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Cream Redux

Cream has a reunion tour booked, or perhaps not a tour – looks like the only dates are set for Madison Square Garden. I logged a lot of hours with Fresh Cream and Disraeli Gears, but never saw the band live, and would almost acquire a mortgage to pay the price for the reunion concert (which for me would include a jet to NYC and a night at the Mayfair. If you look at the reunion tour writeup at onlineseats.com, you'll see two photos, the second of which, aligned right with Cream's bio, looks suspiciously like Queen.

I had a bit of a senior moment when I saw the Cream tour info, trying to figure out which member of the band had died. Naw, they're all still more or less alive. Jack Bruce turned up on Rising Low, Phish bassist Mike Gordon's excellent documentary about Allen Woody of Gov't Mule, organized around the recording of a tribute album/DVD recorded by Mule with Woody's favorite bass players sitting in for him. Mule was another great power trio in the Cream tradition (but with Southern Rock roots via history with the Allman Brothers).

jon posted this at 3:34 PM
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