Cream - Crossroads (Farewell Concert - Extended Edition) (5 of 11)
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- Cream - Crossroads live at Royal Albert Hall, London.
November 26th, 1968
5 of 11
"Farewell Concert" is the live recording of the Cream's final concert at the Royal Albert Hall on November 26th, 1968.
Directed by Tony Palmer, the film incorporates pieces of six performances with narration by BBC announcer Patrick Allen, along with interviews with the band members themselves, showcasing their playing abilities.
The film has often been criticized for both its mediocre sound and visual effects.
In 2005, a special extended edition of the concert appeared featuring full versions of all songs separated from the narration and interviews. The new version featured digitally remastered sound and video including three bonus songs.
My god, this song just gets better each time I hear it. Every instrument is insane, but I love the bass the most.
This song made me pick up a bass
I'm incredibly proud of jack Bruce genius Scotland is extremely proud of him
In my opinion this is the best live guitar sound of all time, Eric's ES-335 just screams and it is so unbelievably beautiful
I prefer the firebird I but this is nice too
Cheesy walnut check pages ‘59 at the RAH show... so good
Check out tony iommi's sound on live bootlegs from the early 70s nothing beats it
You could say it sCREAMs
I prefer the sound of his Gibson SG aka the fool. Compare this recording with his ES-335 with the live at winterland version that was used on the wheels of fire album.
The stars aligned to give us this band. Eternally grateful.
1:49 is such a 60’s camera trick. That freeze frame while the performer is playing. On another note Clapton sounded BEST WITH A GIBSON. I will take that to the grave. That crunchy, spiky sound is AMAZING
It's like a collection of every bad camera trick used during the 1960s compressed into four minutes and eighteen seconds of music.
😂
Oh man, you should check out Creedence live in the Royal Albert hall. It’s even worse
At least the music is good
Neat...
At least we have a record of this. Stop yer moaning ya auld gurn 😂
Before Zeppelin and after the Yardbirds - there was Cream. This is where Hard Rock began. Legends
John Fullerton Yardbirds was before Cream, but this group knew the blues and understood more than any other British group. And my god, the fact that each member is a master with their instrument, nothing better ever than the Cream, to this day!
@@samueletoia806 I wouldn’t consider “you really got me” as hard rock. Rock definitely, but compared to the yardbirds even they weren’t hard
Well said.
@@samueletoia806 exactly ! " you really got me" was a shot song in that time. I heard it from Paul McCartney! The kinks changed the music!
@@VegetabIeMan Clapton was in the yardbirds
Still stands the test of time... Best riff, Best solo in the world. Its so groovy, you can actually dance to this song
ABSOLUTE TOP !!!
Baker , Bruce , Clapton ...CREAM !!!
we used to spend a quarter on the jukebox and play this song 3 times, over and over. Couldn’t get enough of it. Those were the days
They are ALL monsters...truly amazing trio!
Farewell Jack, RIP and may your music live for ever.
And Ginger
Jack Bruce is incredible keeping up with Eric fantastic musicians RIP jack Scotland's genius
That solo is fucking crazy. I really wish to see more videos of Clapton playing like this.
Dig the version of Dimples the Allman Brothers did at Ludlow Garage. Not Clapton I’ll give you, but Dickey and Duane played with just as much fire in their leads on that cut as you hear in this
From the cradle was a nice throw back
Appreciate this now while you still can, you never see anything like this amount of talent sharing a stage EVER AGAIN!
This band changed my life.
Four minutes of the most explosive, enthralling live music in rock history. As Micky Hart stated "It was definitely scorched earth...they came and took the women and children".
本当に３人の戦争状態ですね。３人のアーティスト魂のぶつかり合いですね。すさまじい戦いが、まさにクロスしているロードですよ。交差点で戦争している。クラプトンだけではなく、ジャック・ブルースもジンジャー・ベーカーも生き生き、のびのび演奏していて、まさしく魂をかけた戦いが繰り広げられている戦場だ！生死をかけた男同士の戦場！それを見ている我々は幸せ者だ！魂のぶつかり合い！ここにこそクリームファンを引き付けて止まない「永遠の魅力が」ある！
だからこそ、それが原因で「解散」したんだ。もう「甘さを許さないその緊張が限界」だったんだ。
今のクラプトンには、「穏やかな」仲良しというムードが、グループに漂っている。だから今の和やかで遅い満たされた「クロスロード」がある。
音楽は心の状態を現わすものだ。クリームよ永遠に！
Never will we witness and/or listen to the the blues being played with such expertise and aggresiveness again.
