reaction to Cream - N.S.U. (Royal Albert Hall 2005) THE WOLF HUNTERZ REACTIONS

[@happilyeggs4627]

The first supergroup. All three were superlative musicians. The band came about because Bruce and Baker (who were both playing in the Graham Bond Organisation band) wanted to strike out on their own. Both were jazz musicians.. They had played on the same gigs as John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers and admired Clapton’s lead guitar playing in that band. Bruce and Baker wanted their own jazz outfit, but they knew Clapton wanted to play the blues. So they convinced Clapton that Cream would be a blues band. They said for the 2 years that Cream was together Clapton thought he was playing blues. They never told him they were really playing jazz. You can say Cream were a blues rock combo, but, if you delve into their live recordings you’ll hear that the blues was just a vehicle for extended improvisations. Hence it really is jazz. The way they could take the lead from each other, each varying the rhythm and changing it around subtly shows what great musicians they were. Each listening to the directions that other two were playing and assimilating into a new pattern. If you still insist they were a blues rock outfit, listen to “We’re Going Wrong” from the Disraeli Gears album. A most beautiful and sad jazz ballad.

[@alexfletcher5192]

Whatever we may think of him today, Clapton's tone is still a thing of beauty and it's interesting how he influenced Eddie Van Halen - who you would expect to be a mile away - even if it wasn't a relationship that ultimately worked out.

[@johndrx165]

The original Supergroup! So cool that they were able to do this before two of them passed.

[@DavidCalvert-mh9sy]

Amongst my circle of friends back in the sixties I was the only one with Cream albums. When my then teenage son started listening to heavy metal in the 90s, (Dad, you wouldn't understand the music I like) I dug out some of my old Cream albums and played them volume cranked UP. He suddenly saw his father in a whole new light. Still love their stuff even now in my mid 70s.

[@gordonjenkins8171]

It's often forgotten Jack Bruce was a classicly trained singer as well as a brilliant bass player

[@jeffreyflint6286]

Wish you could have seen them back then in the sixties man what a great time ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@DoctorD250]

Eric went DEEP on that one. He got lost within himself, and then pulled it all back together at the end. A real talent.

[@shiva1742]

This is one of my favorite performances ever.

[@davidsilverman6508]

to listern to live Cream tracks you need to listern to each track 5 times. 1 the overall song 2 Claptons amazing guitar playing (Bruce and Baker pushed him musically because they were more experienced musicians) 3 Jack Bruces bass - this is usually an improvised bass solo 4 Bakers amazing drumming. He was like a Octopus the way he played so many different drums at thesame time 5 Listen to the whole track again and appreciate how good they really were. I was lucky enough to see them twice and they are still the best live act I've ever seen and Ive seen a lot of 60s - 70s bands. When you listen to this version of NSU CLaptons question and answer bit in the solo sounds like 2 guitarists not one

[@3rdOption-l9t]

Important to note: Baker and Bruce hated each other with the fire of a thousand suns. And Clapton was the baby, a blues specialist amongst 2 much older & experienced jazz players. His career then outstripped theirs. Recipe for detonation.

[@kevo6190]

Everyone down the Retirement home raging 🤘

[@jacquieholmes4064]

I adore you guys! Your best Aussie friend in the USA :)

[@ldwahl6678]

Nice! Clapton admits when Cream got together he was in the deep end playing with Ginger Baker, and Jack Bruce. They came from a more jazz background, but it sure worked!

[@paul00390]

Ginger Baker said of Cream "We were always a jazz band, we just never told Eric."

[@Itelkner]

Those guys really pushed Clapton to the fieriest playing of his career.

[@beatmet2355]

Ginger said Clapton was a jazz player, despite Clapton saying he was a blues player

[@gingerbaker_toad696]

The reunion is cool, but please listen to a version of back in the day! It's some of the best live jam rock of all times 🤟👹❤️

[@jefffinn1105]

RIP Jack & Ginger

[@alexfletcher5192]

As everyone will say, the rock power trio starts here. Some even claim that heavy metal starts here - which I think is more fanciful. But they laid the groundwork for it.

[@goodtunesnz8585]

Maybe not metal, but for the year and heavy riffs and sound they had for a three piece at least the seeds of heavy rock.

[@kimzwolinski9919]

Love the informative intro 😊🔥

[@InnocentAbyssinianCat-eb7ge]

Clapton wasn't the main front guy Jack Bruce was you just said it at the start he sang most of their songs and composed most of the music

[@mikeross14]

Ginger in the 60's had a large punch bowl on stage with Bennie's full to Brim or Benzedrine pills, which he'd gobble down handfuls in between numbers!

[@jacquelinemcgraw6213]

Jack Bruce wee Glasgow fella.xx

[@Itelkner]

This is great but the original is really explosive. Cream at their most punk.

[@mikeross14]

I'd heard NSU was about a venereal disease! I don't want to go(to the doctor,)till I found it all out!

[@allanbluzdude]

I don’t know, but I do know that NSU was a type of automobile and the first line is…. Driving in my car….. just saying.

[@pmR32red]

👍

[@NorwayMan36]

Check out the drumsolo from Ginger Baker in the same gig!! Its amazing!

[@garybennett7835]

Ginger baker in my humble opinion is the best drummer I've ever heard!

[@MaddyN999]

Non Specific Urethritis (N.S.U.). A joke about Clapton having the Clap or something similar 😂

[@patrickdoake6022]

Watch origional 60s stuff from farewell gig (68 i think) compare it to 2005. More cream!!

[@trashandcheese3636]

Unfortunately their diminished energy is very apparent - this is no substitute for the vintage live versions of the song (from Live Cream, Detroit '67 and Those Were The Days). Also, re the Royal Albert Hall (mythologized because of its echoey acoustics as "the only venue where a composer can be sure to hear his work twice") - for atmospheric footage of the inside of the venue, nothing can beat the 1983 footage of Siouxsie And The Banshees, especially the song Spellbound,

[@robertyoung4523]

Jack Bruce and ginger were light years ahead of clapton musically

[@goodtunesnz8585]

Obviously, I mean look how well they done without Clapton!!! Yeah Right.

[@terrynolan609]

Clapton really not the front man. Jack Bruce main singer and songwriter when the band was originally together

[@bigdave1302]

The original is much better, when they were in the prime, when they hadn't reformed decades later as old men.

[@robertlear2712]

Led Zeppelin formed a week after Cream broke up.

[@mojomonkey2123]

There are far better performances from their reunion stuff. Also the orhinal crossroads back in the 60s is amazing

[@sjd5750]

Hate to tell ya, but for Clapton it IS all about him..Love his playing, but I no longer have respect for him..He stole The coda for Layla from Rita Coolidge. He had his chance to at least give her credit, but he crapped all over that chance. That did it for me. He's a chump.