Disraeli Gears: Cream and The Summer of Love｜Vinyl Monday

[@abigaildevoe]

what’s an album you thought you didn’t/wouldn’t like but do now? comment below!

[@kenjohnston1257]

I didn't think I'd like Tusk after reading a review that said it was basically Fleetwood Mac coming back to earth after Rumours. And the first few listens were sketchy but god did it grow on me. Anymore it's my favorite of the Buckingham/Nicks albums

[@alanclayton9277]

souvlaki. a girl from new england recommended it.

[@davidellis5141]

​@@alanclayton9277The Sunshine 🌞 Girl Is Sleeping ..

[@ianemery4355]

Great outfit! Great album! Great musicians! Cream Disraeli Gears wonderful! Kinks Muswell Hillbillies I didn’t like it years ago! It's now a classic album love it! Well done Abi👍

[@davidellis5141]

Interpol - Turn On The Bright Lights .. New York Cares 🗽

[@josemaria8177]

Abby, you really outdid yourself with the outfit today. Man, it's like 1967 never ended

[@connoryork6631]

I love Cream so much! White Room is a masterpiece lyrically and instrumentally imo

[@vangrod8510]

A woman who plays Disraeli Gears over and over until the sleeve falls apart is one after my own heart, and Strange Brew is the reason we flip it over and play it again every time. Felix Pappalardi's wife Gail Collins was also co-writer on Strange Brew (and World of Pain) all of which holds bittersweet irony as their biographies unfold. A world of insight in your sunny exposition today Abby. Thank you!

[@thetreeoflife6018]

Loved listening to Disraeli Gears in the 70’s and it was a magical time. It really warms my heart to seeing the torch being passed on to a new generation.

[@IozziEric]

I would NEVER know that Clapton plays the melody of "Blue Moon" on "Sunshine Of Your Love" if it wasn't for you, Abby. Seems so obvious now and yet it totally escaped me for years!!!

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

True dat. I've listened to that album and song literally hundreds of times for 30+ years now, and never ever knew or realized that!

[@LuisHdezLa]

The double bass drum at the end of Sunshine of your Love...ufff

[@seankelly1366]

Absolute classic! Served as a template for the future of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal.

[@KealohaHarrison]

Iconic look, iconic band, iconic album, iconic music!!! My dad saw them back in either 1967 or 1968 during their psych/The Fool era, he told me that Clapton and Jack Bruce walked off stage at some point and just let Ginger Baker do his thing for like 20 minutes and it totally blew him away lol

[@abigaildevoe]

a 20 minute drum solo sounds about right!

[@randydoak6638]

Ginger was known for his long drum solos. As an aspiring drummer myself, I was a mega-fan. My first concert was Cream at the Oakland Coliseum.

[@eggman7527]

OMG!--this channel is awesome and ever increasingly so!!! Extraordinary!

[@1504Shawn]

This is not an album, THIS IS A MASTERPIECE

[@RabbiSteve1]

Love the effort you go to to do these video essays. You put a lot of love into these. Thank you. Your outfit this week is truly trippy. Brings me back.

[@walterfechter8080]

"Dance the Night Away" - Byrd-like and psychedelically resplendent.

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

Justice for "Dance The Night Away", and "We're Going Wrong"---my favorite bangers off this album along with "World Of Pain" as an honorable mention in 3rd place! 🙌🏽 And yes, bring the psychedelic colorful 60's back to this drab, sad, plain color-less world! 🎉🍄✨💖🟣🔵🟢🟡🟠🔴

[@DaveKraft1]

You coulda been a historian; you shoulda been a detective. Instead, we get -- THIS! Thank Goddess! Thanks for bringing an overwhelming amount of info to light each week, and for your appreciation of what the music and that period represented. That said -- your energy is simply exhausting, in a good and appreciated way. Be well!

[@markbrinton6815]

SO COOL to hear a young woman digging on music that preceded her time. I am also a miner of past gems. I love looking backward to find awesomeness. I was 5 when this one came out, but didn't really get exposed to much music until much later in junior high. (walk this way) time. Cream is one of the best. Your thorough analysis is also very entertaining with your cheerful demeanor.

