Metal Band Reacts To Cream - White Room - 1968 (Part 1, 6 of 8) THE WOLF HUNTERZ Reactions

[@thomascerulli8013]

Guys I’m 60, I remember when the album dropped. And I’m listening to this on Max Volume. After all these years. It still kicks ass 🔥

[@angelo9725]

Ginger Baker!!! Killing it on drums!

[@32a34a]

The song Toad. Oh my goodness.

[@michaelasay8587]

@@32a34a 32.….. toad?

[@32a34a]

@@michaelasay8587 You never heard the song Toad? It was on their debut album Fresh Cream and although that version is only just over 5 minutes long there was a version at the Royal Albert Hall where they did one that clocked in at just under 12 minutes. Now the ultimate version is on their Wheels of Fire album which is just over 16 minutes which was performed in San Francisco in 1968 at the Fillmore.

[@christyarnold8215]

Love, love this I was 18 when this came out and now listening and still loving it at 73❤️❤️👵

[@bert0522]

Ya had to see them live, I did in 68. Jim

[@northlander4370]

Jack is gone , Ginger is gone but we still have Eric !!

[@owenjnelson-fb9mg]

The good always die first

[@andrewmorton9327]

1968. Meeting my girlfriend outside her school gates and going up to my friend’s flat where we listened to Wheels of Fire on his Leak Stereo 70. Mind blowing.

[@rodneyhearne3405]

Great song and fun reaction. I was 14 years of age when I saw Cream in Sacramento at the Memorial Auditorium and White Room was the opening song. What a heady time to be alive.

[@65TossTrap]

When this song hit the airwaves in 1968 it was so good I thought it was a dream at first. One of those songs that when you hear it for the first time you stop and wait for the title.

[@dannymoore6886]

IMHO, this was Clapton at his absolute best. He never achieved greatness at a higher level than this.

[@greggary7217]

Absolutely agree - when he switched to the Strat, that superb sound was never quite there.

[@Rock_Snob]

These guys tried to outdo each other, every song, every concert. That tension created some of the greatest hard rock music ever! (It’s also why they only lasted 2 years!)

[@warrenbridges1891]

bwellkell Baker and Bruce were at each others throats for years. Even before Cream formed.

[@danielfox6907]

Jack Bruce played a fretless bass like traditional jazz players.

[@bpwarrior53]

Jack mainly used a fretted 4 string Gibson Eb3 bass and 6 string fretted Fender bass. He did not go fretless bass until later in his career.

[@jrichard711]

Jack Bruce said frets were for pussies.

[@iankearns774]

One of my all time favourite songs. Been playing it since I was about 7 years old in the early 70's when I used to play my older brothers 45's on my record player. When he found out he was not happy as he reckons I was scratching them. I can neither confirm nor deny that he was correct in that matter. He used to keep his albums locked away for that reason.

[@YNGWIE998]

In 1967/8 I had Fresh Cream, Disraeli Gears, Are You Experienced, Led Zeppelin....all wrecked. I used to take them to parties in the day, and what with people knocking the record player, beer, fag ash, (and other substances...) spattered over them, they are now virtually unplayable. I dread to think what they would be worth today if I had kept them in good nick,

[@OzzyRay7]

Best 3 piece band ever

[@jorgejimenez-velez648]

This song is great to listen to on your headphones. Unfortunately i had no headphones in the mid sixties. i've progressed since then. I have a great stereo and headphones. My wife never got the lyrics. Me either but i was usually enjoying of some alcohol beverages. Great song, great guitar work. Just loved it

[@harryyarrow4110]

One of the great songs of the sixties,(or,anytime).🧑‍🌾👩‍🌾

[@edwardallen4051]

I'm listening to a lot of late 60's and 70's rock at the moment and I'm finding it difficult to get my head around the fact that it's all 40-50 years old, for me after the 70's it's mostly been downhill

[@ArniePorter]

Unfortunately that’s because it has been. Heavy Metal could never pick up where Classic Rock left off. They replaced imagination, creativity, melody and rhythm with volume and videos and forgot about the music.

[@60sbaby456]

The same with cars!, music and cars had flavor back then

[@stardust164]

LOVE IT!!!!! Peace and Love from Canada

[@757optim]

Hendrix and Clapton were early adopters of the wah pedal.

