My first real concert experience- at this show 15yrs old. I have a T-shirt that says “I may be old but I got to see all the cool bands”! Starting right here!❤
RIP Jack....I never got to see Cream but was fortunate to see West, Bruce and Laing using The Who's amps...louder than hell !!! Jack wore knee high boots....the show was 1 half Cream and 1 half Mountain....YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHH !!!!!!
I was at this concert. If this is the one where Vanilla Fudge opened. Wow, that was a long time ago. We were expecting Disralia Gears type songs. Instead they played 10 plus minute jams. We were blown away. Then Baker started rolling the bass drums and our drummer (I was in my own band) said - listen Baker's rolling the bass drums. That was the first time that we realized (at least me) that was what he was doing. Needless to say pretty amazing stuff.
I was in a band and this time also and though we never got to see Cream we did jams of there tunes at gigs. The kid loved it. The 3 part harmony ending was a gas! A mothers Lament was a fav!
Dear George, I am the author of the book "The Who: A Million Little Memories", a collective memoir about the band made of hundreds of tales, anecdotes, accounts from those who were related to the band from 1964 to 1978 - friends, familiars, promoters, photographers. This is a work based on exclusive material and unseen pictures I have been sent by people from England and the USA. I have collected and featured fantastic materials from people who used to see the Who at the Fillmore Auditorium and Fillmore West, Winterland, at Woodstock and Monterey and many other venues. This book has been published in Italy in September 2018 by the renowned Italian music published Arcana press and it is highly looked forward by American and English Who fans. I am working on an expanded and updated English edition, with more material in it I am collecting from fans time by time. I'm looking for more material - tales, photos - and I was wondering if you could help me with that. All best, Ed
Dear Marcos, I am the author of the book "The Who: A Million Little Memories", a collective memoir about the band made of hundreds of tales, anecdotes, accounts from those who were related to the band from 1964 to 1978 - friends, familiars, promoters, photographers. This is a work based on exclusive material and unseen pictures I have been sent by people from England and the USA. I have collected and featured fantastic materials from people who used to see the Who at the Fillmore Auditorium and Fillmore West, Winterland, at Woodstock and Monterey and many other venues. This book has been published in Italy in September 2018 by the renowned Italian music published Arcana press and it is highly looked forward by American and English Who fans. I am working on an expanded and updated English edition, with more material in it I am collecting from fans time by time. I'm looking for more material - tales, photos - and I was wondering if you could help me with that. All best, Ed
+Barry Mcconnell : Bruce or Cassady? Both played basslines like solo guitarists. Cassady did "Killing Floor" with Hendrix at Winterland IMO the finest version of that Howlin Wolf song. Bruce was also a great songwriter, I liked his "Songs for a tailor" solo album.
Hendrix was great - but there was only one of him. He never had a drummer or bassist who could keep up or challenge him. Cream had three guys doing just that! One of the great shames of rock history is that band planned by Hendrix with Tony Williams and Jack Bruce never came about due to Jimi's tragic passing ... that would have been something else!!!
Difficult x me to imagine Jack And Jimi in ThE same band. Agree about the rest . ThE rythm section of ThE experience was mediocre...to SAY the least... they were the First two musicians Chandler came across...Jimi himself had to teach Noel where to put his fingers one x one
@@NathanielRamirez2002 No I'm not. They were a fairly strictly 'rhythm' section. No surprises from Cox on bass (ever), just solid and dependable. Bruce & Baker cannot just be termed a "rhythm section". When Jack was playing lead lines - Eric was often chopping out chords or patterns that made him part of the rhythm section. Cream defied categorisation...
🌈 Jah Bless 🌈 that was my birthday, that year. Cream was by far my favorite band. I saw them live at LA Forum farewell tour, it was my first (and probably best!) Rock concert ever.
It IS amazing How ThE SIMPLEST song in ThE world IS, for me, the greatest ever (from ThE goodbye one, to 1000 more i came across in YT) Improvisation of ThE century x sure Viva Cream
Love this version. The thing I love about Jack other then his voice is, the way he always left enough room in his playing so Eric or Ginger could come in an Jam, he never hogged the spotlight. I guess that's what helped their improvising, because Jack knew how an when to do that.
Awesome version. Thanks for uploading. Great photos but too many individual shots of Clapton. Would have loved to have seen more shots of Jack and Ginger. Jack may be gone but his amazing voice and bass playing will live forever. Thanks, Jack.
Hey, I actually agree. I uploaded this when I was younger and a diehard Clapton fan. I was originally gonna put just the cover of the album but decided to use all the Cream/Cream era Clapton pictures I had collected for an Eric Clapton themed rotating desktop background I had on my computer at the time. I thought they would be more interesting to watch and since i already had them all on my computer, why not... but your right, they do focus too much on Clapton.
