Ginger Bakers Airforce [Import]

Ginger Baker | Format: Audio CD

Product Details

• Audio CD (February 23, 2004)
• Number of Discs: 1
• Format: Import
• Label: Lemon Records UK
• ASIN: B00019FWG2
• Also Available in: Audio CD  |  Vinyl
• Average Customer Review: 3.3 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (10 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #15,814 in Music (See Top 100 in Music)

Track Listings

1. Man

2. Early in the Morning

3. Don't Care

4. Toad

5. Aiko Biaye

6. Man of Constant Sorrow

7. Do What You Like

8. Doin' It

Editorial Reviews

Remastered reissue of long out-of-catalogue 1970 live album features eight tracks recorded at the Royal Albert Hall. Lemon. 2004.

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

49 of 50 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars WARNING - VINYL RIP, August 9, 2005

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John B. Buchanan (Booragoon, WA Australia) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ginger Bakers Airforce (Audio CD)

This release is a travesty. After 2 excellent sounding releases of this concert on CD (The initial Polygram S/T release and the Polygram Chronicles 2CD "Do What You Like"), Lemon Records (hmmmmm, that should warn you)"remastered" this concert from very used vinyl, which is bad enough, but then digitally maximized it to the point of distortion. If they were going to reissue this, why not just reissue the concert as released originally on CD - at least that was from the master tape. Look instead for either of the above mentioned out of print items.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great potential - poor recording., July 27, 2005

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Andrew T. Schwartz - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Ginger Bakers Airforce (Audio CD)

This group could really rock but the quality of the recording was very poor. The last song even skipped. i should ask for another copy but i did not want to bother getting back in touch. Masterful Musicians, however!

15 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Great loose jams taken down by badly reissued recording..., May 30, 2007

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collegemoney - See all my reviews

This review is from: Ginger Bakers Airforce (Audio CD)

As the other reviews warn, seek out better recorded versions of this material. I will comment mainly on the music itself, assuming you are able to listen to it in its purest reissued form.
This was THE "supergroup performance opportunity" of the day, based on the participants - Ginger Baker (Cream/Blind Faith), Rick Grech (Family/Blind Faith), Stevie Winwood (Traffic/Spencer Davis/Blind Faith), incomparable session men such as Harold McNair on flute, and so on. But, based on the actual performance, there may not seem to be much about this to like. Long jams probably not rehearsed very much, as witnessed by stumbles in the musical "choreography" here and there, feedback screams from the sound system, muffled intros, etc. But who can ignore the percussion locomotive of three drummers that drives this music along, capped off by a plaintive version of "Man of Constant Sorrow" (done decades before "Oh Brother Where Art Thou") by Denny Laine, original Moody Blues singer ("Go Now" era). And the horns contribute mightily to the propulsion. It sounds like the raw influence of Fela Ransome Kuti and his musical aggregations had something to do with the jamming, which may well be true since Ginger did record with him elsewhere. OK, I'm a big fan of the artists that got together here. 5 stars for the music, minus 2 or 3 for the recording.