Cream, left to right: Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, and Eric Clapton

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Cream

Cream was a 1960s British supergroup which consisted of guitarist Eric Clapton, bassist Jack Bruce and drummer Ginger Baker. Celebrated as one of the first great power trios and supergroups of rock, their sound was characterised by a melange of blues and psychedelia. more...

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Cream combined Clapton's blues guitar playing with the airy voice and intense basslines of Jack Bruce and the jazz-influenced drumming of Ginger Baker.

Cream's music included songs based on traditional blues such as "Crossroads" and "Spoonful", and modern blues such as Born Under a Bad Sign, as well as more eccentric songs such as "Strange Brew", "Tales of Brave Ulysses" and "Toad". Cream's biggest hits were "I Feel Free", "Sunshine of Your Love", "White Room", "Crossroads" and "Badge".

Cream, together with The Who, made a significant impact upon the popular music of the time providing a heavy yet technically proficient musical theme that foreshadowed the emergence of bands like Led Zeppelin and Rush in the late 1960s and 1970s. The band's live performances influenced progressive rock acts and other jam bands, including the Grateful Dead and Phish.

History

Formation

Cream's beginnings can be traced back to 1966. By that time, Eric Clapton â€” whose career had begun in The Yardbirds and continued with John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers â€” had established a reputation as one of the premier blues guitarists in Britain. Clapton's virtuosity and raw power with the instrument inspired one fan to spray paint the words "Clapton is God" on the wall of an Islington underground station; soon the words "Clapton is God" were being spray painted all over London. Clapton, however, found the stoic environment of Mayall's band confining, and sought to expand his playing in a new band.

In 1966, Clapton met Baker, then the leader of the Graham Bond Organisation, which at one point featured Jack Bruce as bassist, but who also played harmonica and piano. Baker, too, felt stifled in the GBO, and grew tired of Graham Bond's drug addictions and bouts of mental instability. Baker had met Clapton after a gig (during Clapton's time with the Yardbirds); each was impressed with the other's playing abilities, prompting Baker to ask Clapton to join his new, then-unnamed group. Clapton immediately said yes, but only on one condition: that Baker hire Jack Bruce as the group's bassist.

Clapton had met Bruce when the bassist/vocalist did a short stint with the Bluesbreakers in March 1966; the two had also worked together as part of a one-shot band called Powerhouse (which also included Steve Winwood and Paul Jones). Impressed with his vocals and technical prowess, Clapton had wanted to work with Bruce on an ongoing basis.

What Clapton did not know was that while Bruce was in Bond's band, he and Baker had been notorious for their quarelling. While both were excellent jazz musicians and respected each other's skills, the confines of the GBO had proved too small for their egos. Their volatile relationship included on-stage fights and the sabotaging of one another's instruments. After Baker fired Bruce from the band, Bruce continued to arrive for gigs; ultimately, Bruce was driven away from the band after Baker threatened him at knifepoint.