Guestbook
NAME: greco COMMENTSUSA New Haven Toad's Place w Billy Cobham...Clem Clempson...David Sanscious Interview small black portfolio with ribbon ties "Visions of Venus" lithograph ...I still listen to your music NAME: creams numberone fan COMMENTSsorry jack but i do not want every one in the world knowing my name i hope that you are allright now after your illness afterall where would the music world be with out juck bruce to AREthe best bass player that the world will ever hear and see i am a drummer my self and ginger bakers number one fan but with out you up on stage with out cream it would have never been the same you are the greatest bass player and i hope that i will beable to hear some more music from you again soon i would love to jam with you but i would not beable to match ginger baker i fav album is live cream 1 the bass playing on that album is out of this world man and i mean that its briliant you would never hear bass playing like that from any other bass player on the planet well jack all the best and hang in there man because creams music is what keeps me going i play it every day and i love it yours brandx NAME: Rob Nance COMMENTSJack, Your playing has been a true inspiration to me. I am a guitar player that learned to think like a bass player by listening to players like yourself. I love the fact that you are still active and I thoroughly enjoyed the Albert Hall concert. I have recently gotten back with some old bandmates and am playing the fretless (two years) but have been on the bass for over 20 and guitar for nearly 30 years. Thanks for the inspiration and motivation! Your friend from the deep south, Rob Nance NAME: Janie COMMENTShiya Jackie the Bruce (what? u dont like THAT - aahh but ur from Glasgow, you've GOT to have a nickname, OK?!) I just popped in for a "chat" (hehe). It's almost my birthday which i assumed would be rather forgettable this year: BUT, the postman brought me a surprise parcel yesterday from one of the JACKETTES- So I'm now the proud owner of (nearly) ALL your solo stuff! Needless to say im dead chuffed - couldn't have asked for a better birthday present."SONGS FOR A TAILOR" is simply awesome : one of those rare albums that i can TAKE ALL the way through! Mr Bruce, you certainly KNOW what your doin'(wink) hats off to you. Janie (the Jackette) xxxx NAME: Ed Brown COMMENTSJack, you are the best. NAME: Mauno Keto COMMENTSI agree with Philip Jones when he says that it is Jack Bruce who has given Cream its inimitable sound. Every time I hear Jack`s name mentioned I first remember Cream. That band is a BLUES band, not a rock band (I don`t like music where noise is the main thing). If a group that disbanded almost 40 years ago has still this kind of position in the minds of fans, then there must be something magical in the music and atmosphere this band has created. But how to describe the sound with words? It`s difficult to express, but you know it! NAME: Dennis COMMENTSHi Jack, we met at the Christopher Cross gig back stage I must say that it is a pleasure and an honour to meet you.My wife and I were very impressed with a man of your stature being so grounded and down to earth,but then again we musos are like that no matter how much succcess we have.You keep gigging and remember the target is currently 89!!!
NAME: Carlos Bill COMMENTSHello, Jack Bruce. I sincerely feel a great curiosity about the setlist that you played in the Blues & Beyond festival. I saw the pictures and see you playing your Warwick fretless; well, that's exactly it: to see those powerful licks in a so recent concert is thrilling. That concert in Germany in 1993, which resulted in the double disc release, was legendary - regarding your all-around playing on the whole show, featuring your extraordinarily evocative bass lines in Smiles And Grins and Neighbor, Neighbor, to name only a few, and the exciting arrangements and piano playing throughout of Never Tell Your Mother She's Out Of Tune -; I guess a live cd or dvd of the 2006 Frankfurt blues concert is a must for everyone. Best as always, Carlos Bill, 46, bass player, songwritter, eventually sings. NAME: Thom Nicol COMMENTSThis is fairly daunting. Hero worship was never a part of me. Except for a single cat. Jack. The "Music" not the hit single meant everything. That never changed. I remember a fri evening well over 30 yrs. ago picking up "How's Tricks" and litterally staying up all night with that LP. I'll always know this, that my musical life Was forever changed with "Out of the Storm" The so called duds were anything but. The musical validity that He brings into any studio or live setting cant really be placed into words. He's done so