The Jack Bruce Memorial Play List

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Rope Ladder to the Moon - the 1971 documentary - about 50 min.
Jack revisits Glasgow, footage of the Songs for a Tailor/Harmony Row band and the Things We Like band.



Note the delightfully eccentric Chris Spedding on guitar.
 
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Jack with Graham Bond and Ginger Baker as the GBs in Ernest Ranglin and the GBs - Swing-a-ling - 1964



Ernest Ranglin is pretty interesting in and of himself.
 

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Jack with Eric Clapton and The Power House - Crossroads - 1966



Eric Clapton – guitar
Steve Winwood (as Steve Anglo) – vocals
Paul Jones – harmonica
Jack Bruce – bass
Pete York – drums
Ben Palmer – piano
 

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OK. It is time to put this thread in the grave. Jack's funeral is today.

I still really haven't gotten started, but all things must come to an end. I set out to prove that Cream was only two years of Jack's life and that there was a lot more to Jack than Cream, some of it, including the Cream reunion (better playing when you are not stoned out of your mind and are actually listening to other band members, eh?), was a lot better than the original Cream. I hope that the point has been made and that the making was not too boring - 922 views to date for the thread, 39 or so will be mine, and only two commentators.

So as a send off for Mr. Bruce, let's look at his last stuff from and related to his Silver Rails album:

Fields of Forever - the chorus of which was chosen by Jack's family for his epitaph on the official Jack Bruce site.



Reach for the Night

http://youtu.be/ss1fIDEKSdM

Keep it Down - revisited, originally from the Out of the Storm Album - Jack claimed it was his anti-heroin song.

http://youtu.be/ARTf9_VxArI

No Surrender - revisited, originally from the Life on Earth album

http://youtu.be/sIvShxFp4Vg

Rusty Lady - a song for Margaret Thatcher

http://youtu.be/5dZ5L_XpgZA

One of the last interviews with Jack, one promoting the Silver Rails album:

http://youtu.be/zZ5R5NTCcso?list=PLGc7A7EuvDEoX93BFv_B9eD0sxdIqPZT 7

Bye Jack.

Edit: One final interesting factoid here. Marvin Gaye asked Jack to go to the US with him and join his band. Jack declined because he had just gotten engaged to Janet Godfrey. He then quit Graham Bond's Organization and joined Manfred Mann for the money; he wanted to buy a house for his new wife - there wasn't so much money playing with Bond. Had Jack gone with Marvin ..... a butterfly flaps its wings and ......

Edit: as a further send off, I offer Miles Davis's dirge/elegy for Duke Ellington., He Loved Him Madly It seems more appropriate than Chopin, and I think it has Mr. McLaughlin on guitar - Jack paid for McLaughlin's airline ticket to the US. The Davis piece sets the mood - Davis doesn't come in on trumpet until about the end of part 1 below. His playing is haunting.

Part 1:

http://youtu.be/oruMn8jIL7w

Part 2:

http://youtu.be/nxRZ6u9Hlzg
 
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