Jack's Get Well Guestbook: Jan 12 - Feb 12
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Name: Kjell Åshede
Location: Gothenburg, Sweden
Email: kjell.ashede@vgregion.se
Date: 1/12/2004
Time: 2:36:47 AM
Comment
Ever since I first heard Cream in 1967 you have had my highest respect as a musician and a person. I truly hope you will get fully recovered and back in business soon. The new album is great (as always).
Name: angelo benas
Location: new york city
Email: bnang2@aol.com
Date: 1/12/2004
Time: 5:19:54 AM
Comment
Dear Jack You are simply the best. Your life has been an inspiration to me and your music has transcended my spirit to a higher level. May the good lord give you a quick and complete recovery because there are a lot of people who love you and your family.
Angelo Benas
Name: peter fletcher
Location: rugby
Email: caroleannfletcher@oakfield46.fsnet.co.uk
Date: 1/12/2004
Time: 7:13:09 AM
Comment
Hope you get well soon, the music world would be a darker place without that thunderous and fluid bass and passionate vocals, Keep shining on Fletch
Name: big6stringbass
Location: New Jersey USA
Email: big6stringbass@aol.com
Date: 1/12/2004
Time: 12:45:41 PM
Comment
Jack, just hope you're doing well. Listening to Cream as a teenager encouraged me to take up bass as a college freshman. Reading interviews re your influences back then led me to discover Bach (bought a 20+ LP set of the Complete Organ Works back in 1968 because of you) and then the other classics. Essentially, you were istrumental in opening for me a world of music of all kinds that I've enjoyed for more than 30 years. Thank you.
Name: Steve Potter
Location: New York, USA
Email: smpotter@gw.dec.state.ny.us
Date: 1/12/2004
Time: 1:03:51 PM
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JAck: Here's hoping that your transplant will be a complete success and you'll be back out on the road doing what you do best. I have always been a fan and wish you and your family all the best in 2004. Get well soon. Steve Potter
Name: ed
Location: belgium
Email: baroom@hotmail.com
Date: 1/12/2004
Time: 3:45:25 PM
Comment
great to see you're recovering well. twas a great shock last year to learn the greatest jazzrock musician of our times was so unwell.Have seen you over the years from Frankfurt to Ghent. Highlight was your most recent Antwerp gig. A dream.
Name: JimClark
Location: cumbernauld
Email: jarts201@aol.com
Date: 1/13/2004
Time: 6:19:10 AM
Comment
Best wishes Jack and a speedy recovery, I'm a big fan of all the music that you have shared with us over the years/ it was in fact your big brother Charlie who introduced me to Cream when I worked with him in the Head Post Office george square. And that wasn't yesterday. Cheers Jim Clark
Name: Brad Melloy
Location: Indianapolis IN
Email: www.bmelloy@vsai.org
Date: 1/13/2004
Time: 9:44:13 AM
Comment
get well soon my friend; have accumulated the lion's share of your work over the years; IMHO you remain, to this day, the template/standard upon which all electric comtemporary bass playing is critiqued. God bless you and your family....brad
Name: Joe C
Location: New York
Email: joecarb@optonline.net
Date: 1/13/2004
Time: 12:38:20 PM
Comment
Here's to a continued speedy recovery! Looking forward to your next trip to New York and I promise I will do everything in my power to be there in support of your live music. It would take too much space to say how much I love your music and it would be no surprise to know I've enjoyed it for more then 35 years!!! Get Well. As a DJ on the college station 90.1 WUSB-FM Stony Brook University I will be sure to keep our listeners abreast of your recovery and future endeavors!
Cheers, Joe C a lifelong fan!
Name: rick a.
Location: boston ma
Email: ashtons4@yahoo.com
Date: 1/13/2004
Time: 4:19:10 PM
Comment
Get well soon. And come to Boston soon. And bring Gary Moore with you,please!
Name: Steven Gregory
Location: Anderson, SC USA
Email: steven_w_gregory@hotmail.com
Date: 1/13/2004
Time: 8:01:17 PM
Comment
I always enjoy your music; your great voice, your melodic and lyrical creativity go well beyond the bounds of the ordinary into the extraordinary. Your fresh, inventive harmonic progressions and melodic pathways direct my mind and spirit on wonderful new journeys of exploration and discovery. This is true not just when listening for the first time but again and again and again.
The world is blessed by your recovery.
Name: Schizoidman
Location: on a rope ladder to the moon
Email:
Date: 1/13/2004
Time: 8:56:21 PM
Comment
Jacky boy, hope you are doing well. I absolutely love the new album. next time you are on tour, stop by Kansas City. -A loyal fan
Name: Tony Whitley
Location: Poole - UK
Email: tony.whitley@siemens.com
Date: 1/14/2004
Time: 8:08:58 AM
Comment
Jack, Suffice to say "I'm So Glad" your recovery is on track. Here's to many, many more chapters in the book of life. All the very best, Tony Whitley.
Name: Mugu come
Location: Lome Togo
Email: mugu@mugu.com
Date: 1/14/2004
Time: 1:39:36 PM
Comment
Please keep off for i have been there ok so be a guyman00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000ok
Name: Carlene Durgin
Location: Derry, NH, USA
Email: cmdurgin@comcast.net
Date: 1/15/2004
Time: 8:04:44 AM
Comment
The very best to you for a happy, healthy and special New Year. Thanks much for your music which has given enjoyment and awe since the '60's. Finally saw you in person with "A Walk Down Abbey Road" at Hampton Beach in New Hampshire, where YOU were the show.
Name: steven nash
Location: Woodford green
Email: yhj157@hotmail.com
Date: 1/15/2004
Time: 4:22:46 PM
Comment
Jack have followed your music from tha days of Cream. So glad that you are on the mend. Carry on getting well, we all miss your bass and distinctive voice, so you better start making some more great music as soon as you are fully recovered. regards Steve
Name: chico rey
Location: l.a. cal.
Email: chicoreybass@aol.com
Date: 1/16/2004
Time: 4:07:25 AM
Comment
dear jack just letting you know you are in my prayers and i hope all is well and you are on the mend. love allways chico rey
Name: jan maillard
Location: santiago,chile
Email: jan_maillard@yahoo.com
Date: 1/16/2004
Time: 9:30:47 AM
Comment
que bueno que te mejoraste...no te mueras nunca,jack!!eres demasiado importante para la musica y para mi.gracias a ti entendi otra faceta de ser roquero...ser original y agresivo en la forma de expresarse y no temer decir lo que crees. tu no necesitas de cream,lifetime o lo que sea.el lp harmony row deberia enviarse al espacio porque capta esos magicos momentos que hacen especial la vida!!!!!!!!
Name: Peter McDivitt
Location: Corvallis, Oregon
Email: waterpan1@hotmail.com
Date: 1/16/2004
Time: 8:36:26 PM
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Dear Jack and family My heart and well wishes go out to all of you and Jack B. you play like an avalanche of dreams over a field of doubters. Its fun watching them grow. Stay health and I hope you are happy. With all the joy you have created and given to others save some for yourself. Peter
Name: Liana and Tony Middeldorp
Location: New Zealand
Email: happyhippy2000
Date: 1/17/2004
Time: 5:12:52 AM
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best wishes and a quick recovery! and thanks for all your great music over the years! we love you!
Name: d schwam
Location: NYC, USA
Email: dschwam@msn.com
Date: 1/17/2004
Time: 6:47:20 AM
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Dear Jack--
I was so surprised to hear of your surgery. Sure sounds serious. Glad you are healing up nicely and have cooked Christmas dinner!
