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Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (born 19 August 1939, Lewisham
Lewisham

Lewisham is a district in south-east London, England and the principal settlement of the London Borough of Lewisham....
, South London
South London

South London is the southern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes....
) is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
, best known for his work with Cream
Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
. He is also known for his numerous associations with New World music and the use of African
Music of Africa

The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's many Regions of Africa, List of African countries and ethnic groups. Although there is no distinctly pan-African music, there are common forms of musical expression, especially within Regions of Africa....
 influences and other diverse collaborations such as his work with the rock band
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 Hawkwind
Hawkwind

Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
.

r gained fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organization
Graham Bond

Graham John Clifton Bond was an England musician, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s. Along with John Mayall and Alexis Korner, Bond was one of the great catalytic figures of '60s Rock music in England....
, and then for becoming a member of the band Cream
Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
 with Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scotland musician, musical composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bass guitarist, harmonica player and piano, and was most famous as a vocalist and the bass guitarist for the 1960s rock band Cream ....
 and Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
 from 1966 until they disbanded in 1968.






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Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker (born 19 August 1939, Lewisham
Lewisham

Lewisham is a district in south-east London, England and the principal settlement of the London Borough of Lewisham....
, South London
South London

South London is the southern part of London, England. The area it covers is defined differently for a range of purposes....
) is an English
England

native_name =|conventional_long_name = England|common_name = England|image_flag = Flag of England.svg|image_coat = England COA.svg|symbol_type = Royal Coat of Arms...
 drummer
Drummer

A drummer is a musician who plays a drum or drums, particularly a drum kit , marching percussion or hand drums. The term percussionist applies to a musician performing on any percussion instrument, but usually refers to one who plays Classical music or Latin percussion....
, best known for his work with Cream
Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
. He is also known for his numerous associations with New World music and the use of African
Music of Africa

The music of Africa is as vast and varied as the continent's many Regions of Africa, List of African countries and ethnic groups. Although there is no distinctly pan-African music, there are common forms of musical expression, especially within Regions of Africa....
 influences and other diverse collaborations such as his work with the rock band
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 Hawkwind
Hawkwind

Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
.

History

Baker gained fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organization
Graham Bond

Graham John Clifton Bond was an England musician, considered a founding father of the English rhythm and blues boom of the 1960s. Along with John Mayall and Alexis Korner, Bond was one of the great catalytic figures of '60s Rock music in England....
, and then for becoming a member of the band Cream
Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
 with Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scotland musician, musical composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bass guitarist, harmonica player and piano, and was most famous as a vocalist and the bass guitarist for the 1960s rock band Cream ....
 and Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
 from 1966 until they disbanded in 1968. He later joined the group Blind Faith
Blind Faith

Blind Faith were an England blues-rock band that consisted of Eric Clapton , Ginger Baker , Steve Winwood and Ric Grech . The band, which was one of the first "supergroup ", released their only album, Blind Faith in August 1969 in music....
. In 1970 Baker formed toured and recorded with fusion
Jazz fusion

Fusion or, more specifically, jazz fusion or jazz rock, is a musical genre that merges jazz with elements of other styles of music, particularly funk, Rock and roll, R&B, electronic music, and world music, but also pop music, classical music, and folk music, or sometimes even Heavy metal music, reggae, ska, country music, hip hop...
 rock group Ginger Baker's Air Force
Ginger Baker's Air Force

Ginger Baker's Air Force was a Jazz fusion band comprising Ginger Baker on drums, Steve Winwood on organ and vocals, Ric Grech on violin and bass, Jeanette Jacobs on vocals, Denny Laine on guitar and vocals, Remi Kabaka on drums, Chris Wood on tenor sax and flute, Graham Bond on alto sax, Harold McNair on tenor sax and flute, and Phil Seamen...
. He recorded Stratavarious
Stratavarious

Stratavarious is an album by Ginger Baker, the drummer from Cream , released by Polydor Records in 1972. Baker had many associations with an Eclecticism in music mix of musicians brought together under numerous band titles bearing his surname....
 in 1972, with the Nigerian pioneer
Pioneer

A pioneer is a soldier employed to perform engineering tasks, originally in France. The word was borrowed into English, from Old French pionnier, which meant a "foot soldier", from the root 'peon' recorded in 1523....
 of Afrobeat
Afrobeat

