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Joined Alexis Koerner and played with Jack Bruce and Dick Heckstall-Smith
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01:23 |
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Charlie Watts was in the band but not that good, so I was asked to join
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Cream
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01:41 |
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The music at the time was white man's blues...Ginger had been playing jazz
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Cream
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02:16 |
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Playing clubs like the Marque at 24 years old...we appealed to rock fans
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Cream
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01:01 |
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Ginger joins Graham Bond Organization and started earning £55 a week
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Cream
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02:19 |
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John McLaughlin joined the band and we took it over, then I sacked John
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Cream
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02:04 |
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Ginger fired Jack Bruce and eventually left Graham Bond and then met Eric Clapton
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Cream
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02:46 |
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Baker met Clapton and bought his first car after selling a song to Robert Stigwood for the Who
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Cream
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01:30 |
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Ginger recalls the early Stones with Brian Jones and also knew Brian Epstein
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Cream
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02:56 |
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Met Eric Clapton and asked him to join his new band and Eric suggested they get Jack Bruce
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Cream
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02:09 |
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Clapton came up with the name Cream and they signed with Robert Stigwood
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Cream
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01:58 |
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Fresh Cream came out and Ginger recalls that it was a bit traumatic
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Cream
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03:10 |
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After first album went into the charts they started to play live and come to US and played with the Who
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Cream
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02:39 |
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Ginger recalls recording Disraeli Gears with Felix Pappalardi in New York and the cover art
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Cream
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02:49 |
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Talks about the band's Disraeli Gears and how Cream were different than the other bands like the Who and Rolling Stones, they were jazzers
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Cream
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02:15 |
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Life changed, the band were making lots of money and then the drug problems
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Cream
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01:39 |
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Ginger talks about his favorite Cream songs
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Cream
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01:18 |
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Having to deal with pressure of success
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Cream
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