Yeah agree..don't care much for EC...he sold out. they should have continued without him. Trower or Rory Gallagher were rumored to be replacements. Saw them in 05 reunion and apparent Bruce and Baker were real driving force behind what was arguably the greatest power trio.
mud foot Clapton the weakest link! LOL Clapton defined this 'heavy' style of electric blues and everyone who came later copied him, especially his tone. Let's just say they were all equals.
+DucksDeLucks .. I know right? Nobody was a weak link in this band, all three of them were tops. Maybe that was why Cream didn't last very long though; you've got three super-talents, but also super-egos.
Cream have always been the greatest jam band ever.Listen to Spoonful and Crossroads on the Wheels of Fire album.Also the studio version of Sitting on Top of the World.Priceless!!!!
There were some very good Underground Prog Rock bands around at this time...especially in England. Mostly bubble-gum in the charts. Cream were the first progressive heavy rock band ..ever ! Saw them at the Albert Hall Farewell in 68. Most folks don't know there were two bands on stage before them...Rory Gallagher 'Taste' & 'Yes'. Still have the ticket stub...and the ringing in the ears !
I've always thought it odd that Clapton, for a period of years in the 60s, seemed to appear different in every single picture you'd ever see of him. It was as if he traveled with his own personal make up artist who'd change his look every night of the week and twice on Sundays. I've never seen ANYONE with either much MORE or much LESS facial hair from one week to the next; mustache on, mustache off; goatee, no goatee; long hair, short hair. It was just fucking odd! Good guitar player, though.
He also had his Hendrix look which was rather ridiculous, with psychedelic shirt etc. but it might have been his manager's idea. In general Clapton was a style junkie. His Ybirds manager Gomelski commented on it, referring to his Ivy League look etc.
DucksDeLucks Maybe so. He did seem to follow trends, all trends quickly without hesitation. Personally I didn’t find his Hendrix look silly. Living through those times, for those of us who felt different then the homogeneous middle class repressed looks popular then these new things were a total surprise and a welcome change. Similar to many. It’s growing their hair longer as the Beatles did, when pot and acid began to influence the musicians we took notice. Clapton did too. It was a bag as much as a costume. Waving our “freak flag high,” to quote Jimi, and again here, “go on Mr. Businessman, you can’t dress like me.”, the colorful clothes and hair were all part of expressing our differences from all the uptight straights. Clapton just changed with every new day.✌️
I attended this show with classmates from college, driving from San Antonio . It was the best time, seeing them together . I also enjoyed the photo in this grouping with large Kustom amps used . Had to use one Hemisfair Arena late '69 opening for Janis Joplin Kosmic Blues group . It was a thrill .
Dear Robert, I am the author of the book "The Who: A Million Little Memories", a collective memoir about the band made of hundreds of tales, anecdotes, accounts from those who were related to the band from 1964 to 1978 - friends, familiars, promoters, photographers. This is a work based on exclusive material and unseen pictures I have been sent by people from England and the USA. I have collected and featured fantastic materials from people who used to see the Who at the Fillmore Auditorium and Fillmore West, Winterland, at Woodstock and Monterey and many other venues. This book has been published in Italy in September 2018 by the renowned Italian music published Arcana press and it is highly looked forward by American and English Who fans. I am working on an expanded and updated English edition, with more material in it I am collecting from fans time by time. I'm looking for more material - tales, photos - and I was wondering if you could help me with that. All best, Ed
The Goodbye version of I'm So Glad is stunning. I read some book where the author compared it to a musical version of Niagara Falls. Another great version is that from the Farewell film :)
Of course they noticed but they had to play on anyway didn't they and still make it work as well as possible. Sometimes the sound did cut out from one or other until it was fixed.
+DucksDeLucks Jack Bruce said they got a letter from Nehemiah 'Skip' James' wife thanking them for making sure he got his royalties for this song. Apparently it was a decent chunk of cash and helped the old guy live in some comfort in his later years and pay his funeral expenses.
Howard Johnston I would think it was fairly substantial since I'm So Glad appears on several live albums in addition to the studio one and was a concert staple for Cream, though all the live albums but one probably came out after James' death.
when Cream were touring USA, Jack paid him (or his family) a visit, to confirm he was getting the money from the royalties. on the contrary, look how clever Led zep were to appear as songwriters.....
If you listen to radio stations that play old obscure stuff you will regularly come across some ancient version of a song worked up by the Rolling Stones. The other day I heard the prototype for The Last Time. I had thought Keith came up with it.
