Fact #118494
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Short story:
The Lovin' Spoonful release a new single, Summer In The City, for Kama Sutra records in New York City, USA. The song Tales Of Brave Ulysses by Cream on their 1967 LP Disraeli Gears will be inspired by the chord sequence of Summer In The City.
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John Sebastian (Lovin' Spoonful) : I remember this hilarious old Jewish soundman, who'd never had a job with a rock'n'roll band before, looking at us quite puzzled as we auditioned pneumatic hammers to find the one that had the right intestinal tone to it.
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Eric Clapton (guitarist, Cream) : I picked it (a Wah-wah pedal) up at Manny’s guitar shop in New York, I think. They said that Jimi had one and so that was enough for me. I had to have one, too. I loved it because it sounded like someone talking and it reminded me of Sparky and those kids records with all the effects. Tales Of Brave Ulysses was very much a part of the 1967 hippie thing, because the words were written by my flatmate, Martin Sharp, who also did the cover designs for the Cream albums. It’s got this guitar line that I thought no one had ever done before, but in fact it’s exactly the same as Summer In The City. Maybe I subliminally ripped it off from that, because I adored The Lovin’ Spoonful. But it seemed like it was so easy to write, and with the wah-wah pedal and Martin’s incredible lyrics, I felt like I’d really made some kind of a breakthrough there.
(Source : Uncut, May 2004, interview by Nigel Williamson)
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Eric Clapton (guitarist, Cream) : I picked it (a Wah-wah pedal) up at Manny’s guitar shop in New York, I think. They said that Jimi had one and so that was enough for me. I had to have one, too. I loved it because it sounded like someone talking and it reminded me of Sparky and those kids records with all the effects. Tales Of Brave Ulysses was very much a part of the 1967 hippie thing, because the words were written by my flatmate, Martin Sharp, who also did the cover designs for the Cream albums. It’s got this guitar line that I thought no one had ever done before, but in fact it’s exactly the same as Summer In The City. Maybe I subliminally ripped it off from that, because I adored The Lovin’ Spoonful. But it seemed like it was so easy to write, and with the wah-wah pedal and Martin’s incredible lyrics, I felt like I’d really made some kind of a breakthrough there.
(Source : Uncut, May 2004, interview by Nigel Williamson)