CREAM Wheels Of Fire 2LP POLYDOR 1968 ITA orig+foc ERIC CLAPTON-JACK BRUCE
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CREAM
ERIC CLAPTON, GINGER BAKER, JACK BRUCE, plus FELIX PAPPALARDI (Disc One, some tracks)
Although Cream were only together for a little more than two years, their influence was immense, both during their late-'60s peak and in the years following their breakup. Cream were the first top group to truly exploit the power trio format, in the process laying the foundation for much blues-rock and hard rock of the 1960s and 1970s.
"WHEELS OF FIRE"
Produced by Felix Pappalardi
1968 2LP POLYDOR RECORDS STEREO 184 167/68
MADE IN ITALY ORIGINAL PRESSING
FULLY LAMINATED (outer) GATEFOLD COVER
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LABEL: POLYDOR - RED LABEL w/LOGO on TOP - BLACK TEXT (White on rim)
Catalog on cover: 184 167/68
Catalog on labels:
DISC ONE: 184 167 A / 184 167 B DISC TWO: 184 168 A / 184 168 B
Matrix / Runout (Side A, Stamped): 00 184167 A 4 2 ? 1968 G8 ?Z
Matrix / Runout (Side B, Stamped): 00 184167 B 4 2 ? 1968 G8 ?Z
Matrix / Runout (Side C, Stamped): 00 184168 A 4 2 ? 1968 G8 ?Z
Matrix / Runout (Side D, Stamped): 00 184168 B 4 2 ? 1968 G8 ?Z
On labels: rim text reads "Stampato in Italia.........Proprietario Dell'Opera"
SLPHM/D
Rights Society / Publishing: D.R., Regent Italia, BIEM
tracklisting
IN THE STUDIO Side A: WHITE ROOM - SITTING ON TOP OF THE WORLD - PASSING THE TIME - AS YOU SAID
Side B: PRESSED RAT AND WARTHOG - POLITICIAN - THOSE WERE THE DAYS
BORN UNDER A BAD SIGN - DESERTED CITIES OF THE HEART
LIVE AT THE FILLMORE Side C: CROSSROADS - SPOONFUL
Side D: TRAINTIME - TOAD
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RECORDS VG+ but (please, read above description)
SLEEVE VG(-) but (please, see pictures and read above description)
If Disraeli Gears was the album where Cream came into their own, its successor, Wheels of Fire, finds the trio in full fight, capturing every side of their multi-faceted personality, even hinting at the internal pressures that soon would tear the band asunder. A dense, unwieldy double album split into an LP of new studio material and an LP of live material, it's sprawling and scattered, at once awesome in its achievement and maddening in how it falls just short of greatness. It misses its goal not because one LP works and the other doesn't, but because both the live and studio sets suffer from strikingly similar flaws, deriving from the constant power struggle between the trio. In many ways Wheels of Fire is indeed filled with Cream's very best work, since it also captures the fury and invention (and indulgence) of the band at its peak on the stage and in the studio, but as it tries to find a delicate balance between these three titanic egos, it doesn't quite add up to something greater than the sum of its parts. But taken alone, those individual parts are often quite tremendous...(AllMusic)
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