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In Reply to: RE: Jack Bruce R.I.P. posted by HarlemAirShaft on October 25, 2014 at 08:44:40
Cream hit SF in 1967, nearly a year after Fresh Cream came out. A friend got us backstage and we met the band, smoked some hash and just yakked with them. There was some very hard drug use in plain sight and when they went out to play we were both on stage left and behind the amps for the whole show.
It was one of the most intense nights of music in the SF bay area. Ever.
I can still hear Jack's laugh and his English accent in my mind...
The world is a poorer place without him and his chops and vocals..
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I saw them at the Filmore, I think in 67 as well.
Concert lineup was Cream, Butterfield Blues Band and Charlie Musselwhite, three was the top white blues bands of the time. Kind of a guitar shoot out! I remember at the time thinking that Harvey Mandel (from Musselwhite) blew Bloomfield and Clapton away. I didn't say it at the time since Clapton was supposed to be the guitar God. And yeah, the Marshall amps kept blowing out.
Years later, I saw Motorhead. They couldn't get through three tunes without their Marshall amps blowing either. English tradition, I guess.
Gotta love this thread! Nothing but blue hairs.
The February Winterland show with The Loading Zone and Big Black? I'm looking at the poster and the hand bill right now. Winterland, we may have traded sweat in passing.
Oddly, I was at a Bar Mitzvah last night on Balboa with a sizable attendance of BGP relics and the forty-seven year old David Graham son of. The beat goes on...
peace
but I sure recall that night with Cream....
I remember hearing about one show in the bay area. They turned everything up to 11 and the Marshall amps on one stack kept blowing fuses. I don't remember if it was Jack's or Eric's. They ended up pulling the fuses and putting in paper clips.
Good memories but Jack never had an English accent. He was a Scot.
I saw him numerous times in the early sixties with the Graham Bond Organisation (with Ginger Baker). Later at what I believe was the first ever gig of Cream at The Marquee, Wardour street, London - I queued for three hours to get in. Even later at what was supposed to be the last performance of Cream before they broke up at The RAH (not the comparatively recent reunion there).
What a great and inventive player.
My error, but I shoulda known...
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