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Historic Live Cream!!!
At long last, the famed BBC sessions have been released from the powerhouse-trio of Eric Clapton, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker collectively known as Cream.
"BBC Sessions" captures Cream at its finest and rawest. While it doesn't equal the live performances on classic albums like "Wheels Of Fire" or the two volumes of "Live Cream", this CD still demonstrates the hard-hitting intensity that the band was best known for. Eric Clapton guitar playing shines with brilliance throughout this collection while Jack Bruce's commanding vocals and muscular bass work as well as Ginger Baker's madhouse percussion never fall out of place. With the exception of two tracks ("Lawdy Mama" and the closing version of "Steppin' Out"), the music from these historic sessions are released here for the first time ever. Sound quality for the most part is very good. The only tracks which sounded muffled (at least to my ears) were "Crossroads" and "Sunshine Of Your Love". Also, all of the tracks were recorded in mono.
All technical flaws aside, "BBC Sessions" is an absolute must for Cream/Clapton enthusiasts. Fans just getting to know the band may want to pick up the "Very Best of" compilation before diving into this one. "BBC sessions" definitely does not disappoint however. This is Cream at their most stripped-down and at their most exciting. Definitely Historic Live Cream!!

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Simply Amazing!... The Best BBC Sessions Yet!...
If you are a Cream fan or any classic rock fan, pick this album up!... Cream were the inventors and pioneers of hard rock and you can hear all their influences on great bands like Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath. However, they never had a guitar player like Eric Clapton. Jimmy Page is very sloppy live with his clicking and lacks a lot of feel. Page is a blues imitator and Clapton is a blues purist. Tony Iommi is great but can't be compared to Clapton. Eric Clapton is probably the greatest guitar player in rock history along with Jimi Hendrix who idolized Clapton. Jack Bruce and Ginger baker are amazing as well. Jack Bruce wrote a lot of the songs and added creative nasty bass lines, while Ginger Baker, the second greatest drummer next to the Who's Keith Moon, and Zeppelin's Bonham coming in third shows his creativity on the drum kit being one of the first drummers to introduce the double bass drum and his unique african drum style. The Cream are simply musical geniuses, and the BBC Sessions show their musicianship and creativity. You can hear how they changed rock forever! This CD is a must buy and is by far the greatest BBC Sessions released! Also if you enjoy this album, make sure you check out Cream's live recordings with Live Cream, and Live Cream II. Great sound and guitar playing!

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Great Mounting Platform for the REAL Cream
The record executives don't seem to realize that to fans music isn't a consumer product, it's art (work is because you have to, art is because you want to) For the first time The Cream BBC sessions are available legally, and this is a wonderful thing...because Cream was the kind of band who's really ment to be heard in a live, raw, raunchy, and improvised manner. This album gives a casual listener the chance to be exposed that scratch and pop warmth and genious and serves as a great mounting platform for getting into the legendary bootlegs of this band, 15 minute jams, and all. The songs on this album are concise by comparison, but they paint and exceptionally accurate picture of what this band was about. So here's your first taste of real streetlegal Cream. Get addicted.