RIP Ginger

[Kathy]

One of the best

 

[SoFla Steve]

RIP! I heard he was in the hospital and not doing well. Cream is one of my all-time favorite bands.

 

[Kathy]

RIP! I heard he was in the hospital and not doing well. Cream is one of my all-time favorite bands.

Another loss of a great talent! Died at age 80.

 

[mauconnfan]

Ginger was a great talent Cream was a great band very underrated.

RIP Ginger B

 

[Palatine]

Amazing he lasted this long. Nice ride. RIP.

 

[Matrim55]

One of the greats. And quite a character...

Beware of Mr. Baker - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[Waquoit]

I was all set to say I preferred Mary Ann.

 

[Kathy]

Time for a little Concert

 

[HooperScooper]

One of my favorite bands of all time also. I was listening to Sirius station #26, Classic Rock, yesterday and they played a bunch of Cream songs because he wasn't doing well. Didn't realize he was that sick.

 

[Travelman6]

Blind Faith, one of the first rock super groups but with time, have become quite under rated.

1969

 

[Matrim55]

I mean...

Mr. Baker, who by his own count quit heroin 29 times, was candid about his drug and alcohol abuse in his autobiography, “Hellraiser,” published in Britain in 2009.

He recalled driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco while on tour with the band Blind Faith in 1969 and being more amused than surprised when he heard a report on the radio that he had died from a heroin overdose.

Of a later tour, he wrote, “In 1983-84, I formed the Ginger Baker Trio with guitarist John Simms and bassist Ian Macdonald and we did a tour that included Malta, Spain and Germany; but I can’t remember anything about it due to the fact that I was drinking so heavily.”

 

[gtcam]

Blind Faith is down to 1
GB was a great father figure to so many British drummers
RIP - Presence Of The Lord

 

[Waquoit]

Ginger was a great talent Cream was a great band very underrated.

Loved Cream in college, I had never really heard them before. I wonder if they were really done when they broke up or they had more to give. I wish they could have kept going a bit longer.

 

[ctchamps]

Loved Cream in college, I had never really heard them before. I wonder if they were really done when they broke up or they had more to give. I wish they could have kept going a bit longer.

Cream and then Blind Faith. Changed my entire perception of music.

 

[andy34]

RIP. Listening to Cream in high school really blew my mind. Highly recommend checking out the Ginger Baker Trio if you're into jazz.

 

[HuskyHawk]

Blind Faith is down to 1
GB was a great father figure to so many British drummers
RIP - Presence Of The Lord

Both Clapton and Winwood are still alive.

 

[Stinger92860]

I thought this was about Tina Louise. I prefer Maryanne.

 

[storrsroars]

I thought this was about Tina Louise. I prefer Maryanne.

You're ten posts too late for that joke.

 

[QDOG5]

You're ten posts too late for that joke.

You mean you prefer Dawn Wells. Back to the thread, Cream's version of Spoonful and their song Badge are two of my all time favorites. The documentary on Ginger was interesting.

 

[Cheddie]

I saw Cream, before I really knew who they were, in college at a venue that was basically a converted garage. You sat on a concrete floor. I remember being awestruck by him on the drums. The band was so loud that I was essentially deaf for a few days afterwards.

 

[andy34]

I saw Cream, before I really knew who they were, in college at a venue that was basically a converted garage. You sat on a concrete floor. I remember being awestruck by him on the drums. The band was so loud that I was essentially deaf for a few days afterwards.

Dannng I'm jealous

 

[HuskyHawk]

Dannng I'm jealous

I almost thought that, then I realized @Cheddie is no longer a young man.

 

[Cheddie]

I almost thought that, then I realized @Cheddie is no longer a young man.

Yeah, pretty much if you saw Cream on its 1st US tour, you're on Medicare!
As good as Cream were, I thought another Clapton act I saw in college was better. Delaney & Bonnie played in Boston with Clapton, Dave Mason, Leon Russell, Rita Coolidge and the guys that eventually made up Derek's Dominoes. Tremendous concert.

 

[Madmannsucks]

Lived down the street from me for a while when I first moved to Colorado-he was the difference between a musician and a drummer.

 

[sledog]

Heard Cream at the Back Bay Theater in Boston, April 5, 1968. Good friend of mine was an usher there - a highly coveted job. When the curtains opened the stage set had GB in middle, Jack on left,, and Eric on right. What was stunning was the amplifiers/speakers on stage - 4 double stacks of 100 watt Marshall amps on either side of GB!! The typical club scene at the time featured guitarists equipped with perhaps a single 50 watt Fender Super Reverb combo, or Fender Bassman with separate amp / speaker case. Seeing 16 speaker cases on stage was mind blowing! We thought - wow, this is going to be LOUD. The roar that the band produced blew your ears out (house PA systems then were primitive). That pure Marshall sound is never duplicated with today's tonier amps and house PAs for volume.

Although the YouTube recording features 'Sunshine' as the opener, I somehow remember that they played 'Crossroads', in which Eric played 10 verses of solo before the first vocal. Perhaps a different concert.