FreeBird236
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Lost another legend @ 80. He was definitely ahead of his time. I was lucky enough to see Cream in the late 60's.
I had no idea who he was until that album came out and my buddy brought it home. Listened to it a buncha times and was hooked.....Great album by great band with so much talent.I became aware of rock music around 1967, when I was 10. This awareness was driven by the release of Cream's Disraeli Gears album.
I think Sunshine of Your Love and SWLABR are great examples of Ginger Baker's talent and playing style. He had been playing jazz in Great Britain's clubs for years, and his double bass drum kit was the basis for some fantastic beats and fills.
Ginger Baker, Eric Clapton, and Jack Bruce created the underpinnings of what became an amazing period in rock and roll, the five years between 1966 and 1971. I witnessed it, heard over AM radio two minutes and thirty seconds at a time on static filled airwaves.
RIP
SWLABR...
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