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Title: Cream
Post by: Alicat on May 04, 2005, 04:27:32 PM
Oh to have been there,
http://www.cnn.com/2005/SHOWBIZ/Music/05/03/cream.reunion.concert/index.html
Title: Cream
Post by: Alicat on May 04, 2005, 04:29:36 PM
Now on Deep Tracks, Why Does Love Got to be so Sad?
Title: Cream
Post by: Alicat on September 28, 2005, 10:29:34 PM
Gaz:
You going to check out Cream at Madison Sq. Gdn next month? Is it totally sold out?
Title: Cream
Post by: Gazoo on September 28, 2005, 10:36:38 PM
Quote from: "Alicat"
Gaz:
You going to check out Cream at Madison Sq. Gdn next month? Is it totally sold out?

I've got no concert budget for the rest of 2005, alas.  Dunno if it's a sellout, but I'd be more interested in seeing McCartney at MSG.
Title: Cream
Post by: Alicat on September 28, 2005, 10:42:32 PM
I'd like to see Cream and McCartney. I looked at the seating chart on Ticketmaster for MSG. Looks bigger than anything I have ever been to.
Title: Cream
Post by: RGMike on September 29, 2005, 07:31:21 AM
Quote from: "Alicat"
I'd like to see Cream and McCartney. I looked at the seating chart on Ticketmaster for MSG. Looks bigger than anything I have ever been to.


MSG seats 20,000 iirc.
Title: Cream
Post by: Alicat on September 29, 2005, 08:57:12 AM
Well, maybe not biggest then. For concerts at SBC, Pac Bell, when you include field seating, how many squeeze into the park? 50,000?
Title: Cream
Post by: RGMike on September 29, 2005, 09:01:35 AM
Quote from: "Alicat"
Well, maybe not biggest then. For concerts at SBC, Pac Bell, when you include field seating, how many squeeze into the park? 50,000?


I'm guessing not much more than its usual capacity which is around 42,000 -- if it's a standard stage (as it was for Springsteen) then the bleachers can't be used.  If it's "in the round" maybe a little more.
Title: Cream
Post by: urth on September 29, 2005, 09:55:57 AM
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "Alicat"
Well, maybe not biggest then. For concerts at SBC, Pac Bell, when you include field seating, how many squeeze into the park? 50,000?


I'm guessing not much more than its usual capacity which is around 42,000 -- if it's a standard stage (as it was for Springsteen) then the bleachers can't be used.  If it's "in the round" maybe a little more.


I was told the sold-out Green Day show last week was in the neighborhood of 42K, so having people on the field balances out the lack of bleachers. Maybe a few thousand less when they have seating rather than GA on the field (Green Day had the latter).

Also, Shoreline is bigger than MSG--around 22K. 8000 in the seats, 14000 on the lawn.
Title: Cream
Post by: RGMike on September 29, 2005, 09:58:57 AM
Quote from: "urth"
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "Alicat"
Well, maybe not biggest then. For concerts at SBC, Pac Bell, when you include field seating, how many squeeze into the park? 50,000?


I'm guessing not much more than its usual capacity which is around 42,000 -- if it's a standard stage (as it was for Springsteen) then the bleachers can't be used.  If it's "in the round" maybe a little more.


I was told the sold-out Green Day show last week was in the neighborhood of 42K, so having people on the field balances out the lack of bleachers. Maybe a few thousand less when they have seating rather than GA on the field (Green Day had the latter).

Also, Shoreline is bigger than MSG--around 22K. 8000 in the seats, 14000 on the lawn.


oddly, I've been to Concord Pav a bunch of times but never Shoreline.
Title: Cream
Post by: Alicat on September 29, 2005, 09:59:31 AM
I want to see Cream. Anyone want to fly to NY for the Monday show? Bob refuses to consider it.
Title: Cream vs Sir Paul
Post by: ggould on September 29, 2005, 12:07:52 PM
Quote from: "Gazoo"
Quote from: "Alicat"
Gaz:
You going to check out Cream at Madison Sq. Gdn next month? Is it totally sold out?
I've got no concert budget for the rest of 2005, alas.  Dunno if it's a sellout, but I'd be more interested in seeing McCartney at MSG.

I think this would be an illuminating  discussion; everyone would know they had the correct opinion!
Title: Cream
Post by: Alicat on October 11, 2005, 02:12:34 PM
Just got my Amazon shipment with CD and DVD from Royal Albert Hall. Immediately popped in CD. I thought I knew my Cream. NOT. Never heard most of disc one. Pressed Rat and Wart Hog; Sleepy Time, Time; Deserted Cities of the Heart. GREAT guitar.
Title: Cream
Post by: RGMike on October 11, 2005, 02:14:26 PM
Quote from: "Alicat"
Just got my Amazon shipment with CD and DVD from Royal Albert Hall. Immediately popped in CD. I thought I knew my Cream. NOT. Never heard most of disc one. Pressed Rat and Wart Hog; Sleepy Time, Time; Deserted Cities of the Heart. GREAT guitar.


Now you know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.
Title: Live Cream
Post by: ggould on October 11, 2005, 02:53:17 PM
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Quote from: "Alicat"
Just got my Amazon shipment with CD and DVD from Royal Albert Hall. Immediately popped in CD. I thought I knew my Cream. NOT. Never heard most of disc one. Pressed Rat and Wart Hog; Sleepy Time, Time; Deserted Cities of the Heart. GREAT guitar.
Now you know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

I was at Winterland when they recorded Wheels of Fire, but it was when I was in high school, before I started to play bass.  It's a whole different head. :lol:

It's like listening to Hendrix.  When I first heard Purple Haze, it was all this cosmic mess, but now it sounds like a guitar to me.  I wonder how it would have felt to see Cream, and have been a musician at the time.
Title: watching Cream on PBS
Post by: ggould on December 01, 2005, 08:35:18 PM
not too bad!  Jack Bruce is half-sitting on a stool!  Oy!  I get real tired sometimes too playing bass, but I find my rhythm suffers when I don't stand up.  I'm enjoying it, but the tone is a little too clean for me.  Tune it in when you can.
Title: Re: Live Cream
Post by: mshray on May 20, 2007, 11:13:49 PM
Quote from: "ggould"
Quote from: "RGMike"
Quote from: "Alicat"
Just got my Amazon shipment with CD and DVD from Royal Albert Hall. Immediately popped in CD. I thought I knew my Cream. NOT. Never heard most of disc one. Pressed Rat and Wart Hog; Sleepy Time, Time; Deserted Cities of the Heart. GREAT guitar.
Now you know how many holes it takes to fill the Albert Hall.

I was at Winterland when they recorded Wheels of Fire, but it was when I was in high school, before I started to play bass.  It's a whole different head. :lol:

It's like listening to Hendrix.  When I first heard Purple Haze, it was all this cosmic mess, but now it sounds like a guitar to me.  I wonder how it would have felt to see Cream, and have been a musician at the time.


Don't know if anyone's online right now, but tune into 107.7 if you are.  Selvin is featuring Cream at the Winterland concert Geoff mentioned.