This is what you get when Eric WANTS to play guitar 🎸… ain’t too many better than this guy … 👏

I always had a cloud of smoke in my room when i played this Cream song.

Fortunately, at about 9:40 you can hear him tune the flat string...

7:30 -- Like two flies buzzing about...

Yah another overlooked gem by cream this is one fire 🔥 song

This is from another dimension.... wow!

6:55 - 10:48

CLAPTON IS GOD!! OMG!!!!!! GOAT!!!! THE BEST EVER!!!!

Cream had so many "Firsts": The first band too sell a million albums-thus being the first platinum disc sellers. They were also the first band to literally change the market place. People started buying albums for good now and the Top 40 was now relegated to second class status. Long playing albums beat out the 45 rpm records in sales for good. The first band to bring the bass guitar upfront along with drums. For that matter along with the Jimi Hendrix experience they were first in having a standout lead guitarist. And every member of Cream could read and write music.

This is from Live Cream Vol 1 album. We used to play this in my band late 60s early 70s. Just grit your teeth and grind away!! 😬🎸

It's acid blues, atonal /free jazz & Indian Raga ,all thrown together in a Super Collider.

love and hate -it's a fine line they walked to produce .more often than not to produce some really extraordinary music

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“You could argue that Cream was the first fusion band. Eric Clapton was our Ornette Coleman - we just didn’t tell him!” Jack Bruce

I still can’t understand how Clapton went from this to the uninspired - and often repetitive - playing of his later years.

Is this the Firebird?

Reminds me a bit of the ABB’s performance of “You Don’t Love Me” from the Fillmore shows.

Clapton, about 1965-1968, was shredding on his Stratocaster like no one else during that time. I also noticed that his playing slowed down dramatically going into the 70's, as he said, that he has focused more on playing the blues, in it's purest form, as he got older.

Amazing how polite audiences were back then. During the quiet parts of a song, there was no drunken shouting.

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I do love Eric Clapton’s playing. His ability to adlib in endlesssly interesting phrases. His tone through the Marshall stack and Gibson guitars. I had to laugh a bit at the Hendrix inspired Afro. Hendrix was a superior musician on an interstellar level while Clapton had to settle for just “Guitar god”.😊✌️❤️

their 1967 tour should have been captured 😢😢

someone said here nicely. only fueled up EC could turn this Chicago Blues phrases into Ganesha celebration at river of Ganges... this is ragga like

Adventure music. Back when giants walked the earth. Thanks for the rare photos too. I always loved the one at 14:31. Wish I had a poster of it to stick up on the wall here. 50 years ago in college, I put up the famous large color poster of Eric shot at his Blind Faith's debut performance at Hyde Park in 69. Still have it. At the time here, Eric was listening to a lot of free form music from an East Indian musician named Bismillah Khan and getting quite inspired by his playing. You know we couldn't keep listening to "boy meets girl" pop music over and over. Something had to burst forward and Cream did it.

The version from Winter land on Cream live vol 2 tops this one. But they both amazing. This one may be faster

Great Musicians + Drug Fiends = Cream

That was awesome!!!!

Keeps getting better every time I hear It!!!!!!!

I ve not heard this recording before but ive heard most vof his stuff on Vynal LP and seen Cream l8vr twice so thank you for posting this it clearly shows he was and really remains a tremendous force on electric guitar there are still guitarist trying tp sound like him today on 2024 wow thanks eric and thanks again for posting

Non amo la jam infinita, molto meglio la parte cantata con le bellissime voci di Jack ed Eric che armonizzano. Grandi comunque 🤩

Abe Union pride I was there wow 7.50 for floor seats what a show 3 of the best musicians ever

Great fotos❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

Clapton was so lyrical and energized, and he got such a great sound. What happened to that Clapton. He just sounds weak now.

How is it that there is a J,F Vance ad before this video?

Everyone says it all here in their posts. All I will add is that with the audience “demanding” what you did yesterday it had to become too much to continue in the same vein 9!3 wants to branch out, doesn’t one?

There have been and are currently, umpteen thousands (millions?) of good or very good electric rock/blues style guitarists. Only a small handful that I’ve heard can solo interestingly at length and whose work can stand indefinite repeated listenings. It’s the innate musicality that is the rarest quality. Without that, no amount of ability, technique or creativity will help.

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That tone no effects just raw power overloaded with gain and technique

Fantastic! I lived in London and was 12 in 1967.The music was incredible. I have just purchased the very same duffle coat that I had back then and we all wore. Nostalgia and WARMTH! Londinium and the music that flowed out of there!

CREAM FOREVER

I could have been at this show,, I was 14 and my friends father owned a record store and had tix. I disobeyed my parents on some stupid thing. They had warned me no show if I did. I found out that my father did not fuck around when he said something like that. Damn...

Wrong the true first guitar hero was mike bloomfiled!!

pathetic vocals here 🤢I was 17 when this hit the scene Still Have my original vinyl 45 , 331/3 , and also on CD ! Definitely love the original !!

Hendrix had better outfits ?

That got me so good at 2:27, that groovy transition in Clapton's solo, not sure how to describe it otherwise.

my favorite description of cream was by carlos santana who said seeing them was "an assault on the senses"

Clapton has probably had the most hairstyles/ looks of any musician

Shocking!

Hendrix had no drummer? Are you deaf? Or do you just plain and simple don't know what a great drummer does?

My first real concert experience- at this show 15yrs old. I have a T-shirt that says “I may be old but I got to see all the cool bands”! Starting right here!❤