Cream - Total Rock Review (Full Music Documentary)

Drawing on rare film and television archive material, this independent and highly authoritative review revisits every single Cream album and critically reassesses the work of this legendary band from the glorious debut album right through to the demise of the band.
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[@ramonamcmahon3248]

Jack Bruce, legend.

[@banditkiddy]

Got to laugh at all the rock gods on here slagging off Clapton. If your so great why aren't you up there with him ? Easy, cause he can do it and your nobody's.

[@TheSavagederek]

Eric is the real greatest . Jimi had enormous respect for him , Jack and Ginger . People don't realise that Eric's never really been comfortable being out there as a frontman or being labeled as a guitar legend . But trust me he is and is responsible for many people taking the instrument up . Also worth mentioning , without him on the back cover of the Beano album with a LP burst , Gibson might never have brought the Les Paul back . He encouraged Paige and Green to want Les Paul's , although my love is for Stratocasters , which he is now more famously involved with . Incredible song writer , really beautiful , timeless classics . The first dance at my own wedding was 'Let it Grow' . I don't care what anyone says , but Eric , Jack and Ginger , were at the very top of their game in Cream , and we are exceptionally lucky that we can still enjoy the music they created . RIP , Jack , Ginger and Pete .

[@trebsscan9644]

​@TheSavagederek That's a great write up...totally agree with you...power trios have always managed to get max out of just 3 instruments...amazing

[@chazboner7041]

Learn to spell

[@josephcomuniello964]

Simply phenomenal, rip Ginger & Jack 🙏🏻✌️

[@TheSavagederek]

And Pete .

[@rockyrovere2526]

All along concerts and videos concerning the guys throughout the years l’ve made comments. I grew up with them,continued to play because of them. Fortunately l had the fortunate opportunity to see them the first time in 1968 in a large tent in Camden County N.J. You must remember that these three musicians were the best in their field in the world at the time.While they played entire audiences say with their mouths wide open and could not believe what they were hearing.And when they were done playing, people exploded into applause.Don’t believe me? Listen and study for 50 years as l have. Been a musician since 15 and they a huge influence why l a m still playing. I mean no harm but when I read some of the comments l don’t.know whether to think that you never listened or just didn’t hand in your homework. Truly they’re the best there was and l’ve heard them all. Peace to all. Rocky

[@mitchellschaff6520]

AWSOME VIDEO!!! VERY INFORMATIVE, I LEARNED A LOT, JUST LOVED IT!!! mitch from minnesota

[@JerryCarr909]

I saw Cream 2 times at Madison Square Garden. 11/2/1968 and then again 10/2005. First show was epic

[@DougOsborne-os6xg]

#1 band in world for 22 months, based on record sales.More than Beatles or Stones

[@bunnybgood411]

I LOVE Ginger's solos. Brilliant.

[@user-tl7mj2bm4m]

Cream.....what more can anyone say.......one of the GREATEST bands that ever existed. It would have been nice if they could have done one more album. I was really hoping for a world tour when they got back together for those few shows. They would have made millions upon millions. The internal strife and old arguments reared their head. Sometimes time does not heal old wounds or rifts.

[@edseelig9465]

Jack's health was not too good when they managed to do the small number of shows in NYC & London. I heard plenty from inside sources that they had tried in the past to do reunion shows, but Eric always walked, since Jack tended to take over the rehearsals. As I saw Eric comment in an interview in addition to hearing about it prior to that, they had already almost lost Jack, so they did the small number of shows while they could....It also put enough funds in their accounts for Jack & Ginger to live out their final years without financial stress....

[@DAGDRUM53]

If Jack had done nothing more than sang, or nothing else but bass, he'd still be immortal, we're lucky he did both. For 50 years I couldn't understand a word Jack said when singing Pete Brown's brilliant nonsense lyrics until one time I read the Scrapyard Thing words while he sang: 'missing the walrus, sharing my last banana, I met three salads on the motorway.' He sings them so plainly I'm surprised I ever had a problem. Cream is as classic as Elvis/Beatles/Stones or any other worldwide name in the history of rock. It's a small club but they're in it.

[@ursulabornhauser1091]

Eric the love of my life😊❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@angelafoxmusic7265]

I'm mad for Jack's vocals. Awesome.

[@edseelig9465]

I saw Cream from a 10th row aisle seat, right in front of Jack Bruce, again with Billy Cobham, Clem Clemson, & unfortunately, forgetting the other guy...again...& incredibly, with Ringo's All Starrs, Row D Center, close enough for BOTH of us to make eye contact during Peter Frampton's solo in "Sunshine of Your Love," which sadly lacked any fire.....the Ringo show also included among others, Gary Brooker, the singer & pianist from Procol Harum. It was an extraordinary show! I just recalled the West, Bruce, & Lang show, but unfortunately, they were having very serious drug problems at that point..... I think that there was another band who I saw Jack Bruce with, but will have to think about that....the ones written about here were absolutely incredible! One of the highlights of the Ringo show was Jack Bruce sitting at the grand piano, singing & playing "theme for An Imaginary Western." As for The Cream concert, the volume was staggering, & yes, the audience just stood at their seats when the house lights went up, & the show was definitely over! It took the ushers herding people out of there for several minutes after the show was over!