[@MrAurelius77]

Earl Hooker too

[@robertasirgutz8800]

I just love Jack Bruce's voice.

[@robertasirgutz8800]

@Jeff Flaherty So true! His voice on Mountain's "Theme for an Imaginary Western" is sublime. R

[@fishhookism]

@@robertasirgutz8800 That was actually Jack's song that was performed by Mountain.

[@oldgoat9227]

Back when people who didn't know the Yardbirds used to say "this Clapton guy seems to be pretty good on the guitar"

[@arnoldcox9128]

I don't know what I like the most in this song, everything is so great

[@ArniePorter]

That is a lot of power coming from a three person band as iconic anything coming out in the 60’s. ELP from a fews later also comes to mind.

[@johnharkness7114]

I loved how y'all got into the drama of the thing. Imagine discovering this and pot at the same time!

[@oniccolls]

Cream set the standard for power trios in the 60s. This song was the first time most people heard a wah wah peddle guitar. Eric had already mastered it. The "Wheels of Fire" album also had some of the best live blues tunes played in the rock world.

[@G60syncro]

Metalhead friend of mine really loved that band!! At the time we didn't know eachother and we hung out at the college campus radio. He was chilling in the lounge and I was hosting my weekly psych-rock show and dropped Toad, Ginger's drum solo... He litterally teleported in the studio and asked what was playing... I said "Toad, from Cream released in '66..." He freaked out and said "They've got pretty much blast beats going on there!!" That was the beginning of a nearly 30 year friendship and he's still a fan of anything Ginger!!

[@greggary7217]

Hard to realize now but at that time there weren’t many other well known guys playing with a WahWah in rock - Hendrix and I think Jeff Beck. That sound was completely mind blowing at the time and it’s aged like fine wine. It only gets better.

[@gioconda43]

One of my favourite old groups. Them and TYA!

[@pauldavies5611]

These two are pretty cool 😎The faces they make, especially her. I love it!

[@dougca7086]

Eric Clapton is the only person inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three different times one for The Yardbirds one for cream and one for solo artist Rolling Stone magazine named him number two guitarist of all time right next to Jimi Hendrix

[@FUBAR1986]

Of course, they didn’t include any of the great blues guitarist before these two gentlemen

[@dougca7086]

@@FUBAR1986 that's because there wasn't any rock and roll and Rolling Stone magazine then! they also didn't include ragtime, classical, nor big bands!

[@sherryarflin726]

Such a great song……

[@ToyutahLifein]

When I was growing up there were stacks and stacks of albums from the 60s and a few from early 70s (Yes, Uriah Heep, Jethro Tull etc) 60s had of course The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, and Led Zeppelin's first 4, (69-71) One outside of most bands for me was, The Jimi Hendrix Experience- Axis: Bold As Love

[@bjhellstream]

A masterpiece. What a band! Bruce, Baker and Clapton - the first real supergroup.

[@whitetree9328]

ginger baker man what a story he's had...man went through some crazy adventures, one hell of a drummer..

[@alanstrom2221]

At the time, they didn't know that they were a Super Group. They just thought they were a GROUP. I can imagine the SPINAL TAP type of conversation CREAM had with each other. CLAPTON -"They're calling us a SUPER GROUP " BAKER - " What the hell is that? " BRUCE - " Apparently it's us " BAKER - " I'm still not clear " CLAPTON - " I always thought we were Super "

[@60sbaby456]

This is so deep trippy song, love it

[@JAMESMOORE-gq4vv]

Super group, great tre piece, I liked their reunion sound even better.

[@tinapatterson5022]

Cream Was a Very Groovy Band Back in The Day. Still have Their Album.☮

[@harleypiper]

In second grade in 68 listening with my oldest brother (trying to look cool at 14). this tune is accompanied by myself and my 89 les paul copy as of this writing.! RIP Ginger!!

[@trevorholden7423]

You know up until this album came out I was totally obsessed with the Beatles, then my best friend Rob won a radio competition and the prize was this album 'Wheels of Fire'. Totally changed my world, I was a teenager and after that never the same. Thank God for that scenario.. Long live Cream!!!

