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Cream: Sunshine of Your Love (Original Post) Art_from_Ark Feb 2014 OP
It didn't get much better than that. In_The_Wind Feb 2014 #1
Tales Of Brave Ulysses hobbit709 Feb 2014 #2
Dance the Night Away Doc_Technical Feb 2014 #3
I always liked the drums on that song Tobin S. Feb 2014 #4
Ginger Baker really was getting into the drums Art_from_Ark Feb 2014 #5
Ginger Baker kicks ass! Enthusiast Feb 2014 #14
I saw them live at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit in 1967 Little_Wing Feb 2014 #6
Cool! Art_from_Ark Feb 2014 #7
No generation can match the music of the '60's...... llmart Feb 2014 #11
I heartily agree Art_from_Ark Feb 2014 #12
Jack Bruce's guitar solo???????? DFW Feb 2014 #8
Once upon a time back in my intrepid explorer days, I was touring retread Feb 2014 #9
Hell, I used to do bass solos in the sixties DFW Feb 2014 #10
And once again, the camera man films everyone except the guitar player during a guitar solo aint_no_life_nowhere Feb 2014 #13
I love these guys. Enthusiast Feb 2014 #15

Tobin S.

(10,418 posts)
4. I always liked the drums on that song
Sat Feb 22, 2014, 08:59 PM
Feb 2014

It was cool to see it played live. That guy looks crazy as hell back there and he rocked that tune.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
5. Ginger Baker really was getting into the drums
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 01:43 AM
Feb 2014

It's worth watching the video just to see him have at it. He sure does look crazy, but like you said, he rocked that tune.

Little_Wing

(417 posts)
6. I saw them live at the Grande Ballroom in Detroit in 1967
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 03:09 AM
Feb 2014

What an eye opening night that was I was so pissed when they broke up.

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
7. Cool!
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 06:13 AM
Feb 2014

Back in those days, I didn't really know the names of too many groups, but I remember hearing some of Cream's songs on the jukebox at the swimming pool back then. One song for a dime, 3 songs for a quarter. It must have been really nice to see them live

llmart

(15,540 posts)
11. No generation can match the music of the '60's......
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 02:26 PM
Feb 2014

and I like all kinds of music, but damned, didn't we have a million wonderful songs as we were coming of age?

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
12. I heartily agree
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 05:03 PM
Feb 2014

I could never get into the music of my high school years ('70s) because, well, it just sucked compared to the great songs of the '60s.

1968 was the pinnacle of modern music as far as I'm concerned

retread

(3,762 posts)
9. Once upon a time back in my intrepid explorer days, I was touring
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 09:25 AM
Feb 2014

a dark, humid jungle. We cut our way through heavy jungle drenched in sweat. Loud persistent drums
masked the whine of huge blood-sucking insects. All of a sudden the drumming stopped. The local guides
refused to go any further. I made my way to the leader and asked why we stopped.

He replied: BASS SOLO NEXT!!

DFW

(54,405 posts)
10. Hell, I used to do bass solos in the sixties
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 10:52 AM
Feb 2014

But there was no way I was ever gonna catch up with our lead guitarist, and on this clip at 2:47, that's Eric Clapton doing a guitar solo, and not Jack Bruce (who seemed to be plenty occupied on the bass on his own).

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
13. And once again, the camera man films everyone except the guitar player during a guitar solo
Sun Feb 23, 2014, 06:05 PM
Feb 2014

It's almost pathological the way cameramen show the rhythm guitar player's hands, the organist, the drummer, the bass player, the singer playing tambourine on these old films during classic guitar solos except for the guitar player's hands. Here, Clapton is filmed from behind for a few seconds during his solo while we see Baker and then it moves to Bruce's hands on the bass. Guitar players know this too well and have long noted this frustrating tendency time and again when they'd like to see the exact fingering during a passage.

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