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Cream, the Police, Rush, Emerson Lake and Palmer + others: Rock Trio Odd Couples

Cream, the Police, Rush, Emerson Lake and Palmer + others: Rock Trio Odd Couples

It seems the magical, minimum number needed to qualify as a rock ā€˜nā€™ roll band is three. So, let’s pit some famous rock trios against each other.

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Jack Bruce + Gary Moore, Ginger Baker, others – Rockpalast: The 50th Birthday Concerts (2014)

‘Rockpalast: The 50th Birthday Concerts’ illustrates how fertile Jack Bruce’s collaboration was with a certain UK guitarist. No, not Eric Clapton.

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Jack Bruce (1943-2014): An Appreciation

In the aftermath of Jack Bruce’s long-awaited reunion with Cream, some people bitched. All I remember was watching in wonder.

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Ginger Baker on Cream and his new band, Jazz Confusion: ‘What I’m doing now is far better’

“Cream,” Ginger Baker says dismissively, “was nearly 50 years ago.”

Gimme Five: Garage Sailing Part II, with Traffic, Emerson Lake and Palmer, the Who and others

Gimme Five: Garage Sailing Part II, with Traffic, Emerson Lake and Palmer, the Who and others

Finding cool old CDs on sale is great. Just don’t get the greedy eye.

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‘We all had our demons’: Jack Bruce on Cream’s pitfalls, and surviving them

The resurgent bassist has some stern advice for his younger self.

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Eric Clapton on How the Band Changed Everything: ‘It Shook Me to the Core’

Eric Clapton already had one eye on the door with Cream when he heard the Band for the first time.

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Eric Clapton favorites from Cream, Derek and the Dominos + his solo career: Gimme Five

Five favorites from Eric Clapton’s career as a solo artist, and member of Cream and Derek and the Dominos.

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Long-awaited Jack Bruce solo release to include collaborators from Cream, Spectrum Road

Cream legend Jack Bruce’s first solo album in a decade finds him collaborating with Phil Manzanera of Roxy Music/Pink Floyd fame, the Scorpions’ Uli Jon Roth, Robin Trower, John Medeski and Cindy Blackman Santana. Steam a sample of “Fields of Forever” here! You May Also Like: Jack Bruce and RobinRead More

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‘We never had any time’: Jack Bruce says overscheduling, not internal squabbling, killed Cream

For all of their many arguments, accusations and on-stage antics, Cream really broke up because of bad management, bassist Jack Bruce says. Having issued three albums in four years, and toured incessantly through 1968, they simply burned out. You May Also Like: Jack Bruce and Robin Trower found new successRead More