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Great singer too.
Jack Bruce wrote much of Cream's material, was a fantastic bass player and musician,. He had an operatic type voice which was unusual. He had looked seriously ill for a long time and I didn't know he had suffered liver cancer, but he had lost a huge amount of weight when I saw him on tv a few years ago. RIP Jack Bruce.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BGcdnF-lKuc
RIP Jack Bruce but hey what a legacy to leave behind.
R.I.P. Jack, thanks for all the beautiful music.
r.i.p.
Thanks for the music Jack.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzcPVCzfZMM
He certainly had a liver transplant a few years back [ heavy boozing ? } and has looked unwell for a few years.
Correctly pointed out that Jack 's singing technique was unusual in the Rock world in that he was trained in the operatic style and sang from the gut rather than the throat, this meant he was LOUD and long gruelling US tours never tired out his voicebox .
He famously got on really badly with Ginger Baker, and it will be interesting to see if Ginger will find anything nice to say about him.
I shall play Songs For A Tailor in memory of Jack.
'Theme for an imaginary western' and 'To Isengard' several times (though that's not to do down the rest of the album).
I wish I was still in contact with the person who knew him and also roadie'd for him in the 60's up to Cream. I've said elsewhere before that he has endless tales of those days, first in Scotland, then at The Marquee etc (especially some almost unbelievable Bruce/Baker tales if you didn't know about their relationship). Never thought at the time to jot any of it down, it was just (very interesting) pub chat ...
Love the story of Jack, Ginger and Eric while on a Scottish leg of of a tour , driving up to Fort William and hoofing it up Ben Nevis [ no mean feat ] having a few recreational spliffs at the top , and , laughing like maniacal loons, running all the way back down again.
Lonnie Mack was doing it long before JB . as usual it was taken from america and passed off as original in the uk !
R.I.P Jack Bruce , a Cracking musican .
He wasn't either well known or influential in the UK during the 63-65 period when he first struck out with that style. Mayall's trainee gutarists were only shortly behind him with strapping solos in a proto-psych style to blues, both with the Bluesbreakers and their subsequent Yardbirds etc. And you can trace the development of solos through the Merseybeat sound and R&B and their influence on guitarists anyway.
Not a scientific conclusion, but ...
I've only had time for a short look, and Clapton, Beck, Mayall etc barely mention him, and not at all as an early influence.
Unfortunately I can't lay my hands on the two best books on British blues right now, but I don't recall him being mentioned at all. Interestingly, his biogs and other references in books up to the mid-90s don't make much of his influence either - although they do mention his different style. You'd have thought more would have been made of it if.
That's not to say the point that we nicked it all from the US isn't true of course
To be honest, I don't think wild horses would have dragged Bruce and Baker back on stage together.
I am merely pointing out that Lonnie Mack was doing that style before Jack Bruce , it doesnt matter how popular he was or that he was relatively uknown.
you cannot say someone pioneered something when there were people doing it a long time before you.
But at least we can agree on the stealing it all from america
No thats very probably right.!;-)
I wonder if his lowly public position in the scheme of things (because he clearly should have a higher profile) was due to his unwillingness to play the showbiz game?
Anyone who can channel 'Telstar', Hank Marvin on speed and the Amboy Dukes version of 'Baby Please Don't Go' (not to be recorded until 5 years later and obviously influenced by it) in 'Wham' deserves far better treatment by history.
Glad nobody's pointed out he wasn't a bass player