CREAM REUNION AT MSG

i love it how its IF there are any tix left they will go on sale to general public...theres noway there will be any left...me and my dad are signing up for american express as i type this

What a farce! I think it's almost criminal for a company like AE to have such control over a major event. It just goes to show the greed diplayed by American Express! It's unfair to the general public and it stinks!!!

I just had a thought, a bunch of us fans ought to go out and sign up for AE cards and then when we have the tickets in hand, cancel our cards....screw you AE ha ha....

Are they really that naive? "If tickets remain, they will then go on-sale to the general public on Monday, September 19, 2005."

These shows will sell out to people lucky enough to have access to an amex card in less then 15 min.

This is a bunch of crap! What are these people thinking?? What a great way to ruin 3 of the most anticipated concerts in history. Every scalping crook will get their hands on most of the tickets so that they can charge $1,000 each - not happy with this at all.

American Express? Keeping killer tickets out of the hands of the common man? Sure sounds "American" to me. What's next? a concert staring the clones of John and George, brought to you by Capital One?

As a fan of Cream and all they stand for, I for one will not be attending this concert. Cream played music in an era where it had meaning beyond making profit, where it stood for a movement. By playing MSG and allowing an American Corporation to sponsor their shows they prove to me that the Cream I know and love no longer exists. For those of you signing up then cancelling your cards, I hope its a great show, but realize you're not seeing Cream, but rather Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce and Eric Clapton sell out. Perhaps I'm being to harsh though, after all they do have to make a living.

Based on hearing a recording of one of these shows, I really don't think I'll be missing much. Anyone want to predict ticket prices? I'll bet top dollar is at least $300-$350. I am in full agreement with everyone on AmEx -- this is a pure soulless corporation show for rich baby boomers who only know a handful of Cream tunes to begin with (IF that!)

Having seen Cream twice in New York way back when, it matters not who is the sponsor. Yes, some fans will miss the shows - a fact of life - but those who are lucky enough will have an opportunity to see, and HEAR, the legends that none of us ever expected to hear playing again. I'll be calling in on Monday morning, hoping that I can get lucky. And I thank AMEX for being involved for without them, I doubt if this would even be happening.

Why is it every time Jambase posts an article, all the whiners and cry babies come out of the woodworks?

We're living in the year 2005 people - American Express has been doing this for years. Hello, anybody home??????

Either get a card or shut up -no one's interested in your sob stories.

Cream will rock the Garden -period!!

Thats how things are this days ...if some one else has the money here in the states to pay for them ... well plase come and contact CREAM and hire them befor they die . and just to let you know eric was the richest man in UK by the age of 20 so it must be hard for him not to cash some sweet green ...to pay for his lifestyle ...there is no way that bands will make it in united states without endorsements in this times ...it is sad but true.

I was really excited to hear that Cream would be performing agian, but leave it up to a credidit card company to make it so all avalible tickets will be gone before the common man has a chance to percase them. I guess it's just a sign of the times.

You armchair rock critics need to grip reality. Rock has always ben a business. Yes the Dead and Airplane are a huge exception, but they still didn't work for free. Ticket demand will be huge, who cares about the deal with Amex? How dare the one guy say watch clapton and comapny sell out. That happened years ago with the Yardbirds. So many of you have warped perceptions of what a career in music is about. It damn sure aint about working for free or without corporate sponsors. If you don't dig Cream or the current status of their tour plans then screw off. Plenty of other fans will buy your tickets. Clapton is doing this to help out his old mates who don't get much song writing credits and he is under no obligation to tour as Cream anyway. Some of you are so dam idealistic that there would be no live acts at all if you had the final say. Rock is a business, plain and simple. One of the funniest statements is as a fan of cram and what they stand for: When did cream ever print a manifesto or their political views on an album cover. (Politician lyrics maybe count) And for the guy who says this is for babyboomers who maybe know a few cream songs, Babyboomers were at the original Cream shows, maybe you should check the definition of babyboomer. All I can say is this isn't about dogma or ideology, its about putting on a very anticipated tour. WHO cares who sponsors, what brokers will charge, or whether they sell Budweiser at the venues. The simple fact is we should be grateful they will tour at all. Quit being so damn judgmental. Most of you would sell your moma's ass on the street just to bang out a long resounding E chord at MSG. Get a grip and let the folks who wrote this awesome tours sweat the Karma they invite. You sanctimoniouis little a-wholes, No wonder Clapton has avoided thios reunion like the plague, Cream fans who don't pyle a ton of expectations on this tour will be treated to a great time. The rest of you should stay home and let the rest of us bask in the light of Rockstars "selling out"

2 tickets for $1600 on ebay. what a crock of crap.