John McLaughlin on the Bruce/Baker thunder machine: 'What a rhythm section'. Never said a truer word.
Yet, they hate each other's guts.
DhangoMicheli - only Bruce and Baker didn't get along. Clapton walked into a shitstorm; never knew it existed when he signed up. Those two never reconciled.
Oh their tension was well documented, including Bruce smashing Baker's drumkit. But that has nothing to do with their efficiency as a rhythm section.
That's what I said. Eric had to get in between the other two many a time to stop them from fist-fighting. The stress on Eric soul must have been giant, two years were too much for him.
Daniel Micheli
Ah, toughened him up. As Stevie Winwood observed, Clapton became a great band leader, but there was no sign of that in the 60s.
What a find! I was too young to see Cream play live, this is the closest I've ever been. What a band! What a guitarist! I always thought it was Jack Bruce on vocals. Great quality video and audio quality too, considering it was 1968
I'm 17teen and i couldn't see Cream live. But i think there is the best band in history.
one of my favourite song, it's amazing the guitar solo
Clapton is God!
RIP Jack Bruce.. Another great jam by the legendary Cream!
I’m 56 & I love ❤️ the classic’s mannnn!!! I grew up listening to the classic rock with my dad & uncles.
See if you can get a close up on Bruce's pickup and then just keep the camera their until the end of the concert
One of the greatest live performances EVER
くく
This is definition of Blues-Rock
Jack Bruce is off the fuckin charts incredible bass player Scotland is extremely proud
Love Ginger's playing on this....switching from straight-time to double time. Badass!!!!
En.esos años era insuperable bestial.
can see why these guys were such a huge influence on bands of the 70s and 80s!
Most intense blues ever played right here.
Love that guitar on crossroads. Eric’s been my favorite player all these years.
I'd like to relive the1960s, 70s and the 80s over again, and again and again, that's how nice they were. Love this version. It still has the garage sound to it. Amazing!
some of the most terrible camera work I've ever seen...way too many useless tight shots of their heads and faces, at least the sound quality is decent
agreed, and shameful
bang on. dreadful!
I totally disagree. It's so in balance with the soundrecording of this gig.
I'm glad you enjoyed it. But to have video of this band and not see them play their instruments and see the stage and stage presence is bordering on a travesty. As a guitar player I would have also liked to see what Clapton was playing and how. Cheers!
I understand what you mean. But I think this way is way more interesting than the way they do it nowadays. ;p But yeah, you have a fair point.
ALL THREE OF THEM = FEROCIOUS!
I got this on DVD when it came out years ago. It's still an inspiration to me; these guys had a "this is how you play" attitude that I love. \m/
The whole trio is on fire here
Absolutlely love cream. Massive eric clapton fan!! First got into his music early 90's (im 30) then looked back at his career and was not expecting to learn that he was god!! Haha. Great guitarist. People dont do it like he did anymore. Genius.
They cure me! Never seen anything better.
Super PowerGenius , Talento puro o Cream é minha banda preferida
The real monster player on this one is Jack Bruce.
+Thomas Briggs yup!
+Thomas Briggs They ALL were, I was fortunate enough to see them in 1968, tickets were $2.50 each in Vancouver BC.
Rubbish, they were all burning up! At this point they were all as good as each other, that's what made Cream!
Clapton is just ludicrous good here but Bruce was amazing. RIP Bruce.
I’ve attempted to play this song in 3 bands. We got close but this take is in the pocket. Everyone is on fire 🔥
This is the Best, Great time in History glad I got to see it....Back then they were GODS!!!
The musical bond between them is so strong you can almost see it... They're perfectly synchronized and so in tune with each other. Cream has to be the greatest band of all time imo
Cream did not really just revolve around one star, they are all in their own world and it just meshes together perfectly!!!!!!!!
