I am fascinated by the juxtaposition of that band playing and generation witnessing (awesome) music like that in a place like that. Can you imagine having to sit down during a tune like that? Shit.
Even though it is kinda messy and sound is muddy, I do like the fact that you get the natural reverberation of the Albert Hall unlike the 2005 reunion. This has excitement and atmosphere and Clapton's sound is awesome as usual, even if his solo is uneven.
This rendition knocks the 2005 version at the Albert Hall into a cocked hat. Fantastic - ballsy, rough and gutsy. I saw both the farewell gigs at the AH, and, believe it or not, the early evening performance didn't fill the place!
I was there. Ticket 12 shillings and sixpence if I recall. Hendrix is an immortal genius as an individual musician but Cream, I believe, were the most powerful band in rock/blues history. Bruce and Baker are just a colossal rhythm section and Clapton, well, Clapton on his day could produce a solo that would completely blow you away. 2nd solo in Crossroads on Wheels of Fire being a case in point.
The solo starting at 2:00 to me screams why they split, conflicting personalities and musical confidence, constantly wanting to beat each other, it proggressively becomes a competition when everyone is soloing
The late 60's and most of the 70's is when the drum solo was at its best. Joey from Slipknot is the only drummer worthy of actauly doing a drum solo today. Ginger Baker, John Bonham and Keith Moon are by far the greatest drummers in Music history.
(couldn't reply to 'eatthis') It seems Ginger's had a little "spice," but that makes everything nice. He was the heartbeat of Cream and he's still rockin-out the drums decades later.
Clapton... my God.. what happened? You used to ROCK. One day you're playing Gibsons through Marshalls, the next, you're playing Strats through Champs and hanging out with JJ Cale.
s.just checked you`re channel(subscribed!).jimi was crap at the i.o.w. i was refering to his "lulu show" performance!(sunshine-only had a minute to perform it!).
It is fast at one point, and maybe to begin with also, but i saw an interwiev with Jack Bruce where he said that sometimes they played fast to challenge each other, and as a lead singer he would sometimes mess up singing....!
i don't know how any1 would consider any part of this video bad maybe were not on the same page? i defenately know that we haven't seen anything as good since
Feels a little bit fast, perhaps the version I am use to is a bit slow :) I really miss not beeing to buy records of bands today recorded in such conditions, the recording sound really gives culture and beauty to the style.
Also in the solo Jack Bruce is off on a tangent. He's not following the number of bars he should in the bass line. Clapton has also said the Wheels Of Fire version of 'Crossroads' was out of time and that he's playing on the 1 and 3 and the whole thing is a mess. But that was one 'mess' that worked beautifully.