When I was a teenager, i first was turned on to Cream. Having bought all their albums, I was saddened to learn of Cream's break-up. Today, being older and wiser (one hopes) I realize nothing lasts forever and that (as my wife says) good things come out of changes.
When I purchased "Songs for a Tailor" so long ago, I became hooked on your solo sound. Since then, I have purchased all your albums.
Please stay healthy and continue to make great music. My own son is a jazz tenor sax man and is part of Chico Hamilton's Euphoria, so I appreciate music and the difference it makes in our lives.
Please go on with your musical vision and make our tormented world a sweeter place through your talent and leadership. We here in the colonies have not forgotten Jack Bruce and his legacy from Cream onward.
May I add that I am happy your back catalog is now available on CD.
Best wishes and stay healthy
D Schwam A musical acolyte of yours
Name: K.C.
Location: NEW JERSEY, USA
Email: KCCAP1@comcast.net
Date: 1/17/2004
Time: 9:06:08 AM
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It is great to hear that you are doing better. You have been such a tremendous influence on everyone who ever picked up a bass guitar. I still carry the torch and a play a Gibson EB-3 (of which I have three), which will forever be known as "The Jack Bruce Bass".
Name: kate
Location: shanghai,china
Email: order@easterncurio.com
Date: 1/17/2004
Time: 9:13:41 AM
Comment
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Name: MICKEY COOKSEY
Location: NORCROSS GA. USA
Email: FIRSTARROWHEAD@AOL.COM
Date: 1/17/2004
Time: 1:16:12 PM
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TO JACK BRUCE AND FAMILY WISHING YOU A HAPPY NEW YEAR AND SPEEDIE RECOVERY.I HAVE BEEN A FAN SINCE THE SIXTIES.OF MY THREE FAVORIE VOCALIST OF ALL TIME JACK IS NUMBER 1. LOOKING FORWARD TO MANY MORE YEARS OF YOUR MUSIC. MICKEY COOKSEY
Name: Mark Delmer
Location: ireland
Email: chapsbean@hotmail.com
Date: 1/17/2004
Time: 3:25:23 PM
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Jack all the best from Epic Ireland. Reform cream when you get well again. All the best in your recovery and we hope it is quick. Slan Leath.
Name: Bob Cross
Location: Tollesbury, Essex
Email: bobcross@freenet.co.uk
Date: 1/17/2004
Time: 4:45:20 PM
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Dear Jack - just to say it was great to meet you after all these years when we briefly spoke after the 'Legends of Rock' concert you headlined at the Cliffs Pavillion, Southend on Sea, November 2002. I first saw you, with Cream, at Woodlands Youth Centre, Basildon in early 1967. The good family friend, who had just taken over running the place, took a piece of paper round to the dressing room which you and Eric Clapton signed for me. When I related this to you at Southend - and mentioned that Ginger Baker had not signed - you replied rather dryly that 'Ginger could not write.' I did manage, through a friend who had access to tickets at the time, to get to the first of your two 'Farewell' concerts at the Albert Hall in 1968 (when I tell other guitar playing friends of these two events, they are mighty envious). It was nice though to speak with you after all the years, and to tell you how much I liked your (then) latest album 'Shadows In The Air.' After saying that this show was not 'your cup of tea' you kindly signed my ticket and shook my hand. I understand what you meant because all that heavy stuff is not to my taste either (nowhere as good as Cream were). I really have enjoyed your music though because you have stayed true to your real musical values and beliefs. I now have all your original albums on CD as well as your latest couple on the Sanctuary label. I do hope to catch up with again soon, this time with you own band in performance. Hopefully it will not be too long. All the very best to you - From Bob Cross.
Name: Jeffry Detwiler
Location: Altoona, Pa in the USA
Email: jeffry@redeemit.biz
Date: 1/17/2004
Time: 5:18:35 PM
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Hope you are doing well Jack and thanks so much for all the years of great music.
I was born in 1952, so my JR.High and High School years were 1964 thru 1970. Wow, great years for music!
The first album I ever bought in my life was Wheels of Fire. I used to fall asleep with Cream turned way down low so it wouldn't wake my parents. Those were the days...yes they were!
I was a Cream Freak for aleast ten years and still love it today. For me it was not just about Clapton...it was about you on bass and Ginger on the drums as well. The bands energy was simply electric! You have a great voice and I love the way you write music.
Like so many other people I was sad when Goodbye Cream came out. I moved on with West,Bruce,and Lang.....BLT and the others.
Keep up the good work Jack. You make life better for alot of people thru your music. Your family must be very proud of you. We admire your talent.
Best Wishes Jeff & Diana Detwiler 2619 11th Street Altoona, Pa 16601
Name: Anthony Ruggiero
Location: New Canaan,Connecticut, USA
Email: arimpact1@cs.com
Date: 1/17/2004
Time: 10:10:12 PM
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Speedy recovery Jack. Thanks for making the world a better place, and please carry on!!! Hope to see you again soon here in Connecticut. All the best to you, and your family. Cheers, Anthony
Name: Eddie Byrne
Location: San Diego, California
Email: Surfduck3@yahoo.com
Date: 1/17/2004
Time: 10:12:39 PM
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I did not know until i came accross your site. Come on down to San Diego way sometime soon.You might like a good healthy blast of Pacific Ocean breeze to re- energize and a few fish tacos. God's healing grace to you Happy Jack!!!!!. P.S. me mum's maiden name is Osburn. Y'all come on down real quick like. E.B
Name: Thad
Location: Niagara Falls, NY
Email: thadman69@hotmail.com
Date: 1/18/2004
Time: 8:24:42 AM
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Here's to a healthy recovery! You've been a true inspiration for many of us. Come to the U.S.
Name: Paul Santa Maria
Location: West Melbourne, Fl.
Email: trickphoto@yahoo.com
Date: 1/18/2004
Time: 8:51:32 AM
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Dear Jack: The world wouldn't be the same without you, please keep your health as your number one concern...Paul.
Name: Michael Mantler
Location:
Email:
Date: 1/18/2004
Time: 12:41:12 PM
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Hey Jack,
I must be the last person to have heard the (now hopefully very old) news .....
Hope you are (and stay) well forever.
Love,
Mike
Name: Paul
Location: Covina, CA, USA
Email: tricommphoto@earthlink.net
Date: 1/18/2004
Time: 8:44:15 PM
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I was stunned to hear about your affliction! I'm very glad you're still with us!!
I've been studying and enjoying your playing since about 1966, but have only been lucky enough to see you live once at the Greek in LA - the Beatles music tribute band gig in 2002(?).
You were WONDERFUL at that show - your rendition of Eleanor Rigby blew Paul McC's away, and the jam at the end of White Room was truly astounding. I really wish I could go back and see all the great shows that I have missed.
Be well, and keep playing that amazing, multicolored music that you create.
Thanks for all the great years!!
Name: Larry
Location: Bx,NY(the "harmonyrow
Email:
Date: 1/19/2004
Time: 4:04:18 AM
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Name: Larry
Location: Bx,NY(the "harmonyrow
Email:
Date: 1/19/2004
Time: 4:04:33 AM
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Name: Larry
Location: bronx(the harmony row of NYC?)
Email: Simibaby714@aol.com
Date: 1/19/2004
Time: 4:23:18 AM
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Yo,Jack! and to Jack's Margrit....how about the title of your next CD..."MARJACK", what u think? Anyway...much luv and good vibes being sent ur way! and PRAYERS!! Hope ur continuing to recover.... Jack, the other nite Leslie and Corky played BB's-2 sets(Yo, granted he's one fine guitarist, but he's like a lounge act....too bad). However, he mentioned you at both sets and also did"Why Dontcha" and "Theme" ( God bless his big(formerly) fat heart.) He was pretty funny,tho,HIS SPEAKING voice is Exactly like HARVEY FIERSTEIN. Anyway, he was giving away some promo guitar and when he gave it to the thrilled woman he classly said :"You're not gonna sell this to buy dope, are you?"
