Cream- The First Dream Team

England 1966, a band consisting of the first super trio, Cream, was created.  With vocalist- Jack Bruce, drummer- Ginger Baker, and the ever famous guitar legend- Eric Clapton, the group soared to the top of the blues rock and hard rock industry in England.  The band's first studio album "Fresh Cream," was a success with songs like "I Feel Free," but the group's second album, "Disraeli Gears," was far more popular. 

Their second album, released in November of 1967, is definitely one of the better Cream albums.  The songs are superior to those on "Fresh Cream,"lyrically and I personally think that the overall musicianship is better.  With songs including the very popular "Sunshine Of Your Love," and "Outside Woman Blues," the album was a huge success.

There are a few things I'd like to say about this video: first- Ginger Baker looks like a red haired caveman with his mouth open like that throughout the video and second: this certain video has an amazing Clapton solo about halfway through the song; during this solo not only does Clapton shred on the guitar, Bruce also kills the bass part as well.

Songs like "We're Going Wrong" and "Outside Women Blues" also showcase Clapton's supreme guitar skills.  Although in "We're Going Wrong" he only has about five, 8 second solos, they are extremely skillfully played and preformed.  In "We're Going Wrong," Clapton and the guitar play a more involved role within this piece sounding just as amazing.

Even though the band unfortunately was disbanded in 1969, the extremely talented group gave the world 4 full length studio albums.  And not only was the band popular by themselves, some could say that they launched Clapton's very successful solo career as well.

-Brooks Gonzales