Peter 'Ginger' Baker is a legend. A pioneering drummer who transcends genre, he's done much to popularise world music with his fierce passion for the rhythms of Africa. He is that rare thing – both critically acclaimed and globally successful. He has also lived a life more rock'n'roll than most.Ginger tells his story for the first time. It's often harrowing but outrageously honest as he journey's from war-torn south London to his adopted home in South Africa's beautiful Western Cape – where he has his own polo club. Along the way he tells of his life-long love of jazz, how he discovered the drums, life on the road and reveals the heroin use that should have killed him. He talks candidly of his three marriages, his induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Cream in 1993, their 2005 reunion and his own plans for the future.
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Contents
Introduction
Memories of War
Schooldays and Cycling
Drums
Phil Seamen
The Road to Graham Bond
The Graham Bond Organisation
Cream
Disraeli Gears
Cream 1968
Goodbye Cream
Blind Faith
Air Force
Hendrix
Africa
Holidays
Ginger Baker in Africa
Drug Bust: 1971
Salt and the Batakota Studios
The Argungu Rally
Polo in Nigeria
The Kalakuta Party
The Trans-Sahara Trucking Company and the Baker Gurvitz Army
Polo in England: 1975–78
Denham Days
Italy: 1982–88
California
Colorado
Nightmare in Colorado: 1997
Return to Africa
The Western Cape
Cream Reunion
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Copyright
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I want to dedicate this book to all those I have lost throughout my life: to my mum, my dad, and to George Streatfield the best stepfather I could have wished for.
To my four great drum heroes that I idolised as a young musician: Phil Seamen, Art Blakey, Max Roach and Elvin Jones, all who became dear friends. I had the wonderful experience of playing drums with each of them and their genuine respect was worth more to me than all the money in the world.