Afrobeat is a combination of Yoruba music, jazz, highlife, and funk rhythms, fused with Percussion instrument and vocal styles, popularized in Africa in the 1970s....
 Fela Ransome-Kuti and the vocalist Bobby Tench from The Jeff Beck Group
The Jeff Beck Group

The Jeff Beck Group were an England rock band formed in London in January 1966 by ex-Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck. Their innovative approach to heavy-sounding blues was a major influence on popular music during the late 1960s and early 1970s....
, an album released under his own name. Baker Gurvitz Army
Baker Gurvitz Army

Baker Gurvitz Army was a short-lived English rock group.Their self-titled debut album featured a blend of hard rock laced with Baker's unmistakable drumming....
 was formed in 1974 until its demise in 1976. Since then Baker has released many albums of ethnic fusion and jazz percussion and has recorded and toured with various jazz, classical and rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 ensembles.

Drumming style

Baker's drumming attracted attention for its flamboyance, showmanship, and pioneering use of two bass drums instead of the conventional single bass
Bass drum

A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch . There are three general classifications of bass drums: the concert bass drum, the kick' drum, and the pitched bass drum....
 kick drum. As a firmly established jazz drummer, he dislikes being referred to as a rock
Rock music

Rock music is a loosely defined genre of popular music that entered the mainstream in the mid 1950's. It has its roots in 1940s and 1950s rhythm and blues, country music and other influences....
 drummer. While at times performing in a similar way to Keith Moon
Keith Moon

Keith John Moon was the drummer of the rock group The Who. He gained notoriety for exuberant drumming and his destructive lifestyle. Moon joined The Who in 1964, replacing Doug Sandom....
 from The Who
The Who

The Who are an England Rock music band formed in 1964. The primary lineup was guitarist Pete Townshend, vocalist Roger Daltrey, bassist John Entwistle and drummer Keith Moon....
, Baker also employs a more restrained style influenced by the British jazz
Jazz

Jazz is a primarily American musical art form which originated at the beginning of the 20th century in African American communities in the Southern United States from a confluence of African and European music traditions....
 groups he heard during the late 1950s and early 1960s. In his early days as a drummer he performed lengthy drum solos, the best known being the thirteen-minute drum solo "Toad
Toad (song)

"Toad" is an instrumental by United Kingdom rock band Cream and was released on their 1966 debut album, Fresh Cream. The "song", composed by drummer Ginger Baker, is a five minute drum solo , and is notable because it features one of the earliest recorded drum solos in Rock music history....
" from Cream's
Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
 double album Wheels of Fire
Wheels of Fire

Wheels of Fire is the name of a double album recorded by Cream . The release was largely successful, scoring the band a #3 peak in the UK and a #1 in the US, and became the world's first platinum-selling double album....
. He is also noted for using a variety of other percussion
Percussion instrument

A percussion instrument is any object which produces a sound by being hit with an implement, shaken, rubbed, scraped, or by any other action which sets the object into vibration....
 instruments and for his application of African rhythms.

Associations

Baker formed and recorded with Ginger Baker's Energy and was involved in collaborations with Bill Laswell
Bill Laswell

Bill Laswell is an American bassist, Record producer and record label owner. He is married to Ethiopian singer Gigi .Laswell ranks among the most prolific of musicians, being involved in hundreds of recordings with many musicians from all over the world....
, jazz bassist Charlie Haden
Charlie Haden

Charles Edward Haden is an American jazz musician. He is a double bassist, probably best known for his long association with saxophonist Ornette Coleman....
 and jazz guitarist Bill Frisell
Bill Frisell

William Richard "Bill" Frisell is an United States guitarist and composer.One of the leading guitarists in jazz since the late '80s Frisell's eclectic music touches on progressive folk, classical music, country music, noise music and more....
. He was also member of Hawkwind
Hawkwind

Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
, Atomic Rooster
Atomic Rooster

Atomic Rooster were an England progressive rock band , formed by ex-Arthur Brown members, Vincent Crane and Carl Palmer in late 1969. Their only chart-topper single came in 1971 with "Tomorrow Night" , and "The Devil's Answer" ....
 and Public Image. In 1994 he formed The Ginger Baker Trio and joined bassist Googe in Masters of Reality
Masters of Reality

Masters of Reality is a hard rock group formed in 1981 by guitarist and singer Chris Goss and Tim Harrington in Syracuse, New York. The band is sometimes associated with the "Palm Desert Scene", which includes bands like Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age and many other stoner rock or "desert rock" bands....
 formed by producer
Record producer

In the music industry, a record producer has many roles, among them controlling the recording sessions, coaching and guiding the musicians, organizing and scheduling production budget and resources, and supervising the recording, Audio mixing and audio mastering processes....
, singer and guitarist Chris Goss
Chris Goss

Chris Goss might be:*Chris Goss , an American record producer and musician, also founder of rock band Masters of Reality,*Chris Goss, a British drum and bass artist and label manager of Hospital Records,...
.

