PROTO-PROG! WHEELS OF FIRE's Impact on Prog Rock 

jack's bass on crossroads is mind blowing,i remember scratching up the album trying to learn it

Jack Bruce made the comment about the group being a jazz band and not telling Eric was mostly "tongue-in-cheek".

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If you listen to their early live English concerts and or first gigs in Detroit they are playing for their life and clearly pathfinding before even Hendrix .By 68 they sound tired and repetative but thier work was done

The studio sides of this album is Cream at their best , the live side the most tedious and boring with the most tedious drum solo ever ( and did Baker do some over the years ? ) An impact on Prog / Rock ? l hardly think so as no way is this double album anything like or near Prog . In fact apart from being one of the first three piece Blues / Rock bands to stretch out and improvise they were definitely not Prog but exceptional musicians with the chops to stretch out and radically change their music much like the Jazzmen who came before . Now if you want to cite a band that pioneered Prog / Rock look no further than the Nice .