Watch Jack Bruce Lead Cream Through “White Room” at Royal Albert Hall in Newly Released 2005 Video
This newly released video from the official Cream YouTube channel captures the band live at Royal Albert Hall in 2005, performing “White Room” with the original lineup fully intact. Nearly four decades after the song’s debut, the performance shows just how much power still lived in the trio.
On bass and vocals, Jack Bruce is unmistakably in command. He is playing his fretless Warwick through a Hartke rig, delivering a tone that is warm, vocal, and unmistakably his. Alongside him are Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker and pick up right where they left off decades prior. The Royal Albert Hall setting adds gravity, but it is Bruce who leads the performance.
It is a powerful reminder that Jack Bruce was never just Cream’s bassist. He was its melodic engine, its harmonic wild card, and very often, its voice.
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