I Feeel FREEE!!!

/the drugs
//they do something!!JO!12

Hopefully it works out - the battles between Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton are the stuff of legend, and by all accounts, Jack never became easier to work with as time went by.

Of course, Eric Clapton has long since lost any of the fire that he has in the 60s and 70s.

How are Eric Clapton and coffee alike?

They both suck without cream.

Yy opinion is that Clapton is only good when he is playing other people's songs.

This is true for many so-called "guitar gods", like steve vai and buckethead. However, there are others, like Hendrix and Dean Ween who are guitar wizards AND creative and excellent songwriters.

HotLonelyTeenageGirl: ... Jack never became easier to work with as time went by.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I worked with Jack in the 90s, and he was a complete gentleman.

I saw some of the Cream reunion on PBS last year. I was not impressed. They can not play and sing like they did 35 years ago.

Clotted Cream.

Their reunion album should be called Old And In The Way.

Clapton's wheedly-wheedly-whee licks were stale by the mid-70's. He's the Phil Collins of the guitar.

Want to hear a lot of the blues-y stuff.

/driftin' blues and double trouble, please

Speaking as someone who had "Wheels of Fire" drilled into his head from infancy I'm mixed about this news.

Eric the guitar god has long passed on. I think very little of his post "From the Cradle" output. You take away the guitar playing and your left with a mediocre singer and so-so song writer. Eric needs to change focus. How about an album with Brad Paisley? That would be pretty cool. It would make Eric stretch a little.

code_monkey: HotLonelyTeenageGirl: ... Jack never became easier to work with as time went by.

I can't speak for anyone else, but I worked with Jack in the 90s, and he was a complete gentleman.

I've always read otherwise, so I hope this to be the case, as Cream kicked ass, and Cream was a hell of a lot more than Clapton.

I thought the battles were between Baker and Bruce mostly.


Oh well....supposedly NOBODY can out-asshole Richie Blackmore.

You've got that rainbow feel... but the rainbow has a (gray) beard.

carmody: Clotted Cream.

Curdled Milk?

CatfoodSpork: Yy opinion is that Clapton is only good when he is playing other people's songs.

This is true for many so-called "guitar gods", like steve vai and buckethead. However, there are others, like Hendrix and Dean Ween who are guitar wizards AND creative and excellent songwriters.

i was with you til dean ween. i love ween, but 'guitar wizard'? are you serious?

also, i cannot believe anyone ever cared about eric clapton.

Way back in the day, my dad bought a copy of Fresh Cream. My Zaide crossed out "fresh" and wrote "sour".

CatfoodSpork: Hendrix and Dean Ween who are guitar wizards AND creative and excellent songwriters.


How in the hell can you mention Hendrix and the "Push the little daisies" dude in the same breath?

....ooops,
sorry.

Didn't mean to go BOLD on everything.


Needs my morning coffee before posting.

craigdamage: They totally nail the bands like Camel and Gentle Giant.

they come nowhere close to gentle giant, but otherwise-youre right. ween is brilliant. and that record is a GREAT starting point. although seeing them live is an even better starting point.

/He's still cooler than all of us put together.

craigdamage: wolfzr2
How in the hell can you mention Hendrix and the "Push the little daisies" dude in the same breath?


How the Hell can you think that "Push the Daisies" is the only thing by Ween?


Start with "The Mollusk" record.
...yeah it is a parody/tribute of 70s prog but is quite superb.
Top notch musicianship period.
They totally nail the bands like Camel and Gentle Giant.
This is way cool. Anybody else would have attempted the obvious and gone for Yes or Genesis style.


Sorry man. I tried to listen to some of their stuff from that album this morning after your recommendation. I wont elaborate except to say it's just not my cup of tea.

/trying not to be one of those "Your favorite band sucks" asshats

The other day I was trying to remember the name of the Golden Palominos record that Jack played on, but couldn't... Anyone else still have the brain cells that I seem to have killed off?

Wookie Milson: The other day I was trying to remember the name of the Golden Palominos record that Jack played on, but couldn't... Anyone else still have the brain cells that I seem to have killed off?

It was the same one that Michael Stipe and Richard Thompson played on. It was called Visions of Excess.

Glenechocreek: It was the same one that Michael Stipe and Richard Thompson played on. It was called Visions of Excess.

Thank you!

ginger flucking baker.

criminally underrated drummer.

that is all.

supposedly NOBODY can out-asshole Richie Blackmore.

Ive heard the same about Chris Squire.

oldandwiser: I saw some of the Cream reunion on PBS last year. I was not impressed. They can not play and sing like they did 35 years ago.

I saw Windwood sing last night on PBS in the Crossroads Blues Concert - he can sing as well as he did 35 years ago. I know, I used to sing opera and still have a better ear that most folks. He can flat out sing just as well today as he did then.

He was singing a Traffic song, however, not a Cream song.