Ginger Baker was interviewed in the latest issue of England's Rhythm magazine and talked a bit about what happened during the 2005 Cream reunion shows.
"The Albert Hall was great but not the shows we did at Madison Square Garden in New York later that year. That was a fucking disaster.
"I'd refused to do it first of all. It was Eric who phoned me up and convinced me. The reason I didn't want to do it was because of what happened in New York in 1968 when the magic was destroyed. The reason why we broke up in the first place re-emerged on stage at Madison Square.
"You'll notice I'm talking about Eric in a nice way, but there was another person in the group. It wasn't just a problem with the volume of the bass guitar, it was the problem of being humiliated in front of 20,000 people.
"Jack Bruce has apologized many times since, but he's been doing that to me ever since I first played with him. He gets tearful and says 'I love you man' but the volume thing has damaged my hearing to this day. I just cannot play with other people playing too loud on stage. It's too painful."
When asked if he'd do it again, he said "No, we won't."
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