much that until after He's gone wont be heard by the masses. Even then, people are so fickle when it comes to genius right under their nose. "I'm in the Mood" from the Hooker tribute album...O.M.G. And if we were to know the truth, I'll bet you it was the 2nd take. The Second.I CANT sit still when ever I hear that version. Moore has a little bit to do with this But it's Jack's presense within Any song. Does He "Know" where He brings forth that vocal quality, where He leaves the recording studio and like envelopes himself into the very fabric of the song, becomes the song? I think Jack may have been born out of time. Musically He's ahead of all of us. If we compare Him, Who do we pick? good luck. *Huge Smile* What you've done for me musically Jack, I cant place into words. I Love You Jack. I've Never said that to another man. Jack Bruce. What a Musical Trip!! : - ) NAME: Chris Martin COMMENTSJack, I love your playing. Thank you for your contributions and inspiration. I'm always looking for a bassist the can groove like you. I can never find one! I hope to meet you someday and play some drums with you. Slainte, Chris NAME: Luke COMMENTSJack Bruce is an incredible musician. However, he would be even more awesome if he came to Memphis (Not Tunica). NAME: Allan L Tribandis COMMENTSJack - excuse me please but just wondering if you know that today, 22-Oct-2007, Leslie West turns 62 years of age. I only mention this after reading about your new CD, Seven Moons, soon to be released with Gary Husband and Robin Trower. How about a good old West Bruce & Laing reunion and a new CD to boot? I know a lot of cats in the Boston area that would love to hear you play live on stage again; Love is Worth the Blues, Out into the Fields, Pleasure and Why Dontcha' (all WB&L actually) with Leslie by your side and Corky again on drums. I can vision that infamous -great wall of Marshall amps- surrounding Corky's drum set behind you and Leslie. Hope your health is keeping up and looking forward to your new material. Allan NAME: Filip Borst COMMENTSAnd most of all, Mr Bruce: thanks a million for NOT assuming the authority of your music teacher, who told you that you were not talented enough to write your own songs! NAME: Tom COMMENTSHello Jack, Congradulations on your liver transplant and I hope things are going great. I've had a few transplants over the years including a liver and it really adds a deeper meaning to everything I do in life. Good luck and stay well. Tom NAME: Jens Hoppe COMMENTSHi Jack! 'B.L.T.' and 'Truce' are two of my biggest alben in my collection. I'm very lucky about your third album with Robin! A great kick would be Bruce and Trower live on stage (in Germany ;-) )! Rock on NAME: Shirley Dianne Jackson COMMENTSI love Cream and I love you, Jack. NAME: Nancie COMMENTSHello Jack Bruce..U R the ONE. need I say more..I'm 43 and been listing since cream started. My mother would spin the old vinyl l.p.'s and I would dance around playing the air guitar. PLEASE come play DETROIT..Bring your band and come on..I just found out about Las Vegas in Nov.. I have to get there if it's the last thing I do..Your wife is the luckiest Lady.I envey her..With all due respect I wish I could trade places with her for 1-day, even 1-hour :) ..Sorry Just dreaming. I have mastered sunshine, and white Room to a tee..Fresh and the vintage....I think even you would be very impressed NAME: Nancy COMMENTSI AGREE WITH PHIL WATSON 8-28-2007 AUSTRALIA. PLEASE JACK CAN YA STOP BY THE SITE AND GIVE US A LITTLE CHEER :} LOVE YA JACK ] ? LOVE YA JACK CHOW. NAME: Shirley Dianne Jackson COMMENTSHello, Jack, my precious angel. I listened to 2 of your earlier albums last night--Harmony Row and Out of the Storm--and I was totally blown away! Your voice is hauntingly beautiful and I get horny whenever I listen to you sing. Oh, what the hell. I may as well admit my true feelings. I'm in love with you, John Symon Asher Bruce! NAME: Pressed Rat COMMENTSHave you still got your EB-3? NAME: Steve COMMENTSVery thrilled at the prospect of Seven Moons - although the Cream reunion was wonderful, I've been waiting for more new Jack following the brilliant More Jack Than God album. The line up for Seven Moons sounds explosive! Any chance of a few gigs in the UK? NAME: steve white COMMENTSQuestion.Jack,Did you ever own a rowland synth bass in walnut model gr88 withfoot controls.I think I have it.cheers NAME: Kenney COMMENTSIs it possible to purchase recordings of your bass tracks without Eric Clapton's guitar tracks? I would love for example to listen to your work on Crossroads. Thanks NAME: Dr C Togden COMMENTSEXCERPT FROM An Odd Boy Chapter 12 Savage Cabbage I never