Fela Ransome-Kuti and Bobby Gass

Ginger Baker sat in for Fela Ransome-Kuti's drummer Tony Allen
Tony Allen

Tony Allen may refer to:* Tony Allen , basketball player* Tony Allen , drummer with Fela Kuti and one of the founders of Afrobeat* Tony Allen , Irish performer, member of Foster & Allen with Mick Foster...
 during recording sessions which were published in 1971 by the Regal Zonophone / Pathe Marconi label under the record title Live! and released through the Polydor
Polydor Records

Polydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the United Kingdom, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group....
 label in 1972. Fela also appeared with Ginger Baker on Stratavarious
Stratavarious

Stratavarious is an album by Ginger Baker, the drummer from Cream , released by Polydor Records in 1972. Baker had many associations with an Eclecticism in music mix of musicians brought together under numerous band titles bearing his surname....
 alongside Bobby Gass, a pseudonym
Pseudonym

A pseudonym, , is a fictitious alternative to a person's legal name. In some cases, pseudonyms are adopted because it is part of a cultural or organizational tradition, as in the case of Religious names used by members of some religious orders and "cadre names" used by Communist party leaders such as Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin....
 for Bobby Tench
Bobby Tench

Robert Tench is a respected and accomplished British people vocalist and guitarist. He has been occasionally known to have played keyboards and bass guitar as well....
 of The Jeff Beck Group
The Jeff Beck Group

The Jeff Beck Group were an England rock band formed in London in January 1966 by ex-Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck. Their innovative approach to heavy-sounding blues was a major influence on popular music during the late 1960s and early 1970s....
, an album by Ginger Baker released on the Polydor
Polydor Records

Polydor Records is a record label currently headquartered in the United Kingdom, and is a subsidiary of Universal Music Group....
 label in the same year. Stratavarious was re-issued as a compilation along with the two complete Ginger Baker's Air Force
Ginger Baker's Air Force

Ginger Baker's Air Force was a Jazz fusion band comprising Ginger Baker on drums, Steve Winwood on organ and vocals, Ric Grech on violin and bass, Jeanette Jacobs on vocals, Denny Laine on guitar and vocals, Remi Kabaka on drums, Chris Wood on tenor sax and flute, Graham Bond on alto sax, Harold McNair on tenor sax and flute, and Phil Seamen...
 albums entitled Do What You Like in 1998.

With members of Cream

Baker and Bruce
Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scotland musician, musical composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bass guitarist, harmonica player and piano, and was most famous as a vocalist and the bass guitarist for the 1960s rock band Cream ....
 played together in the Graham Bond Organisation and Alexis Korner's
Alexis Korner

Alexis Korner , born Alexis Andrew Nicholas Koerner, was a pioneering blues musician and broadcaster who has sometimes been referred to as "the Founding Father of British Blues"....
 ecletic Blues Incorporated
Blues Incorporated

Blues Incorporated were a United Kingdom R&B band in the early 1960s, led by Alexis Korner, featuring at various times such musicians as Jack Bruce, Charlie Watts, Terry Cox, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry, Danny Thompson, Graham Bond, Cyril Davies, Malcolm Cecil and Dick Heckstall-Smith....
 before they accepted an invitation from Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
 to join the band Cream
Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
 in 1966. Cream disbanded during 1968 and in 1969 Baker joined Clapton along with Ric Grech
Ric Grech

Richard Roman Grech was an English musician.Born in Bordeaux, France in 1946, Grech was a versatile, accomplished, and sought after British rock musician....
 and Steve Winwood
Steve Winwood

Stephen Lawrence "Steve" Winwood is an England singer-songwriter and multi-instrumentalist. In addition to his solo career, he was a member of the bands the Spencer Davis Group, Traffic , Blind Faith, and Go ....
 in forming Blind Faith
Blind Faith