[@jessebynum9355]

Cream in the studio and Cream live were 2 different animals. The studio versions were great, but typically 3-4 minute song. But in live shows, because the rhythm section, Bruce and Baker, were elite professional jazz musicians, coupled with Clapton's skills on the guitar, those studio cuts would often become 15-20 minute improv jams, where Clapton would just start wailing on guitar, and Baker and Bruce would follow along and it would be 3 guys each doing their own solos at the same time, on guitar, bass, and drums respectively, while still staying in time with Clapton. I saw these guys twice in 1968 when I was teenager. I was fortunate to see a lot of the great bands of that era - Hendrix, Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rush, The Who, Mountain, and countless others, and all fantastic shows, but Cream was a stunning musical show. But these guys were easily the best I ever saw live. No theatrics, no light shows, just the music. Pete Brown only wrote the lyrics to White Room. Bruce wrote the music. Baker originally brought in Brown to write lyrics to songs Baker wrote while they were recoding Disraeli Gears, the 2nd lp, but ended up having better chemistry with Bruce. They co-wrote for the rest of Cream's existence, and on into Bruce's post-Cream career. All 3 band members would vehemently disagree with being called a rock band, although technically some of their songs were blues-based rockish. Bruce and Baker considered Cream a Jazz band, while Clapton thought Cream wascthe prototype 3-piece blues band. But Bruce and Baker came from a jazz background and Clapton from a blues background, so not really surprising each would hold those opinions.

[@jeffputnam3582]

Good point about their great live shows. I saw them in St. Louis on one tour and Chicago on their Farewell Tour. Especially by the second concert, you just didn't know what would happen after about a minute in! Incredible experience, never to be duplicated.

[@jessebynum9355]

@@jeffputnam3582 The crazy thing is they never practiced, by their own admission, in the roughly 2 1/2 years of their existance. Not their fault really, as their manager kept them booked solid on the road. Clapton later said that led to their breakup as much as any issues between Bruce and Baker. They simply wore out, which sort of kindled the old issues between Bruce and Baker. But a large part of the issue was that Clapton was always restless in a band. If you look at his time with the Yardbirds, The Bluesbreakers, Cream, Blind Faith, and Derek and the Dominos, the 4 albums Cream released were the most he released with any of those bands.

[@alanstrom2221]

The mighty JACK BRUCE on Lead Vocals and Fretless Bass & Co-Writing credits.

[@melk1393]

Love the guitar tone in the CREAM era 🔥

[@happymethehappyone8300]

Blind Faith "Can't Find My Way Home"...Nuff Said.

[@mrb4749]

Pure 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥 Fire! One of the greatest groups ever!!! also many great songs.👍👍

[@malcshone4409]

Try “ Tales Of Brave Ulysses” or “ Sunshine Of Your Love”!!!

[@AndyViant]

Great song. All 3 killing it, great transitions. I'm a huge fan. This late 60's era of British music really stood out. You had the psychadelia stage of The Beatles, you had Cream, The Yardbirds, The Animals, The Rolling Stones, Pink Floyd, Fleetwood Mac, Genesis, The Who, The Kinks, The Troggs, Mannfred Mann, Spencer Davis Group, Moody Blues and of course Led Zeppelin. But specifically on Cream and their followups, I loved the Disraeli Gears album even more than Wheels of Fire, with "Tales of Brave Ulysses" and "Sunshine of Your Love" two of the best from that. Despite the massive infighting, and Ginger Baker's volatile personality and drug abuse, Cream got a kind of rebirth for a short time as Blind Faith. Check out "Can't find my way home" and the drum solo on "Do what you like".

[@judiweislo8672]

I loved Eric in the Cream. All of them were fantastic musicians in that band. Those were the days that people jammed more & there were more guitar solos, backed up by heavy bass & amazing drums. Nothing like that anymore, IMO....

[@alanstrom2221]

A lot of people would agree with your opinion because you are correct.

[@michaelhaynes6244]

In my opinion, Clapton is indeed one the guitarist ever. ✌️❤️🙏

[@federation9]

Absolutely awesome!

[@leemccurtayne9489]

Ginger Bakers drumming, the gods just wept.

[@trevorholden7423]

PS Suzie looks creatively gorgeous! Travis hold the girl down, hehehehe!

[@pennypetrou281]

Perfect song

[@davidlagassee8236]

back in the day it was even better stoned.

