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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 25 18:45:09 2014 The better half of Cream, age 71.Associated Press
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Posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Oct 25 19:49:13 2014, in response to RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 25 18:45:09 2014. Shame |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 25 20:14:22 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Catfish 44 on Sat Oct 25 19:49:13 2014. True. Cream were the inspiration for very many other "power trios". |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 21:24:13 2014, in response to RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 25 18:45:09 2014. Damn!!!Oh shit!!! Such sad news. We've lost another giant of late 60s music. Just reading this post now, hearing the news for the first time, has blindsided me. I read about his touring with his group, the Big Blues Band, (I've been trying to find out more about getting their album). The article said that he also went to Cuba, and played in London. I bought his last solo album, Silver Rails. It is very good. He was not yet finished creating and playing music. His body just gave out on him. I was a big Cream fan back in the day up through the present. Saw them at the late show, Hunter College Auditorium, 3/29/68. Their playing was on a level with the performances of Crossroads/ Spoonful on Wheels of Fire. And he did a number of other projects during and after Cream. "Things we Like" - a free jazz album featuring John McLaughlin, an unusual "jazz opera" 'Escalator Over The Hill" written by Carla Bley featuring Jack Bruce and all kinds of NY musicians; as well as all his other solo albums. Can also recommend an album that came out within the last few years -a concert of a rock/jazz mixture with a group that included Carla Bley and Mick Taylor (of Mayall and the Stones). Two CD's, music's very engaging - grabs you by the collar and makes you listen (in a good way). It was an early 70s concert that he discovered among his tapes years later. Just an incredible, musician. It is so sad we lost him. Here is a link to an extensive and detailed website all about Cream, and their influences and careers prior to forming the group: http://gpatt.customer.netspace.net.au/cream/ |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 21:32:10 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 21:24:13 2014. To the Cream fans/ Rock fans here, try to find the bootleg recording of their performance at their 1993 induction into the Rock'n'Roll Hall of Fame.They played three songs: - Sunshine of Your Love - Crossroads - Born Under a Bad Sign It is always nice to have more live Cream... |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 25 21:55:43 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce - PS, posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 21:32:10 2014. Agreed. They were best live. |
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Posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Oct 25 22:48:49 2014, in response to RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 25 18:45:09 2014. RIP |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 25 23:25:33 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by FYBklyn1959 on Sat Oct 25 22:48:49 2014. That's a well-known classic.This one's more appropriate for OTChat most nights. |
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Posted by Wado MP73 on Sun Oct 26 01:17:09 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce - PS, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 25 21:55:43 2014. Especially the long jams. |
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Posted by Wado MP73 on Sun Oct 26 01:19:52 2014, in response to RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 25 18:45:09 2014. I regret not going to their reunion concert at the Garden.RIP |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Oct 26 02:29:54 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Wado MP73 on Sun Oct 26 01:19:52 2014. It's sad that they didn't keep that going as long as possible. But things are what they are. |
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Posted by SelkirkTMO on Sun Oct 26 02:32:57 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Oct 26 02:29:54 2014. If you ever did a road tour, you would understand how overwhelming tiring it can get, especially when you're not in your 20's anymore. It's a really hard life even if you're making money and still at the top of your booking totals. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sun Oct 26 03:41:15 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce - PS, posted by Wado MP73 on Sun Oct 26 01:17:09 2014. yeah! They were like nothing I'd ever heard before. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sun Oct 26 03:45:29 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 25 23:25:33 2014. hah! Yeah, politician - that's a good one! Very appropriate. :) |
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Posted by Newkirk Images on Sun Oct 26 07:02:13 2014, in response to RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Olog-hai on Sat Oct 25 18:45:09 2014. |
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Posted by B53RICH on Sun Oct 26 09:59:00 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Express Rider on Sat Oct 25 21:24:13 2014. Don't forget the teaming with Leslie West and Corky Laing to form West, Bruce & Laing, another power trio. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Sun Oct 26 13:38:14 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Newkirk Images on Sun Oct 26 07:02:13 2014. what a classic cover!Thanks for posting it! |
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Posted by Olog-hai on Sun Oct 26 23:04:42 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Express Rider on Sun Oct 26 13:38:14 2014. And this one had come out a mere three years beforehand. |
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Posted by Express Rider on Mon Oct 27 01:31:41 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Olog-hai on Sun Oct 26 23:04:42 2014. Thanks for posting this one too!I was working as a bus-boy out here on L.I. (at Linck's Log Cabin) in Centerport, during the summer of '67. One of the other guys bussing there was a musician. I told him I liked heavy (as in loud and body shaking) bass guitar, from standing close to the bands that played in various Battles of the Bands at my HS. He told me I had to listen to Jack Bruce, 'the best bass guitarist in the world,' who was in this group called Cream. I bought Fresh Cream within a couple of days or so, at our local Modells (when it was still a department store). Was it ever some kind of different stuff. A little wilder and more frantic than the early Stones.... I like the psychedlic lettering on the cover above, the UK version*, much better than the "straight" lettering on the American cover. *this cover finally released here during the mid-late 70s. |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Oct 27 07:41:32 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Express Rider on Mon Oct 27 01:31:41 2014. Fresh Cream, Goodbye and the 2 live albums were discontinued in the early 70's, as well as Jack Bruce's solo albums and Ginger Baker's Airforce. I picked up this one for $1.99 in 72.and this one later in the year I managed to find the 3 Jack Bruce solos and both Airforce albums after a lot of detective work. your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Express Rider on Mon Oct 27 18:07:53 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Fred G on Mon Oct 27 07:41:32 2014. Hi Fred,All of the Cream albums were re-issued about 1976 or '77. on the RSO label (Robert Stigwood Organistion) with original English cover art. The original recordings were on Reaction records UK* - subsidiary of Polydor, and were released over here, licensed from Polydor on Atlantic's pop label Atco records (later W.E.A). *[Stigwood was Australian immigrating to England and getting into the entertainment/ record business. Reaction was his own label - also released the Who's early recordings. Very soon he went to Polydor, and cut some kind of deal - licensing? - for them to press and distribute his label.] I'm not sure of why or how the status of the U.S. LP's changed, but sometime after 1970, Atco-Atlantic may no longer have had the American rights to this material. I think Live Vol. 1 & 2 may have been deleted and cut-out first, then all the earlier releases. At some point Robert Stigwood began operations in the States with RSO records - best known for the release of the Saturday Night Fever soundtrack. And about that time, the Cream albums were brought out again on his label. Thanks for listening! - as there are "subway nuts" it is not uncommon for record collectors to become "record label history nuts"... |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Oct 27 18:23:43 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Express Rider on Mon Oct 27 18:07:53 2014. Yes they were re-released but I wanted them NOW lolNow they're all on CD and Itunes and Youtube so there's no shortage of Cream music. your pal, Fred |
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Posted by Fred G on Mon Oct 27 18:24:59 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Fred G on Mon Oct 27 18:23:43 2014. Oh and this one wasn't discontinuedyour pal, Fred |
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Posted by Express Rider on Mon Oct 27 18:25:17 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Fred G on Mon Oct 27 18:23:43 2014. re: "so there's no shortage of Cream music."And that's a good thing :) |
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Posted by Express Rider on Mon Oct 27 18:26:38 2014, in response to Re: RIP Jack Bruce, posted by Fred G on Mon Oct 27 18:24:59 2014. Yes, you're absolutely right. I forgot about that one. Thanks. |
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