I was there. 9/4/67. 14 years old and my first acid trip. So many people talk about walking through the forest listening to Donovan on their first quarter hit of acid. To this day, I'm proud that my first trip was a full hit of Sunshine watching Ginger Baker's hair exploding into flames and merging with his cymbals. And, 55 years later, I'm still able to feed myself, usually without help.
@@jeffreykaramazov both did amazing albums and were all friends! But the Experience did it better and longer, & live the experience did it better, heavier & faster, both were the ones that started metal!
Those kids man, did they even know they were in the presence of such greatness. Like when cream played Tales of brave Ulysses for instance, they couldn’t have been aware of the greatness.
FOUR 100 watt marshalls and EIGHT 412 cabs in that little room and what looks like a 100 watt bandmaster on a 612 cab ....if you werent dizzy went you went in you were when you came out...i so miss those days gone by.
The Whiskey is a couple inches bigger than any given living room. I couldn't imagine Cream playing there. The first time I heard Tales of Brave Ulysses it became one of my all time favorite songs before the song was over. LSD + Homers 'the Oddessy' = God damn mind blowing song. Thanks for posting this video
Probably one of the or maybe the biggest reasons Cream had such a big impact on American audiences was not just their talent, but how big their 3 man band's sound was. How fearless their improvisation went to different solar systems was a big impact too I'm sure but jazz bands had been doing that for 20 years before 67. No point in comparing Cream to anybody because they were the first power trio before Hendrix Experience and the others that followed. Don't know why now Eric draws so much criticism for leaving Cream obviously the 'critic's of him are unfamiliar with Derek and the Dominos, though shortlived , played balls to wall concerts that were fabulous as any of Creams work.
There was something scary about music like this back then. Scary because it was so new, exciting, sensory, and you didn't know quite how to handle it. Out of all the bands, Cream seemed to know how to do it the best, even all these years on, it's still the scary same
i was 18 and lived on the strip.......pandora's box, the 5th estate......the hullabaloo...and on santa monica bl...........the troubadour....you could see EVERYONE.......unbelievable good times. cream, the byrds, love, the turtles, moby grape.....and on and on....wow.
I was at the Friday night show at the Fillmore Auditorium in SF the week before this Whisky recording, at the end of Aug '67. Cream caused such a sensation that Bill Graham held them over for an extended two week engagement, before they moved down to LA. I read the reviews by famed music critic Ralph Gleason in the San Francisco Chronicle, & decided to go see for myself. I had only recently arrived in SF from Jacksonville Beach FL, where bands with the funky rock / soul style of the Electric Flag were more common...but Cream just totally floored me. It was the first time I ever witnessed a band with 4 double stacks of Marshalls, & I'll never forget the experience of witnessing Clapton blow the roof off the building with his psychedelic SG.
Harry Clay WOW!!!! So cool!! What an incredible experience for you, i was just a little too young to see them. My own personal view i consider them the best all time band, just my own personal view.
I heard them do this one about 6 months later. Clapton never repeated himself. I was amazed. He was so much better than everybody else (except Hendrix)
Lucky peeps who attended. Despite the possibility of hearing loss, lol. Their gear is more suited to massive venues or stadiums, so can imagine how it might sound like in such a small space.
Clapton spent many years being embarrassed by his time in Cream probably because he got caught up in the Hendrix whirlwind that stormed through rock in 66/67 and everyone started changing their reserved English ways and he's a naturally introverted character but that was an awesome period and they were a great innovative band who with Hendrix set the blueprint for heavy rock and metal.
@@paulcannon5065 When I first saw Led Zeppelin perform as a 2nd on the bill band at the Fillmore West in Jan of '69 (approx 16 months later, after Cream's SF debut) they DEFINITELY gave Cream a run for the money. And I also saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience at Winterland in Feb of '68...& there's no denying that they too were unbelievably powerful. All 3 bands stood at a pinnacle that few others have ever reached.
Please name some of these "great bands." I've been "listening" for nearly 70 years - rock, jazz, blues, funk, soul, r&b, reggae, fusion, etc., and I've never heard three individuals create such an amazing musical inferno - power, melody and amazing improvisational interplay. They took simple blues lines and transformed them into brilliant, horizontal fusions of sound. I saw them at Winterland in March, 1968 - unbelievable musicianship. These shows provided the material for "Wheels of Fire" and "Live Cream, Vols. 1 & II."
