"I'm So Glad"
LA Forum 10/19/68
I know Detroit '67 gets a lot of love, but this pretty much puts everything ever out of commission.
Btw, I like the "Sweet Cream" bootleg better than the version on the box. Better mix, IMO.
"I'm So Glad"
LA Forum 10/19/68
I know Detroit '67 gets a lot of love, but this pretty much puts everything ever out of commission.
Btw, I like the "Sweet Cream" bootleg better than the version on the box. Better mix, IMO.
The box? 'Those were the days' ?
What really irritated me on that one was 1. the sound. Compared to LP's and (CD) a goldversion of Cream: Goodbye and Disraeli I have, its really flat, un-dynamic and bottomless. 2. The version they used for Politician should have been the one from Cream Goodbye. Musically much more interesting IMO.
A shame when they spent that much effort in it.
Correct. I'm unaware of another.
I thought it sounded ok. Some insist that having the new mixes of things from Cream Live are the biggest reasons it's essential.
I love the Mofi Disraeli, but I think the Mofi Goodbye sucks. I prefer the Dennis Drake CD for that one.
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Actually, I'll say this- I did gain a lot more respect when I saw the reunion show. A lot of my feeling may have to do with the production of those early albums and shows- GB may be a great drummer but he had just about the worst recorded drum sound in history.
I used to. I haven't listened to them in ions though. That's true for most of the music I loved in the '60s, with the exception of The Beatles and Jimi Hendrix. And it's not like I listen to them every week or month either. But that's just me; I'm not the rock fan that I used to be.
Don't be so negative.
One of my all-time favorite bands; this was one of the first albums I ever owned:
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Pretty much the same with me. But on the rare occasion that I throw on a Cream LP, I (mostly) dig it.
Those of us of a certain age will recall what a major BFD these guys were when they first hit in late '66/'67. Three guys who could play(!), a quantum leap from what was happening at the time (only Beck and Bloomfield were competitive, and the latter was virtually unknown). They raised the bar, and there was no half-steppin' from then on out: you had to be able to play! (I bought my first Marshall largely because of these guys).
I saw them a couple of weeks after the Forum gig (w/Terry Reid and the Moody Blues), and they fuckin' roared. (By comparison the reunion gig a few years ago seemed tepid, though I saw only the video).
Good times....
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
I was speaking of Clapton's immediate contemporaries at the time of Fresh Cream (late '66). RUX came out the better part of a year later and the first Fleetwood Mac LP came out two years later, a long time.
For me, Hendrix blew Cream away on pretty much every score, but that's not to diminish what Cream accomplished (just that Hendrix was nonpareil)....
Hell, they ain't even old-timey ! - Homer Stokes
Same here
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Me too. I 'm still waiting for some live material (from their original run, not the reunion) to be lreleased in a nice package.
Yes, previously unreleased. I don't have the box set, but I have all the individual releases. If I'm not mistaken, there are only a few unreleased live tracks on the Those Were The Days " set.
I have the Live Cream Volumes 1 and 2, but there are no liner notes, they were never released with extra tracks, etc...
Great band, love them. Fresh Cream and Disraeli Gears are fantastic albums.
Not "Wheels of Fire?" I think they were really starting to branch out and evolve on that one, especially with tunes like "Those Were the Days" and "As You Said." Throw in the 5/4 intro to "White Room" and you could say they were doing some things that bordered on proto-prog. It's a shame that their personal chemistry was so bad (at least between Jack and Ginger), because they were really on to something artistically.
It's kinda funny how that came about. Ginger wanted to start a band with Eric and Eric agreed to, but only if it was with this bass player he really liked, Jack Bruce. Having worked in other bands together, Ginger and Jack had already established a strong dislike towards each other and Ginger must've said (or at least thought), "NOOOO, not THAT guy!" But that was Eric's one condition and Ginger must've felt it was worth biting the bullet for.
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