[@phosphorescentscotsman]

Growing up in the Philly suburbs, CREAM was one of those bands that if you didn't hear them one day, you heard them the next. Every program Director in town was a fan. Got in them through Hendrix. **Google Hendrix LuLu show** its indicative of the bond Jimi and Eric had. I've know people who'd been to the Electric Factory. It was an abandoned tire warehouse on Arch Street. The walls were lined with old style, kite-shaped wooden coffins, (lids removed) painted up in dayglow colors. Was once regaled with a tale by a co-worker who was quite older than myself. Said he went to see Vanilla fudge, (early 1969) at the EF, and the opening act was a nascent Led Zeppelin. He said he ignored them for a while, but in his words "they were pretty damn loud". sorry I went on there, looking forward to the GTOs. 👍😊✌

[@donnicholson3200]

I saw Cream in Philly at the stadium with a rotating stage (distracting, but otherwise a great concert), then drove over to have a look at the liberty bell and got stopped by a cop for driving up a wrong-way street downtown. Narrow escape and minor miracle there.

[@WillieSimpson777]

I was 17 in 2001, driving home from school and hearing Tales of Brave Ulysses on the Q104.3 and just loving every second of it...of course my dad had the vinyl buried somewhere and I devoured it...great record, great cover! Fantastic video Abby as usual!

[@IanYoung-u3v]

I think Jack once described Cream during this period as "Blues in Technicolour". Even crazier is the draft story - If you were in the States for more than six months you were actually eligible for the draft and could have been sent to Vietnam. Mitch Mitchell was apparently sent a draft card in '68 because the Jimi Hendrix Experience was touring there for almost all of that year. They shifted Mitch over the border into Canada for a few days and then high-tailed it back to the U.K.! Disraeli Gears was one of the first albums I fell in love when I started buying records, aged 11 in 1970, and Cream remain one of my top3 bands (along with the Stones and Led Zep).

[@casedismissed8581]

their talent level, strength of song structure and delivery were years ahead ! still waiting for ANYONE to eclipse them !!!!!!

[@tonetone7572]

growing up when this was released and hearing Sunshine Of Your Love for the first time with its unique riff stop you in your tacks. Once you heard that riff it immediately stuck with you and it instantly became one of your favorite songs. I always considered Eric's phrasing in his solo one of the greatest and the song itself one of rocks greatest songs of all time. Whenever i hear it i can remember the day and what i was doing when first hearing it back then.

[@malcshone4409]

Love your Jack Bruce vocals at 27:04! Yeah, that’s what I thought.

[@johnclarke851]

Tiny purple fishes is the best line.

[@dlux8735]

One of my all time top ten favorite Album Covers for me. and yes we need more color in this world, for sure and as far as STEREO mixes in general , on a high end Audio system room set up , It's quite enjoyable

[@palfers1]

I am 75 and English and I approve of your message.

[@williamlangan5902]

“I have a lot of feathers!” 😆 Another great album review. Informative and historic. My only regret about the Summer of Love is I was just a baby in the midst of it all. My family thinks I should’ve been born earlier. I will have to check out your Wheels Of Fire review. 🔥🛞 I have a lot of emojis! Long live Cream! 🍦

[@KarlFerris]

A Fabulous insightful review Abi, it is like you were there! And thanks for my photo credits...Peace & Love

[@abigaildevoe]

wow thank you so much!

[@richardelliott8352]

every time, the production values get so much better, I dig that. I haven't touched this album in a long time , I hope my long ago acquired copy is in good shape, as I am now curious to hear the puzzling sonic artifacts mentioned.

[@epicaris8530]

My uncle has this record on LP and I instantly fell in love! Masterful performances, great lyrics and riffs, excellent sleeve design and terrific bunch of songs. Disraeli Gears is a true classic and testament to these guys’ super talent. Dance the night away is an absolute wonder.

[@jasonnewby]

A definite favorite album of the 60's! Sunshine Of Your Love blew my young ears away when I first heard it.

[@karlschumaker]

Abby, I put this album up there with many of the psychedelic music albums that were released in 1967.What a wonderful year for psych rock.Good video as always!!!

