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  • this solo is awesome, but it's almost like he's too white. he could more soul, like really throw himself in the beat. this is absolutely awesome though, no doubt.

  • @alisonaffliction he's not white he is GINGER are you suggesting he should blacken up or something, maybe to be a bit more "authentic". Ginger baker is who he is.

  • wow no top comment?....uhhh...boobs

  • @ABSpryteCube FAIL! Stop trying to copy every one else trying to get a top comment you MORON!

  • Ginger - simply the best ever!!!

  • Ginger is in his 70s and still pack's a wallop , he remains the best ever !

  • How old is Ginger Baker now? He still got it.

  • amazing!!!!

    

  • He's no Buddy Rich.

  • @birdybill and you're in no position to judge. Rich was good, totally different but good, plus there are/were way better drummers than Rich. /watch?v=DbRtiy0Wauo

  • ginger baker,drums..........need i say more

  • doesn't even break as sweat.

  • Check out his son Kofi Baker's drumming....he definitely got Ginger's genes !

  • @RicOshayed1 Anda great coach!

  • SWEET GIFTED TALENT!

  • 240p, we meet again.

  • This is drumming!!! Wow!!!

  • wow...just mezmerising...Ginger Baker is a Wizard.

  • I thought that was Ginger...right on

  • The great Ginger Baker!!

    ~ZIG~

    

  • ..this is sick.. awesome ;-)))))))

  • @espritarie I just thought the same thing

  • Absolute masterpiece!!

  • Hey, after 40 years, he COULD probably do this in his sleep! Man! Never ceases to amaze me how great drummers (or any drummers worth listening to) can keep all 4 extremities and their heads moving in so many different rhythms! Fascinating to watch and listen to again and again, just to hear the parts you missed the first time! Long live Ginger!!!!

  • How is this man still alive? He looked old in the 60's! What a miracle of nature or something.

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  • @comaz You're so deaf

  • @Martinni2 It's fucking outa sync!!! Deafness hasn't nothing to do with it.

  • @comaz it's a fucking drum solo man, youre deaf and blind

  • Badass.

  • Oh yeah!!!

  • @ElectricMayhemFilms Granted, though this solo has come a long way. Ginger has learned so much over the past 40 years. This solo was a combination of his experiences in Africa with all of those crazy 6/8 tom patterns, improved jazz improvisation, and much improved chops and musicality. Imagine if Bonham had the chance to play Moby Dick now with an extra 30 years of experience.

  • Exceptionnel un des meilleurs solos de batterie de tous les temps.

  • I really want to go to a Cream concert, just so I can shout "TOAD!" at the top of my lungs during a break in the music. And I hate drum solos.

    But, man, it's GINGER!

  • i came about 300 times during this solo

  • his drum tones are gorge.

  • but in a way this can't be compared to Moby Dick well because, Double Bass, booo

  • I still love it ^^

  • I was wrong about the 'key"...I swear it sounded different...

  • they are playing in a different key...(check out original studio version) the key changes at the end. Ginger Baker was one of the best drummers of the 60's (read the liner notes to "Fresh Cream"), Bonham was one of the best drummers of the 70's, Buddy Rich was a JERK, & Ginger Baker slowed down here, in comparison to the original studio version, but he is still good. Without him there is no CREAM. Maybe Travis Barker is a good drummer for the 90's, didn't he get in a plane crash? Still Alive :)!

  • Matt Cameron of Soundgarden is pretty tits, i'd say he's got more on travis

  • Watch and listen from around 8:44 to 9:00. The man is 70 yrs. old and check that out. You little shits who keep yammering about Travis Barker et al need to open your freaking eyes and ears. Drums are about rythyms not this boring shit I hear played all over the place these days, the majority of which absolutely sucks ass.

  • These rythyms Baker plays have always fascinated me. It's not fast but it's quite intricate and sounds great. That's always been his thing as a drummer, lots of single stroke rolls and more African rythym based drumming. As far as 'keeping tempo with the hi-hat' IMO that was more Bonzo's style than anyone else including Rich. Meaning Bonham would stop sticking the hi hat but then switch to pedal and keep it going without missing a note. He did that regularly and you wouldn't not realize it.

  • 'It's not fast but it's quite intircate and sounds great.'

    You've hit the nail on the head. See, Ginger pays no importance to speed; he says that during a solo, one has to play a song.

  • 'The most accomplished drummer to ever come out of England.'

    Charlie Watts on Ginger Baker.

    John Bonham calls him 'astonishing'.

    He's one of Stewart Copeland's favorite musicians.

    Dennis Chambers admires his chops.

