My first impression was WOW. My first thought was it's about time! In my opinion, Celestion is to a guitar amp's tone what water is to a fish swimming in the sea. It makes up 90% of it, and without it your tone would die a slow and horrible death. That's me hearing Creambacks for the first time – Yeah, I'm in disbelief.
I'm a 212 cabinet greenback player and have been for a while. I have always loved the tone I can achieve but never loved the volume restrictions. Now there is no way I was going to change my setup just to be louder, but I do get buried in an unmiked environment. The amp I'm currently using is a JTM45 Marshall clone with a 212er cabinet made by Tube Town. With the Greenbacks I can not turn up past 3 o'clock while retaining my desired tone; so to say the least, I was excited to hear that the Creambacks were at 65 watts and had similar voicing to the Greenbacks.
So, back to business and the review...I was playing a set of Creambacks recently at a friend's occasion in his house. He's using similar equipment as I do. I was a happy camper at that day, as they were sonically really really great and nailed the sound I was looking for quite scarying on the spot. They sounded like broken-in Greenbacks with a bigger bottom and a ton of headroom. The amp gods were smiling on me. It is what I have always wanted; my Greenbacks just to be LOUDER! To sum it up!!! There's not much to say about this speaker except, if a Greenback is your best friend and the Creamback is his loud big sister with a big bottom, you need to play with her. :-)
My advice:
If you are a Greenback player that wants the headroom --> Buy this speaker!