Latest about Cream
“It’s hard to think who the greatest bass players are. You could say Flea, but he doesn’t need the plug!” Jack Bruce on the bass players that shaped his sound
Back in 2010, we asked Cream bassist Jack Bruce to nominate five albums that influenced his bass playing
“Unlike Jimi Hendrix, we never deliberately tuned down”: Listen to Jack Bruce’s bassline on Cream’s Politician
Jack Bruce wrote with Pete Brown for Cream’s third album, 1968’s Wheels of Fire
“One of the most influential sounds in rock history”: Eric Clapton’s iconic ‘Fool’ Gibson SG, which was key to his trademark ‘woman tone’, has emerged – and it’s going up for auction
The ’64 SG became an enduring symbol of the psychedelic era, Clapton's Cream career, and the harmonically rich ‘woman tone’ – and it could become one the most expensive guitars ever to sell at auction
One of the greatest guitar performances of all time: new colorized footage of Jimi Hendrix’s extended 1970 performance of Machine Gun at the Fillmore East emerges
“Jimi plugged into something cinematic, like a movie coming from his guitar”
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover Cream – as they get covered in cream
The couple take on Sunshine of Your Love with the help of dairy products
Learn the playing styles of every Eric Clapton era with this epic lesson
Five EC pieces for the Slowhand in training...
Watch Marcus King play a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Custom once owned by Paul Kossoff and Eric Clapton
King was on tour in France when super-collector Matthieu Lucas of Matt’s Guitar Shop dropped by with a very special single-cut in tow
A piece of bass history has been listed on Reverb
What do you mean, you don’t have $7,250 for an original Gibson EB-1?
The 20 heaviest songs before Black Sabbath
Behold, gentle reader, a sizzlin’ slew of down and dirty tracks that helped forge heavy metal
Jack Bruce: “Jimi Hendrix regarded the guitar as an extension of himself. But in an instrumental sense, I would argue that Eric Clapton was probably better”
In this classic 2003 interview, the pioneering bass guitarist and rock legend talks Cream, explains why Clapton was better than Hendrix and confesses his love for gangsta rap
