Ginger Baker's Airforce -Live 1970 DVD

After the sucess of Cream and Blind Faith Ginger's next musical stop was his own band Ginger Baker's Airforce who released two albums of part studio part live recordings. The band also performed in front of the cameras for German television and the extended performance has rarely been seen in full since it was taped in late 1970. This in studio perfromance which took place at almost the end of the bands creative life captures the third and final incarnation of Airforce following the departure of Steve Winwood Ric Grech and Chris Wood who had returned to Traffic by... this time and Denny Laine and Trevor Burton who had returned to their own band Balls. The line up for this performance consists of Ginger Baker: drums Graham Bond: vocals Hammond Saxes Ken Craddock: organ/guitar/ vocals Steve Gregory: tenor sax/flute Bud Beadle: saxes Colin Gibson: bass Aliki Ashman: vocals Diane Stewart: vocals Speedy Acquaye: congas. This studio date was the only date played by the band in October 1970 although this line up would return to Germany later in December for two more concerts. These would be the final concerts in Germany however for the Airforce before the band split. The performance captured by the cameras that October day in 1970 features amongst others the Cream track Sunshine Of Your Love both as part of an extended jam which included Early In The Morning a featured track from the first Airforce album and also later in the set as a stand alone performance and 12 Gates Of The City a Graham Bond composition which featured on the second Airforce album. [show more]

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