[@ChicagoPadre]

An album that came out when I was a Freshman in high school--yep, I'm that old, but still DAMN cool!! I had two pressings of it, including one that was a British audiophile pressing! It was through that album that I eventually met and worked with the brilliant Eric Clapton...in fact, one of the first concerts I ever went to was at the Anaheim Convention Center--to see Cream, and the opening act: "Spirit"!!...with them premiering "The 12 Dreams of Doctor Sardonicus"!! A masterpiece as much as Disraeli Gears itself! Anyway...a quick side note--in regards to "Stereo" albums...in rock, the first "True" fully stereo album was: "Days Of Future Past" from The Moody Blues...and from it, was how I eventually met Justin Hayward--a fantastically gifted singer and composer! And btw...Tom Dowd did some "side work" as a TV voiceover artist...as he had a marvelous speaking voice perfect for emerging FM radio back in the day! (if you haven't watched "Classic Albums--Cream--Disraeli Gears", you really should!) And not all THAT much "acid" was consumed as often!!! You really should. Keep up the fun work. It's charming and delightful...and you actually get a resonable amount of your information and research correct!! BRAVA !!

[@carlosangel9404]

That rattle is the snare drum. It's so loud in the room that it's rattling the snares against the head. Either they're playing in the same room or the guitar or bass is cranked so loud that the booth can't dampen it (apparently that happend on the John Mayall and the Bluesbreakers album). I'm a music recording student, and that stuff happens all the time during our projects, especially if we choose to have all the artists in the same room together. The beads clinking could also be the mics picking up Ginger's jewelry, and the shouting could be the other band members or producers giving cues.

[@jltrem]

The Marvelous Devoe does it again. When I think of "Disraeli Gears" I always think of a Dakota Red Fender Mustang. It was maybe 1968, I was a teenager and visiting with a friend. I was sitting on his bed and there on the bedspread was his Dakota Red Fender Mustang, which I desperately coveted and a copy of "Disraeli Gears", the two reds bouncing off each other and stuck in my brain forever.

[@EmmanuelPehau]

For a time in my life, there was a trio of albums I would listen to continuously : In The Court of the Crimson King, Procol Harum, and Disraeli Gears. I soon realized they had one thing in common : they used bona fide poets as lyricists (and in the case of PH and KC, even made them full members). They're a still very close to my heart. DG probably had my favorite artwork of the three. Also, it was the first one I've listened to among the three, and when it came to the first three songs on side two, it seemed like someone had "kicked a door open in my mind" (as Springsteen described his first experience of hearing Bod Dylan).

[@Scottlp2]

Since you like Prog and poet inspired music, you might check out Renaissance eg Ashes are Burning or Turn of the Cards (‘73/‘74). Amazing vocalist and nothing like them.

[@EmmanuelPehau]

@@Scottlp2 I know of Renaissance, Annie Haslam and Betty Thatcher ;-)

[@rondesantis8618]

Good stuff. Cream was the seminal band of my youth. They were the first super group, and master players. I still have the album I bought back in 68.

[@michaelshiflett4835]

I hope you don’t get tired of me saying this, but you did an absolutely superb job! It makes me want to get my SG painted. 😊

[@abigaildevoe]

do it! the paint the fool used is illegal now but do it with something less toxic!

[@creeder44]

Excellent job, as usual, and I love your outfit and your stand for bringing back color. Laura and I hate the current trend of everything from cars to houses to clothes to furniture being white or gray. I once took some photos in a furniture store and posted them on my Facebook page, challenging people to guess whether they were color or black and white. Trick question: they were color photos, but everything in them was black, white or gray, even the framed art for sale. I never want to hear young people claim they can't stand black and white movies when they choose to live in one. BTW, I had this album on cassette, which really reduces the effectiveness of the cover art.

[@sugadelicsavagesoul8623]

Boom! Thank you! 100% agreed! I absolutely cannot stand how everything you see everywhere is so plain and lifeless! Every house made, every business, every building has white walls!!! All you have to do is watch any home show on HGTV and every home is white/gray. And people enjoy this?!? To each their own, but I don't understand people being happy in a monotone, colorless world. Life should be full of art with lots of color!