took praise of my voice seriously because it was just my voice and I had never learnt to play it, as it were. I could hold a tune. I was seriously loud. I was not afflicted with pink voice but I never compared with Jack Bruce. Jack Bruce had a way of tackling the melody line that was unique. He seemed to take an oblique line that harried the melody like a hawk. It was as if he was singing the harmony line to the melody and I could never quite replicate how he sang. Ron and Steve would tell me that there was no need to replicate Jack Bruce because I had my own style but I felt that Jack Bruce had some secret that was eluding me. I sang along with Jack Bruce on Spoonful repeatedly. I practically wore out the album. Finally I got some sense of how he sang that song. Then I had to forget emulation and sing it as myself but with his menace. I never quite made it when it came to menace. Also, I could not replicate the way Jack Bruce sang in the other blues numbers we covered. It must have been the jazz scales with which he was so familiar. I had no sense of how to deviate from the melody line as he did. It was as if he kept singing flat by a semi tone in unexpected places, and when I tried it out, it missed by a mile. It was not the same as blue notes, it was something else and I guess I should have taken singing lessons or something in order to have worked out what was going on. I wished I could have spent some time with him and asked What are you doing when you sing How do you get that menace How do you manage to sing sideways NAME: Carlos Bill COMMENTSDear Jack Bruce, it would be simply magnificent if your A&R staff could research and search for rare Cream's oldies; Saville Theatre, Winterland, Fillmore West...I insist in call yours and the attention of your management for urgent releases of live dvds of West, Bruce & Laing, Jack Bruce and Cuicoland Express live at the Blues & Beyond Frankfurt festival, and material such as these (Tony Williams' Lifetime, Mike Mandel and Larry Coryell,even Cream at the Madison Square Garden, 2005. Such tonal bass incursions into wild, unpredictable and inexplored territories is much more exciting to music experts than it seems at first glance, and, Jack...you know how you did conquest these torrentially meaningful musical achievements. A simple statement: Jack Bruce playing Crossroads in the Wheels of Fire lp, or I'm So Glad of the Goodbye lp, or Powerhouse Sod of the Live'n'Kickin' West, Bruce & Laing cd, or Into the Storm or Timeslip live...don't need more talks. A very merry Christmas for you and family, a substantially better health for you, God bless you...Congratulations, Jack! Carlos Bill, 46, bass player, songwriter. NAME: Janie COMMENTSThanks Jack for an awesome 2007 - you and your music have rocked my world. NAME: Jocko COMMENTSThanks for inspiring me (& us all) so much over the years. Keep up the good work!
NAME: David Salzmann COMMENTSPlease release Seven Moons today. Thank you. Oh, and by the way, do some gigs in the USA as well. NAME: Carlos Bill COMMENTSSpectacular, tremendous!! "...It happened again with Jack Bruce live, very very live and again innovating, reaching new, probably unexplored musical territories"!...Yeeees! This live Deutsche 2006 Festival record...is really another historic achievement, one which certainly made history already. I listened to the sound tracking; Jack's bass is more powerful and meaning than never, but it does not surprise nobody because the world knows his dexterity and incredible emotionality. Finally happened! I have written dozens of times in your guestbook, Jack Bruce, and, believe me, this record means a lot to me. Thank you. Yes, I thank because your effort proved to have been deep and incredibly opportune, such statement of virtuosity and down-hearted music...All my favorites are there...Finally new live music from Jack Bruce. Cool. As cool as a live event of such stature by a music superstar and bass innovator like you could be. Carlos Bill. Up-to-date but with the vigour of the old style playing. Seems like Jack playing in mid 60s but with an even wilder, more dynamic bass fingering, customary husky vocals, fantastic piano playing...Ooooh yeeaaaahhh!!! C'mon ev'rybooody!! Rock and roooooooooooool!!!! NAME: Csabi COMMENTSHello Jack and site maintainers! I wish to read the lyrics of other albums. For example the West, Bruce & Laing albums: Why Don'tcha, Whatever Turns You On. Another wish is the live album Inazuma Supersession Absolute Live. It is still available on LP only (so practically not available). The sound recording on the LP by Epic is slow (Jack has deeper voice). It is due time to release it on CD with correct