RIP Ginger Baker

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raisindot

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Oct 1, 2009
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#5
I really, really, really hate to speak badly of the departed, but as great and important a drummer as Baker was, he had a legendary reputation as one of nastiest, argumentative, jealous and pettiest people with almost no redeeming social qualities. In nearly every interview I ever read or watched with him, he exuded bitterness, anger, snobbery and rarely had a kind word to say about anyone else. But then again, maybe as a diehard Who fan I'm a bit biased, since Baker reserved some of his most vitriolic criticism for Keith Moon.
 

Tonyblack

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City Watch
Jul 25, 2008
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Cardiff, Wales
#6
I have to confess that, although I was vaguely aware of the name, I had to Google him. I was more Carl Palmer than Ginger Baker, when it came to drummers.
 

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