RIP Jack Bruce

[bthornt]

Cream bassist Jack Bruce passed away today.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/25/showbiz/cream-jack-bruce-bass/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

[eddief]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pkae0-TgrRU

[enr1co]

Awesome trio/band-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ObefcUdeuPs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pwDo0JUeKqM

RIP Jack

[thwart]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb_Uu0eTNWk

Jack singing lead… well, dubbed, but still...

[thwart]

Oh, yeah. Rushing the stage.

I don't blame 'em.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16h6vLy6n4A

[Corso]

I was lucky to see Jack Bruce play with the Golden Palomino’s years back, was within 10 feet of the stage. That fretless bass, he was fantastic!

RIP Jack.

[rounder]

Cream was a great band and Jack Bruce was a great lead singer and bass player. RIP.

[rcnute]

If you've never heard his album Things We Like--listen to it.

Ryan

[thunderworks]

RIP . . . I was lucky enough to see Cream play twice - once in Beloit, WI., and once in Des Moines, IA. I think it was in 1968. Lots of water under the bridge since then.

[OtayBW]

Aw geez.............

[tiretrax]

I watched the farewell concert film many times in high school with a bunch of friends. Great times.

They still had it so many years later:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyftaay-pFA

RIP, Jack.

[gone]

And a powerful voice. The only guy who could "play the Fillmore without a microphone"

[texbike]

Cream bassist Jack Bruce passed away today.

http://www.cnn.com/2014/10/25/showbiz/cream-jack-bruce-bass/index.html?hpt=hp_t2

That's too bad. I never had a chance to see Cream in concert but sure wore out a number of cassettes of their music during the 80s/early 90s.

I always loved the bass line in Crossroads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YdwVVI4B3oY .

Texbike

[Bob Ross]

Sad. I was never a huge Cream fan, but as a bass player I'm intimately familiar with his impact on the instrument, and it feels like losing one of the family.

[thwart]

Skimming thru the wonders of YouTube…

Gotta share this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1n2NeLxV8zs

Sure looked like they were having a blast. Well, Baker anyway...

[fuzzalow]

RIP . . . I was lucky enough to see Cream play twice - once in Beloit, WI., and once in Des Moines, IA. I think it was in 1968. Lots of water under the bridge since then.

Wow that must have been an experience in what would now look & sound like being in the Stone Age of rock concerts. Back then there was nothing of PA systems to speak of so the fury was from Jack and Eric's 100watt Marshall stacks running full out! I'm a fan and I wish I were there.

I had the good fortune to see Cream on their 2005 reunion engagement at MSG. Jack was in fine form that evening, as were they all. How far they must have come from where they started and where you had first saw them way back in 1968. Eric has not flown commercial for decades!

Back then Jack, Eric & Ginger were young and there was the raw newness of what they were doing. Shoddy conditions of any hall, gymnasium or car park that Robert Stigwood could sell a seat and send The Cream into to play. Fast forward to 2005 and they were rock elder statesmen headlining Madison Square Garden while performing an altogether professional show. Less the fire, fury and thunder of youth and instead matured into the confidence of able and practiced showmen.

Three things were striking to me about that concert:
Eric doing Cream songs on a Stratocaster w/Fender Tweeds was supremely disappointing and weak sounding (I saw Eric on the From the Cradle tour where he played Gibsons and sounded great)
Ginger augmented his take from the Reunion Concerts with the T-shirt concession profits in modeling the shirts himself seated at his kit
Jack could still sing with the same power and assurance he had from his youth; Eric's voice had matured and changed over the years but Jack always had it even from back then

RIP Jack.

[jlwdm]

I also saw Cream in 1968 - at Eagles Auditorium in Seattle. Good old days of just sitting on the floor.

The drive was a wild one as I got a ride with a friend of a friend and found out after we were driving that he had dropped acid. Fortunately, we did not drive too far - just north of the U District.

Jeff