[mylife]

I miss music

[mylife]

West Bruce and Lang were great

[11th_VA]

My wife thinks I’m crazy, but I listen to old radio broadcasts from the 60’s and 70’s all the time. Complete with commercials and the DJ small talk. Archive.org has lots of Radio Checks saved. Sample:

Link

[Gay State Conservative]

Our family had a boat in the 60's and we met Cream at a small,dock-side,restaurant in Cohasset,Massachusetts in the summer of 1967.My little sister,who was about 12 at the time,went up to their table.

Disraeli Gears is one of my five favorite albums of all time.

[Dr. Ursus]

Saw the reunion concert at Madison Square Garden!

[Skooz]

bfl

[Liberty Valance]

There will never be another Cream. Thanks for posting.

[21twelve]

Geddy Lee (RUSH) reminiscing about seeing Cream in Massey Hall in Toronto. “I was sitting right up there - by that pole”. He talks about how they had two mics and ran it through the PA system of the hall. Geddy ran his bass through the PA system in later years (hence the washing machines, etc. on his side of the stage).

Interview:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UwYCIgis1M

RUSH did an album of covers of music that influenced them - “Crossroads” was one of them. Here is Rush’s version - live:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmzgNTGwh3M

[Larry Lucido]

Understanding Cream

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

[LS]

Thank you. I “saw” Cream in 1968 at a circular theater where the stage rotated. Except it didn’t. It broke down after about one revolution, and I was stuck behind the band, where all I could see was Ginger Baker. Being a drummer, that was ok with me, but I would have liked to have seen Clapton and Bruce.

It always irked me that Baker insisted he wasn’t a “rock” drummer but a “jazz” drummer. Sorry, I also saw the Dave Brubeck Quartet with the amazing Joe Morello on drums, and Ginger, you are definitely a rock drummer.

As the narrator says, “Disraeli Gears” and “Wheels of Fire” were mind-blowing for how far they advanced the rock idiom, and to this day they are many of my favorite songs.

[dead]

What's all this complaining? Musically, it's the greatest time to be alive. You have instant access to all the great music the world has recorded at any time.

Plus music is no longer filtered through a handful of coked up humps in the music industry who decide what you're allowed to listen to.

You want brilliant Afrikaans traditional music?

Or Lightning Hopkins tearing up the blues?

Tom Jones killing it with Janice Joplin?

The Who at Leeds?

Dean Martin, in his old age, singing a Kris Kristofferson classic?

Great current rock and roll bands like The Foo Fighters or The Hold Steady

And live music is great too! I can pick a night and find a dozen great live shows to go see. Seriously, everything you could want to listen to is at your fingertips.

I have a bunch of live music videos I shot myself on my YouTube channel, with almost 7 million hits.

Good music is everywhere, just turn off the radio.

[MtnClimber]

I never saw Cream, a bit before my time, but I did see Eric Clapton back around 1979 at the Lakeland, FL Civic Center. It was open seating and I got there early for a right up front seat.

I saw a Traffic reunion concert in Orlando, FL back in the early 1990s.