In Jack's biography it's stated that Jack and Gary had plans of doing something with Gary Husband on drums, when he eventually couldn't make it Jack suggested Ginger. Gary wasn't to sure about it given the story with Cream. Interesting to hear Ginger's view of this! Here's what Gary More had to say about it in the biography: "We started laying down the tracks and it was very easy recording-wise, no problem at all, really fun. I got a real insight into the chemistry between those two, but it wasn't what I thought it would be. They weren't at each others throats; I think Jack really looks up to Ginger, and Ginger knows it. So he will never tell Jack he's any good. It's like two brothers; Ginger really likes to wind Jack up. One day I said to Jack, 'can you ask Ginger to play a hi-hat pattern like 'born under a bad sign?' 'No way, you fuckin' ask him.' So I did and he said 'sure man.' Jack looked at me, speechless."

Can’t wait for the Greeny Les Paul show !

When you said Coffee chat tonight ,I wasn't expecting 3am lol Looking forward to a history of Greenies guitars 👌

PS-It's rather humorous that Moore's band mates complained about Gary playing so loud, when he was in fact doing so to be heard over Bruce's over amplified live roar! Unfortunate the studio chemistry didn’t entirely make the transition to live performance until the point where the band was nearly over. But then, Cream was a star that shot across the sky brightly and burned out too soon as well. At least we have the albums to enjoy and keep the music alive. Great chat, thanks for giving some love to an underapreciated classic!

I saw them in Glasgow . Ginger disappeared half way through for a “ comfort break “ as Gary and Jack were about to launch into a song . Great gig and sadly now all gone .

Again great Coffee chat. Really enjoyed it. 👍🏽👌🏽 Can't fool the blues. 😉 BBM & Blind Faith. So sad it only lasted for one album. Looking forward to the Greeny video.

Great Ramon, takes me back this does - fantastic album.

Awesome video

Love Gary Moore cool video! I’m looking forward to a Rory Ghallager video

Great feature on a superb band and album! 👍 Totally agree about “Where In The World” - my favourite track from BBM. Pure class - it hints at what they could have gone on to do if they had been able to hold it all together. I love Gary Moore’s acoustic playing and the way Jack Bruce takes on the vocal when things get heavy. Talk about ‘light and shade’! And I’d say Gary’s lead lines are the most restrained he ever played. The song is just perfect 🤩

Yes! Great video again Ramon! Gary could play so many styles and all these styles perfectly: heavy rock, slow blues, fast blues. He was really special. It is hard to believe that the person played the Picture of the moon, Out in the fields, Empty Rooms, etc... Cheers.

Saw BBM at Brixton Academy - they were absolutely brilliant. A real shame that they only did one album and a handful of gigs

love how they put Ginger on the front cover. Awesome vid bro!

Another great video. Thanks for your insight again.

Another very good and interesting video, really looking forward to the stripe and green les paul 👍👍 top stuff!!!

Great work here !! GM fan since TL's Black Rose. Saw him for Wild Frontiers. Actually bought Still Got The Blues when new and traded it. Came to my senses a few years later and bought it again. Blues For Greeney and After Hours, too. Also a RI of BBM. was told of this album in the late 90s but didn't buy it. Expanded has RAH material which is great. Bought an Epi LP Std Les Paul plus around then,,,,jammed on all this stuff for hours. Fave BBM, "Why Does Love Have To Go Wrong". sort of an answer to Disraeli Gears 'We're Going Wrong'. Love both and loved the neck/br pup parts. Those were the days.

Interesting as usual !! Thank you....♥️♥️

Clapton, Hendrix, Gary Moore, Peter Green and Michael Bloomfield were my biggest influences. But for Hendrix, who would obviously have had a hard time playing a right-handed LP down the fretboard, they all had Bursts ! After Hours was a great Album and I particularly like "Cost Of Love" in BBM. Reminds a lot of Cream :) You get a pretty nice tone out of that Magneto in the style of Clapton/Moore \m/. The late Michael Casswell did a very nice workout in their style on Guitar Interactive. What a loss ! Henrik Freischlader also does a good job in a 2017 album called "Blues for Gary". Cheers Rene

Hi Ramon, I just got done watching an old video of these guys playing outside live somewhere in the UK. Gary Moore and Baker and Jack Bruce were just bloody incredible. I was born the same exact date as Gary Moore. I remember when I first heard Gary was back in the late 80's when was doing a solo act. I was absolutely blown away by Gary. I'm always saddened when I think of all my guitar heroes are all dead now. My wife is Irish and she died from drinking as well. Gary was too much into the booze and pills. What a shame. He was a huge influence on me with guitar. There's nobody that has 5he fire that Gary had. Same thing when I heard of another huge influence on my playing was Michael Casswell. I just couldn't believe it when I read the news about Michael. I used watch all of his videos. Always reminded me of a pirate in pirates of the Caribbean. Baker always struck me as being extremely strange. I could see people having a conflict with him. I always loved Clapton playing a Gibson. He was great with the Strat, but that early Clapton tone was just sublime. It's a bloody shame that everybody has to get old. I will always miss the music. In the early 90's, Gary was unreal and live with BB King, Albert King, and Albert Collins. But it really was the British that brought the American blues to the forefront of the music world. Long live the blues. I also remember being 16 when I first heard Clapton tearing it up on guitar back in the mid 60's. The music then just floored me. Another bluesman that you should cover is Michael Bloomfield. Bloomfield was huge. A monster on guitar. Born in Chicago. Paul Butterfield, absolutely incredible. Take care keep playing those blues.

