets up an incredible tension. They then settle into the middle of the pulse for the solos.
Genius, pure genius. But then, they were probably the best rhythm section on the planet.
Graeme Oxley absolutely agree
THANK you so much for that comment
what are you talking about? sounds great as always...….get it right and don't smoke so much.....
Yes masters of time. Ginger said he loved playing with Clapton because he had time
Nicely observed, Graeme.
Rock/ Blues don't get no better than this...never has done...never will do.
I'm 71 and still spinning the original Wheels of Fire. This is so great!
I'm old and this is my music, greatest ever.
Right with ya
Me too. Don’t you think Eric played this much better in the 60s. I like his solos much better then. They jammed on this one. Butch Trucks of the Allman Brothers Band said they listened to Wheels of Fire and it occurred to them , they could jam too. 💙😎🎸👍🏻
@@catdaddy3302 , the brothers were always my favorite band. I totally get it.
This man is a musical saint!
Hi Old, I'm Mark
I am 8o years old and have loved this music all of my life.
God bless you. You have great taste
Me too. I try to tell my grandchildren that this is what real music sounds like.
I was just a child when these 3 went their separate ways. Jack and Ginger are both gone now but I’m still listening to their music. Just a bass guitar, Eric on the strat and Ginger banging on percussion. Simple but perfect.
We will never hear music like this again. This is as good as it will ever be .
Two guitars,drums, vocal. No dancers, no autotune, no backing singers etc etc. Heaven
And their sound just filled the RAH
There's 1 guitar though...
One guitar. One bass.
Hey, I like dancers.
@@blaiseziemian4733 lol bass is a type of guitar you fucking retard. "bass guitar".
Save this video folks. It will never happen again. RIP Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.
have the cd - know where you re coming from
This is tame compared to the late 60s version.
INDEED
I have it on blu ray,amazing sound😅
@@kjellwre2240so have i
Wow. I could listen to them jam for hours. Clapton singing is so much better than 40 years ago.
Delaney Bramlett taught Clapton how to sing.
trois géants il n' en reste que deux
Folks, save this video. It will never happen again. RIP Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker.🙏
sad
@@vickimingus9281 FU. Just a note from the larger society.
Remember listening to this on the Wheels of Fire album back in '69 together with Spoonful. Totally blew my mind. Up intil then i was listening to bands like Jerry and the Pacemakers, Hermans Hermits, and my mate lent me this album. Changed my music direction completely. Today at 71 i still listen to that album. Timless and brilliant.
That is sublime. Just sublime. RIP Jack Bruce, you were one of the best
Jack Bruce was indeed the best.
I played support for him in Carlisle. I think it was in the early 90's. Had a little chat during the set up.
Yes he is
RIP Mr Ginger Baker
The “Cream” always rises to the top !
76 and still rockin with Cream...
Havent met you yet, but I love you are your thoughts {Im 77)
Ginger Baker He was a beast on the drums. After about two years of playing drums I discovered him and he revolutionized everything I thought I knew and he told me "boy, you're wrong." One of my heroes on the drums.
Geez, that shot of Brian May warms the heart right up
INDEED!!!!!
He’s watching a master at work
Thanx ..I was wondering who that was at 2:43..couldn't place him till I read your reply..
Christine Amanpour rocks out to this - a bit after Brian May. Great reactions
I was fortunate to meet with EC several times- He’s an avid fly fisher, and about 20 years ago he was trying to get his gf (now wife, and mom of 3 daughters, Melia) interested in the sport, so he brought her into our shop in SoCal, Bob Marriott’s Flyfishing Store, to outfit her for a trip to the Green River at Flaming Gorge in Utah. Anyhow, I got to meet him several times, and sold him probably a half dozen flyrods and other gear online over the next few years. He was a very nice gentleman and I was honored to be his fly shop contact for about 3 years!
What great story !
I learned how to play
lead guitar from Eric
I was 17 at the time
and listened and listened
and kept say to myself
I want to sound just like this. I owe it all to Eric
for the way I play guitar now. thank you Eric.
love to you always
This concert will always stand out in my mind as a superb demonstration of what a blend of rock, jazz and blues sounds like. I come back to it time and again.
Beautiful Combination when these come together.It tells that no band can ever play this without compassion.Only Eric Clapton,Jack Bruce & Ginger Baker can produce this Magic.
Clapton has never been better than he was during the two years with Cream. I guess he needed the competition from Ginger and Jack to play his best.
Incredible !!! Blues from another World !!!
Fretless bass! Jack Bruce was a monster!!!!
FRETLESS...así se llaman estos bajos
Chocolate por la noticia..
The three of the Worlds best here together. Amazing and Rocking stuff.
Too bad their manager burned them out. They would have stayed together but one more album would have been nice
Absolutely one of the best live performances in rock music…amazing
Even Brian may was blown away by Clapton's crossroads solo
He was like "Niceeee" lmaoo
Brian no doubt wishes he could play as well as Clapton.
