00:00This film is about Ginger Baker, a man who stands for something in life that probably most of you do not.
00:18Ginger Baker is a mother****, that's it. He personally is what drums are all about.
00:23He is 35'ly nuts. He is mad.
00:25I think he was kind of fairly consistently horrible to people and to himself.
00:30If they got a problem with me, come and sue me and punch me on the nose. I ain't going to sue you, I'm going to hit you back.
00:35He was a fucking dope addict, man. He was into drugs heavily.
00:38Like a great virtuoso madman.
00:40He's a force of nature.
00:44The world's greatest drummer.
00:48He was really at the forefront of a complete revolution of rock.
00:53Before Ginger, rhythm was...
00:57And Ginger comes along with...
01:00Ginger wanted a case of beer and two black hookers and a white limo.
01:10So he wouldn't play.
01:11He pulled a knife on me and said, you're fired.
01:14A couple of seminal years and does all this stuff and then, poof, all of a sudden he's an African.
01:23He predates everybody else and later on said, we discovered the sounds in Africa.
01:30He's moved around the world, thrown out of every country.
01:34I don't know if it's his ability to move on or it's his inability to stay.
01:39I think he has trouble staying.
01:41And so moving on is his option.
01:43You know, I don't think he should have had a family.
01:45I think he would have been way better off in his life if he'd never had kids and just, you know, did his thing.
01:50He would have left a lot less of a mess behind.
01:53There's no myth about Ginger.
01:55You know, he is exactly what he is.
01:57And that's the thing that we value.
02:00I love him.
02:01What's wrong with that?
02:05Are you really going to hit me with the...
02:07I'm going to put you in hospital.
02:12What?
02:13Holy...
02:14Yes.
02:17Ginger Baker just hit me in the f***ing nose.
02:39Yeah, get his gloves for me.
02:45I'm going to try it on.
02:47I'm going to try it on.
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