Ginger's Nuts - apparently

[Captain Bl@ck]

Interesting discussion. The Mail this Saturday ran a small feature on
Ginger, who appently is now 62 and living with his horses and dogs in South
Africa.

In it he claims never to have got on with Jack Bruce at all.

Ginger, says the article, will be a feature of an upcoming new series of
After They Were Famous.

You have been warned.


----- Original Message -----
From: Jon Jarrett <jjarrett at CHIARK.GREENEND.ORG.UK>
To: <BOC-L at LISTSERV.SPC.EDU>
Sent: Sunday, September 09, 2001 6:09 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Father and son


> On Tue, 29 May 2001, Denis Regenbrecht wrote:
>
> > >He is a good drummer, not the best but he is good one. His style is too
> > >straightforward but it was ok for heavy metal 80's style.
> > >There are a lot of much worse drummers, for example Ginger Baker who
ruined
> > >the album Levitation and live shows where he played.
> >
> > Ginger Baker a bad drummer? NACK!
>
>         RST.
>
> > And he didn't ruin Levitation IMO. His drumming fits very well in the
whole
> > style of the album.
> > He isn't the best drummer for playing HW-music (Simon and Richard are
the
> > HW-drum-gods without a doubt), but I prefer his playing many times more
> > than Danny's 'oomph-ta-oomph-ta-oomph-ta-ta'.
> > BTW, I wonder what way HW would have gone, if Harvey had been fired and
> > Jack Bruce brought in as his replacement, as mentioned in Kris' book.
>
>         I'm mostly entirely in agreement with you; while there's music
> going on round him Ginger Baker's a subtle complex and fiendishly quick
> drummer and I think he fits in fine on _Levitation_; I wonder how Alice
> hears the `album-that-should-have-been'? I always thought it a finished
> work, I can't really hear anything in there trying to get out...
>
>         But if Jack Bruce had joined too... I can see the solo spots
> getting longer, the songs getting shorter... Unlike Mr Baker I rather
> think Mr Bruce might have wanted a share of the writing and I somehow
> doubt the Captain would have been too happy with the way he wanted to take
> it; I think it would have been another `night of the long knives' as per
> 1976 in very short order! Interesting idea though. Could the two music
> styles ever have coalesced, anyone think? Yours,
>                                                  Jon
>
> ObCD: HW - _The 1999 Party_
> --
>        Jon Jarrett (01223 514989)     jjarrett at chiark.greenend.org.uk
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