Ginger Baker
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Retrospective by Chris Welch, The History of Rock, 1982
PETER 'GINGER' BAKER had an enormous and profound effect on the course of rock drumming when his playing and personality first began to make an ...
Audio interviews
Interview by Jim Sullivan, Rock's Backpages audio, 2015
The ex-Cream drummer refuses to divulge much about working with PiL; the Beware of Mr. Baker movie; his Nigerian experiences; being an improvising musician; his friendship with the jazz greats; the Cream reunion; leaving South Africa; his relationship with his family and his health. He's marginally more forthcoming about his experiences with heroin.
File format: mp3; file size: 10.6mb, interview length: 29' 27" sound quality: ** (phoner)
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Alan White: Alan The Thump And Funk Man
Interview by Danny Holloway, Sounds, 6 November 1971
SINCE HIS appearance with John Lennon in Toronto as part of the Plastic Ono Band, Alan White has had a hectic and enjoyable career over ...
Will Cream Stand the Test of Time?
Retrospective and Interview by Wesley Strick, Circus, 28 April 1977
MAYBE YOU'VE seen the recent full-page spreads, and maybe you've wondered. In January, RSO Records reissued nine landmark rock 'n roll albums. "Collector's Editions," the ...
Ginger Baker (19 August 1939 – 6 October 2019)
Obituary by Jon Newey, Jazzwise, December 2019
Pressed rolls and warthog: The life and times of Ginger Baker ...
Ginger Baker: "I came off heroin something like 29 times"
Profile and Interview by Edward Helmore, The Observer, 5 January 2013
Former Cream drummer Ginger Baker talks about his battle with heroin, how he was the original Rolling Stones drummer and being the subject of new ...
Live Review by Richard Green, New Musical Express, 30 May 1970
PEACEFUL FESTIVAL OF GOOD MUSIC ...
Talking Drummer: An Interview with Remi Kabaka
Interview by Steve Roeser, Rock's Backpages, July 2015
ON A SATURDAY afternoon in late May, I arrive at a large outdoor sports facility on the west side of Los Angeles. There are several playing fields ...
8th National Jazz & Blues Festival: Lazy Sunbury Afternoon...
Live Review by Derek Boltwood, Record Mirror, 17 August 1968
PLAGUED BY DISASTER AND COUNTLESS SETBACKS, THE SUNBURY FESTIVAL PRESENTED SOME OF THE BEST MUSICAL ENTERTAINMENT EVER SEEN. RM WAS THERE. ...
Interview by Richard Gehr, Spin, January 1986
WHAT THE HELL is drummer dinger Baker doing in New York? Hanging out with the Celluloid Records central committee, of course, and laying down tracks for ...
NME Reporters Cover the Weekend's Major Event — the Eighth National Jazz and Blues Festival
Live Review by Keith Altham, Richard Green, New Musical Express, 17 August 1968
STARS, SUNSHINE and a SHAMBLES ...
Ginger Baker's Airforce: Scramble Here Comes Ginger's Airforce
Report and Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 3 January 1970
"SCRAMBLE!" Ginger Baker, Marshall of the Airforce, rapped out his orders with the cool aplomb of a man in charge of a powerful attacking force, ...
Ginger Baker and Fela Ransome-Kuti: Ginger Baker Backs This Fela's Afro-Rock
Report and Interview by Tony Stewart, New Musical Express, 15 January 1972
WITH AIRFORCE, Ginger Baker succeeded in providing the rudiments of the Afro-beat. Consciously he wanted to go back to the roots of highly percussive music, ...
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 17 August 1968
PETER "GINGER" BAKER will be 29 soon, and after 13 years of beating drum kits into submission, he is at last able to relax and ...
Ginger Baker: Ginger Recruits An Army
Interview by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 23 November 1974
...and they're going into battle shortly with a new album and tour. Ginger Baker, ace drummer and member of the Lagos Polo Club, explains his ...
Ginger Baker: New Skins For The Old Ceremony
Interview by Phil Sutcliffe, Sounds, 12 June 1976
PHIL SUTCLIFFE takes a walk down memory lane with GINGER BAKER, drummer, sportsman and fellow piles sufferer. ...
Ginger Baker's Airforce: Ginger Baker's Airforce (Polydor)
Review by Chris Welch, Melody Maker, 16 May 1970
GINGER BAKER HAS led a long tough career. He has worked hard, stuck to his musical guns at all times. ...
“People Thought We Were Only Good For One Album. But We Made Another. So There”
Interview by Chris Salewicz, New Musical Express, 1 November 1975
Yes, success is getting a little nearer ever year for the BAKER GURVITZ ARMY! Report by CHRIS SALEWIZ ...
Interview by Tom Hibbert, MOJO, August 1994
"DO 'TOAD'!" THAT WAS THE TENDER CATCHPHRASE THAT every youth used to yell at Ginger Baker every time he took his place behind his amazing ...
BBM: Around The Next Dream (Virgin)/Ginger Baker Trio: Going Back Home (Atlantic)
Review by Charles Shaar Murray, Guitar World, 1994
WHOEVER FIRST claimed that guitar, bass and drums are the "three primary colo(u)rs of rock and roll" ignored the possibility that some of us might ...
Profile and Interview by Penny Valentine, Disc and Music Echo, 11 April 1970
GINGER BAKER is 31 years old and you DON’T ignore him. You can’t. He has accumulated a monstrous reputation over the past 10 years that ...
see also Baker-Gurvitz Army
see also Cream
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