History Music / Cream

* YourApprovalFillsMeWithShame: Ginger Baker wasn't shy to express his disdain for the Heavy Metal music Cream partially helped birth, saying, quipping that he would've "had an abortion" had he known that to be the case.

Cream's influence has extended far, from progressive rock bands such as Music/{{Rush}} to jam bands such as Music/TheGratefulDead to heavy metal bands such as Music/BlackSabbath. Creator/VH1 and Rolling Stone have both called Cream one of the best bands of all time. Most of all, one of their number one fans was of course Music/JimiHendrix, who came to England in hope of meeting Music/EricClapton, his idol.

* UrExample: Of about seven different rock genres, arguably - seminal artists in genres as diverse as jam bands (Mickey Hart of the Music/GratefulDead), ProgressiveRock (Neil Peart of Music/{{Rush}}), ThrashMetal (Lars Ulrich of Music/{{Metallica}}), and PunkRock (Music/JohnLydon of Music/SexPistols and Music/PublicImageLtd) have attested to Cream's influence, and Cream provide early examples of tendencies like {{improv}}, EpicRocking, and UncommonTime that later became de rigeur in various rock genres. Despite being together only two years, Cream ended up being one of the most influential acts of TheSixties.

* SelfPlagiarism: The distinctive descending chord progression from the verses of "White Room" is virtually identical to the one in "Tales of Brave Ulysses." (Which Clapton would claim he'd copped from the Lovin' Spoonful's 1966 hit "Summer In The City".)

* DreamTeam: The [[TropeNamer first super-group.]] When Baker invited Clapton to form a band with him and Clapton said he'd do it if they got Bruce on bass, Clapton was unaware that Bruce and Baker had in fact had a feud running between them. This stemmed from the time they had played together in another band, where Baker had fired Bruce and threatened him with a knife (and later a broken drumstick). Surprisingly (and luckily), they put aside their differences in order to work with Clapton.