    And Johnny Rotten refers to him as 'legendary'.

  • john bonham and ginger baker are mentioned in the same paragraphs in HAMMER OF THE GODS book. Bonham "Moby Dick" was modeled on Cream's "Toad", I forgot exact what word was used.

  • The word used was paradigm. Stephen Davies wrote that book, yep, you are correct, I remember it. Another good book is Stairway to Heaven by Richard Cole and Richart Turbio [or something].

  • yes on the other hand surviving band members say both books are half crap........

  • it's said that Bonzo shows so much respect in that way, and Jack Bruce is a complete asshole about the band

  • i typed in baker instead of barker and i got this tard, travis would deuch all over this guy

  • go to hell scopions84

    travis barker is a piece of shit along with blink182

    ginger baker is one of the most talented and earliest good drummers

    so go fuck yourself and jerk off to travis barker fuck head

  • Tim Gunn.

  • I know I'm going to get flamed but here it is... my rant... My top three players are Vinnie Colaiuta, Dave Weckl, and Dennis Chambers, and Buddy Rich isn't in my top 10 or even close. I usually dont get into Bonham, Moon, peart, Ringo any of those legends, but Ginger Baker is one of the most unique technically skilled and musical players I have ever heard.

  • Interesting list. I don't know the best is but I know who my faves are: Clive Burr. Ringo Starr. John Bonham. Stewart Copeland. Ginger Baker [check out his double CD Do What You Like]. Virgil Donati. Vinnie Colaiuta. Terry Bozzio. Dave Grohl. Micky Dee [Motorhead]. Etc...
  • ERIC CLAPTON ?

  • Eric Clapton? :) Dude, my list is that of drummers, not guitar players :). But he's quite good, I must say!

  • Dont forget to add VINNIE PAUL & Tommy Lee. Neil Peart.

  • word word

  • You got it, G! Peace!

  • i want to say that this solo is in the film -------

    CASINO ---baker you play for mafia,you mafioso you..hehhehe..nice.

  • His bloody eyes are closed the whole time then aren't they?

  • I can see where most people, today, would think this drum solo is no big deal. You have got to remember that this solo was done in the 60s. It was the first rock drum solo that really had any structure. Before

    Ginger came along I was a really big Keith Moon fan. I still am a Moon fan. I think that Keith and Ginger would be in my top 5 rock drummers of all time. I saw Keith in concert twice, and he was unbelievable. Keith, unlike Ginger, was one constant drum solo. Just an opinion.

  • THANK YOU! It is litterally in my oppinion the best solo ever.I love how he keeps the tempo with the high hat almost the whole time.

  • it just goes to show you can play a clean refined TASTEFUL solo without having to resort to erratic rapid playing.

  • I think this solo was very musical in a way. I love Baker because when is doing a solo, he isn't just showing how fast he is. He show's what kind of MUSIC you can do with just a drumkit. He is a very entertaining drummer. Great solo!

  • awesome drum solo, but still don't think ginger is up there with the Buddy's and Vinnie's...sorry...:(

  • I assume your refering to Buddy Rich. Your kinda comparing Apples to Oranges are you. One jazz drummer to a rock drummer. Buddy Rich is the best all around drummer of all time inclulding John Bonham & Moby Dick solo

  • Man what an amazing solo one of my all time favourite : amazing drum style, amazing drum sound, fantastic drummer ...

  • Auch alte Männer können noch richtig rocken.

    Manchmal sogar noch besser, vitaler und präziser als junge Freaks.Jesus liebt RocknRoll.

  • Is that ride that Ginger is using a custom made cymbal, cause I have never seen it in any Zlidjian catalog?

  • You dont see them used much anymore, but back in the 60's a lot of guys drilled the rim and placed steel rivets in the holes, to get that sizzzz

  • This is everything that makes rock drumming gr8, and I feel like I have grown up with Gingers drumming even though I was'nt born when it first came out. Real good music by a band who know how to play.

  • watch a tribute to toad

    it is funny

  • it's very cool!!!

  • dhersheyt, i agree, ginger baker is the best drummer of all time and long may he entertain us while we stand open mouthed at his skill.

    also rock on clapton, your a bloody legend.

  • He's still got it. They all still have it.

  • I like watching how his playing matured from the Cream days. This sounds more like his later solo albums with the African and jazz influences. It's not blazing fast, but very musical

  • Greatest rock drummer of all time. Maniac:)

  • With possible exception of Keith Moon

  • Point taken!:) Both amazing drummers. Saw both perform. Also capaldi from traffic.

