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« Reply #620 on: October 23, 2014, 12:28:37 PM »

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« Reply #621 on: October 23, 2014, 02:35:30 PM »

Shane went hand in glove with Alvin.
Nice bloke. Gave lots of people some good times. RIP.
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« Reply #622 on: October 23, 2014, 07:28:55 PM »

I saw him when I was a college.....he put on a great show which I still remember.
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« Reply #623 on: October 24, 2014, 07:54:41 AM »

He was from Mansfield...
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« Reply #624 on: October 24, 2014, 10:00:19 AM »


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« Reply #625 on: October 25, 2014, 03:53:22 PM »

The death of Jack Bruce has been announced by his family on his website at the age of 71.

Some people are dismissing this as a hoax but the website would have had to be hacked.  The truth will come out eventually.

If it is true, I am very sad, JB is/was an immense musical talent.



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« Reply #626 on: October 25, 2014, 04:06:40 PM »


The death of Jack Bruce has been announced by his family on his website at the age of 71.

Some people are dismissing this as a hoax but the website would have had to be hacked.  The truth will come out eventually.

If it is true, I am very sad, JB is/was an immense musical talent.



This is being reported in some quarters as a hoax, who knows maybe the rumours of the hoax are the hoax. Someone is making a sick "joke" anyway.
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« Reply #627 on: October 25, 2014, 04:21:10 PM »

His Facebook, Twitter feed and Website all say that he has, indeed, died.

The Press Association also have reported it here

The first time I saw Jack Bruce was at the 1972 Melody Maker Poll Winners' Gig at the Oval in London. He was guesting with Focus when a string broke. He adjusted the tuning as he played and carried right on. An immense talent, a fantastic musician and a bluesman of legend.

Here he is with Ginger Baker and Gary Moore. Wonderful.
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« Reply #628 on: October 25, 2014, 04:51:53 PM »

RIP Jack Bruce - a musical giant...I shall be playing Songs For A Tailor later and raising a glass...
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« Reply #629 on: October 25, 2014, 04:56:49 PM »

Now confirmed by his publicist, sigh. Everyone's got to go but it still pains me to hear the news

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-29772926
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« Reply #630 on: October 25, 2014, 05:06:21 PM »


RIP Jack Bruce - a musical giant...I shall be playing Songs For A Tailor later and raising a glass...


I can't believe Jack went before Ginger.  Unexpected (to me, at least).

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« Reply #631 on: October 25, 2014, 05:07:50 PM »

Sad news indeed.
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« Reply #632 on: October 25, 2014, 05:12:44 PM »

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Cream were just THE band in my late teens.
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« Reply #633 on: October 25, 2014, 06:10:32 PM »

Sad news.
Someone on FB said RIP, at least until Ginger pops his clogs.
Which made me laugh.
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« Reply #634 on: October 25, 2014, 06:37:27 PM »

I was lucky enough to see Jack Bruce with his band in the (relatively) intimate surroundings of the Queen's Hall in Edinburgh in 84 and 85 when he did shows on the Festival Fringe. I didn't know any of his solo material but he played some of the old Cream favourites including White Room. I remember his drummer playing his kit with his hands rather than sticks on one number to great effect. Funny the things that stick in your memory from gigs.

I dug out my copy of the Cream compilation Strange Brew earlier and had forgotten how great his vocals were on Swlabr...

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« Reply #635 on: October 25, 2014, 08:52:42 PM »

I'm very sad about this. I was a big Cream fan and hoped to see Jack play live one day.

RIP Mr Bruce
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« Reply #636 on: October 26, 2014, 09:36:16 AM »



RIP Jack Bruce - a musical giant...I shall be playing Songs For A Tailor later and raising a glass...


I can't believe Jack went before Ginger.  Unexpected (to me, at least).

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Yes, me too. I recall hearing that the charmless Mr Baker was once voted "rock musician lest likely to survive the sixties"(!)
Music apart, I loved Jack's dry humour. A fine example: ""It's a knife-edge thing between me and Ginger. Nowadays, we're happily co-existing in different continents [Bruce lives in Britain, Baker in South Africa] ... although I was thinking of asking him to move. He's still a bit too close"."
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« Reply #637 on: October 26, 2014, 12:25:49 PM »

I managed to see and hear Jack Bruce only the once...it was at Nottingham Palais in 1984. Jack was part of the Alexis Light Orchestra (a tribute concert to Alexis)...performing with Jack that evening in June were Ian Stewart, Charley Watts, Jimmy Page, Paul Jones, Dick Heckstall Smith, Don Weller, Willie Garnet, John Picaro, Roger Sutton and Ruby Turner.
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« Reply #638 on: October 27, 2014, 09:54:26 AM »

Oh my, another of the Gods of my youth has gone! RIP Jack and thanks for the momentous contribution.
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« Reply #639 on: October 28, 2014, 06:41:30 PM »

Very fortunate to see Cream 9 years ago at Madison Square Garden. Apparently I didn't know quite how fortunate until I was told that they very nearly didn't go on because of extreme ructions between JB and GB backstage.  It was only sorted out by EC laying down the law.  Ironic given that he was very much the junior partner in the sixties. Glad he did because they were phenomenal.
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