RIP Jack Bruce

[Rich Goodale]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mFGcnZlTEKw&index=1&list=RDmFGcnZlTEKw

[David_Tepper]

Very sad indeed. He co-wrote (with Pete Brown) many of Cream's best songs. Born in Glasgow, by the way!   

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbqQL0J_Vr0

[JMEvensky]

Who'd have figured Ginger Baker would outlive him or EC?

[David_Tepper]

"Who'd have figured Ginger Baker would outlive him or EC?"

Beware of Mr. Baker, a great documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqrigN8jxj8

[JMEvensky]

"Who'd have figured Ginger Baker would outlive him or EC?"

Beware of Mr. Baker, a great documentary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wqrigN8jxj8

I've seen it. I knew he was nuts beforehand--just wasn't aware GB was that insane.

[David_Tepper]

The Making of Disraeli Gears, another good one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEWAEUTwSUA

[Steve Lang]

  Jack was great musician, THE bass guitar hero...  will need to give a listen to Theme from An Imaginary Western.. among others tonight

Ginger Baker: truly  drumkit therapy...  beat it out, perfect for olives..

Jack Bruce – Theme For An Imaginary Western Lyrics
When the wagons leave the city
For the forest, and further on
Painted wagons of the morning
Dusty roads where they have gone
Sometimes traveling through the darkness
Met the summer coming home
Fallen faces by the wayside
Looked as if they might have known
Oh the sun was in their eyes
And the desert that dries
In the country towns
Where the laughter sounds

Oh the dancing and the singing
Oh the music when they played
Oh the fires that they started
Oh the girls with no regret
Sometimes they found it
Sometimes they kept it
Often lost it on the way
Fought each other to possess it
Sometimes died in sight of day
Songwriters: BRUCE, JACK / BROWN, PETER CONSTANTINE
Theme For An Imaginary Western lyrics © Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.

[Jeff Bergeron]

I was at the Royal Albert Hall for the Cream reunion in 2005. I just returned today from seeing the final ABB concerts at the Beacon. Our heroes from childhood are leaving us. What pleasure they gave us. Like restoring a cool cross bunker that some moron removed because his wife couldn't carry it.

[Malcolm Mckinnon]

Rich,

Beautiful! Youtube is really amazing.!

I just booked flights to Amsterdam/Germany/France/Edinburgh for January. Perhaps you and Josie might cross the Forth River for Dinner one night? My wife, Blair, will be with me.

We will be in Edinburgh January 19th-21st and then the 22nd we fly back back to Newark, NJ.

Send me a PM!

Malcolm

[Rich Goodale]

During 1967-68, when I was technically a student at Stanford, I spent more time at the golf course, the Dutch Goose and Bill Graham's venues (The Fillmore and Winterland in San Francisco) than I did in the classrooms or the library.  I saw Cream play at least (it was the 60's-- who was counting...) two times then and there, and they were the best live act I saw, other than The Who and Chuck Berry, of course.

The BBC did a great 1hr documentary on Jack a couple of years ago, and if you can retrieve it from the bowels of the internet, do so--it's worth the effort.

[Rich Goodale]

I was at the Royal Albert Hall for the Cream reunion in 2005. I just returned today from seeing the final ABB concerts at the Beacon. Our heroes from childhood are leaving us. What pleasure they gave us. Like restoring a cool cross bunker that some moron removed because his wife couldn't carry it.

Cool Jeff

Did Derek Trucks play?  I saw him do cameo appearances at Wards Landing just outside of Ponte Vedra Beach with Dr. Hector and the Groove Injectors a couple of times in the late 80's as a 10-11 year old (chaperoned by his Dad).  His slide guitar was bigger than him (I've got pictures!).

[Thomas Dai]

......Our heroes from childhood are leaving us. What pleasure they gave us. Like restoring a cool cross bunker that some moron removed because his wife couldn't carry it.

What a cracking line from Jeff.

Sometimes a song from yesteryear gets into your head.

With Jack Bruce's passing (RIP), it's "Sunshine of your love" especially as my sometime bass, sometimes elect guitar playing son 'warms up' playing it. I won't link it as it's already linked before below but here's another bit of classic Cream instead - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHO-CKfxvH0 - 'Crossroads'.

For the previous few days the song in the head was Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street", as the session musician who played the sax on the song recently passed away (RIP) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSIw09oqsYo

Sometimes it's a film or a TV advert that causes the song the come alive again. I cannot recall what product the TV advert is for but one advert currently viewing in the UK is using "White Rabbit". Arghhhhh! It's all Alice (or Grace!), chessboards, White Knight's, Red Queen's, doormice - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl89g2SwMh4

Enjoy

atb

[Rich Goodale]

Thanks, Thomas.

