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I saw Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce playing Toads Place in New Haven about 20 years ago, Ginger Baker looked like death then. - X
Ginger Baker Says No More Cream Reunions
Russell Hall 11.20.2008
Cream fans hoping for another reunion by the band had best move on. In an interview with Rhythm magazine, drummer Ginger Baker said the legendary trio will never reform. Baker's comments were published by the webzine, musicradar.com.
“The Albert Hall was great but not the shows we did at Madison Square Garden in New York later that year,” Baker said, when asked if the 2005 reunion shows had met his expectations. "That [the latter shows] was a fucking disaster."
Razorlight drummer Andy Burrows, who was speaking to Baker on behalf of Rhythm, pressed the Cream veteran to elaborate.
"I'd refused to do it first of all,” Baker told Burrows. “It was Eric [Clapton] who phoned me up and convinced me. The reason I didn't want to do it was because of what happened in New York in 1968 when the magic was destroyed. The reason why we broke up in the first place re-emerged on stage at Madison Square.”
Baker continued: “You'll notice I'm talking about Eric in a nice way, but there was another person in the group. It wasn't just a problem with the volume of the bass guitar, it was the problem of being humiliated in front of 20,000 people.
Ginger Baker Says No More Cream Reunions
Russell Hall 11.20.2008
Cream fans hoping for another reunion by the band had best move on. In an interview with Rhythm magazine, drummer Ginger Baker said the legendary trio will never reform. Baker's comments were published by the webzine, musicradar.com.
“The Albert Hall was great but not the shows we did at Madison Square Garden in New York later that year,” Baker said, when asked if the 2005 reunion shows had met his expectations. "That [the latter shows] was a fucking disaster."
Razorlight drummer Andy Burrows, who was speaking to Baker on behalf of Rhythm, pressed the Cream veteran to elaborate.
"I'd refused to do it first of all,” Baker told Burrows. “It was Eric [Clapton] who phoned me up and convinced me. The reason I didn't want to do it was because of what happened in New York in 1968 when the magic was destroyed. The reason why we broke up in the first place re-emerged on stage at Madison Square.”
Baker continued: “You'll notice I'm talking about Eric in a nice way, but there was another person in the group. It wasn't just a problem with the volume of the bass guitar, it was the problem of being humiliated in front of 20,000 people.
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