Pat and Patsy / Spoonful ?

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Hey all. Jim's music and lessons are fast becoming an addiction for me! I'm working through the wealth of info in ' All Blues ' and I have to say that I'm loving it. All the clever ideas so simply explained! Why couldn't I have learned this stuff years ago?

Anyway to my question. Eric Clapton was the inspiration for me learning guitar ( many years ago ) and I notice the outro on Pat and Patsy contains the Spoonful lick, phrased almost exactly as EC played it. Is this a deliberate 'nod and a wink' to EC in the days of Cream by Jim? Or just a pure coincidence? Does anyone know if Jim was a fan of Cream? Thanks, just curious!

Also, and I hope Jim doesn't mind but Richard Thompson's (English guitarist from Fairport Convention) new album is a corker - if you are interested in electric English folk based music.

Ryan

I noticed the same thing when I first heard Pat and Patsy. It always reminds me of Spoonful, especially how Eric played it live on the Wheels of Fire album.

JimCampilongo

Wow... You two are the first to bring that up. Yes, "spoonful" live, off wheels of fire is one of the reasons I play guitar. Nobody has noticed that quote before. You must be big fans too?

Ryan

I LOVE Cream. That long live cut is incredible and I love when he goes into the "woman tone" near the end and then jumps right back into it. When I was getting serious about guitar, I was listening to just jazz guitar, like Wes, Kenny Burrell, Pat Martino, etc. Finally went to study jazz in college (University of North Texas, where Norah went) and got super burnt out on studying jazz. That is when I starting searching for something else. I found Cream, early Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green, and Mike Bloomfield, which lead me to the older bluesmen that influenced them. That kind of guitar playing was so new and fresh to me and I loved it.

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I'm the opposite. EC first turned me on to guitar and like him I was a purist - nothing else mattered. As I got older I became a bit of a rock guy then my tastes widened to include flamenco, some jazz (although I can't listen to the way out stuff), country etc. I absolutely love Jim's style now! I think though that my grounding is the blues that first caught my attention. Something that you always come full circle to.

As for those early Cream days - Jack, Ginger and Eric burned like 3 wheels of fire!

Ryan

Yeah I think I did things a little backwards. I had 30 Miles Davis cds before my first Jimi Hendrix cd haha. I'm happy to find Cream lovers here!