Trivia and Quotes
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 Asked whom he regards as the best bass players in pop and rock history: "If you`re talking electric bass, it`s very, very simple: James Jamerson, Paul McCartney, Jaco Pastorius, me." Even Eric Clapton, with his tremendous solo success - it`s still Cream that people want to talk about. He complains about it too.
I honestly think that if it hadn`t been for that band [Cream], I would have had a perfectly respectable career in perhaps a more esoteric way.
I was working in Italy on an American air base, and I got very friendly with a lot of the black guys there. And that was when I first heard Charles Mingus. I immediately realised that that was what I wanted to be: a bass player who composed. I knew that I wanted to write, but I hadn`t put the two things together. As soon as I heard him, that was it.
Most rock stars are very good at one thing, and no disrespect to that. But I would have been bored in five minutes if that was all it had been about.
When he joined Blues Incorporated they played a lot of "society gigs: Lady Londonderry`s ball, stuff like that - because Alexis Korner was a hooray. We`d do things like Lord Rothschild`s party: that was quite a gig. Ginger Baker, who was using a lot of dope at the time, ended up asleep in Lord Rothschild`s bed, and I remember flouncing off down the drive and his lordship running after me going, `Please don`t go.` And the Duke of Edinburgh [Prince Philip] coming up and saying: `Could you play a waltz?` `No we fucking can`t.` "
Would I do another [Cream] reunion? Sure, I`d be there like a shot. Ah, but... you know how these things are.
Trivia
Also a successful solo artist since the 1960s.
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Bassist and vocalist for the Cream
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Cream were voted the 66th Greatest Rock `n` Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone.
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Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of Cream) in 1993.
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He was an influence on acclaimed Level 42 bassist Mark King, who paid tribute to Bruce by covering Cream`s "I Feel Free" on his solo album "Influences" (released 1984).
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In May of 2005, reunited with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker for a Cream reunion concert.
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Member of `60s bands John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Cream.
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Played bass (as did fellow bass player Percy Jones) for the Liverpool Group `The Scaffold` comprising of Mike McGear (Paul McCartney`s brother), Roger McGough (the poet) and John Gorman who recorded the hit record `Lily the Pink`.
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Spouse: Janet Godfrey (? - 1980) (divorced) 2 children
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Was the only member of Cream not to be from England; he was born in Scotland.
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