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stonehearted
I'm curious to know what it was that was posted that moved him to respond. He claims not to care what gets written about him in the press, so why should he care what a fan posts about him on Facebook? Ginger Baker, man of many contradictions.
There's this facebook page called The College Of Rock And Roll Knowledge that I've been posting on a lot lately, and a couple of months ago there was a post about how Cream should get back together for one last gig. I replied that physically, Ginger just wasn't up to it. I went on to explain about all of his health problems, basically just repeating what you yourself wrote here earlier in this thread. Well, apparently, The College tagged Ginger's personal facebook page in their post. Before I knew it, Ginger's daughter Nettie was posting on The College's page, wanting to know why I was saying all these terrible things about her father. Basically, it was You don't know us, and You shouldn't be talking about people you don't know, and You need to keep quiet, and Everything you're saying is, without exception, completely untrue. Ginger himself logged on to say that my posts were a load of "cheeky bollocks." He said I should come and see him play "Toad" and say these things to his face. I didn't respond directly to Ginger, but I did explain to Nettie that lots of people get talked about by people they don't know; that in fact, this is the very definition of what it means to be a celebrity; people you don't know are talking about you. I went on to say that I was looking forward to seeing Ginger on tour, that I wasn't expecting "Toad," or any other Cream material, but that a little Sonny Rollins would be nice. A couple of nights later, Ginger played his big show in London (the one that the version of "Sunshine Of Your Love" posted earlier in this thread comes from) and though he did play that one and "Can't Find My Way Home" he did not, and could not, play "Toad." "It's not on," he told the crowd. "I'm a @#$%& cripple."
The encore was "St. Thomas" by Sonny Rollins
Edited 6 time(s). Last edit at 2014-06-24 01:02 by tatters.