Posted on 09/04/2018 1:52:53 PM PDT by mylife
Thank you. I “saw” Cream in 1968 at a circular theater where the stage rotated. Except it didn’t. It broke down after about one revolution, and I was stuck behind the band, where all I could see was Ginger Baker. Being a drummer, that was ok with me, but I would have liked to have seen Clapton and Bruce.
It always irked me that Baker insisted he wasn’t a “rock” drummer but a “jazz” drummer. Sorry, I also saw the Dave Brubeck Quartet with the amazing Joe Morello on drums, and Ginger, you are definitely a rock drummer.
As the narrator says, “Disraeli Gears” and “Wheels of Fire” were mind-blowing for how far they advanced the rock idiom, and to this day they are many of my favorite songs.
Everyone who heard me said I reminded them of Corky Laing, which I considered a great compliment.
That is a great compiment
Some times it on the 4/4 (well mostly) sometimes it’s on the 4/5 and the backbeat
corky is a riot
I’ll tell you who else is great-—obviously Carmine Appice, my hero whom I saw about three months ago with “Vanilla Fudge.” God he is still unbelievable. No one else at his level.
But Ringo Starr was exceptional at being able to hold a band back just slightly and at playing more different types of beats than any rock drummer. I later learned most of his style came form the fact he was LEFT HANDED playing on a right handed set! That’s why his rolls are so funky!
You might check out
“You Keep Me Hangin’ On,” by Mark Stein and me. It’s a history of rock music as told through the eyes of Mark Stein, who played with everyone from Whitesnake to Alice Cooper to Vanilla Fudge and even wrote jingles, JUST missing on the jingle of all time “It’s the Real Thing”-—his was #2 in the selection, “People like you like Coke!”
Paul Rogers tribute to him “Love You So” is amazing....https://youtu.be/0Q0PGH8ePYw
Carmine Appiccie was a hoot
just some dumb bongo fury from Ohio...
thanks to all you rockers
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvTQFtGEac
Carmine, at the peak of Vanilla Fudge when he had a full sponsorship from Ludwig, posed naked in Playgirl.
It cost him his sponsorship and all his other gigs, like commenting at the drum and bugle competitions for ESPN.
This is old Ohio crap, I used to date the guitarist cousin,
Don’t even recall who played drums
It was awesome!
https://www.youtube.com/watchhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9gvTQFtGEac?v=bje4ErgDKnc
1971 Peppermint studios
Well that was a mistake LOL
Plus music is no longer filtered through a handful of coked up humps in the music industry who decide what you're allowed to listen to.
You want brilliant Afrikaans traditional music?
Or Lightning Hopkins tearing up the blues?
Tom Jones killing it with Janice Joplin?
Dean Martin, in his old age, singing a Kris Kristofferson classic?
Great current rock and roll bands like The Foo Fighters or The Hold Steady
And live music is great too! I can pick a night and find a dozen great live shows to go see. Seriously, everything you could want to listen to is at your fingertips.
I have a bunch of live music videos I shot myself on my YouTube channel, with almost 7 million hits.
Good music is everywhere, just turn off the radio.
I was
just loney that is all
Rock on
deano was great
I never saw Cream, a bit before my time, but I did see Eric Clapton back around 1979 at the Lakeland, FL Civic Center. It was open seating and I got there early for a right up front seat.
I saw a Traffic reunion concert in Orlando, FL back in the early 1990s.
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