Though I was young in years, 11, I understood that there are times in life when you seek refugee wherever you could find it. Anthony from Sapulpa, OkLiving in a home that loved music but was full of great hardship and pain, I heard the pain of loss and the hope of finding freedom from a dark situation.One other track from the album also made the Top 100 chart, "Crossroads" it peaked at #28. They opened the concert with "White Room" at the time the song was at #22 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, fifteen days later on November 3rd, 1968 it would peak at #6. Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn October 19th 1968, Cream was in concert for the second of two nights at The Forum in Inglewood, California.Barry from Sauquoit, NyOn November 4th 1968, Cream performed in concert at the Rhode Island Auditorium in Providence, RI it would be their last appearance in the U.S.A.Īt the time "White Room" was in its first of three weeks at #6 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, it was also its peak position on the chart.The lead guitar start at : Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves (lead guitar) and goes on until the end.I wish someone can explain why they changed it? ![]() For me the best one is Wheels Of Fire 1968. Andre from Montreal, Quebec, CanadaIt's a lot of versions of White Room. ![]() Pigeon Steph from FanceThe Clapton's solo on White Room is fantastic but Clapton took exactelly an old solo and put it on white room, if someone know from wich bluesman, tell me, I think it's Holwing Wolf, but I'm not sure ?.Enigma from WorldI had a dream told me to look up white room hypnosis …didn't know it exsited but guess it does hmmmmmm.Imagine White Room echoing through the valleys of the Altai Mountains of Siberia when alien spacecraft were commonly seen, and then you will realize that White Room musically is the sonic emotion of that ancient age. What you are hearing in White Room, is the an ancient anthemic sound from thousands of years past, brought into the present with modern instruments and technology. All three members of Cream, are of that ancient marketed clan. 2/3 of those surnames with that marker including Amadeus, (Mozart) are the surname of said musicians. When you examine the modern surnames of world class musicians from the 1700's and onward, their is a subgroup of the Celts, with a distinct genetic genetic marker. Shaman King from EverywhereGenetics now scientifically proves that there is an at least 5,500 year old ancient family later known as "The Celts".Who was that Clapton and Baker guy? How would we know they would be some of the best in the music world? Lucky me. There were many hits yet White Room was my favorite. Paul W from Columbus OhioI had this album when I was fifteen and loved it.Dan Gillespy from Courtenay BcA very old but very super duper cool rock classic from the 1960s which happens to be a timelees classic.Mike Gannon from Westchester County NyGreat classic rock from an all-time iconic group! Bruce and Brown wrote amazing songs together! My personal favorite on Wheels Of Fire is Deserted Cities Of The Heart! Such terrific drive but there are no baddies on Wheels! RS took itself far too seriously back then….That's why it's probably lasted - it's got a kind of mystery to it." That song's like a kind of weird little movie: it changes perspectives all the time. It's a place where I stopped, I gave up all drugs and alcohol at that time in 1967 as a result of being in the white room, so it was a kind of watershed period. ![]() It wasn't a very good living, and then I got asked to work by Ginger and Jack with them and then started to make a kind of living.Īnd there was this kind of transitional period where I lived in this actual white room and was trying to come to terms with various things that were going on. I was doing poetry readings and making a living from that. It was a time before I stopped being a relative barman and became a songwriter, because I was a professional poet, you know. It was a kind of watershed period really. In a Songfacts interview with Pete Brown, he told the story: "It was a meandering thing about a relationship that I was in and how I was at the time. Pete Brown's first attempt at a lyric was something about a "doomed hippie girl" - the song was called "Cinderella's Last Goodnight." Jack Bruce wasn't buying it, so he scrapped that idea and pulled up an eight-page poem he had written earlier, which he reworked into "White Room."
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