Wow, what a great song and performance.....
The chemistry between theese 3 guys are amazing to watch. Gingers drumming in the solos are out of this world......
The "Perfect Storm" of 3 musical Giants in the "Cream" came together and were a "Supergroup" and created some magical music to rock us!
jack bruce the only person in the world who can make album without guitar and still sound great with only bass ;d !
This is the first song i heard where i thought, wow he’s playing co-lead on the bass. Unreal.
3 of the greatest musicians of all time, paying tribute to the King of the Blues, and grandfather of blues based rock and roll...the legendary Robert Johnson
I only saw Cream perform live once at the Cafe Au Go Go in New York. They really had a slamming, jamming sound and they're doing it in this live performance. The solos really soar.
The editing, like the musical explosion that was the Cream is/was pure 60s... as is said, if you remember the 60s you weren't there... don't think there ever was a published studio version, but the two or three live recordings of Crossroads still get my geriatric adrenaline flowing..
Love classic music
素晴らしき名演。クリームの偉大さを再認識。そしてクラプトン、かっこよすぎます☆
and so were the Blues, Jazz, Country, Western, Gospel, and Rock and Roll music...Cream was indeed great, and Crossroads is the greatest Blues song of all time, written by the King of the Blues, and greatest guitarist of all time, the one and only Robert Johnson
RIP jack bruce
Best version of this song ever. It's upbeat freaking rocks
When I was 10 I was listening to Fall Out Boy and MCR. One day on holiday my dad said it is time for you to listen to some good music and showed me this song and all along the watchtower, and instantly fell in love :)
was the camera man on acid?
+Ken Gibbens It was a Cream concert in the '70's, everyone was on fucking acid
+Ken Gibbens From what I've seen, until sometime in the mid-to-late 70s, the guitar solo was seen as an opportunity to make arty cuts and get footage of the drummer. Somewhere along the line, someone figured out that that wasn't what people wanted to see. Check out some old Allman Brothers with Duane -- there's not much of him actually at work. Criminal, it retrospect.
+Ken Gibbens yes
+Mathreyu Flamel Late 60's not 70's dude
The zoom lens was built into the then-new generation of television cameras. Some genius director thought it'd make for an "earthquake effect" as if the music was causing it.
that's extremelyyyyyyy fantastic!
i wish that i could see their concert back then...
The best video ever cream is great
In those days Clapton was unbeatable. That's a fact, not an oppinion.
agreed
@Babis Tse Eric topped Jimi imo. Jimi knew some tricks but Eric had more sheer power. Heroin ruined him.
Jimi Hendrix was someting else, way above the rest.
No. Cream were a three piece, three legs of a stool. Each 3rd made Clapton great, including Clapton obviously. Take Clapton out of the equation, and its bare for all to see. People forget that and wonder why he was only great in 'those days' and not after.
Jimi Hendrix: laughs in killing floor and tremolo bar
classic cream...best of the best!!!!
I was there at the final performance. There was John Peel introducing Yes, Taste and then the Mighty Cream. What a night.
🎼💜🌺🙋🎼🎹 Merci
Highly amusing and invaluable.
英国バンド Cream ジャック・ブルース ジンジャー・ベイカー エリック・クラプトン三人トリオ 最高の テクニック 最もクロスロードは、三人の特性最も出てお互い演奏力あります。私個人的意見 なりますが、最も好きなバンド ベイカーの激しく繊細のドラム ブルースの歌唱力 ベースのテクニック クラプトンのギターテクニック 歌唱力 当時は、ベイカーとブルース険悪にてクラプトン悩まされた話しありますが、三人の演奏能力最高です。本当に素晴らしい三人トリオ
Greatness from all. EC is my all time favorite, I love Jack, but I always end up watching Ginger Baker. He was a vortex, a force of nature. No three men have ever done it better.
Could not tell it better. Hail Ginger.
Should have focused the camera on Ginger Baker
Ah, Cream. This short-lived band perfectly epitomized "glory is forever" in this farewell show.
lived it wish I could go back!!
you are appreciated
What a bad ass performance.❤
Stellar groove.
shredding on an ES, in 68...
