The Cream Album by Album Thread (Part 2)

Can't wait until we get to some solo stuff

 

Still got a couple of great live albums to go though.

 

The Cream Album By Album Thread

1. Wrapping Paper/Cat's Squirrel

2. I Feel Free/NSU

3. Fresh Cream

4. Disraeli Gears

5. Wheels of Fire

6. Anyone for Tennis/Pressed Rat and Warthog

7. Goodbye

 

Up next-

Best of Cream

 

Good because I'm getting hungry for some salad and vegetables...

 

What, no link for "Falstaff, The Thirst Slaker"?

 

What's on Best of Cream that hasn't been covered already ? Just curious.

 

The criminally abbreviated single version of "White Room" comes to mind...

 

Nothing really. Besides having the single edit of "White Room" it was the first time on LP for "Spoonful" in the US and "I Feel Free" in the UK / Europe. But I think it is nice to include early and/or big selling and popular compilations in these ABA threads.

 

My lord, I will not undergo this sneap without reply.
Have a beer and let it go already!

 

Is this a dedicated mono mix of the above?:


(Alternate clip):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p72G6Mj0KQQ

I guess it it is just a fold-down with some compression and EQ, but it sounds alright...

 

Did I mention that Cream played a gig in my little suburban town's Catholic high school gymnasium on March 26, 1968? It was a fund-raiser for the Student Council. Tickets were $3.00. Notice the basketball hoop behind Ginger:


photo: Sal Preziso, Union Catholic High School photography club, Scotch Plains, NJ

 

I know our host states emphatically that WoF was never mixed to mono (thanks, Steve!), but I'm not sure he meant to include the singles. It's also not clear, at least to me, whether the fold downs were sourced from the "pure" stereo mixes or from the HSG-mucked versions (with appropriate compensations). The latter strikes me as beyond foolish, but what do I know?

 

This must be the best music for a commercial ever!

I found a thread about this single where Steve said: "Nothing from WHEELS OF FIRE was originally mixed to mono from the eight tracks. NOTHING.", so I take it that includes any singles then.

But wasn't the whole point of the HSG thing that it would work better in mono, so wouldn't it make sense then if they used that version if any folding had to be done?

 

Damn.... how on earth did that come about?

 

I don't think so. My understanding is that HSG processing allowed the STEREO version to sound acceptable in mono, without requiring either a true mono mix or a folddown. In other words, you could distribute a single HSG stereo product (from a single mix) and everybody would be "happy" - well, happy enough.

I was trying to suggest that if you wanted to do a folddown and the pre-HSG stereo mix was available, it made sense to use that rather than the post-HSG stereo album mix that would require effective removal of that processing.

 

Back cover artwork for Best Of Cream

second pressing - 1977(there were only two- first press was 1969)-- bought new- beautiful UK laminated lp cover


photo by Jim Marshall

 

You might find this hard to believe, but The Who played here four months before Cream. I still live about a mile away from the school.


photo: Sal Preziso, Union Catholic High School photography club, Scotch Plains, NJ

A local guy wrote a book about it:
http://www.amazon.com/When-Stars-Were-In-Reach/dp/1482052636

 

wow best high school ever lol

 

Really? Dunno about that - I remember mine arranged a trip to the airport to watch the planes.

 

We went to the zoo!

 

Holy c$@p, I grew up not that far away, in Linden, and I had heard this from a friend who went to UC but I never believed him! I have to go back in time and apologize.

 

Cream? The Who? Bah, who needs 'em - we went to the Helms Bakery to see how bread was made, and we got free samples!