Jesus this interviewers terminology is absolutely fantastic "musical conversation between your feet and your hands." Who says that? Where is this man's dictionary kept so I can steal it?
The interviewer's questions were clearly dubbed over in post. It's much more likely that Ginger was responding to a camera man saying "what are those cymbals for, mate?"
GB demonstrating why he is such a pivotal figure in the link between jazz and rock drumming. He fused the freedom and swing of jazz with the power of African drumming and the discipline of military drum techniques
This is a drum clinic. Possibly the first ever filmed drum clinic. That 4 stroke Ruff he plays over the kit looks more like a magic trick than a rudiment.
My ex girlfriend was at a festival and she cut her hand badly....Ginger Baker helped her to a nearby tent to get her sorted out.She didn't realise who it was till later!
Bird cage walk street military march..Ginger playing looking great and modestly letting everyone know who he is!! Ginger holds sticks correctly..listening to his DRUMS is like being on train tracks with earth quake going off.Ginger ends songs in his unique statement way!! MYSTERIOUS DIZZYING ABRUPT..smoke trails..all take heed..Thank you for posting!! appreciated ps Ginger never had oversized drums..
Ginger was already well established in London when Tony hit the scene big time with Miles. Ginger loved Tony’s playing but Ginger was most influenced by Baby Dodds, Max Roach and Elvin.
Saw the Cream at LA Forum in 1968. Baker's "Toad"solo was off the charts. An aural assualt. The rhythms built into a frenzy. Where, at its peak, Baker looked like a human propeller. Both arms and both legs driving. Every note perfect. Rocked the whole place. Unforgettable. A drum genius of the highest order.
He seems to switch between grips. One minute it's the "military" grip, with the left hand palm upwards, next he's using the matched one with both palms down.
I saw Cream live in Chicago on their farewell tour. Insane. 30 thousand stoned freaks in the Colliseum on South Wabash Street. I was 12 years old and my friend Paul and I made it up to the front of the hall to watch Ginger Baker do his solo during "Toad." He had his drumsticks duct taped into his hands and the sweat was flying off him under the spotlights and hitting the drumheads and the cymbals. He looked absolutely demonic. And without compare the best rock drummer ever.
I saw them the next week in Demoines Iowa. I got there early and was amazed when I saw the roadies nailing his drums to the floor with long spikes. I knew this was going to be beyond my expectations and it was.
Ginger looks (relatively) sober in this clip. I once saw Mick Fleetwood trying to play when he was so juiced his eyes were bulging and he couldn't close his mouth. Honest, his mouth was wide open for over an hour. And he kept dropping his sticks. Ginger gets a bad rap but a lot of rock drummers play juiced.
Back when something like smiling and being decent to an interviewer weren’t considered things he refused to do. Fantastic drummer but became a horror anytime he came out from behind the kit
Surprisingly good rudiments and nice Jazz ride in this interview. later in life he fancied himself a "Jazz" drummer but it was a little embarrassing. Did not like what he has said about Bonham. What a time in popular music though.
I coulda, shoulda been there but I thought they’d gotten too self-obsessed and boring after all the U.S. touring and I was turned off by them at that point. Now I realize I should’ve just bought a ticket and gone.
He was always consistently horrible to people depending on his mood. Before they were in Cream, Baker & Bruce played together with Alexis Korner. Jack started mucking about during Gingers solo so Ginger pulled a knife on him and told him he's fired.
That's true. But I read a comment from a guy some years back he had a mate who was a good friend of Buddy Rich and apparantly when asked about Ginger Buddy said Ginger was a great drummer.
im not really feeling the sound of that kit even though its a Ludwig and i think Ludwigs are best sounding kits but i love his playing big influense on me if i was ever going to get double bass drum it would be because of him
Andrew John Searle That's because he wasn't expecting to play, so his kit isn't tuned-up. The screws on the cymbals aren't tight that's why it's a loose sound an the heads aren't tight as well. Plus this is shitty sound recording. England had bad sound recordings it's why alot of musicians came to America. You can hear this drum kit on the Winterland album with Toad an it sounds amazing.
Arminius Hermann haha!! What a load of shit!! Think about some of the greatest recordings EVER!! And amplification (ie Marshall)... made in Great Britain! Whilst America predominately were still using 4 track to make records, George Martin and co were using 16 track.
@@playitstrange129 also George Martin never used 16 track recording on any beatle albums. All the recordings he did were either 4 or 8 tracks then doubled when 8 track cassettes came out after 1970...
