Cream

Cream (1966 - Nov. 1968)
  • Eric Clapton - guitar/vocals - b. Eric Clapp on March 30, 1945, Ripley, England; formerly with The Roosters and Casey Jones and the Engineers., The Yardbirds, and John Mayall's Bluesbreakers.
  • Jack Bruce - bass/harmonica/vocals - b. John Symon Asher Bruce on May 14, 1943, Glasgow, Scotland; formerly with Alexis Korner, The Graham Bond Organisation, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, and Manfred Mann.
  • Ginger Baker - drums/vocals - b. Peter Baker on August 19, 1939, Lewisham, England; formerly with Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated and The Graham Bond Organisation.
Albums:
  1. "Fresh Cream" (1966) - Single: "I Feel Free"
  2. "Disraeli Gears" (1967) - Singles: "Strange Brew", "Sunshine of Your Love"
  3. "Wheels of Fire" (1968) - Single: "White Room"
  4. "Goodbye" (1969) - Single: "Badge"
  5. "Live Cream" (1970)
  6. "Live Cream, vol. 2" (1972)
After split, Eric Clapton and Ginger Baker form Blind Faith with Steve Winwood (formerly of Traffic) and Rick Grech (formerly of Family).  Jack Bruce goes solo, teams up with former Mountain guitarist Leslie West and drummer Corky Laing in West, Bruce and Laing, and later joins B.L.T. (with Robin Trower).

Compilations:
  1. "The Best of Cream" (1969)
  2. "Off the Top" (1972)
  3. "The Best of Cream Live" (1975)
  4. "Strange Brew: The Very Best of Cream" (1983)
  5. "The Very Best of Cream" (1995)
  6. "Those Were the Days" (4-CD box set) (1997) - This is THE Cream anthology, with all of their classic songs plus plenty of unreleased stuff.

Hartman Recommends:  If you already know you're a Cream/Clapton fan (who doesn't?), aren't intimidated by the price, and you don't have any of their music, go for their 1997 4-CD box set, "Those Were the Days"...you simply can't lose with this.  It contains all of their historically released tracks along with a bunch of previously unreleased material.  If you're a Clapton fan, you don't want to be without this.

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