Surely you can still relive it in your head, very cool, yeah, the power from the stage, pure energy of tube amplification, the Marshall Amps. Non digital. Pure Analog. Vibration of wire to electrons in wires to electrons through the vacuum tubes to the vibrated speakers.and Ginger Baker's muscle control force upon skins and metal. Add in the ultimate creativity, raw brain synapse constructive human musical expression drawn upon discipline of millions scale practice runs flowing out the fingers
Thanks everyone for some really decent input and history. I am 55 and worked my way back to Cream when I found Clapton...heading straight to the Good-bye album! Cheers from Toronto!
actually EC retired the SG in the Spring of '68 and started predominantly using the Firebird and the occasional Les Paul for the rest of Cream. The 335 was only used a couple of times on the Farewell Tour, but it's so famous now because it appears as his main guitar in the Farewell Concert film.
I could never tell the difference between all the Gibson, s in Cream... Even though I have been listening all my life since 1981. The sounds I dig most are Spoonful studio (I guess it is the red stolen LP), Crossroads of course (335 because I read it🤔), and Sitting on top of the world live Goodbye. And the worst is the buggle in Wheels of fire studio... I don't know what amp was that...
Hahahaha ~Beautiful. That's one way to fit in a "bass solo" with mercurial players. Send a 'gremlin' to mess with the lead guitarist's Marshall stack! Here is the punch-in time: ua-cam.com/video/HpeqaXr9H_k/v-deo.htmlm58s
What a tune, how tame music is now. Adele made a lovely album recently but I'm sad that the present generation are just fed morose singer\songwriters. Bring back the groups!!
I read somewhere on UA-cam that Clapton's amp blew at about the 6 min mark and that they got a standby amp online for him shortly afterward. I'd like to know if that's true, interestong bit of Cream trivia.
Well you may be right in the case of a live performance, but don’t you know that most of the Bass performances on the 2nd and 3rd albums were Hendrix! On “If Six We’re Nine, that’s Jimi on a Hangstrom- 8 string Bass. It’s all Hendrix on bass in 1983, a Merman I should be, on his 3rd album. Jimi did very well with Noel Redding and Billly Cox, thank you.
He's a shape-shifter; he really was quite nondescript in appearance - I have thought the same. I often didn't recognize him in photos, or only knew who he was by who he was with!
Hey let's be thankful to get to see those photos, yeah they should release them from getty logo but hey, the photographer spent time in dark room with the magical Kodak chemicals to get it all right - hope he got paid his due his work, The workman is worthy of his hire. Nothing is free, you know, like don't buy chocolate, and don't shop in big boxes for clothes and chocolate beans made picked by enslaved among us. There are more slaves on earth than ever ever before, and who is here to defend?!!
Unlike that Lead Balloon band Cream at least credited the blues masters they were ripping off. Clapton hasn't been the same since the Layla sessions. Sometimes a muse really does burn itself out.
Sadly, the market for blues couldn't last forever so Eric wisely chose to "reinvent himself" rather than fade into history. I like much of his later work even if it's not the primordial thrilling sound of CREAM!
DucksDeLucks Sounds great, can you lend me some talent so that I could do a decent job on guitar. Seriously, I'd considered getting a SG and a tube amp but I finally decided to stick with the bass and see how far I could go on it. It still almost makes me drool when I hear Clapton or Duane Allman on those LPs and SGs.
Their name said it all.Cream they were the top of the rock pile.Never had anyone heard such a killer unit,and until Hendrix came along with the Experience, Cream was untouchable.And although we have nothing today to rival Cream or the Experience we still have this wonderful music to listen to,and understand how lucky we were to be part of all of it.Long live CREAM!!!! Another reunion tour is a necessity!!!!
you seem to be someone who knows your cream jams. i'm quite familiar with their studio work, but from everything i read about the band, their LIVE performances were what made them legends; unfortunately, i haven't been able to listen to much of their live jams to have that same sentiment (not too many available - except for the live cream vols). do you know any bootleg copies that are decent and will let me have the same experiences others had 45 years ago when listening to cream live?
I would bet we've never heard him using those Kustoms. (solid state, not a very good sound for distortion). That spot at 6:03 when his Marshall blows out, you can hear the difference in power and sound with whatever they plugged in to cover him on the rest of the song. Back in those days, the early Marshalls used to blow out a bit. You'd lose the sound, and then look back and there would be a column of smoke coming out the top vent. Not anymore!
I saw Cream, twice, I hear this and I create a story about a British kid named Derek, who was born a guitar master. Then Jimi died and Derek got bummed and ingested a lot of heroin which he gave up and he switched to alcohol. Whilst in recovery in a Florida beachfront paradise Derek made a deal with the Devil, only they got the formula mixed up and Derek decided that in order to save his soul he would switch to Fenders and be boring, except for here and there and maybe he stopped drinking, also.
You must be kidding Hendrix didn't have a drummer who could keep up? Mitch Mitchell was the best drummer Jimi could have ever hoped for and Jimi always praised Mitch for his abilities. Mitch was an intergral part to the music. Listen to the rudimental drumming in Hey Joe and the jazzy playing in 3rd stone from the sun and the odd metre playing in Manic Depression. Also check out if 6 was 9. I could go on and on.