Blind Faith were an England blues-rock band that consisted of Eric Clapton , Ginger Baker , Steve Winwood and Ric Grech . The band, which was one of the first "supergroup ", released their only album, Blind Faith in August 1969 in music....
. Bruce
Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scotland musician, musical composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bass guitarist, harmonica player and piano, and was most famous as a vocalist and the bass guitarist for the 1960s rock band Cream ....
 and Clapton
Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
 also played together near the end of Clapton's tenure with John Mayall's Bluesbreakers. In 1994 Baker joined BBM
BBM

BBM is the name of the short-lived power trio formed in 1994, by long established musician, bassist Jack Bruce, drummer Ginger Baker and guitarist Gary Moore....
 (Bruce-Baker-Moore), a short-lived power trio with the lineup of Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scotland musician, musical composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bass guitarist, harmonica player and piano, and was most famous as a vocalist and the bass guitarist for the 1960s rock band Cream ....
 and Irish rock blues guitarist Gary Moore
Gary Moore

Gary Moore is a Northern Irish guitarist. In a career dating back to the 1960s, he has played with artists including Thin Lizzy, Colosseum II, Greg Lake and the Blues-rock band Skid Row , as well as having a successful solo career....
. During May 2005 Ginger Baker was reunited with Eric Clapton
Eric Clapton

Eric Patrick Clapton Order of the British Empire is an English blues-rock guitarist, singer, songwriter and composer. He is "probably most famous for his mastery of the Stratocaster guitar." Clapton has been inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as a member of the Yardbirds, of Cream , and as a solo performer, being the only person to...
 and Jack Bruce
Jack Bruce

John Symon Asher "Jack" Bruce is a Scotland musician, musical composer and singer. He is best-known as an electric bass guitarist, harmonica player and piano, and was most famous as a vocalist and the bass guitarist for the 1960s rock band Cream ....
 for a Cream re-union at the Albert Hall
Albert Hall

Albert P. Hall is an American actor.Born in Brighton, Alabama, Alabama, Hall graduated from the Columbia University School of the Arts in 1971....
 in UK.

Court case: Noko v Baker

In 2008 a bank clerk, Lindiwe Noko, was charged with defrauding him of almost half a million Rand
South African rand

The rand is the currency of South Africa. It takes its name from the Witwatersrand , the ridge upon which Johannesburg is built and where most of South Africa's gold deposits were found....
 ($60,000). The bank clerk claims that it was a gift after she and Baker became lovers. Not so, insists Baker, who explained, "I've a scar that only a woman who had a thing with me would know. It's there and she doesn't know it's there."

Discography


Blind Faith Discography

  • Blind Faith
    Blind Faith (album)

    Blind Faith is the self-titled album by the British supergroup Blind Faith, which consisted of Eric Clapton , Ginger Baker , Steve Winwood and Ric Grech ....
     Polydor (1969)


Cream Discography

  • Fresh Cream
    Fresh Cream

    Fresh Cream is Cream 's December 1966 debut album. It was the first LP release of producer Robert Stigwood's new "Independent" Reaction Records label....
     Polydor (1966)
  • Disraeli Gears
    Disraeli Gears

    Disraeli Gears is the second album by United Kingdom blues-rock group Cream . It was released in November 1967 and went on to reach #5 on the United Kingdom album chart....
     Polydor (1967)
  • Wheels of Fire
    Wheels of Fire

    Wheels of Fire is the name of a double album recorded by Cream . The release was largely successful, scoring the band a #3 peak in the UK and a #1 in the US, and became the world's first platinum-selling double album....
     Polydor (1968)
  • Goodbye Polydor (1969)
  • Live Cream
    Live Cream

    Live Cream is a live compilation album by Cream released in 1970. This album is comprised of four live tracks recorded in 1968 and one studio track "Lawdy Mama" from 1967....
     Polydor (1970)
  • Live Cream Volume II
    Live Cream Volume II

    Live Cream Volume II is a live compilation album by Cream released in 1972. This album contains six tracks recorded at various performances in 1968....
     Polydor (1972)
  • Live 1968 Koin (1989)
  • Royal Albert Hall London May 2-3-5-6 2005 Reprise (2005)


Ginger Baker's Air Force Discography

  • Ginger Baker's Air Force
    Ginger Baker's Air Force (album)

