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..
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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...
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?"
@@tolanstout i noticed that
It’s called having an imagination and using it to express yourself.
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
When Ginger started playing that polyrhythmic swinging break at 3:25, he instantly became my favorite drummer.
Best drummer of all time.
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.
His talent is truly incredible. Ringo told me to play the Drums. Ginger Baker made me put holes in them.....Godspeed Master!
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!
That's totally cool and definitely not fake at all.
SepticSchizo955 your cynicism is pretty fake, though.
@@plasticweapon Lol
The narrator haves ''ww2 propaganda films'' voice haha :D
i was actually going to comment and say I think the interviewer is fantastic
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..
'At this time of day???' But what a great drummer, even in the morning.
Love how he uses traditional grip when demonstrating the basic rudiment on the snare then switches to matched grip on the toms.
Gotta love variation in a drummer
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.
Ginger Baker was influenced by Tony Williams. Tony Williams was later influenced by Ginger Baker.
Says a bit.
Great drummer.
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.
Tony Allen was as exciting as Tony Williams. Neither was in Tony Toni Tone.
Ginger Baker and Stewart Copeland are kindred drummer spirits who put outstanding trios together.
When ginger was more friendly to talk to than the old man grump he turned out to be.
one of the most perfect and important videos in drumming
That was great!
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.
Thank you:very interesting & may he RIP...maybe he's in some far away land playing w/Roky Erickson(a grrl can dream!)or The Captain?!
Ginger Baker was a one of
kind drummer.
So much energy definitely a wild spirit for sure.
Greatest drummer ever. With that being sad ... look how dilated his pupils are holy cow.
Someone’s pinned
Back when smack was still smack.
He was amazing as a musician, even if he was missing a decade or two upstairs.
He is the greatest drummer ever i think. He was my idol and teacher when I was a teenager.
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.
This sounds absolutely magical!!!
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.
wow.. just wow
ginger's so fucking hilarious!
"You've got nine different cymbals, can you tell us what each is for?"
".... yee... "
I didn't know Ron Weasley played drums :)
+CXMusicProductions I knew Ginger Baker practiced magic.
Weasley played a wizard in a movie.
Ginger was an actual wizard.
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.
Mick always plays with his mouth open, watch any video.
According to Eric Clapton's biography, Ginger was on heroin at this time.
and the next time...and the time after that...
Look @ his face......sunken
You can tell
@@419Koof Always looked that way, it's his bone structure
Wow he looked so shy and timid there. Was very different to how most of us has read and know about him.
What a drummer though🙌
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
Mr Chomley Warner is the interviewer 😃
Ringo TOLD me to play the drums. Ginger Baker showed me how to drum holes in them....
R.I.P. , Ginger!
Dynamite!
Ginger baby
Ginger was also influenced by several jazz drummers/musicians like Phil Seaman, Max Roach, Art Blakey. To just name some.
Ginger did heroine with Phil seaman.
Phil Seaman was his main influence, then came the Black Jazz drummers.
Rip Ginger 🕊
He needed to show him the basic rock 4 x 4 beat at 80bpm. Interviewer wouldn't have a clue about doing triplets straight off the bat.
3:25 * _ *
Best. Drummer. Ever.
"at this time of day?" 😂 As though this drug addled maniac has a schedule, hahaha
“The devil takes care of his own.” Ginger’s wife.
he was very good wasn't he. he seems so sweet
Anyone catch what Ginger said at the very end of the interview? "I have to fix" Baker was a monster on smack.
he says 'joke effects', he's talking about the smaller cymbal.
Baker is Baked.
On some major H
1968, right?
RIP Ginge. Gonna be edgy wherever you and Jack are :)
Amazing that he plays great despite being pretty strung out here. One wonders if he is going to fall asleep at any moment :P
4:09 Jack Bruce??? Looks like hes Brucing off
I wonder if Jim Henson's red haired, wild, drum playing muppet, "Animal" was a nod to Ginger Baker?
Moon. Notoriously so. Henson openly stated it was based on moon.
@@gart9680 Intetesting, he shouldve made it look more like Keith, as he looked comically insane and WAS.
It's about time
Holy wow! I'm not sure how I'd describe his kick sound, dueling thundersounds?
They don't make drummers like that any more.
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.
you should listen to him when he was really young, like before cream, he was a really good jazz drummer, but lost the feel through all the drugs.
no idea what he mite be on but our boy is damn sure not sober here.
Baker looks very dangerous, but he is very nice and shy person.
He was all three of those lol
Try saying that to the interviewer whose nose he broke with his walking stick in the Beware Of Mr. Baker film. It's available to watch on here.
@@bramleydragon Perhaps the mildest thing he ever did
or how he threatened jack bruce at knifepoint
More cowbell.
Ah ah ah, you're right. My girlfriend says he's as shy and sweet as a little child or a teddy bear.
So, at one point he was actually a gentleman. Sad to see what a monster he became towards people. : (
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.
@@liamfitzdrums Wow! What a psycho he was.
@@IwshIcldstrtover Indeed. I'd recommend the documentary Beware Of Mr Baker. It's a very interesting documentary about Ginger as a person.
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.
Ginger, I respect you as a player but for the love of god man eat some food.
Mark Griffiths were you hoping this comment would reach ginger in 1968
The BIG H gives the sunken face
drugs
they're both Gods in different ways, like Stravinsky and Debussy, who perhaps unintentionally shared certain chord progressions back and forth.
Ginger did always seem to avoid Buddy Rich...who of course had no regard for Ginger. Those were two hot heads who never did get to clash. Lol
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.
Ginger used to challenge drummers back in the day on live stage... would be interesting to see him buddy go at it.
Nobody. No drummer can do this
I think he was a good drummer but his drum tone was not good at all i wish someone better could've tuned his drums back then
Great drummer. But Mitch Mitchell bar for bar support as good. And Mitchell served Hendrix better than Baker ever served Clapton.
Eugene LeVert Bullshit.
@@ZoSo1973 They are equally as good
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.
@@arminiushermann09 'England had bad sound records' get a grip! It's a tv interview with probably one mic in the room.
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 Capital records also had a studio in LA and the Beach Boys were all over multi-track recording in the USA.
@@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...
I do try to enjoy Baker's drumming, but I can never seem to get past the awful sounds he gets from both drums and cymbals.