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12-22-2014, 12:00 PM
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RIP Joe Cocker
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12-22-2014, 12:08 PM
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Wow. He was awesome - surprised he lived to be 70, but he packed a lot of life into 70 years.
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12-22-2014, 12:18 PM
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I saw him at some club in Hollywood back in the early '70s. He came out after the group I went to see finished their last set. Don't even remember who I went to see. He worked over those couple of songs as if it was the last thing he would ever do in life. They half carried him off stage. Theatrics? Maybe, but man did he kill.
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12-22-2014, 12:19 PM
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Only 70? I'm 63 and I always thought he was way older than me. I did like him a lot.
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12-22-2014, 12:22 PM
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RIP
Woodstock 1969
Cologne 2013 (HD)
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12-22-2014, 12:23 PM
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I saw him at the low point of his career. He played a small bar in south Minneapolis in about 72 or 73. He was still great.
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12-22-2014, 12:24 PM
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Oh no. What a loss to the world. 
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12-22-2014, 12:25 PM
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gone traveling
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Ray Thomas
You made me check on Ray Thomas...still alive. Can't believe the Moodies aren't yet in the R&R HoF.
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12-22-2014, 12:33 PM
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12-22-2014, 01:42 PM
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loved to listen to him. funny story about his appearance at woodstock. the organizers had only heard him, never saw him. They thought he was an african american. and they had no idea how "physical" he got into his songs. Needless to say they were surprised.
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12-22-2014, 02:03 PM
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Great guy. Saw him in concert in Denver a couple of years ago. He will be missed.
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12-22-2014, 02:18 PM
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RIP
Loved "Unchain my Heart"
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12-22-2014, 02:45 PM
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RIP Joe Cocker
That Woodstock performance was classic! RIP Joe...
An appropriate requiem from another great who's "done gone on"...
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12-22-2014, 03:29 PM
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I never got to see him, but liked his music. Gone too young.
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12-22-2014, 03:33 PM
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I saw him 2 years ago, he was as good as ever. So sorry he had to leave.
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12-22-2014, 04:21 PM
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Another icon gone too soon.
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12-22-2014, 04:57 PM
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There's a heck of a party/performance going on. RIP Joe...
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12-22-2014, 09:26 PM
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He made some beautiful music. RIP.
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12-23-2014, 07:47 AM
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Broke my heart almost as bad as when Johnny Winter died last summer. Can't count the hundreds and hundreds of times I've listened to "Mad Dogs & Englishmen"---bought the album in the early 70's when it first came out and played it to death. Made a cassette copy and played it to death. About 10 years ago found the CD at the library and copied it with my computer and have played it to death. Of course with "Mad Dogs & Englishmen", you have to look at the band too: Leon Russell, Chris Stainton, Don Preston, Carl Radle, Jim Gordon, Jim Keltner, Chuck Blackwell, Sandy Konikoff, Bobby Torres, Jim Price, and Bobby Keys. Among the singers were Rita Coolidge and Bobby Jones. R.I.P. Joe, you will be missed.
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12-23-2014, 08:36 AM
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Originally Posted by Ally
Only 70? I'm 63 and I always thought he was way older than me. I did like him a lot.
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That was my initial reaction, also. I wasn't quite old enough to notice his 60s music. In fact I probably never even saw him on tv until he sang "Up Where We Belong". I still remember that. I thought truly something physically was wrong with him when he sang. I didn't know until later that was just the way he rolled when he sang.
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