    Ginger Baker's Air Force is the eponymous d?but album by Ginger Baker's Air Force, released in 1970 .This album is a recording of a sold-out live show at the Royal Albert Hall, on January 15, 1970, with the original 11-piece line up....
     Atco (1970)
  • Ginger Baker's Air Force II
    Ginger Baker's Air Force 2

    Ginger Baker's Air Force 2 was the second and final album by Ginger Baker's Air Force, released in 1970 . In Germany it was released with a different song listing, songs which were actually unreleased....
     Atco (1970)


Baker Gurvitz Army Discography

  • Baker Gurvitz Army
    Baker Gurvitz Army (album)

    Baker Gurvitz Army is Baker Gurvitz Army's debut album....
     Janus (1974)
  • Elysian Encounter Atco (1975)
  • Hearts on Fire Atco (1976)
  • Flying In and Out of Stardom Castle (2003)
  • Greatest Hits GB Music (2003)
  • Live in Derby Major league productions (2005)
  • Live Revisited (2005)


Solo Discography

  • Stratavarious
    Stratavarious

    Stratavarious is an album by Ginger Baker, the drummer from Cream , released by Polydor Records in 1972. Baker had many associations with an Eclecticism in music mix of musicians brought together under numerous band titles bearing his surname....
     Polydor (1972)
  • Eleven Sides of Baker Sire (1977)
  • From Humble Oranges CDG (1983)
  • Horses & Trees
    Horses & Trees

    Horses & Trees is the fourth album by drummer Ginger Baker, released in 1986 . It's fully instrumental and it contains six dance-oriented songs....
     Celluloid (1986)
  • No Material live album ITM (1987)
  • Middle Passage Axiom (1990)
  • Unseen Rain Day Eight (1992)
  • Going Back Home Atlantic (1994)
  • Ginger Baker's Energy ITM (1995)
  • Ginger Baker The Album ITM (1995)
  • Falling off the roof Atlantic (1995)
  • Do What You Like Atlantic (1998)
  • Coward of the County]] Atlantic (1999)
  • African Force ITM (2001)
  • African Force: Palanquin's Pole Synergie (2006)


Other

  • Live ! (with Ginger Baker)
    Live ! (with Ginger Baker)

    Live! is a re-issued album recorded in 1971 and 1978 by Fela Kuti's band, Africa 70, with the addition of former Cream drummer Ginger Baker....
     Africa 70 and Fela Kuti
    Fela Kuti

    Fela Anikulapo Kuti , or simply Fela, was a Nigerian multi-instrumentalist musician and composer, pioneer of afrobeat music, human rights Activism, and Politics maverick....
     Polydor (1971)
  • Band on the Run
    Band on the Run

    Band on the Run is an album by Wings , released in 1973. McCartney's fifth album since the breakup of The Beatles , it became Wings' most successful album and remains the most celebrated of McCartney's post-Beatles albums....
     Paul McCartney
    Paul McCartney

    Sir James Paul McCartney Member of the Order of the British Empire is a multiple Grammy Award-winning England singer-songwriter, poet, composer, multi-instrumentalist, entrepreneur, record producer, film producer, Painting, and Animal rights....
     and Wings Capitol/EMI (1973)
  • Levitation
    Levitation (album)

    Levitation is a 1980 studio album by Hawkwind. It reached #21 on the UK album chart.The recording of this album began with the same line-up that had produced the previous Live Seventy Nine album, but King dropped out during the sessions and was replaced by Ginger Baker....
     Hawkwind
    Hawkwind

    Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
     Castle (1980)
  • Zones
    Zones (album)

    Zones is an album by Hawkwind released in 1983 consisting of studio demos from 1981 and live performances between 1980 and 1982....
     Hawkwind
    Hawkwind

    Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
     Flicknife (1983)
  • This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic
    This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic

    This Is Hawkwind, Do Not Panic is an album by Hawkwind released in 1984 consisting of live performances between 1980 and 1984....
     Hawkwind
    Hawkwind

    Hawkwind are a United Kingdom Rock Band , one of the earliest space rock groups. Their lyrics favour urban and science fiction themes. Notable fantasy fiction and science fiction writer Michael Moorcock was an occasional collaborator....
     Flicknife (1984)
  • Album Public Image Electra/Virgin (1986)
  • Unseen Rain with Jens Johansson
    Jens Johansson

