Posted on 10/06/2005 7:44:59 AM PDT by disraeligears
The DVD and CD of Cream's summer stand at the Royal Albert Hall has just been released I guess to coincide with their multiple night gig at Madison Square later this month.
Check out the multiple songs available for video streaming from AOL Music.
For those Freepers under 40, this is the best rock band for muscial virtuoso, writing talent, power, innovation, etc. to come out of the 60's.
Beatles for me were rock/pop; Stones were good, but their music was basic blues rips, the talent wasn't as high. The Who were in a different realm, more operatic.
Cream was just three guys with disparite styles who's fusion created a legacy that still influences year after year, decade after decade: Jimi Hendrix Experience, Robin Trower, James Gang, Grand Funk, Beck, Bogert Appice, Rush, ZZ Top, King's X, Nirvana, etc.
Moreover, if you consider the singer/guitarist/bassist/drummer model, then Cream's influence is even broader: Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Van Halen, etc.
Climax Blues Band was one of the best British groups I ever heard.
Lennon and McCartney are still in the Guiness Book of Records for being the most prolific songwriting duo ever. Or they were last time I looked.
IMO, the reason they were so talented was that one was an extraordinary lyricist and the other was extraordinarily talented at musical arrangements.
You can listen to their subsequent work after their breakup and tell which was which.
I totally agree. But I can rarely find anyone these days that even remember them. "Couldn't Get It Right" is still one of my most favorite tunes ever.
I'm an under 40 freeperand I've heard of Cream. In fact they're one of my favorites.
Amazing any of those guys are still alive. And some people say heroin is bad for you.
What's the difference between Ginger Baker and a podiatrist?
A podiatrist bucks up your feet, while GB ...
I watched some of the DVD last night. The sound is awesome, its shot in HD....I'm not a huge Cream fan so I can't give an informed review, some songs were great, some pretty boring...I'm glad I have the DVD though.....
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B0009WFFS6/102-2603018-3293766?v=glance
What you say is true, Lennon wrote better lyrics and McCartney was the better arranger. Even so, Lennon wrote Imagine solo and Mc wrote Maybe I'm Amazed solo. Each of them as solo artists had prolific and very successful careers. To return to the original thread, only Clapton has been successful post cream, though I love "/Songs for a Tailor"--Bruce's critically acclaimed but commercially unsuccessful album.
They had a sax player with a great contrabass voice. I got to work with them (I'm a sound engineer)on a concert date once in 1979.
They were really nice guys and a great band.
Anyone For Tennis?
http://www.climaxbluesband.co.uk/
They're still at it, apparently. They have tour dates scheduled through the end of the year.
"Good Lord it is obvious:"
Gadzooks. How absolutely dumb of me. I should have known.
Problem is, I have NEVER heard of Cream. Shows my interest in rock. I prefer musc to modern rock.
Great, thanks for the link. It was Colin Cooper, playing sax at the time, who had such a signature singing voice (deep bass).
Ginger Baker alluded to that in the interview on the DVD.... said that they were musicians, and went out to play music, not jump around and run all over the place.
I decided to watch disk 2 of the set first (Toad, Sunshine of Your Love.) Shot in high-def, the video is great. You can tell they've aged a bit, but the sound is still there. The difference in Ginger between the interview and performing is interesting. In the first, he gives the impression he's about ready to keel over, but once at the drums he just keeps going and going and going.
Sold out in two days.
I'm so glad, I'm so glad, I'm glad I'm glad I'm glad.
If you work that tune up you won't regret it. Your crowd will say "wha.....????
I started playing lead guitar in my first group in 1962, two guitars, bass and drums. I was in the USAF and we didn't even have a PA set, so we were doing lots of Ventures tunes and other instrumentals.
One night we played at a club that had a mike and a house PA and the bassist wanted me to play his axe so he could sing a tune. He had to show me exactly what he was doing during the break, and we did the next set like that. I thought, "I LOVE this!" As soon as that group broke up, I traded all my stuff for bass equipment and never looked back.
I am under 40, but how about King Crimson?
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