Ginger Baker

At 80 years old, Ginger Baker has this physical status:

Career

Baker began playing drums at the age of 15. He took lessons from Phil Seamen, one of Britain's top jazz drummers of the post-war period.

He joined Blues Incorporated in the 1960s, where he met bassist Jack Bruce. The two musicians clashed often, but the two bands would meet again in the Graham Bond Organisation, a rhythm and blues band with strong jazz leanings. Baker once assaulted Bruce with a knife during a concert, making their friendship so tumescent.

Despite this tumultuous marriage, Baker and Bruce reunited in 1966 when they formed Cream with guitarist Eric Clapton. The band's fusion of blues, psychedelic rock, and hard rock made four albums in a little over two years before breaking up in 1968.

Baker then joined the short-lived "supergroup" Blind Faith, which included Eric Clapton, bassist Ric Grech from Family, and Steve Winwood of Traffic on keyboards and vocals. They only had one album, Blind Faith, before it fell apart.

Baker's Air Force, a 1970s fusion rock band, formed, toured, and recorded with fusion rock band Ginger Baker's Air Force.

(We are here)" and "Atunde!

Baker decided to open a recording studio in Lagos, Nigeria's capital. He decided that traveling across the Sahara Desert would be an exciting trip. Baker invited documentary filmmaker Tony Palmer to join him and the film Ginger Baker in Africa follows his odyssey as he travels and finally arrives in Nigeria to set up his studio. Batakota (ARC) studios opened at the end of January 1973 and continued as a theatre for both local and western musicians through the seventies. At the studio, Paul McCartney and Wings recorded the song "Picasso's Last Words (Drink to Me)" for Band on the Run, with Baker playing a tin can full of gravel.

Fela Kuti appeared on Record Sessions in 1971, which were released by Regal Zonophone as Live! Fela appeared with Baker on Stratavarious (1972), with Bobby Gass, a Jeff Beck pseudonym for Bobby Tench. Stratavarious was later re-released as part of the compilation Do What You Like (1998). In 1974, Baker formed Baker Gurvitz Army with brothers Paul and Adrian Gurvitz (encouraged by boss Bill Fehilly). Baker Gurvitz Army (1974), Elysian Encounter (1975), and Hearts on Fire (1976), and the band toured through England and Europe in 1975. The band formed in 1976, not long after Fehilly's death in a plane crash.

Baker spent the majority of the early 1980s on an olive farm in a small town in Tuscany, Italy, following the demise of the recording studio in Lagos. He did not play much music during this time.

Baker joined Hawkwind in 1980 after appearing on the album Levitation as a session musician. After a tour, he left in 1981. On two more Hawkwind albums, live footage and studio demos from that period were included. He worked with producer Bill Laswell on Horses & Trees in 1985 and then appeared as a session musician on Album by Public Image Ltd.

Baker planned to become an actor in Los Angeles in the late 1980s. He unsuccessfully auditioned for the role of the Homeless Man in the 1989 Yankovic comedy film UHF, and he appeared in the 1990 television series Nasty Boys as Ginger.

Baker performed with the hard rock band Masters of Reality in 1992, with bassist Googe and singer/guitarist Chris Goss on the album Sunrise on the Sufferbus.

BBM (Bruce Baker Moore) was established in 1993. Gary Moore, a short-lived power trio, released the album Around the Next Dream in 1994, featuring Baker, Jack Bruce, and Irish blues rock guitarist Gary Moore.

Baker lived in Parker, Colorado, between 1993 and 1999, in part due to his love for polo. Baker not only appeared in polo at Salisbury Equestrian Park, but he also sponsored a continuing series of jam sessions and concerts at the equestrian center on weekends. His drug use in the past gave him more difficulties with US immigration, so in 1999, he sold his Parker house and moved to South Africa. With bassist Charlie Haden and guitarist Bill Frisell, he formed The Ginger Baker Trio in 1994.

Baker reunited with Eric Clapton and Jack Bruce for a series of Cream concerts at the Royal Albert Hall and Madison Square Garden on May 3, 2005. Royal Albert Hall, London, was recorded and released as Royal Albert Hall London on May 2-3-6, 2005. (2005). Bruce is quoted in a Rolling Stone article published in 2009 as saying, "It's a knife-edge thing between me and Ginger." We're happily coexisting in different continents now [Bruce, who died in 2014, lived in Britain, while Baker lived in South Africa], but I'm thinking of asking him to leave. He's still a little too close.

Lindiwe Noko, a bank clerk, was charged with defrauding Baker for almost R500,000 ($60,000). Baker said he had recruited Noko as a personal assistant, costing her £7 a day (roughly R100) for various errands, and that she used this position to reveal his private banking information and make illicit withdrawals. After Noko and Baker became lovers, she and Baker became a gift. "I have a scare that only a woman who had a thing with me would know." It's there, but she has no idea it's there." Noko did not plead not guilty, but was found guilty of dishonesty. She was sentenced to three years of "correctional care," a form of community service in October 2010. The sentence, according to Baker, was "a travesty."

In 2009, Hellraiser's autobiography was released. He appeared with the Ginger Baker Jazz Confusion, a quartet made up of Baker, saxophonist Alfred "Pee Wee" Ellis, bassist Alec Dankworth, and percussionist Abass Dodoo throughout 2013. Why? Baker signed with Motéma Music in 2014 to record the record Why?

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