Alexis Petridis getting nicely bitchy in a review of the Cream reunion gig.
Hendrix, rather unsportingly, fetched up in London two weeks after their first gig, and immediately set about making them look a bit stodgy. He has continued to do so after his death; one of the few benefits attached to choking on your own vomit at 27 being that it prevents you from reaching middle age, donning an Armani suit and crooning deadly soft rock ballads about how your wife looks wonderful tonight.
Must remember to add the new Cream compilation CD to my Amazon wishlist.
I agree that Alexis revealed a less than objective bias in these comments. I would venture to use the word “agism”. Cream albiet unconciously and partly because of the time and place they found themselves (late sixties) were a brief, but VERY bright ‘firework’ that lit the path for much that has followed over the last 30 years. Inevitable comparisons with Hendrix, are banal – both Hendrix and Cream were founders of Rock as we know it.