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Daniel's Collection

Cream   04/22/1967

Ricky Tick, London, England
Source Fresh transfer from 2nd gen(?) 7" master reel copy

Master (or perhaps 1st gen copy - see below) 7" Reel -> WAV -> Audacity (track splitting) -> xACT (FLAC conversion & tagging) -> BiglyBT (torrent creation) -> Dime
Checksums ;shntool st5 checksums generated by xACT 2.54 on 2024-01-12 16:43:10 +0000

b92eae78e4c54b22d822db8d9d83971d [shntool] Track 01.flac
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7945e5d44d39e371fdd364683e2838b0 [shntool] Track 07.flac
57907dc40aa8c53294fe88966991a784 [shntool] Track 08.flac

;flac fingerprints generated by xACT 2.54 on 2024-01-12 16:42:37 +0000

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Track 02.flac:f59363825da511fec179b92e7161b0d8
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Track 08.flac:57907dc40aa8c53294fe88966991a784

#MD5 checksums generated by xACT 2.54 on 2024-01-12 16:42:47 +0000

69b97fa5c22fb5e80a4d02b4c5c66a86 *cream1967-04-22rawtransfer2496.txt
7caf6b1603d54414c5898478d8779318 *fingerprint.ffp.txt
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3d4793526a311aa3e5e0807680368c6c *Track 01.flac
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Media 24/96 flac
Notes hrough a fellow Soulseek user, I was recently made aware of an Instagram user who had made available the master reels for this, and for the 1967-05-29 Lincolnshire show "Tulip Bulb Auction Hall", which I will post shortly. The best-sounding bootleg of this show - Hiwatt/Scorpio's Ricky Tick - which also features material from other dates as well as, presumably, all other circulating copies of this show, are sourced from this reel. The cuts found in the Hiwatt version are found on the master, sadly.

This was the last of Cream's four known appearances at the club, and the recording is incomplete. The show was two sets (confirmed by Eric's comments introducing Spoonful as the last song of the set. NSU was almost certainly played but not recorded: EC mentions it prior to Rollin' And Tumblin'. As we appear to have five songs from the first set, the second set most likely also featured NSU, I'm So Glad, Steppin' Out and Traintime, all of which feature in contemporary set lists, and possibly Cat's Squirrel or I Feel Free. Although the majority of the Disraeli Gears material had been demo'd a month earlier, apart from the opening Sunshine, none of it features in this show, making it the last recording from the Fresh Cream era in circulation. By the time of the Marquee Club show some four weeks later, DG material was well-integrated into the set.

The reels were discovered by Clinton Heylin (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_Heylin) whilst researching a book on bootleg recordings. The master transfer was done by Jeff Friedman (https://dylan.utulsa.edu/dylan80-collectors-roundtable/). I received both recordings as single WAV files, and have made no changes beyond down-sampling (for the 16-bit version), tagging and FLAC conversion.

There is a hard cut at the end of Spoonful, which also loses the beginning of SOTOTW. Toad is cut at 10:05, but probably not too much is lost. These cuts are on the reel, so it IS possible that there is earlier generation master somewhere: the waveforms show no interruption at the initial break, which leads me to believe the true master is one generation earlier and would show the taper turning the machine off and back on, but I am not enough of an electronics expert to say for certain.

I will post the 16-bit version of the Tulip Bulb show shortly, followed by the 24/96 version.
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