[@michaelhaynes6244]

Great song! Eric Clapton was at the top of the list of guitarist back then. Love the choices of music from the 60's. Thank you for your reactions, you are two of the best reactors out there. God Bless friends ✌️❤️🙏

[@colindebourg9012]

I bought this album, not bad for 54 years old music is it.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

It was a hot, steamy night in Dallas Texas. A big outdoor concert in progress. Eric Clapton accompanied by Mark Knopfler and Phil Collins broke into White Room on stage. Just as Clapton began singing and playing, a huge lightning bolt came down and spread out underneath the clouds in several directions. It was almost a religious experience as we all got up and held up lighters aflame and the rain began!! The rain didn't last long, but no one left anyway. As always, great review. Y'all be safe

[@stratocruising]

The current concert style has the audience showing off their cellphone lights as the show begins. This came from the old thing of holding up cigarette lighters as the show opened. That in turn came from the fact that it was not safe to smoke a joint before the lights went down. This is back when possession was a two-to-life felony in Texas. When the lights came down, everyone fired up a joint and you could see the cigarette lighters all over the arena. In about thirty seconds, the smell of weed filled the air.

[@Gort-Marvin0Martian]

@@stratocruising Oh I totally remember that. We didn't sneak in any pot. We snuck in a couple of flasks of whiskey in our socks!!

[@wendellburkhart8297]

One of there best songs!!!

[@MrAurelius77]

Those Were the Days is another gem.

[@1perfectpitch]

What? No mention of Ginger Baker on drums? I put him up there with John Bonham.

[@peterarmstrong6928]

You guy's need to listen to Crossroads the album.

[@robertcoates6800]

This is why they used to say "Clapton is God".

[@warrenbridges1891]

Robert Coates Although he attained that label during his time with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.

[@SotonCueMan]

Look out for Eric Clapton’s live version of this from The Royal Albert Hall 1990. Awesome!

[@robotto8858]

Awesome seeing you note the competition between vocals and guitars, but you have to acknowledge the "lead" drums hold the debate together as a moderator and thus being a controlling force of it's own.

[@deannajones3849]

Love this one!

[@jeraldkimball494]

I remember listening to this in my teens after drinking mushroom tea with my buddy. Was freaky lol. Got in trouble because I was afraid to go home like that so was home way after my dark. We were always supposed to be home before the streetlamps came on.

[@helenrichardson1740]

❤❤❤❤❤❤ used to dance to this around my room at age 15

[@manuelmachucabarrera9396]

Rock folk legend

[@Johnnycdrums]

I love R+R that swings, with some 5/4 kickin' it off smoth as as a bastard .

[@steelers6titles]

Wrapping Paper (first single) I Feel Free Sunshine Of Your Love Tales Of Brave Ulysses Crossroads Badge

[@johntrickey4188]

Clapton was 23 here. 23.

[@janicemacmillan2610]

He started playing guitar in pubs at 16, so he was already a seasoned professional at 23

[@lancerx1759]

You guys enjoyed this so check out Cream - Spoonful HQ video sometime its live and very Awesome

[@timmiszkowski9222]

The group was named perfectly

[@steelers6titles]

Peter Brown wrote the lyrics; song is supposedly about coming down off drugs.

[@alanstrom2221]

Alan Strom Alan Strom 6 months ago At the time, they didn't know that they were a Super Group. They just thought they were a GROUP. I can imagine the SPINAL TAP type of conversation CREAM had with each other. CLAPTON -"They're calling us a SUPER GROUP " BAKER - " What the hell is that? " BRUCE - " Apparently it's us " BAKER - " I'm still not clear " CLAPTON - " I always thought we were Super "

[@wcatholic1]

One of the great psychedelic anthems

[@steveabdelkoui5663]

Great music. Cream

[@mmhey4688]

3 absolute great musicians just tearing it up. What happened to the late 60’s , 70 ‘s music?

[@circulation69]

Ginger Baker was a fully paid up loony. He joined Hawkwind in 1979 and lasted a year before being fired for drinking 2 bottles of bacardi a day and allowing his dog to continuously bite people. Great drummer though and the one hawkwind album he did play on is one of their best 😄

[@ArniePorter]

There’s a great documentary about the evil genius drummer called Beware of Mr Baker. It’s worth watching.