  • For connoisseurs of drum solos: well worth checking out is Brian Bennett's "Little B", posted elsewhere on this site. Masterly stuff. The records he made with the Shadows give little idea of what he was truly capable of.

  • This guy would stomp travis fucking barker into the ground

  • the godfather of double bass drumming! what a legend

  • this guy ooks like he is abou to die on stage but he is still amazing!!!!!

  • He is the man, he was the real inspiration to rock and roll or metal drummers or how ever you want to call it,..to moby dick( john bonham), IAn Paice, Keith Moon, Neil Peart, Daney Carey, alex VAn Halen,Tommy Aldridge, Gene Hoglan, MIke Portnoy and many more excellent drummers talk about him as a real inspiration for drum rock drum solos, HELL YEAH!! TO MR GINGER BAKER!!

  • i first saw cream in 1968 at msg wat a show still have it great ginger bruce and eric

  • Drummers who cant play fast use that "speed doesnt matter" as execuse.

  • "You have to be able to play all your beats evenly, slowly, first...speed will come with practice, but speed's not the most important thing. This is the thing I think aught to be got across to all these young drummers of today who loads of which I've heard...uh...several drum things I've been to. All of which are very fast, but they don't say anything. You can say an awful lot more with 1 beat in the right place than with 16 beats in the same place."

    -Ginger Baker

  • im one step above hating country vertigo by u2 is alright so is acdc i like how ginger goes into the jazz bruford and him are so versatile

  • Absolute legend.

  • Well if you knew anything about real music then you wouldn't say stuff like that cause you would know that your talking total bollocks. Ginger baker is the man!

  • dude, travis barker is like a 2 year old hitting a tin can compared to Ginger Baker

  • Lmao, what do you mean 'clearly not even in a solo'? Drum beats with double bass are ten times harder than making solos with double bass.

  • what has travis barker done for anyone?

  • how old is ginger baker???

  • He is born in 1939 the London

  • I've been playing drums since 19 friggin' 66 and this man still leaves me with my mouth open. Fabulous style, super acquaintance!

  • 40 years ago, we all loved Ginger, but the word was he was on speed or smack, and nobody figured he'd ever see age 40. Guess he got the last laugh, and good for him. He's still the best rock drummer I've ever  heard.

  • Ginger, do you do autographs?

  • They slowed it down, wtf

  • ginger baker is awsome o

  • absofuckingbrilliant

  • wow

  • AHHH omg i love this dude. I cant believe he's 65 that time and can play so brilliantly

  • 68 years old? Holy crap! Dude rocks!!

  • Ginger is pretty awesome, but Mitch Mitchell is still my favorite

  • He's 68, about 65 when this was done, what a performer. Absobloodylutely brilliant.

  • ginger is an awesome name.

    he is my 3 favorite!

    great band

  • Ginger Baker is probably the best drummer I've ever heard. Keith Moon is a close second.

  • that´s a great solo..

    ginger rocks !

    as it was said - it´s not everything about SPEED .. it´s nice if you playin´ fast and fourious, but if you play slow within a meldody devoloping thru n thru! thats it !!

  • ahh yeah! ginger is the man. :D

    i also love the improv bass right before

    clapton and bruce leave the stage.

    it sounds like some sorta middle eastern

    jam. haha. excellent! :-)

  • I can't wait to see what YOU are doing when YOU'RE 65 years old (as Baker was when this video was filmed).

  • my reply was to minimarcus2, btw

  • he was 69 i think.. anyway!! what a fantastic rendition from one of the greatest and most gifted techincal musical drummers of all time. =]

  • What people forget when they go proclaiming Travis Barker as a god, is that drumming isn't always about furious speed... I find that much of Travis Barker's stuff is pure speed and showing of, but actually sounds shit. What proper good drummers, like Ginger Baker, do is make music with the drums, rather than just sound.

  • YES! I agree

  • that video sucked, how could anyone possibly compare Travis Barker to Ginger Baker?

  • Just about every drum video I visiting there is always at least one Travis Barker fanboy who thinks he's better than every classic rock drummer that ever lived.

    Travis Barker is good, I will say, but he's not great. Probably never will be. Bonham, Moon, Peart, Baker, Bruford, Palmer and Collins are great and put Barker to shame.

  • Baker was a Jazz drummer who played in a rock band....He help to fuze jazz with rock early on...How is he not great

  • I was talking about Travis Barker not Ginger Baker.

    I agree Ginger Baker is great. Travis Barker is good and slightly above average compared to the legends.

  • Upon further review, you're right.....

  • scopions84, as a drummer; I think Travis Barker is shit compared to Baker. God your ignorant!

