Advantages: virtuoso playing Disadvantages: strange mix
Unsurprisingly, following their recent reformation after several decades for a string of live dates at the Royal Albert Hall, there's been a jug full of new Cream product, from CD compilations to DVDs to biographies. Just to be contrary I thought I'd go right back to 1966 and their very first album.
If there's anyone on the planet who doesn't know who Cream were/are...well, they were dubbed Rock's first "Super Group", which became a fashionable ... ...though, at the time, only guitarist Eric Clapton could really be described as anything approaching a "star", following his stints with The Yardbirds, who he quit because he didn't like their pop direction, and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, with whom he earned the appellation "God".
Meanwhile drummer Ginger Baker and bassist Jack Bruce were knocking lumps out of each other in the respected, but not widely well-known, Graham Bond Organisation. This ...
treemusicuk 23.07.2005
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