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Have seen these two separately but man, are they good together.

 

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This was the first time I saw/heard of her (Melissa McLelland) .. was at this show.  It was amazingly raw and intimate (seats 50-100 max).  Matt was going through some stuff and even hung out with us outside after the show for a bit.   
 

 

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https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/celebrity/rock-icon-ginger-baker-drummer-of-cream-and-blind-faith-dies-at-80-after-being-critically-ill/ar-AAIm5dx?ocid=spartandhp

 

Ginger Baker, the legendary drummer who shot to fame in the 1960s as a member of the pioneering British rock trio Cream, has died. He was 80.

The musician died on Sunday morning, his family confirmed in a statement shared on his official Twitter page.

“We are very sad to say that Ginger has passed away peacefully in hospital this morning. Thank you to everyone for your kind words over the past weeks,” they wrote.

The announcement came less than two weeks after his family said that the musician had been admitted to the hospital and was “critically ill.”

“The Baker family are sad to announce that Ginger is critically ill in hospital. Please keep him in your prayers tonight,” the statement read. 

After a Twitter user asked if the statement was “for real,” Baker’s account replied, “Sadly yes.”

Baker is best known for his work with Cream, which he co-founded with Eric Clapton in London in 1966. The third member of the band, bassist Jack Bruce, died in 2014 at the age of 71.

Cream — which is widely cited as the original supergroup since all three members came from accomplished bands  — sold 35 million albums in just over two years. The band was awarded the world’s first-ever platinum disc for their double album, Wheels of Fire, and produced psychedelic hits like “I Feel Free” and “Sunshine of Your Love.”

They broke up in 1968 with little warning, at the height of their commercial success. As Clapton, 74, wrote in his 2007 autobiography, Clapton, the band was struggling at the time with an “inability to get along.”

“We would just run away from one another,” he wrote. “We never socialized together and never really shared ideas anymore.”

RELATED: Eric Clapton Reveals He’s Losing His Hearing, Suffering from Tinnitus

© Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker and Jack Bruce | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

After briefly working with Clapton again in the supergroup Blind Faith and leading his own jazz-rock band, Ginger Baker’s Air Force, Baker spent several years in the ’70s living and recording in Africa.

In 1993, Baker was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame with Clapton and Bruce for their work with Cream. Years later, in 2005, the three reunited for Cream concerts in London and New York City.

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Born Peter Edward Baker in 1939 in London, Baker began playing drums at the age of 16. He gained early fame as a member of the Graham Bond Organisation, where he first met his future bandmate, Bruce.

© Michael Ochs Archives/Getty Ginger Baker | Michael Ochs Archives/Getty

In 2012, director Jay Bulger released a critically acclaimed documentary about Baker’s life titled, Beware of Mr. Baker.

During an interview with Rolling Stone in 2013, Baker mentioned his health issues, saying, “I’ve got degenerative osteoarthritis, which is extremely painful.”

“I’m on a regiment with a health service pain management control,” he continued. “Apart from that I’ve got COPD (chronic obstructive pulmonary disease) from smoking.”

© Bobby Bank/WireImage Ginger Baker | Bobby Bank/WireImage

In 2016, Baker’s daughter, Leda, posted a blog post on his website which said that Baker was “recovering very well” after “open heart surgery and a bad fall.”

“He called the day after his surgery to say he was OK,” she wrote. “Albeit a rather disoriented and unintelligible conversation he was at least awake and aware. The fall has resulted in swollen legs and feet which he is seeing his doctor about in the next day or so. But although he is recovering, any performances in the near future seem over ambitious.”

Baker is survived by his wife Kudzai Machokoto (whom he married in 2010) and his three kids from a previous marriage: son Kofi and daughters Ginette and Leda.

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All Hail to the Chief.

 

And he didn't even run...

 

The 'Prophets' predicted this...

 

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Two versions.

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A Ginger Baker project.

Edited October 7, 2019 by RWMc1

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its sad hours

 

 

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Brings me right back to me ole' skool daze

 

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Another 60's to 80's rocker passes away.

https://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainment/entertainmentmusic/larry-junstrom-early-lynyrd-skynyrd-bassist-dead-at-70/ar-AAIpBkp?ocid=spartandhp

 

arry Junstrom, a founding member of Lynyrd Skynyrd and the longtime bassist for .38 Special, has died, according to a post on .38 Special’s Facebook page. He was 70.

Junstrom was in an early incarnation of Skynyrd, with singer Ronnie Van Zant, guitar players Gary Rossington and Allen Collins, and drummer Bob Burns. He exited the band prior to the recording of their debut album, 1973’s Pronounced Leh-nerd Skin-nerd, which made way for Leon Wilkeson to join as bassist.

In 1977, Junstrom enlisted in another Southern rock band, the Donnie Van Zant-fronted .38 Special, replacing bassist Ken Lyons. Junstrom would perform and record with the group up until his retirement in 2014, playing on hits like “Hold on Loosely,” “Rockin’ into the Night,” and “Caught Up in You.”

Junstrom reflected on his time with Lynyrd Skynyrd in director Stephen Kijak’s 2018 documentary If I Leave Here Tomorrow: A Film About Lynyrd Skynyrd, recalling the early rehearsals at the so-called “Hell House,” a cabin on a creek in rural Florida, and the band’s chemical proclivities. “You could put a model airplane together with his breath,” Junstrom said of Collins’ fondness for sniffing glue.

The members of .38 Special paid tribute to Junstrom on Sunday, writing, “The Big Man on the Big Bass has left us. He rocked arenas all over the world and succeeded in living his dream. He was truly one of a kind, a congenial traveling companion and a great friend to all with a humorous slant on life that always kept our spirits high — a kind man with a big heart for everyone who crossed his path. There will never be another like him.”

Lynyrd Skynyrd is currently on the road with their Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour. In August, they were forced to postpone shows so that founding member Gary Rossington could recover from heart surgery. They’re set to play the inaugural Exit 111 Festival on Friday in Manchester, Tennessee.