RIP Ginger Baker. Here is Baker's great, great TOAD. Which will live forever.

[David Morris]

"Beware of Mr. Baker"
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=44xBUUCeLWs


On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 11:43 AM Jochen Stremmel <jstremmel at gmail.com> wrote:

> Yes, Mark, he was a great and crazy man, and I hope to never forget the
> astonishment spreading over Art Blakey's face when Baker answered his first
> solo. 6 years ago I saw the movie Beware of Mr. Baker that I'd like to
> recommend here.
>
> Am So., 6. Okt. 2019 um 15:19 Uhr schrieb Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com
> >:
>
> > Correction: ....No question of NOT "'forsaking all others'
> >
> > On Sun, Oct 6, 2019 at 9:02 AM Mark Kohut <mark.kohut at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > from Marianne Moore's great poem on poetry:
> > >
> > > "nor till the autocrats among us can be
> > >      “literalists of
> > >       the imagination”—above
> > >          insolence and triviality and can present
> > >
> > > for inspection, imaginary gardens with real toads in them,
> > >       shall we have
> > >    it. "
> > >
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pi5g-hxdcEQ....
> > >
> > > There was a time I used to listen to this almost every day, seldom just
> > > once. Like a narrative poem but wordless, of course, where we can
> insert
> > > our own toads....we're walking, then running and skipping and it's
> > > building and rising and rising some more then falling; crescendoing
> > (sic),
> > > then diminuendoing (sic); we're always having to listen...
> slowly....and,
> > > with the two lines of music (at least) going like an ideal dialogue,
> two
> > > pushing each other, meeting the other, rising to their words, slowing
> to
> > > catch one's breath...almost stopping but those hands of Ginger's always
> > > carrying the life force forward....first time I heard it I could not
> > > believe it never ended when it seemed to, thereby forcing our
> > > attention...attention, that human need and gift to others...at minute
> > seven
> > > when he comes in again with what I hear as a contra voice leaning
> against
> > > the other voice....sublime. Perfect....and finally when the rest of
> Cream
> > > all enter,  surprisingly, I still get chills, he's home, the solo is
> not
> > > alone, never was.
> > >
> > > I mean this is Shakespearean or Pynchonian drumming, yes?....the whole
> > > ages of man speech in one solo, so to speak and more; a long Gravity's
> > > Rainbow scene, so to analogize.....I am so glad Ginger lived as long as
> > > this great solo says he would. 80 communicative  years...
> > >
> > > Ginger, I will ask for this to be played at my funeral.....
> > >
> > > A final Ginger note: here he is carrying the beat, again, as subtly as
> > > love itself on one of the greatest love songs ever recorded. *Sunshine
> of
> > > Your Love*...a defiant declaration...when Jack almost shouts his
> > > besottedness/commitment you know there is NO QUESTION of "forsaking all
> > > others". He's so hers he wants to merge with her, ---"where I'm
> > going"--the
> > > certain slant of light, the whole new morning forever in her sunshine.
> > > "Until his seas are dried up", that tale of brave Ulysses. Now home for
> > > good.
> > >
> > > The most defiant version, from the album:
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zt51rITH3EA
> > >
> > > A great live version with an extra minute of jamming and Ginger's face
> > and
> > > Ginger rocking it home:
> > >
> > > https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3y8jf01UY8
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
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