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
draining liberty
What we feel is that it's so special, and also so emotionally draining that it's not something we could do every day. We will play more, but where and when I'm not at liberty to say.
money
Growing up in inner-city Glasgow, it sometimes seemed to me money hadn't been invented.
ambitious buying coast endlessly scotland thankfully west
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.
african bring rhythms small trying
What I'm trying to do, in my own small way, is trying to bring African and Afro-Cuban rhythms into rock.
definitely
I think I'm an okay parent, but I'd put myself in the category of a musician-who-happened-to-become-a-father. I'm definitely not a father-who-happened-to-be-a-musician.
record
Well, I can tell you the first record I ever stole - I wasn't so well off in those days.
alive basically dad justified life roles
We all have roles in life. I'm a dad, a husband, this and that, but basically I only feel justified in being alive when I'm on the stage.
age band began dance earning evenings money performing pleased
At the age of 16 I started performing with a dance band in the evenings and began earning more money than my father, but he was pleased for me.
clapton current drew eric magazine national picture says somebody
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.
aim early money owning rights success
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.
african great music source
I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
audience carry difficult hit hopefully huge records singles striving
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.
dad incredible
Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
contentment dark horses ran silver smiles
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes. / Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.