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Cream bassist Jack Bruce dies, aged 71
BBC ^ | 10/25/2014 | BBC

Posted on 10/25/2014 9:02:07 AM PDT by mononymous

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To: printhead

I think you mixed songs...I referenced “White Room” - not “Crossroads” although the latter was quite the rocker.

“White Room” had my favorite Clapton/Cream solo.

btw, most if not all lyrics were by Pete Brown, a poet friend of Jack Bruce. JB typically wrote the music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dCc00pX_pFA

In a white room with black curtains near the station
Black roof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes
Dawn light smiles on you leaving, my contentment


61 posted on 10/25/2014 1:39:36 PM PDT by newfreep ("Evil succeeds when good men do nothting" - Edmund Burke)
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To: mononymous

Cream was an awesome power trio. Really enjoy cranking their music.
RIP Jack Bruce.


62 posted on 10/25/2014 2:11:35 PM PDT by citizenK (freedom from, freedom to be...)
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To: freedomtrail

The best? I’ve heard that Hendrix called Rory Gallagher that, myself.

I also heard that Hendrix called Billy Gibbons of ZZ Top (back then of the Moving Sidewalks) the best too.

Oh yeah; I also heard that Hendrix called Terry Kath of Chicago the best.


63 posted on 10/25/2014 4:04:17 PM PDT by Olog-hai
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To: mononymous

One of the two Jacks (along with Cassidy) who inspired me to learn to play bass.

RIP.


64 posted on 10/25/2014 5:05:54 PM PDT by Hugin ("Do yourself a favor--first thing, get a firearm!",)
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To: mononymous; LS

RIP.


65 posted on 10/25/2014 8:54:47 PM PDT by fieldmarshaldj (Resist We Much)
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Absolutely great, unique, and probably one of the two best bassists of the 60s. I saw him with Cream in 1969.


66 posted on 10/26/2014 4:41:05 AM PDT by LS ('Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually.' Hendrix)
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