THE MUSIC OF CREAM

not to be savored in a concert format. And who better to provide it than the sons of Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker with the nephew of Eric Clapton? The “Disraeli Gears Tour” of “The Music of Cream” starts in British Columbia, Canada on February 28 and finishes in Austin, Texas on May 3 (if they make it that far). Drummer Kofi Baker is a chip off the old block. Colorful, opinionated, and in one long rambling soliloquy, Kofi had no problem excoriating his bassist, Malcolm Bruce, claiming himself the best musician of the three, and daring to venture into the prognosis that the tour may implode under the weight of its own chemistry. Why? Just like the natural antagonism that fueled Cream in the 1960s, Baker and Bruce, again, a generation later, just can’t seem to get along. That leaves bluesman guitarist Will Johns to pick up the pieces of their dissent just like his Uncle Eric did in Cream until it was all too much. One is reminded that Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Cream didn’t even last three years before