Cream - Eric Clapton - Wheels Of Fire (MP3@320) 1968

Cream - Eric Clapton - Wheels Of Fire (MP3@320)  1968


In the Studio

   White Room ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 4:58 (J.Bruce, P.Brown)
   Sitting on Top of the World ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 4:58 (C.Burnett)
   Passing the Time ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 4:37
   As You Said ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 4:20
   Pressed Rat and Warthog ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 3:13 (G.Baker)
   Politician ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 4:12 (J.Bruce, P.Brown)
   Those Were the Days ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 2:53 (G.Baker, M.Taylor)
   Born Under a Bad Sign ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 3:09 (booker T.Jones, W.Bell)
   Deserted Cities of the Heart ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 3:38 (J.Bruce, P.Brown)

Live at the Fillmore

   Crossroads ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 4:14
   Spoonful ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 16:48
   Traintime ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 6:52
   Toad ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ 16:16


Recorded between July 1967 and April 1968 at Atlantic Studios in New York and live at Winterland and Fillmore West, Wheels Of Fire is the apotheosis of Cream. With one disc live and the other in the studio, you gain unparalleled insight to their strengths ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ the ornate studio productions of Felix Pappalardi, which kept the band lean and focused; alongside the unedited grandstanding of their live performance.

On the studio set, although with their roots very strongly in the blues (their playing and sensibilities were steeped in it), this really was rock music. The power trio format is heard at its greatest on lead track, Jack Bruce and Pete Brown's "White Room". Never were the three players so perfectly harnessed ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ Eric Clapton's scorching lead over Bruce and Ginger Baker's watertight rhythm section. The arrangements are stunning throughout ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ from folk to metal with instrumentation such as cello and recorder. However, Ginger Baker's contributions range from the great ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ "Passing The Time" to the not so great ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ the Ian Dury presaging "Pressed Rat and Warthog."

There is no such focus on the live side ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ aside from the extraordinary, defining reading of Robert Johnson's "Crossroads", the lengthy cuts ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ including Baker's 16 minute drum solo, "Toad" ΓΓé¼ΓÇ£ show just how excessive the group could be in demonstrating the players' very obvious virtuosity.

The album topped the charts in America and reached No.3 in the UK. Although 1967's Disraeli Gears may be more succinct appraisal of the group, Rolling Stone described the album as "the most representative slice of the Cream legacy," which is absolutely true.


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