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Toad (song)
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| Song by Cream | |||||
| Album | Fresh Cream | ||||
| Released | December 9, 1966 | ||||
| Recorded | July - October 1966 at Rayrik Studios in London, Ryemuse Studios in London | ||||
| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 5:11 | ||||
| Label | Polydor | ||||
| Writer | Ginger Baker | ||||
| Producer | Robert Stigwood | ||||
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| Song by Cream | |||||
| Album | Wheels of Fire | ||||
| Released | July, 1968 | ||||
| Recorded | 7 March 1968 at Fillmore West |
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| Genre | Rock | ||||
| Length | 16:15 | ||||
| Label | Polydor | ||||
| Writer | Ginger Baker | ||||
| Producer | Felix Pappalardi | ||||
| Wheels of Fire track listing | |||||
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"Toad" is an instrumental by British rock band Cream and was released on their 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream. The "song", composed by drummer Ginger Baker, is a five minute drum solo (with a brief guitar and bass introduction), and is notable because it features one of the earliest recorded drum solos in rock history. It can also be seen as an early example of hard rock.
Baker began developing "Toad" while he was still a member of the Graham Bond Organization, but it was not until he joined Cream that it was first recorded. The solo comprises a sequence of drum patterns that are built up, varied, and then dropped, giving way to a new pattern. The Cream website, Those Were the Days described "Toad" as "A coherent drums solo that remains unequalled in Rock Music. It influenced many contemporaries and innumerable budding drummers." [1]
An extended sixteen minute live version (of which 13 minutes is drum solo) appears on Cream's 1968 album Wheels of Fire. A slightly extended version of this recording, with some additional guitar and bass edited in from another performance, appears on Cream's four-disc compilation album Those Were the Days (1997). "Toad" was given a 10:06 minute rendition during Cream's reunion in May 2005 at the Royal Albert Hall.
"Toad" was also performed by Ginger Baker's Air Force, and a 13 minute live version appears on their 1970 album, Ginger Baker's Air Force.
The song was used on Boston Bruins telecasts on WSBK once every week for a Bruins highlight reel, which featured spectacular goals, saves, and the like.
- ^ Pattingale, Graeme. Fresh Cream. Those Were the Days. Retrieved on 2007-07-31.
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| Ginger Baker · Jack Bruce · Eric Clapton Pete Brown · Felix Pappalardi · Martin Sharp · Gail Collins · Janet Godfrey · George Harrison · Mike Taylor |
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| Studio albums | Fresh Cream · Disraeli Gears · Wheels of Fire · Goodbye |
| Live albums | Live Cream · Live Cream Volume II · BBC Sessions · Royal Albert Hall 2005 |
| Compilations | Best of Cream · Heavy Cream · Strange Brew · The Very Best of Cream · Those Were the Days · 20th Century Masters · Cream Gold |
| Songwriters covered by Cream | William Bell · James Bracken · Howlin' Wolf · Tony Colton · Willie Dixon · Skip James · Robert Johnson · Booker T. Jones · Blind Joe Reynolds · Ray Smith · T-Bone Walker · Muddy Waters |
| Related bands | The G.B.O. (Baker/Bruce) · The Bluesbreakers (Bruce/Clapton) · The Powerhouse (Bruce/Clapton) · Blind Faith (Baker/Clapton) |