a bootleg recording from the ricky-tick club in london before cream recorded the song in the studio, shows "sunshine of your love" with a beat common to rock for the period. cream drummer ginger baker compared it to the uptempo "hey now, princess", another bruce/brown composition cream recorded in march. he said that he advised bruce to slow it down and came up with the distinctive drum pattern which emphasises beats one and three (typical rock drumming favours beats two and four and is known as the backbeat). however, bruce and recording engineer tom dowd dispute baker's claim, which they say he only made much later. dowd later explained