Thank you, for telling exactly what I thought too, when reading that other, pretty crazy, comment! Yes, Mitch was outstanding, hand in glove with Hendrix, also with the kind of genius and innovative mind that Hendrix had - innovative and challenging - but always listening to and trying to understand Hendrix, and what ways he was going; both live and in the studio. A marvelous drummer!
If Clapton had G&L guitars at his disposal at the time instead of the Gibsons, he would have never had tuning issues.... That being said. I still love this shit....
Agreed, the Goodbye album is some of the worst live sound production in history, like someone covered the mics with duct tape. The performance itself wasn't anything special either. This is much, much better
Aside from the tek problems, , J B did an exemplary job on the vocals, please be reminded that E C did not even want to make this tour. Can anybody think of a bassist nearly as good as J B?
I like to call this type of playing "Adventure Music". Spur of the moment playing. Don`t know whats going to happen, from one moment to the next. Does anybody play like this today. Will the "suits" let them ? I kind of dislike bands that play their songs just like it is on the record. Give the audience something special. DON`T be so tight. Take an expert blues player and add two jazzers, and you got the best band that ever was. Eric made sure to record this Skip James song because he heard that Mr. James was down on his luck, and he made sure that he received the royalties. Too bad that by 1974, Eric came to hate this type of playing. Hated JAZZ aspect of it altogether. Thought it was fake. He really felt guilty and bad about "busking" in front of a paying audience. He fell in love with The Band`s "Big Pink" record, and wanted desperately to do that type of music. Took him a lot of years to get over that feeling.
this is a wonderful version. i think he does a great job of keeping up. i think, as a guitarist, that it would be hard for me just to keep in time, even though it is 2 chord jam, with these guys. plus, i'm sure that hearing each other just right was not just right in 1968 compared to today!
My first real concert experience- at this show 15yrs old. I have a T-shirt that says “I may be old but I got to see all the cool bands”! Starting right here!❤
Sitting here w/ a smile on me face after I hear the first few notes. I'm so glad. 😂
This isn't a performance, it's an alien attack!
RIP Jack....I never got to see Cream but was fortunate to see West, Bruce and Laing using The Who's amps...louder than hell !!! Jack wore knee high boots....the show was 1 half Cream and 1 half Mountain....YEEEEEAAAAHHHHHHH !!!!!!
+james mcbride I saw them in Chicago at the Aragon Ballroom. A good band, the best of both worlds.
I was at this concert. If this is the one where Vanilla Fudge opened. Wow, that was a long time ago. We were expecting Disralia Gears type songs. Instead they played 10 plus minute jams. We were blown away. Then Baker started rolling the bass drums and our drummer (I was in my own band) said - listen Baker's rolling the bass drums. That was the first time that we realized (at least me) that was what he was doing. Needless to say pretty amazing stuff.
I was in a band and this time also and though we never got to see Cream we did jams of there tunes at gigs. The kid loved it. The 3 part harmony ending was a gas! A mothers Lament was a fav!
Dear George, I am the author of the book "The Who: A Million Little Memories", a collective memoir about the band made of hundreds of tales, anecdotes, accounts from those who were related to the band from 1964 to 1978 - friends, familiars, promoters, photographers. This is a work based on exclusive material and unseen pictures I have been sent by people from England and the USA. I have collected and featured fantastic materials from people who used to see the Who at the Fillmore Auditorium and Fillmore West, Winterland, at Woodstock and Monterey and many other venues.
This book has been published in Italy in September 2018 by the renowned Italian music published Arcana press and it is highly looked forward by American and English Who fans. I am working on an expanded and updated English edition, with more material in it I am collecting from fans time by time.
I'm looking for more material - tales, photos - and I was wondering if you could help me with that.
All best,
Ed
Jeez. So brilliant - saw them several times, talk about bringing it.
I've got two words for this group: "POWER TRIO"!
3-POWERFUL-3
SUPERNATURAL FORCES EMERGING TO TANGLE UP IN MUSICAL OUTPUT
Not only THE power trio. Possibly the first power trio.
I Was There! :-) Most Wonderful Concert! :-) Rest in Peace Jack Bruce & Thank You for the Wonderful Music!
Dear Marcos, I am the author of the book "The Who: A Million Little Memories", a collective memoir about the band made of hundreds of tales, anecdotes, accounts from those who were related to the band from 1964 to 1978 - friends, familiars, promoters, photographers. This is a work based on exclusive material and unseen pictures I have been sent by people from England and the USA. I have collected and featured fantastic materials from people who used to see the Who at the Fillmore Auditorium and Fillmore West, Winterland, at Woodstock and Monterey and many other venues.
This book has been published in Italy in September 2018 by the renowned Italian music published Arcana press and it is highly looked forward by American and English Who fans. I am working on an expanded and updated English edition, with more material in it I am collecting from fans time by time.
