Cream - The Reunion - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
2005
Features the great rock band cream live on stage at London's Royal Albert Hall, May 2005 Read more
| Starring | Cream, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker |
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| Genres | Music/Musical |
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Cream - The Reunion - Live At The Royal Albert Hall
Features the great rock band cream live on stage at London's Royal Albert Hall, May 2005
| Starring | Cream, Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker |
|---|---|
| Studio | WARNER MUSIC VISION |
| Certificate | |
| Genres | Music/Musical |
| Language | English |
| Released | DVD: 03 Oct 2005 Production year: 2005 |
| Format | DVD |
Cream - The Reunion - Live At The Royal ... (2 discs) (2005)
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17 out of 17 people found this review helpful
Older and better
Lead guitar, bass, drums - nothing more, nothing less. No overdubs, no sonic trickery, no backing singers, no backing musicians - no place to hide. What you see is what you get - three masters of their craft playing as if they had been performing together every week for the last 40 years, but without any hint of the 'just going through the motions of the back catalogue' routine that now seems to have afflicted one or two of the other 'big beast' groups of the 60's and 70's. Clapton in particular is at his very best - Jack reminds us that he is a class blues harmonica player (Rollin' and Tubmlin') as well as a giant of the four string and...Ginger ? Better than ever. Play it LOUD.
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5 out of 5 people found this review helpful
Pretty they're not
No, theyre not pretty and they are old & wrinkly, like me, but God, don't they fly!
It is wonderful to hear Clapton going back to his roots and playing raw and dirty again, rather than the smooth easy-listening stuff we have been subjected to recently; it's blues without the edges rounded off (though Bruce still says they are playing jazz, as he has insisted for years).
Yes, Jack Bruce's voice is not quite as strong and accurate as it was but it is still incredible, as so wonderfully demonstrated on 'We're going Wrong', which brought the house down. And talking about that track, Clapton can now do the guitar bit that is double tracked on the original record, over the top of the rhythm he is laying down, which he couldn't do in the early days (I still remember a late night BBC arts programme in the late 60's (though can't remember the name) where they first played that live.
And Baker is still a stunning drummer, who has outlived many of the others about who we had so many fierce debates; 'Toad' would be mind-boggling for a twenty-something, let alone a chain-smoker in his sixties. OK, so drum solos are old hat but that didn't seem to worry the audience, both old and young; phenomenal.The complexities of the drumming that he lays down behind Clapton's improvisations, all made up on the spur of the moment, not carefully rehearsed, would be beyond many younger men.
I hired this, after having seen the original broadcast on an old small-screen TV, to see if it is worth buying - oh yes, yes, it is.
As you can tell, I am a dyed in the wool Cream fan and can quite see that, if you are not into the sound of 1960's blues, you wouldn't like it, but I can heartily recommend it to everyone, old and young, who are, and to those of you that like rock, have never heard anything like this and are prepared to give it a whirl. -
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