Jimmy Jam Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 I just can't believe Ginger Baker out lived him! I agree. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sathington Willoughby Posted October 25, 2014 Share Posted October 25, 2014 We lost a great musician in Jack Bruce. RIP Mr. Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cosmic_juice Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Jack Bruce... a man of soul of passion ... he pushed the boundaries of improvisation creatin.g new boundaries ... my dad gave me Wheels of Fire at 16 on vinyl and I fell head over hills for Cream... as an artist musician visionary and legend... you will be loved and missed and you will live on forever Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross62 Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geekfreak Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 an absolute great musician sadly gone. Jack Bruce R.I. P. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
greengrass Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Ive been in a funk all weekend , it feels like a family has passed on. RIP Jack Bruce Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
2bitnogoodjive Posted October 26, 2014 Share Posted October 26, 2014 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
grasbo Posted November 3, 2014 Share Posted November 3, 2014 When I was about 13 I got Goodbye Cream out of our local library(this would have been about "75).I dropped the needle on I'm So Glad(live).Once they got into their free form jam thing I was floored.Stuff what Clapton was doing,I was listening to Jack and Ginger.I had never heard the bass been played like that.On learning of Jacks passing I put on I'm So Glad followed by Spoonful from Wheels of Fire at 8am in the morning.Very Loud.I was in heaven for half an hour.The wife wished I was in hell.So long Jack.We will try and keep cranky old Ginger in line. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross62 Posted June 21, 2015 Share Posted June 21, 2015 It’s 10 years since Cream’s reunion gig, so Rock’s Backpages this week digs out a Melody Maker piece published just before Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker and Eric Clapton’s first gig in the summer of 1966 http://www.theguardian.com/music/2015/apr/29/cream-we-call-it-sweet-and-sour-rocknroll Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sathington Willoughby Posted July 2, 2015 Share Posted July 2, 2015 Lost Jack Bruce Tapes: Sunshine Of Your Love, Drugs, Ginger Baker http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2015/06/28/lost-jack-bruce-tapes-sunshine-of-your-love-drugs-ginger-baker/ 4 parts so far, links at the end of the article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross62 Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Lost Jack Bruce Tapes: Sunshine Of Your Love, Drugs, Ginger Baker http://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2015/06/28/lost-jack-bruce-tapes-sunshine-of-your-love-drugs-ginger-baker/ 4 parts so far, links at the end of the article. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sathington Willoughby Posted July 3, 2015 Share Posted July 3, 2015 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geekfreak Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 did anyone else see the Beware Mr. Baker Doc on BBC4 great drummer but still crazy fucker! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charles J. White Posted July 14, 2015 Share Posted July 14, 2015 did anyone else see the Beware Mr. Baker Doc on BBC4 great drummer but still crazy fucker! Yes, I loved it, thought it was very funny Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
geekfreak Posted July 16, 2015 Share Posted July 16, 2015 Yes, I loved it, thought it was very funny me too! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pagemeister Posted March 20, 2016 Share Posted March 20, 2016 Ginger Baker's gigs To all fans ... It is with great sadness that we announce the cancellation of all shows. Ginger's doctors have insisted that he have complete rest due to diagnosis of serious heart problems. We hope you will join with his family in wishing him well. God bless him. ~Team Baker http://www.gingerbaker.com/gigs/ginger-baker-gigs.htm Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvlz2 Posted May 17, 2018 Share Posted May 17, 2018 (edited) http://www.blabbermouth.net/news/the-music-of-cream-50th-anniversary-feat-kofi-baker-malcolm-bruce-and-will-johns-north-american-tour-announced/ Edited May 17, 2018 by luvlz2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross62 Posted November 28, 2018 Share Posted November 28, 2018 50 Years Ago: Cream Said Farewell At The Royal Albert Hall. Published on November 26, 2018 By Richard Havers London’s Royal Albert Hall, despite hosting concerts by the Rolling Stones, Beatles, Bob Dylan and others over the previous five years, was in 1968 seen by most people as the UK’s home of classical music. And while there had been rock concerts there before, there was never a rock concert as intense and as significant as the one on 26 November 1968 when Cream officially said farewell as a band.In their two years of existence their success had been phenomenal; they conquered America, fell out with one another and redefined what a rock trio with blues sensibilities could achieve. There is not a band that followed Cream with a similar line-up that was not influenced by them. Cream became the template for heavy metal and yet their respect for the blues and Jack Bruce’s huge musical talent for composition always gave them an edge over their rivals.Prior to playing two nights at the Royal Albert Hall they had completed a gruelling 19-city tour of America, before the two back-to-back nights on 25 and 26 November. The opening acts for their farewell show were Yes, still 8 months away from releasing their brilliant debut record and using Leonard Bernstein’s ‘Something Coming’ from West Side Story as the highlight of their set, and Taste, Rory Gallagher’s band, who like Cream were a three piece and one that was also steeped in the blues.Cream’s set included classic blues covers including, ‘I’m So Glad’ (Skip James), ‘Sitting on Top of the World’ (Mississippi Sheiks), ‘Cross Roads’ (Robert Johnson), ‘Steppin’ Out’ (Memphis Slim) and ‘Spoonful’ (Howlin’ Wolf) along with the band’s compositions, ‘White Room’, ‘Politician’, ‘Toad’, with Ginger’s long drum solo and of course, ‘Sunshine of Your Love’, the song that broke Cream in America.Cream’s farewell concerts were filmed by Tony Palmer, and the following year his insightful documentary was broadcast on the BBC to great critical acclaim. It was originally planned to release the concerts a double album, but eventually the idea was scrapped and instead Goodbye was issued in February 1969 with some live songs and three songs recorded at IBC Studios in London in October 1968; the live cuts were taken from a show at the LA Forum in October 1968.While Cream’s Farewell shows were perhaps inevitably not their best, there is no denying the importance, both in the folklore of the band and in rock music in general. How could a band last for little over two years, be so successful and then break up? In fact what they were doing was setting a template of another kind. The whole business of supergroups were to be prove to be the thing in the Seventies, starting with Blind Faith that Eric and Ginger formed with Steve Winwood and Ric Grech in early 1969. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvlz2 Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/legendary-cream-drummer-ginger-baker-is-critically-ill/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pagemeister Posted September 26, 2019 Share Posted September 26, 2019 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvlz2 Posted October 2, 2019 Share Posted October 2, 2019 Cream's Ginger Baker Is 'Holding His Own' In Hospital https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/creams-ginger-baker-is-holding-his-own-in-hospital/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luvlz2 Posted October 16, 2019 Share Posted October 16, 2019 https://www.blabbermouth.net/news/members-of-rush-queen-the-beatles-the-rolling-stones-whitesnake-others-pay-tribute-to-ginger-baker/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ross62 Posted November 26, 2019 Share Posted November 26, 2019 https://www.udiscovermusic.com/news/eric-clapton-2020-tribute-to-ginger-baker/?utm_source=ka&utm_medium=tw&utm_campaign=TW:uDiscoverMusic-News&utm_term=3fae26b1-eddb-479f-8592-85c119c05532 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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