Because the price is decent now and may go up closer to release date. Or If you don't preorder you can't complain that it has not shipped yet.
Sunshine of your love is already on Tidal, I'm not a Cream hardcore fan, but does anybody know if the song sound better than the one on the bootleg?
The multitracks must be still available and not stored in the New Jersey tape repository that burnt down. That explains all the remixed tracks on Those Were The Days (from the LA Forum and Oakland Coliseum). The Oakland Coliseum remix sounds better than the same tracks on Live Cream Vol. 2.
If its via amazon and if the price drops you'll get at the lowest price. To be honest the current UK price doesn't look that low but still, if they don't bill me now and await dispatch then there's no loss and only gain if price drops. Will keep an eye on price and if cheaper elsewhere can always cancel.
Wow really? Even I as a tight fisted Yorkshire man think £36.61 is low, especially for four CD's and a big book.
Being honest, i havent checked what the price is elsewhere - i just saw amazon price and pre-ordered. I guess you're right, might've been better checking the other sites too to see what the price is. I'm not complaining, just that early on amazon price usually can be uncertain. If thats the same price upon release i won't be cancelling my order.
Wasn't the vinyl announced at the same time with Fresh Cream or did it actually come later? If there's liklihood of a vinyl release of the full shows I may end up cancelling my CD order and buy that instead, the vinyl Fresh Cream Box sounds so much better than its CD counterpart for that reason vinyl would be my preferred choice.
It's interesting to consider the fact that the absolute train wreck of a performance of "Crossroads" from Oakland is being happily released in this set, set against the agonising going on in the Band of Gypsys box thread about the performance related omissions there. I take it we prefer the warts and all approach?
Some intriguing language being used here by UMC, "The Oakland Coliseum, Los Angeles Forum and San Diego Sports Arena concerts were mastered from the original 1968 analog mix reels" That doesn't say modern multitrack mixes to me - as for RAH, "mastered from the original 1968 analog transfer reels" says these are, at best, 2-track stereo, rather than a multitrack source. Also, do we know what show the RAH source is supposed to be from? Early or late show? Or a composite of both?
I thought so even on my car stereo. I always had a hard time getting into the unofficial recording of the Oakland show, though I always liked the tracks from Live Cream Vol. II. I felt the new "Sunshine of Your Love" sounded better than both, most likely due to it coming from the "original 1968 analog mix reels" as opposed to whatever sort of copy tape has been available unofficially. Again, this was just on my car stereo so I'm not really in any place to make any sort of definite statement on this but I definitely liked what I heard. I'm guessing these are two-track mixdowns of multitracks made in '68. These shows were multitracked but I wouldn't be surprised if the multis were lost. Cream's catalog has now been distributed by two record companies who have had major fires that have destroyed a lot of recordings, that we're getting anything is nothing short of amazing. I am also curious about what RAH is going to sound like and which of the two shows it's sourced from (if not both). Most of the DVDs haven't had the best sound quality for this but there is a version floating around on YouTube and elsewhere where the sound seems significantly better. I'm guessing the US farewell shows will sound better but I'm sure it will be a step up from the unofficial source.
As stated above..the cover and title are somewhat misleading. Missed opportunity to have an expanded Goodbye. Could have the same tracks but add the 3 studio tracks. Would really like to hear Badge outtakes.
Very unlikely to happen though. Looking at Marc Roberty's book "EC Day by Day 1963-1982," seems those 3 studio tracks were the only songs attempted. Demo's started 15-23 October in Wally Heider Studio 3 in LA. Then back in London the basic and final versions of the 3 songs at IBC 18-21st November then 2-6 December 1968.
There are already circulating among collectors the basic-tracks of "Badge" and "Doing That Scrapyard Thing". P.S. Yes Jack and Ginger are dead, but the great artists never die if they leave great things.
This maybe a minor point but seems they've changed the order of writing credits in the booklet in the photo. Sunshine of your love listed as (Clapton/Bruce/Brown.) I wonder why they changed it.