  • i love idiot fucking kids like scopions84

  • I looooooove this drum solo its one of the best ones i've ever heard

  • A great pioneer in drumming

  • Travis Barker only exsists cause of that 'old fart'

  • the only reason people think travis barker is great is because he looks like a skater/punk. Fact is he is only marginal.

  • ginger could outplay barker in his sleep.

    do some research

  • thats true and it's kinda funny cuz it almost looks like ginger is sleeping at parts of his solo

  • me dicen q de este solo de bateria c a copiado John Boham para hacer Moby Dick. no lo creo, ni en un millon de años...

  • This was amazing! Not quite at Neil Peart's level, but still pretty dadgummed impressive.

  • thats because ginger baker is 65 years old.

  • Sorry it was the Albert Hall not Wembley.

  • Saw Buddy Rich at Wembley, he was good.

  • Ginger Baker is the SHIT!!!

  • wtf zabrak999.... it must bee one of the best drum-solo`s ever!

  • that's because you don't understand music.

  • I saw Cream live, Ginger Baker did a solo in the song "Badge" it was awesome

  • rockin shoes ginger

  • Ginger Baker is god. Any of you wankers below, who think Bohnam is better can go suck my cock. The recorded Moby Dick was the biggest crock-of-shit I ever heard. I won't deny it's good live, but Ginger is just better.

  • I never said Bonham was the #1 member of the band. re-read my comment.

  • why dont u go suck off a horse

  • Bonham's overwhelming fame comes form his early death, and that he belonged to one of the most famous band sin history. Period, the end. He was a great drummer, but not because he could do crazy things that no one else could do, but rather that he could do alot with a little. Bonham;s drum solos are the most excruciatingly boring pieces of "music" i have ever heard. i'll take Baker anyday.

  • haha are you kidding me? You honestly can't understand why he's cited left and and right as the greatest, if not 2nd greatest drummer (behind peart) of all time? Other than his death? Jesus if u don't know anything about music then don't bother talking about, Baker's style is increadibly generic, bonham is on another level.

  • yeah, he is cited left to right because he belonged to Led Zeppelin. Bonham is a highly overrated drummer, and it doesnt help that #1 he died early and #2 all the the remaining members of Zep ever talk about was how amazing he was. Obviousy the person with the most advertising is going to get the most support.

    P.S. i do know alot about music, i am a musician. perhaps i just have a different opinion?

  • Hektor you call you say you know music, yet you have the stupidity to spout off that Bonham was the #1 member in the band. I'm not a huge fan of Zeppelin or anything, but when it comes to music my knowledge is prodigiously vast, and I'm aware that there was no real #1 member in Zeppelin. If you don't have the musical ear to see Bonham's tremendous prowess on the drums.

  • I don' even know why i'm arguing. you know when u get into a conversation where the other guy has his head up his ass and u don't feel the need to debate? That's how I am with you. This conversation is over.

  • lol, ok.

  • your modest too.

  • now im a much bigger fan of zeppelin than cream, in fact i only own disraeli gears (great album) but on that album baker is anything but generic, he goes beyond the numerous drummers of that time by playing around the toms and cymbals, pretty much everything around the snare as opposed to a generic hat snare and bass 4/4 groove, and bonham, jesus mans a legend, but u shudn't compare people even worse when u compare urself

  • wow this is horrible

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  • BAKER STILL HAS IT!!!

    and those DW's sound AwEsoMe

  • Fucking hell, chill out, stop comparing and enjoy this legendary performance for what it is....OWNAGE!

  • I don't listen to these guy, but that was sick! I just might get some of their tunes.

  • baker is nowhere near bonham...do not even put them in the same league. dont get me wrong baker is gr8 but bonham just was outta this world

  • Hahahahaha, okay, it´s just every single men´s opinion - but Ginger influenced so, so many drummers and Bonham was among them who he influenced you can hear that a loooooooong way!

    I think Ginger was "otta the world" too!

  • no he wasn't... bonzo was influenced by motown players and jazz players. baker is a contemporary of bonham's.

  • Baker was actually before Bonham. Bonham came into his own with Zep in the 70's, Baker came into his own in the mid 60's with Graham Bond.

  • yeh bonham was influenced by baker and i will admit that. and bonham came into his own in the 60s not 70s

  • HEEEEEEEEEELLO!

    The man was born 1939!

    You are not on the top of your career at that age! That´s for sure!

  • Baker is the best rock drummer bar none.

  • waited 36 years to see this solo,was fortunate enough to get tickets to the msg shows in ny. He could barely stand after this. Well worth the wait and will never forget it. Have tics for clapton and winwood there in feb and hope like hell he is there. Blind Faith can`t wait