I remember the first time I heard this song. I was sitting in my 7th grade English class listening on a cassette player I had smuggled in under my jacket while the teacher droned on about how we use 'we' instead of'us' when we are speaking in the first person plural nominative case . This really takes me back.
That fall 67 tour had Eric holding nothing back on that SG. The jamming by all 3 is nonstop intense. Find this and the Grand Ballroom shows if you can. I can't imagine walking in off the street into one of these club shows. After discovering these shows I can better understand the hype. The later released live recordings from 68 lack a certain fire, to put it mildly, imho.
Then Clapton did the same when he saw Hendrix. Clapton was litteraly shaking after watching Jimi play "Killing Floor". But yeah, Cream blew people's minds, as did Sabbath to a smaller audience, historically
Guitar Ninja exactly... people had no idea what sabbath was doing. It was foreign, imagine these bums come in to a local pub and literally scare the audience away, and then the ppl who ran come back the next show out of curiosity, and by the 3rd their metal heads hahaha.
@@Ninjametal Hendrix saw this or a close concert of Cream and knew then what he wanted ; a power trio with a sort of drummer like Ginger and a playfull bass like Jack. Actually Jimi's bass playing is much like Jack's. Ginger's drumming is unmatched unrivalled..there is something in his time...he is always dead on time...really freakingly so...much more than any other drummer..he is time.
Thanks for the upload. I saw Cream at the Rhode Island Auditorium in 67. also the Who and Hendrex there a couple of times. By the time i hitchhiked to Calli and got to the Wisky ago go I saw John magloflin and Santana! I thought wow there is still hope for rock.
Wouldn't call them Heavy Metal...they're too melodic. The Cream was/is the first incarnation of Hard Rock with a heavy dose of blues, psychedelia, and a sprinkling of improvisational jazz mixed in. Led Zeppelin, which was heavily influenced by The Cream, and Black Sabbath are more deserving of the credit as the seed and root of Heavy Metal.
I am.83..same dap off for me with drugs &I can still feed myself & was teaching English in Argentina until 2 weeks ago..lota myths about drugs ...ain't there??
Eric didn't us the Wah Wah on this recording but Hendrix and others noticed how he used it so differently--he was very precise in adding the tonal changes to the lead notes--something was kinda sloppy before. Really revolutionized it as he did with the Leslie speakers--but its history now! Still the Aussie that wrote the lyrics remains a favorite of mine
Merkinmufflypetersellers…why did you say that about eddie? I can hear no correlation between the two guitar styles. While eddie was pretty good with van halen he was just a fart in the wind in comparison.
O.k. kids, more stories from old farts. I was also too young (13) to get into the Whiskey but was allowed into the Santa Monica Civic (8 miles away) for 3 bucks - Steppenwolf and Cream. No long jams, however the next year I saw Cream at the Inglewood Forum for 3.50 on their farewell tour and it was all one long jam. It's probably in UA-cam as well.
+bamboosa I can beat that : In 1966 I went with a girl to a Murray the K concert. She went to see Mitch Ryder. The opening acts were . . .ready ? Cream and The Who ! At the time I'd never heard of them so . . . but I got to see The Who tear up the guitar and wreck the drums. =)
cool, Jack using a Marshall P.A. head in addition to his other head for those who haven't been in the Whiskey, it's a very small club - the volume must have been pretty intense btw, how does one leave their wah-wah at home? - haha
Hey Rich Speers, while there is certainly something special to be heard from 8 x 12 inch speakers, and while that was popularized by Marshall, Fender did kind of "miss the boat" in that regard for a few years but mostly they missed out for not realizing that the original Marshall was just a clone of the Fender Tweed Bassman. A Tweed Fender can match an original Marshall all day long any day.. See this ua-cam.com/video/an7ciQrZYj4/v-deo.html
Clapton's guitar is so loud in this mix, lol. Ahmet Ertegun said that when Cream came to NYC to record at Atlantic, that Cream was way louder than any other group or artist that they had worked with at that time.
