And he had a constant expression of disbelief mixed with suspicion… Later I also saw he was a very shy and gentle man, thoughtful and full of compassion.”Maybe anger management counselling would have helped?The personality clashes between Baker and Bruce reached a peak during Cream’s lengthy tours of the US in 1967/68.“A great player,” Ginger says. Most of ’em are fucking morons. As a correspondent for NBC News, he covered stories as diverse as the US elections, the Live Aid Concert and the Prince’s Trust Concerts, and interviewed many of the world’s top recording artists and film stars including Sir Paul McCartney, Sting, U2, Michael Caine, Tom Hanks and Tom Cruise.Download the full interview as an MP3 to enjoy on your computer or mobile device.Interesting to hear some Music History (The Music and People involved) from Ginger Bakers Perspective. I don’t practice ever.
He had ego problems once Graham Bond got him to sing [during Bruce’s tenure in the Graham Bond’s band]. He looks very pleased – for the first time in an hour – and his voice warms when talking about their attitude.Ginger Baker hardly looks like anyone’s impression of a millionaire. It just fizzled out.”“Fucking idiots, most of ’em. His words, not mine. The cycling never developed because he got his bike “caught up” with a taxi. In two short years, Ginger put the drums on par with the electric guitar and bass, casting himself as a manic, wild-eyed beat-keeper. “I needed the money, and that was the only reason.
I never speak to them.
You’re not such a hard nut as you think.”“Yeah, it was funny until I got the bills for retrieving my gear from Berlin, and paid for my polo horses to be taken to Boston, which they were gonna cough up for. He says when the band played at the Albert Hall, it was so marvellous that none of them could remember playing the last number.“They said they’d give me two weeks to learn to read music – I did it in 10 days. Chen. “I found Jack in 1962.
I got him into all the bands we worked in, including Cream. So that was it for Cream.
They think playing loud is playing best. I knew people would like it and that it would be both new and understandable to people.
Once at the Cream reunion, and the second at the Baker tribute.He is responsible for getting Mick Jagger and the late guitarist Brian Jones together to form the Rolling Stones and also introduced bassist Jack Bruce to Eric Clapton and together they formed Cream, arguably the first and most successful power trio and the first global supergoup.During this conversation Ginger talks about his musical career from the early 1960’s until the 1980’s and all of the musicians that he played with including Eric Clapton and Stevie Winwood.All interviews are available free to stream and download as high quality DRM-free MP3s.Baker is noted for his eccentric, often self-destructive lifestyle; he struggled with heroin addiction for many years, moved around the world often after making enemies, and has been beset with financial and tax troubles, partially as a result of his polo hobby. I always trusted and thought good of everyone. Among rock circles Ginger Baker is widely considered to be one of the most influential drummers of all time, recognised by his induction into the Modern Drummer Hall of Fame in 2008. This interview by Miquel Cullen (The Independent): Bill Laswell is telling an anecdote about Ginger Baker, the scandal-prone Cream drummer and star of this year’s cult film Beware of Mr Baker: “In Tuscany, when I went to visit him in his abandoned farm house, nobody knew who he was.
“He’d been dead for four hours. Thank you.
"But I hate the Stones and always have done. He is a pioneer of drumming in genres like jazz-fusion, heavy metal and world music.Love Ginger.