Name: Paul Phillips
Location: Northern Va
Email: fourovermorado@aol.com
Date: 1/19/2004
Time: 4:43:43 AM
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JACK I SEND YOU ALL OF MY WISHESE FOR THE UP MOST SPEEDIE RECOVERY, PLESE GET WELL SOON, THE BASS WORLD TAKES A BACK SEAT TELL YOU GET BACK IN TO THE DRIVES SEAT TO GUIDE US AS YOU HAVE FOR SO MANY YEARS!, THANKS TAKE CARE MY FRIEND PAUL
Name: Trevor Jones
Location: Tylers Green, Bucks
Email: trevor.jones@smiths-medical.com
Date: 1/19/2004
Time: 5:41:49 AM
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When I got into rock music at the age of 14 my first heroes were Cream and Mountain who almost immediately split. Imagine my delight when within weeks it was announced that members were uniting to form West, Bruce And Laing. In April 1973 my first ever gig was WB&L at Newcastle and I have remained a firm fan af the members and their seperate ways ever since, being espercailly delighted to find an import copy of Leslie's "Theme" album with Jack back in the 80's. Jack has always written great songs whether with Cream, WB&L or solo and I'm delighted that he'll be around for a while yet. "Shadows In The Dark" was great and I look forward to hearing the new one. All the best Jack, Trev
Name: Andreas Freytag
Location: Jena, Germany
Email: a.freytag@wiwi.uni-jena.de
Date: 1/19/2004
Time: 9:32:50 AM
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Dear Mr. Bruce,
I wish you all the best for the recovery period and hope to see you soon on stage again, playing a powerful Spoonful!
Sincerely
Andreas Freytag
Name: Olafur Helgi Kjartansson
Location: Selfoss, Iceland
Email: rollingstones@visir.is
Date: 1/19/2004
Time: 10:38:25 AM
Comment
Best wishes for your recovery. Please regain your health to make us some more music.
Greetings from Iceland Olafur Helgi
Name: Bruce Rennekamp
Location: St. Louis, MO USA
Email: brennekamp@azaleiausa.com
Date: 1/19/2004
Time: 11:58:43 AM
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I've not checked this site in a while, but saw in the new issue of Q, which gives a well deserved 4 star rating to the recently released retrospective, that Jack had been seriously ill. I am happy beyond words to hear that the prognosis is good. For more than 30 years Jack has been at the top of my list of favorite musicians and I will gladly debate with anyone my contention that Jack is the main reason Cream was so good. Clapton has never played guitar like he did when he was struggling to keep up with the pace set by Jack in virtually every Cream song. Every solo album he has released, from Songs for a Tailor on is a cherished posession and has offered inspiration to me many time over the years. Hang in there Jack! I know there are many more good albums inside you and with each new release you brighten my life more than you can know. Get well soon!
Name: JENNIE LEE
Location: SOUTHAMPTON
Email: jenx-y@beeb.net
Date: 1/19/2004
Time: 5:08:55 PM
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Hello Jack, I am hoping you will remember who I am. When you were at Park Gate Studio, Catsfeild, in the early eighties, Ike and Sarah were my foster parents, I came to your wedding to Mary in Hastings and the six of us went for a meal afterwards. (Lorraine and I decorated the rolls while you were in the registry office) I am desperate to contact you re a base session, so sorry to hear about your recent misfortune, however, I am sure you will make full recovery, it seems you have an awful lot of love and support from the poeple around you. Here's wishing you all the best for now and the future. Take care you, love Jen.
Name: Paul Michael Jr
Location: Dunedin-NZ(Scotland,South Pacific)
Email: modpunk7@yahoo.com.au
Date: 1/19/2004
Time: 11:04:41 PM
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dear jack, its hard to know what to say to someone that has such an immense influence on modern music without sounding wank. suffice to say thankyou for remaining genuine to your muse. genuine thankyous and get wells, Peace, Love and Rhythm- P.M.jr
Name: Jim W.
Location: New York
Email:
Date: 1/19/2004
Time: 11:12:26 PM
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Jack get well! hope to see you out on the road again soon. Perhaps a West,Bruce,Laing reunion. Congrats on More Jack Than God. hope you feel better soon.
Name: Vincent
Location: New Jersey
Email: Vwverno57@comcast.net
Date: 1/20/2004
Time: 8:24:58 AM
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Thanks for all of your music throughout the years. I've been a fan forever. Best wishes for a speedy recovery.
Name: Theo Brand
Location: Dordrecht, The Netherlands
Email: tjbrand@xs4all.nl
Date: 1/20/2004
Time: 8:43:18 AM
Comment
Your music has been an inspiration and joy for over thirty years now and I am glad that you decided to stay with us. Theo
Name: Norman Guy
Location: Germany
Email: tattoodlady@t-online.de
Date: 1/20/2004
Time: 12:35:39 PM
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I wish You all the best Jack ! Rock on ! The Music You did together with various other Artists had a strong influence on my own music. I'm very happy to hear that Your health continous to improve ! I'm sure You gonna make a lot more Albums with Your fantastic music.
All the best to You and Your family :
Norman Guy
Name: Charles Vincent
Location: North Myrtle Beach South Carolina
Email: CVincent1@sc.rr.com
Date: 1/20/2004
Time: 2:42:31 PM
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May God bless you and your family through these hard times.Look forward to hearing that beautiful bass playing again. God Bless, Charles Vincent
Name: R
Location:
Email:
Date: 1/20/2004
Time: 6:07:56 PM
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Name: RUSSELL SPRAY
Location: REDWOODS CALIFORNIA
Email:
Date: 1/20/2004
Time: 6:08:24 PM
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Name: RUSSELL SPRAY
Location: REDWOODS CALIFORNIA
Email: RUSS@BAILEYS-ONLINE.COM
Date: 1/20/2004
Time: 6:10:33 PM
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Glad to hearing you are doing well. Hope your are not in much pain. Have a son that's been a pro musician since he was 15. You guys are different. Regards, Russ Spray
Name: Ron Dion
Location: Springfield, MA
Email: klatu92@msn.com
Date: 1/20/2004
Time: 9:50:03 PM
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Jack, I wish you all the best and a speedy recovery. The world needs songwriters and musicians of your caliber. I have been a big fan of yours since the late 60's. I look forward to remaining a fan of yours for many years to come. Good luck and God Bless.
Name: David Stoltz
Location: West Hartford,Ct.USA
Email: davidstoltz@msn.com
Date: 1/21/2004
Time: 2:28:11 AM
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Hi,Jack and Margrit. I just want to tell you how much I am enjoying the beautiful songs of "More Jack than God." Congratulations once again,my friend. You are a part of the continuity of life for your friends and fans. It always seems that the sun will shine tomorrow and a Jack Bruce album will be following that soon after.How cool is that!! Hope you are feeling well.I'm sure we would all like to know what you made for dinner on Christmas.Cheers.
Name: Phil Pitkin
Location: 21 Lady Jamision Drive Glenmore Park NSW AUSTRALIA 2745
Email: disraeli@ozemail.com.au
Date: 1/21/2004
Time: 6:32:59 AM
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I am great fan of you and my age is nearly 51. As you can see my e-mail address is taken from disraeli gears LP. I hope you are fully recovery and on the way of playing one of my favourites songs, 1 Traintime,2.White room,3.sunshine of your love 4.The clearout. I am looking to buy (unable to buy in australia) the LP Out of the storm.I have the other 2 LP You were the brians behind CREAM as you were the singer and written(with Pete Brown.
