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Well recorded shortened versions of their best known songs
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
As expected, am very pleased with the item
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: New
Verified purchase: Yes | Condition: Pre-owned
WOW! What an incredible album! Cream, along with The Yardbirds, Doors, Floyd, Led Zep and ELP are one of my all time fave bands from the 60's and 70's. They were only together for just over two years, but their legacy still lives and when you hear this album, drawn from live appearances at BBC's Top of the Pops (radio show on the Light Programme) and Saturday Club and Top Gear you realise what an awsome band they were. The track listing is broad, covering material from their three albums: Fresh Cream, Disreali Gears and previews of what would be on Wheels Of Fire along with three of their singles: Wrapping Paper, I Feel Free and Strange Brew. If you listen to the studio versions of the singles and then to these versions, you'll be able to hear how accurately Cream could reproduce their sound. Although their live performances began to expand as their set list got shorter and 15 and 18 minute versions of Toad and Spoonful would be the norm in the last year, these early recordings show how tight they could be on shorter songs. The two versions of the instrumental Steppin' Out, first perfomed by Eric with the Bluesbreakers, are far superior to that version and Jack's stunning Traintime, with Ginger's almost railway engine like accompaniment is better than the one from WOF. My all time favourite, We're Going Wrong, is performed with some great guitar work as is Tales Of Brave Ulysses, Outside Woman Blues and Politician. Many of the songs from all three albums were never performed in the live arena so this is a great chance to hear them in the studio but playing and recorded live. If you're a Cream fan, get this now! You won't be disappointed. If you're new to their music, get this and hear a real band in action. Get the dvd of their reunion and see how, after nearly forty years, they could get back together and play as if they had been on holiday for a few weeks. Out of 10...12! Utterly brilliant.Read full review
Wow, is all I can say about this product. It is a stunning sound from Cream and, in my opinion, much better than the 'Live Cream Vol. 1+2' if for nothing else than the greater amount of tracks you get on this CD. I would recommend it before the other Cream live albums. The CD includes 26 tracks, four of which are excerpts from interviews with Eric Clapton. The only letdown about this CD is the ever so slightly below standard recording of 'Crossroads' in which the quality of the sound is poorer than that of the other tracks.
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