[@hirawstra8edge137]

thankyou so much for the upload, so great to see pete brown, the only thing that ruins it, the stupid yank with the backward baseball cap, what a clueless A-Hole, in the words of Freddie mercury : " he's talking from here " ( points to arsehole ) and ginger would have broken his nose.

[@shopcodarecords]

You're welcome - glad you enjoyed it!

[@weeooh1]

I thought the same. The bands inter-personal problems were mainly a Jack-Ginger thing to which was never mentioned, and here we have this backward capped guy mentioning Ginger vs Eric. Ginger thought very highly of Eric and considered him as close as a brother (in interviews).

[@hirawstra8edge137]

@@weeooh1 thankyou for the lovely reply man, very well said, and yes the backwards cap was my first warning sign lol, the only guy I let off for that is Michael Schenker, he gets a pass due to him being one of the greatest guitarists ever.

[@rickbrowne9559]

Why invite a clueless yank on to comment on something he knows nothing about....and take that ball cap off you ARSE!!!

[@rockets4kids]

4:15 Wow, I never knew that

[@gab7546]

Jack Bruce was my favourite from the Cream even I play guitar and not bass. From that era of course Hendrix, Rory and Mike Bloomfield on guitar.

[@midiland09]

I remember when I first heard Fresh Cream songs in the church near my home in 1967. It was a shock and I love Clapton from this day on. Songs like Sweet Wine or Sleepy Time Time still are the BEST songs I ever heard.Of course, how disappointed i was since 1970, when I heard his albums from then on: no quality, no magic, just an average quality of music. I still miss the great heroes of the sixties. Nothing compares to them to this day.

[@eddierivera1860]

Ginger. DRUMMER❤

[@BrownCornelius000]

It's kind of a well known thing that Clapton changed his musical direction after he heard The Band's "Tiny Music from Big Pink". Fuckin' critics.

[@radiomindchatter7994]

Dance the Night Away is their best tune..

[@ryanmcbride4619]

Oh fuckin A 🎉

[@smedleybutler8787]

Back in the Summer of Love the record producers wanted the lyrics to be in witchcraft language. So a lot of great songwriters had have co-rider to help them out. Pete Brown, Bernie taupin just to name a few.

[@hankpoulsen]

Lots of people talking about cream,instead of letting Jack,Ginger,Eric and pete brown do the talking

[@jimparker7778]

wrapping paper sounds like the Lovin' Spoonful

[@acooksla]

Disraeli Gears was a great album

[@bunnybgood411]

Wrapping Paper sounds like The Bonzo Dog Band doing "Tubas In The Moonlight." 😄

[@danielgiraud1118]

Rires ! Mais qui connaît aujourd'hui "the Bonzo Dog Band" ? En france, dans ce pays d'idiots congénitaux : PERSONNE ne les connaît ! J'ai eu la chance de les voir en concert en 1969 au Paradiso d'Amsterdam. Hi Jhunny B. Good, Laughs ! But who knows “the Bonzo Dog Band” today ? In France, in this country of congenital eejits : NAE ONE knows 'hem ! I had the chance tae see 'hem in concert in 1969 at the Paradiso in Amsterdam. @@bunnybgood411

[@chuckavigliano7140]

He couldn't think of other 3 piece bands, Rush, Triumph, Zebra........

[@c.e.anderson558]

Zz Top Listen to the first album.

[@kazman2442]

In through the out door and coda are great fucking albums - what a knob

[@user-tl7mj2bm4m]

Dude with the baseball hat and his opinion of Clapton is worthless. Edit him out....please.

[@ShortFuseFighting]

can you please stop dragging jazz into this? cause it has absolutely NOTHING to do with jazz. playing a few 7 chords here and there, a few paradiddles in some transitional odd time signatures and an exotic chord extension once in a blue moon doesnt make it "jazz". its literally hard rock with blues influences. thats what it is, thats what most accurately describes it. why not leave it at that? why do people feel the need to call anything jazz the second it diviates even slightly from the basic structure of a pop and rock song? you'd have to REALLY scrape the bottom of the barrel and bend over backwards to be able to find any authentic jazz harmony, vocabulary, feel or flavor in any of this... its like saying something random like "this is proto techno music" (and i guess if you dug hard enough you might find some convoluted, roundabout ways to equate the two via some forced mental gymnastics). but thats writing the story to fit the main premise whats the point? why cant one thing just be "one thing" and thats it?

[@TheSavagederek]

Ginger and Jack both started playing Jazz and were heavily influenced with it throughout their careers . Eric was more Blues orientated and Jazz and Blues have a lot in common . Ginger always hated anyone calling him a rock drummer or that Cream were a rock band .

[@ShortFuseFighting]

@@TheSavagederek it doesn't matter what they were influenced by or what they grew up playing. It does not reflect in their music, so it's irrelevant. And overlap between jazz and blues goes so far back and is so tangential in this particular context that it isn't even worth mentioning.