Do you think amex could get a Phish reunion together. I might be tempted to get an amex card then :)

Only in today's world does a billionaire musician who's basically writing easy-listening songs nowadays get together his old rock band for a geezer reunion sponsored by American Express and people tell those who gripe about it to `get over it.' Go use your Amex to buy tickets for your stockbroker friends and enjoy your warm $12 Miller Lites in the cruddy MSG skyboxes while you talk about the fukkin Giants during the concert. Gimme a break. SELL OUT.

Call it what you want. It's a sell out. JOKE

music may be a business, but business or not, excess is excess. the fact that a credit card company is calling the shots for ERIC CLAPTON and Cream and all their fans is a travesty. surprising? no. but the fact remains. that said, i'm sure these three shows will be awesome. it's too bad they aren't using a fairer way of ticketing.

Everybody needs to chill. Its just music man, come on. Cream rocked and they want a taste again. It is true others want a taste, and we can't do anything about that, but you know what, I'm gonna use my VISA to get the DVD.

I think that there are some people in here who see nothing wrong with the exclusivity of the AmEx deal. These are probably people who also support Halliburton getting all of the reconstuction contracts in Iraq and New Orleans. Now, I totally understand that musicians need to make money, I want to be a professional musician myself, and I know that there needs to be money involved... in fact, I am not even bitching about the $300+ ticket prices... I am simply bitching about American Express having ticket priority... that has nothing to do with whether or not the band needs to make money. Cream are a legendary band, and if you think they couldn't have done this on their own... well, I feel sorry for you... Really, I think that what it all comes down to is something like Woodstock '99. The beauty of old turned into a modern corporate venture. Once again, I am not arguing that these should be free shows... so get that stupid rebuttal out of your head. Enjoy Clapton and Crew, I am sure that they will rock the American Express out of that place... it's everywhere YOU want to be, just not anywhere I want to be.

What a Shame!! I mean come on, is everyone charging 3-400 dollars a ticket these days, the stones tickets were so outrageous i didn't go! Cream tix too, we need to get off this splurge spending shit, music is cheap, it didn't cost clapton 400 million to write any of his songs, why pay that much for them. All im saying is i wouldn't have paid this much so see cream in their prime let alone some wrinkled creamy clapton in 2005. The stones played for free at the altamont in their prime, cream played shows for a reasonable amount in thier time ,, what happened? Where would any of these groups be without the fans? Poor and bitching about how much the show are just like me!

this shit pisses me off. i mean we love eric clapton, right? clapton and cream were one of the greatest bands in rock history. but as innovators, they peaked in the 70's. now, the show may be great, but they will never touch what they used to be. still, i love them. but they show me no love, because i am a poor man. sell-outs! i wish i didnt love music so much.

Much inaccurate generalizing going on here. Some corrections: (1) Lots of very ordinary, normal, everyday, not-rich, non-Republican people have AmEx cards (like me); (2) I'm glad AmEx ran this promotion, because it was the only way I was ever going to (and did) get tickets to a Cream concert ahead of the scalper companies; (3) Despite what some on here seem to regard as the unforgivable sin of having an AmEx card, I am no ignoramous when it comes to Cream -- I know intimately every song Cream ever did, they are my favorite band of all time, and I can and do play along to their recordings at home on my ancient, pre-CBS Fender Precision Bass and Bassman amp (I played bass in garage bands about a thousand years ago back when Jack Bruce was the god of bass); (4) the AmEx early promotional distribution actually helped keep at least some good seats out of the hands of scalpers, because the best tickets can only be picked up in person by someone having both the card used to purchase them AND a picture id that matches the name on the card, and the best seats could only be bought two at a time (I'm not so naive as to believe that thousands of seats weren't held back for distribution to all manner of insiders and industry hangers-on, like they always are for every popular rock concert, but at least some average people like me were able to get good seats). Incidentally, I saw Cream on their farewell tour in early November 1968 (I THINK the exact date was 11/3/68) at Chastain Park in Atlanta, Georgia (they played two shows, matinee and evening, I went to both, and paid the then-princely sum of $8.50 per ticket to do so), and I can't wait to see them again next month. Yes, prices for next month's show are, shall we say, a bit higher, but then, as I told my wife, there are only two acts I would pay this much to see, (1) Cream, and (2) the Beatles IF John and George came back from the dead, and since #2 isn't very likely, really it's only Cream for me.

