This comes, I believe, from GB’s 2009 autobiography: “One day, I was driving along the coastal 101 route from LA to San Francisco with three tasty chicks in a Shelby Cobra. The radio announcer said: 'We’ve stopped the music to tell you that Blind Faith drummer Ginger Baker has just been found dead from an overdose of heroin in his hotel room'. I looked round at the chicks and thought: “****ing hell! I must be in heaven!”
The Cobra sketch illustration (GB + two, not three, TCs) is marketing copy for the later ‘Beware of Mr Baker’ film.
GB’s recollection is no more reliable than his ‘heaven’ conclusion. In addition to Constant’s observations:
- Would a California owner, even in a very relaxed frame of mind, lend a Cobra to GB?
- Listening to a radio in a Cobra?
- Story of claimed 1968 event heard for the first time forty years later?
- Isn't the set-up for the punch line a bit too obvious?
It doesn’t pass the smell test.
RS