Ginger Baker

Kittyfrisk

A true legend & proper geezer.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49827436

the_jaffa

Tweet from his account:

“The Baker family are sad to announce that Ginger is critically ill in hospital. Please keep him in your prayers tonight”

Doesn’t sound good

jacksparrow

That's a shame, he's one of the great's for sure.

Cols

Fingers crossed he pulls through; he’s 80 years old and the poor chap has serious cardiovascular problems.

LastMantra

That's a shame. Mad as a bag of badgers but a proper genius. 

prowla

I was just chatting about him with someone in a guitar shop on the weekend.

Sassafras

One of the only drummers who could deliver bearable extended drum solos.

ICBM

I watched the documentary Beware Of Mr. Baker recently - he really does fit the Byron description of ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, and to be honest it’s a miracle he’s lived as long as this anyway... but still sad to hear he’s not doing well.

Unquestionably one of the greatest rock drummers ever, quite possibly the greatest of all, even though he would dispute he even was one and not a jazz drummer.

Axe_meister

I had a great exchange with him on facebook in a Joe Bonamassa thread. Jokingly saying "there is an advertisement not to take drugs", he responded, too right now buy my book to see the real story.

SNAKEBITE

Remember seeing a documentary on him, really enjoyed his personality, a true character.

earwighoney

ICBM said:

I watched the documentary Beware Of Mr. Baker recently - he really does fit the Byron description of ‘mad, bad and dangerous to know’, and to be honest it’s a miracle he’s lived as long as this anyway... but still sad to hear he’s not doing well.

Unquestionably one of the greatest rock drummers ever, quite possibly the greatest of all, even though he would dispute he even was one and not a jazz drummer.

For anyone who's not seen the documentary 'The Art of Drumming' it's really worth checking out to see how certain drummers really changed the vocabulary for drumming in popular music and it's real clear to see how much Ginger Baker contributed to the instrument's evolution in rock music (and so on) but was an incredible drummer in his own right.

Just watch this video! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hy_z4on1xHM

A real fucking legend. 

Shmoo

legend!

axisus

Amazing drummer. Glad to have caught him live with Jack Bruce and Gary Moore. 

Hopefully he will pull through.

boogieman

Sassafras said:

One of the only drummers who could deliver bearable extended drum solos.

But, but ...... Toad. 

scrumhalf

Go back and listen to him on the Graham Bond album "Live at Klook's Kleek". One of the finest ever bands (Baker, Jack Bruce, Dick Heckstall-Smith and Graham Bond), they were a tour de force playing live.

DrJazzTap

Sad news, I always admired his spiky demeanor. Rest in peace. Just Clapton left now  

roberty

A legend and a true one-off.  They don't make them like that any more

not_the_dj

My musical education started with two of my dad’s LPs. One was Hendrix, the other Cream. 

RIP Ginger. 

stickyfiddle

RIP indeed. Absolute monster of a drummer.

ICBM

Greatest rock drummer ever.

Sadly it's now safe to say that without fear of him punching your lights out for calling him a 'rock' drummer... he always said he was a jazz drummer.



RIP

hywelg

R.I.P. 

What a legend.