This was one of the super groups of the 60's. Everyone of the 3 guys (Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker & Eric Clapton) was super talented but they also had big egos. So they didn't always get a long. They all came from previous successful bands. But in the few short years they were together they produced some classic songs such as "Crossroads", "Born Under A Bad Sign", "Tales Of Brave Ulysses", "Strange Brew", "Sunshine Of Your Love", "SWLABR" etc.

I'am 66 years old and will say this the best music ever made was in the 60's and 70's period .

The band broke up a year before Woodstock. The guitarest, Eric Clapton went on to a monumental career afterwards, Derek and the Domino's with Duane Allman, Blind Faith with Steve Winwood, Delaney and Bonnie, and a 50 year solo career.

I saw Ginger Baker live three times. He was a human locomotive. Bruce and Clapton were great but Baker set the standard for rock drummers. Loved your enthusiastic reaction. Cream certainly rocked.

This was a sound we'd not heard before when this came out. It was fresh sounding.

Eric Clapton is the only one to date that has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame three times, 1) Yardbirds, 2) Cream, and 3) a solo career.

I was 17 years old when this was released. My Dad would not allow rock music to be played in the house. When I turned 18 I enlisted in the Air Force and rocked out for 20 Years and retired and still rock out at 72.

Ginger Baker is one of my all-time favorite drummers. My favorite Cream song is Tales Of Brave Ulysses.

Drummer is Ginger Baker; he always said he was a jazz drummer who just played in a rock group.

This is classic rock, to be sure! "Sunshine of Your Love" is another classic hit by these guys.

Ginger Baker is one of the greatest drummers to ever come from the UK 🥁🤘 He is one of my inspirations for picking up the drums and his drum solo Toad is still my favourite to this day!!

3 extremely talented musicians, who went their separate ways & became superstars. Thanks for your reaction.

Great analysis of a great band. Ginger Baker. One of best drummers in rock history.

One of the best 60's super groups. Ginger Baker on Drums, Jack Bruce on Bass and vocal, and Eric Clapton on lead....some trio!!!

"Spoonful" by Cream Live in London circa 1967 is definately worth a reaction

This is the original power trio. Cream's blues rock sound opened the door. They were together for only a little over 2 years, but their impact is still felt today. Eric Clapton lead guitar, Jack Bruce vocals and bass, and Ginger Baker on drums.

Ginger Baker was a genius drummer in that sometimes it sounded like he was playing a completely different song than the other 2, but he still made it all come together into a genius song.

It started with the Beatles, then the floodgates opened and AAAALLLL the music came !!

I don't know where you were looking, but Cream did not play at Woodstock. And the video may be from the farewell concert, but the music is from the album Disraeli Gears. This cut shows off Clapton's amazingly lyrical wah-wah pedal playing, in the usual superb setting of the trio. The live version of Crossroads is one of the greatest rock performances recorded; Clapton's 2 solos will inspire guitar players forever, and Jack Bruce's bass and Ginger Baker's drumming are right there with him, pushing the frontier every step of the way. It's the de rigueur reactor track, although there's not many bad tracks by Cream, and their first album is woefully underappreciated, or perhaps blocked.

Somebody combined the studio version of the song with footage from the Farewell Concert. They show footage of Baker on drums, and Bruce singing during Clapton's guitar fills because the visual wouldn't match what you were hearing. Or they show Clapton's face. The same has been done with the song "Crossroads". This was one of the few songs featuring Eric Clapton using a wah wah pedal (probably the Hendrix influence). You are also hearing the multi-tracked guitar parts from the record. The record's producer, Tom Dowd says it was he who suggested to Ginger Baker that he use the kind of drum pattern associated in western movies with native American "pow wows", and then Baker put the emphasis on different beats. The next generation of guitarists grew up playing along with Cream era Clapton, which was a bridge between blues and the beginnings of metal (along with Hendrix,Jeff Beck, Page, and others).

Oooh, you picked a good one! Great reaction.

🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦🇨🇦 Another great song by CREAM LIVE FROM THE "ROYAL ALBERT ALL" IS 🎵 Sunshine of your love 🎵 Your gonna adore this song too Keep the good work my friend ✌️ 👍🏻 👏

Cream was just 3 guys and on this song Jack Bruce sang and played bass, Eric Clapton on guitar and Ginger Baker played the drums. Small, but might trio!

