Cream: Strange Brew

This tuneful documentary video chronicles the brief history of the first pop music "supergroup" and features interviews with members Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker. Also featured are comments by other major musicians who were influenced by Cream including John Mayall, Robert Cray, Pete ...more

The title of this 60-minute retrospective on the legendary power trio pretty well describes itself -- it is a strange amalgam of interviews and some well-chosen (and some not so well-chosen) performance clips. Strangely enough, the best part of the documentary, from the standpoint of information, is the interview segment with Jack Bruce and lyricist Pete Brown describing their way of working, and Ginger Baker's recollection of how "Strange Brew" came to be written out of another song altogether, ...more