I didn't think I'd like Tusk after reading a review that said it was basically Fleetwood Mac coming back to earth after Rumours. And the first few listens were sketchy but god did it grow on me. Anymore it's my favorite of the Buckingham/Nicks albums
Great outfit! Great album! Great musicians! Cream Disraeli Gears wonderful! Kinks Muswell Hillbillies I didn’t like it years ago! It's now a classic album love it! Well done Abi👍
A woman who plays Disraeli Gears over and over until the sleeve falls apart is one after my own heart, and Strange Brew is the reason we flip it over and play it again every time. Felix Pappalardi's wife Gail Collins was also co-writer on Strange Brew (and World of Pain) all of which holds bittersweet irony as their biographies unfold. A world of insight in your sunny exposition today Abby. Thank you!
Love the effort you go to to do these video essays. You put a lot of love into these. Thank you. Your outfit this week is truly trippy. Brings me back.
Loved listening to Disraeli Gears in the 70’s and it was a magical time. It really warms my heart to seeing the torch being passed on to a new generation.
Iconic look, iconic band, iconic album, iconic music!!! My dad saw them back in either 1967 or 1968 during their psych/The Fool era, he told me that Clapton and Jack Bruce walked off stage at some point and just let Ginger Baker do his thing for like 20 minutes and it totally blew him away lol
I would NEVER know that Clapton plays the melody of "Blue Moon" on "Sunshine Of Your Love" if it wasn't for you, Abby. Seems so obvious now and yet it totally escaped me for years!!!
Growing up in the Philly suburbs, CREAM was one of those bands that if you didn't hear them one day, you heard them the next. Every program Director in town was a fan. Got in them through Hendrix. **Google Hendrix LuLu show** its indicative of the bond Jimi and Eric had. I've know people who'd been to the Electric Factory. It was an abandoned tire warehouse on Arch Street. The walls were lined with old style, kite-shaped wooden coffins, (lids removed) painted up in dayglow colors. Was once regaled with a tale by a co-worker who was quite older than myself. Said he went to see Vanilla fudge, (early 1969) at the EF, and the opening act was a nascent Led Zeppelin. He said he ignored them for a while, but in his words "they were pretty damn loud". sorry I went on there, looking forward to the GTOs. 👍😊✌
I saw Cream in Philly at the stadium with a rotating stage (distracting, but otherwise a great concert), then drove over to have a look at the liberty bell and got stopped by a cop for driving up a wrong-way street downtown. Narrow escape and minor miracle there.
I was 17 in 2001, driving home from school and hearing Tales of Brave Ulysses on the Q104.3 and just loving every second of it...of course my dad had the vinyl buried somewhere and I devoured it...great record, great cover! Fantastic video Abby as usual!
Justice for "Dance The Night Away", and "We're Going Wrong"---my favorite bangers off this album along with "World Of Pain" as an honorable mention in 3rd place! 🙌🏽 And yes, bring the psychedelic colorful 60's back to this drab, sad, plain color-less world! 🎉🍄✨💖🟣🔵🟢🟡🟠🔴
One of my all time top ten favorite Album Covers for me. and yes we need more color in this world, for sure and as far as STEREO mixes in general , on a high end Audio system room set up , It's quite enjoyable
I think Jack once described Cream during this period as "Blues in Technicolour". Even crazier is the draft story - If you were in the States for more than six months you were actually eligible for the draft and could have been sent to Vietnam. Mitch Mitchell was apparently sent a draft card in '68 because the Jimi Hendrix Experience was touring there for almost all of that year. They shifted Mitch over the border into Canada for a few days and then high-tailed it back to the U.K.! Disraeli Gears was one of the first albums I fell in love when I started buying records, aged 11 in 1970, and Cream remain one of my top3 bands (along with the Stones and Led Zep).
Abby, I put this album up there with many of the psychedelic music albums that were released in 1967.What a wonderful year for psych rock.Good video as always!!!
growing up when this was released and hearing Sunshine Of Your Love for the first time with its unique riff stop you in your tacks. Once you heard that riff it immediately stuck with you and it instantly became one of your favorite songs. I always considered Eric's phrasing in his solo one of the greatest and the song itself one of rocks greatest songs of all time. Whenever i hear it i can remember the day and what i was doing when first hearing it back then.
You coulda been a historian; you shoulda been a detective. Instead, we get -- THIS! Thank Goddess! Thanks for bringing an overwhelming amount of info to light each week, and for your appreciation of what the music and that period represented. That said -- your energy is simply exhausting, in a good and appreciated way. Be well!
SO COOL to hear a young woman digging on music that preceded her time. I am also a miner of past gems. I love looking backward to find awesomeness. I was 5 when this one came out, but didn't really get exposed to much music until much later in junior high. (walk this way) time. Cream is one of the best. Your thorough analysis is also very entertaining with your cheerful demeanor.
“I have a lot of feathers!” 😆 Another great album review. Informative and historic. My only regret about the Summer of Love is I was just a baby in the midst of it all. My family thinks I should’ve been born earlier. I will have to check out your Wheels Of Fire review. 🔥🛞 I have a lot of emojis! Long live Cream! 🍦
My uncle has this record on LP and I instantly fell in love! Masterful performances, great lyrics and riffs, excellent sleeve design and terrific bunch of songs. Disraeli Gears is a true classic and testament to these guys’ super talent. Dance the night away is an absolute wonder.
every time, the production values get so much better, I dig that. I haven't touched this album in a long time , I hope my long ago acquired copy is in good shape, as I am now curious to hear the puzzling sonic artifacts mentioned.
Back into the world from Vietnam 1969 I was a small college freshman, fresh from war, older than the seniors and grad students (23)... being educated (sorta) on the G.I. Bill. and loving my POV while my dorm room neighbors played DISRAELI GEARS over and over and over and over. I liked that album... in the beginning. And there was no anti-war activism on that remote campus, even though as a vet i had changed my perspective. "Either fight to win or get the hell out of 'Nam." 58,220 Americans dead. Thanks LBJ. McNamara. A-holes. / You're fun, Abby, especially looking like a Pattie Boyd doppelganger 🙂
For a time in my life, there was a trio of albums I would listen to continuously : In The Court of the Crimson King, Procol Harum, and Disraeli Gears. I soon realized they had one thing in common : they used bona fide poets as lyricists (and in the case of PH and KC, even made them full members). They're a still very close to my heart. DG probably had my favorite artwork of the three. Also, it was the first one I've listened to among the three, and when it came to the first three songs on side two, it seemed like someone had "kicked a door open in my mind" (as Springsteen described his first experience of hearing Bod Dylan).
