He just loves to drum and play the conga and so it was an easy exercise, plus the boys needed money at that time and as you know in this world you do everything for money because the god in this world is called money and everyone blindly follows him run.
He looks miserable and uncertain to me. The song is great. I’ve always loved it. What it needed was a way better director with actual ideas and visual skills and a better vibe onset. This song just deserved better. Someone should recut it using more interesting footage of the band.
Interviewed about the Disraeli Gears art he professes "lovely colours, ain't it?". Interviewed about Wrapping Paper as their first single Ginger Baker emoted that he'd like to punch the one who talked him into it, and Jack Bruce smiles when asked about playing too loud in NYC Atlantic Records Studios leads me to believe they were just children in a children's video. You didn't see Hendrix prancing around with police gear in a celery garden, no. ua-cam.com/video/ddFAtcwhp3U/v-deo.html
@@guywalker29 Not sure why you need to crap on them to raise up Hendrix. It's an ignorant juxtaposition. Jimi had plenty of shit decisions, especially the last few years.
You are correct, except for the part about the decisions you say being made late, as his bad decisions to sign contracts with the gangster Ed Chalpin in '66 to pay rent is what scared everybody off, dogged him, and some would say were his demise, so I'll put it another way; The Cream were on a par with Iron Butterfly and Steppenwolf by the time they decided to run for the exits. And what happened then was Eric Clapton went off with Delaney and Bonnie, and then cop Duane Allman's chops borrowing Leon in some kind of cracker competition with (except Ginger Baker who went off to jones it in Africa) Alvin Lee who picked up Mylon Lefevre in hopes to survive Joe Cocker's Mad Englishmen (with women) adrift in Oklahoma. The whole cool England thing (Brian Jones running for the exits) was over (Clapton is God), Steve Marriott and his Shakey Jake and Redneck Jump; even the Who had Lynyard Skynyard open for them. So as they say on Between The Buttons, make sure you count them before buttoning them up, Gramps. The whole thing got embarrassing. And as you can tell, it isn't ignorance on my part, and juxtaposition is used here incorrectly by you. It was a dig on my part pointing out a bunch of English teenyboppers who thought they could emulate the U.S. only to look like a bunch of idiots, except for Stevie Winwood, who they ALL looked up to and never looked back with anything but virtue.
"Setting up the chessboard while Death rolls out the dice". Clapton knew a thing or two, methinks. There is a book called "The Devil's Chessboard" about CIA ops from the 50s and 60s.
I'm trying so hard to find a breakdown analysis of these lyrics.... Listened to this song my whole life and always wondered.. tonight I decided to go down the rabbit hole and ended up here... Still looking but thank you for the lead.
Everyone commenting about what a nice irreverent song this is is probably ignoring the part about "The yellow Buddhist monk is burning brightly at the zoo" referring to the self immolating monk in Vietnam it's referring to.
Love the frogs. Remember, this was for the Smothers Brothers show, a comedy show. with politicial overtones that were sometimes controversial. I think it would be right up their alley. Lipsyncing not so good but what are ya gonna do? Usually bands performed live on that TV show but I think it was for the graphics that mimicked the Beatles. It's a good song and they do it well. And yes, Clapton had that hair.
Sweet Jesus there's three people that wish they were anywhere but where they are. Eric looks like He wants to kill Dead things 2:18 😂 I know the Smothers Bros was a popular show and of course The Who's appearance is the stuff of legend. But this is... ridiculous 😂😂😂
He is not bored…he is overly concerned that a fistfight might break out behind him. Jack might have a shiner already as he is seemingly hiding and looking down whilst he plays his bass.
So in the timeline of 65 and 66... Which one came first? Revolver album or Cream debut? It's one of these things we will never know, one would not exist without the other. But I still feel like Cream was more influential because it had that extra VISCERAL factor that only they had from this early period.
Because albums need filler material, they had a few good songs on each album but weren't exactly the Beatles. Calling them a supergroup at that time is silly. Only Eric was well known at the time, Ginger and Jack weren't, they only became known after hooking up with Eric. Neither Jack nor Ginger were ever very succesful on their own or in other groups afterwards. I never bought into the supergroup thing with them. The star was Eric.