You don't know what loud is until you have been shut in an upstairs room with a small crowd and Ten Years After turned up to VFL. Last time I saw Cream must have been in 'late '67 or early '68 at the Ram Jam in Brixton, after the summer shows at the Saville Theatre. At Bluesville we had our prefered spot on a Friday night. Mine was on the left, in front of Jack's speaker about 15 or 20 feet back.
Cream is one of the most underrated band of all times. Only criticism about this recording is the band is overpowering the vocals but still a great performance and I bet everyone there was plastered with amazement amongst other things 🤣
I was there. 9/4/67. 14 years old and my first acid trip. So many people talk about walking through the forest listening to Donovan on their first quarter hit of acid. To this day, I'm proud that my first trip was a full hit of Sunshine watching Ginger Baker's hair exploding into flames and merging with his cymbals.
And, 55 years later, I'm still able to feed myself, usually without help.
Great story
That is an awesome story...
I'm only 60, so my 1st trip was live Zeppelin....😊
Too cool!
Exactly same as me.
When Clapton had fire in his belly.
Funny thing - you listen to other music then you come back to Cream and realize just how great they really were.
True that!!!
They were great unfortunately they had to compete with the Jimi Hendrix experie
@@cooperbihotsauce No match, Cream were better!
yes..that is true...
@@jeffreykaramazov both did amazing albums and were all friends! But the Experience did it better and longer, & live the experience did it better, heavier & faster, both were the ones that started metal!
Even the poster artwork was better than todays.
Those kids man, did they even know they were in the presence of such greatness. Like when cream played Tales of brave Ulysses for instance, they couldn’t have been aware of the greatness.
I was 16, a month from turning 17, at this moment. When Disraeli Gears came out it was among a pantheon of records that took me to a new world.
FOUR 100 watt marshalls and EIGHT 412 cabs in that little room and what looks like a 100 watt bandmaster on a 612 cab ....if you werent dizzy went you went in you were when you came out...i so miss those days gone by.
the siren sounds of Eric's guitar are sweetly singing.
Eric is a rock god. what he did with cream beats everyone else
i can't believe they played with double stacked amps in that place.
The Whiskey is a couple inches bigger than any given living room. I couldn't imagine Cream playing there. The first time I heard Tales of Brave Ulysses it became one of my all time favorite songs before the song was over. LSD + Homers 'the Oddessy' = God damn mind blowing song. Thanks for posting this video
Thanks for your comment, its giving me flashbacks now even at age 73!!!
Probably one of the or maybe the biggest reasons Cream had such a big impact on American audiences was not just their talent, but how big their 3 man band's sound was. How fearless their improvisation went to different solar systems was a big impact too I'm sure but jazz bands had been doing that for 20 years before 67. No point in comparing Cream to anybody because they were the first power trio before Hendrix Experience and the others that followed. Don't know why now Eric draws so much criticism for leaving Cream obviously the 'critic's of him are unfamiliar with Derek and the Dominos, though shortlived , played balls to wall concerts that were fabulous as any of Creams work.
There was something scary about music like this back then. Scary because it was so new, exciting, sensory, and you didn't know quite how to handle it. Out of all the bands, Cream seemed to know how to do it the best, even all these years on, it's still the scary same
I wish people still played scary music like this. Music with balls. Blues and balls.
0:58 just listen to how Eric's guitar comes roaring out of the wall of sound...truly inspiring.
The greatest supergroup of all time
My 3rd fave, but who's counting 😊
This is incredible. Clapton is on fire.
What about Baker and Bruce ?
i was 18 and lived on the strip.......pandora's box, the 5th estate......the hullabaloo...and on santa monica bl...........the troubadour....you could see EVERYONE.......unbelievable good times. cream, the byrds, love, the turtles, moby grape.....and on and on....wow.
I was at the Friday night show at the Fillmore Auditorium in SF the week before this Whisky recording, at the end of Aug '67. Cream caused such a sensation that Bill Graham held them over for an extended two week engagement, before they moved down to LA. I read the reviews by famed music critic Ralph Gleason in the San Francisco Chronicle, & decided to go see for myself. I had only recently arrived in SF from Jacksonville Beach FL, where bands with the funky rock / soul style of the Electric Flag were more common...but Cream just totally floored me. It was the first time I ever witnessed a band with 4 double stacks of Marshalls, & I'll never forget the experience of witnessing Clapton blow the roof off the building with his psychedelic SG.