Since you like Prog and poet inspired music, you might check out Renaissance eg Ashes are Burning or Turn of the Cards (‘73/‘74). Amazing vocalist and nothing like them.
That rattle is the snare drum. It's so loud in the room that it's rattling the snares against the head. Either they're playing in the same room or the guitar or bass is cranked so loud that the booth can't dampen it (apparently that happend on the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers album). I'm a music recording student, and that stuff happens all the time during our projects, especially if we choose to have all the artists in the same room together. The beads clinking could also be the mics picking up Ginger's jewelry, and the shouting could be the other band members or producers giving cues.
An album that came out when I was a Freshman in high school--yep, I'm that old, but still DAMN cool!! I had two pressings of it, including one that was a British audiophile pressing! It was through that album that I eventually met and worked with the brilliant Eric Clapton...in fact, one of the first concerts I ever went to was at the Anaheim Convention Center--to see Cream, and the opening act: "Spirit"!!...with them premiering "The 12 Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus"!! A masterpiece as much as Disraeli Gears itself! Anyway...a quick side note--in regards to "Stereo" albums...in rock, the first "True" fully stereo album was: "Days Of Future Past" from The Moody Blues...and from it, was how I eventually met Justin Hayward--a fantastically gifted singer and composer! And btw...Tom Dowd did some "side work" as a TV voiceover artist...as he had a marvelous speaking voice perfect for emerging FM radio back in the day! (if you haven't watched "Classic Albums--Cream--Disraeli Gears", you really should!) And not all THAT much "acid" was consumed as often!!! You really should. Keep up the fun work. It's charming and delightful...and you actually get a resonable amount of your information and research correct!! BRAVA !!
I just discovered you channel and I instantly became a fan I love that all the albums that you review I have listened to it or I know it, I'm gonna keep watching your videos for a long time. ♥️
Greetings from another fellow New Englander! I really enjoy these vinyl Mondays- I often find them educational and entertaining...I find the wit and sense of humor a breath of fresh air...thanks for all your hard work - it feels like you research the hell out of your subjects !
Desrali is not only my favorite album from Cream, but an album that influenced my own playing and writing over the years. And I have always loved covering SWABLR.
Hi! Zappa released a 'version' of Sunshine of Your Love! It was a rehearsal/soundcheck take and is found on the Barking Pumpkin 1991 release The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life. And YOU, yes YOU should hear it as well as the song just before it - an obscure Jimi Hendrix song called Purple Haze... "Willie Mays... Helen Hayes". You know you want to. OK, Bye now!
Love your work Abby. I love Cream. They were just awesome. Haven't listened to this as an album though, must do that. I really got into Cream and Hendrix in my late teens. Considering that was the late 80's it was an unusual thing to be doing.
Excellent job, as usual, and I love your outfit and your stand for bringing back color. Laura and I hate the current trend of everything from cars to houses to clothes to furniture being white or gray. I once took some photos in a furniture store and posted them on my Facebook page, challenging people to guess whether they were color or black and white. Trick question: they were color photos, but everything in them was black, white or gray, even the framed art for sale. I never want to hear young people claim they can't stand black and white movies when they choose to live in one. BTW, I had this album on cassette, which really reduces the effectiveness of the cover art.
Boom! Thank you! 100% agreed! I absolutely cannot stand how everything you see everywhere is so plain and lifeless! Every house made, every business, every building has white walls!!! All you have to do is watch any home show on HGTV and every home is white/gray. And people enjoy this?!? To each their own, but I don't understand people being happy in a monotone, colorless world. Life should be full of art with lots of color!
The Marvelous Devoe does it again. When I think of "Disraeli Gears" I always think of a Dakota Red Fender Mustang. It was maybe 1968, I was a teenager and visiting with a friend. I was sitting on his bed and there on the bedspread was his Dakota Red Fender Mustang, which I desperately coveted and a copy of "Disraeli Gears", the two reds bouncing off each other and stuck in my brain forever.
Well done Abby 😊 I stayed up early in the morning to see this one. And you didn’t disappoint. I’ve always liked this record thanks to a relative of mine doing the cover. (You’re right Martin was quite a character! Lol). But this album had a big impact here in Australia. It kicked off a big blues scene in Melbourne in 1968 - 1969. It inspired one of our rockers Billy Thorpe of Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. He got a copy off a US marine on RnR from Vietnam. And became obsessed with trying to get that guitar sound. He actually was offered a deal with Robert Stigwood. But in order to afford a plane ticket to London he decided to do a quick tour of Australia. His guitar player didn’t turn up so he played the guitar himself. Decided he liked it too much and said to heck with London and stayed in Australia! Lol. Check out a performance of “ Mamma” from 1971 on you tube to see the results! Lol
This is a very good review. I only knew part of the history. I bought gears, in mono, when it came out. Yes, I am that old. Sunshine became a must play for the campus bands. Unfortunately, no one could play Clapton;s licks. My vinyl was worn out. THe album was a solid album. I have the privileged of having been thrown ot of a campus bar for singing "Mother's Lament" in that strong English accent from the record. My friends were not drunk; so the bar staff figured we were on something else. Mother's Lament is just fun. It's silly pointless and imperfect. And for a bunch of Americans who found the accents unusual, we enjoyed the hell out of it. To this day I remember the words. I never forgave Rolling Stone for giving the album a bad review. I saw Cream on the US tour. They only had an opening act and did a full set. THat was my first real rock concert. A recommendation from the era is the Moby Grape album. It got a little airplay, but many of the later releases had a certain band member's middle finger edited off the washboard.
Armageddon is one of my favorite record stores ever. Last time I was in Providence, I almost over-spent there. Great store, super cool people. Members of the legendary punk band DROPDEAD own it.
You are so right baby why couldn't it be 1967 again I mean the colors the music everything about the summer of love and disaraeli gears was one of the best albums that came out that summer along with sgt peppers and are you experienced another great video abby thanx
I love "Strange Brew", "Tales of Brave Ulysses" "SWLABR " & "Sunshine of Your Love" from Disraeli Gears. Still a mind-blowing album with totally unique, psychedelic guitar sounds!
My favorite parts of this album are the pink cover and Eric's thick guitar tones on songs like Sunshine of Your Love and SWALBR. Both remind me of strawberry ice cream with whipped cream. Yum! A good album overshadowed by Sgt Peppers and debuts by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Doors, and VU&Nico, IMO.
