SWLABR - Cream | ANDY & ALEX FIRST TIME REACTION!

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[@mike_valenza]

"Disraeli Gears" is one of the greatest albums of all time, and "SWLABR" is one of the reason why.

[@David-iv6je]

She walks like a bearded rainbow

[@chrisross-fd3fo]

@@David-iv6jeRanbow?...I thought it was... She gawks at the turgid hang low....um no?

[@stefan_becker]

I love Cream, but in my opinion they were definitively a live band. Therefore I would strongly recommend their live albums like the second half of the "Wheels Of Fire" album ("Crossroads" 👍) or Live Cream I/II instead.

[@grimson]

@@chrisross-fd3fo lol not sure if serious

[@chrisross-fd3fo]

@@grimson that dude is generally, generically, genetically, gelatinously not serious..

[@Laurasiana]

Next Cream to hit: Badge. It’s a Clapton/ Harrison song, and it shows.

[@surlechapeau]

fyi, they've done Tales Of Brave Ulysses; White Room; Sunshine Of Your Love; Badge; Crossroads (live) Strange Brew; SWALBR.

[@roncypert8255]

Our high school garage band won the local talent show covering Badge and White Room in 1971. And yes it has Clapton and Harrison written all over it. I played the Harrisonesque intro to the bridge… “Yes I told you that the light goes up and down Don't you notice how the wheel goes 'round?”

[@kbusby4824]

One of my favorites.

[@michaelpeuplie6464]

I believe Ringo added the line about "swans in the park"

[@jacobbaker6376]

And Politician for the heavier side!

[@dwinkleman]

Haven't heard this in a long time. Funny how it just plugs right in, like it's never been gone. I had that rainbow feeling a few times back in the seventies. Many of us old people used to kiss the sky.

[@umpdaddy1]

I've seen the purple haze myself.

[@armadillotoe]

@@umpdaddy1 I looked at it through a window pane while sitting on a purple barrel.

[@jimholt1888]

Ahhh ...but have you ever felt the rain?

[@axandio]

@@jimholt1888 from the bottom of the sea

[@NancyMoran-r3b]

Scuse me While I kiss the sky.

[@Linda-y9h]

Haven't heard this song in like forever...but I remembered every lyric. I bought this album with money I got from selling my Barbies. I knew at a young age what was important. ❤😂

[@cptight88]

I got fired from a babysitting gig bc I was stoked they had this album and spent my time playing it instead of (apparently) admiring their sleeping kid. Worth it!

[@geoff2504]

Thanks for that, George.

[@jimr8907]

On the sunshine of your love 45 this was the B side. It was in every jukebox and got great play. People loved it.

[@gentryxc]

I remember when this song was released no one had any idea what the acronym stood for. Nor did we even know it was an acronym. Nor did we care. We just knew it was a great song from this super group.

[@alansmith7626]

well said!

[@johnperrigo6474]

This is true.

[@kaydantonio3719]

Nor did we care. No truer words.

[@sst3d]

Yep…I’m 68…so glad I grew up with a seemingly limitless supply of great music… and the parties we had back then…

[@itsobvious2]

I remember my buddy playing this. He called it SWAB-LER

[@jwlmuse1]

Saw Cream at the LA Forum on their farewell tour in '68...I was 16, in the 12th row, Deep Purple opened.....mind blown, never forgotten...

[@graemestroud2768]

Wow Cream and Purple !!!Im jealous !

[@Fuphyter]

Wow THAT must have been insane

[@jwlmuse1]

@@Fuphyter Almost too much for my young mind to handle.....

[@jwlmuse1]

@@graemestroud2768 Unbelievable show, still stored in the memory banks...

[@lisamonderewicz2832]

I saw the very last Cream show at Madison Square Garden on 10/11/2005. Mind still blown all these years later. I was in the first chair, row 17 of the first stadium seats section... There was a leak in the ceiling of Garden, dripping onto me and my chair. The usher moved me down to the floor:ended up 15 feet from Jack Bruce for the entire show. Been to well over 100 concerts... this show was in my top 3 of my lifetime. So glad you got to see them, too! ❤❤❤❤

[@ian8241]

White Room is another classic from Cream

[@michaelligue3842]

I take my coffee black, I like my music with cream !

