Sounds as if David could use a little blue pill... Love the bird’s expressions. “What the hell?”
The updated site is settling in nicely. There are tons of new features I’ve yet to roll out, and will do some here and there. I’ve got a cool little random quote rotation widget that I’m going to load up with all the “you rock” emails I get. Amazingly, I don’t get many “you suck” emails… now don’t start sending them just because I said so… I know you guys.
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Clapton may have been God in the day (still is, the old fart) but of his earlier works, it is Cream that I’m drawn to. For only having like, what, three studio albums, they made quite the mark on rock history. The certainly set the standard for power trios, that’s for sure. “Sunshine” is not my favorite song, that belongs to “White Room” and “I’m So Glad”. I love Jack Bruce’s voice and the fact that he plays a Gibson EB0 bass (apparently Bud does too).
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UPDATE: Okay, it seems I have once again shown my age with the mention of the Free Clinic. Maybe it’s a USA thing too, but it’s a free medical clinic. The first free clinic was founded in 1967. The Haight Ashbury Free Clinics during the summer of love in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco helped those tree-huggin’ hippies get over whatever it was they had just smoked or swallowed. In my era, if you got a sexual disease from some sleazy bar maiden, and you didn’t want Mom and Dad knowing about it, you went to a free clinic for some help. Here’s the Wikipedia article on it: click here. Don’t they teach this in History classes? Hmm…
Lol, nice strip today. Clapton was great in Cream. I actually preferred that John Mayall’s Bluesbreakers album if you really want to hear him rip. GREAT stuff! 🙂
Clapton was *always* an old fart 😛 As Brogan says, though, he still showed some signs of life with Mayall. And Sunshine of Your Love, for all its pretentious wankiness, did have that memorable riff that lives to this day…
Forget the birds – I love the snow-David’s expressions! Well done 🙂
Darn…I was just thinking of a “you suck” email and then I read the next line. Sigh. I guess I’ll stick with my “you Rock” notion.
Great Cream songs? Those would be Badge (for the phenomenal bass riff from Jack Bruce) and their incredible live take on Crossroads.
When people use the term “supergroup”, I always think of Cream first.
Love the facial expressions on the sculpture today as it melts away. The birds are priceless. Great strip as always. Maybe David needs a little blue snow to help get his snow cone factory back in shape. 🙂
Cream will always be singing “I Feel Free” in my head.
I saw ’em do the song on Top of the Pops when I was about 11 or so. Ginger baker was dressed as a Roman Legionary and was “playing” the drums with one stick and a short-sword. Ridiculous, but the harmonised bit in the middle is aces.
Nice bird expressions. Been studying old “Heckle and Jeckyl” artwork? (inspiration note, not plagiarism accusation there). David’s changing expression was great. I didn’t even see it on my first read-through. Very well done on the subtlety controls!
Cleverness abounds. Well done.
Panels 2 and 3 have be bowled over in stitches!! *LMAO* …that BIRD!
Clapton “modern” – “Bad Love” strikes me as one of the greats, with a classic riff too. “Forever Man” and “She’s Waiting” too. I think his modern stuff is equally as good, although more refined and mature (well we all get older and slower eh?) as his early stuff.
And Cream are still one of my all time fave’s. 😀
Though for some reason I find Strange Brew sticks on my mind a lot. Must be all that Gluten-free ale I drink, now that IS a strange brew! 😉
Bob — She’s Waiting is just about the only thing Clapton ever did that sounds like he was awake. For that matter, the whole Behind the Sun album. It was just the right ‘soundtrack’ for a Lost Summer of surfing in Cornwall 🙂
But yes, there’s something about Strange Brew. It’s got a weirdly wonky charm. The corners don’t meet, as it were, and it seems to be going too fast and too slow at the same time – like being on the ancient traditional cocaine-Jack Daniel-diazepam seesaw during an open-ended jam session. Ah, those were the days…if I had to choose a couple of Cream tracks that I liked enough to keep, I’d choose Strange Brew and White Room.
Just out of interest but does anyone remember the soundtrack that Clapton did with Eric Kamen (IIRC) to the BBC TV series “Edge of Darkness”?
I had the 12″ Single (Vinyl – remember those? 😉 ) and it was a fantastic haunting tune that really evoked all kinds of emotional responses, especially when combined with the amazing TV series itself. Bob Peck and Joe Don Baker starred.
I am aware that they’re remaking Edge of Darkness, but I can’t imagine it’ll be as good, nothing ever is eh?
Ah now, nostalgia ain’t what it used to be! 😉
Correction, just Googled it, Michael Kamen co-wrote the music.
I love the expressions on both David, and the birds’ faces. Brilliant.
However, although I get the gist of it, I’m not entirely sure what is meant by ‘free clinic’. Am I just grossly undereducated, or is it an American term? Perhaps it’s both.
perhaps some viagra? or is that what you meant by “free clinic”?
“I Feel Free” is the Cream song for me, altho as much as I loved them, I’ve never been a huge EC fan…
I do, however, think that if there was an Olympia inhabited only by bass players, Jack Bruce would be Zeus, absolutely… (couldn’t ya just see that? Maybe Chris Squire as Poseidon, Geezer Butler as Hades, Roger Glover as Hermes, John Entwistle as Hephaestus, John Paul Jones as Ares…)
I think that virtually everything that Bruce lent his playing & vocal talents to, was solid gold. My particular faves were BLT – his collaboration with Robin Trower & Bill Lordan in the early 80’s, & if you’re any kind of JB fan at all, check out BBM – “Around the Next Dream”: a lovely piece he did with Ginger Baker & Gary Moore on guitar from 1994. It rivals anything he did with Cream & I think is the best of anything he’s done.
Really like this one, but I think it reads even funnier backwards:
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LOL at Bogtrotter!
You’re right of course!
And how many of us ended up the evening with two birds on our “icicle”??
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Bet he lost his balls too if only he could talk saying Oh my balls oh my balls along with no weewee at least Lorraine can use an icicle as a strap on ride the snowman wooooo.