I coulda/shoulda gone to the Monterey Pop Festival in 1967, but I chose to do an internship on 399 Park Avenue with Citibank...

I missed these;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9CVLVevm4E

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r5If816MhoU

et. al

Whaat a stupid I was......

Rich

[Colin Macqueen]

Thomas and Rich,

You are reeling back the years and giving me an attack of nostalgia! That Janis Joplin clip is sensational and, Thomas, "White Rabbit" just sends shivers up my rickety old spine.

Thanks for the memories.

Vale, Jack Bruce.

Cheers Colin

P.S. The Rolling Stones have just finished their show in Adelaide this evening…. a bevy of 60-70 years old having a good time it appears without the aid of any outside influences this time around!

[Thomas Dai]

Rich,

This is the one I'm still peeved at not taking the opportunity to be at -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vm7bkVxBXdA - at Knebworth, 1976

atb

[Steve Lang]

  Thomas, that looks like a template Stones's Tongue & Unit stage on that Knebworth clip.. or was it an original?

[Sean_A]

What a shame J Bruce is dead.  No question the three together was the high point in the career of each..and that is saying something for Clapton who has had the most amazing career as a rock/blues guitarist...nobody comes close.  Never a great vocalist (and a major drawback for his blues), Clapton was his best by far with Cream.  It is a great loss that Cream broke up so soon because Baker and Bruce would be nearly forgotten.  

Jack
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwDo0JUeKqM&list=UUzhovJ4Au-gE-jnCe0hBdSQ

Its incredibe how much cleaner and less adventurous Cream sounded in 2005 compared to 1968...age takes it toll.    

Ginger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K3yDealMJt4


Ciao

[Thomas Dai]

Thomas, that looks like a template Stones's Tongue & Unit stage on that Knebworth clip.. or was it an original?

Quite right Steve, a Stone's stage. I'm guessing it was the original as the RS were the headline act that year, although I recall my mates returning and commenting that the RS weren't very good but that Ronnie and Co were amazing, which they certainly are on the video.

atb

[Stewart Abramson]

Driving into NYC in the late 80's I heard this on the Howard Stern Show. At the time it seemed amazing that they could do this over the phone with Jack in London and Leslie West in NY. One of the highlights of 35 years of my daily commute.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RcV1sab7lHo

[Craig Van Egmond]

This is very sad. Jack Bruce was the guy that made bass playing cool. A huge loss. 

Just a little Spoonful of Jack..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ym7Lsqj90c

RIP.

[Jonathan Mallard]

I wasn't around to even think about Woodstock, or the Pop festival. I saw that Cream had 3 nights at Madison Square Garden. I didn't get tickets.

This is the show I went to. In London, December 2007.

I've never regretted it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHaqS3Ccc78

I also don't get as excited about going to shows as I used to.

[Tony_Muldoon]

Prior to Cream he played on this. 


Pop gold.


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JOvtqmqBiiM   

[Jeff Bergeron]

......Our heroes from childhood are leaving us. What pleasure they gave us. Like restoring a cool cross bunker that some moron removed because his wife couldn't carry it.

What a cracking line from Jeff.

Sometimes a song from yesteryear gets into your head.

With Jack Bruce's passing (RIP), it's "Sunshine of your love" especially as my sometime bass, sometimes elect guitar playing son 'warms up' playing it. I won't link it as it's already linked before below but here's another bit of classic Cream instead - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHO-CKfxvH0

For the previous few days the song in the head was Gerry Rafferty's "Baker Street", as the session musician who played the sax on the song recently passed away (RIP) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lSIw09oqsYo

Sometimes it's a film or a TV advert that causes the song the come alive again. I cannot recall what product the TV advert is for but one advert currently viewing in the UK is using "White Rabbit". Arghhhhh! It's all Alice (or Grace!), chessboards, White Knight's, Red Queen's, doormice - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vl89g2SwMh4

Enjoy

Derek Trucks and Warren Haynes are Duane and Dickie reincarnate. They played their ass off and Gregg's voice way exceeded expectations. I'm going to miss the Brothers. Fortunately we have Tedeschi Trucks and Government Mule for those 'come and go blues'.

[Phil Benedict]

I watched a documentary about Cream a while ago.  Ginger Baker absolutely hated Bruce.  It was palpable.  Clapton was pretty diplomatic about the whole experience.

[Jeff Bergeron]

Ginger Baker is a great drummer. He is also as big as Curmudgeon as the morons at my club that oppose tree removal under any circumstances. i.e. a moron.