Steve F.
www.waysidemusic.com
www.cuneiformrecords.com
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“Remember, if it doesn't say "Cuneiform," it's not prog!” - THE Jed Levin
Any time any one speaks to me about any musical project, the one absolute given is "it will not make big money". [tip of the hat to HK]
"Death to false 'support the scene' prog!"
please add 'imo' wherever you like, to avoid offending those easily offended.
Jack & Ginger 1989 (and Holdsworth)
Thirty-two posts about Ginger Baker, and so far nobody's mentioned what a MONSTER drummer he was (is?), especially back in the Air Force and Africa '70 days.
I am less impressed with his Ginger Baker Trio, which is on the whole a pretty modest affair. I DO greatly enjoy "Horses and Trees" and "Middle Passage" though -- very evolved stuff!
^^ Not only one of the true greats, but a dedicated student of his craft.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
He may not be a virtuoso human being, but he certainly is a virtuoso drummer.
Lou
Looking forward to my day in court.
As do I, but those were largely Laswell/Skopelitis creations with Baker behind the drums and under his banner. ISTR reading somewhere that one of those albums is built around GB drum tracks leftover from the Public Image Ltd. album that he was on, but damned if I can find any citations.
When I was a Kid I bought that Ginger Bakers Air Force 1 album in a cutout bin. I have often counted that as the worst music purchase I have ever made. Man, that album sucked. I'm almost tempted to get it again, just to remind myself how bad it was. For as big a name as he had, that was awful. At least to a 12 year olds ears who was expecting to hear something akin to Cream.
I got nothin' :
...avoiding any implication that I have ever entertained a cognizant thought.
live samples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fwbCFGbAtFc
https://youtu.be/AEE5OZXJioE
https://soundcloud.com/yodelgoat/yod...om-a-live-show
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KUe3YhCjy6g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VOCJokzL_s
The PLAYING on those two albums is top notch. The SONGWRITING is weak and not up to Cream’s or Blind Faith’s or even Graham Bond’s level, IMO.
Did he start a bar fight on his birthday?
With the 2005 reunion, the Royal Albert Hall shows went smoothly. Apparently the Bruce/Baker friction started to surface again over the course of the MSG shows. Clapton also regretted doing those US shows.
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...n-shows-80235/
There's a legendary tavern on the UNESCO-listed Bryggen in Bergen, my original hometown, named Sjøboden (the Seabooth). Sometime in 1986 there was substantial commotion after "[…] some geezer claiming to be a star musician" had been evicted rather brutally from the place after apparently harrassing a set of young women inside while stone drunk. A local music journalist, Bård Ose, managed to identify that man as Ginger Baker. Ose is quite renowned, both in Bergen and Norway as such, although he was young and getting started back then; he authored an extensive article on the subject of "fame and province" and, among other things, raised the question as to why we were always taught in school that former drug-addicts never relapsed to drink. Which was obviously not always the case. And least of all here.
I've been thrown out of Sjøboden myself a couple of times as well, albeit not too violently.
It's the place with the fake clock tower here:
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"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
^^
Had a few Drinks there once too (on the outside), not to many though as I allready spent a fortune
on the hotel (just a few meters to the left from there). I obviously behaved nice as they didn't threw
me out
^ Bah, Ginger'll kick ol' Keith in the prostatic teeth utilizing a technique he could seek out while doin' freakout in Nigeria sans criteria for being meek.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
^ Not much. I went back this summer to see my ageing (S.O.B.) dad whose wife left him recently in order to knick all his possessions so that her daughter and son-in-law can get it before my sister and I do, but I tend to stay for as short a while as absolutely necessary.
Too many memories from 12 years living in the city centre first as a drunken student and oddball bandmember, second as hubby and dad myself - until I left the city with my then-family in 2002. I get sentimental from going there. Not the best thing.
"Improvisation is not an excuse for musical laziness" - Fred Frith
"[...] things that we never dreamed of doing in Crimson or in any band that I've been in," - Tony Levin speaking of SGM
Just announced on his Facebook page that he is critically ill:
https://www.facebook.com/jinjahbaker...type=3&theater
Bummer, man.
"The White Zone is for loading and unloading only. If you got to load or unload go to the White Zone!"
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