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3. Beware Mr Baker

This is probably the doc I’m most looking forward to in Hot Docs 2012, a good old fashioned bio of a deranged drummer from the world’s first supergroup. What’s not to like?! But this isn’t a tv movie in disguise - it took home the best feature documentary award at this year’s SXSW and the early reviews reveal it to be the riot that the trailer sets it up to be (http://blogs.indiewire.com/theplaylist/sxsw-12-review-beware-of-mr-baker-is-a-rollicking-dangerous-and-ultimately-transcendent-ride-with-cream-drummer-ginger-baker).

Famous for being the drummer of 70’s megagroup Cream, Ginger Baker appears to exactly the type of character one would expect to be consuming truck loads of heroin with Eric Clapton as they dominated the rock world over those few halcyon years. While most (including myself) would be more familiar with the escapades of the Bonhams and the Moons of this era, the major difference here is that this is one drummer who is somehow still alive and here to tell the the tale - or at least attack the film’s maker Jay Bulger! This one looks unmissable…

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