    Jens Johansson is a world-renowned Sweden power metal Keyboard instrument and piano. He is noted as one of the first and most influential "Shred guitar" keyboardists, for his high-speed Neoclassicism and Jazz fusion style....
     and Jonas Hellborg
    Jonas Hellborg

    Jonas Hellborg is a Sweden bass guitarist. He has collaborated with John McLaughlin , Ustad Sultan Khan, Fazal Qureshi, Bill Laswell, Shawn Lane, Jens Johansson, Michael Shrieve, V....
     Day Eight (1992)
  • Sunrise on the Sufferbus
    Sunrise on the Sufferbus

    Sunrise on the Sufferbus is the second studio album of the American rock band Masters of Reality, released in 1992.On the album, the band were joined by legendary British drummer, Ginger Baker....
     by Masters of Reality
    Masters of Reality

    Masters of Reality is a hard rock group formed in 1981 by guitarist and singer Chris Goss and Tim Harrington in Syracuse, New York. The band is sometimes associated with the "Palm Desert Scene", which includes bands like Kyuss, Queens of the Stone Age and many other stoner rock or "desert rock" bands....
     Chrysalis (1992)
  • Around the Next Dream by BBM
    BBM

    BBM is the name of the short-lived power trio formed in 1994, by long established musician, bassist Jack Bruce, drummer Ginger Baker and guitarist Gary Moore....
     Capitol (1994)


Ginger Baker's Drum Kit

Baker's current kit is made by Drum Workshop
Drum Workshop

Drum Workshop is an Oxnard, California-based drum and hardware manufacturing company. Their list of endorsers includes many professional drummers....
. He used Ludwig
Ludwig-Musser

Ludwig-Musser is a drum and percussion instrument manufacturer owned by Conn-Selmer...
 drums until the 1970s. All of his cymbals are made by Zildjian, the rivet ride
Ride cymbal

A ride cymbal is a type of cymbal that is a standard part of most drum kits. Its function is to maintain a steady rhythmic pattern, sometimes called a ride pattern, rather than to provide accent as with, for example, the crash cymbal....
 cymbal and the hi-hats were used at the last Cream shows
Cream (band)

Cream were a 1960s United Kingdom blues-rock Musical ensemble consisting of bassist/lead vocalist Jack Bruce, guitarist/vocalist Eric Clapton, and drummer Ginger Baker....
 in 1968.

Drums


1960s
  • 20"x 11" Bass (right foot)
  • 22"x 11" Bass (left foot)
  • 12x8" & 13x9" top toms
  • 14x14" & 16x14" floor toms
  • 1940's 6.5" x 14" black finished Leedy Broadway wood Snare
Snare tuned high, toms and bass tuned low

In 1968 Baker got a new drum kit with 20"x14" & 22"x14" bass drums for the farewell tour.

Currently
  • 10"x 8",12" x 8" ,13" x 10" ,14" x 12", Toms on front rack stands
  • 20"x 14" & 22" x 14" Bass drums
    Bass drum

    A bass drum is a large drum that produces a note of low definite or indefinite pitch . There are three general classifications of bass drums: the concert bass drum, the kick' drum, and the pitched bass drum....
  • 13" Craviotto DW Snare
    Snare drum

    The snare drum is a drum with strands of snares made of curled metal wire, metal cable, plastic cable, or catgut cords stretched across the a drumhead, typically the bottom....
  • 14" Leedy Snare (Spare)
  • DW
    Drum Workshop

    Drum Workshop is an Oxnard, California-based drum and hardware manufacturing company. Their list of endorsers includes many professional drummers....
     5000 Bass Drum Pedals
  • 4 DW cymbal stands
  • 1 DW HiHat Stand
  • 1 DW Snare Stand
  • Zildjian Ginger Baker 7a sticks


Cymbals

1963-present made by Zildjian

1960s
  • 16" crash,
  • 13" crash left lower
  • 14" hi-hats right front top
  • 14" ride front lower
  • 20" ride back top
  • 22" riveted crash/ride
  • 18" crash
  • Joke effect splash back lower

Currently
  • 16" K Crash
  • 14" Hi Hats
  • 8" Splash
  • 8" EFX #1 Splash
  • 10" EFX #1 Splash
  • 8" Splash
  • 13" Hat
  • 23" Rivet Ride
  • 18" China
  • 18" Medium Crash


Percussion

  • Cow bells front right


External links

  • official website
  • at Musicianguide.com