Jack Bruce Tells Led Zeppelin To “Fuck Off”

In a rather odd rant while talking to Classic Rock magazine, Jack Bruce of Cream went batty talking about Led Zeppelin. He attacks the band as a whole, the reunion gig in London last year and Jimmy Page as a guitarist.

Read the rant after jump.

It’s good news that there might be more from Cream.
Well, the trouble is that I’m doing so many amazing things on my own. Cream is just a band from many, many years ago, and we did do something [referring to the reunion shows in 2005]… Everybody talks about Led Zeppelin, and they played one fucking gig – one fucking lame gig – while Cream did weeks of gigs; proper gigs, not just a lame gig like Zeppelin did, with all the [vocal] keys lowered and everything. We played everything in the original keys. [Becoming animated]: Fuck off, Zeppelin, you’re crap. You’ve always been crap and you’ll never be anything else. The worst thing is that people believe the crap that they’re sold. Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is.

That’s a bold opinion.
What? You’re gonna compare Eric Clapton with that fucking Jimmy Page? Would you really compare that?
To be fair, they’re different kinds of player, aren’t they?
No! Eric’s good and Jimmy’s crap. And with that I rest my case.

I really can’t believe the nerve Jack Bruce has to dis a legendary band. Do I think Led Zeppelin is the best band ever? No. But, in my opinion, Cream doesn’t hold a candle to the music of Led Zeppelin. I’ll take “Black Dog” over “White Room” any day.