Eric Clapton (guitar) and Ginger Baker (drums) have been regarded for decades by many as the top performers with those respective instruments in the rock era. Opinions vary but those two were among the very few who were the best. They are hall of fame superstars. Still enjoy listening to White Room. It never tires.

OMG I really Love this song from Cream. great band 👍✌💥

Jack is incredible Scotland is extremely proud

Cream never played at Woodstock. They had disbanded long before Woodstock happened.

Tales of Brave Ulysses by Cream.

Ahhhh yeah your touching on some fabulous music here .I was 8 yrs old when this song came out Cream then Hendrix and Led Zeppelin Ive been hooked on rock ever since ✌️

Omg,Cream!! Takes me back! Fantastic! Love seeing younger people discovering the music that I love and grew up on!!

This guy gets it!

The first vocals is by Jack Bruce, bass player, the haunting vocals is Eric Clapton, guitar.. the drummer is Ginger Baker.. Baker and Jack Bruce have passed away now, Clapton is the only one still alive.

Politician is a great song by Cream. What a great trio! Jack Bruce on base, Ginger Baker on drums, and the incredible Eric Clapton on lead guitar. Just damn!

Thanks again Mugs, cream was loaded with talent. Clapton changed bands like I change clothes, every other day haha. I believe this was their farewell concert in 1968, Woodstock was in 1969, my sister in law went to woodstock. That guitar is talking and walking.

That's Ginger Baker on the drums, and he's quite possibly the most talented rock drummer ever. This was the first super group. They were killer!

MY THREE FAVORITE ROCK SONGS: 1 "CROSSROADS"--CREAM 2 "ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER"--HENDRIX 3 "MISSISSIPPI QUEEN" --MOUNTAIN

Mag, seriously, to really discover the greatness of Rock…You must start in the 60’s.

I was seventeen in 1968 and WHITE ROOM and ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER by the Jimi Hendrix Experience were so powerful....even on a cheap AM transistor radio!!! #

I grew up in this era and it pretty much ruined me for most artists appearing in the 80's and later

People forget Jack Bruce was not only a brilliant bass player was also a classicly trained singer

I LOVE TO WATCH YOU JAM!!! 💕

so fun watching you react to this!!

Brings back a lot of good memories.... Cream was always good.

That "fire" guitar solo is the one and only "slow hand" aka Eric Clapton. That is Ginger Baker on the drums. One of the best rock drummers ever.

You are definitely hitting the important stuff. Keep exploring.

The second singer sounds like Herbert from family guy 😂

Hello. Clapton has said he is not much of a vocalist, but he kills it on this!

Drummer is Ginger Baker. A real free spirit. After this band broke up he moved to Africa, to immerse himself in "the land where drumming was born".

I can't even recognize Eric from his 60s photos. He changed so much from the 60s to the 70s.

It was the introduction of the wah-wah pedal in the Sixties that gave geniuses like Eric Clapton and Jimi Hendrix the chance to make it sound as though the guitar literally _was_ talking!

So glad I found you!!

Perfect video to see why Clapton was called “Slow Hand”

They had broken up by the time of Woodstock in August '69

My daughter is 16 and loves this band

Great reaction!

Another great power rock trio from back in the late sixties is Grand Funk Railroad. I highly highly recommend reacting to their song Inside Looking Out 1969. It’s live and it is 100 percent fire!!

this dropped when i was 11..i was hooked hard.

We had the best music through out the 60s and 70s

Good song, great music!..You really seemed to enjoy listening to it.

Check out their live performance of Willie Dixson’s “Spoonful.”. The version done in the ‘60s, from the Wheels of Fire album. Amazing extended jam, all three of them at peak level. But not the live video! I think Clapton was too stoned on that one. 😊😊

Gets no better than this, wish you were there too!

Saw Cream in 68 at the Anaheim Convention Center. One of the best concerts I've been to. Growing up in LA had advantages saw most of the big bands in the late 60s early 70s.