What a great episode! Love your You Tube channel. I appreciate your fun attitude, costumes and research. Keep up the great efforts. Now gonna put Gears on the turntable!
Far Out! Abigail, you look like you just stepped away from the corner of Haight Ashbury girl. I dig it. Great album and review, I enjoyed it. Cream, what a legendary band. You're a very groovy chick... ☮ n' ❤
This is a brilliant album song and playing wise, which is what counts! CREAM was incredibly influential, HENDRIX and this era of Clapton influenced countless would be guitar heroes and many real ones! Every power trio in the future or 3 piece with a singer was vastly influenced by CREAM from Zeppelin to BLUE CHEER to ZZ TOP and VAN HALEN. EDDIE claimed this era Clapton as his primary influence even if it does not sound like it! Enjoyed your vid as always.
A superfluous rant: There's not enough credit given to the Who for all their pioneering achievements. They were the first to use maximum volume during their shows. Pete Townshend actually helped design the Marshall stack. They were pioneers in eliminating a second guitarist in a rock band. Townshend pioneered the control of guitar feedback. ❤All the bands of this era were copying the Who's live show. Hendrix, Cream, Blue Cheer, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin. Townshend was really a punk rock guitarist turned beatnik/flower that transitioned into Prog. He is not a blues guitarist, but he played blues songs. They returned to the acid rock sound on Tommy. When the Who made live at leeds, they were trying to bury the blues based loud rock concert. Townshend is an artsy character who always wants to change with the fashion. That is why the Who would reinvent themselves every couple years. But, they were the original. Their live shows throughout the 60s really did not correlate with their albums. Why talk about this? Hendrix, Cream, Led Zeppelin glorified The loud, hard rock sound, while The Who really haven't been credited for it. Maybe this comment should be on a Who album video, but this violent urge struck me today. Btw, I still love Cream, Hendrix, LZ.
Now go listen to *Hell You Call a Dream* (Live at Pepsi Center) and *Automatic Sun* (Live in Studio on MTV Push) by The Warning, and tell me you don't hear the ghosts of Keith Moon and John Entwistle and a few licks from Townshend...
Very true. I absolutely love and adore The Who.....one of my top 10 favorite all-time bands, but as much as I love their studio albums, they're just not heavy like their contemporary live recordings. Sometimes it even comes off sounding thin. Keith was a powerhouse drummer, but you'd never know it because it's very light on a lot of studio recordings. Take "Who Sell Out" for example. Not very heavy, but look what they were doing at Monterey. Going crazy, destroying instruments, feedback etc. It's a weird dichotomy with them. I wish they could've had more early psychedelic era albums where they could've pushed the envelope with the heaviness and experimentation. One more thing. I remember seeing an interview w/Townsend in the "Kids Are Alright" documentary film talking about the silliness of listening to the Beatles in Stereo with vocals and instruments separated on the speaker channels sounding thin, which; ironically he was doing himself on Who recordings! Lmao! Oh, Pete. Smh.
I can recall the first time I purchased this record out of a pawn shop in Southern Minnesota... The place was like walking into a scene from David Lynch's "Blue Velvet"..
Cream are what happens when 2 jazz musicians & a bluesman collide. Add a couple of 100w Marshall heads, a wall of cabs & a wah wah pedal et voila! It's one hell of a beautiful noise though lol
Disraeli Gears first seared my 11-year-old brain at a friend's party soon after its release. Over time "Sunshine of Your Love" went from "beginner guitar riff you must learn" to annoyingly repetitive. "World of Pain" and "Dance the Night Away" each evoke psychedelic moods otherwise lost to time. Ginger Baker's song contributions have, and always will, mar an otherwise amazing album. A bit like ending Sgt. Pepper with "Act Naturally" or "Don't Pass Me By."
The background you provide on album cover origins, the artists and artwork technique are cool deep dives not found elsewhere.. I had no idea.... Can't ask Ginger...
Abigail's love for some of my favourite albums makes me think of my own choices for a desert island discs list. For me, they are in no particular order. Electric Ladyland - though any album by Jimi could be on the list. Disraeli Gears. A masterpiece. Dark Side of the Moon/Piper/A saucerful of secrets. Hard to choose between these three. Or four or five other Floyd albums! Led Zep III/ Houses of the Holy. L.A Woman. Favourite doors album for me. Soulful bluesy reflective doors. Layla and other assorted love songs. Truly special. ❤. Harvest by Neil Young. Sweetheart of the Rodeo by the Byrds. Amazing! Gram Parsons. Need I say more! American Beauty by the Grateful Dead. Good vibes forever! Crosby Stills and Nash. Anything by Roy Harper, Nick Drake, Incredible String Band. Or Sandy Denny and Bert Jansch. First Utterance by Comus. One of the most mysterious, eerie, dark acid folk albums ever made. Wicker Man 1973 soundtrack. Spellbinding. I could go on. For a while. But the list has to stop somewhere.
In those days, a lot of posters featuring rock groups were done in 'dayglo' paint, which came alive when a room was darkened and a black light (ultraviolet) was turned on. Any that are still out there in someone's collection are worth a lot of money.
You do your homework, Abby! I wore the grooves out of my vinyl copy back in the early 1970 as I myself was approaching draft age with dread and enjoyed "Take It Back" in an abstract way, with no knowledge of the specific subject matter that Jack was responding to. I got the feeling he was rejecting something from another culture, but figured he had some bad experience in a European country, perhaps. Had no idea he was also dreading something that was particularly American and that I was subject to in my own experience. Of course, I was already drafted once back in 1962. An officer called my home and yelled at my Mom, threatening to send MPs to haul my ass down to the barracks. But in their infinite wisdom, the U.S Army did grant me a reprieve due to my age, as I was only three years old at the time.
The production by Felix Pappalardi ( R. I. P. and there’s a tragic story involving a co writer on the album Gail Collins, go check it out ) is weirdly off kilter / balance. Yes I agree about the drums, which sound like cardboard boxes being hit with wooden spoons ffs and stuck in one ( right ) channel. Ginger has frequently complained about being drowned out on stage by Jack’s amp stacks and I’m sure he would have hated how he’s been mixed on this album. Maybe Felix learned from this because the balance is much better on” Wheels Of Fire “. To put it in to context, I’ve got home made bootleg live recordings of Cream from 1967/8 where the drums sound pretty good. Maybe Ginger pulled a knife in Felix just like he did on Jack ( pre - Cream )! Great quality work again young lady. Best wishes from England 🏴.
