CREAM "Disraeli Gears" UK REACTION 1st *STEREO* PRESS

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CREAM "Disraeli Gears" UK REACTION 1st *STEREO* PRESS
Beautiful EJ Day Laminated Sleeve!! OUTSTANDING AUDIO!!
CREAM
Disraeli Gears


HERE WE HAVE AN EXCELLENT, ORIGINAL UK REACTION (594 003) FIRST *STEREO* PRESSING (November 1967) OF CREAMS' SEMINAL SECOND LP, "Disraeli Gears"

THE LP IS PRESSED ON THICK, CHUNKY, ROBUST VINYL WITH DEEP CUT GROOVES WHICH DELIVER ABSOLUTELY OUTSTANDING AUDIO!!! AND HAS THE FIRST BLUE REACTION LABELS , MATRIX: (P) 1967 (stamped), 594 003 A-2 (etched) (Side One) / 594 003 B//3 (stamped) (Side Two)
AND IS HOUSED IN THE ORIGINAL FRONT LAMINATED SLEEVE “Printed and made by Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd., London W11. Patent pending” (only the VERY EARLIEST 1967 PRESSES HAVE THE "Patent pending" Text)

THIS IS A FANTASTIC COPY OF AN ABSOLUTELY TREMENDOUS AND ESSENTIAL LP
PLAYS BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT!!!!!

Cream teamed up with producer Felix Pappalardi for their second album, Disraeli Gears, a move that helped push the power trio toward psychedelia and also helped give the album a thematic coherence missing from the debut. This, of course, means that Disraeli Gears gets further away from the pure blues improvisatory troupe they were intended to be, but it does get them to be who they truly are: a massive, innovative power trio. The blues still courses throughout Disraeli Gears -- the swirling kaleidoscopic "Strange Brew" is built upon a riff lifted from Albert King -- but it's filtered into saturated colors, as it is on "Sunshine of Your Love," or it's slowed down and blurred out as it is on the ominous murk of "Tales of Brave Ulysses." It's a pure psychedelic move that's spurred along by Jack Bruce's flourishing collaboration with Pete Brown. Together, this pair steers this album away from recycled blues-rock and toward its eccentric British core, for with the fuzzy freak-out "Swlabr," the music hall flourishes of "Dance the Night Away," the swinging "Take It Back," and of course, the schoolboy singalong "Monther's Lament," this is a very British record. Even so, this crossed the ocean and became a major hit in America as well, because for no matter how whimsical certain segments are, Cream is still a heavy rock trio and Disraeli Gears is a quintessential heavy rock album of the '60s. Yes, its psychedelic trappings tie it forever to 1967, but the imagination of the arrangements, the strength of the compositions, and especially the force of the musicianship make this album transcend its time as well.


Track Listing:
Side 1: Strange Brew / Sunshine Of Your Love / World Of Pain / Dance The Night Away / Blue Condition
Side 2: Tales Of Brave Ulysses / Swlabr / We're Going Wrong / Outside Woman Blues / Take It Back / Mother's Lament


LABELS: The first BLUE REACTION labels are CLEAN and BRIGHT with NO marks/unwanted writing and moderate spindle traces. The LP has been well played but also extremely well cared for!!!!!!
VINYL Visual: The THICK, CHUNKY vinyl lies perfectly flat on the turntable and both surfaces have their original DEEP, GLOSSY SHEEN. The surfaces have a (very) few light hairlines but they still retain their original bright luster and these light marks have NO audio consequence WHATSOEVER!!
VINYL Audio: The audio delivery is absolutely OUTSTANDING!! - CRYSTAL CLEAR, RICH and DEEP!! There are NO jumps, NO sticks, NO scratches and barely any clicks/pops (really, hardly any AT ALL!!) - which is extremely rare for an original first press copy of this LP!!! The album plays BEAUTIFULLY THROUGHOUT with SUPERB clarity and NO distortion or groove-wear!!! Must be graded EXCELLENT for audio!!!! NOT over-graded in ANY way as I use STRICT RECORD COLLECTOR grading standards!! SOUNDS REALLY SUPERB!! (please refer to my feedback and 'about me' page)
SLEEVE: The FRONT LAMINATED cover is in FANTASTIC condition!!! Very thin and flat with hardly enough room on the spine to write all the text - but it's all there, CLEAR and SHARP!! The whole sleeve is nice and clean with a BEAUTIFUL DEEP GLOSS to the front laminate and NO edge wear to speak of!! SUPERB SLEEVE!! EXCELLENT+

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THIS REALLY IS A TREMENDOUS COPY AND AS AN ORIGINAL 1967 FIRST UK *STEREO* PRESSING - VERY SCARCE!!
AS WITH ALL MY RECORDS THIS HAS A LOW START PRICE AND NO RESERVE
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UK: 1st Class: £4.00 (Recorded Delivery)
EU: Airmail: £5.00 (Insured & Signed For: £8.50)
INTERNATIONAL: Airmail: £8.00 (Insured & Signed For: £11.50)

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