Why Ginger Baker always hated The Rolling Stones ?

While some of The Rolling Stones‘ material remains incredibly polarising to the point where even Keith Richards and Mick Jagger hate some of it, Ginger Baker maintained a low opinion of them from the beginning, and felt like their status as musical legends didn’t really match up to their capabilities behind closed doors.

“I won’t go within ten miles of a Rolling Stones gig,” he once told Rolling Stone, adding that “they’re not good musicians, that’s why. The best musician in the Stones is Charlie [Watts] by a country mile”. Lyrically, he didn’t have anything good to say, either, admitting that they fell short in that department with a dismissive “No, not really”. Then again, he also said he wasn’t a “big anybody fan”, making his dislike of the Stones feel more like a jab at mainstream rock than anything too personal.