@@greatunz67 What you have written is both nonsense and misleading. If ANYONE FOR TENNIS was filler, it would not have been released as a single in both the UK and USA. Cream even performed it on television. And Cream was called a supergroup because of the proficiency of its members. Supergroups were not called supergroups because their members were "known" by the general public but because they were recognised by their peers as excellent musicians.
If they were trying to be sarcastic, they failed miserably. How could they think it was a good idea to proceed to record this "song"? Not one of them refused? Then to make the most ridiculous film advertising it? It's not even a parody; it's simply terrible.
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I can almost guarantee you Baker was thinking about whacking Bruce with that racquet the entire time.
How they convinced Ginger Baker to agree to this is beyond comprehension.
He just loves to drum and play the conga and so it was an easy exercise, plus the boys needed money at that time and as you know in this world you do everything for money because the god in this world is called money and everyone blindly follows him run.
"Okay I'll do it, as long as I can smoke."
C'mon man, it's not that bad 😂.
@@mikelord9860 as long as you breath you can smoke 🌞
You wouldn't think that was Clapton.
Clapton looks like he's having a great time.
haha, at gun-point
He looks miserable and uncertain to me. The song is great. I’ve always loved it. What it needed was a way better director with actual ideas and visual skills and a better vibe onset. This song just deserved better. Someone should recut it using more interesting footage of the band.
Sounds like something from Traffic 👍
Except if Jack Bruce wrote it and not Steve Winwood. Considerable difference
@tjfitzpatrick4456 acoustic guitar, percussion, wood winds, melody sound like some Traffic tunes. Take it easy buddy...
@@televinv8062 UA-cam comments - home of twisted knickers.... ; )
@@televinv8062It reminds me of Traffic too.
@@tjfitzpatrick4456 Eric Clapton wrote the music, Martin Sharp the lyrics. Jack Bruce played bass and recorder.
Fabulous song with great lyrics and arrangement! Overlooked it when it originally came out.
Imagine if it had been on their live set lists - they may never have broken up!...WHAT AM I SAYING?!?!?!?!?
My first time seeing this. Awesome. I was a big CREAM fan as a teen. THANKS
If I ever meet Eric the first thing I'd probably ask him about is this video 😂😂
Interviewed about the Disraeli Gears art he professes "lovely colours, ain't it?". Interviewed about Wrapping Paper as their first single Ginger Baker emoted that he'd like to punch the one who talked him into it, and Jack Bruce smiles when asked about playing too loud in NYC Atlantic Records Studios leads me to believe they were just children in a children's video. You didn't see Hendrix prancing around with police gear in a celery garden, no.
ua-cam.com/video/ddFAtcwhp3U/v-deo.html
@@guywalker29 Not sure why you need to crap on them to raise up Hendrix. It's an ignorant juxtaposition. Jimi had plenty of shit decisions, especially the last few years.
You are correct, except for the part about the decisions you say being made late, as his bad decisions to sign contracts with the gangster Ed Chalpin in '66 to pay rent is what scared everybody off, dogged him, and some would say were his demise, so I'll put it another way; The Cream were on a par with Iron Butterfly and Steppenwolf by the time they decided to run for the exits. And what happened then was Eric Clapton went off with Delaney and Bonnie, and then cop Duane Allman's chops borrowing Leon in some kind of cracker competition with (except Ginger Baker who went off to jones it in Africa) Alvin Lee who picked up Mylon Lefevre in hopes to survive Joe Cocker's Mad Englishmen (with women) adrift in Oklahoma. The whole cool England thing (Brian Jones running for the exits) was over (Clapton is God), Steve Marriott and his Shakey Jake and Redneck Jump; even the Who had Lynyard Skynyard open for them. So as they say on Between The Buttons, make sure you count them before buttoning them up, Gramps. The whole thing got embarrassing.
