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Would I do another [Cream] reunion? Sure, I`d be there like a shot. Ah, but... you know how these things are.

Most rock stars are very good at one thing, and no disrespect to that. But I would have been bored in five minutes if that was all it had been about.

Asked whom he regards as the best bass players in pop and rock history: "If you`re talking electric bass, it`s very, very simple: James Jamerson, Paul McCartney, Jaco Pastorius, me."

I was working in Italy on an American air base, and I got very friendly with a lot of the black guys there. And that was when I first heard Charles Mingus. I immediately realised that that was what I wanted to be: a bass player who composed. I knew that I wanted to write, but I hadn`t put the two things together. As soon as I heard him, that was it.

When he joined Blues Incorporated they played a lot of "society gigs: Lady Londonderry`s ball, stuff like that - because Alexis Korner was a hooray. We`d do things like Lord Rothschild`s party: that was quite a gig. Ginger Baker, who was using a lot of dope at the time, ended up asleep in Lord Rothschild`s bed, and I remember flouncing off down the drive and his lordship running after me going, `Please don`t go.` And the Duke of Edinburgh [Prince Philip] coming up and saying: `Could you play a waltz?` `No we fucking can`t.` "

I honestly think that if it hadn`t been for that band [Cream], I would have had a perfectly respectable career in perhaps a more esoteric way.

Trivia

In May of 2005, reunited with Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker for a Cream reunion concert.

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Cream were voted the 66th Greatest Rock `n` Roll Artists of all time by Rolling Stone.

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Also a successful solo artist since the 1960s.

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Elected to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (as a member of Cream) in 1993.

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Bassist and vocalist for the Cream

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Member of `60s bands John Mayall & The Bluesbreakers, Cream.

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Spouse: Janet Godfrey (? - 1980) (divorced) 2 children

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