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Title: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: PhilKing on October 25, 2014, 10:36:51 PM
I just saw that Jack Bruce has died.  I saw Cream at the Albert Hall and Madison Square Garden and he plays some great lines, as well as having a great voice.   He wrote some great music, sorry to see him go, but he didn't look well at the Cream concerts and they were nearly 10 years ago.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: Tellboy on October 25, 2014, 11:13:30 PM
Yes - very sad. I was a big Cream fan. To me it was a classic case of "Better Together". Although EC went on to great things I always felt he lost the energy/fire he had in Cream/Bluesbreakers - Jack and Ginger seemed to push him to give his best.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: 38thBeatle on October 26, 2014, 12:36:06 AM
Very sad. I did bump into him once and had a brief chat and he was very pleasant to an irritating little sod like me.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: MrBump on October 26, 2014, 06:54:31 AM
Yes - very sad. I was a big Cream fan. To me it was a classic case of "Better Together". Although EC went on to great things I always felt he lost the energy/fire he had in Cream/Bluesbreakers - Jack and Ginger seemed to push him to give his best.

Definitely - Cream were one of the best examples of creative friction!!!

I've always loved his music, his playing, everything.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: Philly Q on October 26, 2014, 09:58:13 AM
Yes, very sad news.  I'll remember him not only for Cream but also for the albums he did with two of my heroes, Robin Trower and Leslie West.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: AndyR on October 26, 2014, 02:08:13 PM
Sad news :(
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: gwEm on October 26, 2014, 02:25:43 PM
liked his singing alot. sad news.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: dave_mc on October 26, 2014, 06:43:39 PM
Sorry to hear that :(
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: darkbluemurder on October 27, 2014, 02:26:19 PM
Yes - very sad. I was a big Cream fan. To me it was a classic case of "Better Together". Although EC went on to great things I always felt he lost the energy/fire he had in Cream/Bluesbreakers - Jack and Ginger seemed to push him to give his best.

+1 to all of that.

RIP Jack.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: blue on October 27, 2014, 03:17:03 PM
Sad to hear this too.  I had heard stories of ill health for years, and of course we all get caught in the end.  He leaves a fine legacy.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: PhilKing on October 27, 2014, 05:33:03 PM
Yes, very sad news.  I'll remember him not only for Cream but also for the albums he did with two of my heroes, Robin Trower and Leslie West.

I saw Leslie West with Corky Laing and Jack Bruce's son (billed as Bruce Junior) a couple of years ago.  Not the same thing at all! 
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: Philly Q on October 27, 2014, 09:27:29 PM
Yes, very sad news.  I'll remember him not only for Cream but also for the albums he did with two of my heroes, Robin Trower and Leslie West.

I saw Leslie West with Corky Laing and Jack Bruce's son (billed as Bruce Junior) a couple of years ago.  Not the same thing at all!

Still, a cool act to have seen!  To be honest even the original West Bruce & Laing was a lot less than the sum of its parts.  But I do have a sentimental attachment to those albums.
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: FELINEGUITARS on October 28, 2014, 01:23:48 AM
I'll miss not being run down by Jack speeding in his Bentley on a weekly basis - my girlfriend lives in the same  remote village where Jack lived and he had a tendency to tear through the village in his car.

I was aware that he'd been very poorly of late, and am sad to hear that he passed away. My thoughts are with his wife Margrit and the family .
Title: Re: Jack Bruce Dead
Post by: richard on November 06, 2014, 09:38:21 PM
I hadn't listened to Cream for a long time but my current band plays White Room and Sunshine (my suggestions) and those songs go down a storm with all ages. They both have a strange, hypnotic quality that is timeless. Playing Sunshine with a drummer doing Ginger's part properly sends me into a trance. What a great band and such a wonderful meeting of three musical minds.