The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #76051   Message #1344260
Posted By: GUEST
01-Dec-04 - 08:49 AM
Thread Name: Cream to reform
Subject: RE: Cream to reform
...these 'comeback' gigs never meet up to the standards set by the original formation. Everybody's older, less frenetic, more staid, and the playing will be lackluster (Clapton hasn't 'played' since Blind Faith)....this is just three past-their-prime musicians cashing in on a memory, making a quick buck off what people remember (or don't)...these guys don't have the energy to pull it off. The days of jamming in E 14+ minutes on 'Spoonful' are long gone. Clapton has tried this already with the disappointing 'From The Cradle.' To do it right, everybody would have to time travel forty years back to the sixties, start doing hard drugs again, and play very, very hard and loud for a long time. Can you see that happening? I don't. At best it will wind up sounding like warmed over Derek & The Dominoes or, if we are really lucky, Delaney & Bonnie. Save yourself some money/disappointment and dust off or repurchase any of the old Cream recordings.