RIP Jack Bruce

[Steadmund Brand]

RIP Jack

I was lucky enough to go see the Cream reunion in New York..for a guy was unwell, he was amazing that night... wish I saw them at the Royal Albert hall...I did get to the Royal Albert Hall once to see Clapton in 2009 (most expensive concert ticket ever.. if you count airfare and hotel etc....going to London just for a concert from Buffalo New York.. it was an adventure!!)

as far as the best bassit... only person I would put above Jack Bruce is the late John Entwistle... who I was once lucky enough to meet.. fantastic guy!!

Steadmund Brand--

[GUT]

I saw Cream twice back in the Sixties, and prior to that other bands that Jack Bruce was performing with. He was I think first and foremost a jazz musician, and when he and Ginger Baker really got going poor old Eric Clapton could only carry on regardless. Bruce was classically trained, and originally played string bass in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. If he wasn't the greatest bassist of the rock era, then who was?

My dvd of the Cream Reunion Concert at Royal Albert Hall still gets played very regularly, even though it's fairly obvious that Jack was not a well man at the time. A great loss.

Graham

G'day Graham

Jack himself once said that it was Macca.

The big difference is that Jack always wanted to be a Bassist, Paul ended up there by default.

[Graham]

I saw Cream twice back in the Sixties, and prior to that other bands that Jack Bruce was performing with. He was I think first and foremost a jazz musician, and when he and Ginger Baker really got going poor old Eric Clapton could only carry on regardless. Bruce was classically trained, and originally played string bass in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. If he wasn't the greatest bassist of the rock era, then who was?

My dvd of the Cream Reunion Concert at Royal Albert Hall still gets played very regularly, even though it's fairly obvious that Jack was not a well man at the time. A great loss.

Graham

[Robert]

Yes, a pity that he's gone.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=16h6vLy6n4A

[GUT]

If was wasn't the greatest Bassist of the rock era he was darn close.

Together with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker they made up the "Super Group" Cream.