Live Cream Volume II

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Live Cream Volume II
Live album by Cream

Publication
(s)

March 1972

admission

7-10 March 1968 (Live)

Label (s) RSO

Format (s)

LP

Genre (s)

Blues rock / psychedelic rock

Title (number)

6th

running time

41:04

occupation

production

Felix Pappalardi

chronology
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Live Cream Volume II is the blues-rock group Cream's second live album from 1972. It was released several years after the band split up and reached number 27 on the Billboard 200 in the United States and number 15 in the UK.

Emergence

As with the previous album Live Cream , live recordings from the concerts in Winterland in March 1968 were used for the Wheels of Fire album. Three of the titles were recorded at Oakland Coliseum Arena , Oakland on October 4, 1968, the start of Cream's farewell tour.

reception

Although the album contained live versions of two of the band's most famous tracks, White Room and Sunshine of Your Love , it was not as successful in the charts as its predecessor. Allmusic's Matthew Greenwald and Bruce Eder say the album shows the band performing at their peak, but not at the best moments of that peak.

Track list

page 1

  1. "Deserted Cities of the Heart" ( Jack Bruce , Pete Brown ) - 4:32
  2. " White Room " (Bruce, Brown) - 5:39
  3. "Politician" (Bruce, Brown) - 5:05
  4. "Tales of Brave Ulysses" ( Eric Clapton , Martin Sharp ) - 4:44

Page 2

  1. "Sunshine of Your Love" (Clapton, Bruce, Brown) - 7:22
  2. “Steppin 'Out” ( James Bracken ) - 13:42 (titled as “Hideaway” on the original LP) The
    playing times are taken from the LP, the times on the CD differ slightly.

Pieces 1-3 of side 1 were recorded on October 4, 1968 at the Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, and pieces 4 of side 1 and 2 of side 2 were recorded on March 10, 1968 in Winterland, San Francisco. Piece 2 on page 2 was recorded on March 9, 1968, also in Winterland in San Francisco.

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cream albums on the Billboard 200
  2. ↑ Database query of the British charts
  3. ↑ Matthew Greenwald & Bruce Eder on Live Cream Volume II

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