{"id":3941,"date":"2010-09-29T09:54:04","date_gmt":"2010-09-29T13:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/?p=3941"},"modified":"2021-01-22T11:00:44","modified_gmt":"2021-01-22T15:00:44","slug":"cream-at-the-pyschedelic-supermarket-1967-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/?p=3941","title":{"rendered":"Cream at the Psychedelic Supermarket, 1967 &#038; more"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float:right;margin: 12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1213643583738263\";\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8050392339\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\ngoogle.com, pub-3680554235834172, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/div><div style=\"float:right;margin: 12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1213643583738263\";\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5294177075\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div><p><!-- Global site tag (gtag.js) - Google Analytics --><br \/>\n<script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.googletagmanager.com\/gtag\/js?id=UA-6115888-3\"><\/script><br \/>\n<script><br \/>\n  window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || [];<br \/>\n  function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);}<br \/>\n  gtag('js', new Date());<\/p>\n<p>  gtag('config', 'UA-6115888-3');<br \/>\n<\/script><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3942\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3942\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3942\" title=\"Cream Psychedelic Supermarket Small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Small.jpg?resize=540%2C386\" alt=\"Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton live at the Psychedelic Supermarket in Kenmore Square, Boston, September, 1967.\" width=\"540\" height=\"386\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Small.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Small.jpg?resize=300%2C214&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3942\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton live at the Psychedelic Supermarket in Kenmore Square, Boston, September, 1967.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>About six months after writing a series of pieces in 2009 on Cream concerts I&#8217;ve been to, I was contacted by Ken Melville. Ken was in the band Catharsis in Boston in September, 1967 and opened for Cream for their one-week run of concerts at the Psychedelic Supermarket in Kenmore Square, just a stone&#8217;s throw from Fenway Park.<\/p>\n<p>I went to see Cream on a Sunday, the first night of the engagement, which was supposed to last two weeks but only survived the one. A detailed description of the concert, a particularly memorable one, is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/?p=881\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I do recall an opening act, but don&#8217;t remember much about the band. To my amazement, Ken sent me some photos from that week after leaving a comment on one of the posts. Taken by his girlfriend with a Kodak instamatic, as I recall, the photos above and on the following page show the band on stage and in the dressing room with Ken and some of his friends.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s all quite remarkable really that more than 40 years later, we&#8217;re viewing photos from that week.<\/p>\n<div style=\"float:left;margin: 12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1213643583738263\";\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5294177075\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div><div style=\"float:left;margin: 12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\r\ngoogle.com, pub-3680554235834172, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0\r\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1213643583738263\";\r\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"8050392339\";\r\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\r\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\r\n\/\/-->\r\n<\/script>\r\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\r\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\r\n<\/script><\/div><p>Also on the page, you will see&nbsp;two shots from their June, 1968&nbsp;date at the original Oakdale Theatre in Wallingford, Conn. A piece on the two shows at Oakdale and the last concert I saw of Cream during this stretch in the fall of 1968 at the New Haven Arena during the Farewell Tour is available <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/?p=1213\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>It took a jury of people to identify the Oakdale shots, which I&#8217;ve come across through an astute friend on the Internet. A fellow who worked at Oakdale and another similar summer tent theater in Rhode Island identified it by the lighting grid you see above Clapton&#8217;s head. Also the shot with Jack Bruce sitting on the edge of the orchestra pit includes Rich Bednarczyk in the foreground of the pit, surfer blond hair, who played keyboards for my band Pulse.<\/p>\n<p>There is also a piece on this site describing the April, 1968 concert at Woolsey Hall at Yale in New Haven <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/?p=967\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you&#8217;re an avid Cream fan, it&#8217;s likely you&#8217;ve already come across these. The only place I&#8217;ve seen them is in a few of Ken&#8217;s posts to a music forum. The subject, of all things, started out as a discussion of whether Clapton used a Gibson ES-335 on the classic cut Crossroads from Wheels Of Fire. I don&#8217;t think that was ever resolved but some of the discussion is interesting and, of course, Ken&#8217;s photos are the highlight.<\/p>\n<p>All quite heady. Click on continue reading for the other shots.<!--more--><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3959\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3959\" title=\"Cream Psychedelic Supermarket Montage Small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Montage-Small.jpg?resize=540%2C371\" alt=\"Jack Bruce playing one of his harp features, Rollin' And Tumblin' from the first Cream album, Fresh Cream. Clapton is still on stage, which indicates it's the Muddy Waters' tune.\" width=\"540\" height=\"371\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Montage-Small.