Eric Clapton said that he stopped playing during a Cream concert once, and neither Jack Bruce nor Ginger Baker even noticed he also characterized later Cream performances as the bandmembers showing off. Cream had better amplifiers toward the end, and Jack Bruce was pushing the volume up during concerts, so Ginger Baker was having difficulty getting his drums heard above the roar. As with the formation of Cream itself, Eric Clapton and Stevie Winwood were frustrated with their present bands. Eric Clapton had been trying to bring Stevie Winwood into Cream to act as a sort of buffer between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker – actually that probably wouldn't have worked out, since I heard that Baker and Winwood didn't get along in Blind Faith. īlind Faith formed shortly after the break-up of Cream. The third song, " I Want to Know " was credited to MacLeod, an evident reference to Paul Jones ' wife Sheila MacLeod Ten Years After included " I Want to Know " on their first album, Ten Years After that was released in late 1967. The artist on these two songs was listed as Eric Clapton & the Powerhouse. What's more, Cream later recorded two of the only three songs ever made by this assemblage, Robert Johnson 's " Crossroads " and an instrumental called " Steppin' Out " that Eric Clapton had previously performed while in John Mayall & the Bluesbreakers.
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This remarkable line-up included two members of Cream (and almost all three), plus two future members of Blind Faith (Clapton and Winwood ). Ginger Baker was originally slated to be the drummer for the group but was unavailable. Bandmembers included Eric Clapton (guitar) Jack Bruce (bass guitar) and Paul Jones (harmonica) from Manfred Mann Stevie Winwood (lead vocals) and Pete York (drums) from the Spencer Davis Group and Ben Palmer (piano), who had briefly been in a band with Clapton in 1965. To some extent at least, the formation of Cream grew out of an English all-star band called the Powerhouse that was assembled solely to provide music for a 1966 compilation album called What's Shakin' that announced the arrival of Elektra Records in Great Britain.
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