Cream - The Complete 1991 Interviews

[@MrAschiff]

Nice documentary on Cream. Nice to see Ginger in a good mood.

[@alwilson3204]

Looks like he should of smoked pot more often.

[@CreamBootlegs]

I love Cream

[@elainekerslake6865]

Saw Cream in summer 66 and Jimi in Nov 66. A new world created.

[@humanbeing5300]

Definitely agree that Cream was the forefathers of “heavy” blues rock. This was a year or more before Zeppelin or Black Sabbath

[@AK99581]

Don't let Zeppelin fanboys hear you say that 😂

[@DanielRamirez-li6zc]

I was 12 when I first heard Cream 1967.. Till this day I still listen.. Blue Condition 😎

[@jeffames8212]

Bruce,Baker, and Clapton were great together

[@craig1550]

Never seen Ginger so happy as the day his interviews were taken from . Nice to see .

[@bluerazor7049]

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.

[@clarkewi]

Jack Bruce is the greatest bass player rock ever had. And his vocals are phenomenal.

[@clu4u]

I’d put John Entwistle in that category too, as a bass player.

[@toreckman8899]

Agree on voice. However I would argue Entwistle instrumentally

[@bunnybgood411]

I agree! His voice really evokes 1967 for me. I was just 13 and I fell in love with their sound. Jack brings it all back.

[@bunnybgood411]

@@toreckman8899 Apples and oranges. Why pick?

[@toreckman8899]

@@bunnybgood411 🥴. Huh?

[@TheCream14]

My favorite group of all time. Jack Bruce lit the musical fire in me back in 1967 and I've never been the same. Wish we had music like this today.

[@LoyalOpposition]

It's so bad, people use AI to clone the great voices of before my time.

[@franklanger3848]

Cream war eine großartige Band

[@alwilson3204]

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).

[@nnylg]

Ginger talks about Felix starting ~ 16:50

[@ericdreizen1463]

I saw Clapton during the sunglasses & mustache period! Anaheim Convention Center!

[@KittyCarlile-490]

S & M period😊

[@pluck593]

One of the greatest things in this life is having lived in a world that had a band like Cream!

[@finneguitarplayer9825]

Cream - My Favorit Band 👏👏👏💯💯💯

[@user-qm7nw7vd5s]

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…

[@MajorCulturalDivide]

Ginger Baker reminds me of Dot Cotton from that show the East Enders.

[@SuperAmin1950]

...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. 🙂

[@anauticalgate5496]

hahaha Each,cigarette always in hand, and Cockney accent as thick as Christmas pudding.

[@LINKJW]

Thank you!

[@ogri214]

Possibly one of the greatest understatements ever he is a fucking good bass player LOL

[@anauticalgate5496]

Warrior for Cream since Dec. 66.This series of interviews is now in my "Upper Strata" playlist.

[@Salopian_mumbles]

In terms of musicianship alone Cream are probably the greatest band of all time. Jack Bruce is sometimes overlooked when people talk about great bass players; but many of the great bass players themselves have said how much they admire Jack's ability. Eric Clapton has been at the top of his game right from the beginning, his playing has been admired by fellow musicians right from the early days of the yardbirds and John Mayalls bluesbreakers. Many people say that Clapton was inferior to Jimi Hendrix, but they are wrong. Hendrix was amazing at what he did, but that's all he did. Clapton on the other hand has a much bigger repertoire across multiple genres, in his early days he was fiercely loyal to only playing the blues but when he started playing different genres he once again showed the world his greatness. I love the blues and love what Cream were playing with the mixture of massive heavy blues and psychedelic rock. But after cream and blind faith Eric played with Delanie and Bonnie playing multiple styles and genres which Hendrix never did. Then there was Ginger Baker, by far and away the greatest drummer ever to play the drums. I'm a drummer myself and I also play piano and cello. I promise you that as a musician who knows what he is talking about. John Bonham, Keith Moon, Buddy Rich, Mitch Mitchell none of them come close to Ginger Baker because Ginger Baker understands time, all drummers think they understand time but none do like Ginger Baker does, the reason for the heavy sound of Cream was Gingers knowledge of time and how to create musical arrangements and the way time can change the way a piece of music sounds massively. The two years they were together was enough to show the world musicianship that is still admired 55 years later.

[@jamesbusch282]

Waiting for Cray to apologize to Clapton.

