The musician Eric Clapton could never work with after the 1960sThe stars aligned when Cream first got together, as you had three of the most innovative musical minds on the planet joining forces. On the one hand, you had Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce playing in the Graham Bond Organisation. Ian Anderson from Jethro Tull went as far as to say that this band helped lead to the creation of prog rock. Meanwhile, you had Eric Clapton, who was steadily reinventing what it meant to be a guitar player. Before him, you had very distinct and different kinds of rock music slowly becoming more and more popular; however, it was Clapton who showed musicians that these styles could all join together.