[@edh3709]

Psychedelic time. Wish I could back in time.

[@lyvmyk9988]

Their first album was called "Fresh Cream" so yeah, they had fun with the puns.

[@pedroV2003]

The song has such a great vibe that captures the era so well. And then there's powerful vocals of Jack Bruce.

[@alycetaylor7138]

We played this album to death! Love listening to it while toking!

[@hmichaelr1]

I was in high school when this song came out. I never knew what SWLABR stood for and, honestly, I never cared - it was just such a banger! You couldn't easily dance to it which made it a great song to trip-out with. I think Cream's biggest hit was their best tune - Sunshine of Your Love!

[@Straydogger]

When Clapton was still playing Gibson guitars. The BEST!

[@Festvangelist]

Bought this Album in 68 when I was 18. Great Band big sound with 3 members. Ginger Baker was an epic drummer, Clapton legendary

[@MikeOwen-u8j]

One of my first rock albums hearing when I was 11 that I got from my uncle blew my mind been loving rock ever since

[@paulwood5803]

At this moment when this was released, Cream showed they were the original Supergroup, 3 great musicians at the peak of their powers and I would argue that to this day the only band to better them for sheer virtuosity would be Led Zeppelin. No one else comes close to producing an output so much greater than the sum of their constituent parts.

[@jaquestraw1]

The poet Pete Brown wrote the words and Cream's bassist Jack Bruce wrote the music.

[@chrisross-fd3fo]

I think way too many people think Clapton was the main lyricist and composer..and singer it was Bruce ..

[@edwardmclaughlin719]

@@chrisross-fd3fo I am sixty and I do

[@Blinkerson55]

Psychedelic at it's finest!

[@LBinsocal]

Thanks for the deep dive into Cream. At the time , the best group of instrumentalists to have collaborated together. Sadly egos kept them together only a short 3 yrs, otherwise they certainly would be up there with The Stones and Led Zepplin, as far as historical rock significance.

But they absolutely are up there with Zep. The Stones… nah, not the same league.

[@LBinsocal]

🤦‍♂️

[@David-iv6je]

Cream is basically Zep before there was a Zep. The difference is the Zep guys really liked each other and the Cream guys really didn't.

[@Mike-rk8px]

⁠@@David-iv6jeEric Clapton once said that his job was to keep Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker from killing each other. From everything that’s been said about them, it seems that Jack Bruce was a very nice guy, and Ginger Baker.....wasn’t. There is an excellent 2012 documentary about Ginger called “Beware Of Mr. Baker” you can find on youtube, and he’s so unlikeable and temperamental when he’s talking that I was amazed this documentary got released. He was an incredible musician, but I would’ve never agreed to work with him.

[@David-iv6je]

@@Mike-rk8px Isn't it a shame? Because Cream was without a doubt the peak of each of them. They really could've been Zep.

[@melissaford717]

My older cousin would play this on vinyl and play his Strat along with song when we were young. I've been a fan ever since. Thanks for the stroll down Memory Lane, and nice review, as always 🙂

[@bobschenkel7921]

Jack Bruce just belting out a killer song. But the thing is that the album cover is sooo 60's, it is the ultimate representation of that decade.

[@beverlyoyarzun3326]

I have my copy from 1967 framed and hanging on the wall ✌🏻🤟🏻🤘🏻

[@marktait2371]

yes one of 60s hest covers one i have similar type artwork is spencer davis group u.a. inplan to frame and axis nold is love i bought the full size poster framed cover art i gave to my nephew i had original 67 gears but sold 07 probably big dollars i never see local.indie store spencer davis heavies a ghits comp with a few add on singles

[@marktait2371]

yeh one of 60s best covers i had 67 but sold never see indie store similar style cover art i.plan to frame spencer davis group.heavies u.a. ghits comp.with a few add on singles

[@garyschill7923]

Thanks so much guys. Been hoping for this song for a while and happy you get it!

[@sherryheim5504]

She Walks Like A Bearded Rainbow. Not something anyone needed to know but everyone always asked. Cool song, Cream was such an important band at the time they emerged. I had all their albums and loved all their music.

