Wheels of Fire

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Wheels of Fire
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Artist: Cream
Released: 1968, June
Labels: Polydor (UK), Atco (US)
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Tracks

  White Room (Brown, Bruce) - 4:57 Lyrics
  Sitting on Top of the World (Howlin' Wolf) - 4:56 Lyrics
  Passing the Time (Long Version) (Baker, Taylor) - 5:45 Lyrics
  As You Said (Brown, Bruce) - 4:19 Lyrics
  Pressed Rat and Warthog (Baker, Taylor) - 3:14 Lyrics
  Politician (Brown, Bruce) - 4:11 Lyrics
  Those Were the Days (Baker, Taylor) - 2:53 Lyrics
  Born Under a Bad Sign (Bell, Jones) - 3:09 Lyrics
  Deserted Cities of the Heart (Brown, Bruce) - 4:36 Lyrics
  10  Crossroads (Johnson) - 4:14 Lyrics
  11  Spoonful (Dixon) - 16:45 Lyrics
  12  Train Time (Bruce) - 6:52 Lyrics
  13  Toad (Baker) - 15:53 Lyrics
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Credits

Recorded: July 1967 - April 1968 at Atlantic Studios, New York City.

Ginger Baker - Drums, Glockenspiel, Marimba, Tambourine, Vocals, Tympani, Tubular Bells, Recitation, Hi Hat
Jack Bruce - Guitar (Acoustic), Bass, Harmonica, Calliope, Cello, Keyboards, Recorder, Vocals
Eric Clapton - Guitar, Vocals
Tom Dowd, Bill Halverson, Adrian Barber - Engineers
Felix Pappalardi - Producer, Organ, Trumpet, Viola, Swiss Hand Bells
Robert Stigwood - Arranger
Marcia McGovern - Coordination, Pre-Production
Stanislaw Zagorski - Design
Martin Sharp - Artwork, Art Direction
Steve Hoffman - Producer, Remastering

Reviews

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10/10 Limpi (April 9, 2009)
There are two albums in it. The first one is In the studio, he second one is Live at the Fillmore. In the studio is unplayable at concerts, because they're playing several instruments at once (not to mention Felix Pappalardi, who also plays in 5 songs). Worth to listen to all the songs, but you can hear the real Cream only in Passing the time and Those were the days, where they are jamming a little bit (only seconds).
Live at the Fillmore is simply unbelivable! The first song (Crossroads) is one of the three songs that well-known from Cream (however it is a Robert Johnson song, who played it much more slowly). It's hard to find anyone (if there is any) who'd found this song bad. It's fast, very listenable (even for those who doesn't like improvisations), many people say it's own Clapton's best solo ever, Bruce plays unbelievable and unplayable :-)
Spoonful starts as a slow blues song, but it isn't that during the jamming. All three of them are doing a very good job in this song.
Traintime is not good for Clapton-fans, he doesn't play in it. Bruce plays the harmonica, Baker really sounds like a train.
Toad is a drum-solo with some notes at the beginning and a very few at the end. If you don't like drum-solos, unable to listen to it or simply just bored by song with no whistleable lyrics or notes, then skip this song. If you do, then you'll be amazed by Baker's polyrhythmic technics.

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