You live next door to Johnny Rotten? Poor you! I've got a live Cream DVD and they are superb but he isn't me favourite drummer, too skittery for me, I prefer the solidity of John Bonham. Cream were better than the sum of their parts I think, I never liked Clapton much afterwards either.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> wrote : Yes, he is quite acerbic. A true pitta! In fact you'll notice in the trailer at the end he is hitting the guy doing the documentary with his cane. I saw him play with the Cream and Stevie Winwood but never met the guy. If I did I'm sure we would have sat around talking drums. BTW, I see one of my neighbors is also in the trailer. On 05/19/2014 09:40 AM, salyavin808 wrote: I heard a good story about Ginge, don't know if it's true but apparently he used to work in a bank and one day told the manager that he was quitting to become a famous drummer. The manager said but you don't play drums, and Ginge replied, not yet! He came across as a total asshole in a recent interview though: Meeting Ginger Baker: an experience to forget Meeting Ginger Baker: an experience to forget How an onstage Q&A with the great drummer turned into a professional horror show View on www.theguardian.com Preview by Yahoo ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <noozguru@...> mailto:noozguru@... wrote : BTW, this documentary is excellent. I highly recommend it to those interested in the era and what an unusual character Baker is. He never has thought of himself as a rock drummer but a jazz drummer. In fact I recall that one of my drum teachers pointed out that Baker was not playing the typical rock backup but more like African drumming otherwise the Cream being a trio would have sounded thin. I also suspect that the conflict between him and Jack Bruce was due to the bass versus drummer control of time. Trailer: http://youtu.be/wqrigN8jxj8 http://youtu.be/wqrigN8jxj8 The film on Netflix WI: https://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70234494 https://www.netflix.com/WiMovie/70234494 On 05/17/2014 12:56 PM, Bhairitu noozguru@... mailto:noozguru@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: For those interested and have Netflix WI, the Ginger Baker documentary is available there. On 05/17/2014 12:24 AM, cardemaister@... mailto:cardemaister@... [FairfieldLife] wrote: I've heard in Africa the criterion for a real drummer is the ability to sing whilst drumming. By that criterion I'm not a drummer, but drumming is one of the few things I really love (and my neighbors hate, LOL?). I especially like to put a metronome at something like 140 - 150 BPS and play some quite heavily syncopating, almost totally improvised rhythms over(?) it. Another thing I like is to play in 3/4ths so that it sounds as funny as possible... https://www.flickr.com/photos/66867356@N02/8495362998/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/66867356@N02/8495362998/
