Jack Bruce of CREAM was in London, England Monday night at the Classic Rock Awards to accept the award for "Classic Album" for Cream's Disraeli Gears - Bruce told Classic Rock magazine, "Everybody talks about LED ZEPPELIN, and they played one [bleeping] gig - one [bleeping] lame gig - while Cream did weeks of gigs (a total of seven shows over two weeks that were months apart in 2005); proper gigs, not just a lame gig like Zeppelin did, with all the [vocal] keys lowered and everything. We played everything in the original keys. [Bleep] off, Zeppelin, you're crap. You've always been crap and you'll never be anything else. The worst thing is that people believe the crap that they're sold. Cream is 10 times the band that Led Zeppelin is."

Wednesday morning the JJ & Lynne Morning Show at 94.7 WCSX called Jack at his home in London, where he clarified his comments:

"I was just having some fun with the press gallery really... being fairly tongue in cheek... The thing about Zeppelin is obviously it's a little bit of jealousy on my part or more than a little bit because the audience was created by Cream and JIMI HENDRIX… this sort of very large audience... then Zeppelin came along and had a very easy ride in that way. We were the pioneers and pioneers don’t always get the recognition they deserve. On the other hand, let’s face it: Jimmy Page ain’t no Eric Clapton... no matter what anybody thinks.”

He also had this to say (jokingly) about Zeppelin:

“The only decent guy... the one good guy in that band is dead... so what are you gonna do? The trouble is if you say anything about the establishment... In Britain you mustn’t criticize the Queen or Led Zeppelin.”

The entire interview can be found at 94.7 WCSX.