Discover What’s Streaming On: You know you’re in for a good documentary when it begins with its subject breaking the director’s nose with a cane. That’s what happens minutes into Beware of Mr. Baker, ...
A gifted malcontent with a thunderous soul built for percussion and driven by his own relentless personal metronome, Ginger Baker treated the whole world as if it were just another drum kit to be ...
When a documentary begins with its subject using his crutch to deliver a vicious blow to the director's nose, it's reasonably safe to expect less-than-smooth sailing ahead. When a documentary begins ...
“Bonham had technique, but he couldn’t swing a sack of shit,” says great drummer and sack of shit Ginger Baker to interviewer Jay Bulger. This is one of many aperçus in Bulger’s documentary Beware of ...
Jay Bulger’s biggest challenge making “Beware of Mr. Baker,” his documentary about legendary drummer Ginger Baker? Ginger Baker himself. “Ginger Baker was so much bigger than an article and my words ...
Veteran rock wildman Ginger Baker threatened to attack a British Film Institute (Bfi) official in a bust-up over smoking at a screening of a new documentary about the star. The former Cream drummer is ...
If, as an addiction, polo didn’t match Baker’s 19-year affair with heroin, it has been almost as ruinous a pastime. Toward the end of Jay Bulger’s film, Baker’s estranged drummer son Kofi reports that ...
At his peak, Ginger Baker was almost certainly the best drummer of his generation, a man who brought wildly imaginative jazz- and African-inspired rhythms to immensely popular late-'60s rock bands ...