60s band Cream's Jack Bruce has died

[wfgodot]

I did rather like my own thread title.

 

[CHERIE.T]

I've always wanted this music to live on for other generations.
RIP Jack. The first album my now dh bought me when we were young teens Cream..... we dance to White Room on our anniversary.
:drumroll:

 

[wfgodot]

Obits, in....

Telegraph

Guardian

Plus....

Cream bassist Jack Bruce dies aged 71 after a lifetime in blues (Guardian)
• Tributes for Scottish vocalist who formed seminal 1960s band with Eric Clapton, and helped turn rock into serious art form

and also from Guardian.... Jack Bruce – a life in pictures

and finally....

Jack Bruce: 1943-2014
• MOJO’s Editor-In-Chief pays tribute to Cream’s life-long musical adventurer.

[video=youtu;egxCkPID0Rk]http://youtu.be/egxCkPID0Rk[/video]

 

[wfgodot]

[video=youtu;sTxzmLyVFYY]http://youtu.be/sTxzmLyVFYY[/video]

 

[zwiebel]

I did rather like my own thread title.

Sorry, my fault I think. I started another thread without seeing yours and mods have merged them. My title was really clunky because I was worried no-one would have heard of cream.......

ETA: Seeing all those album covers: The attic of the parental home held an album collection, many pristine, many signed, spanning a period from the 1940s to the 1970s. My heart still sinks when I remember the words when I went looking for it: 'Oh, those old things have all been thrown away.'

 

[zwiebel]

Mind you, I wasn't searching for the Elvis, the Zeppelin, the Dylan. I was looking for a single; 'Little boxes made of ticky tacky'. Weird, weird song. But I liked it.

 

[Betty P]

Thanks for the link to Pretty Flamingo. I had forgotten about that song. RIP Jack and thanks for the great music. I saw him with Leslie West and Corky Laing in St. Louis back in the 70's. IIRC they were at The Fox Theatre. Good concert, but my ears were ringing for days after.

 

[Akweks]

Sad to hear. Always loved the bass in "We're Going Wrong"

 

[wishuwerehere]

Obits, in....

Telegraph

Guardian

Plus....

Cream bassist Jack Bruce dies aged 71 after a lifetime in blues (Guardian)
• Tributes for Scottish vocalist who formed seminal 1960s band with Eric Clapton, and helped turn rock into serious art form

and also from Guardian.... Jack Bruce – a life in pictures

and finally....

Jack Bruce: 1943-2014
• MOJO’s Editor-In-Chief pays tribute to Cream’s life-long musical adventurer.

[video=youtu;egxCkPID0Rk]http://youtu.be/egxCkPID0Rk[/video]

This version is new to me; I like it. Poached for a tweet. Thanks, wfgodot.

 

[Montjoy]

Mind you, I wasn't searching for the Elvis, the Zeppelin, the Dylan. I was looking for a single; 'Little boxes made of ticky tacky'. Weird, weird song. But I liked it.

I think that song is called "Little Boxes" by Malvina Reynolds. It was considered a folk song. I've always found it kind of annoying.

 

[wfgodot]

Pete Seeger's 1963 cover is generally better-known in the U.S. ^^

 

[wishuwerehere]

Stars attend funeral of Jack Bruce

Guests including Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker have paid a farewell in song to their former Cream bandmate Jack Bruce at his funeral.

Clapton and Baker were among a number of musicians who joined Bruce's family at Golders Green Crematorium in north London.

Thy sang songs including Morning Has Broken and Strawberry Fields Forever.

 

[Quiet Time]

All I've got going thru my head right now is " I'm wasted and I can't find my way home", was that by Cream?
I still have those albums in a closet somewhere...

 

[wishuwerehere]

^^^^Blind Faith.