Really?! LOL
He’s watching a master at work
Not really. He was was just enjoying watching three great musicians at work. It's what musicians do
What a moment in time captured forever!! Fkn brilliant!
😢😂❤🎉 by my by
Clapton is the best
The greatest
One of Bast!! Page ,Back,David Gilmor,Eric Clapton,, All is on TOP if you chose any of them no mistake!!😂😂😂
..great fun! Appreciate their dedication to a bygone era, which spawned the likes of a generation never to be seen again.
These three musical giants are really strutting their stuff in this song. DAMN they were good. Thank GOD we still have Eric.
Brilliant performance!! Soo sad that Jack and Ginger are gone but thank God for UA-cam. Today's kids can still hear the Good Stuff. P.S. if you listen to Robert's original turn it down to .78 rpm to hear the original speed.
I swear, nobody plays bass like Jack Bruce. Damn I miss him.
Just such a great classic Rock song! So many times that I have been in the mood to hear a Rock song, this one comes to mind and I put it on and CRANK IT UP! ❤
I was lucky to see the Cream on the Goodbye Tour at La's Forum which is stilling going strong today . Lots of great music back then but the Cream were far and away the best . Most influential trio . Deep Purple opened .
Cream........ definitely in my top five bands of all time😁😁🇬🇧
Top Three here ... I include Allman Brothers, later Beatles, Blind Faith.
Incredible trio of outstanding musicians. It is a shame the band was so short lived. Clapton shows why he is one of the best playing a song
written 40 years ago, with incredible leads that belong.
Watched it over and over..so good...wish they could have all lived..to make more..spectacular music
Don't know how many times I've listened to this and the only word that comes to mind is , Greatness!
This song epitomizes Cream in their best years.....it did then and it does now.....totally historic Rock n Roll.....
Ever the showman, Jack Bruce closes it out the way they first did this song live in 1968. Drew a big smile from Clapton.👍
I love the groovy fusion-like style they put to Crossroads here. A different beast from the soaring, chaotic drug-fueled version of their heyday, but just as virtuoso!
I hated it, they played it to mellow, the heavy faster version they did in the 60's ruled, but Clapton can't play with that kinda fire anymore sadly
@@greatunz67 Bollocks
@@greatunz67 Did it occur to you that they were all in their sixties when they played here?
@@greatunz67 They go for a cleaner, more polite sound nowadays. The playing is still there, I mean Clapton's solo here is fantastic, but he's playing a strat into some PA'd amp instead of the good ol' Gibson into a plexi with everything cranked to 10. Same goes for Jack. These guys were one of the loudest bands in the 60s and that's what contributed greatly to their sound. I do wish that were still the style, I love it.
@@torchmusic27 technically Clapton is much better than he seems he always makes playing look easy - But i agree the original Crossroads was iconic - this is a sanitised version using a set up (Fender) that doesnt suit the sound
One of my favorite covers by Cream.
I was very fortunate to get to spend a bit of time with Pete after his breakdown, he drank in the pub I worked at and he came in everyday at lunch time and I got to spend a lot of time chatting about everything and anything, he was such a gentleman.
Pete?
@@JamesFolkers this is the 2nd time this has happened, I posted this on a Fleetwwod Mac video regarding Peter Green
@@thefeckineejit264Interesting…
2019
2024 (edit)
A lot of guitar players
would always choose Jimi over Eric...majority do that...
but personally Eric is
more melodic...
more articulate...
cleaner sound...
Both are great; but to each his own.
And EC is now pushing 80! Legend
Jimi was a fan of Eric before Eric was fan of Jimi 👍🏼
And Eric was a fan of Duane Allman
@@tonteria24 And Jimi was a fan of Terry Kath too.
Eric Clapton is more versatile, he plays any genre and what he does, he does it better than the original, he is the one I like the most.
The music never dies.
OMG - this performance is so Damn awesome!
Is it just me or did they get better with age? It's too bad that when they first started out,, they couldn't agree on what type of music CREAM should play. Three great musicians!
your so right mate cant stop rewinding the lead break
They couldn't even agree on what drugs to take back then. Ginger & jack never got along.
Yes, IMO, they totally got better with age!
Maybe they are better, but don't forget the sound quality. If you compare the 1968 and the 2005 versions the latter one just sounds more compact.
Compared to the runaway train that was 1968, this is like night and day. More space in the song, more feel, solid groove, lovely dynamics in Eric's vocals, and a dynamite fill by Ginger. Brilliant.
Ginger Baker and Ringo Starr have to the most perfect-for-their-band drummers that ever were.
I would have to add Charlie to the list, as well as Michael Shrieve
Beware Mr. Baker’s perfect time and chops.
