Posted on 07/27/2017 2:53:39 PM PDT by nickcarraway
That’s in the studio. Live they loved to stretch their legs but very little of that has wound up available for purchase. Jack Bruce always said Cream was a jazz band that lied to their lead guitar players about being a blues band. So I suppose technically not a jam band, but they could definitely jam.
Cream jammed harder than any band I’ve ever seen. I guarantee you that if I told that to Ginger, he’d take it as a compliment.
What Ginger Baker thought of Cream’s “Wrapping Paper”.....LOL!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmG_MxbGIfk
I know they had extended solos live, but to me it never sounded like a Jam band.
Cream’s live shows were renowned for their long instrumental jams. They pretty much invented the practice, or at least that’s what I’ve been told (I was a bit young back then).
Definitions. I guess there are “jam bands” and “bands that jam.”
Cream was the latter, in a big way.
Finally, someone on this thread who knows music.
To me, a Jam Band sounds more like The Grateful Dead than Cream. Cream was much more aggressive than bands like Phish.
>>Probably would have hated the Allman Brothers, the original Jam Band.
Almost certainly. But very different from a Phish or the Dead, I think you’ll agree. And FYI, Derek is very much carrying on the tradition with Tedeschi-Trucks Band. I saw them a couple weeks ago, very worthwhile.
I took my daughter to a John Mayor concert last week. I had never heard of him - but it was pretty good. Some of it sounded like Jimi Hendrix - and he played a Hendrix song - so I’m guessing that is part of his learning. He plays a lot of different styles though.
She loved it. She said they extended the guitar pieces quite a bit from what is on the albums - so she thought that was great.
I replied “Yeah - that’s the one disappointment with a Rush concert - they hardly ever do an extended jam.”
“Well Dad - seeing as they have a five-minute instrumental in every song - a jam session might be pushing it!”
John Mayer is also currently playing with “Dead & Co.,” the band consisting of the surviving members of the Grateful Dead.
“...So an evening with 18,000 hippies flailing around like demented jellyfish to endless guitar solos is my idea of hell....”
That is seriously one of the funniest sentences I have ever read....
“Cream qualifies more than any other band in history.”
Well, early history. Clapton and Bruce would just play. As long as they stayed in the same key all was good. That there was some right decent noodling and qualifies as a jam in my book. I’d say the early form of what we have today goes back to the Allman Brothers.
I don't get Phish at all. Perhaps it's because I'm not a stoner. The only original song they've done that I like is "Character Zero." They do pick some good covers, though, and perform them adequately. I must confess I am a Grateful Dead fan. I don't like the psychedelic stuff, but at their core they were a country/bluegrass band, which I do like for the most part. In fact, they started out as a jug band.
A chick on a message board I hung on at years ago coined Phish’s music as “Jamwankery”.
God Bless you Kat, wherever you are!
I’m not a Phish fan, but come on... you just sound like an idiot. Phish and Grateful Dead have absolutely zero in common musically, besides the fact that their fans smoke pot. ZERO. NADA. ZILCH. It’s like comparing Richard Wagner* to David Hasselhoff because their fans are German.
(* That’s reekart voggner to idiots like you.)
Anyone who can confuse Phish with Cream didn’t partake of the 70’s drug culture.
Wait. What’s wrong with flailing around like demented jellyfish to endless guitar solos?
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