One of the many great recordings of Spoonful by Cream on youtube. All versions are masterpieces and evidence of the consistent high quality of the band. I saw them about a half dozen times in the late 60's and they ALWAYS blew me away.
@@JeffreyWilliams-dr7qe Willie Dixon wrote "Spoonful". The band always gave credit to the authors of their old blues tunes, not like Led Zeppelin who took credit for many blues standards.
I was second row center and as you can imagine it was one of the best experiences of my life. Cream was mind-blowing live! Clapton is subhuman on the guitar. The comments on whether or not he was on smack, not an issue. Listen and enjoy the genius.
Lez C Oh, shut up. But please, tell us more. I can only imagine what's it was like to be at a Cream concert. And that doesn't do me justice at all. There's nothing like being at a live concert, especially if it was these guys right here, who put their heart an soul into it, along with their talent and skill. Guys who pushed each other to the edge. It's actually a good thing that Jack an Ginger didn't get along, because it definitely pushed them to another world of music that we'll never be able to reach.
This is Eric Clapton at his best Guitar Playing, wish he would go back to a 3 piece group and play this song and songs like it , a wall of Jim Marshall Amps And Gibson Guitars And of course Fender Telecasters And Stratocasters ( Overdrive/ Uni Vibe , Wha Wha )
Was a 19 year old punk, going to Radioman school in the Navy...spent roughly a month's pay to see them. Ginger Baker could barely walk, poured himself into the drum set. Clapton to me looked very uninspired but played pretty f'n good. For me Jack was the highlight of the show, played everything like it was his last crack at it before he died. Train Time was torture to watch because it looked & sounded like he would collapse at any moment. You forget how spontaneous they were until you here this version of Spoonful, a one-of-a-kind band that shot across the sky and left an impossibly high bar for others that followed.
Thanks for your remembering review. Sounds like a good concert. I saw them late show Hunter College Auditorium NYC 3/29/68 - loud and majesterial Sunshine of your Love, a long NSU, insturmental? Steppin Out?, Traintime Toad. They played the roof off the sucka. And Ginger Baker is still alive and touring! Saw him in NYC 2014 (?) he's still got it. Check out his two albums - Goin' Back Home & Falling Off The Roof - must haves.Find the Cream website "Those were the Days" includes advice etc. on unreleased live recordings. Detroit Grande Ballroom 1967 - not to disappoint.
Al Kholos Are you being facetious, because that's exactly what Jack an Ginger were high on. But that's not what helped them or what made them amazing. It's all skill an talent along with artistic integrity.
@@zenbabaloo1931 "Junk makes you play great." Not really. Drugs make you FEEL you play great. Once I heard a musician telling the story that they were using some kind of drug during a concert and they came off the stage slapping each other on the back how great they were, but next day in the tour-bus when they listened to the concert (they always recorded it) they were shocked how terrible they have played.
I saw an interview with Clapton from a few years ago where he said the band was into psychedelics, and especially Lysergic Acid Diethylamide. Eric said that Cream actually performed while tripping on several occasions.
More like speedballs sometimes. Methamphetamine and heroin. And yes you can. I play and sing, including half the Cream catalogue and decades ago I played excellent sets high on anything I could get. Often "drugs" open the doors of perception (Cream also did acid) which can expand "the music" though at some point they will frikken kill ya. I quit the alcohol and drugs in 82.
I was able to get a ticket to their second performance after the main one at the sports arena was sold out. But it was at a venue downtown though, maybe the civic center? There was no seating, so we had to sit on a concrete floor. They came out in t-shirts and played like they were hung over. My butt hurt during the whole performance. I felt later that buying their album would have been a better value for the money. That was my first ever concert attended.
The 2020 release on this has a pretty neat stereo mix. Some of the old 60s stuff has so much hard panning its tough to listen to on headphones. I appreciate the 2020 mix style.
Amazing show considering they played the L.A. Forum the two prior nights (18th and 19th) attended the 18th ! 19th was recorded ( Live Cream) Ginger Baker's "Toad" at his best !
The night before (i am not googlin this subject) Cream played the Forum in L.A. I was there with my compact reel-to-reel and a mic on a stick (above the crowd, kids, get it?) Put the microphone above the crowd. You have microwaved (handheld devices) yourselves into tek-stupid. Teupid. Anyway if you put the mic on a stick you don't get crowd noises. Why am I addressing the technically retarted? It's called a "uni-directional microphone" and if you put the "mic" on a "stick" and hold it above the people around you and you point the microphone at the speakers you don't get crowd noises. Is this thing (M-58) working? Yes, I am being slightly sarcastic. I taped the concert (an hour in the tape ran out) and a week later someone stole the tape from my naive mother. If you tape the greatest power trio on earth, don't give the tape to ANYBODY, including your mother. That tape is probably in RU-vid, knowing planet earth as I do. Cream o' the Crop.
Amazing performance. had this on a boot tape for years but this sounds so much better! BTW...Anyone who thinks you play better on heroin has never used heroin. What an asinine conclusion! Keep reading rock journalism and ignore the truth and stay in the dark.
By this point in the band's career both Jack and Ginger had a pretty decent heroin addiction. Eric was just getting his feet wet, but was protected from getting in over his head. All you have to do is look at the RAH shows from 1968 to see they were all on smack...
+LED1512 You are wrong. Jack had stated many times that his heroin addiction started in the cream years. Do some research, dailyrecord.co.uk has one of several interviews where Jack admits it. Clapton was just experimenting by 68, but Ginger and Jack were junkies.
monty 70 Tate Right, Jack was a heroin addict by Cream. But I always thought Eric didn't get into smack what so ever until the mid to late 70s. I know he personally says with Cream it was LSD, Weed an what not.
