FRESH CREAM LP 1967 True 1ST Pressing 1A/1A Tri Color
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Fresh Cream represents so many different firsts. 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 metal and the birth of jam rock. That's a lot of weight for one record and, like a lot of pioneering records, Fresh Cream doesn't seem quite as mighty as what would come later, both from the group and its acolytes. 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 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 metal. Almost all the second side of Fresh Cream is devoted to this, closing with Baker's showcase "Toad," but for as hard and restless as this half of the album is, there is some lightness 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. This is band's start at 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.
~RECORDELITE~
RARE AUTHENTIC ORIGINAL LP AUCTIONS~
CREAM
"FRESH CREAM”
Amazing Psych Blues Original
***HARD TO FIND ORIGINAL FIRST PRESSING ***
**AUTHENTIC 1967 1ST RELEASE **
ATCO Records SD 33-206
FEATURES:
first pressing matrix "1A/1A"
Tri-color Original Label
Atco Catalogue Inner Sleeve
Great great songs like: I FEEL FREE, I'M SO GLAD, SWEET WINE, CAT'S SQUIRREL AND TOAD
*** ONE OF THE VERY BEST SOUNDING COPIES WE'VE COME ACROSS ****
VINYL: NEAR MINT-
Beautiful Hi gloss with no groovewear
a light scuff here n there but nothing serious at all
COVER: VG++
Light ringwear, no seam splits, and mild edgewear
No bar code
No stains, tears, writing
LABEL: NEAR MINT
Clean with no writing or owner stickers
SOUND TESTED: EXCELLENT
Awesome Fidelity!!
Very little to no surface noise
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