Excellent bass line, incredible work on drums, super guitar solo, in a word: best
I've had 2 Near Death Experiences; nearly drowned as a child, and then clinically dead from a surprise food allergy decades later. I believe Chris knows about this beautiful tribute. Julian and Dad also do a gorgeous version. 😊❤🎶❤
Three old men could still bring it here. RIP Jack.
Probably the best bass player Bruce , he drives the sound of cream
This so extremely exciting to see and hear. The throbbing bass of Jack Bruce and the rhythmic drums of Ginger Baker completed by the compelling guitar of Eric Clapton makes tis trio timeless.
Beautiful
That is just sublime and seriously on another level - Something very special to get them together. Lovely to watch 😲😉👌👍🇦🇺
Brian May was there ! Nice
Even the idols have idols
He's an arrogant moron
David gilmour, Rogério waters, paul macarty, and the list is sooooo long!
@@cromerbeach Speak for yourself mate.
talents looking to talents the real music makers than that crap off todays shit 👍👍👍👍mark
Imagine if these three had stayed together a little bit longer...
The world wasn't equipped enough to handle that much intensity, I guess.
who said Clapton has lost it absolutely briliant
12 YEARS AGO, LONG TIME
jimmy appudurai no way has he lost it,Look at how he played here,2005 i know, but listening to the guitar here is like having a conversation with it,and word for word ,it is so intense and clear,Absolutly fantastic.
wait, who said that!?
he'll never lose it, absolutely incredible.
Robert Johnson’s GHOST! I’m from the Mississippi Delta, originally. I lived near Clarksdale and Rosedale much of my life. This does my heart good to hear this again in my old age. Well done boys! 💙😎🎸✌🏻
It doesn’t get any better. The old guys still have it here.
Hearing this from you brings tears thinking of my dad who left us this year. He was good friends with your dad at Princeton. Thank you.
anche dopo cinquant'anni sempre fantastico ... grazie una volta di più Eric
This will always be my favorite Bruce song
Toujours aussi apaisante
Thank you brittni 🙏
3 amazing musical gods.
One of the best performances ever👍🤠
Eric Clapton is the only guitar player to make me cry while playing solos,he manages to put so much soul,passion and power in his solos its unbelievable!
Whem they played this live at the filmore back in 68 i believe erics solo in crossroads then was the greatest solo ever played by anyone,this version was pretty dam good i can tell you makes me cry all the same!
What a band cream were im so sad i couldn't attend this reunion,to anyone that did go you were truly blessed!!
I can't even remember how many joints I smoked listening to this when it came out. It was a lot of them because pot back then was shit.
Hard to believe this was recorded nearly 20 years ago!!
DAMN this good stuff. Three masters of their craft, for sure!! Thank GOD I am old enough to remember when this came out.... As good as it gets!!!
Никакого дыма- шума-света.. ТОЛЬКО М А С Т Е Р С Т В О великих музыкантов ❤😊
I would have died and gone to heaven to be there. Followed Clapton very early on, when he hit Cream, it was incredible- we were all entranced. Great reunion!
They were simply superb, never saw them live, one of my big regrets.
Touche'! I was in the 7th grade when I first heard this. Loved it then, only now can truly appreciate it.
excelllent videos....wowowowowoo ....love them all !! ty ...for sharing..♥
One word -- Great!!!!!
The best tribute video! Groovy!
Fantastici, unici, inimitabili !!!
God put these musicians together too make music that can never be replicated.
Appreciating the self control of the members of the audience with seating tickets! The revolution won’t be televised!
When EC steps away from the mic, you just know it's gonna be so epic even Brian May would be awestruck
Brian's even in the audience watching it. That's respect, considering Brian's legendary in his own right.
Famous people in the audience:
0:46 John Squire.
2:04 and 3:58 Christiane Amanpour.
2:19 Gloria Steinem.
2:44 Brian May.
Anyone else famous on camera?
3:28 ? Ghislaine Maxwell ? Maybe?
Briam Adams
@ I didn’t notice Bryan Adams. Where in the video is he?
@@MikeSowsun Minute 04:32
what a solo!
Such an amazing song and group of musicians. I recently took a trip to the world famous cavern club in Liverpool. When the chap on stage asked for requests I asked for Crossroads. He'd never heard of it or Cream 😢
epic performance..to see them together like this
2024 still feel epic
I’m not the “70es above all” kind of guy, and we can acknowledge that the world has been populate by some of the finest and most incredible power trio throughout the decades, many of them with a technical proficiency way beyond everything from that decade
But none of them will ever and never played in the exact same way these three guys did. Never.
Eric Clapton is among the top guitarists of all time. If you watch a lot of his videos he does it all.
The classics are & will always be the greatest ever!!!!! Wooooooooo!!!
Fucking Awesome! A blues classic given love by young British blues men. Three guys at the end of their careers putting together perhaps their best performance. Be happy you saw this before two died and the other lost his mind.