Cream rises to the top again

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:16 pm

Reported in the Vancouver Sun this Saturday. Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton are rehearsing for a 2 to 3 concert performance likely at the Royal Albert Hall in London.
Dinosaurs will walk the earth again and crush pissant, wannabe, latter day "rock bands" under their feet.

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:26 pm

You gonna grab tickets Ford? Thats a once in a... kind of thing no?

Instig8 · Post by **Instig8** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:37 pm

heard of clapton, but who are those others?

STRESSTEST · Post by **STRESSTEST** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:40 pm

[MS]Instig8 wrote:heard of clapton, but who are those others?

Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker sound like porn names

Pun · Post by **Pun** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 12:55 pm

Ginger Baker = drummer extraordinaire. Started the band "Cream" with Clapton. Bruce was in Cream too, I think.

TheCops · Post by **TheCops** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 2:01 pm

cream.
my favorite clapton playing next to the pros and cons of hitch hiking.

Beowulf · Post by **Beowulf** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 3:43 pm

Cream kicks ass

Ford Prefect · Post by **Ford Prefect** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:26 pm

Flabby Chick:

You gonna grab tickets Ford? Thats a once in a... kind of thing no?

In my dreams Flabby I'd meet you at the White Hart before heading down to the concert together.

We are each about 7,000 kilometers away from London so we could meet halfway.

Cream was:
Ginger Baker played drums
Jack Bruce played bass
Eric Clapton played guitar
Kids today! No sense of history.

Tales of Brave Ulysses

You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever,
But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the sun.
And the colours of the sea bind your eyes with trembling mermaids,
And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses,
How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing,
For the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips.
And you see a girl's brown body dancing through the turquoise,
And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea.
And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body,
Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind.
The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.
Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell,
And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands
With tales of brave Ulysses, how his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing.
The tiny purple fishes run lauging through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 5:39 pm

To think I was around when Cream was first hitting the scene. Problem was with my "High & Tight" marine haircut I wasn't haveing much luck with the hairy armpitted california girls (well thats not exactly true...there were a few gals looking for someone with tombstones in their eyes)

Clayman · Post by **Clayman** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:08 pm

[MS]Instig8 wrote:heard of clapton, but who are those others?

Unsung rock legends.

sheepdog · Post by **sheepdog** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 7:49 pm

woodchip wrote:there were a few gals looking for someone with tombstones in their eyes)

Oops! I'm thinking I shouldn't have been so quick to dismiss the mystery man.

Now, I'm curious. Gotta picture of you in your Cream days, Woodchip? C'mon give it up!

Thanks for those great lyrics FP. Really beautiful.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 8:27 pm

Yeah Margo, soon as I get my scanner hooked up I'll post a anthology.

Flabby Chick · Post by **Flabby Chick** » Sun Nov 14, 2004 10:11 pm

Woops! I forgot you were Canadian Ford.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Mon Nov 15, 2004 6:05 am

Ford Prefect wrote:

Tales of Brave Ulysses

You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever,
But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the sun.
And the colours of the sea bind your eyes with trembling mermaids,
And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses,
How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing,
For the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips.
And you see a girl's brown body dancing through the turquoise,
And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea.
And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body,
Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind.
The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.
Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell,
And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands
With tales of brave Ulysses, how his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing.
The tiny purple fishes run lauging through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.

From this we have "progressed" to ghetto rap. Sigh.

Instig8 · Post by **Instig8** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 12:40 am

Clapton looks so young in the pics that come along with that song. So, you all that remember of this must be really old, like dinosaurs, imho.

woodchip · Post by **woodchip** » Wed Nov 17, 2004 9:37 am

^ Whippersnapper