[@danielbrodowski8446]

You are so right baby why couldn't it be 1967 again I mean the colors the music everything about the summer of love and disaraeli gears was one of the best albums that came out that summer along with sgt peppers and are you experienced another great video abby thanx

[@williamburkholder769]

I really like this album. Hearing the history of it puts a new coating of context on it. Thanks for that!

[@awookieandagerman]

Just found your channel and now I finally have something to look forward to on Mondays.

[@marcduhamel-guitar1985]

Awesome footage to back this critique. My favorite album by my all-time favorite band Clapton was in.

[@markgolde4274]

Greetings from another fellow New Englander! I really enjoy these vinyl Mondays- I often find them educational and entertaining...I find the wit and sense of humor a breath of fresh air...thanks for all your hard work - it feels like you research the hell out of your subjects !

[@SydBarrettArchives]

Desrali is not only my favorite album from Cream, but an album that influenced my own playing and writing over the years. And I have always loved covering SWABLR.

[@Driecnk]

Spelling not your strong point

[@Linden_the_goof]

Here I was thinking cream was something you put in your morning cup o’ tea 😂😂😂😂😂😢😢❤❤❤❤❤❤ anyways Abby keep up the sublime videos! Lol 😮

[@AshRecordReview]

That was really funny 🎉😂😂😂😂😊😊😊😊😊❤❤❤ You deserve my understanding of your own life 😂

[@leomilani_gtr]

16:50 I heard and played this song for years and never realized it was blue moon melody! 😮

[@squelch84]

Armageddon is one of my favorite record stores ever. Last time I was in Providence, I almost over-spent there. Great store, super cool people. Members of the legendary punk band DROPDEAD own it.

[@pljms]

Thanks once again, Abigail, for helping to banish those Monday blues.

[@BlueSky...]

My favorite parts of this album are the pink cover and Eric's thick guitar tones on songs like Sunshine of Your Love and SWALBR. Both remind me of strawberry ice cream with whipped cream. Yum! A good album overshadowed by Sgt Peppers and debuts by the Jimi Hendrix Experience, Doors, and VU&Nico, IMO.

[@juansoprano2049]

I just discovered you channel and I instantly became a fan I love that all the albums that you review I have listened to it or I know it, I'm gonna keep watching your videos for a long time. ♥️

[@itssimple7285]

Hi! Zappa released a 'version' of Sunshine of Your Love! It was a rehearsal/soundcheck take and is found on the Barking Pumpkin 1991 release The Best Band You Never Heard In Your Life. And YOU, yes YOU should hear it as well as the song just before it - an obscure Jimi Hendrix song called Purple Haze... "Willie Mays... Helen Hayes". You know you want to. OK, Bye now!

[@leighhornsby8353]

'Rubbery, trampoline-like valence' is now my absolute favourite description of a bass line. I shall try it out on our bassist at the first possible opportunity just to see if something gets thrown.

[@starshiptrooper7670]

Far Out! Abigail, you look like you just stepped away from the corner of Haight Ashbury girl. I dig it. Great album and review, I enjoyed it. Cream, what a legendary band. You're a very groovy chick... ☮ n' ❤

[@igorboomer1597]

Back into the world from Vietnam 1969 I was a small college freshman, fresh from war, older than the seniors and grad students (23)... being educated (sorta) on the G.I. Bill. and loving my POV while my dorm room neighbors played DISRAELI GEARS over and over and over and over. I liked that album... in the beginning. And there was no anti-war activism on that remote campus, even though as a vet i had changed my perspective. "Either fight to win or get the hell out of 'Nam." 58,220 Americans dead. Thanks LBJ. McNamara. A-holes. / You're fun, Abby, especially looking like a Pattie Boyd doppelganger 🙂

[@denniswood1437]

I love "Strange Brew", "Tales of Brave Ulysses" "SWLABR " & "Sunshine of Your Love" from Disraeli Gears. Still a mind-blowing album with totally unique, psychedelic guitar sounds!