I'm looking for more material - tales, photos - and I was wondering if you could help me with that.
All best,
Ed
Jack is the best rock bass player of all time!
Have you ever heard about John Entwistle?!
+Barry Mcconnell : Bruce or Cassady? Both played basslines like solo guitarists. Cassady did "Killing Floor" with Hendrix at Winterland IMO the finest version of that Howlin Wolf song. Bruce was also a great songwriter, I liked his "Songs for a tailor" solo album.
John wouldve told you jack was the best in england of the time hence there name cream
Ian Bentley After i listen to Jack be the best bass player ever
+ Allan Sánchez
I have heard about John Entwistle. He is/was very good.
But there ain't nobody like Jack Bruce. Never was, never will.
We saw this live! What an historical night for music in Dallas and in my life!! ❤
Yes, Jack is the best Rock and Roll bass player!
Hendrix was great - but there was only one of him. He never had a drummer or bassist who could keep up or challenge him. Cream had three guys doing just that! One of the great shames of rock history is that band planned by Hendrix with Tony Williams and Jack Bruce never came about due to Jimi's tragic passing ... that would have been something else!!!
Difficult x me to imagine Jack And Jimi in ThE same band. Agree about the rest . ThE rythm section of ThE experience was mediocre...to SAY the least... they were the First two musicians Chandler came across...Jimi himself had to teach Noel where to put his fingers one x one
Though I prefer Ginger Baker, Mitch Mitchell wasn't exactly chopped liver.
First concert at age 15
seems ur forgetting when jimi had buddy miles and billy cox as a rhythm section
@@NathanielRamirez2002 No I'm not. They were a fairly strictly 'rhythm' section. No surprises from Cox on bass (ever), just solid and dependable. Bruce & Baker cannot just be termed a "rhythm section". When Jack was playing lead lines - Eric was often chopping out chords or patterns that made him part of the rhythm section. Cream defied categorisation...
🌈 Jah Bless 🌈 that was my birthday, that year. Cream was by far my favorite band. I saw them live at LA Forum farewell tour, it was my first (and probably best!) Rock concert ever.
It IS amazing How ThE SIMPLEST song in ThE world IS, for me, the greatest ever (from ThE goodbye one, to 1000 more i came across in YT)
Improvisation of ThE century x sure
Viva Cream
Clapton is Amazing !!!!!😱😱😱😱
Indeed!!!!!!
This is the reason they were called CREAM
Bruce lead vocal, by the bye.
Love this version. The thing I love about Jack other then his voice is, the way he always left enough room in his playing so Eric or Ginger could come in an Jam, he never hogged the spotlight. I guess that's what helped their improvising, because Jack knew how an when to do that.
それがベーシストの役目だからです。
I danced at the Whisky..
GO GO CAGES...WE'RE HOT AND TIRING
This is why Cream's THE greatest.
Awesome version. Thanks for uploading. Great photos but too many individual shots of Clapton. Would have loved to have seen more shots of Jack and Ginger. Jack may be gone but his amazing voice and bass playing will live forever. Thanks, Jack.
Hey, I actually agree. I uploaded this when I was younger and a diehard Clapton fan. I was originally gonna put just the cover of the album but decided to use all the Cream/Cream era Clapton pictures I had collected for an Eric Clapton themed rotating desktop background I had on my computer at the time. I thought they would be more interesting to watch and since i already had them all on my computer, why not... but your right, they do focus too much on Clapton.
Yeah agree..don't care much for EC...he sold out. they should have continued without him. Trower or Rory Gallagher were rumored to be replacements. Saw them in 05 reunion and apparent Bruce and Baker were real driving force behind what was arguably the greatest power trio.
kanasatka1
Clapton was the weakest link in the band. This is flat out incredible. Sheer talent!
mud foot Clapton the weakest link! LOL Clapton defined this 'heavy' style of electric blues and everyone who came later copied him, especially his tone. Let's just say they were all equals.
+DucksDeLucks .. I know right? Nobody was a weak link in this band, all three of them were tops. Maybe that was why Cream didn't last very long though; you've got three super-talents, but also super-egos.
Jack at his best on the vocals this evening!
Cream have always been the greatest jam band ever.Listen to Spoonful and Crossroads on the Wheels of Fire album.Also the studio version of Sitting on Top of the World.Priceless!!!!
I'm STILL there. time warped shape shifted and HIGH forever. I'm glad
I was at this show! Fantastic!!!
There were some very good Underground Prog Rock bands around at this time...especially in England. Mostly bubble-gum in the charts. Cream were the first progressive heavy rock band ..ever ! Saw them at the Albert Hall Farewell in 68.
Most folks don't know there were two bands on stage before them...Rory Gallagher 'Taste' & 'Yes'. Still have the ticket stub...and the ringing in the ears !
