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September 1, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

Cream: Leavin’ Town Baby (Stockholm, March 7th 1967 Sveriges Broadcast)

Cream Leavin’ Town Baby (Stockholm, March 7th 1967 Sveriges Broadcast) Blue Cactus Cream. The great power trio. The great supergroup. British Blues Boom wunderkinds. They blazed a trail – and it can be hard to remember back what with Ginger now gone and Jack Bruce before him. And Clapton just drifting along into retirement – […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged 1967, 1967 Sveriges Broadcast, Album Review, Blue Cactus, Bootleg, Broadcast, Cream, Cream: Leavin’ Town Baby (Stockholm, EP, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Leavin’ Town Baby, Leavin’ Town Baby (Stockholm, Live, March 7th 1967 Sveriges Broadcast), Radio, Stockholm, Sweden, TV, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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June 26, 2020 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 103

Blind Faith, Blind Faith (1969) When I first heard the Blind Faith album it was a revelation! I mean, this was back when you read about things and had to wait, had to imagine them first. Couldn’t just click and find out, trial and move on. I was a huge Eric Clapton fan when I […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1969, Blind Faith, Can't Find My Way Home, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Had To Cry Today, Hyde Park, LP, Presence Of The Lord, Record, Ric Grech, S/T, Self-Titled, Steve Winwood, The Vinyl Countdown, The Vinyl Countdown # 103, Vinyl ·

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October 6, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Ginger Baker

Ginger Baker, the influential drummer from Cream and Blind Faith is dead. He was 80. He had been in poor health for years. A week or so ago we all got wind that his final breath was drawing near. By the time you read this the news is already everywhere. Ginger Baker is dead. He […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Africa, Baker, BBM, Blind Faith, Cream, Drummer, Drums, Eulogy, Fela Kuti, Ginger, Ginger Baker, Hawkwind, Jazz, R.I.P., R.I.P. Ginger Baker, Tony Allen ·

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September 26, 2019 by Simon Sweetman

Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 9 – BBM, “Around The Next Dream”

BBM, Around The Next Dream, 1994 The short-lived “supergroup” BBM was basically the Cream reunion that Eric Clapton wasn’t interested in, so they subbed in Gary Moore. There had been a Cream get-together ahead of this and then a documented one a decade after – but this was, briefly, an exciting thing. Particularly because it […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1990s, 1994, Around The Next Dream, BBM, Bill Frisell, Blues, Bruce-Baker-Moore, Charlie Haden, Crap Albums, Crap Albums I Love, Cream, Eric Clapton, Gary Moore, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Reunion, Shit That's Good, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 9, Shit That’s Good! Crap Albums I Love # 9 – BBM, You can support Off The Tracks via PressPatron ·

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February 20, 2017 by Simon Sweetman

Five Albums From 1995: The Year I Left Home

In 1995 I moved to Wellington, ostensibly for university, but in reality it was to start an enormous CD collection. Most of that collection has now been replaced by vinyl – and/or Mp3s. That’s because 1995 is closer is more than 20 years ago now. But at the time I was buying up music, having […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged 1995, Albums, Around The Next Dream, BBM, Carnival, CD, Five albums from 1995, Five albums from 1995: The Year I Left Home, Formative, Ginger Baker, Ginger Baker Trio, Going Home Again, Kristin Hersh, Leaving Home, Limbo, Maxinquaye, Natalie Merchant, Nostalgia, Prince, Records, Sam Hunt, The Gold Experience, The Year I Left Home, Throwing Muses, Tigerlilly, Tricky, University, Wellington, Wgtn ·

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July 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1076

Cream, Disraeli Gears (1967) Weird – but this was my favourite album for a long time, or one of, before I’d even heard it. How does that work? Fucked if I know – but here goes, I’ll try take you back to how that played out…You see, I loved Cream (still do, some days at […]
Posted in Blog, The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1967, Benjamin Disraeli, Cream, Disraeli Gears, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, LP, Outside Woman Blues, Strange Brew, Vinyl ·

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July 11, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

R.I.P. Charlie Haden

Man. This was sad news to wake up to. To hear that Charlie Haden has died – he seemed so vital, so urgent – prolific. And all the while he was fighting an illness. You couldn’t hear that in his playing. All I heard was warmth and strength, that which he gave too as the […]
Posted in Blog, Miscellany · Tagged Bass, Bass Player, Charlie Haden, Eulogy, Free Jazz, Ginger Baker, Jazz, Josh Haden, Keith Jarrett, Last Dance, Ornette Coleman, R.I.P., Spain, The Haden Triplets, The Shape of Jazz To Come ·

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July 7, 2014 by Simon Sweetman

Ginger Baker: Why?

Ginger Baker Why? Motema Music If you’ve seen the 2012 documentary film Beware of Mr. Baker (and if you haven’t – you really should) you’ll be somewhat excited and nervous at the thought of new music from Mr. Baker. Actually, Why? – you could easilyt be convinced the title is his hi-hat’s only response to […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Abass Dodoo, Airforce, Album Review, Alec Dankworth, BBM, Beware of Mr Baker, Blind Faith, Cream, Drums, Ginger Baker, Jazz, Pee Wee Ellis, Sandy Nelson, Why ·

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November 10, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Tony Allen: An Autobiography of The Master Drummer of Afrobeat

Tony Allen: An Autobiography of The Master Drummer of Afrobeat Tony Allen with Michael E. Veal Duke University Press Books So, in the end, I was quite disappointed with this book – I had been pretty excited about reading it; the best thing about this book is that it has in no way dulled my […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Afrobeat, An Autobiography of The Master Drummer of Afrobeat, Autobiography, Blog On The Tracks, Book Review, Damon Albarn, Drummer, Drums, Fela Kuti, Ginger Baker, http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/blogs/blog-on-the-tracks/9315623/Appreciating-Tony-Allen, Memoir, Michael E. Veal, Sebastien Tellier, Sideman, Tony Allen, World Music ·

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August 4, 2013 by Simon Sweetman

Beware of Mr. Baker: Film

Beware of Mr. Baker Director: Jay Bulger Vivendi Entertainment This film, a documentary of legendary Cream/Blind Faith tub-thumper, Ginger Baker, gets off to a flying start with Baker butting the filmmaker with the end of his cane – a bop on the nose as if a mad flam intro and then off into a 5/4 […]
Posted in Blog, Reviews · Tagged Beware of Mr Baker, Blind Faith, Cream, Doco, Documentary, DVD, Eric Clapton, Film Review, Ginger Baker, Jack Bruce, Music Documentary, Stewart Copeland ·

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November 18, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1472

Cream, Best of Cream (1969) This record was a life-changer – and I never owned it. I had a long-term loan of what was left of my uncle’s record collection. He had some great stuff, metal, hard rock, blues, blues-rock, some prog and all the things that fit in the spaces in-between. And I took […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged Best of Cream, Cream, Eric Clapton, Ginger Baker, Swlabr ·

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February 23, 2012 by Simon Sweetman

The Vinyl Countdown # 1609

Public Image Ltd, Album (1986) The first PiL I swallowed was this greatest hits – bought on tape. I wasn’t that fussed at first. I liked the song Public Image (how could you not?) And I liked the song Rise (how could you not?) But because I had been recently introduced to The Sex Pistols […]
Posted in The Vinyl Countdown · Tagged 1986, Album, Bags, Ease, First Issue, Ginger Baker, John Lydon, LP, Metal Box, PiL, post-punk, Public Image, Public Image Ltd, Rise, Steve Vai, The Greatest Hits So Far, The Sex Pistols, Vinyl ·

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