Jack Bruce Dead

[PhilKing]

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.

[Tellboy]

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.

[38thBeatle]

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.

[MrBump]

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.

[Philly Q]

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.

[AndyR]

Sad news :(

[gwEm]

liked his singing alot. sad news.

[dave_mc]

Sorry to hear that :(

[darkbluemurder]

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.

[blue]

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.

[PhilKing]

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! 

[Philly Q]

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.

[FELINEGUITARS]

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 .

[richard]

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.