No Fenders that night! Top of the line Gibsons! Awesome indeed!
I've always thought it odd that Clapton, for a period of years in the 60s, seemed to appear different in every single picture you'd ever see of him. It was as if he traveled with his own personal make up artist who'd change his look every night of the week and twice on Sundays. I've never seen ANYONE with either much MORE or much LESS facial hair from one week to the next; mustache on, mustache off; goatee, no goatee; long hair, short hair. It was just fucking odd! Good guitar player, though.
I have also noticed him looking so different from one photo to the next .
I wonder How his hair could grow so quick
Sublime Music Channel Noticed this for years, particularly when Cream first burst in the scene and through the cream years.
He also had his Hendrix look which was rather ridiculous, with psychedelic shirt etc. but it might have been his manager's idea. In general Clapton was a style junkie. His Ybirds manager Gomelski commented on it, referring to his Ivy League look etc.
DucksDeLucks Maybe so. He did seem to follow trends, all trends quickly without hesitation. Personally I didn’t find his Hendrix look silly. Living through those times, for those of us who felt different then the homogeneous middle class repressed looks popular then these new things were a total surprise and a welcome change. Similar to many. It’s growing their hair longer as the Beatles did, when pot and acid began to influence the musicians we took notice. Clapton did too. It was a bag as much as a costume. Waving our “freak flag high,” to quote Jimi, and again here, “go on Mr. Businessman, you can’t dress like me.”, the colorful clothes and hair were all part of expressing our differences from all the uptight straights. Clapton just changed with every new day.✌️
I attended this show with classmates from college, driving from San Antonio . It was the best time, seeing them together . I also enjoyed the photo in this grouping with large Kustom amps used . Had to use one Hemisfair Arena late '69 opening for Janis Joplin Kosmic Blues group . It was a thrill .
Dear Robert, I am the author of the book "The Who: A Million Little Memories", a collective memoir about the band made of hundreds of tales, anecdotes, accounts from those who were related to the band from 1964 to 1978 - friends, familiars, promoters, photographers. This is a work based on exclusive material and unseen pictures I have been sent by people from England and the USA. I have collected and featured fantastic materials from people who used to see the Who at the Fillmore Auditorium and Fillmore West, Winterland, at Woodstock and Monterey and many other venues.
This book has been published in Italy in September 2018 by the renowned Italian music published Arcana press and it is highly looked forward by American and English Who fans. I am working on an expanded and updated English edition, with more material in it I am collecting from fans time by time.
I'm looking for more material - tales, photos - and I was wondering if you could help me with that.
All best,
Ed
The Goodbye version of I'm So Glad is stunning. I read some book where the author compared it to a musical version of Niagara Falls. Another great version is that from the Farewell film :)
John Pidgeon
ThE book IS great
I dont think Eric's amp actually Failed, there was something about him stopping to see if Jack or Ginger would notice and they didn't
Of course they noticed but they had to play on anyway didn't they and still make it work as well as possible. Sometimes the sound did cut out from one or other until it was fixed.
Or, as reported at the time, Clapton broke a string and they improvised a bass / drum solo?
I'm told that Skip James got pretty good royalties from Clapton covering his song both on studio and live lps and in concerts.
+DucksDeLucks Jack Bruce said they got a letter from Nehemiah 'Skip' James' wife thanking them for making sure he got his royalties for this song. Apparently it was a decent chunk of cash and helped the old guy live in some comfort in his later years and pay his funeral expenses.
Howard Johnston I would think it was fairly substantial since I'm So Glad appears on several live albums in addition to the studio one and was a concert staple for Cream, though all the live albums but one probably came out after James' death.
when Cream were touring USA, Jack paid him (or his family) a visit, to confirm he was getting the money from the royalties. on the contrary, look how clever Led zep were to appear as songwriters.....
If you listen to radio stations that play old obscure stuff you will regularly come across some ancient version of a song worked up by the Rolling Stones. The other day I heard the prototype for The Last Time. I had thought Keith came up with it.
@@DucksDeLucks Who performed it? What is that songs title?
Surely you can still relive it in your head, very cool, yeah, the power from the stage, pure energy of tube amplification, the Marshall Amps. Non digital. Pure Analog. Vibration of wire to electrons in wires to electrons through the vacuum tubes to the vibrated speakers.and Ginger Baker's muscle control force upon skins and metal.
Add in the ultimate creativity, raw brain synapse constructive human musical expression drawn upon discipline of millions scale practice runs flowing out the fingers
Psychedelic blues infused with John Coltrane!
MOST DEF
I wonder whose idea those fur hats were. You see them on all 3 guys in various photos. Headed to the Yukon for a tour maybe?
it was so cool. They all looked like broccoli heads.
Cream: das war eine super Band
I was 14 in Rhode Island.
..very cool pics !! always good to trip down memory lane !! thanks !!
