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