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      100% ORIGINAL 1966 *STEREO* !! 

                                PLAYS MINT CLEAN !!!

                          

                       

                 CREAM

              FRESH CREAM

                          

\                                USA - ATCO RECORDS = Pink yellow & tan - SD 33

 

  ! FINAL COLLECTION COPY !

=== PLAYS MINTY CLEAN === 

Includes the original '66 printed inner sleeve

Original 1966 first pressing vinyl on the 3-color Atco label, very hard to find in 'clean' condition ... the 1966 very first CREAM album ...

The first rock super-group featuring the amazing talents of Eric Clapton (guitar-God), Jack Bruce (bass/vocals), & Ginger Baker (drums extraordinaire. )

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Fresh Cream represents so many different firsts, it's difficult to keep count. Cream, of course, was the first supergroup, but their first album not only gave birth to the power trio, it also was instrumental in the birth of heavy rock and the birth of jam rock. That's a lot of weight for one record. In retrospect, Fresh Cream was a remarkable shift forward in rock upon its 1966 release and it remains quite potent. Certainly at this early stage the trio was still grounded heavily in blues, only fitting given guitarist Eric Clapton's stint in John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, which is where he first played with bassist Jack Bruce, but Cream never had the purist bent of Mayall, and not just because they dabbled heavily in psychedelia. The rhythm section of Bruce and Ginger Baker had an amazing distinct jazzy bent to their beat; this isn't hard and pure, it's spongy and elastic, giving the musicians plenty of room to roam. This fluidity is most apparent on the blues covers that take up nearly half the record, especially on "Spoonful," where the swirling instrumental interplay, echo, fuzz tones, and overwhelming volume constitute true psychedelic music, and also points strongly toward the guitar worship of heavy rock. Almost all the second side of Fresh Cream is devoted to this, closing with Baker's showcase "Toad," There is some lightness and remarkable innovation on the first portion of the record where Bruce reveals himself as an inventive psychedelic pop songwriter with the tense, colorful "N.S.U." and the hook- and harmony-laden "I Feel Free." Cream shows as much force and mastery on these tighter, poppier tunes as they do on the free-flowing jams, yet they show a clear bias toward the long-form blues numbers, which makes sense: they formed to be able to pursue this freedom, which they do so without restraint.

Cream was feeling their way forward, creating their heavy psychedelic jazz-blues and, in the process, opening the door to all kinds of serious rock music that may have happened without Fresh Cream, but it just would not have happened in the same fashion as it did with this record as precedent.

side 1:

I FEEL FREE 2:28
N.S.U. 2:42
SLEEPY TIME TIME 4:18
DREAMING 1:57
SWEET WINE 3:16

side 2:

CAT'S SQUIIREL 2:59
FOUR UNTIL LATE 2:06
ROLLIN' AND TUMBLIN' 4:42
I'M SO GLAD 3:56
TOAD 5:09

 

CONDITION: The Cover:  is a CLEAN STIFF COPY rated: M- front cover and M- back cover ... hard to find clean because of the dark color -> the 50 year old original is in solid keeper collection shape having NO bent corners, NO split seams, no delete marks and NO writing anywhere.

The Vinyl: all glossy both sides; rated a clean, near M- plays with excellent (((clean))) audio ... Both 3-color ATCO labels are clean

                                       

A cool addition to anyone's music library!

       

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