colins
Luthier / Guitar Maker
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Post by colins on Oct 6, 2019 12:34:16 GMT
Sad, but the greatest drummer of the 20th century, Ginger Baker, has died. He died 'peacefully' in hospital aged 80, somehow not the way I would have thought he'd go. I loved Cream, three musicians at the top of their game all playing solo at the same time.
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Post by lavaman on Oct 6, 2019 15:16:51 GMT
I remember seeing Ginger Baker's Air Force in Plymouth in 1970 ish. He had the biggest (and loudest) drum kit I'd ever seen. A great player who introduced jazz rhythms into rock. I still love Cream's album Disraeli Gears.
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Post by grayn on Oct 6, 2019 16:10:48 GMT
Another pioneer from the golden age of rock, gone. RIP.
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Post by andyhowell on Oct 7, 2019 10:33:31 GMT
I met him once and thought him quite obnoxious. But later he played the drums ....
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Post by geddarby on Oct 7, 2019 13:34:33 GMT
Another pioneer from the golden age of rock, gone. RIP. RIP surely not I saw him with Graham Bond, Jack Bruce, and Dick Heckstall-Smith when I was a youth.
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Post by curmudgeon on Oct 7, 2019 15:40:48 GMT
When I was the drummer with "Blues Etc", we opened for the Graham Bond Organisation when Ging and Earache Claptout were in the band.
Our lead guitarists was getting into a tiswas about playing before Eric. I told him to cool it as I was to be playing drums before Ginger B.
Of course when we went on Eric was nowhere to be seen, but Ginger stood in the wings and watched me closely though our set, then called me over and told me that I was "alright" and gave me an armful of sticks. (They were awful!)
He was an irascible character, but he was very nice to me.
I used to see him playing at Eel Pie Island in the early sixties but can't remember who he was playing with but I think that Jack Bruce was playing double bass as well.
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