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CREAM
Psychedelic Circus [Mid Valley Records MV 354, 1CD]
Live at Madison Square Garden, New York, NY; November 2, 1968. Fair to good audience recording.
Here’s one for the hardcore fans. Thanks to the person who shared this on the net in 2006.
Uploader’s notes:
This is one show of Cream’s that has never been done justice till now. It’s wandered around in bits and pieces in awful sound quality. The friendly folks at Mid Valley have now gotten their hands on a complete tape and applied that Mid Valley magic. The sound quality still isn’t great but is a vast improvement over every release I’ve ever heard.
wgpsec at collectorsmusicreviews.com:
This performance from Madison Square Garden in front of 22,000 is the third to last show of Cream’s Farewell Tour in the US before returning to London for their final two Royal Albert Hall performances. The insert has a short essay about the show and some quotes from Jack Bruce describing the show as bizarre. “It was a very strange gig, on a revolving stage, which must have been horrible for the audience. They’d get a glimpse of the drums, guitar, and bass and then they’d all go away again”. This revolving stage may explain the dramatic changes in sound quality throughout the disc.
Psychedelic Circus is either compiled from two different sources or is the result of the revolving stage. The recording starts off distant and very thin with plenty of top end distortion. The sound rates only about a five and the drums during “White Room” and “Politician” actually sound paper thin. Clapton’s guitar becomes more prominent during “Politician”…
“Spoonful” is very long with the band going off on a few tangents and there is also a small part that sounds like the taper was concealing the microphone under his coat. Jack Bruce’s comments at the end are too muffled to make out. It would have been nice to hear his final words to the New York audience… Thanks to Mid Valley, we finally have a much more complete version of this show from MSG but the sound quality keeps this to the die hard Cream fans.
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Lineage:
unknown AUD > ? > Mid Valley silver > EAC > FLAC
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Track 01. introduction 1:19 (2.2MB)
Track 02. White Room 6:16 (10.5MB)
Track 03. Politician 5:59 (10.0MB)
Track 04. presentation of platinum record for Wheels Of Fire by Ahmet Etregun and Robert Stigwood 2:18 (3.9MB)
Track 05. I’m So Glad 6:23 (10.7MB)
Track 06. Sunshine Of Your Love 4:38 (7.8MB)
Track 07. Crossroads 3:46 (6.3MB)
Track 08. Train Time 7:31 (12.6MB)
Track 09. Toad 17:31 (29.4MB)
Track 10. Spoonful 16:48 (28.2MB)
73 mins
Lineup:
Eric Clapton - guitar, vocals
Jack Bruce - bass guitar, vocals
Ginger Baker - percussion
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