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> I heard Jack Bruce was disgusted by the "hypocricy" of Eric Clapton, a
> recovering alcoholic, doing beer commercials.
I'll drink to that! *8') But seriously, if you're familiar
with AA and/or the 12 step programs, you know that the problem
isn't that alcohol is merchandised like crazy...
I wonder if anybody mentioned the contents of the Rolling Stone
interview with Jack Bruce to Eric. That should have been enough
to stop the show, right there.
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| Last weekend, there was a special on E.C. (PBS) and they had a segment
of Clapton jamming with Jack Bruce circa 1986, or 1987. If there
was bad blood between them, you'd never know it. And if it was *that*
bad, why did Bruce do the segment with Eric at all?
Just food for thought and that's all, besides you know what they
say... "time heals all". Well... except for broken instruments
that is. ;^)
Fred
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I talked to a NAMM attendee today, he said the show turned out to be
Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and guitarist "Blues" Saraceno, who was
holding down the git-chores on the recent Bruce tour. I also heard
from a UK noter that Clapton did a set of shows in London last weekend,
that makes it tought to get to LA 8^) 8^) 8^)
Brian
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| I'm sorry I missed it. Cream was my original fave band, but I was a
terribly un-hip teenager and only discovered them post-breakup, so I
never had the pleasure. However, I have caught both Jack Bruce and
Ginger Baker, on separate occasions, both in the thirty-by-fifty foot
Swifts (Harvard Square, now 8^( a comedy club).
Jack Bruce was fantastic. He did great vocals for Cream, and injected a
tremendous amount of energy with his six-string bass. He did a few of
the old Cream tunes at Swifts and they were great. He's also an
excellent song-writer, in my opinion. He must be around fifty, but he
was perfectly fit and really rocked.
Ginger, on the other hand, looked like he was going to ask you for
spare change, when he tottered onto the stage. Allegedly: booze,
according to my friend the Swifts waitress. On the other other hand, he
sat down in front of the drum kit, and was totally awesome. (I already
used up "great" and "excellent" - some vocabulary, huh?) I'm not a big
fan of drummers, and drum solos tend to sound the same to my ears, but
Baker was something else. Great. Excellent.
From this distance in time and space, I give Clapton relatively little
credit for the wonder of Cream, despite all those "Clapton is God"
scribblings on the walls of the lav at the University of Michigan. Jack
Bruce did most of the singing and nearly all the writing. I'd probably
credit Ginger Baker, however, with contributing that which made Cream
so special.
Let's all go back to the dorm and argue about the greatest rock
musicians. Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes "Prodigal Man" is the best
rock song of all time.
...as long as I was waxing long-winded on non-MIDI type info...
- Hoyt
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