Product Details

• Actors: Patrick Allen, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Eric Clapton, Cream
• Directors: Tony Palmer, Toni Palmer
• Format: Color, DVD, NTSC
• Language: English (PCM Stereo)
• Region: Region 1 (U.S. and Canada only. Read more about DVD formats.)
  
• Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
• Number of discs: 1
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Studio: Image Entertainment
• DVD Release Date: October 12, 1999
• Run Time: 48 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 2.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (28 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 630560522X
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #211,914 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

Editorial Reviews

On guitar: Eric Clapton. Lead singer and bass guitarist: Jack Bruce. On drums: Ginger Baker. Their motto: "Forget the message, forget the lyrics, and just play." Their name: Cream. For two glorious years, Cream's high-volume blues, jamming and extended solos blazed a path into rock history. But the time to part had come, and all that remained was one wild, unforgettable concert. Now you are there, on November 26, 1968, inside London's illustrious Royal Albert Hall, jammed to its gilded rafters with rock fans ready for the final concert of what many still consider the greatest band that ever played. Includes rare off-stage interviews with each band member. 48 minutes.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Buyer Beware, February 2, 2003

By 

rocdoc (United States) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Cream: Farewell Concert (DVD)

They shouldn't call this "The Farewell Concert". There's very little concert here. The thing is also very pooly filmed and edited. There are bits and pieces of songs. This would make a nice "extra" for a good video disc, but doesn't stand well on it's own at all.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars Bits and pieces with bad sound, May 18, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Cream: Farewell Concert (DVD)

This DVD, even at its low price, isn't worth it. Sounds are incomplete and interrupted by narration. The sound and video quality isn't pleasing either.

14 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars The music gets the stars, September 8, 2004

By 

M. Detko "detkoralph" (Scarborough, Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Cream: Farewell Concert (DVD)

oh no...well it was 1967 and filmakers hadn't had a lot of experience filming rock concerts. The bad: Tight zooming in and out, superimposition, long close-ups of Jack Bruce's boils, shots of Clapton's face while he's burning some wicked blues guitar; the sound is awful, and to make it worse they add echo all the way through Ginger Baker's drum solo so it's a huge mess. There's also echo added in other tunes...really bad.

On the plus side it actually is interesting to see the boys talking candidly about this and that, very "period", and Clapton demonstrating his guitar techniques using the Dayglo-painted Gibson SG that George Harrison had given to him. At this moment in time Clapton was considered the greatest guitarist alive.

If you want a good representation of Cream playing live you'll get all you need on their official albums: Wheels of Fire, Live Cream (excellent-I think their best live material and lovely production), and Goodbye, which has excerpts from this concert but without the horrible echo. There is also Live Cream 2, which is also quite good, but released after the break-up. Look for the Strange Brew DVD for a better retrospective and excellent live footage.