Eric Clapton was frustrated.
It was the end of the year, 1969, and he was right where he didn't want to be.
He had just agreed to form the group "Blind Faith" with his bud Steve Winwood.
And he was on tour.
The problem was that he had just split from the band, "Cream", and he was convinced by Winwood to let former "Cream" member Ginger Baker in the band to play drums. He did this against his word to another former "Cream" member Jack Bruce.
So this was one issue Clapton was struggling with.
Another was the fact that "Blind Faith" was newly formed and didn't have enough material to fill an hour. So they had to play old "Cream" and old "Traffic" (Winwood's band) tunes.
On top of all that, they haven't had alot of time to rehearse so Clapton felt their performances were sub-par.
One of the groups that were on tour with them was a husband and wife duo named "Delaney and Bonnie". D and B were a soulful, folksy, rock and roll blues group out of Los Angeles.
Clapton really took a liking to them.
So much so, that he would go onstage when D an B were on and jam with them, because he said, "they were so much better than we (Blind Faith) were."
Here is a jam session with Delaney and Bonnie, Clapton, and Dave Mason from Traffic.
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