All the best and start Cat's Squirrel as we are both I'M so glad .
Regards
Phil Pitkin 21 Lady Jamision Drive GLENMORE PARK NSW AUST 2745
e-mail address- disraeli@ozemail.com.au
ps This is the 1st time I have lodged into your site
Name: Brian Shirra
Location: Dunfermline
Email: b_shirra@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 1/21/2004
Time: 7:16:18 AM
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Best wishes to you and yours for 2004. Thanks for supplying the soundtrack to my life.
Name: Brian Shirra
Location: Dunfermline
Email: b_shirra@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 1/21/2004
Time: 7:16:34 AM
Comment
Best wishes to you and yours for 2004. Thanks for supplying the soundtrack to my life.
Name: Jean-Francois MATHIEU
Location: France
Email: contact@jfmathieu.com
Date: 1/21/2004
Time: 8:33:27 AM
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Jack, I'm glad you decided to stay with us ! But I'm no surprised by the vital force you have. 30 years ago when I saw and heard you at a festival near London, you've brought me so much joy and energy that I'm still tapping in it today to pursue my carrier as a composer and guitar player ! I wish you all the best for the many years to come before climbing that rope ladder to the... stars ! jfm l'inguitarissable http://www.jfmathieu.com
Name: Rick Smith
Location: Pennsylvania, U.S.A.
Email: smitri01@comcast.net
Date: 1/22/2004
Time: 8:35:07 AM
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Jack, I just heard about your recent surgery and am so glad to hear that you're doing well. Although never having met, through your music you have become an old friend to us all and we care very deeply for you. God Bless and take care of yourself. Rick Smith
Name: Jim Sickels
Location: USA
Email: islandjim@comcast.net
Date: 1/22/2004
Time: 8:38:07 AM
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GET WELL BUDDY!!!! I've been a huge fan of yours for decades. I saw you most recently with Ringo and was "blown away" sitting in the second row and watching you play. You are the best bass player in the history of music. I saw Leslie West this past weekend and he dedicated "Theme from an Imaginery Western" to you. You are loved...especially in this house.
Name: Jim Slarzynski
Location: Chicago, Illinois USA
Email: cadaholic@yahoo.com
Date: 1/22/2004
Time: 7:39:32 PM
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After all the years listening to your work I finally saw you on the ABBEY ROAD tour here. I hope to see you in a club or a smaller venue in the future. GET WELL Mr. B! Ciao, Jim S.
Name: thom mason
Location: jax florida
Email: thomthod@aol.com
Date: 1/22/2004
Time: 10:11:57 PM
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Get well jack!
the world needs you and your bas for many more years! I saw you several times in the 80s and 90s wow!
regards
thom mason
Name: Eliot Kleinberg
Location: Los Angeles
Email: elbergo@earthlink.net
Date: 1/23/2004
Time: 8:19:55 AM
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Dear Jack,
You gave me a scare. I am relieved to read here that you are recovering well. Here are some things you might enjoy while you finish healing. I've heard you like Bach, so you should know about an extraordinary performance of the Brandenburg Concertos. It's by the AKADEMIE FUR ALTE MUSIK BERLIN. They're on the harmonia mundi label. They use period instruments which they manage to keep in tune! This is Bach played with soul, and they're precise as well. It's the best I've heard. Have you heard the Joni Mitchell album where her songs are re-arranged for orchestra? It's just brilliant, moving versions of great songs for designed for grown-ups (or sophisticated teens) featuring Wayne Shorter, Herbie Hancock, Brian Blade etc. It's called TRAVELOGUE. (Some of Pastorius's original basslines reappear as featured counter-melodies.) I hope you get well soon (yesterday would be good).
Sincerely, your fan,
Eliot Kleinberg
Name: Chiván
Location: Puerto Rico
Email: chivi024@hotmail.com
Date: 1/23/2004
Time: 2:54:39 PM
Comment
Congratulations, my best will for your full recovery, and please keep evolving as you have been,get well, even step by step, a collaborator of you told me that the good will for your recovery would make it for him and his family, because the idea of praying was not in what he grew or had been used to,I, been a (non active actually) catholic raised guy, still belive in prayers, as an alternative concept for good will, what counts is that like him and many others : we WISH for your full-good-health !!!!!BLESSINGS!!!!
Name: Ray Borgerson
Location: Florida, USA
Email: RBorgers@pd15.state.fl.us
Date: 1/23/2004
Time: 3:46:13 PM
Comment
take care, jack. the world needs all of its talents like you. i hope your family is comforted by your strong recovery. i also am glad another fretless player, like myself, is saved from the brink.
rb.
Name: dave mccormick
Location: australia
Email: dmacka@slmember.on.net
Date: 1/23/2004
Time: 9:20:59 PM
Comment
quite a shock to the system when the liver takes early retirement, i bet
glad to hear a full recovery is on the horizon
take care and be lucky
dave
Name: gerald sherrett
Location: Portland Oregon, USA
Email: geraldsherrett@comcast.net
Date: 1/24/2004
Time: 11:48:33 AM
Comment
As one of Jack's lifelong fans and continued avid supporters I was distressed to hear of the health problems that Jack has recently had. I thank God that he has survived this adversity and look forward to hearing a lot more of Jack's singularly beautiful works. Best wishes for a speedy and complete recovery.
Name: Martin L. Renzoni
Location: Clarence, NY USA
Email: renzoni@transwave.net
Date: 1/24/2004
Time: 12:55:30 PM
Comment
Jack,
So glad to hear the good news about your recovery. My sincere best wishes to you and your family.
You are my musical inspiration and the reason I took up playing the bass. In 1968 the first bass guitar I purchased was a Gibson EB3 in my attempt to emulate Jack Bruce. My playing could only replicate or perhaps draw some similarity to the man I respected and hold to this day as the greatest electric bass player on the planet. Jack and Bach are at the core of my bass interest and the rest only follow.
I had the pleasure of seeing you perform just once in Rochester NY in the 1980's. Would love to see you perform again and will try to make wherever it happens.
All the best...
Name: Allan Cooper
Location: Alma, New Brunswick, Canada
Email: allan-cooper@excite.com
Date: 1/24/2004
Time: 5:12:05 PM
Comment
Jack:
I'm a Canadian poet and musician, and I've been inspired and moved by your music for nearly 40 years--I guess that dates me a bit! I'm glad to hear your recovery is coming along well, and I wish you and your family every good wish in the world.
Best,
Allan Cooper
Name: Tom Swoszowski
Location: Ct.,USA
Email: SWZ482@aol.com
Date: 1/24/2004
Time: 10:56:37 PM
Comment
Jack, I,ve loved your music and style for a very long time.You've made me love music and playing music all of my life.From the first time I saw you with Cream at Westport,Ct.1966 and again at Wallingford,Ct.1968.I hope you get well soon and live on to enjoy many more years of music. Tom
Name: Yannick
Location: France
Email:
Date: 1/25/2004
Time: 10:26:24 AM
Comment
all my best wishes for 2004 and good recovery
now ? Jack , "I had a dream" ...hum..Cream would simply reband ! I mean tour again; could be a year only , but it would be GREAT
(imho) since Cream, Eric has been simply messing (indeed only from a musical and guitar playin point of view) ; and Cream is simply missing !
pass the word to the Ginger :)
Name: Honza Marek
Location: Czech Republic
Email: g.baker@email.cz
Date: 1/25/2004
Time: 2:47:53 PM
Comment
Hi Jack, I´m very big fan of Ginger Baker. And I ask you for send some info of him. (where does he live, his mail, his web site). Thank You.
