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1-N.S.U. 2-Sleepy Time Time 3-Sweet Wine 4-Rollin' And Tumblin' 5-Lawdy Mama (1967/68 'Polydor')(41:54/05) 'Recorded live at 'Winterland' and 'Fillmore West', San Francisco' - Bonus: 'Lawdy Mama', studio recording, New York City 1967.
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15 of 17 people found the following review helpful
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'Live Cream' Volume 1 was the first LP I bought myself back in 1968 for 37/-; shortly afterwards I bought Volume 2 with my hard-earned pocket money of 2/6 a week. Each of the three group members (Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker) was acknowledged as virtuosos on their particular instruments. At times on these live recordings each band member seems intent on 'outdoing' the other, but somehow even after a ten+ minute improvisation session they all come back together at exactly the same moment. A particular example of this phenomenon is 'Sweet Wine' and 'N.S.U.' on Volume 1 and the almost anthemic 'Sunshine Of Your Love' and 'Steppin' Out' on Volume 2. They're still amongst my favourite bands but the cover of the old LPs are a bit tatty and frayed round the edges (bit like me, really).
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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The finest 'Power Trio' of all time at their very best and for sheer raw intensity this has never been surpassed. It's fitting that Jack Bruce is the main figure on the front cover photograph as he was the real brains in this group, providing a solid songwriting/virtuoso bass technique foundation for Clapton's soaring guitar. However, can everyone get over the 'Bruce versus Clapton' debate as they were actually very different musicians as their subsequent work shows and they could only ever work together in a group like Cream. However, I've given it 4 stars because of the mediocre 'Lawdy Mama'. What's a studio track doing on a 'Live' album?
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Vol I is arguably the best of the two Live Cream volumes as NSU, Sweet Wine and Rollin' & Tumblin' are just so exiting - and still are all these years later. They represent some of Cream's best live work (only Steppin' Out on Vol II and, of course, Spoonful and Crossroads on "Wheels of Fire Live at the Filmore" are better) - but what on earth is "Hey Lawdy Mama" doing here? Thankfully, this is a very short track. This album shows what an amazingly exiting guitar player Clapton was - never replicated when he left Cream, unfortunately. Best listened too slightly inebriated so you won't be too embarressed when you pogo with your zimmer in front of your daughters' boyfriends.
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Cream of the crop
Time to replace my much loved, well used Vinyl copy. N.S.U. and Sweet Wine are absolute classics. Driving has never been so much fun. Highly recommended
Published on 28 Feb 2009 by Mr J Trzcinski
In those days Clapton could play with great intensity or subtle...
I was never quite happy with 'Sweet Wine' from the start. When I got the record in 1971 I was disappointed that it didn't have the concentration or contrapuntal tension of... Read more
Published on 1 Nov 2008 by Basiledes
Crackling Cream
Excellent album of Cream doing what they did. Powerhouse trio rock improvisation.
Published on 12 Jan 2005 by Mr P
GONE BUT NOT FORGOTTEN!!
WHAT CAN YOU SAY(OR WRITE) ABOUT CREAM THAT HASN'T ALREADY BEEN STATED. TAKE NO NOTICE OF DETRACTORS AND FALSE PROPHETS OF TODAY. THIS BAND WERE "IT"!!! Read more
Published on 6 Feb 2004 by J E Hall
First true supergroup formed in 1965 split in 1967.
'Live Cream' Volume 1 was the first LP I bought myself back in 1968 for 37/-; shortly afterwards I bought Volume 2 with my hard-earned pocket money of 2/6 a week. Read more
Published on 14 Jun 2001
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