I remember this album since I was a kid when my mother had this on cassette, and it was an RSO reissue from the 1980’s. And just to let you know that RSO was the label brought you the Bee Gees, along with the soundtracks to “Saturday Night Fever” and “Grease” were timeless masterpieces, the songs “Staying Alive” and “Night Fever” were massive hits for RSO, and by the 1980’s, RSO did acquired the rights to reissue all of Eric Clapton’s albums along with the Cream albums with Eric when he was part of the band. “Sunshine Of Your Love” was the lead out single on this album. This album was from late 1967 which was following the success of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by the Beatles, “Sold Out” by the Who, and “Surrealistic Pillow” by Jefferson Airplane, all three albums were part of the “Summer of Love”.
Pete Brown will always be an under appreciated talent. His solo work is wild but his collaborations w/ Bruce were magic. The mono version of DG is a must have….but I need both versions.
Really good point from you, via Jack, about listening to this in the context of 60's recording. I think of the late 60's as rock's Bronze Age; Cream, Hendrix Experience, Jeff Beck Group, Yardbirds (live with Page) as the Greek gods. Disraeli Gears is the temple.
'Rubbery, trampoline-like valence' is now my absolute favourite description of a bass line. I shall try it out on our bassist at the first possible opportunity just to see if something gets thrown.
Great video Abbey deseaili gears is my favorite cream album sunshine of your love is one of my favorites i first heard it on goodfellas along with layla and tales of the brave Ulysses is another favorite of mine but the whole album is good great video abby ❤❤❤ keep it up
I've just got to say Jack Bruce was such an fantastic bass player and vocalist such an essential member of cream and also had an amazing solo career to also for all the cream fans definitely check out his collaborations with Robin trower if you love Jack in cream well Robin and Jack totally deliver the goods
i have some of his records with trower, both are terribly underrated imo. i hear songs for a tailor is getting repressed for its 55th - i might pick one up!
@@abigaildevoe truce is my favorite of the trower and Bruce collaborations and is very hard rocking for it's time and has some of Jack's finest vocals in a while love songs from a tailor to our of the storm from 1974 is another great solo jack Bruce album as well
@@abigaildevoe I've tried to get people to hear it , but its not like you can point to a sound... Its not on the CD and my cartridge has a loose wire so I m going by memory... It sounds like maybe its one of those doorway bells arrays that the people hold to the side to enter an inner doorway in Turkey. So maybe its hanging bells Ginger has just for soft slow ballads, resonating to the insane volume. The glass in tubes can do that kind of sound as well.
Abby, you were for sure born in the wrong decade, as you look like you just stepped out from Soho Street in the 1960's. If you put a black & white filter on, we might never know the difference, as usual your hair, makeup and fashion are all next level.
Disraeli Gears and Jimi Hendrix smash hits were the first albums I ever bought. Loved that wah wah guitar. With cream it was the first time I had became interested in all the instruments.
Another awesome review! I don't wanna sound weird, but your energetic presentation makes it a much better time than it (as a review of an LP MANY reviewed) could've been. Question: I guess many of us KNOW it's about to come, but where's the GREATEST review ever - Music From Big Pink? You'll do it JUSTICE.
1975 had an college apartment party at PSU, put this record on and I had a number of guests come up to me asking what the heck was this record…they were blown away even 8 years after it was recorded, total classic
Firstly, I love this album entirely, especially Sunshine and Tales. I have been using Mother's Lament as a campfire sing-along for years and it always goes down well. So there! Next should be Days of Future Passed by the Moodies - just to prove that Stereo was possible in 1967.
I was shocked to find that when Cream released their reunion concert a few years back, just before Ginger and Jack passed, that Tales of Brave Ulysses was one of their very few tunes left out. Wha...?
Yeah, that's why I disagree with Abby about Jack being an AMAZING blues singer. Just look at "Rollin And Tumbling", "Train time". His blues singing gives me goosebumps.
When this came out, I can tell you it was a big hit in Chicago where I lived...I was 14 , and me and my teenage friends really liked it. What a great time it was for music, and for being young and dumb
what’s an album you thought you didn’t/wouldn’t like but do now? comment below!
I didn't think I'd like Tusk after reading a review that said it was basically Fleetwood Mac coming back to earth after Rumours. And the first few listens were sketchy but god did it grow on me. Anymore it's my favorite of the Buckingham/Nicks albums
souvlaki. a girl from new england recommended it.
@@alanclayton9277The Sunshine 🌞 Girl Is Sleeping ..
Great outfit! Great album! Great musicians! Cream Disraeli Gears wonderful!
Kinks Muswell Hillbillies I didn’t like it years ago! It's now a classic album love it! Well done Abi👍
Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights .. New York Cares 🗽
Abby, you really outdid yourself with the outfit today. Man, it's like 1967 never ended
A woman who plays Disraeli Gears over and over until the sleeve falls apart is one after my own heart, and Strange Brew is the reason we flip it over and play it again every time. Felix Pappalardi's wife Gail Collins was also co-writer on Strange Brew (and World of Pain) all of which holds bittersweet irony as their biographies unfold. A world of insight in your sunny exposition today Abby. Thank you!
I love Cream so much! White Room is a masterpiece lyrically and instrumentally imo
OMG!--this channel is awesome and ever increasingly so!!!
Extraordinary!
The double bass drum at the end of Sunshine of your Love...ufff
Love the effort you go to to do these video essays. You put a lot of love into these. Thank you. Your outfit this week is truly trippy. Brings me back.
Loved listening to Disraeli Gears in the 70’s and it was a magical time. It really warms my heart to seeing the torch being passed on to a new generation.
"Dance the Night Away" - Byrd-like and psychedelically resplendent.
Iconic look, iconic band, iconic album, iconic music!!! My dad saw them back in either 1967 or 1968 during their psych/The Fool era, he told me that Clapton and Jack Bruce walked off stage at some point and just let Ginger Baker do his thing for like 20 minutes and it totally blew him away lol
a 20 minute drum solo sounds about right!
Ginger was known for his long drum solos. As an aspiring drummer myself, I was a mega-fan. My first concert was Cream at the Oakland Coliseum.
I would NEVER know that Clapton plays the melody of "Blue Moon" on "Sunshine Of Your Love" if it wasn't for you, Abby. Seems so obvious now and yet it totally escaped me for years!!!
True dat. I've listened to that album and song literally hundreds of times for 30+ years now, and never ever knew or realized that!