Just as is "Sleepy Time Time" on Live Cream Vol.I
Thanks everyone for some really decent input and history. I am 55 and worked my way back to Cream when I found Clapton...heading straight to the Good-bye album! Cheers from Toronto!
U never really loose your muse... you can get overwhelmed by distractions
A great version - not far behind my two faves - Goodbye LA Forum & London RAH
If you can find it, try the Chicago Colosseum (it is often mis-labeled Civic Opera House) in 1967 or 1968. ;~)
Thanks Man - LOVE the photos!
loved the pics. thanks also better bass in your posting awesmoe thanks again ! 1RR.
This was all going on in the 60's pretty amazing.
charles Middleton 1966 through 72 was mind blowing.
GREATEST ROCK TRIO EVRR
Experience? 3rd Stone ?
@@pete3883 I had to like both posts. 😁
Probably the only trio ever where the guitarist's amp gives out and there's so much talent still playing you think it was planned.
actually EC retired the SG in the Spring of '68 and started predominantly using the Firebird and the occasional Les Paul for the rest of Cream. The 335 was only used a couple of times on the Farewell Tour, but it's so famous now because it appears as his main guitar in the Farewell Concert film.
I could never tell the difference between all the Gibson, s in Cream... Even though I have been listening all my life since 1981. The sounds I dig most are Spoonful studio (I guess it is the red stolen LP), Crossroads of course (335 because I read it🤔), and Sitting on top of the world live Goodbye. And the worst is the buggle in Wheels of fire studio... I don't know what amp was that...
I thought it was just me who noticed that about Clapton, lol. The 60's was about keeping things interesting.
Hahahaha ~Beautiful. That's one way to fit in a "bass solo" with mercurial players. Send a 'gremlin' to mess with the lead guitarist's Marshall stack! Here is the punch-in time:
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What a tune, how tame music is now. Adele made a lovely album recently but I'm sad that the present generation are just fed morose singer\songwriters. Bring back the groups!!
Prawie jak polski Chopin... mistrzowie wszech wag
Wonderful, Eric never stops, Jack following him....both playing hard!
MANAY MAHALOS
Shocking!
Love that double Marshall stack of Eric's.
Thanks for the comment. Now that I listen again, I hear that the bass drum duet was not planned at all. Sick.
I read somewhere on UA-cam that Clapton's amp blew at about the 6 min mark and that they got a standby amp online for him shortly afterward. I'd like to know if that's true, interestong bit of Cream trivia.
yes, this is true!
Live... means live VIDEO theses days!!
I was at this show.
Clapton never played like this after the 1960's . Something in the drinking water ?
Well you may be right in the case of a live performance, but don’t you know that most of the Bass performances on the 2nd and 3rd albums were Hendrix! On “If Six We’re Nine, that’s Jimi on a Hangstrom- 8 string Bass. It’s all Hendrix on bass in 1983, a Merman I should be, on his 3rd album. Jimi did very well with Noel Redding and Billly Cox, thank you.
He's a shape-shifter; he really was quite nondescript in appearance - I have thought the same. I often didn't recognize him in photos, or only knew who he was by who he was with!
THE VOICE!
F....g great.
Leon
Goes to show that chemistry literally and figuratively count for a lot
Does it make anyone else sick to have look past the "getty images" logo to see this stuff? Ugh.
Enjoyed this - thanks for the share
Hey let's be thankful to get to see those photos, yeah they should release them from getty logo but hey, the photographer spent time in dark room with the magical Kodak chemicals to get it all right - hope he got paid his due his work, The workman is worthy of his hire. Nothing is free, you know, like don't buy chocolate, and don't shop in big boxes for clothes and chocolate beans made picked by enslaved among us. There are more slaves on earth than ever ever before, and who is here to defend?!!
They played like they were in battle
if they have a studio version of this somewhere on line PLEASE someone let me know thank you.
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great pics thnx!
Unlike that Lead Balloon band Cream at least credited the blues masters they were ripping off. Clapton hasn't been the same since the Layla sessions. Sometimes a muse really does burn itself out.
Sadly, the market for blues couldn't last forever so Eric wisely chose to "reinvent himself" rather than fade into history. I like much of his later work even if it's not the primordial thrilling sound of CREAM!
DucksDeLucks I think you're right about that, sadly. I miss that high-energy and powerful tone he was getting on those Gibsons when he was with Cream.
Jim Nesta Well, go get yourself an Epiphone Les Paul and a budget Marshall and go to it! Or if you can afford it the 59 reissue!
DucksDeLucks Sounds great, can you lend me some talent so that I could do a decent job on guitar. Seriously, I'd considered getting a SG and a tube amp but I finally decided to stick with the bass and see how far I could go on it. It still almost makes me drool when I hear Clapton or Duane Allman on those LPs and SGs.