And as you can tell, it isn't ignorance on my part, and juxtaposition is used here incorrectly by you. It was a dig on my part pointing out a bunch of English teenyboppers who thought they could emulate the U.S. only to look like a bunch of idiots, except for Stevie Winwood, who they ALL looked up to and never looked back with anything but virtue.
One thing, I love the frogs introducing the band
I love this song! Will listen to it in summer !! thanks for the reminder Nettie!
I remember this from years ago, thanks for the replay !
I'm an old Cream fan.
First time I've heard this... I'm amazed.. it's brilliant!!
Clapton should resurrect this one for his live shows these days. I think audiences would love it.
I'd pay a decent amount for that to happen 😂😂
@@sambakery2006 Me too
yeah, I've seen Jeff Beck do Hi Ho Silver Lining
This is from their appearance on the Smothers bros. Show
Sounds like Eric,Ginger and Jack spent a few nights on the tiles with Ray Davies before writing this one..
Love the song 😊love you eric😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Truly a gem
Why Clapton never looks the same throughout the years. Seems like a shapeshifter.
Best video clip of all time
Cream made the weirdest decisions for singles.
Fabulous!!
I want to blame Robert Stigwood, because he was deeply weird, but can't.
Always loved this track. How HARD it must have been to shoot that silly, silly video!
I know, right! Clapton especially looked embarrassed during the whole tennis racket/police uniform bit!
As both a tennis player/ fan and a fan of Clapton this is not what I was expecting
Those grips are not continental
This song and video was intentionally- irreverent according to Clapton. One of my favorite Cream tunes. Absurdly- beautiful. ❤
That's nice celery there. Very nice.
It was written for an outlaw biker exploitation film called The Savage Seven.
An actual genre in those days!
"Setting up the chessboard while Death rolls out the dice". Clapton knew a thing or two, methinks.
There is a book called "The Devil's Chessboard" about CIA ops from the 50s and 60s.
I'm trying so hard to find a breakdown analysis of these lyrics.... Listened to this song my whole life and always wondered.. tonight I decided to go down the rabbit hole and ended up here... Still looking but thank you for the lead.
I never saw this video. Only heard the song.
Same here. The vid is as trippy as the tune. Meant in a positive way. 👍
Hey kids!!!
Shall we do hallucinogenics today???
Yaaaaayyy!!!
This makes perfect sense if you drop some Purple Microdot! ✌️😳
Purple Ozley in my part of the woods....
Clapton understands the crap assignment.😂
So, The Beatles weren't available to do this kind of video for one of their songs?
Everyone commenting about what a nice irreverent song this is is probably ignoring the part about "The yellow Buddhist monk is burning brightly at the zoo" referring to the self immolating monk in Vietnam it's referring to.
Love the frogs. Remember, this was for the Smothers Brothers show, a comedy show. with politicial overtones that were sometimes controversial. I think it would be right up their alley. Lipsyncing not so good but what are ya gonna do? Usually bands performed live on that TV show but I think it was for the graphics that mimicked the Beatles. It's a good song and they do it well. And yes, Clapton had that hair.
God I completely forgot about this track
Clapton’s just happy to be there.
😂 Even the moon is not always full.
Sweet Jesus there's three people that wish they were anywhere but where they are. Eric looks like He wants to kill Dead things 2:18 😂
I know the Smothers Bros was a popular show and of course The Who's appearance is the stuff of legend. But this is... ridiculous 😂😂😂
Hey I can dig it !
Lol this is great 😄
I forgot about this song
Oh dear !
Pretty wild.
I thought this was an old clip from SNL I’d missed. No wonder Clapton sought out Duane Allman.
Clapton couldn't have looked more bored 😂
He is not bored…he is overly concerned that a fistfight might break out behind him. Jack might have a shiner already as he is seemingly hiding and looking down whilst he plays his bass.
This is so Spinal Tap shit lmao
Nice song! Don’t know about those frogs though…
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Never seen this before thanks... So is there a list of Cream songs that weren't released on albums like this one?
Yes.