P.S. Sorry for my English
Name: Mike Merola
Location: New York City
Email: cityboysmike@nyc.rr.com
Date: 1/25/2004
Time: 5:24:12 PM
Comment
jACK You Have Been A True Inspiration To The Music I Play. Please Be Well And Keep Playing. Sincerely Mikey
Name: Todd Humphreys
Location: North Carolina
Email: Humptee@hotmail.com
Date: 1/25/2004
Time: 10:39:15 PM
Comment
You will never know how much of an influence you are. I still to this day have never heard anyone with more soul in his vocal delivery and bass playing--especially at the same time! Get well Jack and thank you for continuing to share your gift!
Name: Murray Nosanchuk
Location: Windsor, Ontario Canada
Email: murray.nosanchuk@sympatico.ca
Date: 1/26/2004
Time: 3:00:56 AM
Comment
Dear Jack: I've been listening to your voice and fingers for 35 years - since I was a lad.... (I still play through a Marshall Superbass 100!!) 1Didn't know you were ill until a friend told me.... This summer my 13 year old son asked me to pass on your LPs to him. "That guy's got a great voice dad," he told me. "Sure does," I said...
All the best to you Jack. "l'chaim" to you and yours... Murray Nosanchuk
Name: charles giannone
Location: brooklyn n.y.
Email: cgiannone@webtv.net
Date: 1/26/2004
Time: 5:43:46 AM
Comment
dear jack bruce. i wish the best for your recovery, please take care of yourslf, my name is charlie im 42 and i play guitar, i saw you perform in brooklyn 2 summers ago with mark farner, and your voice was excellent, not to mention your bass, and i really want to thank you for writing theme for an imaginery western, i started listening to cream when i was 10, i wish you all the best health inthe world, we need you! have faith, respectfully yours, charlie
Name: Michael Engelhardt
Location: Villmar -Germany-
Email: ofc@seito.com
Date: 1/26/2004
Time: 9:27:59 AM
Comment
dear jack, 2004-01-26 glad to hear that everything o.k. with U. no need to say that I am since the late 60ies a great fan of yours. believe it or not, I do have more than 50 lp's and cd's from/with U and still enjoy your music.
all the best for U in the future
michael (someone who plays bass too)
Name: Andy Harry
Location: Birmingham
Email: andy@bga.org.uk
Date: 1/26/2004
Time: 10:27:39 AM
Comment
Dear Jack
I hadn't been on to your website for quite some time and was checking out when you would next be appearing in the UK - I was therefore shocked to learn of your illness but it looks like you've fought and won- great news! I've followed your music since 1966 when I saw you live for the first time with Cream at Worthing. I feel priveledged to have seen you with many of your own and other bands. The current band(Nottingham 2001)together with Lifetime (wow!- Sheffield 1970) are two of my favourite gigs. I wish you a speedy full recovery and look forward to seeing you on the road again very soon.
Very best wishes
Andy Harry
Name: Phil.Bolderson.
Location: Croydon.UK.
Email: phil@anglo-saxonaviation.freeserve.co.uk
Date: 1/26/2004
Time: 4:45:09 PM
Comment
Jack, Just heard the news of your medical problems via. the article on you in the feb/mar issue of Guitar World's 'Bass Guitar' magazine . To say it was a shock would be an understatement... Needless to say I had to dial up your website and wish you well. I sincerely hope that you get to a very great age indeed. My name will probably be pretty meaningless, but we did actually meet several times; not long after the demise of 'Cream'. You used to visit Ralph's basement flat in Albany street and, to my great embarassment, walked in on me one evening when I was practising some of your basslines. Jamming along to 'I'm so glad' from the 'Goodbye' album, actually, on an old Eko Mark Clark sold me which I'd made fretless. I'm still trying to play bass... May you continue to do so for a long time yet. Cheers! Phil
Name: gino
Location: san diego, california
Email: bluestele2cox.net
Date: 1/26/2004
Time: 11:38:47 PM
Comment
Jack...........Growing up you were a major influence on me, I was never the bass player you were but I sure(and still)have fun with my music...........Hope your health improve...Good luck......Gino
Name: Ettöringen
Location: Bengtsfors, Sweden
Email: lglindmark@hotmail.com
Date: 1/27/2004
Time: 4:44:54 AM
Comment
Wish you good luck in the recovery!
Name: Hendrik Thies
Location: Hamburg
Email: Hendrik.Thies@arcor.de
Date: 1/27/2004
Time: 3:19:33 PM
Comment
Dear Jack,
All the best to you and I hope you get well pretty soon. I once shook hands with you after a Rainer Baumann concert at the "Fabrik" in Hamburg a couple of years ago. There I told you that you had always been a constant source of inspiration to me. You still are! And I am thankful for that. Therefore I would like to give you something like a proof of what your music (and Pete Brown's lyrics) mean to me: I am an abstract painter (acrylic on canvas) and would like to give you one of my paintings as a present for - have a look at my website www.webgalerie.org and I would be ever so pleased to give it to you and by the way of the power and colour of my paintings help you get well again soon. We're waiting for you... Cheers, mate - that's what you said to me when I left and I wish the same to you.
Best wishes - Hendrik Thies Hamburg
Name: Kirk Lundahl
Location: Denver Colorado
Email: klund@ricochet.com
Date: 1/27/2004
Time: 8:18:23 PM
Comment
Dear Jack,
God, (and I ain't talking to Eric), I hope your doing well in your recovery. What a legendary musical career yours is and has been.
Ever since I was age two, my orbit revolved around great music. My mom had to replace my "Mr. Sandman" 45 twice (my notion of ‘great’ has been refined over these many years!).
From Cream to Lifetime to Mahavishnu to Miles and beyond, I thank the lads and YOU especially for pointing the way for me through a fabulous journey. I hope to see you soon in the states.
From my heart to yours and your family's,
Kirk Lundahl
Name: fabio
Location: italy
Email:
Date: 1/28/2004
Time: 8:46:22 AM
Comment
Jack is a real musician and I respect him deeply. I wish him all the best for this delicate moment of his life.
Name: pLee
Location: nYc
Email:
Date: 1/28/2004
Time: 1:44:01 PM
Comment
Today is my birthday and this year my wish is for your continued good health.
Name: daniel hornecker
Location: new jersey, usa
Email: rtrn2hvn@comcast.net
Date: 1/29/2004
Time: 2:07:38 PM
Comment
Get well and God bless you, Jack. Where would we be without your haunting falsetto? Stay strong…DH
Name: Fred Norton
Location: Bassett, Virginia, USA
Email:
Date: 1/29/2004
Time: 5:32:10 PM
Comment
Continue to get well and keeping making music! We wish you a speedy recovery!
Name: Greg Blair
Location: Louisiana
Email: theblas@cox-internet.com
Date: 1/29/2004
Time: 7:09:05 PM
Comment
Jack, I just wanted to say I hope your recovery is going well. You've been such an inspiration and such a giant of music. I regret I never caught Cream live but I did see West, Bruce and Laing at the Warehouse in New Orleans, La. many years ago. In fact I saw Mountain several months ago and mentioned to Corky that I had seen WBL way back when. I was the drummer for a band in the 60's called, "Experimental Dream". We played practically everything from Disraeli Gears. I just bought the book,"Cream" by Chris Welch. Great!!!! Anyway, thanks for your music and get well soon!!!!!
