Did anyone go... what was is like?
This was a review a friend emailed
"Cream at the Albert Hall - and they were very, very good.
Inevitably, they were a diminished version of their former selves. There was less of the brutal physicality that used to be their hallmark. Bruce periodically reclined against a high stool, songs such as Crossroads were taken at a slower lick. They are not young men, and they were not playing, as they once did, as if their lives depended on it.
But they were never less than good, often brilliant, occasionally inspired. And they got better as the night went on. White Room was massive, glorious.
Many reunions are tawdry, half-baked affairs. But this one was different, special. It didn't quite live up to the expectation, but still: in years to come, I'll be able to say with pride: Cream, Albert Hall, 2005. I was there. "
I wish I was there...
Originally posted by Tirau DanHe shouldn't forget that the late sixties was a very different era from today. What could "drive" them in the same way now? Their music was fixed to that period and was never written for posterity.
"There was less of the brutal physicality that used to be their hallmark...songs such as Crossroads were taken at a slower lick...and they were not playing, as they once did, as if their lives depended on it..."