So in the timeline of 65 and 66... Which one came first? Revolver album or Cream debut? It's one of these things we will never know, one would not exist without the other. But I still feel like Cream was more influential because it had that extra VISCERAL factor that only they had from this early period.
This is a display of humility 101 or should I say humiliation ? Tennis Anyone?
"I say, Lionel, catch!"
What the fuck were they thinking?
Pressed Rat, Warthog and FROGS?
Dig It! Miigwich!!!
LSD...not just for breakfast anymore!😊
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Clapton doesn't look too happy either.
Exact date, please; of original broadcast of this clip-?
Never seen or heard that before, bizarre.
The cream song that sounds nothing like cream
Clapton looks like a badass rockstar...which he is
Now he looks like someone's great grandfather.
@@johndrake2729 well he is like, 80 years old, but STILL rocking! He also looks cooler than McCartney
@@DavidJohnson-tn2py Yet McCartney still looks younger than him!
@@johndrake2729but he looks me Auntie Edith 😂
What did they do to the poor toads?
Licked them. 😝🐸
What year ?
1968
No frogs were harmed in the filming of this...
thought it was Tony Rice on guitar
It's not worse than his career since the late 70s.
Love Cream. That was exceptionally stupid.
I can’t believe they went all Yellow Submarine. Clapton must have hated it.
Well, he wrote it.
@@Thethecat01 did he really. Well that’s a shocker. I was referring to the film mainly. But point taken.
Eric Clapton... if looks could kill. Baker and Bruce... whacked out of their gourds.
Could have been a Harry Nilson song….
Am I hallucinating?
Anyone for LSD?
Too late...looks like they already got a hold of a sheet
Clapton claims he was getting into Dadaism during this time.
He was interested in doing unexpected things.
😅😅
Major league strange. I like it.
Pity Clapton couldn't play the dobro on his tennis racket.
Beware Mr. Baker
That must have been some acid.
It’s a very different style of comedy compared with Mother’s Lament.
Love Clapton, but this has an awkward vibe.
If looks could kill Robert Stigwood would have died a lot younger...
sus
Of course Tennis = Heroin
Nope..wrong again
Clapton looks unconfortable .
Coke mouth Clapton
My god is this cringe-worthy or what.
Nope, not at all, it's just a fun little song with a video that matches that late 60's fun vibe.
Well it's a toss up between this one and wrapping paper as their worse song.
I could never understand why Cream did rubbish like this. It's a stupid novelty song at best with little to offer from the world's first supergroup.
Because albums need filler material, they had a few good songs on each album but weren't exactly the Beatles. Calling them a supergroup at that time is silly. Only Eric was well known at the time, Ginger and Jack weren't, they only became known after hooking up with Eric. Neither Jack nor Ginger were ever very succesful on their own or in other groups afterwards. I never bought into the supergroup thing with them. The star was Eric.
@@greatunz67 What you have written is both nonsense and misleading. If ANYONE FOR TENNIS was filler, it would not have been released as a single in both the UK and USA. Cream even performed it on television. And Cream was called a supergroup because of the proficiency of its members. Supergroups were not called supergroups because their members were "known" by the general public but because they were recognised by their peers as excellent musicians.
Not all of it, the Buddhist burning brightly is referring to the monk that lit himself on fire in Vietnam.
If they were trying to be sarcastic, they failed miserably. How could they think it was a good idea to proceed to record this "song"? Not one of them refused? Then to make the most ridiculous film advertising it? It's not even a parody; it's simply terrible.
Quite the contrary! This song is well loved by Cream fans. It’s a nice change of pace from all the psychedelia.
@@brettblankenship3872Im with you! I had this on 45 and still love it 50 years later unlike some of their catalog.
Another one of their dumber tunes.
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Creme is so overrated
Cream sucked.
"cream sucked, your mom did" - Yoda
This is just an awful song.
It was the Sixties. You had to be there.
ONE of my FAVored Videos! & i never even particularly cared for this TUNE before!¡! 🎶
Is it ComputerGenerated or? FABULOUZ!🪐🛸!
Johndavid NM/FL 407'24. 🪷