Ginger Baker - Hellraiser: The Autobiography of The World's Greatest Drummer

The Autobiography of The World's Greatest Drummer

Ginger Baker

• Publisher: John Blake
• eBook ISBN:
  9781857828641
• Year: 2010

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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Dedication
• Table of Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter One : Memories of War
• Chapter Two : Schooldays and Cycling
• Chapter Three : Drums
• Chapter Four : Phil Seamen
• Chapter Five : The Road to Graham Bond
• Chapter Six : The Graham Bond Organisation
• Chapter Seven : Cream
• Chapter Eight : Disraeli Gears
• Chapter Nine : Cream 1968
• Chapter Ten : Goodbye Cream
• Chapter Eleven : Blind Faith
• Chapter Twelve : Air Force
• Chapter Thirteen : Hendrix
• Chapter Fourteen : Africa
• Chapter Fifteen : Holidays
• Chapter Sixteen : Ginger Baker in Africa
• Chapter Seventeen : Drug Bust: 1971
• Chapter Eighteen : Salt and the Batakota Studios
• Chapter Nineteen : The Argungu Rally
• Chapter Twenty : Polo in Nigeria
• Chapter Twenty - One : The Kalakuta Party
• Chapter Twenty - Two : The Trans-Sahara Trucking Company and the Baker Gurvitz Army
• Chapter Twenty - Three : Polo in England: 1975–78
• Chapter Twenty - Four : Denham Days
• Chapter Twenty - Five : Italy: 1982–88
• Chapter Twenty - Six : California
• Chapter Twenty - Seven : Colorado
• Chapter Twenty - Eight : Nightmare in Colorado: 1997
• Chapter Twenty - Nine : Return to Africa
• Chapter Thirty : The Western Cape
• Thirty - One : Cream Reunion
• Epilogue
• Acknowledgements
• Copyright