Name: steve(maureens ex)
Location: london(working here)
Email: stephenjkennedy@yahoo.co.uk
Date: 1/29/2004
Time: 9:26:14 PM
Comment
Hi jack, I shook hands with you a while ago back backstage in glasgow (gary, blues saraceno)I`m afraid I was pissed (glaswegian hospitality- thats my excuse anyway)I first saw you with cream in 67 at the go-go club in newcastle,your fire and expertise blew my mind. I`ve seen you many times since. As I told you , and you shrugged it off, you`re a genius.Anyway,enough of my slaver, lots of people have you in their hearts, please fight this thing off and recover,we can`t afford to lose you.All my love and best wishes during this hard time-Stephen Kennedy.
Name: Ashanka
Location: lome togo
Email: mugu@yahoo.com
Date: 1/30/2004
Time: 10:12:32 AM
Comment
good site
Name: Nigel D. Johnson
Location: Albany, NY
Email: ndjcdga@nycap.rr.com
Date: 1/30/2004
Time: 3:19:43 PM
Comment
Dear Jack:
Your driving bass runs have been the heartbeat of my life, especially my youth, and where mortality was a light year away.
Now in middle years, and after surviving open heart surgery, I realise how tenuous it all is, and importantly, how much those special people like yourself are to the rest of us. Thank you for the gift of your music, and here's to a speedy and total recovery.
With very best wishes.
Nigel Johnson Albany. NY
Name: Dan & Roger Mahne
Location: Cleveland,Ohio, U.S.A
Email: d.manster@sbcglobal.net
Date: 1/30/2004
Time: 4:04:00 PM
Comment
God Bless from your fans in cleveland ohio
Name: brad frazier
Location: new england usa
Email: breizarfbradf@hotmail.com
Date: 1/30/2004
Time: 11:56:36 PM
Comment
I hope that all turns well for you,we are going through some of the same things you have faced with my wife having ovarian cancer. It's a tough and strange situation. Take care and be well. Brad
Name: MIke Rapanaro
Location: New York City
Email: mrzoso68@aol.com
Date: 1/31/2004
Time: 5:22:07 AM
Comment
Dear Mr Bruce, You are in my thoughts & paryers. I know you will be fine, you are the product of a very special time and a survivor. I myself was diagnosed with Hep C a few years back and underwent unsucsessful treatment, but I'm "Still Alive And Well" It's a very strange thing (or Brew.)Back in the days of "Those Were The Days" Cream was my alltime favorite band. Then you know how it goes, you go through phases, and your music changes. Well, recently my 15 year old son (I'm 49)got me the Cream Bio Book for Christmas, and since then its been a non-stop steady diet of Cream. As I was listening to "Goodbye" on the Computer (is this a great invention, or what?) I started surfing the Cream web sites, and came upon your site. That was the first I had heard of your surgery. Well, once more let me say that you are in my thoughts, and Godspeed to recovery. Hope to see you in New York City on your next tour. Sincerly, Mike Rapanaro
Name: helen zavadsky
Location:
Email: helen_l;ida@tut.by
Date: 1/31/2004
Time: 10:18:51 AM
Comment
Dear Jack!
Name: Preston Ritter
Location: Santa Clarita, California
Email: prestonr@earthlink.net
Date: 1/31/2004
Time: 12:25:53 PM
Comment
I was the drummer for The Electric Prunes 1966-67(I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night, etc,) I had a second kidney transplant in 1995, after the first one failed. I know what you're going through Jack! I'm so happy to hear that you are doing well in your recovery. Make sure you take your post-transplant medications religiously! I skipped one dose and went into rejection. I was treated and recovered. God bless and take care. My web page is located at: http://home.earthlink.net/~prestonr/
Name: chuck twitchell
Location: larned,ks
Email: candptwitchell@yahoo.com
Date: 2/1/2004
Time: 12:04:42 AM
Comment
keep the faith, no pun intended.My wifes' sister had a liver transplant about 10 years ago and is doing well. love your music.One of my favorite is, Out into the fields.May the " Presence of the Lord" bless you with His peace and continued well-being. Chuck
Name: Kristine Huerta
Location: Chicago, IL
Email: kramercfc@aol.com
Date: 2/1/2004
Time: 2:12:48 AM
Comment
Hi Jack,
God Bless. Stay with us. We need your music!!!
Love ya,
Kramer xoxoxoxoxox
Name: helen zavadsky
Location: Belarus country
Email: helen_lida@tut.by
Date: 2/1/2004
Time: 4:16:08 AM
Comment
Dear Jack Bruce!
Let me call you so and the reason is that first I heard you in far,far 1969-s,when your disk "Songs For a Tailor" appeared.I was shocked.I opened something new for me,something unknown at that time it was unlike the other music, music which being unlike the other,impressed me,by it sinkere kindness.And when I saw your photo,can't forget it till nowadays.Every time,having got your next disk with great difficulty,as the prices were and remain today too high(but usually it takes a lot of time before we can listen to your next disk) I immersed in your music world and imagined as if,I were together with you.Unforgettable time! You had everything on your way:success and disappointment,but the time proved that your are "the qiants of music"!I am glad with to every you success still many, many years.I always wanted to know about your as much .I'm interested in both: your life and work.Will you,please help me,if it's possible to know more about you not only as a musitian but as a person.We can understand music though the musitians thoughts and soul even if we don't understand the words in English.I would like to speak with you about everything.But it's a pity it's not possible to write everything in a letter.A letter is the only means communication with you ... The only hope to meet you and and to speak with group it' your concert.But in fortunately it's very difficult.Heardly I when nor be able arrive in England single hope if you will arrive in Russia,we without fall a meet.Dreams... Dear Jack Bruce! I'm very sorry,but I have a request for you. Will you please send me your photo with your original autographs or just an answer on my letter.For me it would like... a present equal "the flight to the moon"! Oh,GOD!But it's just a dream,I even can't hope for it.There are no miracles in reality!? Having finishing my letter let me wish you everything a person can wish to his friends:a successful work and a lot of happiness in your life,and also to continue gladden your admirers with your songs.Thank the time thas has presented us such a wonderful musician and man.I want you to be happy and always young! We love and always will be with you.
Ever' your Helen.
P.S.Excuse me,please my English.
My address: Helen Zavadsky 165-43 Krupskay Street Lida,231300 Belarus.
Name: Larry
Location: Bx
Email: simibaby714@aol.com
Date: 2/1/2004
Time: 10:48:52 AM
Comment
Dear Jack, Just listened to "Vertical's Currency" for 1ST time in a LONG time.(your last 2 releases being the bulk of my brucejuice) recently. WOW!!! your vocals are indeed passionately transcendent. And what f****n' basses bet you and the Swallow. Luv "Mookjack" too, naturally. Keep getting well....
Peace and Love.....
the bulk of my brucejuice
Name: Mike
Location: Colchester
Email: mjc1@supanet.com
Date: 2/1/2004
Time: 4:19:56 PM
Comment
Dear Jack, Just a little note of gratitude to you for so many years of marvellous singing and playing which have been a constant accompaniment to my life.Get well soon and keep up your wonderful work. With very best wishes, Mike
Name: Michael Banas
Location: New York City
Email: mig2767@aol.com
Date: 2/1/2004
Time: 5:03:33 PM
Comment
Hi Jack,
My name is Michael. I suddenly heard from a close source of Godfrey Townsend that you were ill. Until I signed onto your website today I just found out that you are making a great recovery, that's fantastic man!! I can relate, my Dad had the same illness. Unfortunately he is no longer with us but he fought a tough battle & never ever gave into this terrible disease. I have all the faith your in good hands & will fight this too.
