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IMO Clapton was the best Rock guitarist on the planet at this time.. ok maybe Jimi, but Eric is brilliant here!

Ginger Baker is like a buffalo stampede...driving this song with primal thunder and a huge part of the musicology of this performance.

Jack gets microphone shock at 2.45

Just a crushing blue’s classic sung by Eric who brought Ginger and Jack along on a 16 minute trip........

Cream actually paid for this song. Imagine that!

We were kids of 16 years old and we had heard Clapton and heard him with John Mayall and the Yardbirds and it was quite time to be a teenager. Cream changed the we listened to music. Nobody talked about musicians liked we talked about Clapton, he was an exceptional musician. It is a pleasure to listen to this epic even over 50 years later!

Spoonful is my favorite song by Cream; this version is magnificent. Sends chills down my spine after all these years.

Still marvellous '23 😎 🇬🇧 RIP

Beyond classic! Both the UK and US pressings of these two releases are a must have been if you're a Cream fan. There is a French TV "live" version of "Spoonful" on RUclips if you want to see an even more flawless rendition.

Jack and Eric are Battleships. Ginger is the Ocean.

The first time I heard this I didn't really appreciate it. I had listened a lot to Ten Years After Recorded Live and Undead, and I was not prepared for the free form structure that develops in this song as well as Cream Live Vol. I NSU and Sweet Wine. However, it is a great song for a guitarist who wants to practice improvising in E pentatonic. But this song in particular became something of a transcendent experience for me, as you listen to Ginger Baker, he seems to put you in a meditative state of mind. I found myself never wanting this song to end.

Deadly boring!

Heavy Metal Music before it's inception. The Wild Animal Energy of these guys is still beautiful, still powerful.

Why is it that every other band that attempts this song ends up sounding "hokey?" EC, JB, and GB are the ONLY guys who can take a blues song and play it raw, with fire and intensity. Each one of them drives the other....at times you can hear Jack pushing, then Ginger, then Eric, taking the band into a new direction. If you're not sitting on the edge of your seat listening to this you have no feelings whatsoever. Cream wraps you up and takes you on a maelstrom ride......hang on !!!!

Oxo Beppo...

Its between this version and the 1968 Live at The LA Forum for #1 spot

Not only singing voice but listen to those bass licks he's pulling off while singing. Not exactly a walking bass line.

Back when Clapton could really play!@# And the whole band WAS AMAZING! Jack Bruce's lead bass playing and of course Ginger Baker's propulsive drumming....one of the best of all time IMHO!@#

Still great music, to listen and jam to, many years later… classic…

the best version.. I've been listening to it all my life

Fu k me. Listen to that guitar. Jesus.

When I first heard this in 1968 it blew me away. In two weeks I turn 70. Guess what? It still blows me away. 😆

Das ist wirklich in meinem Leben, das beste, was ich je gehört habe

1969 Filmore just imagine sitting in your chair listening to this !!!

borrowing a phrase from DH Lawrence about Walt Whitman......Cream were "...camped out alone, way beyond everybody...."

first time I got high...

Clapton is on fucking fire on this track

Baker was a maniac.

Then he did shit like Layla. I lost interest.

Clapton at his best till he joined the delany & bony US shite.

Two's company they say, but this threesome will always be the Cream of the Crop, just phenomenal the musical chemistry & intuition between these legends, nobody has ever topped this, not even 'Joe Bonamassa et al' , he's so close though.🎶🎸 😊 ❤️ 🔥🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🎶🎸🍀🐶✨👋👋👋👋👋

Great Rock!!!!!!!!!!!!

Jack Bruce was outstanding on bass too, geezer Butler said when he saw cream play he switched from guitar to bass because of jack bruce

Bass at 14:50 forward is classic Jack Bruce.

Hot Tuna did a little take on this jam on their song "Keep Your Light Trimmed and Burning" Play 2 RUclips channels of this & that at the same time, they go right together.

Bruce tends to run right over Clapton and even Baker, but they both fight right back brilliantly. Clapton leads the way into the very best parts.

Right after this came out, I listened to it enough time to work out a pretty good cover of the lead & bass parts, to my parent's dismay.

Get a stack of 8 Marshall amps, two with 18" Lansings, and play this track thru them in stereo at close to full volume. Sit 25 ft away. 14 years old. Insane. So glad I didn't drop the windowpane.

Excelente cover.

Eric Clapton is something else. You know you so lo amazingly if you can replay it backwards and it still holds up. That's his genius imo

I still have this on vinyl, and even now after all these years, I still get an eargasm!

Favourite track on the third of my most favourite albums... This, beggars banquet and Abbey Road. Captain beefheart doesn't make it because I only really liked one track.

Stands the test of time doesn't it?

No creo que haya una improvisación como esta en la historia del rock.

The sound of Guitar Is stratospheric

The G.O.A.T

This is just the best, ever ... Listen to it and just focus on Eric, then listen again and focus on Jack, then again and focus on Ginger. Unbelievable playing. And then listen to the sublime whole. Music for the gods by the gods.

I had the good fortune to see them when they came to Des Moines on their goodbye tour. I am a drummer and I sat listening to Ginger Baker the entire concert with my mouth open because I could not believe the rhythm patterns he was laying down. This song has been one of my favorites ever since. We wont ever see the like again, because if it is over 4 minutes, a radio station will either edit it down or refuse to play it. And that is sad.

fun fact: just listen Black Sabbath's Warning on 4:32, made my day

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