Arthritis made him bitter and angry towards the end of his life and I can't blame him, I'd be heartbroken too if my body began to deteriorate like that.
Didn't notice whether they did, but besides Pete Brown's poetic lyrics, mention should be made of producer Felix Pappalardi, future and amazing bass player of Mountain, who wrote, or co-wrote, a handful or more of the Cream songs and played on a few of them. RIP Jack, Ginger (and Felix and Leslie West).
Saw Jack Bruce & Friends several times over the years, late 1970s in Boston, and then in New York decades later. That voice! Last time he closed the show with We’re Going Wrong, at a small dinner club on 42nd Street (BB King’s, since close). The whole room was completely spellbound…
...loved Dot, and loved Eastenders¡☆! 😮 I met Grant Mitchell's former wife, quite accidentally, in a Publix on Miami Beach; she and her young daughter were very sweet. 🙂
What Jack Bruce said about Hendrix that he thinks the reason he’s not with us is because no one cared about him enough and that no one really cared about them back then either is very sad because things haven’t changed. Artists are still being exploited by management and corporate contracts. And then Ginger starts talking about Felix Pappalardi who was another great musician who also left us too soon (by murder)
I think creams music was far more sophisticated than heavy metal....no one surpassed spoonful live at the Fillmore as a jam. World of pain, were going wrong badge as you said...they did much more
The way I see it, rock music had been pushed to its boundaries by the end of 1968. From 1969 and onwards, there was certainly good music but nothing that could be called as original or ground-breaking. Nothing anyone has ever done since 1969 can be deemed as original, revolutionary or ground-breaking. Even The Beatles' Abbey Road album is derivative of The White Album. The culprits who were responsible for shaping and defining rock music as we know it were The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Cream and The Who. Led Zeppelin brought nothing new to the table because their music is derivative of what was already done before. Led Zep fans make me laugh when they claim that Led Zep was somehow revolutionary.
I think the thing that sets Eric’s amazing guitar playing apart during the Cream era and which contributed to the magic of the live recording on Wheels of Fire is … look at the guitars he used: Gibsons! The incredible sound out of, for instance, the immortal Crossroads was his use of I believe it’s a Gibson ES 355, a lovingly crafted instrument made by talented artists. Not some bolted together machine. The story is he switched to Strat’s because Hendrix played them. Got an Afro too hoping the mojo would rub off, I suppose. His playing was still great but that thin sound afterwards was never as magical as those days with Cream. Ok, he got older and some of those early Les Paul’s with inimitable old growth wood are heavy, but the price of one built between ‘56 and ‘60 now, if they can even be found, are astronomical. A Fender? Not even close musically.
Nothing like Eric on a Gibson. On the other hand, he went on to define the classic Strat sound as well. Apple and oranges. Love them both. Would have loved to hear him more with the Gibsons. Saw him use the 335 a lot between ‘94-‘97. Saw him do Layla with the LP in Portland in the early 2000s. Wonderful.
I thought black Sabbath were the first heavy metel band 😄 smh...i hate when that title gets thrown around the wrong bands. Black Sabbath started the heavy Rock metal. Not cream or that collage band Zeppelin.
Ginger 6,05,-------"I am getting a band together" Eric------what members have you recruited...? Ginger - - - nobody yet. Eric------have you written much stuff...? Ginger - - - - nothing yet. Etic---------at least you have come up with the name...? Ginger - - - - - no name yet. ❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌
Im sure Eric could give you a blue print of what SRV was doing and how he did it. Eric is never going to understand how Hendrix and SRV turned on the soul. Eric doesn't have it. He's boring
His later years sure…but the first thing Jimi Hendrix did when he arrived to London was find Clapton and sit in with Cream so Hendrix would disagree with you. He loved Cream
I was working at a motorcycle repair shop and I had the radio going with a mix tape I had, and this guy comes in, and as he's standing at the counter he says "My man, Stevie Ray!". No, sorry, I said, that's Johnny Winter. SRV may have been good but he was a copycat, not an original.
I'm from Texas and Winter was blowing the doors off Houston's The Cellar club , long before a one speed blender named Vaughn , or Gibbons ( a real prick if I ever met one)@@mystic7splace
That was a good band. Ginger and Eric's egos were beyond their expectations. They were young kids thinking they are. Hendrix made Clapton pee himself. Bonham made Baker do the same.
