(Soundboard FLAC)
Ginger Baker & Friends
Tim Bogert, Alan White & Walter Trout
Belly Up Club, Solana Beach, Cal.
December 1, 1988
Label-Countdown Factory-CDF-942018 A/B
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Ginger Baker - drums
Tim Bogert - bass, vocals
Alan White - drums
Walter Trout - guitar
Michael Monarch - guitar
CD1
01 - White Room (false start)
02 - White Room
03 - Born Under A Bad Sign
04 - Drum Solo
05 - Aiko Bioye
06 - Outside Woman Blues
07 - 12 Gates Of The City
CD2
01 - Do What You Like
02 - Sitting On Top Of The World
03 - Spoonful
04 - Toad
Drummer Ginger Baker may be best known for his work with Cream and Blind Faith but he has never stayed within the rock orbit. He was played with avant artistes such as Bill Laswell, and jazz stalwarts such as Art Blakey, Charlie Haden and Fela Kuti.
Music writer George Varga remembers this Solana Beach gig:
In 1988, former Cream drummer Ginger Baker gave his first San Diego area performance in 20 years at the Belly Up. It was a clumsy, bumbling “classic-rock” set better suited for the soundtrack to a bad acid trip. “We’ve got some problems up here,” bassist Tim Bogert said, after Baker nearly took out an audience member’s eye by smashing off the wing nut from one of his cymbal stands with a drum stick.
The set may be loose but it’s far from being the ramshackle show it has been made out to be. For instance, ignore the first 3:21 mins (”teething” problems?) of Aiko Biaye and the track ends up being a scorching display. And especially for Cream and Blind Faith fans, this is a slice of rock history.
