Cream live at Royal Albert is a wonderful package. Audio disc + dvd of the shows. Classic.
Cream — Stormy Monday
Wanted to share this cause it’s Cream really well recorded. I can’t play their older stuff on the big rig as much as I like it because it’s not well recorded and I just can’t. But I recently found this recorded live in Royal Albert Hall in 2005 that IS well recorded, and it includes possibly the best Clapton guitar solo I’ve heard and one of my faves ever given its combination of intricacy and musicality — and it’s three masters at work. Fun to watch here, but you can pull it off Qobuz, turn the lights way down and be transported to Royal Albert Hall. Pretty fun.
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Different strokes. Personally, I’ve always preferred the B.B. Bland/Allman Bros. arrangement. FWIW, my favorite performance and favorite Clapton guitar work from the Albert Hall reunion gigs is this version of "We’re Going Wrong". As much as I love the bluesy stuff, in this performance the band is deep in the zone and there’s a power and-- dare I say, majesty-- that I find particularly striking. Clapton’s soloing combines lyricism and power in equal measure and it’s when he’s playing from this this place -- drawing from both his masculine and feminine sides-- that I find him most compelling. Needless to say, YMMV.
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@stuartk my favorite track from those shows as well. Something special happens on that one. |
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