tape speed. Thanks Csabi NAME: Janie COMMENTShiya Jack...I bloody well hope that u read all of our messages- We're all tryin' SO HARD to explain just how deeply ur music has affected us. Here's MY attempt :- JACK, YOUR SINGING AND PLAYING TOUCH ME IN PLACES I DIDNT EVEN KNOW EXISTED...... JANIE xxxx P.S.looks like everybody had fun at the R'n'R "Fantasy" Camp - but , it sure is a "fantasy" for most of us (ahem)! What about giving the talented but "under-priviledged" (i.e.skint) a chance ??!! c'mon, get THEM to offer ONE place out to audition. P.P.S. Seein'as you don't actually talk to us anymore in your diary(hint,hint..) I'm lookin' forward to at least hearing what you've been up to MUSICALLY on the new CD's ..!! NAME: Tyler Banks COMMENTShey, you are trully great i also play bass and i was just wondering what equipment do you use? contact me back at anileanimal(at)gmail.com thanks alot, you are god! NAME: William Leigh COMMENTSI am just now absorbing a new (for me) album More Jack than God. Great stuff! "We're going Wrong" is so powerful! It is such a simple song and yet so much emotional power.... I started listening to your music when I was 8 or 9 and have since gone on to fall in love with Jazz and then Classical music. Lately I am starting to listen to Rock again partially as a means to survival. I am a long distant commuter and coffee can't keep my eyelids open as well as music with a great beat etc etc....anyway I hear bits of jazz and classical and it all seems to fit perfectly. The . Curious about the title "More Jack then God" does this title have anything to do with Clapton. Folks called him a God for a while. Just curious..... .... nobody reads these anyway right? Oh uh! NAME: Michael Sherrer COMMENTSI have to say it! I cannot stand the muddy woofer EB humbucker pick-up by the neck on Jack's Gibson! It may have sounded OK on the stage monitors-but it is not musical. It just isn't.*** Jack's road to fame came from virtuoso bass improv with the sharp attack tone, of the EB-3, Bridge Pick-up. Even Zappa sent him home to come back with THAT gear for 'Apostrophe.' (***while watching the RAH Cream Reunion ftg on YouTube, and listening on a good set of headphones***) While watching Eric Clapton's promo video on AMAZON for EC's new AUTOBIOGRAPHY-the thing that stood out was HOW GOOD Jack sung White Room in the studio! What a voice. In 1968-Jack had developed the best 'rock vocal voice' in the world-bar none, that ALSO had incredible jazz and blues textures mixed into it. NAME: Jan COMMENTSJack, I am a big music fan and I love your voice and your music. Thank you for all the years of great music and I hope there will be many more for you. I saw Cream at Fillmore and I hope I get to see you somewhere live again. Jan NAME: Biffa COMMENTSalways loved BLT, Bruce, Lordan and Trower, great musicianship and memorable songs. looking forward to hearing the new collaboration with Trower and Gary Husband 'Seven Moons' CD in January. All the best. NAME: David Stoltz COMMENTSGreetings to you,Jack.So,I have applied to be your myspace buddy,but it was never approved.Could you do that for me ,please? Now for something else:I have read that you own a '51 Fender bass with a crazy low serial number.If it plays,have you ever recorded with it or would you?Wouldn't that be the coolest thing[for the right song]?It would be so interesting to hear what that bass would say and how you would make it speak!Anyway,that is my crazy little request and I look forward to hearing more new music from you sometime.I hope you had fun in Las Vegas at camp and that the Jack Bruce Family is all well.Take care and very happy holidays! NAME: Carlos Bill COMMENTSJack Bruce, I wish you, your wife and family happy holidays and a marvelous 2008. NAME: stephen patrick flaherty COMMENTSGreat to see you and Natascha at Bisley with Spikes all star band on friday night what a wonderfull show. Have a great christmas NAME: Gareht Dekin COMMENTSWhat an AWESOME cover of Sunshine on Later with Jooles Holland - Defo gonna get your album for christmas, loved it. Gonna spread the word in my town. Great musicians, really all talented -Gaz NAME: Janie COMMENTSTo Jack the Jazzer , Bruce the Bluesman.... MY CHRISTMAS WISH FOR YOU May your fingers keep on being able to play the music that you hear in your head Hope you & yours have a M.A.G.I.C. Christmas choc-a-bloc full of Love ,Peace & Laughter Janie xxxxx oh yeah...& how are ye bringin' in the New Year?! Ye have an open invitation ----Hogmonay,my hoose,party,B.O.B.(bring own booze-hehehe!) Drunken singin' of "Auld Lang Syne" guaranteed, OK ?!!! P.S. Thanks a mill for the music Jack...it feeds my soul .....
