PSA: Repeat showing of Beware Of Mr. Baker, BBC4, Sunday 5th May.

Funkfingers

Another chance to see this 2012 film documentary, combining a potted career biography and a look at the way the man ended up. 

The last fifteen minutes of the film are especially memorable.

HAL9000

Thanks for the heads up. Will set to record.

tony99

what's all this then?

Funkfingers

Think of it as an extreme edition of Grumpy Old Men. 

crunchman

Checked two TV listings sites and it has something about flying on BBC4 at 9pm.

Funkfingers

Lancaster bomber documentary at 21:00. 

Pyrotechnics of several sorts, 22:00 - 23:30.

stan

10 o`clock.  it`s on youtube if you miss it.

Emp_Fab

Is this about Danny ?

Funkfingers

No. Somebody far more socially acceptable.

Ddigger

Thanks for posting that, just watched it on iPlayer.

Sometimes awesome and arsehole go together.

LastMantra

I've still got a recording from the first time. Crazy life!

Like the bit where he says he heard on the radio that he had died.

djspecialist

Funkfingers said:

No. Somebody far more socially acceptable.

Not the member for Wycombe then.

Funkfingers

Ddigger said:

Sometimes awesome and arsehole go together.

Indesputably, one of the finest drummers of the last fifty five years. Unfortunately, Mister Baker always knew it. Consequently, he has attitude and bears grudges.

If The Cream had stuck to the strict three-way equal partnership ethos that Baker had intended, their recorded output of original material would have been scant. 

JezWynd

Just watched it. Mr Baker came across as a much more likeable person than reviews and comments about the film had led me to believe.

Funkfingers

Leisure chemicals could have something to do with that. I suspect that it is more the case that Baker is happy when he is getting his way and royally pissed off when he is not.

57Deluxe

Emp_Fab said:

Is this about Danny ?

...don't be a chimp!!