Harry Clay WOW!!!! So cool!! What an incredible experience for you, i was just a little too young to see them. My own personal view i consider them the best all time band, just my own personal view.
Was it Jerry Garcia who said "we were playing teenage music and along comes Cream playing like men."
Jerry and Mickey saw the Cream at the Fillmore and walked out saying, we just saw the greatest band in the world
My main music gift when i was young.
@@raymondchollet3199 - I play guitar. I saw Cream twice. Still my "go to" source (when I don't know what to play) - Cream songs
I think closer to what he said is "We sound like boys, and these are men" lol!
@@mrJimCharles - Captain Trips knows. I love him.
- Awesome...~😀🌉🎸
YES!!!! Nothing beats tubes - so much depth
Hell yah! Just creams the soul!
Reminds me of all sorts of things I was up way back when!
This Jack Bruce kicks out the jams brothers and sisters
I heard them do this one about 6 months later. Clapton never repeated himself. I was amazed. He was so much better than everybody else (except Hendrix)
Lucky peeps who attended. Despite the possibility of hearing loss, lol. Their gear is more suited to massive venues or stadiums, so can imagine how it might sound like in such a small space.
1967...I graduated from HS...this was THE BAND !!!
My all time favorite song..
my fav cream song
right up there
I m play a cover on my house, yestesterday, invitation to you for watch this pop on Thierry lerond you tube
Thanks a lot
In my top ten forever.
Clapton spent many years being embarrassed by his time in Cream probably because he got caught up in the Hendrix whirlwind that stormed through rock in 66/67 and everyone started changing their reserved English ways and he's a naturally introverted character but that was an awesome period and they were a great innovative band who with Hendrix set the blueprint for heavy rock and metal.
The summer of love reaches the highest level of the greatest life here.
TO THIS DAY IN THE 2 YRS THEY WERE TOGETHER 66-68 THEY SOLD MORE ALBUMS THAN ANY BAND IN HISTORY
That statistic is hardly surprising. They were and are a class above.
@@ianfinch3127 THAT'S BECAUSE YOU KNOW YOUR MUSIC MY BROTHER
very early strains of metal can be heard here
Fs
Immortali
the day I was born! sweet!
I grew up in the 60's & 70's, I don't remember much, that what I tell people
Man, I was just 15 then, couldn't get in, but Loved it, and learned to play Guitar just like that!!!
I can't imagine the volume in the room with the Marsha LLS 😂
bad arse, my favorite Cream tune.
Thank you Cream...
You nailed it bro----I lived through that period and all the best players had a face-melting gut-punching visceral tone that is totally gone now.
The real soul is here
No band has ever come close.
Thank god
@@paulcannon5065 When I first saw Led Zeppelin perform as a 2nd on the bill band at the Fillmore West in Jan of '69 (approx 16 months later, after Cream's SF debut) they DEFINITELY gave Cream a run for the money. And I also saw the Jimi Hendrix Experience at Winterland in Feb of '68...& there's no denying that they too were unbelievably powerful. All 3 bands stood at a pinnacle that few others have ever reached.
The goat is a relative concept many great bands in the world you just got to listen
Please name some of these "great bands." I've been "listening" for nearly 70 years - rock, jazz, blues, funk, soul, r&b, reggae, fusion, etc., and I've never heard three individuals create such an amazing musical inferno - power, melody and amazing improvisational interplay. They took simple blues lines and transformed them into brilliant, horizontal fusions of sound. I saw them at Winterland in March, 1968 - unbelievable musicianship. These shows provided the material for "Wheels of Fire" and "Live Cream, Vols. 1 & II."
I was Go Go Dancer at the Whisky...
prove it
I bet you still have it!
I love you
Awesome
Not many have been so fortunate
In one of the cages?
Thank you this is my favorite song from the band😁
Me too!
Ginger Baker. 🌹🌹🌹Rest in Peace.
Awesome. C'mon guys, tell your stories. Us younger people want to hear them.
