Page "Cream (band)" Paragraph 11

In August 1967, Cream played their first headlining dates in America, playing at the Fillmore West in San Francisco for the first time.

The concerts were a great success and proved very influential on both the band itself and the flourishing hippie scene surrounding them.

Upon discovering a growing listening audience, the band began to stretch out on stage, incorporating more time in their repertoire, some songs reaching jams of twenty minutes.

Long drawn-out jams in numbers like " Spoonful ", " N. S. U. ", " I'm So Glad ", and " Sweet Wine " became live favourites, while songs like " Sunshine of Your Love ", " Crossroads ", and " Tales of Brave Ulysses " remained reasonably short.