[@jerrylev59]

You do your homework, Abby! I wore the grooves out of my vinyl copy back in the early 1970 as I myself was approaching draft age with dread and enjoyed "Take It Back" in an abstract way, with no knowledge of the specific subject matter that Jack was responding to. I got the feeling he was rejecting something from another culture, but figured he had some bad experience in a European country, perhaps. Had no idea he was also dreading something that was particularly American and that I was subject to in my own experience. Of course, I was already drafted once back in 1962. An officer called my home and yelled at my Mom, threatening to send MPs to haul my ass down to the barracks. But in their infinite wisdom, the U.S Army did grant me a reprieve due to my age, as I was only three years old at the time.

[@1rwjwith]

This is a brilliant album song and playing wise, which is what counts! CREAM was incredibly influential, HENDRIX and this era of Clapton influenced countless would be guitar heroes and many real ones! Every power trio in the future or 3 piece with a singer was vastly influenced by CREAM from Zeppelin to BLUE CHEER to ZZ TOP and VAN HALEN. EDDIE claimed this era Clapton as his primary influence even if it does not sound like it! Enjoyed your vid as always.

[@malcshone4409]

The production by Felix Pappalardi ( R. I. P. and there’s a tragic story involving a co writer on the album Gail Collins, go check it out ) is weirdly off kilter / balance. Yes I agree about the drums, which sound like cardboard boxes being hit with wooden spoons ffs and stuck in one ( right ) channel. Ginger has frequently complained about being drowned out on stage by Jack’s amp stacks and I’m sure he would have hated how he’s been mixed on this album. Maybe Felix learned from this because the balance is much better on” Wheels Of Fire “. To put it in to context, I’ve got home made bootleg live recordings of Cream from 1967/8 where the drums sound pretty good. Maybe Ginger pulled a knife in Felix just like he did on Jack ( pre - Cream )! Great quality work again young lady. Best wishes from England 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿.

[@abigaildevoe]

i wouldn't be surprise if ginger scared felix into building the mix correctly. beware mr. baker!

[@Pablo668]

Love your work Abby. I love Cream. They were just awesome. Haven't listened to this as an album though, must do that. I really got into Cream and Hendrix in my late teens. Considering that was the late 80's it was an unusual thing to be doing.

[@anthony_dimaggio]

The Eric Clapton-Verse is steadily becoming my favorite aspect of this channel 👍 great video abby

[@abigaildevoe]

the claptonverse has always been essential to this channel, blind faith remains my greatest hit!

[@kristofftaylovoski60]

The background you provide on album cover origins, the artists and artwork technique are cool deep dives not found elsewhere.. I had no idea.... Can't ask Ginger...

[@abigaildevoe]

and if you DID ask ginger you might not walk out of there with all your fingers and toes intact.

[@kristofftaylovoski60]

@@abigaildevoe very true, probably at least missing a few teeth as well. Damn that Fela Kuti..

[@martinkingston1498]

Abigail's love for some of my favourite albums makes me think of my own choices for a desert island discs list. For me, they are in no particular order. Electric Ladyland - though any album by Jimi could be on the list. Disraeli Gears. A masterpiece. Dark Side of the Moon/Piper/A saucerful of secrets. Hard to choose between these three. Or four or five other Floyd albums! Led Zep III/ Houses of the Holy. L.A Woman. Favourite doors album for me. Soulful bluesy reflective doors. Layla and other assorted love songs. Truly special. ❤. Harvest by Neil Young. Sweetheart of the Rodeo by the Byrds. Amazing! Gram Parsons. Need I say more! American Beauty by the Grateful Dead. Good vibes forever! Crosby Stills and Nash. Anything by Roy Harper, Nick Drake, Incredible String Band. Or Sandy Denny and Bert Jansch. First Utterance by Comus. One of the most mysterious, eerie, dark acid folk albums ever made. Wicker Man 1973 soundtrack. Spellbinding. I could go on. For a while. But the list has to stop somewhere.

