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Reconstituted Cream - a musical excursion
YouTube ^ | 02/14/2024 | Westbrook

Posted on 07/01/2024 12:38:33 PM PDT by Westbrook

Now for something completely different.

Imagine if Allan Holdsworth were the guitar player for Cream.

Well, here you go!

Jack Bruce - bass and vocals
Ginger Baker - drums
Allan Holdsworth - guitar and vocals

Bruce-Baker-Holdsworth "Obsession"


TOPICS: Miscellaneous; Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: music

1 posted on 07/01/2024 12:38:33 PM PDT by Westbrook
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To: Westbrook

No Clapton? No Cream!


2 posted on 07/01/2024 12:43:02 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: Lockbox

> No Clapton? No Cream!

Didja listen?
;)


3 posted on 07/01/2024 12:47:29 PM PDT by Westbrook (The Democrats are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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To: Westbrook

Cream -Lite.


4 posted on 07/01/2024 12:54:16 PM PDT by gibsonguy
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To: Westbrook

Allan Holdsworth is awesome, but it’s not apples-to-apples to make this comparison, as Clapton preceded him by 50 years here.

Clapton was The Guy who skyrocketed the use and popularity of the electric guitar back in the 60’s. There would be no Allan Holdsworth without Eric Clapton.

Interesting nonetheless. Thanks for posting.


5 posted on 07/01/2024 12:55:26 PM PDT by Eccl 10:2 (Prov 3:5 --- "Trust in the Lord with all your heart, and lean not on your own understanding")
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To: Westbrook

Cream was Clapton, Bruce, and Baker. Period.

That said, Alan Holdsworth was a phenomenal guitar player, head and shoulders above pretty much everybody; really nobody to compare to him. Unfortunately, his music was— while loved by a lot of guitar players (me, for one)— largely incomprehensible to the average listener. Sadly, he died in poverty; not even enough money for his funeral.


6 posted on 07/01/2024 12:58:43 PM PDT by Psychedelic-Surrealist Artist
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To: Westbrook

What about if Rory Gallagher was in Cream? IMHO a better player and singer.


7 posted on 07/01/2024 1:01:15 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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To: gibsonguy
> Cream -Lite.

LOL!!

I'm a Holdsworth afficionado.

Here he is with UK.
In the Dead of Night - UK

With Soft Machine at Montreux
Hazard Profile excerpt - Soft Machine

8 posted on 07/01/2024 1:04:56 PM PDT by Westbrook (The Democrats are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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To: Eccl 10:2
Whoa! 50 years? Allan died in 2017.
This is Allan with Soft Machine at Montreux in 1974.
Hazard Profile excerpt - Soft Machine
9 posted on 07/01/2024 1:08:46 PM PDT by Westbrook (The Democrats are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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To: Westbrook
Holdsworth band IOU
Road Games - Allan Holdsworth IOU
10 posted on 07/01/2024 1:19:18 PM PDT by Westbrook (The Democrats are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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Imagine if Ritchie Blackmore were Cream’s guitarist. They’d have to call the band “Sour Cream”, right?


11 posted on 07/01/2024 1:53:03 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Westbrook

Yes, and Jack Bruce died in 2014. Hard to believe it’ll be a decade next October.


12 posted on 07/01/2024 1:54:54 PM PDT by Olog-hai ("No Republican, no matter how liberal, is going to woo a Democratic vote." -- Ronald Reagan, 1960)
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To: Westbrook

Clapton is God 😂


13 posted on 07/01/2024 5:10:00 PM PDT by Lockbox (politicians, they all seemed like game show hosts to me.... Sting…)
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To: Psychedelic-Surrealist Artist

All too true.

Allen’s music was musicians music.

Not very appealing to the cultural mainstream.

That he died a pauper is such a shame.


14 posted on 07/02/2024 5:04:13 AM PDT by Westbrook (The Democrats are wizards at two things: Finding votes and losing evidence.)
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