<![CDATA[ Latest from Guitar Player in Cream ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/tag/cream Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:56:39 +0000 en <![CDATA[ “We were really limited onstage.” Eric Clapton on the group he said achieved what Cream could not ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/we-were-really-limited-onstage-eric-clapton-on-the-group-he-said-achieved-what-cream-could-not tPJYhQk83vQavv8GA2eFXf Tue, 31 Mar 2026 11:56:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Let’s stop playing this rubbish.” The night Jimi Hendrix hijacked live TV — and got himself banned ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/when-jimi-hendrix-was-blacklisted-by-the-bbc 9nYBUFZhkzE7EgTgePkanZ Tue, 17 Mar 2026 19:26:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I wanted Eric for a bit of moral support. I think it was the same reason he asked me to play on that session.” George Harrison on the time Eric Clapton asked for a little help from his friend ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/i-wanted-eric-for-a-bit-of-moral-support-i-think-it-was-the-same-reason-he-asked-me-to-play-on-that-session-george-harrison-on-the-time-eric-clapton-asked-for-a-little-help-from-his-friend BdmL2P2rKpZRMGeedt8Fzm Mon, 02 Feb 2026 18:26:28 +0000 <![CDATA[ “When he showed up and did it all for real, it burst my bubble. I was pissed for a little while.” How Eric Clapton survived rock guitar‘s most transformative eraand found his way to the blues ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/how-eric-clapton-survived-jimi-hendrix DfKtxMLrxZVbjJ7LTCCC4W Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:04:48 +0000 Fri, 09 Jan 2026 17:08:10 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I wouldn't be at all surprised if we weren't lost at that point in the song.” The Cream track Eric Clapton doesn’t like — even though it’s the key to his legend as a guitar virtuoso ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/music/the-cream-song-eric-clapton-doesnt-like-though-some-call-it-the-greatest-of-all ioDc8xqcQCMsaAsSMmewYM Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:06:12 +0000 Mon, 01 Dec 2025 14:06:33 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I’d put this tape on and go into another world. It became my drug.” Eric Clapton on the group he wanted to join so badly that he broke up Cream ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/id-put-this-tape-on-and-go-into-another-world-it-became-my-drug-eric-clapton-on-the-american-group-he-wanted-to-join-so-badly-that-he-broke-up-cream ufh6E4tej6aTTPGyeNpbV7 Fri, 31 Oct 2025 15:45:31 +0000 Sat, 01 Nov 2025 10:04:12 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I never liked all those Les Paul guitars screaming and distorting.” George Harrison on the guitarist who changed music's landscape in the 1960s — and why he wasn't a fan of what followed ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/george-harrison-on-eric-clapton-and-cream-copyists hEKmfwFTAm9JiVP6jUHWq Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:13:22 +0000 Wed, 15 Oct 2025 21:14:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ “When we broke up, I went into that dark place. I didn’t give a s**t about the music anymore.” The breakup that nearly made Eric Clapton quit music ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/eric-clapton-on-nearly-quitting-music-after-derek-and-the-dominos WDZcj9R4AogUDojmwVXyNk Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:09:42 +0000 Thu, 02 Oct 2025 13:25:25 +0000 <![CDATA[ “The guitar sounded like a voice, the voice sounded like a guitar — I didn’t know what was up.” Leslie West on Eric Clapton, the album that inspired Mountain — and the bassist who refused to make the group a power trio ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/leslie-west-how-eric-clapton-and-cream-inspired-mountain dtb5grsARsswLaM5acLw5f Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:15:05 +0000 Mon, 22 Sep 2025 15:28:14 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It was magic. We were just jamming that day, but blues were very common to all of us.” Jack Bruce on the day he met Eric Clapton and how the guitarist changed his way of listening and playing ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/when-eric-clapton-met-jack-bruce-and-the-formation-of-cream NxPYAoo74e7DfS9hLcWicc Mon, 04 Aug 2025 15:41:17 +0000 <![CDATA[ “There was silence. Jack said, ‘How much do you know?’” Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker wanted to keep Cream a secret. A record project nearly blew their cover ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/how-paul-jones-nearly-blew-creams-cover mJDZfjdiKw2mddiARqosm3 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 15:41:27 +0000 Thu, 17 Jul 2025 16:06:07 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Though they had their roots in blues, they were going somewhere else.” Jethro Tull's Ian Anderson says Eric Clapton and Cream are the birthplace of prog rock ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/ian-anderson-on-cream-and-prog-rock YLKTRLnHzQJ826Zd69Q2B5 Sat, 28 Jun 2025 13:51:09 +0000 <![CDATA[ An acoustic guitar owned by George Harrison and Eric Clapton — with a Beatles and Cream connection — is being sold for $1 million ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitars/an-acoustic-guitar-owned-by-george-harrison-and-eric-clapton-with-a-beatles-and-cream-connection-is-being-sold-for-usd1-million RKkaGxkAUet2c6zLaYMTan Fri, 16 May 2025 10:54:05 +0000 Sat, 17 May 2025 13:45:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Eric never asked for the guitar back. He was happy that I was enjoying it and using it onstage.” When Albert Lee received a Les Paul Custom from Eric Clapton, he had no idea how much history it held ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/albert-lee-and-eric-claptons-1958-les-paul-custom Zm3nQjqNpEUcoWRb6wwht9 Wed, 26 Mar 2025 18:20:44 +0000 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:19:18 +0000 <![CDATA[ “He felt that he would never be his own man.” Rory Gallagher rejected the chance to bring Cream back from the dead when Eric Clapton left the group in 1968 ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/why-rory-gallagher-rejected-cream p762s7uPs4w2Jxf38BTYyA Wed, 05 Mar 2025 13:01:53 +0000 Tue, 11 Mar 2025 16:29:43 +0000 <![CDATA[ “ZZ Top didn’t just happen upon becoming a trio because it was easier; it’s a lot more challenging.” Billy Gibbons explains the role Cream and Jimi Hendrix played in the creation of ZZ Top ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/billy-gibbons-on-hendrix-cream-and-power-trios oUxKip9cVzZ4sWHHKQPiUf Thu, 06 Feb 2025 19:43:00 +0000 <![CDATA[ “Eric thought he was going to have this little blues trio and be like Buddy Guy. We had different ideas." Jack Bruce on how Eric Clapton was the odd man out in Cream ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/guitarists/jack-bruce-on-eric-clapton-the-blues-and-cream MQDiciDfNcPCTxdU93sLv8 Sun, 19 Jan 2025 20:56:25 +0000 Tue, 22 Apr 2025 08:19:10 +0000 <![CDATA[ “He let everyone know he was the new dangerous kid on the block. It started me on a relentless mission to find out just who this man was”: Eric Clapton reveals the guitarist that inspired him to quit the Bluesbreakers and form Cream ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/eric-clapton-on-buddy-guy-and-cream kNZBKALvx9KCULxDXmwGFb Tue, 19 Nov 2024 17:17:53 +0000 <![CDATA[ "They sort of appear as if they are out there in the air. The best ones do. But I don’t know how they get there." David Gilmour talks soloing in Guitar Player's guide to the Greatest Guitar Solos of All Time ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/the-greatest-guitar-solos-of-all-time gviGFZB7g47jARwMjHQS8g Sun, 27 Oct 2024 18:09:56 +0000 Tue, 23 Sep 2025 10:24:52 +0000 <![CDATA[ “A roadie plugged the wah in the wrong way, and I stomped into it and got this incredible screaming noise”: Pink Floyd's Echoes marked David Gilmour's emergence as a guitar hero – and its surreal tonal highlight was created by accident ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/david-gilmour-echoes-tone mgPGHhKKbLvUYepvwTEqCD Sat, 12 Oct 2024 18:45:34 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:08:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I played anything I wanted to play… it reminded me that music first has to be fun." See Pete Townshend and David Gilmour team up to perform tracks by the Who, Arthur 'Big Boy' Crudup, Screamin' Jay Hawkins and more in 1985 ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/townshend-gilmour-deep-end o6DfKFjuuM5anosEHxkuGZ Mon, 30 Sep 2024 14:19:31 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:10:26 +0000 <![CDATA[ “It's all about Bach and Beck. Before Beck, guitars used to just go ‘twang.’ Then they learned to sustain and scream and impersonate a woman’s voice and imitate brass instruments." The career and influences of Steve Hackett in five songs ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/its-all-about-bach-and-beck-before-beck-guitars-used-to-just-go-twang-then-they-learned-to-sustain-and-scream-and-impersonate-a-womans-voice-and-imitate-brass-instruments-the-career-and-influences-of-steve-hackett-in-five-songs wvUERZAS4HmF4px9Fx8No3 Tue, 19 Dec 2023 17:49:02 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:08:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ "I Was 19 When I Left the Yardbirds. I Intended to Give Up Then, but John Mayall Offered Me a Job... I Needed the Bread, and Some Kind of Identity Too': Cream's Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce Discuss Balancing Blues, Jazz, and Volume in 