You could always play both! Many do.
great. thanks very much.
as my mum said, interrupting my air guitar to this,'' Hello Glad,I'm Mary''
just put in "Cream-I'm so glad" in the you tube search box. First listing that comes up is the studio version.
It has to be said: "These are the BROTHERS GEMYERBALZOV!"
If the tories lose the G. E. this is the song i will be playing.
Whelp.
Cream
Fernando Renan Gonzalez That says it all.
I noticed EC was using a Gibson ES 335 on this Tour, rather than the usual Gibson SG or the Les Paul, Any body got any input on this????
I'm so sad,Jack
Their name said it all.Cream they were the top of the rock pile.Never had anyone heard such a killer unit,and until Hendrix came along with the Experience, Cream was untouchable.And although we have nothing today to rival Cream or the Experience we still have this wonderful music to listen to,and understand how lucky we were to be part of all of it.Long live CREAM!!!! Another reunion tour is a necessity!!!!
you seem to be someone who knows your cream jams. i'm quite familiar with their studio work, but from everything i read about the band, their LIVE performances were what made them legends; unfortunately, i haven't been able to listen to much of their live jams to have that same sentiment (not too many available - except for the live cream vols). do you know any bootleg copies that are decent and will let me have the same experiences others had 45 years ago when listening to cream live?
Damn, right man.
I would bet we've never heard him using those Kustoms. (solid state, not a very good sound for distortion).
That spot at 6:03 when his Marshall blows out, you can hear the difference in power and sound with whatever they plugged in to cover him on the rest of the song. Back in those days, the early Marshalls used to blow out a bit. You'd lose the sound, and then look back and there would be a column of smoke coming out the top vent. Not anymore!
I saw Cream, twice, I hear this and I create a story about a British kid named Derek, who was born a guitar master. Then Jimi died and Derek got bummed and ingested a lot of heroin which he gave up and he switched to alcohol. Whilst in recovery in a Florida beachfront paradise Derek made a deal with the Devil, only they got the formula mixed up and Derek decided that in order to save his soul he would switch to Fenders and be boring, except for here and there and maybe he stopped drinking, also.
so true!
You must be kidding Hendrix didn't have a drummer who could keep up? Mitch Mitchell was the best drummer Jimi could have ever hoped for and Jimi always praised Mitch for his abilities. Mitch was an intergral part to the music. Listen to the rudimental drumming in Hey Joe and the jazzy playing in 3rd stone from the sun and the odd metre playing in Manic Depression. Also check out if 6 was 9. I could go on and on.
Thank you, for telling exactly what I thought too, when reading that other, pretty crazy, comment! Yes, Mitch was outstanding, hand in glove with Hendrix, also with the kind of genius and innovative mind that Hendrix had - innovative and challenging - but always listening to and trying to understand Hendrix, and what ways he was going; both live and in the studio. A marvelous drummer!
If Clapton had G&L guitars at his disposal at the time instead of the Gibsons, he would have never had tuning issues.... That being said. I still love this shit....
Dallas bootlegs seemed to record well, as well as bands having great performances there.
The best,
Was I there? I don't remember....
Good story. Probably true.
me too! didn't want to say anything because ardent fans might find it a put-down...but he really doesn't have his own look. Till like the 80s
this is a much better performance than the one on "goodbye". wish they'd recorded this one properly and used it instead.
Agreed, the Goodbye album is some of the worst live sound production in history, like someone covered the mics with duct tape. The performance itself wasn't anything special either. This is much, much better
The Goodbye performance was not good. The guitar sounded weak. This performance sounded more powerful.
Great song, great version!
Oh, and Tex. not TX!
❤🙏🌹
Aside from the tek problems, , J B did an exemplary job on the vocals, please be reminded that E C did not even want to make this tour. Can anybody think of a bassist nearly as good as J B?
RUNAWAY TRAIN JAM !
I like to call this type of playing "Adventure Music". Spur of the moment playing. Don`t know whats going to happen, from one moment to the next. Does anybody play like this today. Will the "suits" let them ? I kind of dislike bands that play their songs just like it is on the record. Give the audience something special. DON`T be so tight. Take an expert blues player and add two jazzers, and you got the best band that ever was. Eric made sure to record this Skip James song because he heard that Mr. James was down on his luck, and he made sure that he received the royalties. Too bad that by 1974, Eric came to hate this type of playing. Hated JAZZ aspect of it altogether. Thought it was fake. He really felt guilty and bad about "busking" in front of a paying audience. He fell in love with The Band`s "Big Pink" record, and wanted desperately to do that type of music. Took him a lot of years to get over that feeling.
this is a wonderful version. i think he does a great job of keeping up. i think, as a guitarist, that it would be hard for me just to keep in time, even though it is 2 chord jam, with these guys. plus, i'm sure that hearing each other just right was not just right in 1968 compared to today!
Jack Bruce director ?