@@johnpeniell9709 I like Lex a lot but she falls just short of Jamel aka Jamal for me personally. He’s another good reaction channel. He’s pretty funny and goes into the lyrics/meaning a lot. He covers a lot of the same songs as Brad nd Lex, like The Who, Bob Seger, Cream etc. Both are awesome of course, I enjoy his reactions a little more though
I literally ran her reaction back three times and about to do it again. She's crazy in a great way. I could see Lex putting up some interpretative dance numbers together for these songs she's finding!
@@allbottledup9513 everyone has their own unique style, just like the bands, that we all love to see one is better than the other misrepresents opinion
Imagine listening to all these great classic songs for the first time again tho 😂 I would be the same way I'm pretty sure. I was too young when I first heard these songs to remember my reaction.
LEX you are really a child of the 50's growing up to the music of the 60's... You make me smile EVERYDAY!! I'm 73 and am dying of cancer, and you keep me hanging on!!
Yes! I don’t think that he has ever been given enough credit for his work! There aren’t drummers like that today! I like to call them very musical drummers! On a different level
@@dorianleakey I’ve actually watched it a couple of times. Seems a bit like a miserable old man. Kind of sad. Interesting and a great drummer. Just didn’t seem to do well with people. Living in Africa.
It's hilarious. Lex always gets it right away, and grooves to it ... and Brad looks like he's trying to figure it all out, with a look of anguished puzzlement on his face ... Rock 'n Roll isn't a test .... it's music to make you feel good, without having to think a lot ... you just groove to it and forget about trying to figure out every little word or sound ...
@@williamh4172 Young Clapton WAS amazing. Trt listening to Crossroads live, or anything from his Derek and the Dominoes era. Theres a reason he's the only person inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame 3 times for his work with different bands. And why he was almost a Beatle before they broke up. But yeah, nothing special.
@@WhizzingFish12 - I know, I'm quite familiar with all of his work. I believe he is still amazing. My comment was in response to some clown saying that he's a white supremacist. Speak out against the narrative and this is what happens.
You 2 are the most honest reaction team on the web. Genuine responses. Others seem staged or just fake. Personal note to Brad: ever let go of Lex. Never. You are a lucky man. Follow her lead to have fun in life and enjoy the fabulous experiences of the world. Never let her go.
One of the greatest DRUM finishes (last 30 seconds or so of the song) I have ever heard. It has stayed with me since the 1960s!!! That's been a few years y'all
I listened to Cream a lot when I was in high school! Strange Brew and Wrapping Paper pop in my head all the time! Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker had a big sound for a three man band!
Folks, if you ever have one of those days, come here and watch literally ANY of their reactions...Lex will always lift your spirits. I LOVE these two!!
Lex, you nailed the guitar sound. Clapton used a pedal to create those "wah" sounds. It alters the tone as he works the pedal and sometimes creates a "hollowed out" tone. I personally think the lyrics are about the oldest topic in music. Lost love and sadness (vss 1&2), and then finding a new love (vs 3).
I agree that the song is about a girl her description at first was horses and moon beams, then the hurt. then the new description of yellow tigers crouching in jungles, as if waiting to ambush.
I'm 53 and have been listening to rock all my life. Even if I could tell what they're saying, a lot of the time it doesn't make sense - and it doesn't matter. Robert Plant is the James Brown of rock but of course I love him 😂😂
In a Songfacts interview with Pete Brown, he told the story: "It was a meandering thing about a relationship that I was in and how I was at the time. It was a kind of watershed period really. It was a time before I stopped being a relative barman and became a songwriter, because I was a professional poet, you know. I was doing poetry readings and making a living from that. It wasn't a very good living, and then I got asked to work by Ginger and Jack with them and then started to make a kind of living. And there was this kind of transitional period where I lived in this actual white room and was trying to come to terms with various things that were going on. It's a place where I stopped, I gave up all drugs and alcohol at that time in 1967 as a result of being in the white room, so it was a kind of watershed period. That song's like a kind of weird little movie: it changes perspectives all the time. That's why it's probably lasted - it's got a kind of mystery to it.” So the truth is the meaning is best known to Pete Brown, but the thing that Brad needs to keep in mind, especially with music of the sixties, is that the meanings of many songs are vague and esoteric and it’s best to not get too hung up on them. The lyrics can be deep, they can be meaningful and they can also be the product of some drug-addled state of mind bullshit. In the case of White Room, the musicianship is the thing that makes this so memorable from the power of the Ginger Baker’s drumming to Clapton’s overdubbed guitars and wah-wah, to Jack Bruce’s driving baseline, it’s the seminal performance from the original power trio.
True that, the musicianship is so tasty, but the words wrap around it like a boa constrictor lovingly caressing it's prey, but not to hard mind you...just enough to say "honey, I'm home"
When Eric Clapton is giving us decorating recommendations and Jimi Hendrix was his biggest fan. He was doing something right. Lex was at Woodstock in a past life for sure.
Absolutely one of my favorite songs ever. What a singer! What a voice! I really love these old songs that make question what they mean, but it reaches into your soul and somehow you subconsciously know it means something. Lex gets this.
CREAM is part of the soundtrack of my life! SO many GREAT songs! Besides Eric Clapton on guitar, you have one of the greatest drummers EVER in Ginger Baker and spooky vocals and bass from Jack Bruce! They really were the Cream of the crop!
"Oscillating inside of itself" is exactly right, because the guitar was being played through a wah-wah pedal, which alters the tone as its rocked back and forth by the player.
