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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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.
ready to go down the plughole ...
I agree. In 1967 nobody was playing like Ginger Baker was.Jack Bruce’s vocals really have Cream their distinctive sound.
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.
Emerson’s suicide was especially sad. He was the greatest keyboardist ever.
Yeah, alrrght, but “S\unshine” had a much larger audience.
He was fantastic.
Even better than John Bonham?
I wish all the best for Ginger Baker. Is Jack Bruce still alive ?8
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)
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...
He made Creme’s cover of Born Under a Bad Sign the best version, ever.
Yes, but I don’t think that his mother is around to lament the inevitable.
> “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.
I think you may want to get used to it ....that generation, mine is getting old. I’m fighting the same demon.
Ironically, today is the 39th anniversary of John Bonham dying.
I hope he gets his feet back on the ground, before they bring the curtain down, yes, before they bring the curtain down.
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
“In my estimation, the greatest rock drummer of all time.”
Overrated bigtime , but he he was a bit of an influnce . Yes , I drum .
A whiole different time.
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.
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