[@jeffmartin1026]

As was said back in the day, "Clapton is God".

[@keithelliott3771]

The late Jack Bruce, one of the greatest jazz bassists with an an amazing plaintive voice.

[@NickWebber-vp4pd]

60’s …’70’s rock does it for me. I can’t get married musically to anything produced later than that…does that make me a bad person?😂

[@dwashington1333]

I hear you but I do enjoy a few albums and songs from 80-83 right before that horrible drum machine sound came out in the mid 80's and when Van Halen's guitar didn't sound good anymore.

[@anmana7]

No, just means you have good taste in music and appreciate real musicians and singers.

[@lisamonderewicz2832]

No!!! ❤❤❤

[@larrymcleod3618]

One of these bands that when we heard them at the tail end of 1966 we just could not believe a band could sound so good and so revolutionary . This just cemented the reputation of Clapton first heard playing in The Yardbirds then John Mayall Bluesbreakers

[@keithelliott3771]

Try five Live Yardbirds at the Marquee

[@rick063092]

You can always hum the great guitar solos, this is no exception..

[@alanFconrad]

such a cool song....sing it Jack

[@moosehose]

I was 9 when this came out, my oldest brother dropped out and went to Europe and left me his albums so I grew up listening to this. I still remember all the words. I'm so blessed!

[@cyndiguillory320]

Wishbone Ash, 'Sometime World'. Progressive 1972, superior base. Off of Argus, timeless. Still in my top 10 albums of all time.

[@vicprovost2561]

One of the greatest albums of that era and another excellent tune from it. 3 incredible talents to say the least. For more do Outside Woman Blues or Strange Brew if you have not already. Greg stuff, enjoy! 🎵 🎸🎤🎸🎶

[@penelopehornswaggle102]

I love the album cover.❤😊

[@AdamMcGahan]

Good reaction. Thanks for doing the tune. The next essential Cream tune is *I Feel Free* . Maybe more of an acquired taste but it carves out a unique ambiance.

[@Flowerchick1967-tq1vn]

Agreed! And Politician!

[@kevinjones6479]

I believe it's s type of Orchid that was the favourite flower of the lady that inspired the song.

[@h.w.hilton6819]

I bought the 45 of Sunshine of Your Love soon after it was released, and the B side was SWLABR.

[@hamiltonburger4574]

Clapton always had the nicest fills.

[@maryann1252]

Whipped Cream! 🤣🤣Such a great band

[@grimson]

This song hit 4 years after stuff like 'Walk Like a Man' and 'He's So Fine' were dominating radio. Tallk about change.

[@tommathews3964]

You just can’t believe how heavy this album was at the time of its release! I stayed lost in this one for quite a while!

[@Alexj_movieguy]

Love the opening!

[@Elephant2024-wi2li]

The band is definitely among the cream of the crop in terms of 1960s bands.

[@johnr8820]

Those tones from Clapton are otherworldly…nobody can duplicate that

[@JeffreyCantelope]

Great choice guys. Great album

[@alan73795]

"I Feel Free"

[@Gabe_05]

World of Pain by Cream should be next it’s underrated and one of my fav Cream tracks

[@rogerhampton9614]

Disraeli Gears not Tears. It was a play on a bicycle ad at that time which promoted a type of Gear on the cycle which kind or rhymed with Disraeli, ( who was a former English Prime Minister)

[@14gilbertst]

IMHO, you really have to check out these studio versions live, because that's where they opened up and got to expand the possibilities.

[@jerrywood4508]

Ah, memories of junior high school. My brother had this album and I listened to it constantly. But I never tried to figure out the title, so thank you for that.

[@Sammylu-greenbeatsred]

I'm hoping you get to check out, I think, their last time playing live together 2005 at The Royal Albert Hall. The sound system was amazing.

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

Poet Pete Brown co-wrote most of the songs sung by Jack Bruce whilst he was in in Cream. This is from my favourite Cream album, Disraeli Gears.

[@adrianstevens2146]

Hey, A & A, Best of Cream would be a good choice for a full album review! So many great songs!

[@chrisvickers7928]

I have Disraeli Gears on vinyl. Fantastic album.

