Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce
John Symon Asher "Jack" Brucewas a Scottish musician, singer and songwriter known primarily for his contributions to the British supergroup Cream, which also included guitarist-singer Eric Clapton and drummer Ginger Baker. In March 2011 Rolling Stone readers selected him as the eighth greatest bass guitarist of all time. "Most musicians would have a very hard time distinguishing themselves if they wound up in a band with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker," the magazine said at the time, "but Jack Bruce...
ProfessionBassist
Date of Birth14 May 1943
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Thankfully I'm not endlessly ambitious, but I have done some crazy ambitious things like buying an island off the west coast of Scotland in the late Sixties.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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I know he played on the last record but I don't wake up in the middle of the night thinking of Eric Clapton.
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Do you know a magazine called the National Enquirer? In the current issue, somebody drew it to my attention, there's a picture of me, like a very young picture of me, and there's a picture of Eric Clapton now and a picture of me then, and it says this is how Eric Clapton has aged.
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I was 16 when I got a scholarship to study classical composition at a conservatory. By that time I had already listened to Scottish folksong with my mother, sung in church choirs, and had sung solo with Benjamin Britten conducting.
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Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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So I do think of myself in that way as hopefully someone who will go on as long as there's an audience and as long as I can without striving to have huge hit records because I think in a way if I'd had hit singles or something like that years ago it would have been difficult for me to carry on the way I have.
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I'm not going with some big time producer who takes over completely and I'm just a sideman. I wouldn't fancy that really.
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Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.
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I've always had money because of my early success with Cream, so I tell young musicians to aim to write their own material, because owning the composition rights makes a very big difference.
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Well, I can tell you the first record I ever stole - I wasn't so well off in those days.
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Bach is really the ultimate in bass players you know
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Well I like everything but my first love has always been piano because when I started out there was a piano in my house and it was there so I just started tinkling on it really so it's always been my first love.