Cream

deereman63 · May 3, 2005

Last night Cream held a reunion concert. I was not able to be there, but I still remember seeing Eric Clapton playing at my high school in 1966. How time flies /forums/images/graemlins/ooo.gif

Moon · May 4, 2005

NO WAY!!! Clapton played at your High School. WOW!

To bad video recorders where not out back then.
We had some band play at our HS prom that had once had a whimpy top ten song. Very unmemorable.

Cream's disrallii (sp) gears was the first lp i'd ever bought. 5 bucks back then. I had plenty of 45's but no lp's.

...anyway, i'm jealous. what a great High School memory that would have been. Was it here in the US? Wasn't 66 around the time he played with the Yardbirds? I think he was with Jeff Beck and the Bluesbreakers just before that.

Don't suppose you have any pics you could scan of the event?

Moon of Ohio

rozett · May 4, 2005

I am a big Cream fan. Disraeli Gears and Very Best of Cream hold permanent places in the CD changer in my truck. And I have another ten Clapton CDs in my collection.

Durbob · May 4, 2005

I'm a Clapton fan ,but an even bigger Duane Allman fan so when they hooked up together on the Layla album you have one of the best guitar albums ever. Next to the Allman brothers "Live at the Fillmore East" of course.

Dur

ducati996 · May 4, 2005

( I'm a Clapton fan ,but an even bigger Duane Allman fan so when they hooked up together on the Layla album you have one of the best guitar albums ever. Next to the Allman brothers "Live at the Fillmore East" of course.

Dur )

I'm thinking Cream edged that single album out -Goodbye Cream being my favorite....just an opinion of course!!

I wonder how good they sound these days - they should have done it so long ago....some people almost wait until its too late /forums/images/graemlins/frown.gif

deereman63 · May 4, 2005

He was playing with John Mayall at the time. It was back in the UK and the school was fairly conservative because we never had any other groups play. If I remember rightly John Mayall lived in the area so he probably knew a teacher. I checked his web site, he is 70 but still rockin

Durbob · May 4, 2005

Eric can still play i believe. The big difference today is the same thing that happens to all the old rockers. They lose their intensity and ability to just break off into a jam.

Dur

deereman63 · May 4, 2005

This is a true story. The local vicar of a village outside of London was calling on several of the large homes in the area. Upon entering one house he noticed a guitar in the foyer and he asked the owner, who had introduced himself as Eric, if he played, and would he care to play that Sunday at the local church? That Sunday the congregation enjoyed Clapton at his best. I think this says a lot about a very unassuming man.

GerardC · May 4, 2005

To bad video recorders where not out back then. 

Oh but they were. You just had to have the money to buy one. My family has movies from back in the 50's if not earlier.

jpr62902 · May 4, 2005

Wow. John Mayall's Bluesbreakers at your high school? Phenomenal!! My favorite album of theirs has Clapton on the cover reading a comic book.

Speaking of Derek and the Dominoes, Bell Bottom Blues may just be the best blues ballad ever conceived.