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Wholesome photo.

Eric: quits band because they're sellouts for abandoning the 'pure blues'

Also Eric: joins a band with two jazz musicians who wants to go 'pop'

Ginger: fires Jack from 'his' band, at knifepoint

Also Ginger: asks Jack to join his new band

Jack: vows to "never ever ever" play with Ginger ever again

Also Jack: immediately joins Ginger's new band when asked

In conclusion:

July 31, 1966: Cream at the Windsor Jazz and Blues Festival for their first official gig.

Dec 30, 1966: Cream play their last gig of the year at the Double-Giant Freak-Out Ball, The Roundhouse, Chalk Farm in London [Photos: Val Wilmer]

June 21, 1967: Cream on Top of the Pops [Photo: Ron Howard]

August 16, 1966: Cream play the Marquee for the first time, although they had previously played the club on many other occasions with bands such as Alexis Korner's Blues Inc., The Yardbirds, Graham Bond Organisation, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers and Manfred Mann. With them on stage is the rarely photographed fourth founding member, a stuffed gorilla. If you can't find a bear, a gorilla will have to do...[photos: Tommy Arvidsson]

"We want a turkey on stage while we're playing. We all like turkeys and it's nice to have them around. Another dada thing - I was going to have this hat made of a brim with a cage on top and a live frog inside. It would be very nice to have stuffed bears on stage. We'd ignore them - not acknowledge their presence at all"

-Eric Clapton - interviewed in July 1966 by Chris Welch, shortly before Cream made their debut.

Happy Birthday, legends!

Ginger Baker's handwritten lyrics for "Pressed Rat And Warthog"

"Ginger writes a lot of poetry and a lot of it's like Pressed Rat And Warthog, really groovy. Ginger wanted to fly his daughter Nettie over to recite that, but we didn't have time. She knows that whole poem by heart."

- Felix Pappalardi

Wee Ginger Baker ☆

Cream - Eric Clapton

Cream in Central Park NYC, fall of 1967 [Photos: Stephen Paley]

Photos taken by Phillip Godfrey, Jack's father-in-law, at one of the earliest Cream-gigs (If you recognise the venue, please let me know!)

From Ginger Baker facebook page

Happy New Year, y'all! ♡

Cream of the crop or smth idk

the babygirl-ification of men over 77

doodle page

really wanted to make a project with these arts (a book about the biographies of some bands) but one girl took it for herself and i thought we were friends lmao