[@Musicradio77Network]

I remember this album since I was a kid when my mother had this on cassette, and it was an RSO reissue from the 1980’s. And just to let you know that RSO was the label brought you the Bee Gees, along with the soundtracks to “Saturday Night Fever” and “Grease” were timeless masterpieces, the songs “Staying Alive” and “Night Fever” were massive hits for RSO, and by the 1980’s, RSO did acquired the rights to reissue all of Eric Clapton’s albums along with the Cream albums with Eric when he was part of the band. “Sunshine Of Your Love” was the lead out single on this album. This album was from late 1967 which was following the success of “Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” by the Beatles, “Sold Out” by the Who, and “Surrealistic Pillow” by Jefferson Airplane, all three albums were part of the “Summer of Love”.

[@aleleeinnaleleeinn9110]

This is a very good review. I only knew part of the history. I bought gears, in mono, when it came out. Yes, I am that old. Sunshine became a must play for the campus bands. Unfortunately, no one could play Clapton;s licks. My vinyl was worn out. THe album was a solid album. I have the privileged of having been thrown ot of a campus bar for singing "Mother's Lament" in that strong English accent from the record. My friends were not drunk; so the bar staff figured we were on something else. Mother's Lament is just fun. It's silly pointless and imperfect. And for a bunch of Americans who found the accents unusual, we enjoyed the hell out of it. To this day I remember the words. I never forgave Rolling Stone for giving the album a bad review. I saw Cream on the US tour. They only had an opening act and did a full set. THat was my first real rock concert. A recommendation from the era is the Moby Grape album. It got a little airplay, but many of the later releases had a certain band member's middle finger edited off the washboard.

[@scotttaylor7767]

Well done Abby 😊 I stayed up early in the morning to see this one. And you didn’t disappoint. I’ve always liked this record thanks to a relative of mine doing the cover. (You’re right Martin was quite a character! Lol). But this album had a big impact here in Australia. It kicked off a big blues scene in Melbourne in 1968 - 1969. It inspired one of our rockers Billy Thorpe of Billy Thorpe and the Aztecs. He got a copy off a US marine on RnR from Vietnam. And became obsessed with trying to get that guitar sound. He actually was offered a deal with Robert Stigwood. But in order to afford a plane ticket to London he decided to do a quick tour of Australia. His guitar player didn’t turn up so he played the guitar himself. Decided he liked it too much and said to heck with London and stayed in Australia! Lol. Check out a performance of “ Mamma” from 1971 on you tube to see the results! Lol

[@samuelsmoak2541]

I’m watching/listening to this while moving and girl, I needed this. It is too damn hot and I am exhausted, so this is a much needed pick me up.

[@abigaildevoe]

moving on the hottest day of the year is no fun, take care!

[@shemanic1]

Superb album & band. Love it. My original vinyl is tatty but still plays.

[@ianirvine414]

Disraeli Gears and Jimi Hendrix smash hits were the first albums I ever bought. Loved that wah wah guitar. With cream it was the first time I had became interested in all the instruments.

[@douglasmonty5912]

In those days, a lot of posters featuring rock groups were done in 'dayglo' paint, which came alive when a room was darkened and a black light (ultraviolet) was turned on. Any that are still out there in someone's collection are worth a lot of money.

[@kristofftaylovoski60]

I can recall the first time I purchased this record out of a pawn shop in Southern Minnesota... The place was like walking into a scene from David Lynch's "Blue Velvet"..

[@markrogers5727]

Tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers...far out.

[@seandodd6388]

Seen it...not goin' away...

[@mikeallen5596]

Really good point from you, via Jack, about listening to this in the context of 60's recording. I think of the late 60's as rock's Bronze Age; Cream, Hendrix Experience, Jeff Beck Group, Yardbirds (live with Page) as the Greek gods. Disraeli Gears is the temple.

[@IanOConnor-mi2rb]

I like your podcast. Learned a lot about Nico and grace slick.

[@paulmartinson875]

When this came out, I can tell you it was a big hit in Chicago where I lived...I was 14 , and me and my teenage friends really liked it. What a great time it was for music, and for being young and dumb

[@johnlorinc2081]

I still think LAOALS is still the best-ever Clapton-related group album.....but Disraeli Gears is in the runner-up slot. Great video once again.

[@malcshone4409]

Great work and great outfit Abby. I bought this album just because I liked the artwork. Yes I’m that shallow.