Growing up in the Philly suburbs, CREAM was one of those bands that if you didn't hear them one day, you heard them the next. Every program Director in town was a fan. Got in them through Hendrix. **Google Hendrix LuLu show** its indicative of the bond Jimi and Eric had. I've know people who'd been to the Electric Factory. It was an abandoned tire warehouse on Arch Street. The walls were lined with old style, kite-shaped wooden coffins, (lids removed) painted up in dayglow colors. Was once regaled with a tale by a co-worker who was quite older than myself. Said he went to see Vanilla fudge, (early 1969) at the EF, and the opening act was a nascent Led Zeppelin. He said he ignored them for a while, but in his words "they were pretty damn loud". sorry I went on there, looking forward to the GTOs. 👍😊✌
I saw Cream in Philly at the stadium with a rotating stage (distracting, but otherwise a great concert), then drove over to have a look at the liberty bell and got stopped by a cop for driving up a wrong-way street downtown. Narrow escape and minor miracle there.
I was 17 in 2001, driving home from school and hearing Tales of Brave Ulysses on the Q104.3 and just loving every second of it...of course my dad had the vinyl buried somewhere and I devoured it...great record, great cover! Fantastic video Abby as usual!
Justice for "Dance The Night Away", and "We're Going Wrong"---my favorite bangers off this album along with "World Of Pain" as an honorable mention in 3rd place! 🙌🏽
And yes, bring the psychedelic colorful 60's back to this drab, sad, plain color-less world! 🎉🍄✨💖🟣🔵🟢🟡🟠🔴
One of my all time top ten favorite Album Covers for me.
and yes we need more color in this world, for sure
and as far as STEREO mixes in general , on a high end Audio system room set up , It's quite enjoyable
I think Jack once described Cream during this period as "Blues in Technicolour". Even crazier is the draft story - If you were in the States for more than six months you were actually eligible for the draft and could have been sent to Vietnam. Mitch Mitchell was apparently sent a draft card in '68 because the Jimi Hendrix Experience was touring there for almost all of that year. They shifted Mitch over the border into Canada for a few days and then high-tailed it back to the U.K.! Disraeli Gears was one of the first albums I fell in love when I started buying records, aged 11 in 1970, and Cream remain one of my top3 bands (along with the Stones and Led Zep).
A Fabulous insightful review Abi, it is like you were there! And thanks for my photo credits...Peace & Love
wow thank you so much!
Abby, I put this album up there with many of the psychedelic music albums that were released in 1967.What a wonderful year for psych rock.Good video as always!!!
growing up when this was released and hearing Sunshine Of Your Love for the first time with its unique riff stop you in your tacks. Once you heard that riff it immediately stuck with you and it instantly became one of your favorite songs.
I always considered Eric's phrasing in his solo one of the greatest and the song itself one of rocks greatest songs of all time.
Whenever i hear it i can remember the day and what i was doing when first hearing it back then.
You coulda been a historian; you shoulda been a detective. Instead, we get -- THIS! Thank Goddess!
Thanks for bringing an overwhelming amount of info to light each week, and for your appreciation of what the music and that period represented.
That said -- your energy is simply exhausting, in a good and appreciated way.
Be well!
SO COOL to hear a young woman digging on music that preceded her time. I am also a miner of past gems. I love looking backward to find awesomeness. I was 5 when this one came out, but didn't really get exposed to much music until much later in junior high. (walk this way) time. Cream is one of the best. Your thorough analysis is also very entertaining with your cheerful demeanor.
Just found your channel and now I finally have something to look forward to on Mondays.
A definite favorite album of the 60's! Sunshine Of Your Love blew my young ears away when I first heard it.
their talent level, strength of song structure and delivery were years ahead ! still waiting for ANYONE to eclipse them !!!!!!
“I have a lot of feathers!” 😆
Another great album review. Informative and historic.
My only regret about the Summer of Love is I was just a baby in the midst of it all. My family thinks I should’ve been born earlier.
I will have to check out your Wheels Of Fire review. 🔥🛞
I have a lot of emojis! Long live Cream! 🍦
Love your Jack Bruce vocals at 27:04! Yeah, that’s what I thought.
My uncle has this record on LP and I instantly fell in love! Masterful performances, great lyrics and riffs, excellent sleeve design and terrific bunch of songs. Disraeli Gears is a true classic and testament to these guys’ super talent. Dance the night away is an absolute wonder.
Good stuff. Cream was the seminal band of my youth. They were the first super group, and master players. I still have the album I bought back in 68.
Tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers...far out.
Seen it...not goin' away...
every time, the production values get so much better, I dig that. I haven't touched this album in a long time , I hope my long ago acquired copy is in good shape, as I am now curious to hear the puzzling sonic artifacts mentioned.
I really like this album. Hearing the history of it puts a new coating of context on it. Thanks for that!
Back into the world from Vietnam 1969 I was a small college freshman, fresh from war, older than the seniors and grad students (23)... being educated (sorta) on the G.I. Bill. and loving my POV while my dorm room neighbors played DISRAELI GEARS over and over and over and over. I liked that album... in the beginning. And there was no anti-war activism on that remote campus, even though as a vet i had changed my perspective. "Either fight to win or get the hell out of 'Nam." 58,220 Americans dead. Thanks LBJ. McNamara. A-holes. / You're fun, Abby, especially looking like a Pattie Boyd doppelganger 🙂
For a time in my life, there was a trio of albums I would listen to continuously : In The Court of the Crimson King, Procol Harum, and Disraeli Gears. I soon realized they had one thing in common : they used bona fide poets as lyricists (and in the case of PH and KC, even made them full members). They're a still very close to my heart. DG probably had my favorite artwork of the three. Also, it was the first one I've listened to among the three, and when it came to the first three songs on side two, it seemed like someone had "kicked a door open in my mind" (as Springsteen described his first experience of hearing Bod Dylan).
Since you like Prog and poet inspired music, you might check out Renaissance eg Ashes are Burning or Turn of the Cards (‘73/‘74). Amazing vocalist and nothing like them.
@@Scottlp2 I know of Renaissance, Annie Haslam and Betty Thatcher ;-)
I hope you don’t get tired of me saying this, but you did an absolutely superb job! It makes me want to get my SG painted. 😊
do it! the paint the fool used is illegal now but do it with something less toxic!
That rattle is the snare drum. It's so loud in the room that it's rattling the snares against the head. Either they're playing in the same room or the guitar or bass is cranked so loud that the booth can't dampen it (apparently that happend on the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers album). I'm a music recording student, and that stuff happens all the time during our projects, especially if we choose to have all the artists in the same room together. The beads clinking could also be the mics picking up Ginger's jewelry, and the shouting could be the other band members or producers giving cues.
