Paulo Baldi is an American

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and

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best known as a former member of the band

CAKE Cake is a flour confection usually made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients and is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elabor ...

. Baldi currently plays with

The Claypool Lennon Delirium The Claypool Lennon Delirium is an American rock band, composed of bassist/vocalist Les Claypool, known for his work in Primus, guitarist/vocalist Sean Ono Lennon from The Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tiger, keyboardist/vocalist João Nogueira from ...

consisting of

Sean Lennon is a British-American musician, songwriter, and producer. He is the son of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, and half-brother to Julian Lennon. Over the course of his career, he has been a member of the bands Cibo Matto, the Ghost of a Saber Tooth Tige ...

and Primus'

Les Claypool Leslie Edward Claypool (born September 29, 1963) is an American rock music, rock musician. He is the founder, lead singer, bassist, and primary songwriter of the band Primus (band), Primus. Listed as one of the greatest bassists of all time by ...

. Other bands Baldi has worked with include

Les Claypool's Fancy Band Les Claypool's Fancy Band was a lineup of musicians on tour with Les Claypool from 2005 to 2007. The band consisted of Claypool on bass, Skerik on tenor and baritone saxophone, Mike Dillon on vibraphone, marimba, tabla, cuíca and percussion, ...

, Deadweight, The Faraway Brothers, The

Eric McFadden Eric McFadden (born December 1, 1965) is an American guitarist, vocalist, and songwriter from San Francisco. He spent his formative years in Albuquerque, New Mexico, receiving lessons from Stanton Hirsch. During his mid-teens, he moved to Syrac ...

Trio and

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artist Ali Khan.http://www.paulobaldi.com/ 15 February 2007

CAKE

In 2004, Baldi drummed on two songs for the

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band

Cake Cake is a flour confection usually made from flour, sugar, and other ingredients and is usually baked. In their oldest forms, cakes were modifications of bread, but cakes now cover a wide range of preparations that can be simple or elabor ...

, " No Phone" and "

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," both of which appeared on the band's fifth studio album, '' Pressure Chief''. Baldi formally joined shortly after and drummed on their ''B-Sides and Rarities'' album as well as 2011's ''

Showroom of Compassion ''Showroom of Compassion'' is the sixth full-length studio album from the band Cake, released on January 11, 2011. Produced by the band, it was the band's first studio album to be independently released. The musical style of ''Showroom of Compass ...

''. Baldi left the band in Fall 2015.

Equipment

Baldi endorses

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, Evans drumheads, Istanbul Agop cymbals, and Promark drumsticks.

Selected discography

– ''

Lime and Limpid Green Lime And Limpid Green is a 2017 EP of covers released by the Claypool Lennon Delirium. The album comprises four covers of songs originally by Pink Floyd, the Who, King Crimson and Flower Travellin’ Band. Lennon, whose mother Yoko Ono introduce ...

'' (2017) *

– ''

'' (2011) *

Trio – ''Delicate Thing'' (2008) *

– ''

Fancy Fancy may refer to: Music Albums * ''Fancy'' (Bobbie Gentry album), 1970 * ''Fancy'' (Idiot Flesh album), 1997 * ''Fancy'' (video), a 2007 video album by Les Claypool Songs * "Fancy" (Bobbie Gentry song), 1969, covered by Reba McEntire in 19 ...

'' (DVD 2007) * Eric McFadden Trio – ''Joy of Suffering'' (2005) *Cake – '' Pressure Chief'' (2004) * Deadweight – ''Stroking the Moon'' (2003) *Alien Lovestock – ''Planet of the Fish'' (2001 *Lumin – ''Hadra'' (2001) *Deadweight – ''Half Wit Anthems'' (2000) *Ali Kahn – ''Taswir'' (1999) *EM Experience – ''Our Revels Now Are Ended'' (1999) *Faraway Brothers – ''Start the Engine...'' (1999) *Liar – ''Gone Too Far'' (1998) *Alien Lovestock – ''We Are Prepared To Offer You'' (1997) *Liar – ''Devil Dog Road'' (1995)

References

External links

Paulo Baldi's Official Site
{{DEFAULTSORT:Baldi, Paulo Living people Year of birth missing (living people) American percussionists American rock drummers Cake (band) members Colonel Les Claypool's Fearless Flying Frog Brigade members Les Claypool's Fancy Band members Drummers from Colorado Rock musicians from Colorado