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You don\u2019t get many more drums as iconic as Ginger Baker<\/a>. He first made a name for himself in the band Cream, where his contribution to the blues-infused and psychedelic rhythm ingrained within the band cemented them as one of the most innovative voices in rock throughout the \u201860s. The majority of bands that created something which pushed the boundaries of sound and genre afterwards were all inspired by Cream in some way.\u00a0<\/p>\n One of those artists was Geddy Lee, who learnt a lot from the band and constantly used their influence to create his own music<\/a>. The result is that Rush is championed as one of the best power trios in music, and it all stems from Cream.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cCream sort of changed my life,\u201d he said when discussing his early influences. \u201cThey blew my mind and I remember they were coming to Toronto. I couldn\u2019t get any of my friends interested to go see them; they were playing at Massey Hall, and I went down and bought a ticket, and I went by myself.\u201d<\/p>\n He continued, \u201cI just had to see them, they were such an important band to me. Jack Bruce\u2019s bass playing was just out of this world. Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, I mean they were the ultimate trio. The most influential band in my entire career in many ways.\u201d <\/p>\n Lee\u2019s comments resonate throughout the music industry as the band have continued to influence musicians across the board. Because of their stature as musicians, it\u2019s no surprise that Ginger Baker has been asked to play drums for a number of other bands. He had stints in the likes of Blind Faith, Baker Gurvitz Army and Atomic Rooster. <\/p>\n His time with each band was volatile and varied in length, but he was always passionate about the music. That can\u2019t be said for the one band he called \u201cappalling.\u201d He played with them for a short period, and while they are considered psychedelic icons by many different music lovers, Baker wasn\u2019t convinced, as he said the music was rubbish and the members cared more about their appearance than the sound<\/a>. The band he was talking about was Hawkwind, and it\u2019s a period in his life that Baker would rather forget than dwell on.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cThat was the biggest joke in history,\u201d he said. \u201cI needed the money, and that was the only reason. Sadly I never saw what was offered, because they didn\u2019t have any money. Hawkwind were more interested in their stage appearance and their lighting than their actual music \u2013 and their music was fucking appalling. Atrocious. I hated it all. Thank Christ I wasn\u2019t with them very long.\u201d<\/p>\n The issue of rock bands becoming style icons was that there were a number of different musical outfits that cared much more about how they looked rather than how they sounded. Hawkwind weren\u2019t on their own in this regard, as entire genres were formed around bands who went through more hairspray than they did guitar picks. The beauty of music is its subjectivity; however, the reliance on image wasn\u2019t something that Ginger Baker was very impressed with.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Related Topics<\/p>\n Subscribe To The Far Out Newsletter <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(Credits: Far Out \/ Alamy) Sun 11 May 2025 23:00, UK You don\u2019t get many more drums as…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":82945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3936],"tags":[33649,77,40112,44253,269,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-94017","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-cream","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-ginger-baker","11":"tag-hawkwind","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-uk","14":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114492042762326117","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94017","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=94017"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94017\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/82945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=94017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=94017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=94017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}