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I just bought my tickets, more in the spirit of it being a fundraiser to help the poor sod out than with any expectations of being blown away by anything he's going to be doing onstage. I treasure the memory of having seem him in a tiny club with a power trio 30 years ago. It was on a Friday night, Dec. 9, 1983, at a little club on Long Island called My Father's Place. I went back on Saturday and saw Buddy Rich. Man, that was a helluva weekend.
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I just bought my tickets, more in the spirit of it being a fundraiser to help the poor sod out than with any expectations of being blown away by anything he's going to be doing onstage. I treasure the memory of having seem him in a tiny club with a power trio 30 years ago. It was on a Friday night, Dec. 9, 1983, at a little club on Long Island called My Father's Place. I went back on Saturday and saw Buddy Rich. Man, that was a helluva weekend.
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mr_c_ox
He is doing a show for his 75th birthday in a couple of months where it's advertised that he is playing cream, mor material etc.
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I remember watching that Cream DVD of their reunion and feeling like a 45 had been slowed down to 33 and a 3rd. I'm beginning to think we've made most of these guys stay at the party too long just because we love them too much. It especially hurts the high intensity bands like Zeppelin and the Stones.
That Ginger Baker documentary is fantastic. You walk away not feeling particularly sympathetic towards him. But you have to respect just the powerful force of the man.
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tatters
I remember watching that Cream DVD of their reunion and feeling like a 45 had been slowed down to 33 and a 3rd. I'm beginning to think we've made most of these guys stay at the party too long just because we love them too much. It especially hurts the high intensity bands like Zeppelin and the Stones.
That Ginger Baker documentary is fantastic. You walk away not feeling particularly sympathetic towards him. But you have to respect just the powerful force of the man.
I attended the Cream shows at the RAH and a few months later at MSG. I would agree with the comment of feeling some parts of the shows were slowed down, at least to my ears. But on the other hand some songs were great. The RAH shows were head and shoulders better than MSG in my opinion. I know one of the nights at MSG, must have been opening night, was marred by Ginger starting the wrong song in the set list on several occasions only to have Eric and Jack stop and get him on the right song. That same night it appeared that Ginger and Jack openly feuded onstage (remarkable after so many years).
These days I would only go see Ginger if he was surrounded by excellent musicians and I didn't have to travel to go to the show.
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RoughJusticeOnYa
...Where's that (quite) long thread gone from a couple of months (I'd say: at least half a year?) about Ginger 'vs' the Stones, c.q. his constant dissing of everyone in & everything about the band, except for Charlie?
[*DISCLAIMER* - that's just my way of putting this, cutting a long story short. I have no need nor interest in re-opening that discussion; feel free to do so - but I just wanna know whee that thread is. So I hope somebody can help me out!
And yes, I did a "search", looking for "Ginger Baker", but all I found was this thread & the recent 'Chuck Berry'-one for some reason. Thanx in advance]