If you want to see more of Ginger Baker’s drumming listen to the song called Toad off of this same performance

Anche Jack era un artista straordinario. Splendida voce, suonava magnificamente basso, piano, chitarra, armonica, e quant'altro. Ha composto lui la maggior parte delle musiche dei Cream. Anche da solista ha creato pezzi straordinari come 'weird of hermistone' 'theme from an imaginary western', ha suonato con tutti i più grandi e ha sempre fatto ciò che gli piaceva con straordinaria passione, infischiandosene delle logiche di mercato. Scusa se e' poco

This Farewell Concert was in November 1968. Woodstock was in August 1969. Another group that broke up before Woodstock was the first Jeff Beck Group, with Rod Stewart on vocals. See his 1968 pre-Zeppelin album Truth, for another link in the bridge between blues and early metal. On this song the harmonized parts on the bridge were the multi-tracked parts on the album (Wheels Of Fire 1968). This included a viola part played by producer Felix Pappalardi, who later played bass for the group Mountain. After all, there were only 3 members in Cream, and harmonizers hadn't been invented yet.

Clapton singing the bridge

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Got to see Cream in 2005 at Madison Square Gardens- it was my Super Bowl.

In the White room with black curtains by the Station.......... :D

This is a studio recording set to a live video

Man, your hearing Eric Clapton arguably the top guitar in Rock music, Ginger Baker a Jazz drummer who spent his time in Africa learning rhythms that were far different than most Rock bands ever offered and Jack Bruce a famous jazz bass player that had a wonderful voice for these type of songs. For maybe 7 to 8 years, the most sought after band in Rock Music.

Ginger Baker on drums. Great drummer great family man. His daughter has a post

Love Jack Bruce..

Ginger baker said cream were a jazz band... but that he and jack never told Eric.

Baker had a very unusual drum style for the era and set some new standards with the use of toms.

A 60’s top ten, absolutely!

Oh ma gosh ysss

Allow me to suggest Pink Floyd "Echoes" at Pompeii, Focus "Hocus Pocus" on the Midnight Special , and Peter Frampton "Do you Feel Like We Do" on the Midnight Special. They way you reactin' to this stuff, you need to check those tunes out.

Drums- Ginger Baker! one of the greats!

I think Eric might have played at Woodstock 99 but not at the original in 1969. Eric was on to Blind Faith by then

Check out the Wheels of Fire double album. One platter studio recorded and the pother platter live. The live version of Crossroads and Spoonful are worth a listen.

Badge by Cream! You won't be sorry.

Bob Dylan - it’s alright ma I’m only bleeding.

Cream “crossroads”

Disraeli Gears one of the best albums of the 60s just spend $12 an order the CD. Turn up your volume.

Badge😁

Your reaction, quality😅, this is another one on my out on my motorbike play list

Check out Gone down to the Crossroads, if you want to hear some great jammin.

Ginger Baker on drums....one of the best rock drummers ever. But crazier than a rabid raccoon on meth!!! I loved him anyway ❤

Ginger Baker on drums

Compare Eric Clapton's playing then to his music recently. Try "Old Love" Live Hyde Park '96 by Eric Clapton

Cream sadly didnt exist in '69 anymore, so no they weren't at woodstock.. but they lit up the states just before that on their own 🤟👹❤

The audio is from the studio version.. still great tho ;D Homeboys name is Ginger Baker.. 😅 🤟👹❤

Ginger Baker on drums.

listen to "Blind Faith" and more Eric Clapton.

I honestly think this is Eric Claptons best work.

Don't hear music like this these days do you? Ginger Baker, one of the best drummers of rock. If you like his drumming here then you need to hear their song Sunshine Of Your Love.

Ginger Baker was known as a Jazz drummer who obsessed about bringing African drum rhythms to Jazz and Rock. Later, after their break up, Baker moved to Southern Africa and bought a farm and continued to play with African musicians who he considered great musicians unknown to the rest of the world. He and the bass player played in Jazz ensembles in England in their formative years and when Rock music kicked off, they found who they thought was the most talented blues guitarist and Cream became legend, albeit a short time story. Too much ego and too little common sense from 3 of the most talented artists of the 60;s and 70s.

WTF are reading? Cream did not perform at Woodstock.

Ginger Baker is one of the greatest drummers ever.