Back in November for no reason whatsoever Jack Bruce of Cream got a lot of press for these comments… “Everybody talks about Led Zeppelin, and they played one f***ing gig — one f***ing lame gig — while Cream did weeks of gigs. F*** off, Zeppelin, you’re crap. You’ve always been crap and you’ll never be anything else … Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is… You’re gonna compare Eric Clapton with that f***ing Jimmy Page? Would you really compare that? Eric’s good and Jimmy’s crap. And with that I rest my case.”

How did that work out for him? Not to well with some Zeppelin fans.  According to him some threatened his life.  “It was just a bit of fun and it was blown out of all proportion. Some Led Zeppelin fans were really angry at me and I had a few death threats — they’re not likely to find me out here though.”

Bruce went on to explain, “People like me tend to forget that with YouTube and Twitter, you can’t say anything without it getting around the world. We always used to have a pop at other bands in the old days and that was all it was. It was like I had spoken out against the Queen or something. You obviously can’t say anything against Led Zeppelin.”

That seems like it was more than a pop and now he’s playing nice. What Jack do we believe, the one that sounded bitter or the one that said it was a joke? It was a joke it went down like a lead balloon.

Don’t know if you saw this last week on the Late Late Show but Craig Ferguson when on a bit of a rant about Why Everything Sucks. Which you can view here.

You can also read his rant in a New York Post article here.