Cream - Born Under A Bad Sign Lyrics

R.I.P. Ginger Baker & Jack Bruce

Ginger I hope you're in the golden halls of Valhalla itself.

sold me on the blues was on every radio everywhere about 1968 we had never had exposure to blues like this in the states til that time

Dear Marlene

Well let's hear it for Jack Bruce!!

Well this is cheery!

RIP to these 2 fine legends. Their music live on.

Been digging this song since almost when it came out heh! I relate to it very well!

Tonight's little story:
"So, I look in my LV Shot Glass, I find enough for a single beer at the grocery store...
I go there looking for a 24oz "FRIO 6.0" (only in Texas!), my luck kicked in, they only had One, count it, One single FRIO Light!!!"

Born Under A Bad Sign Baby!!!
Since the day I 'as Born!
hawhaw
Well, at least I didn't wreck or run outta gas! ;)

Dennis
59 Years
Austin, Texas

Saw Fresh Cream second appearance in the U S of A.. Ginger had 2 bass drums and Eric had na white cowboy hat.i had screwed up and had 2 dates at the same time. Luckily, they didn't gunstle.

Written by Booker T. Jones and William Bell, btw.

Cool dude, if it wasn't for bad luck, wouldn't have no luck at all. 😎

Jacks cool singing against Gingers syncopation and Clapton with his searing guitar......as good as when I first heard it.

The original power trio .....all 3 of those guys were/are amazing....hell they put down the first brick in the wall that would become Hard Rock/Heavy Metal & they were the reason Hendrix wanted his band to be a trio....I’d say those are 2 pretty significant contributions to the world of music....I feel sorry for the occupants of hell now that Ginger Baker is on his way there 😏🤘🏻

That's a dirty beat.

Rest in Peace Ginger Baker. <3

One of Jack's best vocal performances on a studio recording . Obviously he has
not got the growl of Albert King , but his bass playing almost makes up for no
horn section .

Amazing drumming!

What a great sixties album.

No 90's

Play drums, Ginger Baker!

RIP Ginger Baker

Just found out. This is my go to when I want to hear Ginger Baker..
R.I.P.

R.I.P. Ginger. What a legend.

RIP Ginger Baker

Bye Ging X

RIP Ginger Baker 😔 10/06/2019

Ginger Baker - RIP
He was truly born under a bad sign. Great drummer, but a very unpleasant man.

Walk a mile in his shoes !

@Ed Conyers I wouldn't want to walk a yard in Mr.Baker's shoes! He pulled a knife on Jack Bruce in 1964. It was amazing that Cream lasted just two years.


He was a brilliant musician, but his corrosive personality alienated everybody.

RIP Ginger Baker!

Pop version of the shamanistic Hendrix song... Don’t get me wrong, this is a great performance. But there other dimensions out there...

CRAEM the best in the business all into one band! Three man POWER BAND. EVER.

12 AX tube inverter/driver for the ancient Bassman/Marshall sound. 12AT/12AU tube inverter/driver for the Fender Twin/Concert amp. (Plus the different tone-stacks and speakers. Trivial now in this digitalis age. Rock on all.)

Clapton>Hendrix

Günay Kayım are you an idiot?

Gingers playing just straight grooves here

Three is all you need if its the right three.

The Original Supergroup! A Trio. nuff said!!!

straight up down home blues

Something missing fro m this this version.Sounds like somebody going through the motions.For the sake of it.No real emotion.Stick with the original cos the man lived it,and he sang and played it from the Heart.

This is the end result when real great musicians blend the blues, rock, and psychedelic sounds. This song screams the blues as only Cream could play it and you never hear it like this anymore at least from any rock, metal or other band!!

I need a drink and a fatty

For me, this was a much heavier and raw version than Hendrix. Both are excellent though.

if it wasn't for bad luck, i wouldn't have any luck at all

Cool Song it Rock

One of the best covers ever

if it wasn't for bad luck (Guitar riff / Baaaaw) I wouldn't haaave PAUSE no luck at aaall..

Booooorn under a bad sign. GUITAR RIFF I' been down PAUSE since I began to crawl...

Why would you listen to this when you can listen to Albert King lol. Whiteys

my 2nd. favourite version of this killer blues !!!🐂💨💨💨

I think this version is the best. For some reason I always loved the blues, and Cream nailed this.

never get out of these blues alive

BAD TO THE BONE,,,,

Classic

This doesn't do it for me...at all. Albert King owns this song and always will. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Py37G9qsfY

Total bad ass

Wow 50 ppl listening with their asses it seems, or it was opposite day

Song by the late great Albert King. Some of the lyrics were changed, but a great job by Cream!

If I got better at drums, this is how I would want to play. It is so feely and groovy and interesting. Not just basic rock beats.

A machine guns that my music because it’s rock in the roll boom boom boom I hate to kill my enemy I did my time I’m ready to go fight a big battle armageddon Cain father Satan

See all the guns all those guns belong to people who went to war and I don’t they are alive because I kill them all

My song man.

If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all
👍🎶 lyrics

yup this song is about me

Hm.., or maybe it was for me too!

