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Goodbye Cream 4cd live set incoming…

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Bit of a surprise to see this scheduled for next February, but seems reasonably priced.

Track list…

DISC ONE – OCTOBER 4, 1968 – Oakland Coliseum, Oakland (previously unreleased, except *)

White Room *
Politician *
Crossroads
Sunshine Of Your Love
Spoonful
Deserted Cities Of The Heart *
Passing The Time
I’m So Glad

DISC TWO – OCTOBER 19, 1968 – Los Angeles Forum, Los Angeles (previously unreleased, except *)

Introduction by Buddy Miles
White Room
Politician *
I’m So Glad *
Sitting On Top Of The World *
Crossroads
Sunshine Of Your Love
Traintime
Toad
Spoonful *

DISC THREE – OCTOBER 20, 1968 – San Diego Sports Arena, San Diego (previously unreleased)

White Room
Politician
I’m So Glad
Sitting On Top Of The World
Sunshine Of Your Love
Crossroads
Traintime
Toad
Spoonful

DISC FOUR – CREAM FAREWELL CONCERT NOVEMBER 26, 1968 – Royal Albert Hall, London (first time released on CD)

White Room
Politician
I’m So Glad
Sitting On Top Of The World
Crossroads
Toad
Spoonful
Sunshine Of Your Love
Steppin’ Out

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  3. Speaking of Cream, I’ve rediscovered the BBM album with Gary Moore filling in for Eric Clapton and I have to say it’s pretty good. Gary obviously has no problem in the chops department and in fact reins it in a bit in this context. He sorry of “does” Clapton in a Gary Moorey way. He’s a decent singer too and blends well with Jack Bruce. It’s a bit of a lost album now but anyone who likes Cream should give it a spin.

    • Oddly enough, I played this the other day too – I always really liked it. There is a single which is worth picking up with a great version of Peter Green’s World Keeps Turning. Ginger was quoted somewhere as hating the project…of course.

      Having been at the RAH I will be picking up the Cream release, but I assume this is the set that was filmed – annoyingly, I was at the other performance!

  4. I’m all over this Cream box. The Fresh Cream SDE didn’t have much I was after so I passed but live Cream, well this works fine. £36 currently on amazon.

    Interested in more of the photo’s from Goodbye album cover being featured in the book. Lionel Blair was apparently there telling them how to stand for the photo. Somewhere there has to be a photo of Lionel and Ginger together.

    Always hoped there’d be a Wheels of Fire box but with live stuff from final tour you’d have to say this is the end of the archive. Only very slim studio pickings/outtakes from Wheels of Fire left.

  5. IMO, although I was a big fan at the time and was present at one of the Albert Hall farewell concerts, Cream’s music has not aged well and I find most of it unendurable now.

  6. That was what I always thought until I was playing a greatest hits in the car, last week, and suddenly all those dodgy old 60s pop songs, I Feel Free and all that, made a perfect sense I hadn’t realised in previous decades. I blame my younger self, wanting and expecting interminable guitar/drum solos, and being let down that they weren’t, and then, as I got older and didn’t, thinking that is all they did. If you like Richard Hawley’s early stuff, go back with new ears, and enjoy.

    • I Feel Free and NSU are excellent examples of late ’60s guitar pop. Still exciting to listen to.
      It’s those plodding extended blues jams that no longer excite.

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