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Ginger Baker turns seventy today.

Baker, the greatest British progressive rock/blues drummer whose name isn't Rob Townsend, is best known as the drummer for Cream and Blind Faith, as well as the Graham Bond Organisation. In the seventies, he founded Air Force, a band that included Blind Faithers Steve Winwood and Ric Grech, and followed that up with a band he founded with Adrian Gurvitz, the Baker-Gurvitz Army.

As Groucho Marx would have said, thank goodness we had no Navy.

There's an article about Baker in the current issue of Rolling Stone, but I have yet to read it.

From what I understand, he's still an irascible type, having hit three score and ten. He currently lives in South Africa, having been forced out of other countries due to tax evasion, among other charges.