I had the pleasure to see you live at BB Kings in NYC, Oct of 2002 & you put on a fabulous show, blew me away for sure!! I have been playing drums for 25 years, since the age of 12 & always found your bass playing very intriguing. Always love to hear those bass lines whenever I'm either playing along or just listening.
I'm counting on seeing you in the near future, so get ready to pick up that Warwick & bang out some awesome tunes again!!
God bless you & your family.
Michael.
Name: Ted Herman
Location: Hastings-on-Hudson, NY
Email: teo96@earthlink.net
Date: 2/1/2004
Time: 11:22:22 PM
Comment
...somehow, fortunately for me, in my musical travels I acquired a copy of Songs for a Tailor (I was 15 - 1971) and was floored by, at that time, how completely unique a sound it was. Time and again I've listened to it, year after year - it's always fresh, clear - amazing, and still unique today! I've always felt like it was my special little "find" (I know that's my conceit.) I never knew anyone who had the album (still don't) and I've played it for so many people over the years. Now I've turned my kids on to you. Your music is very special to me - thank you!
Name: Paulo Zago
Location: Brasil
Email: przago@petrobras.com.br
Date: 2/2/2004
Time: 1:23:41 PM
Comment
Meu Caro Jack, esperamos que volte logo! Um abraço, amigão. Paulo Zago e Giuseppe Orsatti
Name: Jesus Beukenex J
Location: Costa Rica
Email:
Date: 2/2/2004
Time: 8:56:07 PM
Comment
Keep doing Things so nice as you do. Greetings from Costarrica´s friends
Name: mike coleman
Location: east kilbride
Email: micole64@hotmail.com
Date: 2/3/2004
Time: 11:34:58 AM
Comment
jack get well soon we cannot afford to lose another giant of the music business you were an insparation to me throughout my youth as they say "they don't make them like that anymore.
awe ra best
mike
Name: martin
Location: california
Email: mgrok666@comcast.net
Date: 2/4/2004
Time: 12:40:02 AM
Comment
Jack, Much love and good wishes to you. I've been a long time Cream fan and definitely a Jack Bruce fan. I've been a drummer for 25 years now and when I was a teenager I used to play along with Cream records. Your Bass playing is truly "classic". Again, much praise and good thoughts to you. Peace, Martin
Name: Ed Chambers
Location: Norwich
Email: edchambers786@hotmail.com
Date: 2/4/2004
Time: 3:20:31 PM
Comment
May you have a complete recovery and embark on the next chapter of your prolific career, which has meant so much to so many. So many thoughts are with you.
Name: Leila
Location: Richmond, Surrey
Email: 106264.3272@compuserve.com
Date: 2/4/2004
Time: 8:52:16 PM
Comment
nothing really, except we are still here and we understand xx
Name: Jean-Marc Massé
Location: Paris / France
Email: jmm@jmmweb.org
Date: 2/4/2004
Time: 9:02:35 PM
Comment
Since I was 15 (I'm 45 now), your music has never left my mind. Especially sad songs, they are the best ones. Sadness is the best translation of an artist mind, its a deep feeling. Now I read u've been in trouble with our health. I really wish you'll recover and be back among those u love as soon as possible. Weirdly I've been in the same troubles some years ago, thats another common thing, and althought I dont consider myself as an artist, many artists have had in history these kinds of problems. Life can be hard to stand but the escape key is touchy. "Ars longa vita brevis"... Artists never die in people memory.. But in your particular case, please, wait for ... 30 more years. ok? ;) Good luck! JMM
Name: John Bayles
Location: Pittsburgh, Pa
Email: jcbayles@yahoo.com
Date: 2/4/2004
Time: 11:09:24 PM
Comment
Best wishes to you and your family, your music has changed my life. I still get goosepimples listening to your solos. Thank you Jack
Name: Broc Branigan SR.
Location:
Email:
Date: 2/5/2004
Time: 10:59:46 AM
Comment
Name: Broc Branigan SR.
Location: Brandon,FLA.
Email: novastarkiller@hotmail
Date: 2/5/2004
Time: 11:10:46 AM
Comment
JACK BRUCE, IF YOU REALLY GET THIS,I WANT YOU TO KNOW YOU ARE WHO I TRY TO IMMULATE.AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED YOU ARE AND ALWAYS WILL BE "THE KING OF SWING ON THE FOUR STRING"PLEASE GET WELL SIR.MY BAND IS GEARJAMMER.WE ARENT ANYONE FANCY,BUT WE CAN JAM NONE THE LESS.WE LOVE TO PLAY CREAM TUNES.IT IS AN HONOR TO KNOW THAT SOMEONE TOU KNOW OR YOURSELF WILL SEE THIS.PLEASE KEEP ROCKIN JACK,PLAY TAMPA!!!!!!!
Name: Bob Dubreuil
Location: Weare, NH, USA
Email: bdubreuil@sprich.com
Date: 2/5/2004
Time: 2:46:18 PM
Comment
Just found out about your liver transplant. Very happy to read you are doing well after the operation. Also just picked up More Jack Than God. I like it very much. Glad to see you will be around to make more music for us all.
Name: Rebecca McCarty
Location: Walnut Creek, CA
Email: imacarty@earthlink.net
Date: 2/5/2004
Time: 3:59:56 PM
Comment
Dear Jack,
No musician has ever touched me more with either voice or skill. I only hope someday to see you perform live. It would be a dream come true. Please stay well and continue to feed our souls with your music.
God Speed, Rebecca
Name: Charles "Bruce " Bakos
Location: Hungary- Budapest
Email: cream54@freemail.hu
Date: 2/6/2004
Time: 3:16:51 AM
Comment
I'm big fan of you from Cream-times, and best regards to You
Hi
Name: Gary Gowman
Location: Honolulu, Hawaii USA
Email: garygman@earthlink.net
Date: 2/6/2004
Time: 5:52:43 AM
Comment
Jack, I was not aware you were having surgery and health problems. I just found your website trying to rehain some old memories I have seeing you play in Cream. I saw you playing in Detroit, Michigan USA on your first US tour at the the Grande Ballroom. I have always admired your work. I was also a rock lead singer and bass player in 60's and 70's.
I hope you have a speedy recovery and continue to enjoy life with your loved ones.
Peace, Gary Gowman
Name: SANTOS, IBERÊ FERRAZ
Location: BRAZIL
Email: ifersan@ig.com.br
Date: 2/6/2004
Time: 9:04:59 AM
Comment
Caro Jack,
Desejamos pronto restabelecimento de sua saúde e que continue nos presenteando com suas belas composições . Agradeça sempre a DEUS pela oportunidade que teve e se isso foi possível é porque é de seu merecimento . Um grande abraço .
Iberê . BRAZIL
Name: Robert Crockett
Location: San Francisco
Email: rcrockett@schnader.com
Date: 2/6/2004
Time: 7:07:23 PM
Comment
Dear Jack,
I am 53 and have admired your music since the days of Cream. I particularly like your early solo albums, Songs for a Tailor, Harmony Row and Out of the Storm. I did not even know about your illness until I read about your transplant on your website just now. I can't tell you how happy I am that you are recovering. Your music has brought me many hours of joy. Best wishes.
Name: mugu
Location: nigeria lagos
Email: mugu@mugumail.com
Date: 2/6/2004
Time: 8:28:49 PM
Comment
great site keep it up,remember i dey hereoooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo
Name: Richard
Location: Kent U K
Email: richardnbake@aol.com
Date: 2/7/2004
Time: 11:04:30 AM
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Jack, hope you are well and keeping strong. Only recently got into 'Hows Tricks ?' shame on me where have I been during my 52 years ? Superb stuff.
