Author Topic: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP  (Read 14611 times)

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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #30 on: December 23, 2014, 10:18:14 AM »
She went in silent partnership with Sweet Emily to open a fern bar in Tulsa?  Insisted on Delta faucets...... :pop
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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #31 on: December 23, 2014, 10:29:32 AM »
He was one of those rare performers who always made you feel like that performance, at that time, was the most important thing to him in the world. He'd get up on the balls of his feet and give the mike every ounce that he had. That was a guy with heart and soul by the truck load. That choir full of angels is going to have thier hands full trying to hold onto Joe.

Agreed - the angelic choir better bring their "A" game.

Have you ever heard a baseball announcer say the pitcher "reached back and put something extra" on a pitch?
To me, that was Joe Cocker. He had the extra to give and he gave it.
I will miss him.

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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #32 on: December 23, 2014, 10:37:30 AM »
She went in silent partnership with Sweet Emily to open a fern bar in Tulsa?  Insisted on Delta faucets...... :pop

And what would the Shortster know about fern bars ? ;D Geez , Tulsa , what happened to our rough and tumble city on the plains .

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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #33 on: December 23, 2014, 10:40:05 AM »
the Shortser.  Oh  yeah, now that fits.   ;D

the Shorster on his Sportster.   :bike
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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #34 on: December 23, 2014, 11:00:41 AM »
Keith is "pickled"  ;D

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RIP Joe Cocker, somehow turned sappy pop into some deep soul sounds.
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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #35 on: December 23, 2014, 11:51:13 AM »
Back in the 90s, Joe and his wife Pam opened the Mad Dog Café in Crawford, a small ranching community in western Colorado.  There was not enough money in the town budget for Christmas lights, so the Cockers lit up the town!  Good people, Joe will be sorely missed.

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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #36 on: December 23, 2014, 11:11:07 PM »
That guy was the real deal.Where are the singers today that have a fraction of that energy? I remember my jaw dropping when I first saw his Woodstock performance.

Grace Potter leaves it all on stage .

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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #37 on: December 24, 2014, 06:23:21 AM »
He was one of the great blues, rock & roll, and R&B singers of his generation. ;-T  R.I. P. Joe...and Godspeed!
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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #38 on: December 26, 2014, 03:24:04 AM »
His "With a Little Help From My Friends" was one song where a cover absolutely blitzed the original; he really made it his own. The Mad Dogs and Englishmen version truly is fantastic.

Sad he is gone.
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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #39 on: December 26, 2014, 10:22:54 AM »
Check out Samantha Fish; another who doesn't leave anything on stage.  Oh, and it was Bobby Keys that died a month or so ago, not Bobby Kets.  Just sayin.
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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #40 on: December 26, 2014, 11:21:01 AM »
I regret that I only got to see one of his live performances, that was in August of '69 at the Woodstock Festival. I remember his performance and only a few of the others, seems something has clouded my mind,..... but it was Jimi's rendition of the Star Spangled Banner that still brings on goose bumps when I think of it.

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Re: Another great one gone. JOE COCKER RIP
« Reply #41 on: January 07, 2015, 02:43:25 PM »
I found this today on YouTube.  It's Joe when he was 19, performing as Vance Arnold & the Avengers.  Imagine seeing a 19 year old kid and hearing that voice coming out of him.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASKPdRcU_MU
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