RIP Jack Bruce

vvv · Post by **vvv** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 10:08 am

DrummerMan · Post by **DrummerMan** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 11:15 am

Aw man....

Cream was probably the first band ever in my childhood where I bought every single cassette that was available and listened to them obsessively.

Was also just talking about that Tony Williams Lifetime album (play it loud) the other day.

Great fucking musician

vvv · Post by **vvv** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 12:11 pm

We covered "Swlabr" in my first band ...

Gregg Juke · Post by **Gregg Juke** » Sat Oct 25, 2014 9:11 pm

...Because the rainbow had a beard...

GJ

Jarvis · Post by **Jarvis** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 5:29 am

My cousins had Disreali Gears. They were so cool.
Jack was so cool.

standup · Post by **standup** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 9:45 am

I read an interview years ago where he sounded very, very bitter about Clapton's success. Bruce was a very proficient player technically, but success is a crapshoot. It's a shame.

Jarvis · Post by **Jarvis** » Sun Oct 26, 2014 10:32 pm

I'm a little disappointed, guys
I mean, Jack Bruce?
i believe the fucker rewrote the way it was done. I'm old, but not that stupid.

DrummerMan · Post by **DrummerMan** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:29 pm

It's really interesting about who gets what kind of notoriety.

As my Cream obsession started to ebb or reach a saturation point, I wanted to move forward. In my middle school mind the obvious thing was to follow Clapton's career forward since he had had the most obvious success post-Cream. I followed that path of albums slowly from the late 60's up to the present (which at that time was the mid 80's). At some point I discovered that I didn't care too much for what he was doing now (then), which made me decide to investigate backwards and discover at what point his music went from things I thought were awesome to things I didn't care for, since I apparently wasn't being very critical on the way up. It took a while, but eventually I discovered that I didn't really find much at all of his very interesting after Cream, forcing me to the conclusion that, especially in terms of songwriting and singing, it was Jack Bruce's influence that had appealed to me so much in the super trio (along with Baker, of course, who's influence was never in question).

This also may the very root of something I was discussing with a bandmate the other day, which is my deep-rooted dislike of the Stratocaster. I feel like Clapton playing an SG or a 335 represented everything I loved about his playing, and the Strat was representative of everything else. I still hold that Strat prejudice (supported by many other musicians' examples) to this day, but thinking about Jack Bruce and my feeling like I followed the wrong Cream-member really brought the origins of that prejudice to the surface...

[/Psych 101]

*I do not wish to incite the wrath of Strat lovers here. It is a fine instrument, I'm sure, and it's sound has some really fine examples in the history of music, it's just not for me and I don't know if it ever will be (though I never thought I'd own a telecaster either, and that did change after some particularly good experiences with them).

drumsound · Post by **drumsound** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 2:37 pm

Jack Bruce was amazing. His first solo record is great.

vvv · Post by **vvv** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 5:24 pm

I even like him with Trower ...

And I include his vox as influential and loved by yo.

standup · Post by **standup** » Tue Oct 28, 2014 6:05 pm

Strats leave me a little cold too. I've heard people doing great things with them, though. For me it doesn't reflect on Clapton specifically.

tonewoods · Post by **tonewoods** » Tue Nov 11, 2014 1:38 pm

standup wrote:Strats leave me a little cold too. I've heard people doing great things with them, though. For me it doesn't reflect on Clapton specifically.

It sure as hell did for me on that Cream reunion...
I mean, a fucking Strat??
Come on...

Nick Sevilla · Post by **Nick Sevilla** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 7:19 am

standup wrote:Strats leave me a little cold too. I've heard people doing great things with them, though. For me it doesn't reflect on Clapton specifically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6T6AQ5yXqc

DrummerMan · Post by **DrummerMan** » Thu Nov 13, 2014 12:58 pm

Nick Sevilla wrote:
standup wrote:Strats leave me a little cold too. I've heard people doing great things with them, though. For me it doesn't reflect on Clapton specifically.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6T6AQ5yXqc

Thats funny. I don't know if you're trying to show positive attributes of the strat or not, but that video actually stereotypifies a sound of that instrument that I don't particularly care for.

Go figure...

Hendrix is the first person who comes to mind when I think of a strat sound I like.

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