An album that came out when I was a Freshman in high school--yep, I'm that old, but still DAMN cool!! I had two pressings of it, including one that was a British audiophile pressing! It was through that album that I eventually met and worked with the brilliant Eric Clapton...in fact, one of the first concerts I ever went to was at the Anaheim Convention Center--to see Cream, and the opening act: "Spirit"!!...with them premiering "The 12 Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus"!! A masterpiece as much as Disraeli Gears itself! Anyway...a quick side note--in regards to "Stereo" albums...in rock, the first "True" fully stereo album was: "Days Of Future Past" from The Moody Blues...and from it, was how I eventually met Justin Hayward--a fantastically gifted singer and composer! And btw...Tom Dowd did some "side work" as a TV voiceover artist...as he had a marvelous speaking voice perfect for emerging FM radio back in the day! (if you haven't watched "Classic Albums--Cream--Disraeli Gears", you really should!) And not all THAT much "acid" was consumed as often!!! You really should. Keep up the fun work. It's charming and delightful...and you actually get a resonable amount of your information and research correct!! BRAVA !!
I just discovered you channel and I instantly became a fan I love that all the albums that you review I have listened to it or I know it, I'm gonna keep watching your videos for a long time. ♥️
This is not an album, THIS IS A MASTERPIECE
Superb album & band. Love it. My original vinyl is tatty but still plays.
Awesome footage to back this critique. My favorite album by my all-time favorite band Clapton was in.
Greetings from another fellow New Englander! I really enjoy these vinyl Mondays- I often find them educational and entertaining...I find the wit and sense of humor a breath of fresh air...thanks for all your hard work - it feels like you research the hell out of your subjects !
Thanks once again, Abigail, for helping to banish those Monday blues.
Desrali is not only my favorite album from Cream, but an album that influenced my own playing and writing over the years. And I have always loved covering SWABLR.
Spelling not your strong point
Yer #1 like today Abby ❤
Hi! Zappa released a 'version' of Sunshine of Your Love! It was a rehearsal/soundcheck take and is found on the Barking Pumpkin 1991 release The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life. And YOU, yes YOU should hear it as well as the song just before it - an obscure Jimi Hendrix song called Purple Haze... "Willie Mays... Helen Hayes". You know you want to.
OK, Bye now!
Love your work Abby. I love Cream. They were just awesome. Haven't listened to this as an album though, must do that. I really got into Cream and Hendrix in my late teens. Considering that was the late 80's it was an unusual thing to be doing.
Excellent job, as usual, and I love your outfit and your stand for bringing back color. Laura and I hate the current trend of everything from cars to houses to clothes to furniture being white or gray. I once took some photos in a furniture store and posted them on my Facebook page, challenging people to guess whether they were color or black and white. Trick question: they were color photos, but everything in them was black, white or gray, even the framed art for sale. I never want to hear young people claim they can't stand black and white movies when they choose to live in one.
BTW, I had this album on cassette, which really reduces the effectiveness of the cover art.
Boom! Thank you! 100% agreed! I absolutely cannot stand how everything you see everywhere is so plain and lifeless! Every house made, every business, every building has white walls!!! All you have to do is watch any home show on HGTV and every home is white/gray. And people enjoy this?!? To each their own, but I don't understand people being happy in a monotone, colorless world. Life should be full of art with lots of color!
Tiny purple fishes is the best line.
The Marvelous Devoe does it again. When I think of "Disraeli Gears" I always think of a Dakota Red Fender Mustang. It was maybe 1968, I was a teenager and visiting with a friend. I was sitting on his bed and there on the bedspread was his Dakota Red Fender Mustang, which I desperately coveted and a copy of "Disraeli Gears", the two reds bouncing off each other and stuck in my brain forever.
Well done Abby 😊 I stayed up early in the morning to see this one. And you didn’t disappoint. I’ve always liked this record thanks to a relative of mine doing the cover. (You’re right Martin was quite a character! Lol). But this album had a big impact here in Australia. It kicked off a big blues scene in Melbourne in 1968 - 1969. It inspired one of our rockers Billy Thorpe of Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. He got a copy off a US marine on RnR from Vietnam. And became obsessed with trying to get that guitar sound. He actually was offered a deal with Robert Stigwood. But in order to afford a plane ticket to London he decided to do a quick tour of Australia. His guitar player didn’t turn up so he played the guitar himself. Decided he liked it too much and said to heck with London and stayed in Australia! Lol. Check out a performance of “ Mamma” from 1971 on you tube to see the results! Lol
This is a very good review. I only knew part of the history.
I bought gears, in mono, when it came out. Yes, I am that old. Sunshine became a must play for the campus bands. Unfortunately, no one could play Clapton;s licks. My vinyl was worn out. THe album was a solid album. I have the privileged of having been thrown ot of a campus bar for singing "Mother's Lament" in that strong English accent from the record. My friends were not drunk; so the bar staff figured we were on something else. Mother's Lament is just fun. It's silly pointless and imperfect. And for a bunch of Americans who found the accents unusual, we enjoyed the hell out of it. To this day I remember the words.
I never forgave Rolling Stone for giving the album a bad review. I saw Cream on the US tour. They only had an opening act and did a full set. THat was my first real rock concert.
A recommendation from the era is the Moby Grape album. It got a little airplay, but many of the later releases had a certain band member's middle finger edited off the washboard.
Armageddon is one of my favorite record stores ever. Last time I was in Providence, I almost over-spent there. Great store, super cool people. Members of the legendary punk band DROPDEAD own it.
Here I was thinking cream was something you put in your morning cup o’ tea 😂😂😂😂😂😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤ anyways Abby keep up the sublime videos! Lol 😮
That was really funny 🎉😂😂😂😂😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤
You deserve my understanding of your own life 😂
You are so right baby why couldn't it be 1967 again I mean the colors the music everything about the summer of love and disaraeli gears was one of the best albums that came out that summer along with sgt peppers and are you experienced another great video abby thanx
I am 75 and English and I approve of your message.
I love "Strange Brew", "Tales of Brave Ulysses" "SWLABR " & "Sunshine of Your Love" from Disraeli Gears. Still a mind-blowing album with totally unique, psychedelic guitar sounds!
16:50 I heard and played this song for years and never realized it was blue moon melody! 😮
My favorite parts of this album are the pink cover and Eric's thick guitar tones on songs like Sunshine of Your Love and SWALBR. Both remind me of strawberry ice cream with whipped cream. Yum!