[@ByronWerner-qw5sh]

The British back cover is different: where the US release has a solid color box and words, in the UK it had a big eye! Quite unsettling for American Merchandising! Thank you Martin Sharp for your wonderful artwork!

[@RockinAllDay]

Another awesome review! I don't wanna sound weird, but your energetic presentation makes it a much better time than it (as a review of an LP MANY reviewed) could've been. Question: I guess many of us KNOW it's about to come, but where's the GREATEST review ever - Music From Big Pink? You'll do it JUSTICE.

[@syater]

Disraeli Gears first seared my 11-year-old brain at a friend's party soon after its release. Over time "Sunshine of Your Love" went from "beginner guitar riff you must learn" to annoyingly repetitive. "World of Pain" and "Dance the Night Away" each evoke psychedelic moods otherwise lost to time. Ginger Baker's song contributions have, and always will, mar an otherwise amazing album. A bit like ending Sgt. Pepper with "Act Naturally" or "Don't Pass Me By."

[@michaelstirling1]

What a great episode! Love your You Tube channel. I appreciate your fun attitude, costumes and research. Keep up the great efforts. Now gonna put Gears on the turntable!

[@DannerPlace]

This album belongs in every collection. Great review.

[@terryenglish7132]

YES ! I've always wondered what the bell rattle was .

[@abigaildevoe]

you hear it too??

[@terryenglish7132]

@@abigaildevoe I've tried to get people to hear it , but its not like you can point to a sound... Its not on the CD and my cartridge has a loose wire so I m going by memory... It sounds like maybe its one of those doorway bells arrays that the people hold to the side to enter an inner doorway in Turkey. So maybe its hanging bells Ginger has just for soft slow ballads, resonating to the insane volume. The glass in tubes can do that kind of sound as well.

[@MacgyverMike1]

Great video Abbey deseaili gears is my favorite cream album sunshine of your love is one of my favorites i first heard it on goodfellas along with layla and tales of the brave Ulysses is another favorite of mine but the whole album is good great video abby ❤❤❤ keep it up

[@DoctorInsomnia-qw7us]

Yer #1 like today Abby ❤

[@FarrellCapper]

Blue Condition is one of my favourites. So good stoned.

[@adamphillips6865]

Pete Brown will always be an under appreciated talent. His solo work is wild but his collaborations w/ Bruce were magic. The mono version of DG is a must have….but I need both versions.

[@randydoak6638]

Pete's albums with his own band, Battered Ornaments are pretty good. Not essential, but interesting.

[@danielfuentes3226]

Great review of Cream."Disreali Gears" is a great classic album by this super trio,but "Wheels of Fire" and "Fresh Cream" are great classic as well.

[@ThomasTERichmond]

Beautiful Album ❤

[@markzutkoff1800]

Great review of a great album! There are so many things I'd like to say about this recording, but I'm not sure how much it will add to the conversation, so I'll simply restate that Disraeli Gears is one of my favorite albums and you did it justice. 1:50 The word "episode" is misspelled "epsisode". I have a feeling I've seen that misspelling before, so I suspect you put it there to see if we were paying attention. 😄

[@abigaildevoe]

nah i just have trouble with letters and numbers sometimes 🤷🏼‍♀️ good eye!

[@WattisWatts]

I loved Disraeli Gears, first Cream album I brought. Saw them in 68 at the Olympia Stadium in Detroit, but oh, how I wish I saw that Grande Ballroom performance a year earlier.

[@abigaildevoe]

the soundboard recording from the grande RIPS. i'd be beside myself if i ever had it on vinyl, officially or otherwise! there's some rock and roll folklore surrounding cream and their openers that night that's almost /too/ relevant to this channel...

[@WattisWatts]

@@abigaildevoe I heard some of that Grande recording too and it sounds like they're gonna detonate on stage.

[@nedsatterfield6113]

1975 had an college apartment party at PSU, put this record on and I had a number of guests come up to me asking what the heck was this record…they were blown away even 8 years after it was recorded, total classic

[@abigaildevoe]

that speaks for itself really - the summer of love was ancient history by the stadium rock years. but cream holds up!