[@bobd9868]

For what?

[@debomb721]

Why would he do that? Robert Cray stood up for what he thinks is right and Eric Clapton is doing just fine, what is there to apologize for?

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

It was Buddy guy not Cray.

[@anauticalgate5496]

I read the diss from CRAY, not Guy.@@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw

[@JamesElliott-ne9rg]

Me too.

[@RDnAC]

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)

[@marshallderriek1858]

When you grow up you realize if you don't care about yourself nobody else will

[@jimfritz2087]

I saw them once. April 1968 at a small venue in a Chicago suburb. I still have Ginger's drum stick from that show. 🥁

[@BillyTheKid-l5j]

I got Hendrix plectrum when he played in RAH in London in the late 60's

[@JasonFerguson1283]

Baker’s face lights up when he recalls sitting in with Clapton.

[@aladdinlamp118]

Call and response was blues and jazz a nd you can hear it in their jms

[@billydeewilliams9104]

Ginger Baker woulda made a GREAT punk rocker. Drumming and attitude.

[@johnnebocat1397]

Didn't he actually do something with Sid Vicious or Johnny Rotten?

[@aladdinlamp118]

He hated that shit

[@aladdinlamp118]

Ginger was into African. drums and jazz

[@anauticalgate5496]

He would've made the Hell's Angels ,by unanimous vote.

[@frednance3988]

I used to own this on VHS tape.

[@ursulabornhauser1091]

I love cream love you eric for ever❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@robertolesen5782]

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.

[@ibberman]

👍👍👍👍👍

[@JamesElliott-ne9rg]

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.

[@RichardBaubau]

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

[@user-gn9mx3mb7k]

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.

[@ProfessorKenneth]

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.

[@joeshoe6184]

I thought the same thing. Black Sabbath is completely different than Cream or Zeppelin.

[@Niktheman74478]

Yeah, cream is proto-metal. Had metal sounds that would later go on to influence the creation of the genre, but they weren’t metal.

[@St63420]

Metal definitely started in England. Who started it is a question of speculation. I think it depends on what you heard when. A lot of bands didn't become mainstream but had influence on those who did.🙃

[@crazypainter56]

Cream was psychedelic blues rock --Black Sabbath was the Metal -the doom & gloom that left you spell bound

[@johncook30284]

Regarding erics comment, even as a late age teenager, I thought Led Zeppelin was Cream with a separate lead singer. Re

[@MichaelBoyce-tm2vw]

Excerpts sans music from Strange Brew DVD.

[@edwardpuckett7921]

If Cream had managed to stay together and Hendrix had lived Zeppelin would have never got big as they did!

[@St63420]

It would have been 3 different hurricanes. Each going on its own path.😊.

[@charliem251]

A jazz aspect between Ginger and Jack. Yea right. Ask Miles and Charlie how much infulence they got from Ginger and Jack

[@michaelarkinstall9162]

Have u ever listened to cream like at all😂 they have lots of jazz aspects

[@johnsolis7631]

That dude don’t know anything, Bruce and baker played with john McLaughlin in graham bond, their the best white jazz players from Europe.

[@clu4u]

Man, the history of jazz/rock is amazing, saw John play with Santana in Mahavishnu, somebody named Billy Cobham on drums.

[@awesomenesssquash]

You know Jack Bruce played with Tony Williams lifetime right? They both played with John Mclaughlin before he left for NYC.

[@anauticalgate5496]

Mingus & Davis, were older and on the scene, well before. Rivers don't flow backwards.Just talking out of your ass .Will bet your cats get bored too.

[@joeshoe6184]

Cream and Zepplin may have been proto or nascent metal, Black Sabbath WAS metal.

[@pabloperez4063]

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. ❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌❌

[@charliem251]

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

[@humanbeing5300]

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

[@johnsolis7631]

Charlie don’t know music leave him alone.

[@mystic7splace]

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.

[@anauticalgate5496]

wtf are you here for -some political axe to grind ?Go cancel yourself.

[@anauticalgate5496]

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

[@charliem251]

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.

[@cu6454]

What ? Think that through 🙂

[@elainekerslake6865]

That's the sound of an empty vessel

[@cu6454]

That's not true😃

[@anauticalgate5496]

get the f..outta here. If i only had Ginger's blade..

[@Smokey_da_Bear]

Bonham???