I just picked up a near mint Disraeli Gears by Cream. Sunshine of Your Love just rocks. Great song, great record. Of course, there's several very choice tunes on this LP - Tales of Brave Ulysses, Strange Brew, etc. Did they do another album that's as consistent and well recorded? I tend to not like Live albums as the sound quality is usually disappointing even when the performances are hot...of course, there are always exceptions...

About Cream : you should hear Wheels of Fire (has more blues than Disraeli Gears), May be the best album of this supergroup. It's a double album with studio sessions and live recordings with a lot of improvisation.

The Fresh Cream it's also a very good album with blues-rock themes.

If you like Cream you'll like too Blind Faith, another supergroup of the 70s, they only recorded one LP but it's very good.

jfzea just mentioned the entire Cream catalog from the 1960s. You should also check out "Sunrise on the Sufferbus" by Masters of Reality. Ginger Baker sat in on drums, and it is one of the best, and most unheralded, Rock albums of the 1990s.

I hear what you are saying about some live recordings, but Live Cream Vol. I and Vol. II are worth hearing because of the interplay between Bruce, Clapton, and Baker. Goodbye Cream, which as the title implies was the band's swansong, is the weakest overall album they produced.

Though Clapton was the most successful of the trio post-Cream, Jack Bruce has produced the most interesting body of music of the three and I would suggest you seek out some of his solo work as well.

Just what I needed - more albums to keep an eye out for :music:

Thanks for the recommendations. I do tend to like blues oriented rock so if I find a good copy of Fresh Cream, I will definitely make it mine. I don't remember seeing a solo Jack Bruce before but I'll keep an eye out for it...as well as for Ginger Baker.
I recently found a clean record of a jam session with Mike Bloomfield, Al Kooper and Steve Stills. With those names I couldn't resist buying it and it was very good - not magical but totally solid.

Keep an eye out for West, Bruce & Laing--the fat guy and Bruce really are in sync.