[@thecolourrose9022]

@@ShortFuseFighting🤓

[@JayJay-xd5lm]

Wow ! You've got it . Crifics at the time felt compelled to give rock ideas way above it's station . Or not 😅

[@COLLYD420]

My man said everything Clapton did after 69 is shit 😂

[@dukeford8893]

A lot of meaningless commentary from people I've never heard of (Pete Brown and Chris Welch excepted).

[@thomaserismann9747]

Zugedröhnte Musiker machen Musik für zugedröhnte Menschen.

[@slide4180]

Buncha talking heads Yawn

[@TheSavagederek]

Go back to your crappy Taylor Swift then .

[@TheSavagederek]

The guy in the hat is a total bell end . Layla is just a pop song 😂😂😂😂 . Guy wouldnt know great music if it slapped him .

[@leehambleton9919]

Rory Gallaghers Taste were better Clapton overrated Clapton is God do me a favour

[@rochford59]

Saw Rory live in 79' what a guitarist...met him later,really nice bloke!!😊

[@leehambleton9919]

Rory never got the fame Clapton and some of the others did because he side stepped the fame side of things but when people talk about greatest of all time surely Rorys got to be up their for me I'd go top three Rory Stevie Ray and Gary moore

[@gforce4063]

Experience better than taste, where does it end buddy

[@gforce4063]

​​@@leehambleton9919Avin a laugh There

[@c.e.anderson558]

Trying to say who greatest or best is a fools errand. Different strokes for different folks They are each the greatest in their particular times and tunes.

[@leehambleton9919]

Rory Alvin Lee Gary Moore SRV all better than Clapton and Clapton sold out he has done some poppy chart shit over the years

[@c.e.anderson558]

I don't understand how he sold out? A mucusian can't play the same shit for 40 years. Except the stones or beach boys. Clapton has always changed his focus not always to everybody's liking , but to his. But he matured as a songwriter and vocalist. and followed his interests. Oh....... he doesn't play 12 bar blues cryingi in your beer music as often but I'll bet he could.

[@Js-gp7nx]

But why all of them liked Clapton,? use your ears friend

[@leehambleton9919]

@@Js-gp7nx Use your ears Rory was miles better than Clapton by the way I'm not your friend

[@Js-gp7nx]

@@leehambleton9919 deaf yeah, asshole

[@johnbuell8035]

@@leehambleton9919all of this is subjective, but Rory was not in the same league

[@gertjanboot5535]

Sorry but Hendrix did more for the electric guitar in 4 years than that Clapton did in 50 years.................... just saying................

[@bluesky7333]

Sorry, but Clapton and Cream came BEFORE Hendrix and Jimi was a fan of Cream so much that he came to their shows and asked to sit in. Jimi did covers of their tunes in concert. Jimi was influenced by Eric. Look it up.

[@gertjanboot5535]

@@bluesky7333 u r funny ;-)

[@jasoncurry207]

It's true there was graffiti saying Clapton Is God all over the place by the time hendrix arrived in London. Hendrix was a huge fan of Clapton, with that being said Clapton about shit his pants when he first seen hendrix play

[@bluesky7333]

@@gertjanboot5535 U r uninformed. Sad..

[@gertjanboot5535]

@@bluesky7333 whahahaaaaaaaaaaaaa

[@chuckschillingvideos]

Most overrated group ever.

[@user-tl7mj2bm4m]

@thetruthofchristalwaysprev1269 Overrated? I agree with you - not over rated at all...but well deserved and well-earned! One of the greatest groups EVER.

[@TheSavagederek]

Says the Taylor Swift fan 😂😂😂

[@soulvaccination8679]

Cream had 3 or 4 songs that were ok.But Claptons over rated badly

[@sebastianrutkowski4590]

Oh really? Buchacha!😏 Go home

[@hirawstra8edge137]

how long have you worked for google? TROLL !!!!!!

[@davidrice3337]

you are obviously not a guitar player - let me translate - you are ignorant -

[@scottmoore7975]

Soul has no clue about music, for damn sure!!!

[@peteraddison4371]

... AhSoul, so you're in the R&R Hall of Fame, of course, of course-??? ...

[@roertsgrooters-mf2oy]

Cream Rock kinda grungy ahead of tìme

[@markravitz1684]

When Felix came along, they were too polished in the studio as opposed to the live performances

[@rickbrowne9559]

Great band that should have had better songs....

[@gforce4063]

Any relation

[@timcoakley5498]

Jack and ginger absolutely, but Eric Clapton really, maybe it’s me but I just couldn’t see it then or now. He’s guitar solos are not lyrical in the slightest, unlike someone like Michael Schenker, he’s solos you can sing,well the slow ones.

[@TheSavagederek]

The guy in the hat is a total bell end . Layla is just a pop song 😂😂😂😂 . Guy wouldnt know great music if it slapped him .

[@patrickcalabro8718]

YOU ARE ENTITLED TO YOUR OWN OPINIONS, BUT YOU ARE NOT ENTITLED TO YOUR OWN FACTS! You are way out of your league. Stick to your dog 💩🐶 walking, tattoos, and Gangsta Rap! thank you 🚩 🧑‍🎤🏁👩‍💼👩‍🎓