![]() ![]() Whereas, with Moon, that was never possible. I think the reason for that is there’s a delusion that if you just practice for about 60 or 80 years, you could play that stuff. As many guys that wanted to sound like Moon, there were that many at least that wanted to sound like Baker. When it comes to him as a drummer, there was never another like him, that’s for sure. ![]() “He found a way to marry that kind of finesse with that kind of thunder,” he says. I certainly didn’t know anything about his background.”įox zeroed in on Baker’s playing and musicality, as well as the way he blended styles and influences. So when the first Cream album came out, I knew who he was. The work that was required of Baker in that band certainly didn’t allow him to stretch to what he became and probably already was. “Graham Bond was a blues band, first and foremost. “There’s no way you could have known from listening to Baker’s prior recorded work exactly what was there,” Fox notes. No one played it like that until he did! It’s that simple!”įox knew of both Baker and Cream bassist and singer Jack Bruce before Cream, having followed their work as members of the Graham Bond Organisation, but when they eventually joined with Clapton, he knew, as a music fan, that he was in for the ride of his life, though he admits now that listening to the Graham Bond albums didn’t adequately prepare him for Cream. “What he was doing was something similar to what Moon did, which was to reinvent the instrument. “But being a drummer, it was impossible to ignore what Baker was doing,” he explains. When it came to the album’s musicianship, Fox remembers the primary focus was on guitarist Eric Clapton at the time. ![]() To hear three people play like that, and someone was willing to actually give them time to go into a studio and do it - just incredible.” “It was definitely pushing Beatles stuff, as far as what it meant. “The first Cream album was probably the greatest album I’d ever heard in my life at that time,” he recalls. ![]() He just thought that stuff was trash, because those guys were unschooled.”Įven before the James Gang and Cream shared the stage, Fox was enthralled when he first got his hands on a copy of Fresh Cream in 1966. And of course, when Ringo came around, I shifted gears. He had been taught, and he had loved, learned and listened to all of the jazz guys - all the same guys I grew up on. “I don’t mean to say that I played in that stratosphere, I never did. “ had a background that mirrored mine to some extent,” Fox says. “Other than a cursory nod, that was about all I ever got.”įox realized later that perhaps he should have mentioned Art Blakey - “the password,” as he calls it, that may have broken the ice. “It was easier said than done,” he tells UCR. As drummer Jimmy Fox recalls now, he had hoped to spend some time hanging out with Ginger Baker and talk shop with him. In the James Gang‘s early years, they played a number of shows with Cream. We asked Walsh, what is the quickest way to help veterans and their families on a local, grassroots level: SOUNDCUE (:39 OC. Joe Walsh told us about the realities of being part of a Gold Star family: SOUNDCUE (:32 OC. I believe in Ohio and look forward to celebrating our musical legacy while honoring our veterans with VetsAid 2022. Now it is a great privilege and humbling opportunity for me to share the stage once again with my original James Gang buddies and with this absolutely incredible group of Ohio rock legends like Trent Reznor and Nine Inch Nails, the Black Keys, the Breeders, and Dave Grohl. Picking up my first guitar as a kid in Columbus set me on a musical journey to Kent State, Cleveland, and then the world. Joe Walsh spoke about VetsAid 2022 in a statement: The show will mark both the James Gang's first gig in 15 years as well as its swan song. Rolling Stone reported that for the 2022 benefit, Walsh enlisted an all-Ohio-based group of artists to play: Cleveland-based James Gang and Nine Inch Nails, the Breeders from Dayton, the Black Keys from Akron, and the Warren, Ohio-born Grohl. Tickets for VetsAid 2022 go on sale to the public this Friday, August 5th. VetsAid 2022 will feature Joe Walsh reuniting with the James Gang - bassist Dale Peters and drummer Jimmy Fox - along with special guest Dave Grohl on November 13th at Columbus, Ohio's Nationwide Arena. ![]()
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