Clapton ended up not liking the role he played in Cream (nor no longer liking the music Cream had created) after being played The Band's Music From Big Pink by George Harrison. Harrison started carrying around a portable record player specifically to play that album for people, and a carton of the LP so he could give a copy to everyone he played it for. Clapton, upon hearing the album, was stunned, he has said, re-evaluating what a band and even music can and should be. That's the effect Music From Big Pink had on an entire generation of musician's---it's importance, significance, and quality cannot be overstated (I'll get down off my soapbox now ;-). He told Jack and Ginger that Cream was over, and went to Woodstock to hang with The Band, waiting for them to ask him to join. He says he finally realized they didn't need him (duh), and went looking for a job as a sideman guitarist, finding one with Delaney & Bonnie's road band. That's where he met Jim Gordon, their drummer, who rejoined him in Derek & The Dominoes. Ginger worked again with Clapton in the not-so-hot "Supergroup" Blind Faith, with Little Stevie Winwood and Rick Gretsch.
