Jack Bruce & Leslie West - Theme For an Imaginary Western (Howard Stern Show) video free download


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Duration: 05:08
Uploaded: 2009/02/16

From a June 1988 appearance at a Howard Stern Show taping in England, former Cream bassist Jack Bruce and Mountain guitarist Leslie West perform a trans-atlantic rendition of the Bruce-penned song. Jack plays piano and sings from Abbey Road studios while Leslie plays guitar over the phone from his home in Long Island. The audio is from a 24kbps mono mp3 taped from radio so quality is predictably bad.

Comments

9 years ago

Joe Raimondo

RIP Mr. Bruce. Always thought this was a remarkable artifact. I remember listening live, in my car, all those years ago. 

9 years ago

Dan P

There are so many amazing things about this. 

9 years ago

Scot Moser

Remember hearing this amazing version on the radio the day it was played. it still brings chills to me. Brilliant musician and voice. RIP

10 years ago

BostonNorth51

Boy do I agree about Jack Bruce. He was the best the first time I heard him on Fresh Cream back in '67. I challenge anybody to name a more talented musician. He can play any form of music from rock, jazz, classical etc. And that voice. Simply the best! I was lucky to get his autograph back in 1980.

10 years ago

STIRKDAWG

THANKS HOWARD. I heard this recording today (6/18/2013) on a 'Huge Chunk of the Show' post and simply HAD to research it further! What an amazing performance ...

10 years ago

unclesamtookmymoney

Fund this beautiful piece of music today. Just read some of the comments here. Why do these things always turn into a pissing match about who's better. What does 'better' mean? Fucking douches. Take the piece at face value and stop extrapolating about who'd be better doing it.

10 years ago

unclesamtookmymoney

Heard this on the Stern show today as bumper music and loved it. Looked up what lyrics I could glean and it brought me to this. Fabulous track with great emotion and musical mastery.

10 years ago

Mark Bergman

There is no better or worse between the two. There is only different than each other. They are both great, in their own way and style.

11 years ago

depper

Felix's bass sound was even better than Jacks. Vocals to feliz by a land slide. However im a fan of jack bruce

11 years ago

deserthawk1

I also prefer Felix's vocals. Not to slight Bruce, a truly great singer, but Felix is probably my favorite rock singer of all time. I saw them in Miami in 1970. Thought Leslie was going to go right through the stage---he kept jumping up and down.

11 years ago

Robert Ellison

Felix's bass playing compares to Jack's also, along with his songwriting. I personally like Felix's vocals, bass playing, songwriting slightly more than Jack's. I love the version of Nantucket Sleighride on side B of "The Road Goes Forever On" by Mountain. Or the bass playing on Long Red on side A of the same LP. Damn near everything he did for that matter. Listen to "One Last Cold Kiss" for example.

11 years ago

james6speed

I always thought that guy from Bare Naked Ladies tried to sound like Jack.

11 years ago

69zenos1

name dropper

11 years ago

deserthawk1

Hey, I'm a Bruce fan too, but to answer your question, FELIX, that's who

12 years ago

John Lyons

I heard the original broadcast back in 1988. It was incredible on so many levels not least of which is that they were dealing with a seven second delay in the broadcast and still nailed it. I met Leslie a week ago and related my memories of this to him. He indicated it was one of his most memorable moments on the Howard Stern show as well.

12 years ago

rhino805999

Dude, Jack is the most underrated artist of that era who is still with us.

12 years ago

kjnyankee

YES! I've been searching for this song for so long. I would occasionally hear it play on HSS, but never knew the name of the song or artist until today when they were playing it on "Best of". So happy to have found it here as well. Thanks!

12 years ago

horonziton

that voice!....the composition, the guitar!...it's all good!...always loved the song...

12 years ago

GuitArch54

Jack Bruce was the genius of Cream. Disraeli Gears is an amazing album still. Dance the Night Away is great and many others.

12 years ago

candlesburn

Fan- f-ing tastic!

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