1967 GP Interview ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/cream-june-1967-interview shQnGHsi89mLFxm56QCKvZ Tue, 05 Sep 2023 22:04:24 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:10:26 +0000 <![CDATA[ “I Did Not Dream That the 808 Would Become so Famous”: Tube Screamer Inventor Susumu Tamura Tells the Definitive Story of This Iconic Stompbox ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/tube-screamer-susumu-tamura CYLai9ooZ9GbpB8epriUK6 Wed, 12 Jul 2023 10:43:02 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:08:38 +0000 <![CDATA[ Ten Mind-Blowing Rock Guitar Solos Every Player Needs to Know About ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/best-rock-guitar-solos kfjJf3vrWtbq7DGJAXhZiG Thu, 29 Jun 2023 17:58:41 +0000 <![CDATA[ The Fender Vibratone Brought Acid-Tinged Sonics to Recordings by Jimi Hendrix, the Byrds, Cream, Pink Floyd, Todd Rundgren and Stevie Ray Vaughan ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/fender-vibratone Wzdzh3GAwE5trLngkkzxrb Tue, 23 May 2023 09:47:24 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch Keith Richards Play This Legendary 1959 Gibson Les Paul Standard ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/gear/1959-Gibson-Les-Paul-Standard-Keith-Richards nuxs5ac3dTx5gmsDVGxRSA Tue, 09 May 2023 16:39:42 +0000 Fri, 11 Jul 2025 13:48:17 +0000 <![CDATA[ “We Were One of the Early Heavy Metal Bands Without Knowing It”: How Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker Turbo-Charged the Blues With Cream ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/we-were-one-of-the-early-heavy-metal-bands-without-knowing-it-how-eric-clapton-jack-bruce-and-ginger-baker-turbo-charged-the-blues-with-cream f5Ex6mDpkF7gCLwkSydVRH Mon, 10 Apr 2023 09:00:00 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:03:33 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch Eric Clapton Demonstrate His Signature "Woman Tone" in This Classic Cream-Era Video ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/watch-eric-clapton-explain-and-demonstrate-his-woman-tone-in-this-cream-era-video pZd7HM4MkSGxGJbULcoKbn Fri, 11 Nov 2022 17:40:42 +0000 <![CDATA[ Aclam Woman Tone Overdrive Pedal Review ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/reviews/aclam-woman-tone-overdrive-pedal-review J3BJHqpQymDZAtGuG47fJo Tue, 18 Oct 2022 13:02:59 +0000 Fri, 21 Oct 2022 09:38:31 +0000 <![CDATA[ Here’s What Happened When Members of the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, the Jimi Hendrix Experience and Cream Got on Stage Together ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/heres-what-happened-when-members-of-the-beatles-the-rolling-stones-the-jimi-hendrix-experience-and-cream-got-on-stage-together DGRF53gs5GAKdQVFUwkDLi Wed, 12 Oct 2022 17:52:03 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:08:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ Listen to Stephen Dale Petit’s ‘2020 Visions’ – One of the Most Exciting Guitar Records We’ve Heard This Year ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/listen-to-stephen-dale-petits-2020-visions-one-of-the-most-exciting-guitar-records-weve-heard-this-year D3nkHPg5Hyw8GxqoGNQw7V Thu, 22 Sep 2022 15:53:52 +0000 <![CDATA[ Here’s Why Leslie West is a Guitar Legend Like No Other ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/heres-why-leslie-west-is-a-guitar-legend-like-no-other ahzniTZW3nuF7yLPsCt3Vh Thu, 09 Jun 2022 11:34:55 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch Eric Clapton Playing a ’Burst in Some of Cream’s Earliest Footage from 1966 ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/watch-eric-clapton-playing-a-burst-in-some-of-creams-earliest-footage-from-1966 DtLeNfeJSQrbxycmVjfXoR Thu, 09 Dec 2021 19:11:42 +0000 Fri, 10 Dec 2021 11:37:40 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch Cream’s Legendary “Sunshine of Your Love” Farewell Performance on the Anniversary of ‘Disraeli Gears’ ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/watch-creams-legendary-sunshine-of-your-love-farewell-performance-on-the-anniversary-of-disraeli-gears ZYYPh6AxrDqcMnA9bLAoS9 Tue, 02 Nov 2021 14:30:58 +0000 <![CDATA[ Watch this 1970 ABC Bulletin Delivering the Shocking News of Jimi Hendrix’s Death ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/news/watch-this-1970-abc-bulletin-delivering-the-shocking-news-of-jimi-hendrixs-death vpQ8PBLidWMqgxNzn2ef5F Fri, 01 Oct 2021 14:14:45 +0000 <![CDATA[ Celestion G10 Creamback and VT Jr. Review ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/reviews/celestion-g10-creamback-and-vt-jr-review sort8ztpepuAxq8f3Rrcsd Mon, 14 Sep 2020 14:02:51 +0000 Tue, 07 Jan 2025 11:08:39 +0000 <![CDATA[ Eric Clapton's Top 10 Cream Riffs ]]> https://www.guitarplayer.com/players/eric-claptons-top-10-cream-riffs 7c6fmzzoMYvprFUWDAcvEg Thu, 16 Apr 2020 10:46:40 +0000 Tue, 18 Aug 2020 13:12:32 +0000