Cream - Barbecue '67
Ian Sippen set up his quality equipment to record Cream. Unfortunately the left mike failed and the recording is dominated by the guitar and the drums. The loss of bass is partially compensated for by the magnificent, very present sound of the drums. Jack’s vocals are largely heard by direct acoustics rather then through the PA.
"NSU" is hesitant as they try to sort out the gear on the fly with the PA dropping out and the guitar amps being adjusted. "Sunshine" follows and is no better with: Eric starting way too fast and pulling back, Eric & Ginger struggling to hear Jack’s vocals and Ginger laying down a very basic beat – one can see him glowering at the roadies as they desperately tried to sort things out.
Eric tells the audience to quietn down before they perfoym a quite superb "We’re Going Wrong". It really worked quite well live once they had got it sorted out. The longer gestation time definitely helped with this one.
A short "Stepping Out" is performed but with amp problems for Eric followed by "Rollin’ & Tumblin" with a just audible harp (well the drums are nice and clear!).
Obviously it is "Toad" that benefits with the very audible drums. It is comparatively short - Baker clearly didn’t want to hang about. "I’m So Glad closes the set but by this time Eric’s Marshall is really breaking up and he just manages to finish before it totally cracks up
Remastered Quality:
This is a severely flawed audience recording (not a soundboard as claimed by the commercial bootleggers!). It lacks bass and has just audible vocals. Bass has been boosted to a level of prescence but hardly clear and nothing could be done about the vocals. The good quality tape recording needed minimal filtering but some editing of extraneous mike/electrical noises. The drums are magnificently clear (and very live sounding) as is the guitar.
SETLIST
1. NSU (Bruce) 4:48
2. Sunshine of Your Love (Bruce/Brown/Clapton) 5:09
3. We’re Going Wrong (Bruce) 6:06
4. Stepping Out (Bracken) 5:25
5. Rollin’ & Tumblin (Morganfield) 5:01
6. Toad (Baker) 7:08
7. I’m So Glad (James) 6:03
| SOURCE | AUD | SOUND QUALITY | B+ | FORMAT | Mp3 | BITRATE | 192 | TRACKS # | 7 |
| LOCATION / VENUE | Spaulding, UK | Barbecue '67 | DATE | 29th May 1967 | |||||
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Labels: Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce
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posted by zazafromjohor at 12:27 PM
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Cream performed here for three nights from Friday 13th October to Sunday 15th October. It was close to the end of their first US tour, which had commenced on 20th August. This tour, while frustrating in some ways for them (especially sound systems and low pay), had established them in the U.S. and was at the core of their golden period. 
The supporting bands on Friday and Saturday were the Rationals and MC5 (basically the house bands at this time). Sunday the support band was the Apostles. One can assume that Cream was largely an unknown quantity to Detroit’s nascent Rock audience and MC5 were already becoming a local legend. Cream had nothing to loose, especially on Sunday when they had plenty of time to really lay out. And by then the word had got around and the audience was really responding. 