A good album overshadowed by Sgt Peppers and debuts by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Doors, and VU&Nico, IMO.
Great work and great outfit Abby. I bought this album just because I liked the artwork. Yes I’m that shallow.
What a great episode! Love your You Tube channel. I appreciate your fun attitude, costumes and research. Keep up the great efforts. Now gonna put Gears on the turntable!
I’m watching/listening to this while moving and girl, I needed this. It is too damn hot and I am exhausted, so this is a much needed pick me up.
moving on the hottest day of the year is no fun, take care!
Far Out! Abigail, you look like you just stepped away from the corner of Haight Ashbury girl. I dig it. Great album and review, I enjoyed it. Cream, what a legendary band. You're a very groovy chick... ☮ n' ❤
This is a brilliant album song and playing wise, which is what counts! CREAM was incredibly influential, HENDRIX and this era of Clapton influenced countless would be guitar heroes and many real ones! Every power trio in the future or 3 piece with a singer was vastly influenced by CREAM from Zeppelin to BLUE CHEER to ZZ TOP and VAN HALEN. EDDIE claimed this era Clapton as his primary influence even if it does not sound like it! Enjoyed your vid as always.
A superfluous rant:
There's not enough credit given to the Who for all their pioneering achievements. They were the first to use maximum volume during their shows. Pete Townshend actually helped design the Marshall stack. They were pioneers in eliminating a second guitarist in a rock band. Townshend pioneered the control of guitar feedback. ❤All the bands of this era were copying the Who's live show. Hendrix, Cream, Blue Cheer, Jeff Beck, Led Zeppelin. Townshend was really a punk rock guitarist turned beatnik/flower that transitioned into Prog. He is not a blues guitarist, but he played blues songs. They returned to the acid rock sound on Tommy. When the Who made live at leeds, they were trying to bury the blues based loud rock concert. Townshend is an artsy character who always wants to change with the fashion. That is why the Who would reinvent themselves every couple years. But, they were the original. Their live shows throughout the 60s really did not correlate with their albums. Why talk about this? Hendrix, Cream, Led Zeppelin glorified The loud, hard rock sound, while The Who really haven't been credited for it. Maybe this comment should be on a Who album video, but this violent urge struck me today. Btw, I still love Cream, Hendrix, LZ.
great comment. ☝
Now go listen to *Hell You Call a Dream* (Live at Pepsi Center) and *Automatic Sun* (Live in Studio on MTV Push) by The Warning, and tell me you don't hear the ghosts of Keith Moon and John Entwistle and a few licks from Townshend...
Very true. I absolutely love and adore The Who.....one of my top 10 favorite all-time bands, but as much as I love their studio albums, they're just not heavy like their contemporary live recordings. Sometimes it even comes off sounding thin. Keith was a powerhouse drummer, but you'd never know it because it's very light on a lot of studio recordings. Take "Who Sell Out" for example. Not very heavy, but look what they were doing at Monterey. Going crazy, destroying instruments, feedback etc. It's a weird dichotomy with them. I wish they could've had more early psychedelic era albums where they could've pushed the envelope with the heaviness and experimentation. One more thing. I remember seeing an interview w/Townsend in the "Kids Are Alright" documentary film talking about the silliness of listening to the Beatles in Stereo with vocals and instruments separated on the speaker channels sounding thin, which; ironically he was doing himself on Who recordings! Lmao! Oh, Pete. Smh.
The Eric Clapton-Verse is steadily becoming my favorite aspect of this channel 👍 great video abby
the claptonverse has always been essential to this channel, blind faith remains my greatest hit!
I can recall the first time I purchased this record out of a pawn shop in Southern Minnesota... The place was like walking into a scene from David Lynch's "Blue Velvet"..
This album belongs in every collection. Great review.
Cream are what happens when 2 jazz musicians & a bluesman collide. Add a couple of 100w Marshall heads, a wall of cabs & a wah wah pedal et voila! It's one hell of a beautiful noise though lol
Disraeli Gears first seared my 11-year-old brain at a friend's party soon after its release. Over time "Sunshine of Your Love" went from "beginner guitar riff you must learn" to annoyingly repetitive. "World of Pain" and "Dance the Night Away" each evoke psychedelic moods otherwise lost to time. Ginger Baker's song contributions have, and always will, mar an otherwise amazing album. A bit like ending Sgt. Pepper with "Act Naturally" or "Don't Pass Me By."
The background you provide on album cover origins, the artists and artwork technique are cool deep dives not found elsewhere.. I had no idea.... Can't ask Ginger...
and if you DID ask ginger you might not walk out of there with all your fingers and toes intact.
@@abigaildevoe very true, probably at least missing a few teeth as well. Damn that Fela Kuti..
I like your podcast. Learned a lot about Nico and grace slick.
Abigail's love for some of my favourite albums makes me think of my own choices for a desert island discs list. For me, they are in no particular order.
Electric Ladyland - though any album by Jimi could be on the list.
Disraeli Gears. A masterpiece.
Dark Side of the Moon/Piper/A saucerful of secrets. Hard to choose between these three. Or four or five other Floyd albums!
Led Zep III/ Houses of the Holy.
L.A Woman. Favourite doors album for me. Soulful bluesy reflective doors.
Layla and other assorted love songs. Truly special. ❤.
Harvest by Neil Young.
Sweetheart of the Rodeo by the Byrds. Amazing!
Gram Parsons. Need I say more!
American Beauty by the Grateful Dead. Good vibes forever!
Crosby Stills and Nash.
Anything by Roy Harper, Nick Drake, Incredible String Band. Or Sandy Denny and Bert Jansch.
First Utterance by Comus. One of the most mysterious, eerie, dark acid folk albums ever made.
Wicker Man 1973 soundtrack. Spellbinding.
I could go on. For a while. But the list has to stop somewhere.
In those days, a lot of posters featuring rock groups were done in 'dayglo' paint, which came alive when a room was darkened and a black light (ultraviolet) was turned on. Any that are still out there in someone's collection are worth a lot of money.
You do your homework, Abby! I wore the grooves out of my vinyl copy back in the early 1970 as I myself was approaching draft age with dread and enjoyed "Take It Back" in an abstract way, with no knowledge of the specific subject matter that Jack was responding to. I got the feeling he was rejecting something from another culture, but figured he had some bad experience in a European country, perhaps. Had no idea he was also dreading something that was particularly American and that I was subject to in my own experience.
Of course, I was already drafted once back in 1962. An officer called my home and yelled at my Mom, threatening to send MPs to haul my ass down to the barracks. But in their infinite wisdom, the U.S Army did grant me a reprieve due to my age, as I was only three years old at the time.
