![]() I purchased the LP at Barkers, on the Post Road in Westport, another discount outlet like Topps and Korvette’s with a record department amidst the chozzerai, this was long before the standalone record shop, these were our record stores.Īnd it wasn’t the flimsy, intensely-colored U.K. It all came back, 1968, Farist Road, Andrew Warde High School, going to bed early to go skiing in Vermont, my entire life was laid out in front of me. You thought the Latin winter would bring you down forever…īut really it’s all about the instrumental intro, bombastic and then ethereal, as if me and the band were on a ship in the Aegean, just us, experiencing this intense tale. ![]() And that guitar riff in “SWLABR” was a revelation, I liked it more than I did back in ’68.Īnd then I heard “Tales Of Brave Ulysses”… The music is unselfconscious and personal. Like “Dance The Night Away” and “SWLABR.” “Dance The Night Away” is the antithesis of today, it’s not playing to the back row of an arena, it sounds like it barely escaped the studio, at best is playing in a pub. Unlike “Sunshine Of Your Love,” which I’ve heard enough not to need to hear it again.īut then I thought of all the album tracks, that were secondary back then but I know by heart. And “Strange Brew” sounded better than I’d imagined, it was never my favorite track on the LP, but decades later it fit the pocket, it was so satisfying. And I detached one speaker from my new listening apparatus, it was a Columbia unit, that’s right, the record company also made hardware, and dragged it to my mother’s bedroom so she could hear and share what I did.Ĭontemplating Robert Stigwood‘s death I pulled up “Disraeli Gears” on my Sonos system. I finally had a stereo, I’d cashiered my record player, that all-in-one unit with platter and speaker and tonearm sporting a coin to make sure the record didn’t skip. Not that I knew anything about Greek tragedy, it’s just that the record had a sound that spoke to me, that took me out of my bedroom into a vast world that I thought would understand me. Retrieved 3 December 2010.I didn’t buy “Fresh,” not at first, my initial Cream purchase was “Disraeli Gears,” way before “Sunshine Of Your Love” got airplay, I experienced it as an album, it revealed itself to me with each play, and the song that hooked me was the second side opener, “Tales Of Brave Ulysses.” Archived from the original (.Php) on 20 October 2012.
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