Look at Clapton. Look at how he sounds even with a fender when he plays with Baker and Bruce. Cream literally got the best out of Clapton. It was the best trio ever.

This band absolutely stuns me, every time they're together... that rarest of creatures, the Rock Band that is greater than the sum of its parts. Clapton never plays better than when he plays with Bruce and Baker... and I'm gratified to see how many of the comments that precede mine focus on them as well. Incidentally, just so it doesn't go unremarked or unnoticed: They'd broken up 25 years earlier, and had gotten back together for the first time since then, for this awards ceremony. Especially poignant: Note the dedication to Albert King... This was originally an Albert King song, and the Second King had passed away the month previously to this performance.

Jack had one of the greatest voices in the history of rock music.

Cream, the greatest rock band of all time.The sum was greater then the parts. Each played the best with the other two.

I will always be amazed and filled with deep respect when i hear Ginger and Jack together. It's just a match made in heaven.

My favorite all time band, and I've been playing for over 50 years. Jack Bruce was my favorite musician!

Best band in the world ever hands down .

The best, the greatest and the finest blues-rock band ever.

Damn his tone with those soldano amps is unreal.

God Bless you Jack Bruce (71) Rest in peace The death of the wonderful singer songwriter and Cream bassist has just been announced (25th October :-(

A tribute to Albert who died 2 months prior to this.

This is wonderful. It really brings back some of that old magic. The one thing that no video, no recording has ever been able to capture is the sheer power, the massiveness of the sound that Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker laid down. I saw them play a couple of years before this event, and it was really striking.It was Jack Bruces's band, and for the first half hour, a different drummer played on Baker's kit. He was a really good drummer, and the band sounded great. Then Ginger came out and played--the same kit, the same engineer, the same everything--and the whole thing was transformed. It sounded like someone had dropped a steam engine from an airplane--just the most explosive, powerful sound I've ever heard. And it wasn't a matter of volume--they weren't that loud--it was just the weight, the scale of the sound. Very hard to capture in words, and in video or audio, too. And that was without Eric. There will never be another band like this.

Wonderful!

Clapton's guitar-playing, especially his left-hand vibrato here reminds me of Free's Paul Kossoff(RIP).

The great Mister Baker would have turned 81 today 8.19.2020. RIP.

I played on the same stage as cream in 1968 as the warm up band. They sound so much better now with modern equipment, not to mention lack of some serious drugs.

I miss Jack Bruce so much

Struck by how good a singer Jack was. Often overlooked because of Ginger and Eric’s virtuosity taking center stage

I love the song, the event and performance. As a bass player counting bars, this was a good lesson on how a mistake is calmly taken care of, with the great chemistry of a great band who are keenly aware of each other. On the first solo, Eric barely catches the 1 on the V chord albeit a tiny bit late. No problem. Sometimes Ginger will do a big roll to tell Eric to hit the V on the next bar at 1. And Jack does an octave fill after the Bb to G from the 12th fret of D as a nice cue. Jack has done this on his solo version of Bad Sign at The Bottom Line Club in NYC (bootleg audio that I have). But on this 2nd guitar solo section after the mid verse vocal by Jack, Eric completely plays over the V which is D and keeps riffing in G then realizes it has gone by! Both Ginger and Jack note the slip and keep vamping while Eric continues soloing waiting for a cue from Eric. They soon get it as Eric looking abit annoyed wags his head in their direction. On the next 1 they are entering the bar 8 setup fill, with a solid unison 1 on bar 9, the V chord D as if it was all planned and probably no one even noticed Eric’s error. It’s obvious if you are counting measures and -really obvious from Eric’s expression as he, disappointed in himself on this prestigious event- grimaces facially and cues Jack to walk up to the D for V chord change. Ginger does a nice setup roll to bar 8 and the camera is right on him 2:27 - 2nd guitar solo section starts -bar one @ beat 1. 2:48 supposed to be the one on bar 9 for the V chord, after Jack’s bar 8 bass fill but Eric misses it or doesn’t hear Jack’s bass and keeps soloing in G realizing it’s too late. On Bar 17 (3:09) into Eric’s solo, the 2nd time they hit the V in unison nicely after the (3:04) head cue of Eric on bar 15 -the bass and drum fill on bar 16 follow and it’s all resolved on the D at (3:09) on the V chord. This is why I love Cream. The unexpected sometimes happens but they listen intently and resolve -never a train wreck. There may be a “how do we get out of this now?” moment, but only very briefly.

RIP Jack Bruce

amazing

Amazing

Ginger, Jack, and Eric playing some good blues, why is this so familiar?...oh yeah, I saw Cream in 67 and 68, it's all coming back to me now...

Rock Angel: “Jack, your voice will only get better as the years go passing by” ; )

The best

Hell yeah

like when jack shout at 1:17 " ERIC ! " before the solo

How funny! I love honesty. Wow ZZ TOP inducts my other favorite 3 piece band.

RIP Ginger Baker Oct. 2019

pretty good

No comment !

Good things they didn't get inducted earlier. This was the first year they had inductees perform on their own instead of amidst the sea of a big all-star house band.

great vids. those were the days....the last vestiges of the blues... they said that the blues were born in 1890's. this event would mark the exact 100 year mark...a good run, don't you think?

@victhebassman Yeah! This was not one of my favorite songs from the albums but they made it incredible! Best one they performed!

Do they have this version of this song on any streaming service? It’s so good!

A King さんのフライングV 指弾き🤌BBとの中野サンプラザコンサート　懐かしいなぁ　クリームもイイね😮

1993 reunion!?

Amazing Jack could play at all, he wernt thru some serious medical issues in the 90's, thank God he made it through and is still here, playing the shit out the bass and still has that wailing vocal style, albeit not as strong as it was in early Cream days.

where is part 2? :( ... copyright problems?

Eric destroys that song....2nd solo is insane ...

of the 3 songs performed, this really is the only good one. They sound more relaxed

Not enough close shots of Ging-ah!! Ya know what i mean....?

PS These were not their best performances at the R&R Hall of Fame. Check out the bookleg recording of the rehearsals. Far superior to the actual gig.

#2, #2, anyone seen #2?

Shame about the crackles and pops on the VCR audio.

claptons on fire!

I've noticed Clapton's tone sucked during this time period, he was using those Soldano amps. Should have thrown a tubescreamer in there at least would have had a SRV type tone...

The thing that irritates me about people when they watch Clapton is their tendency to say “he was better in Cream”, when I think they mean they liked his tone better. Clapton’s playing in Cream could often be repetitive and lacking in depth compared to Bruce and Baker. By Jack and Ginger’s own admission, he was a far superior player when they played in later life than when they played then.

Clapton's tone has sucked since he started using Strats. There, negative comment THIS one!

I ncredible synergy; the whole much greater than the sum of the parts. On his own, I would consider Clapton to be nothing more than a good guitarist - with the exception of w/John Mayer on Crossroads.

Damn that awful Strat tone.

Plenty of players with great tone out of a strat, Jimi, SRV, Buddy Whittington, Bonamassa (when he plays a strat), etc. I agree, Claptons tone sucks, he needs to crank the tube amp like Buddy Guy does.

I never liked the way Jack looked and sounded I'm this period.

Awesome! Eric said "This one is for Albert King." Albert King is underrated & forgotten. BB King is overrated, Albert is the real King 👑 haha.