The production by Felix Pappalardi ( R. I. P. and there’s a tragic story involving a co writer on the album Gail Collins, go check it out ) is weirdly off kilter / balance. Yes I agree about the drums, which sound like cardboard boxes being hit with wooden spoons ffs and stuck in one ( right ) channel. Ginger has frequently complained about being drowned out on stage by Jack’s amp stacks and I’m sure he would have hated how he’s been mixed on this album. Maybe Felix learned from this because the balance is much better on” Wheels Of Fire “. To put it in to context, I’ve got home made bootleg live recordings of Cream from 1967/8 where the drums sound pretty good. Maybe Ginger pulled a knife in Felix just like he did on Jack ( pre - Cream )! Great quality work again young lady. Best wishes from England 🏴.
i wouldn't be surprise if ginger scared felix into building the mix correctly. beware mr. baker!
I remember this album since I was a kid when my mother had this on cassette, and it was an RSO reissue from the 1980’s. And just to let you know that RSO was the label brought you the Bee Gees, along with the soundtracks to “Saturday Night Fever” and “Grease” were timeless masterpieces, the songs “Staying Alive” and “Night Fever” were massive hits for RSO, and by the 1980’s, RSO did acquired the rights to reissue all of Eric Clapton’s albums along with the Cream albums with Eric when he was part of the band. “Sunshine Of Your Love” was the lead out single on this album.
This album was from late 1967 which was following the success of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by the Beatles, “Sold Out” by the Who, and “Surrealistic Pillow” by Jefferson Airplane, all three albums were part of the “Summer of Love”.
Pete Brown will always be an under appreciated talent. His solo work is wild but his collaborations w/ Bruce were magic.
The mono version of DG is a must have….but I need both versions.
Pete's albums with his own band, Battered Ornaments are pretty good. Not essential, but interesting.
Great episode ❤ your knowledge research and presentation skills are second to none 👏 great that a beautiful woman makes videos 📹 about 1960's rock 🪨 ❤
Really good point from you, via Jack, about listening to this in the context of 60's recording. I think of the late 60's as rock's Bronze Age; Cream, Hendrix Experience, Jeff Beck Group, Yardbirds (live with Page) as the Greek gods. Disraeli Gears is the temple.
'Rubbery, trampoline-like valence' is now my absolute favourite description of a bass line. I shall try it out on our bassist at the first possible opportunity just to see if something gets thrown.
Great video Abbey deseaili gears is my favorite cream album sunshine of your love is one of my favorites i first heard it on goodfellas along with layla and tales of the brave Ulysses is another favorite of mine but the whole album is good great video abby ❤❤❤ keep it up
I've just got to say Jack Bruce was such an fantastic bass player and vocalist such an essential member of cream and also had an amazing solo career to also for all the cream fans definitely check out his collaborations with Robin trower if you love Jack in cream well Robin and Jack totally deliver the goods
i have some of his records with trower, both are terribly underrated imo. i hear songs for a tailor is getting repressed for its 55th - i might pick one up!
@@abigaildevoe truce is my favorite of the trower and Bruce collaborations and is very hard rocking for it's time and has some of Jack's finest vocals in a while love songs from a tailor to our of the storm from 1974 is another great solo jack Bruce album as well
YES ! I've always wondered what the bell rattle was .
you hear it too??
@@abigaildevoe I've tried to get people to hear it , but its not like you can point to a sound... Its not on the CD and my cartridge has a loose wire so I m going by memory... It sounds like maybe its one of those doorway bells arrays that the people hold to the side to enter an inner doorway in Turkey. So maybe its hanging bells Ginger has just for soft slow ballads, resonating to the insane volume. The glass in tubes can do that kind of sound as well.
I still think LAOALS is still the best-ever Clapton-related group album.....but Disraeli Gears is in the runner-up slot. Great video once again.
Abby, you were for sure born in the wrong decade, as you look like you just stepped out from Soho Street in the 1960's. If you put a black & white filter on, we might never know the difference, as usual your hair, makeup and fashion are all next level.
Disraeli Gears and Jimi Hendrix smash hits were the first albums I ever bought. Loved that wah wah guitar. With cream it was the first time I had became interested in all the instruments.
Another awesome review! I don't wanna sound weird, but your energetic presentation makes it a much better time than it (as a review of an LP MANY reviewed) could've been.
Question: I guess many of us KNOW it's about to come, but where's the GREATEST review ever - Music From Big Pink? You'll do it JUSTICE.
Beautiful Album ❤
The faint sound you hear in Sunshine always sounded like chimes to me. I've noticed it for years.
"...these three guys all solo at once...". Yup.
Blue Condition is one of my favourites. So good stoned.
Amazing analysis of Disraeli Gears!
I would love to see your analysis of 'Ogdens Nut Gone Flake' by The Small Faces.
1975 had an college apartment party at PSU, put this record on and I had a number of guests come up to me asking what the heck was this record…they were blown away even 8 years after it was recorded, total classic
that speaks for itself really - the summer of love was ancient history by the stadium rock years. but cream holds up!
Great review of Cream."Disreali Gears" is a great classic album by this super trio,but "Wheels of Fire" and "Fresh Cream" are great classic as well.
Firstly, I love this album entirely, especially Sunshine and Tales. I have been using Mother's Lament as a campfire sing-along for years and it always goes down well. So there!
Next should be Days of Future Passed by the Moodies - just to prove that Stereo was possible in 1967.
LOL i don't doubt that mother's lament makes a great singalong!
This is the first album covered on Vinyl Monday that I actually own on vinyl!
wow no way! 103 episodes and i finally did it!
I was shocked to find that when Cream released their reunion concert a few years back, just before Ginger and Jack passed, that Tales of Brave Ulysses was one of their very few tunes left out. Wha...?
Jack Bruce was not only a gifted melodic bass player but a superb vocalist. With Clapton and Baker Cream was perhaps the perfect band.
Yeah, that's why I disagree with Abby about Jack being an AMAZING blues singer. Just look at "Rollin And Tumbling", "Train time". His blues singing gives me goosebumps.
@@sugadelicsavagesoul8623 ...i don't think you want to know what i think of traintime
@@abigaildevoe oh nooooh! 😵💫😳😱
La creme de la creme
When this came out, I can tell you it was a big hit in Chicago where I lived...I was 14 , and me and my teenage friends really liked it. What a great time it was for music, and for being young and dumb
Eric has a presence on this channel 😅