Comments on: Cream – The Real One (Rothman RM09/10)

By: DLee

DLee — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 02:07:23 +0000

For the Cream 2-CD “67″ (“Sixty-Seven”) by the Silver Horse label, Disc 2 doesn’t feature the complete show at Brandeis Univ. in Waltham, Mass. (USA) on Sept. 9th, ’67, as the last track ‘Toad’ is missing, as is the track ‘Steppin’ Out’ as well – even though ‘Steppin’ Out’ is misleadingly listed on the rear cover. Otherwise, “67″ is a fairly decent release.

By: DLee

DLee — Wed, 09 Jun 2010 04:25:24 +0000

For Cream boot CD collectors, beware of these 2 1-CD titles – “Live at San Jose” on the H-Bomb label & “Oakland/Winterland 1968″ on the Fillmore label. The overall sound quality on both isn’t so bad, but both are in bad need of a major speed correction, as they both run way too fast, and the former also seems to have some speed fluctuation issues as well. After slowing them down to approx. 93% (of the original speed), I’ve found them to sound considerably more accurate (in terms of speed).

By: DLee

DLee — Mon, 05 Apr 2010 04:36:01 +0000

Finally got this one early last week, and it’s highly recommended mostly due to its outstanding soundboard quality & great band performance, but the significant disappointment for me personally is Cream’s setlist lacking one of their biggest hits such as ‘Sunshine of Your Love’, or any of the other top songs from “Disraeli Gears”, other than just ‘Tales of Brave Ulysses’.

By: wgpsec

wgpsec — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 17:49:33 +0000

Sorry DLee. I don’t own any titles on the Rothmans label and I don’t know anything about Winterland Wheels.

By: DLee

DLee — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 05:28:22 +0000

Anyone, especially maybe Wgpsec, familiar with another Cream 2-CD title on the Rothmans label called “Winterland Wheels” (RM 011/12)? I’ve been checking out as much info. about it as possible on the ‘Net, and it seems to me that despite its claims of being the Winterland show in San Francisco on March 8th, ’68, that could easily be erroneous – the actual date could easily be the famous March 10th show instead, which is often mistakenly identified as being March 3rd. Also, some sites claim it to be soundboard, but others claim it to be just an audience recording, and some claim the sound quality to be great, whereas others claim it to be considerably less. So anyone know the real truths about so much contradictory info.? Any help will be greatly appreciated, as always – THANKS

By: DLee

DLee — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 05:12:20 +0000

Speaking of the other titles mentioned (above & elsewhere on this site), I highly agree with the recommendations for Mid Valley’s 2-CD “Moon Beams – Sitting on Top of the World”, Mid Valley’s 2-CD “Whisky A Go Go”, & HIWATT’s 2-CD “Blues – Ancient & Modern” – all excellent releases that are quite deliciously creamy & tasty to to add to a boot CD collection, as well as several other Cream CD titles I’ve obtained over the last several months that apparently haven’t yet been mentioned here.

By: DLee

DLee — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 07:03:38 +0000

Since Classicrawker mentioned the L.A. Forum ’68-10-19 soundboard, could anyone recommend the best Cream original CD titles that feature it? I’m especially interested in ones such as Mid Valley’s 2-CD “Moon Beams – Sitting on Top of the World”, WatchTower’s 3-CD “Lost Farewell Masters”, Bell Bottom’s 1-CD “Sweet Cream”, Perfect Blue Music Co.’s 1-CD “California ’68″, & Disk de Luxe’s 1-CD “Creamer” – so anyone know how they compare to each other? Any attempt(s)/effort(s) to help will be well-appreciated, as always – thanks.

By: pharaoh

pharaoh — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 21:45:30 +0000

Mid Valley is a Clapton/ Cream specialist sister label to Empress Valley and, like that label, are very limited in distribution as far as I can tell based on all the vendors I deal with. I have only found a couple of vendors which sell MV releases. That being said all the titles I have from them are excellent and are usually equal to the best quality released by competitive labels like Beano IMHO.

By: DLee

DLee — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 05:10:07 +0000

Thanks for the interesting review & subsequent comments. Are Mid Valley (MV) CD releases of Cream really that hard to track down? And is that true for Mid Valley Replica (MVR) as well? I’m not yet familiar with these boot labels, so thanks to anyone who could reply – even if it’s Amy Adams or Zooey Deschanel’s elder sister Emily.

By: silverdisc

silverdisc — Mon, 10 Aug 2009 01:33:44 +0000

Blues : Ancient And Modern Hiwatt HW 2003 6667 / 0067 is another nice Cream release to pick up. It’s a mix of various live dates from 66 / 67 in pretty good aud / radio broadcast sound quality , especially given the age of these recordings. I don’t think there is anything new here, but it’s nice to have these 29 tracks {some duplicates} on one release. Look for it if you don’t already have it.

By: LedMan

LedMan — Sun, 09 Aug 2009 01:36:15 +0000

I also have the “Sun Vanishes Birth Of The Six String God” (Mid Valley 031/032 release and agree it’s excellent. I have Rothman’s also and have no complaints. Personally I find it difficult to find MVR releases period so Rothman’s would probably be easier to obtain.

By: eric99

eric99 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 23:40:04 +0000

The only other Cream title I’ve been able to get a hold of is the MV Live at the Whiskey, which I listen to a lot myself. Given the year, I think it’s a great one all around.

By: classicrawker

classicrawker — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 20:15:27 +0000

I have the “Sun Vanishes Birth Of The Six String God” (Mid Valley 031/032 release and it is excellent. Sound like it is the same source with MV just pumping up the volume a tad…Luckily they did not over do it like some of the sister label EV releases as this is a fantastic sounding release. Also highly recommended is the MV Cream 2CD title release “Moon Beams, Sitting on Top of the World”" which is the 10/6/68 Oakland SB and the 10/19/68 LA SB which was actually very reasonably priced and is of similar excellent sound quality.

By: eric99

eric99 — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 00:45:21 +0000

Great review! Very insightful and detailed. I have this one coming myself and I’m looking forward to it even more. There’s just not enough cream out there! Even for a band only around for a few years.