[@grantcarpenter6685]

Amazing analysis of Disraeli Gears! I would love to see your analysis of 'Ogdens Nut Gone Flake' by The Small Faces.

[@allenf.5907]

Heaviness - capture the flag - you GOT it. And Felix hated Ginger? Could have. Fiery personality - could have been the red hair. This is the year of REAL change (1967 lyrics). Fabulous review. Sweet spot indeed.

[@abigaildevoe]

made this joke in the wheels of fire vid but it bears repeating - part of me believes ginger was so angry it turned his hair red. beware mr baker!

[@pasteye1671]

Firstly, I love this album entirely, especially Sunshine and Tales. I have been using Mother's Lament as a campfire sing-along for years and it always goes down well. So there! Next should be Days of Future Passed by the Moodies - just to prove that Stereo was possible in 1967.

[@abigaildevoe]

LOL i don't doubt that mother's lament makes a great singalong!

[@peterjetnikoff]

The solid riffs, falsetto choruses and fluid leads of this one were familiar to me but I held off until my investigations of the '60s led inevitably there. I borrowed my brother's original releases of this and Wheels of Fire and blasted them through the headphones. As I wasn't at all into blues, I skipped everything that was too bluesy as I taped them, preferring the 'delica. It's still good. Thanks for this video.

[@HarryNilssonCatalogue]

Was fortunate enough to find an original UK press about a year ago. You don't know what you're missing until you own one of those; most of the UK sleeves were laminated, and they didn't have the stupid stereo banner at the top, just absolutely beautiful and they give the coverart the image it truly deserves.

[@abigaildevoe]

i have some UK mono copies of other albums, they look and sound great

[@simonemurray1345]

The UK may look better, but certainly doesnt sound better. The hand etched matrix US copies(both 1st and 2nd pressings with the longwear plating LW and autodisc W runout marks) are the consensus best originals and are the only pressings from the master tape. While the UKs are pressed from copy tapes(which means information loss and thus lower fidelity). Disraeli gears is one of the uncommon but not rare cases of this happening with UK bands. Often country of origin means theyre cut from the master, but not always. And while superior copies have been cut from copy tapes, the mastering of the UK is not good enough to close the sonic gap. The uk copies are still good and are better than the stamped US copies(also from copy tapes) but the etched US atcos are widely considered the best. Where even a US etched yellow label 2nd pressing stereo sounds better than a 1st UK stereo. A similar record is shades of deep purple. The original US vinyl was the only one that used the master tape, as it was lost on tour, so UK got a copy tape. Same with the first pressings of aqualung, the 1A US reprise was cut from the master as the 1st UK was a copy. Im happy you enjoy your copy, the UK reactions are still great sounding, but people with US etched copies are not missing a thing by not having a UK. Its infact those with UK copies who are missing out(unless they care more about looking at their record over playing it). The only pressing that compares to the etched US copies is the abbey road half speed mono. Some even prefer it to the US. And the sleeve and label is designed just like the first UK, while sounding better. Now UK definitely got the better pressings of other albums like fresh cream but not disraeli gears. If you don't hear an etched US you won't be missing something, but side by side it's clearly better than the UK and is why consensus is such.

[@HarryNilssonCatalogue]

@@simonemurray1345 I actually do happen to own an etched US stereo press and haven't really noticed much improvement from the UK. I'll have to give it another listen and compare the two side by side. I wasn't aware that the UK copies were from a copy tape! Where did you hear that?

[@Dayglodaydreams]

Gotta love Rundgren.

[@dennismason3740]

White Room, Summer in the City, Dear Prudence, Tales of Brave Ulyssyses, Can't Find My Way Home, all in D with descending bassline. Absolute must for guitar players. You could do a montage and never run out of songs.

[@jubei7259]

Cream are what happens when 2 jazz musicians & a bluesman collide. Add a couple of 100w Marshall heads, a wall of cabs & a wah wah pedal et voila! It's one hell of a beautiful noise though lol

[@donnicholson3200]

Kudo's for another great review. Ha-ha - Ginger shoved off to the side in the mix - did the producer just hate him?