Oh yes Lex...the way you reacted to this song was the way I reacted to it when it first came out in 1968. It still sounds so fresh and awesome now. You are a rock goddess now Lex and Brad is on his way .I really love your reactions and dig your channel. Peace and love 👍✌️🤘
Now I know why relationships are so hard. You guys just showed us! Brad wants to know "What are you telling me?" Lex is simply focused on HOW you're saying it!
The song is so good that it's tough to focus on Gingers brilliant drumming. But if you do focus on it, you will realize how great he really is. RIP Ginger, you crazy old maniac.
@Biggie: C'mon, man! You are so RIGHT! Ginger's playing is an example of playing only what's needed in a song; real musicians don't NEED to "hotdog". Ginger's hi-hat technique blows me away in this song as well as his syncopation, stings and accents. Young up-and-coming players would do well to study Ginger; their playing would greatly benefit.
@@Jeffdonovan-p8c , ya know something, seeing these reaction videos and with better sound equipment and masters, I am picking up on things that "back in the day" I missed, due to inferior audio quality, like bad radios, AM, original masters, etc. Now I hear things that blow me away, and in this case I also watched a video of "White Room" live and my eyes told my ears to pay more attention...🤔
Jack Bruce and Pete Brown - a great song-writing combination, and that drumming! The genius of Ginger Baker. Clapton on guitar - perfection. Lex picked it out as a classic in seconds.
Lex got it absolutely right (as usual). That oscillating sound you heard was Eric Clapton playing a guitar that's going through a wah wah peddle. Every time you step down on the wah wah, it gives the guitar that kind of oscillating sound. Great job! Peace
Lex has it nailed! "I’m feelin’ some drugs…hippie vibes". The words make more sense when LSD is applied. Cream is a great band. The first supergroup. More, please, I feel my youth returning.
Brad perceives the music via his ears and his brain analyses it out of sight, while Lex absorbs it through her whole being and responds physically immediately 😎. You guys have the best reactions vids ever 🤗👍.
The first rock Supergroup - the best of the best in 1965 - the “Cream” of the crop! You’ve probably heard of Eric Clapton on guitar 🎸. Jack Bruce on bass and lead vocals. Ginger Baker on drums. The key inspiration for all hard rock bands that followed.
Badge is written by Eric Clapton and George Harrison & George guests on guitar on Cream's "Badge" recording - something which was reciprocated when Eric guested on the Beatles "While my Guitar Gently Weeps."
"Gorgeous" is an accurate description for Badge. Heard it a few years ago and thought "How the fugg did these guys not become legendary?!". Then I found out it was Cream and was like "nevermind". It's a time machine song fo sho.
I played lead guitar in road bands during the 70's and 80's. It is obvious that Lex is a natural musician. She moves with the beat while feeling all the other sounds so she thinks in 3D spatial terms.
Lex, after 3 seconds:I love it!!... Brad: how can you love it after 3 seconds?? Lex: sometimes, you just know!!... yup, Lex is a straight metalhead... 🌷🔥💖😎🤘
Lyrics were written by poet Pete Brown. The white room was quite literally a white room in an apartment where this poet got sober from all of his vices. He wrote an 8 page poem about getting clean in that room. Jack Bruce asked for help with music he had and Pete Brown condensed his 8 page poem into 1, and that's how the song came to be.
Cream was basically a some of the premiere brit blooze players of that era getting together to expand their horizons. They did a lot of psychedelic stuff, White Room being pre-eminent.
Lex is an "Old Soul" and more specifically an "Old Soul Classic Rocker"..... I love watching her smile and facial expressions when she is feeling the song. Nice reaction once again !
Lex has gift for description."His voice sounds like a pair of old leatherboots" "This sounds like carpet. Warm and comforting,but a little crispy on the outside". Love it. Dont stop. More.
I LOVE to watch Lex's exuberance in discovering the songs from my youth. Her facial expressions and "moving to the music" illustrate that good music is timeless. (Plus she has excellent taste in 60's and 70's music.) ;-)
Lex!!! You are a Blues Meister!!! I loved seeing you groove to Cream, being Eric Clapton on guitar, Jack Bruce (RiP) bass/vocals and Ginger Baker (RiP) on drums. It is a masterpiece and one of my favourite songs ever. I have noticed consistently that you seem to have a great insight and understanding of music. Brad!!! Look after this woman, she is a gem! Cheers!
One of the best drumming tracks ever. Also from the point the long pause hits into the fading solo at the end? I wanna be buried to this song. It’s like a farewell at the end of a film. Genius
You gotta hear them live. They were one of the kind! Plus watching Ginger playing 'Crossroads' all in sweat and with crazy eyes is lifetime experience :)
@@patpulis9922 I was thinking: live recordings, not actual concerts, I mean: it's rather obvious they won't be playing together on this side of eternity any more.
The 'guitar' sound was Eric Clapton playing through a wah-wah pedal to give a 'talking' effect. The tune was composed by Jack Bruce (vocals and bass) but the lyrics were written by Pete Brown, a performance poet, who also sang with his own band 'Pete Brown & His Battered Ornaments' until that 'ensemble' threw him out of his own band, whereupon he formed Pete Brown & Piblokto!
Ever heard Tracy Chapman? Fast cars for you and mountain of things great songs but that whole albumn is a masterpiece with life messeges she is one of my favorite sings and writers of all time
@@baileybowman2449 for you is the song that gets me the line no longer the master of my emotions and that verse then fast cars then mountain of things then talkin about a revolution but another song she wrote for another album is another sun but sade is the female vocalist I hold above all others