It’s a great album. I love all of the songs.

Great that you covered this! Been a Gary fan for 35+ years. The solo on Why Does Love Have To Go Wrong on BBM might just be his best in a career of many high points. Ginger's playing throughout the album is astonishing; Jack glues it together. Maybe consider 'A History of Frank Zappa's Guitars'?

You're right when you say Ginger was a real character, he said it like it was, and I wanna watch the documentary they made, where Ginger sparked the producer breaking his nose lol

Try to think halftime in City of gold / crossroads..a nice approach it get more in the pocket..really enjoyed this post , Thank you

Hey, Ramon! Good to see this video being acknowledged by biographer Martin Power in, “White Knuckles: The Life and Music of Gary Moore” p454. 👍

Great Channel, thanks 😊

Not to be confused with BBA?... With ginormas chunks of music slipping under my drug addled radar, I only discovered Gary Moore a few years ago having always associated that name w/ 50's/60's long gone TV host of the same name... So it's largely news to me now, Thanx for another cool bit of guitar plunking history and... cheers

Really good album! Dont forget about "The End of the World" on Victims... with Jack!

Correction: Clapton did not play a Stratocaster during his Cream years. During those years, Eric played a Gibson SG and a Gibson ES 335

From the very first notes and beats I got the picking up where Cream left off when I bought the album on first release. Unique and won't be done as well again.

Gray Moore was AWESOME a guitarist.

I saw BBM at Brixton academy and they were brilliant. Garys playing was superb but yeah it may have been the same each night

Yes Sir. Best blues rockers since Cream. And.. they did Cream tunes extremely well.

Great album. I love it. Rory Gallagher was awesome too. Nice playing from you as well

The more consistent "professional" approach of Gary Moore, for me, gave BBM a tighter feel than Cream. It would be unfair to say Moore wasn't creative. Sometimes Cream was too "improvisational" for me. At times they did things that were so loosely structured they became almost musical rambling. While I was never the Cream fan that had all the albums, I do have several live recordings of Cream (one of my favorites is an "unofficial" release) that I really enjoy. With the live sets Cream often stuck with their more well known, more listenable cuts. And they played a little harder. I like that, and I think many listeners do, hence why several of Cream's live selections were so popular for years with Classic Rock radio. What I like so much with BBM is that they managed to capture a live energy, making it sound spontaneous, even if it wasn't. And they play with such power and authority. And between them the members of BBM came up with a whole album of relatively consistent, listenable songs. Perhaps Cream would have done so eventually had they stayed together longer. But as it is, Cream albums were sort of all over the place. You have to pick up an anthology or live recording from Cream to get that. With BBM, it's all there in one well recorded, well produced and mixed album. If they could only do one, at least they recorded their "best of" first. Lol. I love it. "Around the Next Dream" is one of my all time favorite records, not to mention being a favorite blues rock classics. 😅

Clapton was not playing strats in Cream

The band was called Baker Bruce Moore

I look forward to your Rory video. Also, I had no idea this group had existed. If Clapton did have an issue that Gary was in the band instead of him, I see no justification for that. BBM was formed differently with a different direction from The Cream. Anyway, JB and GB were entitled to play with whomever they wanted. Of course, I don't know that Clapton had a problem with it. Imo, if Ginger wanted to play with Clapton, he should have asked EC or pursued him.

I still remember when I popped one of my ears in the 70's and it wuz quite a few years with 15% loss in one side... (and that only took a little Fender 12 watt/15" JBL) I'm prolly quite lucky to not be be totally deaf as a tree stump now...

Have you heard Gary playing Jazz? He seemed like a well-rounded player to me.

Can you show us how to play some Gary style, licks, riffs, solos, etc..

Cool😎

Any updates on Ginger?

Make a history video of Duane allmans guitars

Hi , you mention " BBM Live In Spain " on KZfaq, did you mean the " Live In Germany Concert " ?

Who is the maker of your LP style guitar? It is VERY VERY nice

Ginger Baker R.I.P.

ginger baker rabbit hole today for me thx to u lol

City of gold sounded a lot like crossroads. Funny that.

A friend once told me after seeing them perform Cream tunes that Gary Moore "out-Claptoned" Eric Clapton..........

BBM Big Bowel Movement

I find myself in agreement with Ginger on the subject of GM.

And I heard that Clapton only met Gary Moore once

If Clapton had rejoined Baker and Bruce instead of Gary Moore, the band would have been called BBC.

Ginger Baker can't even stand Ginger Baker. He was so full of hate he ended up ruining every band he played with.

I thought that a couple songs on that album were deliberate digs at Clapton, with Gary doing his mimicry thing for a verse, then taking off and showing what a successful act Cream could have been with a better guitarist.

I love this channel but boy you really got a mic that up a little bit better you sound very hollow lots of echo

Ginger was very dismissive of this band and Gary Moore; he said in his autobiography that Gary Moore's solos were basically all the same. It's a pity Moore didn't absorb more of his his mentor Peter Green's influence; Less really is more! He really overplayed his hand,

Moore had only one successful album.

Gary Moore, Stevie Ray Vaughan, and Rory Gallagher were all way better than Eric Clapton. So tired of hearing about Clapton he was sooooo boring in concert, total snoozefest.

I'm not being funny but I prefer your Gary Moore style playing way more than his playing. His vibrato was horrible and his tone was overcooked and monotonous. His phrasing was pretty tedious and predictable too. Would much rather listen to you