Jack Bruce Of Cream: "F*ck Off, Zeppelin. You’re Crap."

Did I miss someone from Led Zeppelin talking trash about Cream somewhere along the line? The Classic Rock Awards were held last night and Cream won the gong for “Classic Album” with their 41 year old release of “Disraeli Gears“. Accepting the award was Jack Bruce who was also pulled in for a post-award interview with Classic Rock Magazine’s Dave Ling. Here is just a little bit of Jack Bruce’s anti-Zeppelin rant:

Everybody talks about Led Zeppelin, and they played one fucking gig – one fucking lame gig – while Cream did weeks of gigs; proper gigs, not just a lame gig like Zeppelin did, with all the [vocal] keys lowered and everything. We played everything in the original keys. [Becoming animated]: Fuck off, Zeppelin, you’re crap. You’ve always been crap and you’ll never be anything else. The worst thing is that people believe the crap that they’re sold. Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is.

That’s a bold opinion.
What? You’re gonna compare Eric Clapton with that fucking Jimmy Page? Would you really compare that?

While I could say that Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page are two differently styled guitar players, they are both brilliant in their own right. Is Bruce jealous of all the hype and press Zeppelin is getting these days? I’m kind of tired of it too, but jeeze.

On other message boards I heard people say stuff like “Zeppelin are over rated 5 hit wonders”. I bet that same person could not even name 5 Led Zeppelin tunes and if he/she could would probably name only the ones played on the radio. 5 hit wonders…that’s funny. Another even said “The studio did a lot of justice for Page because he sounded terrible live.” There may be some truth to this because when Page was in the studio he could do both rhythm and lead parts and it’s tough to emulate that sound on stage.

You also have to think that the Studio these days are a lot different. Pro-tools make a big difference in recording and were not present when Zeppelin recorded. You had to do multiple takes sometimes to get it right and could spend hours in there on a single guitar part. You only get one take on stage and you can rarely compare a live sound with a studio sound with bands back during that time. Hell these days a lot of bands have a hard time playing half of their songs live because of how it’s recorded.

Anyway Jack, don’t get yourself so worked up.

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