This song was written and first performed in 1929 by Mississippi blues legend Robert Johnson. It was recorded by him in 1936. The very first man to "sell his soul for rock n roll".
That 2nd solo is one of my favorite solos of all time. Along with Eric’s outro solo on “White room” and stevies sólo on “Texas flood” and of course can’t forget Jimi’s solo on voodo child.... I just love this
Cream is one of the all time greats IMO. Those old time guitar heroes (Clapton, Page, etc) have soul in their playing, the know the blues scale inside out and back again ;).
Hay Ryan, thanks for The Cream, I was 15 years old then and loved this kind of music and still do, Spoonful, the long version, is another fantastic song of The Cream.
Well even 51 years later this LIVE song is still awesome. This was a super group who lasted for 4 albums and split after ego fights between Bruce and Baker, shame but never meant to last. Clapton and Baker went with Steve Winwood to form Blind Faith (super album) but they only lasted for 1 album!! Anyway this was at the time when the arguments were raging about Hendrix or Clapton or Santana or Alvin Lee or Leslie West etc....BTW there is a recording from the Royal Albert Hall concert where they reunited in 2005 and they still sounded this good. RIP Jack Bruce a great bassist who influenced many of those in rock and metal to this day and likely will well into the future. Thank you Ryan and I have no idea who votes this down except someone who expects a perfect auto tuned and sanitized product that these guys never delivered, they went on pure musical talent LIVE, something a lot of younger listeners will never have the real pleasure of doing with a lot of the new Rock Bands, which is why I am such a Warning fan, sadly the exception not the rule. BTW the Chicago 25 6 to 4 has one of the best guitar solos ever by Terry Kath likely someone no one has heard of, try it out (no review needed) just for your own enjoyment as a guitar lover you won't be disappointed.
Listen to the Tanglewood concert. The solo is unbelievabel. Hendrix said that Kath was better than him. After Kath death Chicago was not more this good.
My favourite band who broke up when I was 14. The film is actually from their farewell performance in London at the Royal Albert Hall, but sound is off the album ‘Wheels of Fire’, a double album, one studio one live. You’ll notice the film doesn’t quite match the sound in places. Next time try the next track from the live album, the 15 minute blues standard ‘Spoonful’, which really demonstrates the range and versatility of the band and really moves up, down, loud and softer.
IMO this band is the standard by which all rock power trios - from the Jimi Hendrix Experience to Rush to ZZ Top to The Police...all the way to new musicians like The Warning - are measured. Obviously opinions will differ on who the best trio is, but Cream set the bar. They’re not a great band if you see music as a team effort with players who work together to support the songs; most of the time it’s three virtuosos soloing all at once (especially live). With lesser musicians it’d be a mess. With these three it was a perfect storm. Just like all storms, though, they were too unstable to last very long...but they left one hell of a mark on the landscape.
Dead on my friend and well said. Clapton was the peacemaker but gave up as Bruce and Baker were just too much to contain. The joke was the egos were so big you needed them in separate cities to get along.
You might like "Sunshine of Your Love" an original song by them (ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-16h6vLy6n4A.html) not the best audio or video but hey it older than you as you said so still amazing. The other recommendations are all LIVE too and well before your days so if you want to do a GRANDPA night have at it. Most of your subs likely never saw these videos nor the bands LIVE like I did!!!
@@Kimobubby First of all: the video and the audio ain't fit. I don't know if it was some kind of copyright issue or what, but the audio is from their album Wheels of fire, while the video is from their farewell performance in Royal Albert Hall. (The Wheels of fire performance is better than the Royal Alber Hall, not just IMO, by many fans) Second stuff: somewhere I saw a poster that says "UK's No. 1 concert group" and it was very true; their live performances were several times batter than the studio stuff. The problem is there ain't much videos about them from that era (sadly). But here's one of the best (or THE best): ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-CgP7kfIwlE8.html
What your watching is actually their last concert at The Royal Albert Hall. The song was recorded at The Fillmore. The video is actually wrong.My neighbor did the psychedelic light show for that concert and he gave me the projector.
The reason you don't see Clapton's fingers is that they took the audio from the Filmore West performance in San Francisco, and tried to match the performance from the Cream's Farewell Concert from London. There was no video of the Filmore performance. If you look again at the part at the beginning where you paused it, it has the name of the song, and then San Francisco & London. So when the guitar solos, they cut to anything but the guitar, because he wouldn't be playing it the same both times. At least you weren't given the version from the reunion concert 40 yrs. later, which is a little less energetic. I bet the dislikes were due to the fact that it was pretending that the video matched the audio. They didn't appreciate the attempt to fool them.
Yep this is the stuff I grew up on and still listen to. The guys in Cream were never very prolific in writing songs, so they had a friend of Clapton's do some writing. Because of his contracts and legal issues he was never directly credited (to my understanding). Clapton would also go on to write several songs about this friend's wife and even marry her when they broke up. Yep George Harrison wrote for Cream.
Erm, not really. Harrison wrote one song with Clapton for Cream, the untypical _Badge,_ for their last album. Almost all their other songs were either blues covers or written by themselves, though several of their most famous songs were written by Pete Brown, with bassist Jack Bruce.
😍Love Cream! Never seen them or Clapton live. ☹Your Ryan Shares MSP was blocked. Been sharing MSP & Third Eye Blind with our host family and colleagues. Made a few new fans out of them. I'd love your opinion on... ❤ Doro - Hard Times (Music Video 1989). Take it easy.🤘🤙
RIP GINGER 1939-2019 JACK BRUCE 1943-2014 You like this time period Try Zepplin How many more times. Kicks ass ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-wEPog_WdPE4.html
