And your part is just… happening. He was well-grounded in jazz from very early on and later managed to combine this with African and rock music to create his own inimitable style of playing.”Please choose your username under which you would like all your comments to show up. He later settled down to reflect, cantankerously, on the trail of broken bands, ex-wives and neglected children he'd left in his wake.He told Rhythm magazine: "It's the drummer's job to make the other guys sound good. Once, Baker attempted to end one of Bruce's solos by bouncing a stick off his snare drum, and into Bruce's head.After one studio album and a live concert at the Royal Albert Hall, Air Force, undermined by personnel changes, finally crashed and burned.
"Financial problems of one sort or another dogged him throughout this period and he eventually lost control of his studio.Baker's death will see him feted as one of rock's most influential musicians, but he scoffed at such accolades, insisting: "Drummers are really nothing more than time-keepers. Ginger Baker, one of the most innovative and influential drummers in … Phil Seamen … Baker and Bruce's arguments were frequent and violent, even driving Clapton to tears on one occasion. View the profiles of people named Terry Baker. "In the 1980s, he played with John Lydon's Public Image Ltd, while continuing to form and discard new bands that combined his African and Western musical influences, like African Force and Middle Passage.But he was also a temperamental and argumentative figure, whose behaviour frequently led to on-stage punch-ups. In 1969, Baker and Clapton formed the short-lived band Blind Faith with Steve Winwood and Ric Grech, and the latter pair joined Baker in his next project, jazz-rock band Ginger Baker’s Air Force.Other famous names in music paying tribute yesterday included Brian Wilson, co-founder of the Beach Boys, who called him “a great drummer”, and the Rolling Stones singer Sir Mick Jagger, who called Baker “fiery but extremely talented and innovative”.Before you post, we’d like to thank you for joining the debate - we’re glad you’ve chosen to participate and we value your opinions and experiences. The vertically enhanced collar design guarantees even contact with the edge of the drum shell, creating a perfectly level fit. Instead, he took up drumming.One of rock's first "supergroups", they fused blues and psychedelia to dazzling effect on songs like Strange Brew, Sunshine of Your Love, Badge and I Feel Free. “God is punishing me for my past wickedness by keeping me alive and in as much pain as he can,” he said in 2009.The band split in 1968, releasing a final album in 1969. "It's a gift from God.