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Cream Reunion: Live at the Royal Albert Hall

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.


TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: albert; baker; bruce; clapton; cream; hall
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1 posted on 10/06/2005 7:45:04 AM PDT by disraeligears
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To: disraeligears

What is really amazing is that Ginger Baker is still alive.


2 posted on 10/06/2005 7:47:03 AM PDT by proxy_user
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To: disraeligears

And the relevance of this is?


3 posted on 10/06/2005 7:47:22 AM PDT by lawdude (Liberalism is a mental disease.)
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To: disraeligears

muscial = musical


4 posted on 10/06/2005 7:47:31 AM PDT by disraeligears
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To: disraeligears

They'll be playing at Madison Square Garden sometime soon for a few concerts. I'm glad to see Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker make some cold hard cash! They can use it now they're old.

Cream was one of the best back then. I saw them once and though they sounded thin. They needed the overdubbing of the records. Same for the Stones


5 posted on 10/06/2005 7:50:17 AM PDT by dennisw (You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
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To: disraeligears
IMO,Rock & Roll is to be performed by guys (and gals) in their 20's and 30's.I have no desire to see The Stones Metamucil Tour or the Cream Reunion "brought to you by Depends".

Others,most likely,disagree.

6 posted on 10/06/2005 7:50:40 AM PDT by Gay State Conservative
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To: lawdude

Good Lord it is obvious:

Cream (rock giants) = Luttig, Brown, Clement (legal giants)

Miers (legal/political manager) = Brian Epstein (a good manager but he didn't make the music)


7 posted on 10/06/2005 7:50:47 AM PDT by disraeligears
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To: proxy_user

I went to 7 of their Farewell Tours back in the 60's. LOL!

They were always saying farwell.


8 posted on 10/06/2005 7:52:45 AM PDT by Commander Salamander (Some attain greatness going through what you're going through)
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To: weegee; t_skoz

For the rock and roll ping list....


9 posted on 10/06/2005 7:52:58 AM PDT by Terabitten (God grant me the strength to live a life worthy of those who have gone before me.)
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To: disraeligears
Judging from your screen name, you must be quite happy about this! :-)

Seriously, I'm looking forward to checking out the DVD: hopefully Clapton will prove that he can still jam, despite all his wimpy pop of the last 30-odd years.

10 posted on 10/06/2005 7:53:15 AM PDT by bassmaner (Let's take the word "liberal" back from the commies!!)
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To: Gay State Conservative

Stones will perform here in Southern Calif. soon and the tickets are HIGH. I think $80 - $400.


11 posted on 10/06/2005 7:54:19 AM PDT by buffyt (America will never seek a permission slip to defend the security of our people. Pres. George Bush)
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To: bassmaner

It sounds pretty good, but doesn't approach his two best periods:

Derek & the Dominos (check out their In Concert album and the unreleased/released material on Clapton's Crossroad's Anthology)

Journeyman Tour


12 posted on 10/06/2005 7:56:58 AM PDT by disraeligears
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To: disraeligears

Who?


13 posted on 10/06/2005 7:57:35 AM PDT by pabianice
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To: disraeligears
I loved Cream, had all of their albums. But I have to disagree with you re:songwriting. The Beatles were far, far superior. Lennon or McCartney as Beatles wrote more important and memorable songs than Bruce, Clapton and Baker (Toad?) combined did as Cream. That's not even counting Harrison. The Beatles were so bizarrely talented as songwriters it's just sick.
14 posted on 10/06/2005 7:57:45 AM PDT by don'tbedenied ( D)
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To: disraeligears

I first heard this group in the late 60s, and of course I knew of Clapton, but not Bruce nor Baker. I thought then as now that they were fantastic.


15 posted on 10/06/2005 7:58:08 AM PDT by Marauder (The height of hypocrisy: Members of congress upset because someone lied to them.)
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To: disraeligears

Would've thought they'd have curdled by now.


16 posted on 10/06/2005 7:59:53 AM PDT by PBRSTREETGANG
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To: Gay State Conservative
IMO,Rock & Roll is to be performed by guys (and gals) in their 20's and 30's.I have no desire to see The Stones Metamucil Tour or the Cream Reunion "brought to you by Depends".

There's a huge difference. I love the Stones old stuff before MIck Taylor left, but would never waste my time seeing them live with a sixty year old Mick Jagger running around like a 25 year old studly fag aping Tina Turner.

But Cream always played it straight. No prancing or eroticism. The three old guys, Clapton-Bruce-Baker, can get up on stage and play their songs just as well and just as credibly as they did three and one half decades ago

17 posted on 10/06/2005 8:01:42 AM PDT by dennisw (You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
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To: dennisw

2 CREAM TICKETS 10/26 MSG LOCATION BETTER THAN FLOOR

Loge Section 70, Row G - Aisle Seats, 5th Row
Buy It Now price: US $1,195.00 

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&category=16122&item=6566617508

 

Ebay has some Cream tix going for a thousand dollars. They play NYC in October

18 posted on 10/06/2005 8:04:58 AM PDT by dennisw (You shouldn't let other people get your kicks for you - Bob Dylan)
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To: disraeligears

I saw Cream, on my first real date, somewhere around 1968 or 1969. They performed in PHX in a theater in the round, on a stage that was to rotate. Well, it broke down, and all I saw for the entire concert was Ginger Baker's back and the amps. Every once in a while when Clapton or Bruce went out to a mike, I could see them, but not when they were playing. Since I'm a drummer, I didn't mind watching Baker the whole time.


19 posted on 10/06/2005 8:06:43 AM PDT by LS (CNN is the Amtrak of news)
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"Journeyman Tour"

That was a good show.

Other than that, Clapton was good with John Mayall back in the early 60's.

This will be a snoozefest.


20 posted on 10/06/2005 8:07:03 AM PDT by EQAndyBuzz (Liberal Talking Point - Bush = Hitler ... Republican Talking Point - Let the Liberals Talk)
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