I stood about 5 ft in front of Jack Bruce playing this in a small club in Manchester UK not long before he died. It was spiritual and lasted about 10 minutes.
I could not even imagine what that would be like, only came to appreciate Cream first through their 2005 RAH dvd, then began working my way back through their catalog.
@@johntash5895 dream come true. I was learning the bass age 14..then a friend said listen to this. Crossroads...blew my mind and totally changed my musical tastes. Funnily enough I doht really like the reform gigs..feels a bit safe. My favourite is Spoonful live on the Wheels of Fire album. Incredible interplay.
When I saw this track at their reunion in 2005 in London, I wept hearing this. What a fantastically underrated songwriter and singer, Jack Bruce was. Cream should have reissued this one song in 2005. In the video from the reunion concert there is a lady who appears entranced by the hypnotic lyrics and music. I saw Jack in concert in my hometown of Cambridge. What a great Scot he was!!
Really enjoying these Cream reactions! I'm sure you can imagine how exciting it was for me to see Clapton perform these songs in concert back in 2004. I'm telling you, you guys really gotta watch Cream's performance of Spoonful
Well done for discovering this great song from the first "supergroup". I grew up in London in the 60s and they were one of my three favourite groups. The Jimi Hendrix Experience and the ORIGINAL Fleetwood Mac (with the guitar virtuoso Peter Green - not the later version of the group) were the others.
Great choice of track. You've jumped into undisturbed waters with this. Written by Jack Bruce sans Pete Brown. There's a definite jazz influence in the song. Bruce and Baker both came from jazz backgrounds. When they formed Cream, Clapton was only interested in playing blues. They told Clapton it was going to be a mainly blues based group. All the time they knew that they would be playing jazz formats, with extended improvisations. Bruce and Baker both tell the story, that Clapton thought he was playing the blues every night, well he was really playing jazz and didn't realise.
I've been asking folks for two years to react to this song. Here, if you have not seen it, is the live version from 2005. By this point Jack, Ginger and Eric had a life's command of blues and jazz performance and their personal experiences to flesh out this song. I think you'll enjoy watching Jack Bruce belt out the lyrics. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-tsMLWPD2No0.html
Greetings from New Mexico. Your channel is fun and open minded and peaceful. I agree Jack's vocals were haunting. Eric's voice is more basic. And Ginger sang rarely, with a funny style.
Jack wrote this song after a fall out with his girlfriend. He got very upset and wrote the song about the relationship going wrong. It’s not political at all.
For once i think it would be better if Clapton had stayed out or done something different. But it sounds like a live jam so maybe he didn’t have a good idea. Gingers drums were on point .