I remember the first time I heard this song. I was sitting in my 7th grade English class listening on a cassette player I had smuggled in under my jacket while the teacher droned on about how we use 'we' instead of'us' when we are speaking in the first person plural nominative case . This really takes me back.
Saw them in August of 67 at the Fillmore in SF. Must have been just before this show.
Clapton did not have a Wah for this performance. It shows the raw guitar playing and solos, wow.
That fall 67 tour had Eric holding nothing back on that SG. The jamming by all 3 is nonstop intense. Find this and the Grand Ballroom shows if you can. I can't imagine walking in off the street into one of these club shows. After discovering these shows I can better understand the hype. The later released live recordings from 68 lack a certain fire, to put it mildly, imho.
Unequalled!
Keep these recording coming. Tom age 65 - CREAM
my understanding was that every band in the US at that time practically sh*t their pants when they saw and heard Cream play live
Then Clapton did the same when he saw Hendrix. Clapton was litteraly shaking after watching Jimi play "Killing Floor". But yeah, Cream blew people's minds, as did Sabbath to a smaller audience, historically
Guitar Ninja exactly... people had no idea what sabbath was doing. It was foreign, imagine these bums come in to a local pub and literally scare the audience away, and then the ppl who ran come back the next show out of curiosity, and by the 3rd their metal heads hahaha.
@@Ninjametal Hendrix saw this or a close concert of Cream and knew then what he wanted ; a power trio with a sort of drummer like Ginger and a playfull bass like Jack. Actually Jimi's bass playing is much like Jack's. Ginger's drumming is unmatched unrivalled..there is something in his time...he is always dead on time...really freakingly so...much more than any other drummer..he is time.
@@andrehof7876 Beware of Mr Baker
@@gigapak28 yeah great documentary..but you see an old man who still is able to play...because everything he does has time
rip Giinger Baker.....
Thanks for the upload. I saw Cream at the Rhode Island Auditorium in 67. also the Who and Hendrex there a couple of times. By the time i hitchhiked to Calli and got to the Wisky ago go I saw John magloflin and Santana! I thought wow there is still hope for rock.
Grandy Ballroom Detroit Michigan I wish we were still doing it
i could die this is so good
BJ....we were roomates...don't forget the old days in Houston
The day I was born.
I was 7 weeks old
Outstanding power trio.
Good one!!
RIP Jack
Rock ON 🖤
The first Heavy Metal Band.
Wouldn't call them Heavy Metal...they're too melodic. The Cream was/is the first incarnation of Hard Rock with a heavy dose of blues, psychedelia, and a sprinkling of improvisational jazz mixed in. Led Zeppelin, which was heavily influenced by The Cream, and Black Sabbath are more deserving of the credit as the seed and root of Heavy Metal.
One of numerous great trio supergroups.
Cream
Rush
ELP
Hendrix
Grand Funk RR
ZZ Top
Many others I can’t think of at this moment
Needs The Police :)
saw them at Winterland and the Oakland Coliseum.
Your so lucky Cindy I was only 1 I wish I was there
From what I've read one reason Ginger always fought w Jack was Jack kept adding volume, Marshall upon Marshall and seriously damaged G's hearing
I am.83..same dap off for me with drugs &I can still feed myself & was teaching English in Argentina until 2 weeks ago..lota myths about drugs ...ain't there??
When Clapton had big balls!
Eric didn't us the Wah Wah on this recording but Hendrix and others noticed how he used it so differently--he was very precise in adding the tonal changes to the lead notes--something was kinda sloppy before. Really revolutionized it as he did with the Leslie speakers--but its history now! Still the Aussie that wrote the lyrics remains a favorite of mine
I wonder if Eddie Van Halen was able to sneak in an listen to Clapton during some of these gigs.
Nice thought but Eddie would have been 12 :)
@barred toaster He also said that he didn't listen to EC after Cream clearly implying he didn't much care for EC post-Cream. Gotta agree.
Merkinmufflypetersellers…why did you say that about eddie? I can hear no correlation between the two guitar styles. While eddie was pretty good with van halen he was just a fart in the wind in comparison.