[@jacquelinemcgraw6213]

Jack Bruce fellow Scot. He came from Glasgow as did the Young brothers AC-DC and the late Bon Scot was original lead singer who hailed from.Kirriemuir. Alex Harvey Band are really worthy of a video reaction. Annie Lennox has the most amazing vocals. Her cover of I PUT A SPELL ON YOU will blow you away. One of my personal favourites Glasgow born Frankie Miller who often teamed up with Irish virtuoso Rory Gallagher. Rory's album IRISH TOUR 74 WOW!!!.The list goes on and on and on. Talent from Scotland makes me swell with pride. Please react to Frankie Miller JELOUSEY and I CAN'T CHANGE IT which was also covered by Ray Charles. Hope you enjoy the Scottish music scene. Xx

[@dragonfire1842]

You guys should do this cover. That would be awesome to put a metal twist on it.

[@terryheyne600]

You have great eyes young lady. First time seeing them.

[@alanstrom2221]

Cream are probably the greatest 3 piece Band in history. They were short lived ( on purpose ) approximately 2.5 years. I rate Ginger Baker to be slightly ahead of John Bonham as the best Drummer in history. Jack Bruce on Fretless Bass & Lead Vocals is a GOD. Eric ' Slowhand ' Clapton on Guitar is in the Top 5 of all time. This will always be in my Top 50 songs of all time. It moves me and takes me to places I wish I could stay. Just when you think the song is ending, they break into one of the greatest Outros in music history.......

[@paul1x1]

OK my grandfather was English he say the white room with black curtains was a train station .He said they were all painted with cheap chalk white paint and they had blackout curtains over all the windows .I don't know if that's what actually inspired the song but that was his take

[@thomassanchez8956]

Emerson Lake and Palmer live Montreux jazz festival 1997 Tarkus or Pictures at an Exhibition ✌🏼❤️

[@timbaker6540]

Power Trio !!!

[@1QU1CK1]

In '68-'69 there was an unofficial contest for who's the best guitar player with a Wah-wah pedal. Many said Hendrix because, well... Hendrix, but there was a crowd said it was Clapton and White Room was proof! I was part of a small minority that went- y'know... it could be Zappa.

[@jonathanmartin3767]

Ginger Baker just heat those drums like they owed him money.

[@stevenmurano7863]

People love to bash Clapton these days ‘oh he’s not that great...why do people say he is...’. Back then he was at the forefront of blues/rock guitar....extremely influential. And this band....insane! Three virtuoso musicians who went for each others’ throats (musically) every time the stepped on stage (and literally when not on stage). Check out their live stuff...a very different animal....but buckle in! As for your love of 60s music....understandable. It was an era where music just EXPLODED. There was Something for everyone. It was a fantastic time to be a kid!

[@debbieplato5107]

Cool, great group. Too bad their egos got in the way.

[@mikesaunders4775]

Recorded in october 1967.

[@margiewilson4324]

There's a documentary about Ginger Baker called Beware Mr. Baker. Just sayin.

[@chrispage4691]

If you love drum solos try 'Toad' awesome Ginger Baker.

[@mauricestevenson5740]

Eric with WahWah Pedal serial number 000003. (Thinks: "How does this thing work?")

[@JohnHazelwood58]

The stereo-sound of this recording is kind of wrong. Left sound should be right and the right sound should be left! ^^+gg Just a detail! ^^+gg

[@byronmitchell3784]

CREAM,"IN THE WHITE ROOM". Really not going too far into it. NOT BAD FOR 54 YEAR OLD MUSIC. As time marches on.

[@alvillanueva2525]

Written by Jack Bruce and Pete Brown.

[@ricardojasso.sr.4020]

hey you look more in to bands. Cream ? came together in 1966.!

[@PeterDay81]

Have a look at Cream - Crossroads (Royal Albert Hall 2005) Old gits but still great.I'm an old git but not great lol.

[@user-ru3pz9vv6t]

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

[@roy19491]

do "Crossroads" from the same album.....it's a tossup between Hendrix and Clapton for the title of greatest guitarist ever.....also, check out "Sunshine of Your Love" from the Disraeli Gears album....Suzi, 60's divas....Janis Joplin, Grace Slick would be my top two, with 60's Motown being their own grouping

[@billwince7907]

cream were together for 18 months

[@princeofpcos9804]

'Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes' - who writes this?

[@rfdarsie]

Someone who's been around the acidverse a few times...

[@warrenbridges1891]

Prince of PCOS Jack Bruce and poet Pete Brown. That's who. I believe the lyrics were mainly attributed to Brown.

[@alanoliver5762]

LSD inspired