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"Toad" is an instrumental
Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments....
 by British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 rock band
Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock 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....
 and was released on their 1966 debut album, 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....
. The "song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
", composed by drummer Ginger Baker
Ginger Baker

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker is an England drummer, best known for his work with Cream . He is also known for his numerous associations with New World music and the use of Music of Africa influences and other diverse collaborations such as his work with the Rock music Hawkwind....
, is a five minute drum solo
Drum solo

A drum solo is an Solo played on a drum kit. A drum solo may be set or improvised, and of any length, up to being the main performance.In Rock music, drum solos are unique in that traditionally they are always unaccompanied, whereas other instruments may play solos accompanied or unaccompanied....
 (with a brief guitar and bass introduction), and is notable because it features one of the earliest recorded drum solos in 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....
 history. It can also be seen as an early example of hard rock
Hard rock

Hard rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music....
.

Baker began developing "Toad" while he was still 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....
, but it was not until he joined Cream that it was first recorded.






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"Toad" is an instrumental
Instrumental

An instrumental is a musical composition or recording without lyrics or any other sort of vocal music; all of the music is produced by musical instruments....
 by British
United Kingdom

The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, commonly known as the United Kingdom , the UK or Britain,is a sovereign state located off the northwestern coast of continental Europe....
 rock band
Rock Band

Rock Band is a music video game developed by Harmonix Music Systems, published by MTV, and distributed by Electronic Arts. It is the first title in the Rock 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....
 and was released on their 1966 debut album, 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....
. The "song
Song

A song is a musical musical composition which contains vocal parts that are performed, 'sung,' and feature words , commonly accompanied by musical instruments ....
", composed by drummer Ginger Baker
Ginger Baker

Peter Edward "Ginger" Baker is an England drummer, best known for his work with Cream . He is also known for his numerous associations with New World music and the use of Music of Africa influences and other diverse collaborations such as his work with the Rock music Hawkwind....
, is a five minute drum solo
Drum solo

A drum solo is an Solo played on a drum kit. A drum solo may be set or improvised, and of any length, up to being the main performance.In Rock music, drum solos are unique in that traditionally they are always unaccompanied, whereas other instruments may play solos accompanied or unaccompanied....
 (with a brief guitar and bass introduction), and is notable because it features one of the earliest recorded drum solos in 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....
 history. It can also be seen as an early example of hard rock
Hard rock

Hard rock is a sub-genre of rock music which has its earliest roots in mid-1960s garage rock and psychedelic rock and is considerably harder than conventional rock music....
.

Baker began developing "Toad" while he was still 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....
, but it was not until he joined Cream that it was first recorded. The solo comprises a sequence of drum patterns that are built up, varied, and then dropped, giving way to a new pattern. The Cream website, Those Were the Days described "Toad" as "A coherent drums solo that remains unequalled in Rock Music. It influenced many contemporaries and innumerable budding drummers."

An extended sixteen minute live version (of which 13 minutes is drum solo) appears on Cream's 1968
1968 in music

Events*January 4 - Guitarist Jimi Hendrix is jailed by Stockholm police, after trashing a hotel room during a drunken fist fight with bassist Noel Redding....
 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....
. A slightly extended version of this recording, with some additional guitar and bass edited in from another performance, appears on Cream's four-disc compilation album Those Were the Days
Those Were the Days (Cream album)

Those Were the Days is a retrospective compilation of the music of Cream , released on September 23 1997.It comprises four Compact discs and catalogues every track from their four studio albums, plus live material recorded in 1968....
 (1997). "Toad" was given a 10:06 minute rendition during Cream's reunion in May 2005 at the Royal Albert Hall
Royal Albert Hall

The Royal Albert Hall is an arts venue situated in the Knightsbridge area of the City of Westminster, London, England, best known for holding the annual summer Proms concerts since 1941....
.

"Toad" was also performed by 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...
, and a 13 minute live version appears on their 1970 album, 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....
.

The song was used on Boston Bruins
Boston Bruins

The Boston Bruins are a professional ice hockey team based in Boston, Massachusetts. They are members of the Northeast Division of the Eastern Conference of the National Hockey League ....
 telecasts on WSBK
WSBK-TV

WSBK-TV, channel 38, is an independent station licensed to Boston, Massachusetts, owned by the CBS Corporation. The station shares studio facilities in the Allston/Brighton neighborhood of Boston with sister station WBZ-TV , and its transmitter is located in Needham, Massachusetts....
 once every week for a Bruins highlight reel, which featured spectacular goals, saves, and the like.

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