Saw you with Ringo at Shepherds Bush it was a masterclass in bass-playing. Old Ringo can now say he has played with the two greatest bassists ever (do I need to name the other ?)
much regards
Name: Richard Harmon
Location: Long Island, New York
Email: goldfinger90@aol.com
Date: 2/7/2004
Time: 5:05:12 PM
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Get Well Jack. I did not know about your illness till now. I'am recovering from a motor vehicle accident on 11/23/03, busted ribs, contusion on lung,rt knee,left shoulder. The list could go on....... I'm getting better. It's a long road.... ANYWAY You my friend must go on in getting better. I hope one day to see you in concert again. Peace, RH
Name: Mike Phillips
Location: Atlanta
Email: mkbsp@mindspring.com
Date: 2/8/2004
Time: 5:20:26 PM
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hi--I'm one of Dopp's friends,but don't hold that against me. Would like to see & meet you the next time you come to town. Hope for you a speedy recovery.First saw you on the How's Tricks tour.Really liked your sound with the Dan Armstrong & the Stramp/Cerwin Vega.What were you using for JetSetJewel? BTW...I am decended from Gordon's & McDonald's. Is that a good thing?
Name: C. Cornett
Location: Denmark
Email: claus@corn12.dk
Date: 2/9/2004
Time: 4:38:48 AM
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Name: brian popay
Location: bath uk
Email: brian@naturaltheatre.co.uk
Date: 2/9/2004
Time: 11:41:49 AM
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Dear Jack Bruce, I only recently heard of your ill health, from the Pete Brown website, and am very glad to hear of your recovery. I sure I am just one of countless thousands fans who have followed your career with interest, and I wish you the very best and look forward to hearing you play again soon.
Name: Ryan Hull
Location: leighton buzzard
Email: ryan_hull79@hotmail.com
Date: 2/9/2004
Time: 4:28:54 PM
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wishing you a speedy recovery jack.Saw you in london last year, brilliant stuff
Name: Bob Williams
Location: Billings, MT USA
Email:
Date: 2/9/2004
Time: 8:47:36 PM
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Jack, glad to hear you're doing well after your surgery. I've been a fan for a very long time (I once played bass and fancied myself the next JB--not that I could ever have filled your shoes), and I still regard "Crossroads" as my all-time favorite rock tune, as much for your bass as for Eric's guitar work. It knocked my socks off when I first heard it, it knocks my socks off when I hear it these days, and it will knock my socks off 30+ years from now if I'm still around.
Name: Graciela
Location: Argentina
Email: gmbrig@yahoo.com
Date: 2/10/2004
Time: 10:34:14 AM
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Dear Jack, I'm an old Cream fan and your music has been in my heart and my ears for the last 30 years. It has made my life more pleasant and I will always thank you for that. I hope you will recover soon.All the best to you. Graciela
Name: Garrett Miller
Location: Orange Park, FL
Email: gemillerdolphin@bellsouth.net
Date: 2/10/2004
Time: 3:44:25 PM
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I have been listening to you on Deep Tracks. Your sound is as fresh as ever. Your sound has really caught a moment in time.
Name: Eric and Ryan Basch
Location: St. Louis, Missouri USA
Email: basch@swbell.net
Date: 2/10/2004
Time: 10:07:24 PM
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Jack, I have been a fan since I first heard Fresh Cream in 1968. I've seen you play live several times and hope to see you again. You're still my favorite bassist ever and my son says you're right up there with Flea and Victor Wooten. Please get well soon and give the world more of your music. Thanks so much for the pleasure your music has given me over the years.
Name: Jason Cruz
Location: Singapore
Email: cruzee83@hotmail.com
Date: 2/11/2004
Time: 11:54:44 AM
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Hi Jack!
I'm a 20 yrd old drummer and started listening to Cream at the age of six. Till today, no bassist has ever made such a huge impression on me than you did. It's a dream for me to play with a bassist of your calibre. Hearing you, Eric, and Ginger live, turned me on to improvisation like never before. I'm also a great fan of your solo work as well as, my man on the drums, Ginger Baker's.
For you to share your unique musical vision and bass playing with the world,is a great blessing. I feel that every musician shld experience your music at least once in their lifetime and be greatly inspired to push the boundaries of musical innovation. Thank you for helping me to realize this.
God Bless You.
Jason.
Name: Fred Lukens
Location: Croydon,Pennsylvania,U.S.A.
Email: repete3966@aol.com
Date: 2/11/2004
Time: 12:53:15 PM
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Hi Jack,I hope things are getting a little better for You.I am only a drummer,but I did have the good fortune of seeing You and Your band with Ginger Baker at the 23rd east caberet in Philadelphia,Pennsylvania,on 12/8/90.You were phenomenal.I gained a new respect for You,as You really put on a great show,I was wondering when You would do an album showcasing Your upright bass and cello talents,or if You are interested in that at all.I wish You the best,Jack. God Bless You and get well soon,We lost all our pioneers,and I can't take this teenage "music" any longer,You have to come out with an album at least once every decade,I was hoping You,Steve Winwood,and Rick Grech would do an album together soon,You and Steve Winwood could both sing,play the piano,that would kick ass,You don't really need Eric clapton.I've seen much better.Maybe You could get Johnny Winter!!!That would be a real epic recording,(Raising My glass for Ya,Jack!!!) Fred Lukens from Croydon,Pennsylvania,USA
Name: Frank Bridges
Location: Monroe, N.Y.
Email: blueskyv@warwick.net
Date: 2/11/2004
Time: 2:21:44 PM
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My friends and I wish you a full recovery and we look forward to seeing you on stage A.S.A.P., we know you can do it because you still have "Wheels of Fire" in your blood! God Bless.....Frank B.
Name: Tim Atkins
Location: Truro, Cornwall
Email: ettruro@lineone.net
Date: 2/11/2004
Time: 5:02:10 PM
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Get Well soon; i've been thinking about you.
Best wishes from a fan in Cornwall
Tim Atkins
Name: Carlos Lares
Location: Caracas, Venezuela
Email: cohelet_ve@tutopia.com
Date: 2/11/2004
Time: 7:10:43 PM
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Dear Mr.Bruce, hope you get well soon and continue creating wonderful music for us, as you have done for many years. You have earn a place in my heart. I also play bass ( for fun ) and must tell you, have spent so many years trying to play a little bit like you do - impossible, man !! Thanks for your inspiration and for being at my home almost every day. Hasta luego.
Name: Kenny Johansen
Location: Gretna,La.USA
Email: aejohan2000@yahoo.com
Date: 2/11/2004
Time: 10:01:08 PM
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Thanks for being one step ahead of everything.Your bass lines stand alone and hold a groove like no others.Take care and stay straight.
Name: Stefan Schierbeck
Location: Stockholm
Email: stefan@schierbeck.se
Date: 2/12/2004
Time: 7:56:24 AM
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Im looking forward to see you perform in Sweden soon. Ive been a fan since 1966 and changed from guitar to bass when I heard you play. Theres a lot of Claptons out there but only one JB. Best Wishes
Name: Alan Heaton
Location: Liverpool
Email: alan.heaton@liverpool.com
Date: 2/12/2004
Time: 5:05:52 PM
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I haven't got many heroes left Jack, so I'm hoping and praying for a speedy recovery (this could be out of date so if it is, belated wishes any way!) I first heard you back in the sixties with Cream and just thought you had the most incredible expressive voice I'd heard, which seemed at times to almost mirror your playing. To me the sixties were Cream, and I still get goosebumps listening to my old scratched LPs - talk about nostalgic! Anyway enough waffle - just thanks for all the pleasure you've given over so many years Jack.