Its a pay to play world. They were great in London on the 6th of May and I am sure they will be great in New York.

THERE WERE NO FENDERS IN CREAM OTHER THAN JACKS 6STRING BASS. I AM SORRY,, SAW THE VIDEO OF RAH.... ITS LIKE ERIC IS HOLDING BACK ON PURPOSE. I SAW THE CREAM IN HIGH SCHOOLS, THE CAFE WHA,, THE FILLMORE, THE GARDEN AND EVERY BIG VENUE IN THE MIDEASTERN STATES. I LOVE JACK AND HIS PLAYING. AND GINGER HAD HIS GREAT TOUCH, BUT ERIC IS HOLDING BACK WITH THAT MALLTONE SETUP HE HAS. HELL I HAVE BETTER TONE THAN THAT. the ticket prices.. are evil, pure and simple,, a sign of the times. i will take my live cream vinyl that night and turn it up. i wont be there, and i am a lifelong fan. i will not support CORPORATE GREED. and for eric and jack and ginger to give the okay for these ticket prices is..... wizzing on their legacy. sorry mates, i love ya,, but this is bogus. peace,(whatever that means these days) bubba

Went last night and it was fun. Would I go again for $200...no, but it was worth it once. My night was hampered by a bunch of over the hill baby boomers who seem to think it is OK to yell at the guy next to me for dancing. At one point the guy seated in the row behind attacked him from behind, trying to strangle him. Why? Because he was dancing, not bumping, not spilling drinks, not screaming...just dancing to Cream. Hey, if you can't stand up at a concert for 2 hrs, stay home. I have been to 1000+ concerts and this is the first time I have EVER seen anyone get physically attacked for dancing. He was wrong to continue to stand when others sat, but 80% of MSG was standing. To the guy who tried to strangle him. SHAME!! You will always be remembered as that A**hole who attacked a dude for dancing. Toughguy.

I liked your comments, lightup...I agree. And most importantly, I am sure you are right about why Clapton put this thing together. Jack Bruce had a liver transplant a few years ago for liver cancer (a cancer that almost always arises from a bed of cirrhosis, most likely due to drinking.) His days are numbered. Baker still has great chops for a 65 year old, but hasn't made a plug nickel since Cream broke up. Clapton, on the other hand, has coasted for thirty years on his reputation from that band. He is probably the most over-rated guitarist in history. Why? Because people are still waiting for him to do something like he did when he was in Cream. Trouble is, it seems like he could only do that when he was high on smack, and now, what with the Crossroads organization and all that, it's unlikely that you will ever hear that kind of playing again. Not to say I would rather see him get involved with drugs again, but playing straight, he just doesn't cut it. He has issues, and that's a damn shame. I wouldn't have missed the reunion for anything, but at the end of the day, Clapton put in a perfunctory performance at best. His tone sucked, his amp kept breaking up in the lower registers and he seemed to be waiting for the night to end. Like the way you feel when you are at a company party and you have to put in an appearance. I used to go to see Cream and leave saying I would never play the guitar again. What was the point, when a person could play so perfectly? After this concert, I felt like everything he did, I could do better. The good news is that Bruce and Baker will net at least 10 million each, and they deserve it. I guess Clapton thought so too, and I'm sure that's why he did this thing. Just wish he had put a little more into it and stopped trying to sound like Robert Johnson or Elmore James. Wish he could cut loose like he used to. After paying a near-fortune for a ticket, I figure he owed me at least that much.

I was there opening night 50 feet to eric's left in a 64 dollar seat. The show rocked and I was impressed by the cohesiveness of the band after 30 plus years. By the way they broke up before I was born.