[@voodooacidman]

this could so easily been Frank Zappa song! the way it is played and presented. great choice of song guys, big love to all people :)

[@mitchellbatchelor1594]

Just a correction to something said in a previous video. “All Things Must Pass” is not a 2 disc album, it’s actually a 3 disc album. The third disc is a group of unwritten jams with many R&R legends playing together & having fun. There! I feel better.

[@KealohaHarrison]

7:39 fun fact, their debut album was called Fresh Cream so the compilation being called Heavy Cream could’ve also been a reference to that!

[@agemoth]

This WHOLE album is FIRE! 🔥 🔥 🔥

[@captainmoretokin2172]

I used to have the Fleetwood Mac Rumors Album that was sealed for the longest time. Any way i just moved into my first apartment and had a party to celebrate, then a friend asked if i had the Rumors album . Yeah i said, its never been opened.(at the time before i got robbed there was at the last count just over 9,800 albums so yeah, i had the Rumors album). We opened it , put it on the turntable, set the stylus in the groove, but Fleetwood Mac wasn't what started coming from the speakers. It was Cream Strange Brew. We looked at each other like what the fucks going on here. I looked to see if i had it in the right mode, and it was , we looked at the label as it was spinning, the needle was in the groove but it read Fleetwood Mac . The label was correct but i'll be damned it was side 2 of Disraeli Gears on side 1 of my Fleetwood Mac album.! I flipped it over to side 2 And it was ok . Side 2 was side 2 of the rumors album. But that made it even more mind blowing for us. After that party i used to freak out other friends whenever it was possible. Then15 years later i came home from the national bowling tournament in Reno( i was a Bowling Stone for 15 years) and my pad had been broke into and every thing was gone. And i mean everything . Over 9 thousand albums , my 8 thousand dollar stereo system, over 6 thousand hot wheels i had been collecting since i was little , including the original sweet 16 in the original packages, all my furniture ,bed , clothes . Even the dirty ones i kicked to the corner before i left. I was Wiped out They even took the carpet and the cabinets. I still feel the pain of all those albums being stolen. That tore my heart out. The music was my life. That's what made me what i was. It took 20 plus years of my life to gather. That was 24 years ago,

[@shelbytownsend3056]

Disraeli Gears from start to finish was straight fire...

[@daleclark7127]

Never heard this song from Cream. Loved it immediately. Jack Bruce’s vocal was perfect. And of course Eric’s signature guitar work. Short but so sweet!!! Also, so stripped down compared to the over mixed stuff.

[@mitchellbatchelor1594]

AM radio providing hit after hit. Beatles keeping everyone on their toes. Garage rock adding edge. Stones, Dylan, Yardbirds making things interesting. Then the DJ played “Sunshine of Your Love”. No looking back.

[@Samuel-tq8zu]

AMERICA - You Can Do Magic Their comeback song from 1982!! Pop charter

[@Drew-lh8cl]

I love the little riff between the verses. Its a double note thing on the guitar adso fun to play

[@jayhellyer5406]

Can't wait to see you react to ' We're going wrong '.

[@pete3883]

Ancient history .

[@lisagresham1601]

Y’all!!! You have to watch the documentary on the drummer, ginger baker!! he was absolutely crazy!!!!

[@subsonic5393]

From Disraeli gears, check out "Outside Woman Blues." And it's time to hit the "Wheels of Fire" album: "White Room," for sure, but also the very underrated and trippy "As You Said."

[@clementsfamily7002]

neck pickup with the tone knob rolled down to about 1. dual cabinets Mic'd in the studio. Crazy cool sound.

[@brentfreeland5834]

I'd always heard it was song with lyrics about bearded rainbows ✌🏻

[@rodneygriffin7666]

Psychedelic Blues!

[@dianegoldeneye7207]

Great song. Fair A. Please do “Badge “ next by Cream. Thanks guys

[@josephinemonahan915]

The best!...Disraeli Gears.....Ginger Baker...Jack Bruce...Eric Clapton....btw...Disraeli was also the name of a British Prime Minister🤩

[@armadillotoe]

This was a great album. It reminds me of strobe lights, Nehru jackets, altered realities, and youth.