🎉🎶50 YEARS THIS MONTH 🎶🎉

Albert King's version still the best by far but this is up there.

Love this track - lucky enough to see Cream twice - no-one has covered this track better than Cream. Thank you for the memories.

Now this is music folks! Not the garbage being played on the air ways today. Guitar, bass & drums. That's all it took.

Try Janelle Monáe or Hozier.

*And an 8 track recording studio... that's the 4th member.*

generic ass comment my dude... try again

Nathan Sciarone Oh look an asshole named Nathan. What is a comment thread without an asshole named Nathan...

and sadly as the years go by when we’ll we ever here talent like the good times never and that is the saddest thing about our world today

In this Episode of Fate from The Wonder Years on season 2
Bully name Eddie Pinnetti.

Sampled of Homer Simpsons sings Born Under a Bad Sign
From The Simpsons Sing the Blues.

who and the hell are the 42 people who dont like this all time classic

Have you watched "Beware of Mr. Baker" He's still an angry/ nutty dude and now he says he's broke but his net worth is 2 M. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7h8CqYXEx0

Ginger's syncopated beat is absolutely killer!!!!

Larry Johnson the way he generally syncopates is great 👍

I love watching women with bearded rainbows walk.

A wonderfull and unique combination of talents!

Perfection

Whohaaa

Lyrics by Stax Records singer William Bell, music by Stax bandleader Booker T. Jones, inspired by Lightnin' Slim's 1954 swamp blues song "Bad Luck Blues", made famous by Albert "The Velvet Bulldozer" King, & covered by Cream, Jimi, & 1000 others...THANK YOU ALL.

Won me over with the first riff

This was back when Clapton was still playing an SG. Nothing sounds like those nasty old humbuckers!

That's what he should have been using when they did the reunion show back in 2005, along with a plexi!

@Larry Johnson nothing like the early days!

He shoulda had 'The Fool' even if it meant the reissued SG and Jack Bruce's fretless SG bass too.

My song

Since i was 9

nothing like it

classic. Essential

Clapton is Clapton..but Baker and Bruce were plain freaks..too damn good. Love this cover...one of my favorite vocalists too..

Born under a bad sign - Wasn't that Rodney Dangerfield's shtick?

First band to do things to my head with their sheer unbridled power, talent, skill, magic.

Through a teenaged alcoholic fug I heard Disraeli Gears played at full volume, I'd never understood that music like that existed. I was about 16/17, 1968-ish. That meant I had no spare cash for booze for quite a while after that as I bought every album by Jack, Eric, Ginger. Still have them all, every one. My copy of Wheels is the two single album pair.

Since then I've heard scores and hundreds of brilliant bands but I confess none ever had the effect of this trio on that smokey evening with far too many cans of McEwan's Export - and many similar evenings afterwards.

My first ever hangover followed, inevitably. Saw Eric play in Glasgow several years ago, he played skilfully but it felt like his heart just wasn't in it. He never spoke a word to his audience, not a one. He played, left the stage, that was it, we left. A magic-free concert that I wish I'd never gone to hear. Something changed over the years, it seems. But listening to these old tracks, that lights my fire every single time. How I wish I'd found the money to attend one of those final reunion gigs in 2005...

Man I had pretty much the same experience when I first heard Cream.

geil .........

albert owns this...still!

The lyrics to "Born Under a Bad Sign" were written by Stax Records rhythm and blues singer William Bell with music by Stax bandleader Booker T. Jones (of Booker T. & the M.G.'s).

That fuzzy guitar is sick

less is more. Ginger kills it. One of my favorite slow hand leads.

Unfortunately, I don't think Ginger is playing any more, his arthritis is so bad. I too am an drummer with arthritis, but mine is not as bad. Last time I played on just a suspended cymbal, but the pain was so bad I could not hold the mallets.

@rapidrail – I am a drummer who had to stop playing because of arthritis in 2010. I have now reversed it and I'm playing again more energentically than ever, pain-free. See my YouTube channel for how I did it, especially this video… 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DoiueTvFRWA

Less? Not really!

The drums are an absolute top.
One of Ginger's best Cream tracks.

Are U really theeee Carlos Castaneda ...
Don Juan's Lessons ruled my life

I 'm the proces od sharing music for the anouncement of
the biggest change in in my life, till now

And I find U there ...

Story of my life.

Me too!

@Kinni Wright Me three!!! I learnt not to say it can't get any worse. You know the rest.

that's the shit

Right Brother.

I really like what Ginger Baker laid down on this one - Always liked his style. You barely hear any cymbals in this one.

Ginger Baker en la bateria.

Bad luck and trouble's my only friend.

i know its a lyric beautiful. but i hope it isn't so.

another great 3 man Band WOW!!!!!!!!

not many. can you name another one ?

Great and wonderful song...

I'll take this shit to my gave

true that lol

I loved all these old bands (was a TYA fan myself, the speed) but the late sixties gave birth to that damn Candanadian band, and their drummer and bass player can unfortunately, out play all our old heros with their feet.