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Montage-Small.jpg?resize=300%2C206&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Bruce playing one of his harp features, Rollin&#8217; And Tumblin&#8217; from the first Cream album, Fresh Cream. Clapton is still on stage, which indicates it&#8217;s the Muddy Waters tune.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-3960\" title=\"Cream Strip 2 Psychedelic Supermarket Small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-Strip-2-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Small.jpg?resize=270%2C853\" alt=\"Cream Strip 2 Psychedelic Supermarket Small\" width=\"270\" height=\"853\"><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3961\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3961\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3961\" title=\"Cream with Ken and Dick Waterman Psychedelic Supermarket Small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-with-Ken-and-Dick-Waterman-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Small.jpg?resize=540%2C405\" alt=\"Eric Clapton with Ken Melville, right, and Dick Waterman backstage at the Psychedelic Supermarket, September, 1967.\" width=\"540\" height=\"405\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-with-Ken-and-Dick-Waterman-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Small.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-with-Ken-and-Dick-Waterman-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Small.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Clapton with Ken Melville, right, and Dick Waterman backstage at the Psychedelic Supermarket, September, 1967.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3962\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3962\" title=\"Cream Jack with friends Psychedelic Supermarket Small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-Jack-with-friends-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Small.jpg?resize=540%2C675\" alt=\"Jack Bruce with Friends backstage.\" width=\"540\" height=\"675\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-Jack-with-friends-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Small.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-Jack-with-friends-Psychedelic-Supermarket-Small.jpg?resize=240%2C300&amp;ssl=1 240w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Bruce with Friends backstage.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3964\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3964\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3964\" title=\"Cream heavy-gauge-card-front Small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-heavy-gauge-card-front-Small.jpg?resize=540%2C410\" alt=\"Eric Clapton and Cream at the Oakdale Theatre, second show, June, 1968.\" width=\"540\" height=\"410\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-heavy-gauge-card-front-Small.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-heavy-gauge-card-front-Small.jpg?resize=300%2C227&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3964\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Eric Clapton and Cream at the Oakdale Theatre, second show, June, 1968.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_3965\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3965\" style=\"width: 540px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3965\" title=\"Cream heavy-gauge-front-inside Small\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-heavy-gauge-front-inside-Small.jpg?resize=540%2C508\" alt=\"Jack Bruce takes a break, sitting on the edge of the Orchestra Pit at the Oakdale Theatre, June, 1968. That would being during Baker's solo Toad as Clapton did not play Steppin' Out at these shows.\" width=\"540\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-heavy-gauge-front-inside-Small.jpg?w=540&amp;ssl=1 540w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/Cream-heavy-gauge-front-inside-Small.jpg?resize=300%2C282&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 540px) 100vw, 540px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-3965\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jack Bruce takes a break, sitting on the edge of the Orchestra Pit at the Oakdale Theatre, June, 1968. That would be during Baker&#8217;s solo Toad as Clapton did not play Steppin&#8217; Out at these shows.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div style=\"float:right;margin: 12px;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\"><!--\ngoogle_ad_client = \"pub-1213643583738263\";\ngoogle_ad_slot = \"5294177075\";\ngoogle_ad_width = 234;\ngoogle_ad_height = 60;\n\/\/-->\n<\/script>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\"\nsrc=\"http:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/show_ads.js\">\n<\/script><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>google.com, pub-3680554235834172, DIRECT, f08c47fec0942fa0 About six months after writing a series of pieces in 2009 on Cream concerts I&#8217;ve been to, I was contacted by Ken Melville. Ken was in the band Catharsis in Boston in September, 1967 and opened for Cream for their one-week run of concerts at the Psychedelic Supermarket in Kenmore Square, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/?p=3941\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Cream at the Psychedelic Supermarket, 1967 &#038; more<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8],"tags":[43,44,45,50,1211,328,1208,79,308,106,401,298,302,131,1210,1376,318,402,282,200,201,323,297,214,283,1127,1209],"class_list":["post-3941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music","tag-blog","tag-blues","tag-blues-rock","tag-boston","tag-catharsis","tag-classic-rock","tag-classic-rock-photos","tag-cream","tag-disraeli-gears","tag-eric-clapton","tag-farewell-tour","tag-fresh-cream","tag-ginger-baker","tag-jack-bruce","tag-ken-melville","tag-music","tag-new-haven","tag-new-haven-arena","tag-oakdale-theatre","tag-pop","tag-pop-rock","tag-psychedelia","tag-psychedelic-supermarket","tag-rock","tag-wallingford-ct","tag-wheels-of-fire","tag-woolsey-hall-yale"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/puDy0-11z","jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3941"}],"version-history":[{"count":43,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5448,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3941\/revisions\/5448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetrickismusic.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}