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Is this a great video or what? Especially Jack Bruce's guitar solo beginning at around 2:47.
Ah, memories of carefree days at the municipal pool, listening to jukebox songs...
In_The_Wind
(72,300 posts)hobbit709
(41,694 posts)Doc_Technical
(3,543 posts)Tobin S.
(10,418 posts)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)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.
Enthusiast
(50,983 posts)Little_Wing
(417 posts)What an eye opening night that was I was so pissed when they broke up.
Art_from_Ark
(27,247 posts)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
(15,663 posts)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)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
DFW
(54,910 posts)Was Eric Clapton taking a coffee break or something?
retread
(3,775 posts)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
(54,910 posts)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)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.