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Jack Bruce of West, Bruce & Laing performs on stage in 1973 in Copenhagen, Denmark. He plays a Gibson EB-3 bass guitar
“Unlike Jimi Hendrix, we never deliberately tuned down”: Listen to Jack Bruce’s bassline on Cream’s Politician

By Nick Wells Published

Jack Bruce wrote with Pete Brown for Cream’s third album, 1968’s Wheels of Fire

Bassists
Eric Clapton 'The Fool' Gibson SG
“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

By Matt Owen Published

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

Guitarists
Jimi Hendrix Jimi Hendrix 1970 performance of Machine Gun at the Fillmore East
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

By Matt Parker Published

“Jimi plugged into something cinematic, like a movie coming from his guitar”

Guitarists
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover Cream's Sunshine Of Your Love
Robert Fripp and Toyah Willcox cover Cream – as they get covered in cream

By Matt Parker Published

The couple take on Sunshine of Your Love with the help of dairy products

Music Releases
Eric Clapton
Learn the playing styles of every Eric Clapton era with this epic lesson

By Andy Saphir Published

Five EC pieces for the Slowhand in training...

Lessons
Marcus King plays Paul Kossoff's 1955 Gibson Les Paul Custom
Watch Marcus King play a 1955 Gibson Les Paul Custom once owned by Paul Kossoff and Eric Clapton

By Jonathan Horsley Published

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

Electric Guitars
Jack Bruce
A piece of bass history has been listed on Reverb

By Nick Wells Published

What do you mean, you don’t have $7,250 for an original Gibson EB-1?

Bass Guitars
The rock group MC5 (L-R Dennis "Machine Gun" Thompson, Wayne Kramer, Fred "Sonic" Smith and Rob Tyner) perform live in 1969 in Mount Clemens, Michigan
The 20 heaviest songs before Black Sabbath

By Richard Bienstock Last updated

Behold, gentle reader, a sizzlin’ slew of down and dirty tracks that helped forge heavy metal

Music Releases
Jack Bruce
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”

By Joel McIver Last updated

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

Bassists
Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix and Eric Clapton were at the forefront of guitar culture in the '60s
The greatest guitar albums of the ‘60s: From Beatlemania to Electric Ladyland, a rock ’n’ roll revolution takes shape

By Total Guitar editors Last updated

As chosen by you, here are the albums that defined guitar music in the swinging ‘60s, featuring the Beatles, Cream and some guy named Hendrix... He could play

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