Cream - Wheels Of Fire (1968)
Rock | 2cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
DCC 24kt Gold GZS (2) 1020 | rel: 1992 | 570Mb
Rock | 2cd | EAC Rip | Flac + Cue + Log | covers
DCC 24kt Gold GZS (2) 1020 | rel: 1992 | 570Mb
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. Of the three, Ginger Baker comes up short, contributing the passable "Passing the Time" and "Those Were the Days," which are overshadowed by how he extends his solo drum showcase "Toad" to a numbing quarter of an hour and trips upon the Wind & the Willows whimsy of "Pressed Rat and Warthog," whose studied eccentricity pales next to Eric Clapton's nimble, eerily cheerful "Anyone for Tennis." In almost every regard, Wheels of Fire is a terrific showcase for Clapton as a guitarist, especially on the first side of the live album with "Crossroads," a mighty encapsulation of all of his strengths. Some of that is studio trickery, as producer Felix Pappalardi cut together the best bits of a winding improvisation to a tight four minutes, giving this track a relentless momentum that's exceptionally exciting, but there's no denying that Clapton is at a peak here, whether he's tearing off solos on a 17-minute "Spoonful" or goosing "White Room" toward the heights of madness. But it's the architect of "White Room," bassist Jack Bruce, who, along with his collaborator Peter Brown, reaches a peak as a songwriter. Aside from the monumental "White Room," he has the lovely, wistful "As You Said," the cinematic "Deserted Cities of the Heart," and the slow, cynical blues "Politician," all among Cream's very best work. And 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
Track listing
cd1:
1. "White Room" (Jack Bruce, Pete Brown) 4:58
2. "Sitting on Top of the World" (Walter Vinson, Lonnie Chatmon; arr. Chester Burnett) 4:58
3. "Passing the Time" (Ginger Baker, Mike Taylor) 4:37
4. "As You Said" (Bruce, Brown) 4:20
5. "Pressed Rat and Warthog" (Baker, Taylor) 3:13
6. "Politician" (Bruce, Brown) 4:12
7. "Those Were the Days" (Baker, Taylor) 2:53
8. "Born Under a Bad Sign" (Booker T. Jones, William Bell) 3:09
9. "Deserted Cities of the Heart" (Bruce, Brown) 3:38
10. "Anyone for Tennis" (2:39)
cd2:
1. "Crossroads" (Robert Johnson, arr. Clapton) 10 March 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco, CA. (1st show) 4:13
2. "Spoonful" (Willie Dixon) 10 March 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco, CA. (1st show) 16:43
3. "Traintime" (Bruce) 8 March 1968 at Winterland, San Francisco, CA. (1st show) 7:01
5. "Toad" (Baker) 7 March 1968 at The Fillmore, San Francisco, CA. (2nd show) 16:15
Personnel
- Jack Bruce – vocals, lead vocals, bass, cello, harmonica, calliope, acoustic guitar, recorder
- Ginger Baker – drums, percussion, bells, glockenspiel, timpani, spoken word on "Pressed Rat and Warthog"
- Eric Clapton – guitar, vocals
- Felix Pappalardi – viola, bells, organ, trumpet, tonette
EAC extraction logfile for CD
CREAM / Wheels of Fire (DCC GZS(2)1020, 24 Karat Gold Disc Set) Disc 1 - In the Studio
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Installed external ASPI interface
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EAC extraction logfile for CD
CREAM / Wheels of Fire (DCC GZS(2)1020 24 Karat Gold Disc Set) Disc 2 - Live at the Fillmore
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Read mode : Secure with NO C2, accurate stream, disable cache
Read offset correction : 116
Overread into Lead-In and Lead-Out : No
Used output format : Internal WAV Routines
44.100 Hz; 16 Bit; Stereo
Other options :
Fill up missing offset samples with silence : Yes
Delete leading and trailing silent blocks : No
Installed external ASPI interface
Range status and errors
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Filename _CD2Image.wav
Peak level 100.0 %
Range quality 100.0 %
CRC E8324544
Copy OK
No errors occured
End of status report
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