NAME: Stuart McGinnis COMMENTSI've played bass guitar for 26 yrs and you are a huge influence. Thnaks for making great music!!!! NAME: Adam Abe COMMENTSJack, you're my biggest inspiration. Keep cranking out those awesome tunes! NAME: Dave and Callie Van Kleeck COMMENTSAbsolutely LOVE the soundbytes from you're "Seven Moons" album with Robin Trower! So much so that we pre-ordered a few for late Christmas gifts and wanted to tell you BOTH - THANKS for another GREAT JACK BRUCE - ROBIN TROWER CD! Actually, we believe it is the BEST out of all the records you and Robin Trower did together. Can hardly wait for the end of December but at least we'll be ringing in the New Year with Seven Moons! Thank you so much! Dave & Callie Van Kleeck NAME: Heidi COMMENTSFor those of us not fortunate enough to have been born yet to see and hear the magic of Jack with Cream, thanks for carrying on so that we can experience the magic now as well as dig your current music. Your music brings a lot of joy to me and I hope that you keep on truckin on because we are all in it for the long haul....however long you keep at it! Should another reunion come about for Cream or if you decide to soon tour with your current band, please consider coming to Philadelphia. I wish you and your family a wonderful holiday and best wishes for the new year. I love ya, Jack! NAME: Michael Patrick OShields COMMENTSJack Bruce - Undoubtedly a peerless bass player but let's not forget the voice! I cannot not say which of Jack's gifts I admire the most. The innovative song writing, the unmatched bass playing or the soulful vocals. Oh well, guess I'll just go with the flow and enjoy them all! Greetings from Chicago! - Mick NAME: Allan L Tribandis COMMENTSHey JB fans in the world! Amazon.com now has track samples (approx 30 sec in length) for our listening pleasure of Seven Moons, the new Jack Bruce - Robin Trower CD due to be released in January 2008. Saaaaa-weeeeeeet!!! Thanks Jack! Now it's tie hook up with Leslie West and Corky Laing for a good old West Bruce & Laing re-union with a new CD AND tour! You'll sell out every show in the US states! Happy Holidays Jack to you and your family. Allan NAME: bob fortescue COMMENTSJack, Hows tricks. Been a fan of yours for so long its not true. have so many questions to ask, dont know where to start. Firstly do you answer any of your e-mails personally. if so heres one . That EB1 bass you used on the cream reunion gig.was it the bass that Felix Papalardi used to use in Mountain.Really curious. love to know as there are not many around and I thought you being close, may have inherited it. Also the bass sound on "Sifting Sand'on the Whatever Turns You On album. Did you use a different bass or was it just compressed. A fan in need of some answers Looking forward to hearing from you sometime. Best wishes for the Festive Season . NAME: merll truesdale COMMENTSJack, Thank you for the last 40 years of your musical taste. You taught me more about the blues than any one . I learn how to play blues harp listening to your riffs. I look forward to seeing you play one day in the near future. Until then, God bless. Merll Truesdale NAME: Allen Scarborough COMMENTSHave a lot of your music, Jack - the man who's always created my favorite bass sounds, and some great songs. Only got to see you once, at a university with West, Bruce & Laing in the mid-'70's. Looking forward to more Bruce music in the future. Blessings for '08. NAME: patrick COMMENTSHappy Christmas Jack, Wishing you and yours peace & good fortune in 2008. NAME: Rick COMMENTSHi Jack! I remember you and Eric and Ginger when you came out to visit Detroit, Michigan in the late 60's and early 70's. Remember the "Grande Ballroom"? It was a new age, rockin' place back then, with black light tables, strobe lights, MC5, etc. You and the rest of the Cream came out to Cranbrook, an art institute with massively landscaped grounds and gardens North of Detroit. We all partyed in a large meadow, Eric climbed the trees, as I remember, and sat up in the trees. You and Jack joined us in a circle on the grass under the trees and we rolled some joints and smoked some good smokes. In fact you showed us how the British roll one up, a cone joint that blew our heads off. I remember those good times. It would be great to have a reunion sometime. I hope that you are doing well. Life has been a trial for us all. I still enjoy listening to your music and your riffs on the bass - the master! Blast out some good old tunes for old times sake, it would sure do our souls some good. Cheers! |