Ginger Baker
Ginger Baker
Peter Edward "Ginger" Bakeris an English drummer, best known as the founder of the rock band Cream. Baker's work in the 1960s earned him praise as "rock's first superstar drummer", although his individual style melded a jazz background with his personal interest in African rhythms. Baker is an inductee of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of Cream and is widely considered one of the most influential drummers of all time, recognised by his induction into...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionDrummer
Date of Birth19 August 1939
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If I am playing any music at all it is jazz music.
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Beautiful summer afternoon, loads of people -- well over 100,000. Happy, relaxed, laid back gig -- not loud on stage. Just pleasant volume unlike (the) preceding band I played with.
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You can chuck things into a computer and get people off the street who look great, but in the end they aren't going to do anything that lasts.
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They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
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I'd rather play jazz, I hate rock and roll.
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In West Virginia, we're all family. We know how firefighters and policemen honor their own and we feel our miners deserve to be honored in a similar way.
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I have never taken more than two weeks to record an album throughout my career.
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I have never had a great love of the music business, I never have.
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People say Cream gave birth to heavy metal. If that's so, we should have had an abortion.
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I'm amazed that I can still play really. But I can.
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I think the American government is now the most corrupt government in the world.
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It happens to us quite often-it feels as though I'm not playing my instrument, something else is playing it and that same thing is playing all three of our instruments. That's what I mean when I say it's frightening sometimes. Maybe we'll all play the same phrase out of nowhere. It happens very often with us.
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God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can.
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In 1968, I was driving from Los Angeles to San Francisco in a Shelby Cobra with three gorgeous young birds. Suddenly, the radio program was interrupted to report that I'd just been found in my hotel room dead from an overdose.