[@SawyerWhiteMoon-hg6vi]

Hit “I Feel Free” next. Totally different vibe from their earlier stuff

[@JC-es5un]

Tales of Brave Ulysses is the song a friend of theirs wrote as a poem and gave it to ‘em…..you guys should react to that song too, btw. 👍🔥

[@chrisdelisle3954]

Next song of theirs has gotta be "Badge."

[@lousmith1050]

the fuzz box was invented to make a guitar sound like a saxophone.

[@jamespuleo3269]

I think it's high time you guys check out some Hot Tuna. (...That was the "side project" of Jack and Jorma, the bass player and lead guitarist of the Jefferson Airplane ~~~) that started in 1969 and is still doing it !!

[@nancy9478]

Another good choice, single digit me thanks you. 😊

[@barneymiller6204]

Go right into the next song now!

[@RegnaSaturna]

The next track changed my life.

[@dorian3260]

The store my father managed in the Sixties also sold records, so he considered himself an expert. I remember him saying, “No one is buying your Rolling Stones records. It’s that Jewish group they all want.” He was referring to this album!

[@neilthornton3544]

Swlabr is an actual word in welsh meaning smooth. W is a vowel sound akin to oo in cool. So its possible to have meaning quite apart from an acronymn

[@charliecochran3035]

Man thats a fun tune. Give me a power trio any day of rhe week.

[@markmurphy558]

I just heard an unbelievable video from this time period by The Spencer Davis group with Peter Frampton channeling Ray Charles in a down and dirty rendition of a old timey blues song. It is shockingly good, and will put a smile on Alex's face for a week. Frampton was in his mid teens at the time, and it is great. Try it, you'll like it. The name of the song is "Nobody Loves You When You Are Down And Out"

[@MaddyN999]

Sticking with acronyms let’s go with N.S.U.. Great song and even better story behind it 😂

[@brotherbob3569]

Or T.N.U.C. by Grand Funk

[@MaddyN999]

@@brotherbob3569 🤣

[@brotherbob3569]

Outside Woman Blues off of the same album. Atlanta Rythen Section does a great cover. Politician off of Goodby Cream is some heavy blues.

[@Shadowrider1872]

GOOOOOOOOD MORNING A&A FAMILY! ☮️💟♾️

[@179cpv]

“Those Were The Days” from Wheels of Fire. Very underrated song.

[@SuperKevin57]

Eric’s fuzz guitar on this is great.

[@ashliestevenson6823]

Great dirty sound

[@jamesdignanmusic2765]

For band puns, they did have an album called "Fresh Cream". More Cream? Try their covers of blues standard "Born Under a Bad Sign". A slight sidetrack - if you like Cream and you like Jethro Tull, you might like to try "Summer Day" by Blodwyn Pig. They were a band founded by original Tull member Mick Abrahams but had a heavier, bluesier feel.

[@will-x9c]

To think I had this in high school, never really thought about the meaning of SWLABR, just thought it was groovy. Only together for two years, three great musicians with conflicting egos. Ginger in particular was nuts and prone to violence. He allegedly hated Bruce and once knocked him down and pulled a knife - "Don't come to the next gig". With a cockney accent

[@LordEagle]

Over, Under, Sideways, Down. 💥💥💥💥🤘😎

[@tkengathegrateful4844]

Played a lot of backgammon and smoked a lot of weed to this song as a college freshman (plus Bowie and Buffalo Springfield). But I got my grades back up sophomore year. :)

[@jons3808]

Damn, Ginger was unbelievable.

[@funkster007]

My fave song after Badge. It's so bouncy and out there. Pretty wild even for Cream.

[@FrankOdonnell-ej3hd]

another of my all-time fave bands and still sad I never got to see them perform live. Don't know if the poet peter brown wrote some of the lyrics for this one but he did write the incredible ones bruce sings on white room.⚛😀❤

[@stevenmix3723]

There is a terrific reunion concert from a couple decades back which I bootlegged off of TV. At the Hammersmith Odiom, something like that. Lots of great banter, and while Ginger Baker was running for local political office in his town.

[@wicky4473]

One!