[Slowhand] DISRAELI GEARS

[Loraine Taylor]

Don't know if anyone has posted this yet, but here it goes:

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Cream's Classic '60s Album DISRAELI GEARS Presented in Both Stereo and Mono 
Versions on Two-CD DELUXE EDITION Released on September 28

    LOS ANGELES, Aug. 19 /PRNewswire/ -- One of the landmark albums in rock
history, Cream's 1967 classic DISRAELI GEARS, has been set to receive DELUXE
EDITION treatment featuring a digitally remastered two-CD package that 
debuts
a previously unreleased track.  The CDs are packaged with a 24-page booklet
with photographs and an essay about Cream's extraordinary history.
    DISRAELI GEARS - DELUXE EDITION (Polydor/UMe), released September 28,
2004, boasts a stereo Disc One and mono Disc Two.  The second album in the
short but spectacular career of the pioneering power trio (Eric Clapton, 
Jack
Bruce and Ginger Baker), DISRAELI GEARS helped lay the groundwork for the
coming hard rock and heavy metal of the '70s.  An inspired collision of 
blues,
jazz, folk and psychedelia recorded in just six days, the Gold #4-charting
album spawned a Gold #5 hit in "Sunshine Of Your Love" and other classic 
rock
standards "Strange Brew," "Tales Of Brave Ulysses" and "Swlabr."
    Disc One presents the album in stereo with two outtakes -- "Lawdy Mama"
and a previously un-issued version of "Blue Condition" with Clapton as lead
singer -- plus demos of "We're Going Wrong," "Swlabr" and three songs that
didn't make the LP though they would later appear elsewhere: "Weird Of
Hermiston," "The Clearout" and "Hey Now Princess."
    Disc Two presents the album and the two above-mentioned outtakes in mono
as well as nine performances recorded for BBC Radio between May 1967 and
January 1968.  Along with takes on six DISRAELI GEARS tracks, the cuts 
include
the Clapton-led blues instrumental "Steppin' Out" and two songs that would
turn up the next year on the chart-topping studio/live double album WHEELS 
OF
FIRE, "Politician" and a cover of Albert King's "Born Under A Bad Sign."
After their GOODBYE album in early 1969, Cream was no more.  Its members 
would
move on, with Clapton launching Blind Faith and Derek & the Dominos before
going solo in a superstar career that continues today.

SOURCE Polydor/UMe

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