@@Dixler683 I have to agree. Although van halen played the whiskey a gogo wasn't the same as it was in the 60s
@@Dixler683 Eddie has stated that Cream was a huge influence on him, so much so to have a cream cover band when he was younger
raw😙
O.k. kids, more stories from old farts. I was also too young (13) to get into the Whiskey but was allowed into the Santa Monica Civic (8 miles away) for 3 bucks - Steppenwolf and Cream. No long jams, however the next year I saw Cream at the Inglewood Forum for 3.50 on their farewell tour and it was all one long jam. It's probably in UA-cam as well.
+bamboosa I can beat that : In 1966 I went with a girl to a Murray the K concert. She went to see Mitch Ryder. The opening acts were . . .ready ? Cream and The Who ! At the time I'd never heard of them so . . . but I got to see The Who tear up the guitar and wreck the drums. =)
Most excellent!
I Danced Here ....
cindy summers i like you!!!!
@MattHatter You have the coolest Mom of all time!
One day i will meet you in Heaven .......
Awsome i remember so well
IM HERE .....
Dated Tony Curtis in Vegas met Elvis ....
My wonderful yrs of Heavenly Bliss.....seen it..did it done it ....
Merciiii
Looking for a old singing friend Don Curry .....
I believe you Cindy. What about Steve McQueen?
D D D D D D D D DEAR GOD! AMAZING!
I'm pretty sure I was there.
Same ending they would later use for White Room.
Is lightly different than white room, man. Listen it better
favorite cream song...its ginger's bashing the skins for all their worth.
legendary
He (EC) was Justin Bieber's age in 1967!! Just 22 year's old!!
But 1,000 times the talent.
Talent is no longer a prerequisite for fame, in fact it has a tendency to just get in the way.
+Laurence Hawks damn, truth bomb
de lo mejor desde inglaterra
Dare I say it but very similar chord sequence to White Room.
The Shrine Auditorium LA around 1969.
clapton plays the woman tone sg. never have i heard a better sounding axe.
Nadie ha sonado ni sonara como los cream, eso es seguro.
I was four
I was a week old. lol
cool, Jack using a Marshall P.A. head in addition to his other head
for those who haven't been in the Whiskey, it's a very small club - the volume must have been pretty intense
btw, how does one leave their wah-wah at home? - haha
eric left his wah-wah home. but he burns it up just the same. he has to - with bruce way out in front. great performance.
Why Dosent Eric Clapton Play This Anymore . His New Stuff Sounds Like Western Swing
Yeah. American rock was handicapped by the Vietnam polarization thing at the time, but by the mid 70s it was back as strong as ever.
Eric used a wha-wha in Detroit the same year. He couldn't have left it at home...
Sorry Fender people. The Gibson guitar (Clapton in Cream) and a Marshall stack just can't be beaten.
Hey Rich Speers, while there is certainly something special to be heard from 8 x 12 inch speakers, and while that was popularized by Marshall, Fender did kind of "miss the boat" in that regard for a few years but mostly they missed out for not realizing that the original Marshall was just a clone of the Fender Tweed Bassman. A Tweed Fender can match an original Marshall all day long any day.. See this ua-cam.com/video/an7ciQrZYj4/v-deo.html
What a great track. What an Awesome band, helped by a big pile of Jim Marshall's products
Days of no ear plugs and noise control laws?
Clapton's guitar is so loud in this mix, lol. Ahmet Ertegun said that when Cream came to NYC to record at Atlantic, that Cream was way louder than any other group or artist that they had worked with at that time.
yeahHENDRIX was at WARNER REPRISE.
You don't know what loud is until you have been shut in an upstairs room with a small crowd and Ten Years After turned up to VFL.
Last time I saw Cream must have been in 'late '67 or early '68 at the Ram Jam in Brixton, after the summer shows at the Saville Theatre.
At Bluesville we had our prefered spot on a Friday night. Mine was on the left, in front of Jack's speaker about 15 or 20 feet back.
@@rodparsons521 how could you hear after that?
a weaker man's head would have exploded
5 words: Nigel Tufnel Spinal Tap 11
This is the only version of this song I've heard without wha-wha. Maybe he only traveled with one and the battery died or it was broken.
Cream is one of the most underrated band of all times. Only criticism about this recording is the band is overpowering the vocals but still a great performance and I bet everyone there was plastered with amazement amongst other things 🤣
Cream underrated...??! Hahaha, are you for real? 😂