the cream, live & extended.
 

fuuuuUUUUUUUUck

I've held at least one of those guitars in my hands.

And I'm pretty sure the Cream bass drum I purchased from Ginger Baker was used in the Farewell Concert too.

wait, whut?

i wonder why clapton was nicknamed slowhand? in that vid, dude is not so slow! i'm currently learning this song, the lead riffs are IN_SANE! it will be a while. lolz.

I was one of two memorabilia buyers for the Hard Rock Cafe in the late 90s.

Put a $3.5 million dollar yearly buying budget in the hands of a 23 year old classic rock fan, and I'm sure he'll nab you all sorts of treasures too :winkwink:

jesus fucking christ man. i bet that was fun. i would consider cream to be one the most significant contributing band to rock & roll ever. it's insane they were an *experiment* of sorts and were together, what, 2-3 years? those musical instruments are very important treasures.

i liked how the narrator on the op music vid describes them as "maybe not the most talented musicians." hahahahahahahahaha :1orglaugh

And the nickname has something to do with him breaking a guitar on stage. He attempted to fix it right there on stage. While he did this, the crowd did a long slow hand clap.

His manager at the time turned "slow hand clap" into Slowhand, and it stuck.

At one point he auctioned off a bunch of guitars for his drug rehab facility. HRC got all the good ones. I know that either Brownie or Blackie were in the mix.

My boss was featured in one of the Airline magazines as having one of the "5 Best Jobs In America" or something like that.

The job they described as hers, was actually mine and my partner's. She just ok'd things and signed the checks. :1orglaugh

oh. lolz. wasn't expecting that. seems odd eh, i would think he had a backup guitar or 3...too funny though, stop the show my guitar broke, ima fix it right here..talk amongst yourselves :1orglaugh

It was one of those, you're so fast we're going to call you Slowhand.

The Cream? Is that like The Styx?

why not take a few minutes and enjoy the vid?

Got it on CD...

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedi.../CreamGold.jpg

Have you seen that documentary on Ginger Baker?

i have not, but am interested, do you recall the title or point me to it? :thumbsup

Damn, I bow in awe...

Did you handle the transaction for Garcia's guitars?

That Ginger Baker documentary on cable right now is great. Check it out if you haven't already.

"Beware of Mr. Baker"

I think it is on HBO or Showtime right now but can't remember which. What a freaking career...

Cream, Blind Faith, Fela... anyone one of those is epic enough mountain to climb for one life, but that is just the tip of the iceberg for Baker.

thank you, will search this out. i was reading about cream earlier and apparently they formed the group because each player idolized the others. i love that!

hah, that article was excellent, i had no idea ginger was the drummer for pil!

btw, my referring to the band as *the* cream in the title was a tongue-in-cheek reference to the narrator in the op video i posted, he called them the cream and i chuckled.

Loved cream, they were one of the best...also liked Blind Faith which was made up of a few members from Cream.....those were the days......................:thumbsup

right on, hey, check it out, i'm learning! lolz.... the rest is all the lead, the grading is on 100% scale

http://i.imgur.com/28Wx9z8.jpg

As they were about my favorite band growing up on Orange Sunshine, I must point out that it is not "The Cream" but "Cream."

https://youtube.com/watch?v=IDZqmF3zS04

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


*just saw your "the cream" comment

if you get a sec, listen to the 1st minute of that op video, the narrator's comments on the band are worth a listen!

Yeah, you could tell he was just reading because he began it with, "simply, Cream." They probably figured no one would notice in 45 years. :1orglaugh

those cheeky brits. i hit those links, i had forgotten cream did the white room.

any idea what the dull surprise is in sunshine?

You mean dawn surprise? I always thought it meant morning sex.

Damn, Ginger Baker is 74 now...his birthday was yesterday! :GFYBand



You can stream the Ginger Baker documentary on YouTube for $3.99:

https://youtube.com/movie/beware-...?feature=mv_sr

2005 Cream Reunion concert:



Like father, like son:



:stoned

ADG

oh, lolz, i thought he was saying dull :1orglaugh:1orglaugh:1orglaugh

i'm loling my ass off now!

checkign these out too man, it'll take me a while! hah.

nice coincidence ginger baker's b-day was just yesterday. :thumbsup

I remember everyone saying he was shooting up speed; he later said there was no way he could have done that on drugs.

Are you new to Cream? If so . . . Wheels of Fire and Disraeli Gears

i will check those out fgor sure. thx

i had heard this song and white room, maybe another, but i wasn't aware of how significant the band was until now, i just started learning sunshine on the guitar and bass and really really like learning to play it, the main riff is iconic and i do remember it and have liked it.

https://youtube.com/watch?v=ngIxuGOVGeQ

https://youtube.com/watch?v=YdwVVI4B3oY

this song is so kcik asses!

i've got that ginger documentary scheduled for viewing this afternoon, woot, looking forrward to that for sure

i'm getting better, lolz- i stayed up late learning more and havebeen working on it this morning and increase my skill level ~3% hahahahahahahah

http://i.imgur.com/6GZsbae.jpg

This goes particularly well with Orange Sunshine... :winkwink:

whenever i hear of orange sunshine i always remember that classic snl jimmy carter skit!

http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x7m...resident-c_fun

these 2 tracks are fantastic, hadn't hear swablr before, wow, insane guitar.. super cool to see them covering a robert johnson blues classic.

I think that those might have come before me. It's been 13 years since I was there, so I guess it's possible they came after me too.

My biggest buy were the KISS costumes and instruments that they wore / played at the Halloween concert at Dodger Stadium in 97 or 98. They had never released anything before that. I got to hand a $200,000 check to Gene Simmons, who's my idol in more ways than one.

When I left, I was in the process of buying a Fender Mustang that was Kurt Cobain's from his father. They were gonna put someone through College with the proceeds.

Does anyone has a pdf copy of Ginger Baker's autobiography "HELLRAISER" to share??

PS: I would post "Blind Faith's" full album but the cover might get into some trouble around here :winkwink:.

I think it may....would be cautious posting that one.

Baker was the bomb :thumbsup

I think this was Clapton's first song on lead vocals. He didn't think he could sing...