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Legendary CREAM Drummer GINGER BAKER Is 'Critically Ill'
Blabbermouth ^ | September 25, 2019 | N/A

Posted on 09/25/2019 6:59:03 PM PDT by DoodleBob

Legendary CREAM drummer Ginger Baker is "critically ill" and in the hospital, his family has revealed.

"Please keep him in your prayers tonight," the family wrote in a brief statement posted to Baker's official Twitter account on Wednesday afternoon.

Baker, who turned 80 in August, has experienced a number of health issues in recent years. In 2016, he underwent open heart surgery, which forced him to cancel a run of tour dates. During recovery, a fall also left him with swollen legs and feet. In 2013, he was diagnosed with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and he is also said to ber suffering from chronic back pain as a result of degenerative osteoarthritis.

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TOPICS: Music/Entertainment
KEYWORDS: blindfaith; cpod; cream; gingerbaker; mortality; oldage
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To: null and void

Wow, what a bringdown! Just last week he was sitting on top of the world. I hope that the doctors leave no stone unturned to help him pull through this! I’m sure that he isn’t ready to dance the night away,since they probably have him a spoonful of something so that he isn’t in a world of pain.I’m so glad that he is still with us.


41 posted on 09/25/2019 7:42:49 PM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: Freestate316

ready to go down the plughole ...


42 posted on 09/25/2019 7:45:35 PM PDT by bankwalker (Immigration without assimilation is an invasion.)
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To: ChildOfThe60s

I agree. In 1967 nobody was playing like Ginger Baker was.Jack Bruce’s vocals really have Cream their distinctive sound.


43 posted on 09/25/2019 7:46:18 PM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: DoodleBob

I remember the late Leonard Bernstein in an interview saying that Baker was one of the few rock drummers who could keep time. Coming from him that was a compliment.


44 posted on 09/25/2019 7:47:06 PM PDT by chajin ("There is no other name under heaven given among people by which we must be saved." Acts 4:12)
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To: freedumb2003

Emerson’s suicide was especially sad. He was the greatest keyboardist ever.


45 posted on 09/25/2019 7:48:39 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: LS

Yeah, alrrght, but “S\unshine” had a much larger audience.
He was fantastic.


46 posted on 09/25/2019 7:48:59 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: BrexitBen

Even better than John Bonham?

I wish all the best for Ginger Baker. Is Jack Bruce still alive ?8


47 posted on 09/25/2019 7:51:38 PM PDT by smvoice (I WILL NOT WEAR THE RIBBON. I'M AN ANTI DEMITE.)
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To: DoodleBob

Why does everyone think a third can attach themselves to Eddie and Ric? Eddie only had *two* tickets to paradise!

(I can say that ‘cause I love both those guys)


48 posted on 09/25/2019 7:52:38 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Freestate316

I saw Cream live around 68..had to leave a little early before they finished, heard them finish in the parking lot as we were heading to the car. my girlfriends father had a strict curfew..she got so mad she ran away from home a few weeks later...


49 posted on 09/25/2019 7:52:52 PM PDT by rolling_stone (no justice no peace)
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To: BrexitBen

He made Creme’s cover of Born Under a Bad Sign the best version, ever.


50 posted on 09/25/2019 7:54:15 PM PDT by PhiloBedo (You gotta roll with the punches, and get with what's real.)
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To: bankwalker

Yes, but I don’t think that his mother is around to lament the inevitable.


51 posted on 09/25/2019 7:54:50 PM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: LS

> “Not a Rich fan at all. All technique, no soul.”

Yes, true but I should have qualified the statement to say Rich was a drummer’s drummer. He will never be bested in technical virtuosity, except maybe by computer.


52 posted on 09/25/2019 7:55:13 PM PDT by Hostage (Article V)
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To: DoodleBob

I think you may want to get used to it ....that generation, mine is getting old. I’m fighting the same demon.


53 posted on 09/25/2019 7:58:29 PM PDT by BunnySlippers (I Love Bull Markets!)
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To: BrexitBen

Ironically, today is the 39th anniversary of John Bonham dying.


54 posted on 09/25/2019 8:01:48 PM PDT by DoodleBob (Gravity's waiting period is about 9.8 m/s^2)
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To: Freestate316

I hope he gets his feet back on the ground, before they bring the curtain down, yes, before they bring the curtain down.


55 posted on 09/25/2019 8:02:03 PM PDT by null and void (<---powered by the sunshine of your love)
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To: Freestate316
May the Holy One of Israel have mercy on Ginger Baker's soul.

Blind Faith perform at London's Hyde Park, 1969

Following the shadows of the skies
Or are they only figments of my eyes?
And I'm feeling close to when the race is run
Waiting in our boats to set sail
Sea of joy


56 posted on 09/25/2019 8:02:05 PM PDT by af_vet_1981 (The bus came by and I got on, That's when it all began)
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To: BrexitBen

“In my estimation, the greatest rock drummer of all time.”

Overrated bigtime , but he he was a bit of an influnce . Yes , I drum .


57 posted on 09/25/2019 8:02:27 PM PDT by sushiman (i)
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To: chajin; Drumbo
Drumbo, if the GI JAMS gives you any time, please come here to comment on Mr. Ginger Baker ...
58 posted on 09/25/2019 8:04:49 PM PDT by texas booster (Join FreeRepublic's Folding@Home team (Team # 36120) Cure Alzheimer's!)
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To: rolling_stone

A whiole different time.


59 posted on 09/25/2019 8:05:53 PM PDT by mrsmith (Dumb sluts: Lifeblood of the Media, Backbone of the Democrat/RINO Party!)
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To: DoodleBob

Greatest Drummer who ever lived, but Rolling Stone ranks him behind Bonham and Moon.

He regularly kept 4 different rhythms, bringing them together at will, or bringing two or three together while allowing the others to grove where they were at.

https://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video?fr=yfp-t&p=sea+of+joy+live#action=view&id=1&vid=7ada5d0058c0f93d4b511139e26338d8


60 posted on 09/25/2019 8:07:15 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18t)
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