GOD
Great video the best ever
its as if they were all trying to keep up with each other. amazing
The Master
The Greatest :-)
When you get asked by the Beatles to play on their White Album - you're doing something right..
@@RonMishra ... thats a load a bull, you live longer and healthier with good smack than you do with alcohol ...
.... WAHT A LOAD OF BALONEY ... WINSTON CHURCHILL WAS BORN IN 1974 AND DIED IN 1955 - "NO SPORTS" WAS HJIS FAMOUS MOTTO - MY FAHTER IS 98 NOW, HE´S BEEN TAKEN PART IN TWO (2) WORLD WARS AND HE WAS A GREAT SPORTSMAN WITH A LOVE FOR GOOD I R I S H SINGLE MALT WHISLEY - FORGET ABOUT THAT T PEAT-TASTING SCOTS STUFF - THE ONLY THING THAT CAN COMPARE TO IRISH WHISKEY MAY BE THE CANADIAN ONE -LIGHT AND SMOOTH - I´M S SPORTSMAN MESELF- BOXING - AND I LIKE A GODDLY DRINK AFTER A FIGHT OR AFTER SPARRING SAM SO DO ME PALS AND I´M OLD ENOUGH TA KNOW WHATS GOOD FOR ME AND WHATS NOT ... F E A R MAKES PEOPLE D U M B, THAT´S WHAST IT IS CREATED FOR ... WE´RE HERE TO ENJOY WHATEVER WE THINK IS GOOD FOR US ... LOOK AT THEM TEETOTALLERS WITH THIER SEMI- RELIGIOUS PHANTASIES UNHAPPY THUS TRYING TO IMPOSE THEIR U N H E A L T H Y BELEIVES DEEPLY ROOTED IN F E A R ON OTHERS - POOR SOULS - YOIU WANT TO BE ONE OF THEM ??
@@jamesanthony5681 YOU´RE RIGHT, THANK YOU, I LOOKED IT UP, BUT HE GOT AS OLD AS THE HILLS DESPITE SMOKING CIGARS AND DRINKING WHISKEY ... SLAINTE ....
..., SORRY TO HEAR ABOUT THIS ... HE SHOULDA DRANK MORE I R I S H WHISKEY AND SMOKED SOME DOPE WHICH WASN´T ILLEGAL THEN ... IT WAS THE YANKS TO MAKE IT ILLEGAL AFTER WW 2 ... HE ALSO COULD´VE TAKEN MORPHINE WHICH HE PROBALBLY DID ANYWAY, WHO KNOWS ... MORPHINE WAS A LEGAL DRUG UNTIL THE MID-THIRTIES AS FAR AS I KNOW BUT I´M NOT VERY CONVERSANT WITH MATTERS LIKE THIS ONE ... WHAT I KNOW FROM ME GRANDFATHER IS THAT IT WAS GIVEN TO BADLY WOUNDED SERVICE MEN TO RELIEVE EM FROM PAIN ... MORPHINE WAS GIVEN TO SOLDIERS DURING AND AFTER WW 1 AND WW 2 WHICH CAUSED ADDICTION WITH MANY ... SERVICE MEN, ESP. AIRMEN WERE GIVEN P E R V I T I N E (SIMILAR TO TODAYS EXCTASY) TO AVOID FATIGUE AND MAKE EM MORE AUDACIOUS ... ITS STILL GIVEN TO US-SPECIAL FORCES AND THE SAS .... `COURSE THERE MUST BE A REASON FOR IT .... ME MYSELF QUIT DRINKING ALCOHOL THREE SOLID YEARS AGO - NOT BECAUSE I HAD TO BUT CAUSE I KNEW THE GAME FOR YEARS - ALWAYS THE SAME .. I ALSO QUIT BOXING, TOO OLD NOW ... ... QUITTING DRINKING DIDN´T CAUSE ME ANY PROBLEM WHATSOEVER ... I NEVER BECAME AN ADDICT - SOME ARE LUCKY, OTHERS ARE NOT ... GOOD NIGHT, ITS GETTING LATE OVER HERE, TIME TO HIT THE SACK ... STAY SOUND AND SOBER ... BEST WISHES FROM ARMAGH, NI ...
