Jack Bruce

[rogerstodge]

Jack Bruce live in concert, sky channel 192 CLTV tonight at midnight if anyone’s interested.

[Austin7]

I would love to watch that if I could get that channel. Jack Bruce was one of a kind.  My favorite bassist, actually.  

[mikel]

/\  Agreed. What a tone he got from his Gibson playing live with Cream. 

[Dood]

I very nearly interviewed Jack. It was so close to happening that I had his home address and the date was planned to meet with my camera team and his publicist. Sadly, just a day before he had to pull out of the interview. Even more sadly, soon after Jack passed away. 

[Cosmo Valdemar]

I love Jack Bruce. I think I actually love his singing more than his bass playing, which is saying something!

Never had much time for Cream though. Clapton's fault.

[Delberthot]

Fantastic - Listening to SWLABR at the moment. A huge inspiration to me when I was learning to play. 

[White Cloud]

Big love for Jack Bruce... the man!

[julesb]

His early solo albums are astonishingly good. Criminally overlooked.

Songs for a tailor

Harmony Row

Out of the storm

[MWH]

13 minutes ago, julesb said:

His early solo albums are astonishingly good. Criminally overlooked.

Songs for a tailor

Harmony Row

Out of the storm

i no longer have any albums, if you were to recommend his best album, which would it be ?

[julesb]

1 minute ago, MWH said:

i no longer have any albums, if you were to recommend his best album, which would it be ?

Those three I listed are brilliant and all worth having and cherishing.

[chris_b]

On a gig, in any genre, JB always gave 110%.

I bought Songs For  A Taylor and Harmony Row (he started to lose me after that) and saw JB with Tony Williams Lifetime, at the Marquee, and with John Walters big band all over London (all exciting gigs). Didn't buy any Cream records though. After seeing the gigs the recordings didn't do them justice.

[NoRhino]

I stood beside him, shoulder to shoulder, in a queue at Stansted airport and was too shy to speak with him. 

[T-Bay]

He was my inspiration to learn Bass. Although not a massive cream fan compared to some, sunshine of your love is just epic. I remember as a kid in the late seventies seeing some old footage of him playing it (may have been for the beeb but not sure), with Ginger really going for it and it was amazing. The first bassline I learned was that one, sadly a couple of decades later than I wish it had been.

[goingdownslow]

Where was the concert, who was he playing with?

[Bilbo]

I have modelled my sound on the sound JB had on Cozy Powell's Over The Top LP. Bought an Aria SB700 because he endorsed the range (before I knew how all THAT works). Just a lovely musician. 

[rogerstodge]

18 minutes ago, goingdownslow said:

Where was the concert, who was he playing with?

I’m not sure, it didn’t say much just Jack Bruce in concert, I’ve recorded it, will watch it later

[scrumpymike]

JB has always been one of my bass heroes too.  The first band I played in as a teenager did mainly Cream and Hendrix stuff and won the local Youth Music Festival with Sunshine (yours truly on bass & lead vocals!!) - great memories ☺️

[BassBod]

Best gig I ever saw JB fronting Norman Beaker’s band, with a few extras...Band on the Wall, Dec 1984.  I spent the next few years hunting out his solo work, which was almost impossible outside of secondhand shops 😳.  Stigwood really stiffed him! 

[rogerstodge]

It was Canterbury Fayre 2002.

bass overpowered the lead guitar... thank god...  he’s a proper shredder.

[dmccombe7]

Jack Bruce was probably my biggest influence yrs ago when i was learning. Over The Top and few other session albums he did were fantastic.

Had the good fortune to see him at our local pub venue (held 300 people) during the 80's with Clem Clempson on guitar think it was simply called Jack Bruce and Friends tour.

He was so loud the local police station a mile away complained of the noise. It was a summer evening and the venue had all the windows open. They had to close the windows but Jack was just phenomenal on bass and vocals. Using his Warwick fretless at that time too if i remember right. I have some of the official pics that were taken at the gig.

Also great with B.L.T. Bought that album and it was quite a powerful trio.

Dave  

[spongebob]

Love JB.

There's a great CD/stream/download called 'Spirit'. Takes you through a lot of BBC live stuff right through the 70's. Really good, and broad as well. Bass work is, as you'd expect, a lesson from start to finish.

I've been working my way through his solo records since I first heard it. Up until that point, I knew about Cream and his early work, but was quite in the dark about how much he'd packed in since. Very eye-opening.

I'm a big fan of his 'How's Tricks' album. The title track alone, is sublime.

[4000]

 

Recorded this concert off the BBC onto Betamax (!) back in the day and watched it endlessly. Sadly the tape and the machine are long gone....

 

I think he was the first fretless player I'd ever really listened to. I remember his tone freaked me out at the time.....

[4000]

On 11/09/2018 at 21:29, Cosmo Valdemar said:

I think I actually love his singing more than his bass playing, which is saying something!

Me too actually. He's probably one of my favourite singers. 

[dmccombe7]

Anyone know what bass he's using in that clip. Its like a Warwick with Di Marzio PJ pick up config. 

Dave

Edit to say i think it might be an early Spector bass ?

Edited September 13, 2018 by dmccombe7

[4000]

Correct. Early Spector.