Alternative Take on Led Zeppelin Rumors by Cream's Jack Bruce
Classic Rock magazine's Dave Ling grabbed Jack Bruce, Cream's bassist, for an interview. What followed was an anti-Led Zeppelin tirade. Excerpt below:
Classic Rock: The million dollar question: Are Cream going to do anything again?
Jack Bruce: Oh yeah, I'm sure we will. But we'll have Todd Rundgren [who's just walked by] in the band by then.
Classic Rock: It's good news that there might be more from Cream.
Jack Bruce: Well, the trouble is that I'm doing so many amazing things on my own. Cream is just a band from many, many years ago, and we did do something [referring to the reunion shows in 2005]… Everybody talks about Led Zeppelin, and they played one fucking gig — one fucking lame gig — while Cream did weeks of gigs; proper gigs, not just a lame gig like Zeppelin did, with all the [vocal] keys lowered and everything. We played everything in the original keys. [Becoming animated]: Fuck off, Zeppelin, you're crap. You've always been crap and you'll never be anything else. The worst thing is that people believe the crap that they're sold. Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is.
Classic Rock: That's a bold opinion.
Jack Bruce: What? You're gonna compare Eric Clapton with that fucking Jimmy Page? Would you really compare that?
Classic Rock: To be fair, they're different kinds of player, aren't they?
Jack Bruce: No! Eric 's good and Jimmy 's crap. And with that I rest my case.
Wow who pissed in his cereal? I like Classic Rock's attempt at being democratic. "To be fair, they're different kinds of player, aren't they?" Their diplomatic attempt got that awesome quote from Bruce "No! Eric's good and Jimmy's crap."
I think Bruce is just pissed off that their recycled blues licks didn't sell as well as Led Zeppelin's recycled blues riffs.
Classic Rock: The million dollar question: Are Cream going to do anything again?
Jack Bruce: Oh yeah, I'm sure we will. But we'll have Todd Rundgren [who's just walked by] in the band by then.
Classic Rock: It's good news that there might be more from Cream.
Jack Bruce: Well, the trouble is that I'm doing so many amazing things on my own. Cream is just a band from many, many years ago, and we did do something [referring to the reunion shows in 2005]… Everybody talks about Led Zeppelin, and they played one fucking gig — one fucking lame gig — while Cream did weeks of gigs; proper gigs, not just a lame gig like Zeppelin did, with all the [vocal] keys lowered and everything. We played everything in the original keys. [Becoming animated]: Fuck off, Zeppelin, you're crap. You've always been crap and you'll never be anything else. The worst thing is that people believe the crap that they're sold. Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is.
Classic Rock: That's a bold opinion.
Jack Bruce: What? You're gonna compare Eric Clapton with that fucking Jimmy Page? Would you really compare that?
Classic Rock: To be fair, they're different kinds of player, aren't they?
Jack Bruce: No! Eric 's good and Jimmy 's crap. And with that I rest my case.
Wow who pissed in his cereal? I like Classic Rock's attempt at being democratic. "To be fair, they're different kinds of player, aren't they?" Their diplomatic attempt got that awesome quote from Bruce "No! Eric's good and Jimmy's crap."
I think Bruce is just pissed off that their recycled blues licks didn't sell as well as Led Zeppelin's recycled blues riffs.
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11/5/2008 5:28 PM
Blogs N' Roses wrote:
Jack Bruce recently had an animated response about Led Zeppelin, read all about it here. A Detroit Rock Station decided to call up Bruce and get him to clarify his statements. Here is what he said:"I was just having some fun with the press gallery, really," he said. "[I was being] fairly tongue in cheek, but it's also the truth…. I mean, obviously, those gigs that we did are now three years ago, so it's ancient history now. And they did do that gig, but they also hijacked that gig 'cause that was supposed to be a tribute for Ahmet ...
I wonder what he thinks about The Beatles?
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