@@jamesanthony5681 ... HAD TO, I´M NOT GETTIG ANY YOUNGER ... THE BEST OF LUCK TO YOU MY FRIEND, KIERAN ....
Well this one of my favorite, I play guitar whit a trio in Venezuela, and this piece was explosive every time we can play.
LG Lobo Blanco.
powerfull trio...powerhouse
Bring me back to cream tone , beautiful in brutal section
ultimate awesome
These guys were so tremendous, it's hard to imagine anybody else like them. Bruce and Baker were no slackers.
Whenever Hendrix was back in England, it was stated he only wanted to go see Cream. When they came to the US Carlos Santana said he and others were amazed at the sound that a trio could put out. They were the forerunners of many successive rock bands. Wish they played longer than two years, but sometimes highly talented people just burn out together.
@@chuckyanus3563 and it helps if one isn't an abusive drunk.
FANTASTIC,,,THE CREAMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Magnificent
Damn, who knew Vincent Van Gogh was such a beast on drums?!
😂
i love
his tune
세 사람의 천재성이 응축된 놀랍도록 익사이팅한 연주... Bravo !
Cream was on fire during this performance. They were burning white hot.
Uno de los grandes colosos de todos los tiempos es este super grupo inglés llamado Cream muy adelantado para su tiempo, ya han pasado 50 años desde su formación original (1966) con sus miembros originales : Baker, Bruce y Clapton, aún ahora en día es inalcanzable para la gran mayoría de las agrupaciones americanas e inglesas de rock ,simplemente es lo mejor de lo mejor porque logró romper la barrera del tiempo y su historia continúa al igual que algunas cuantas leyendas como Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd ó The Rolling Stones entre un puñado de elegidos...
sweetness
When Ginger gets moving on this one, holy shit...
Congratulations Eric!! 76 !!!!!!
Crossroads on Wheels of Fire so excited me about playing the guitar like Eric. It blew my mind. Jac Bruce just jammed like no other on bass, basically him and Eric playing duel leads and of course Ginger keeping it all together with his phenomenal drumming. So glad my brother turned me onto to them and so many others. He loved Ginger, Bonham. Played the drums learning from those guys. Cream is like no other. So many great bands in those days!
In addition to Clapton’s historic March 10, 1968, iconic Winterlands Crossroads which is far superior to this Royal Albert Hall performance, (the ONLY time he used his 335 during a live Cream performance and never used it in the US with Cream), Sleepy Time Time, and his incredible Sitting on Top of the World from the LA Forum Farewell tour, there are also FAR more impressive performances of Steppin Out as compared to the Live Cream II (Winterland) version on different boots such as the Detroit Grand Ballroom and other Winterland performances plus a fantastic tour de force of Steppin he played in Sweden November 67.
When I saw Cream at Philly's Electric Factory on April 19th 1968, Clapton played an unbelievable Steppin Out that had to be near 30 minutes long and that followed a mind bending Sitting on Top of the World. Nothing can compare to hearing Clapton with Cream, being only 15 feet away in front of his dual Marshall stack. That sound changed my guitar playing and millions of other guitarists for generations to come. The sound that roared out of his Marshall stack from his Gibson SG was a sound that was so massive, no live recording can come close to capturing it….unfortunately😎
@@CreamBootlegs There are so many, it's hard to pick but another one is a rare version from either San Jose or Houston, not sure but it was on the last day of March 1968 when he plays a killer, transcendent "Steppin Out'. It might be somewhere on UA-cam if you can find it. I know that the SO he played at the Electric Factory when I saw him on April 19, 1968, was a pure, virtuoso performance and both my older brother & I think it was over 25 minutes, a massively, long version. I don't think any of EC's Gibson, including his many Les Pauls, equaled the massive, lush, vocal tone of his SG "Fool". That guitar was arguably his ultimate Gibson voice, it was perfect synergy from his fingers through his dual Mashall stack.
me encanta ver a Eric de los 60s cantando, en serio
The ultimate song. I wonder who could lay it down like that today.
Was my first ever gig I went to,pretty sure I saw Yes and Taste play as well.
What a band!