Description
Offered for sale is an original Japanese pressing of Live Cream by Cream, including a Japan-only gatefold cover, a foldout poster, and the original obi.
About this copy: This copy of Live Cream is a 1970 pressing on the Polydor label.
The cover is VG+ with edge and corner wear and a bent upper right corner and moderate foxing inside the gatefold. The obi is VG+, with some fading, but no tears.
The “hojyuhyo,” or reorder tag, is missing
The foldout poster is still attached to the cover.
The disc is M- with a couple of spindle marks and a bit of foxing on the labels, but no marks on the vinyl. Clean disc!
A nice copy of a rare Cream LP that’s very hard to find as a first pressing.
Background: Released in 1970, Live Cream was the first Cream album released after the band’s breakup.
The album reached #4 on the UK charts and #15 in the U.S.
Allmusic.com gave Live Cream a 4 star review:
This could well be their most consistently brilliant album for sheer musicianship, though it is also a peculiar one on a couple of counts, some of which probably prevented it from reaching quite as wide an audience as it might have otherwise. Released in April 1970 and derived from tapes made at three May 1968 California shows, all of the live tracks here consist of songs originally featured on the group’s least ambitious and most rudimentary album, Fresh Cream, dating from 1966 — and as it happens, there’s not a hit represented among the five songs, a fact that probably made this release seem more appealing to hardcore fans than to casual and curious listeners (who didn’t know what they were missing). The performances here show how far the group had come in the nearly two years since laying down the studio originals — take side one of the original LP, where they stretch out their playing, as well as boost it to new levels of intensity, on “N.S.U.” and “Sleepy Time Time,” so that the renditions here are the definitive ones, and by themselves should have made this album an essential acquisition back in 1970…. Performances like this single-handedly raised the stakes of musicianship in rock.
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| Country of origin: | Japan |
| Size: | 12″ |
| Record Label: | Polydor |
| Catalog Number: |
MP-2105 |
| Year of Release: | 1970 |
| Format: | Stereo |
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