TOP SHRINK 1966 CREAM Fresh CLAPTON Psych Garage Blues

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                *CLEAN* 1966 *STEREO* ORIGINAL!!

STILL IN THE ORIGINAL FACTORY SHRINK WRAP AND CLEAN CLEAN CLEAN

                           CREAM

                                                                   FRESH CREAM

          ...USA -ATCO RECORDS =  Pink yellow & tan - SD 33 206

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

the original Atco Records inner sleeve is included

This special original is STILL IN THE FACTORY SHRINK WRAPPER....

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.

MATRIX # =  

side one: # S-TC - 66957 - 1A and side two: S- TC 66958 - 1A
 

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 hard to find clean because of the dark color - the 43 year old original is in 'nice' MINT = still in original factory shrink wrapper = clean solid & sturdy with NO bent corners, NO split seams and NO writing anywhere. Still very sharp corners providing a nice appearance in collection! Been kept on the top shelf the past 44 years!

The vinyl  all nicely glossy both sides; CLEAN = "EX" (excellent) to M- plays outstanding = collection keeper! Both labels are clean.... 

                keeper copy!

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All imperfections are noted both cover & record