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RIP Joe Cocker

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RIP Joe. So many of the 60's rockers are dying. The boomers were supposed to be the generation that were never going to get old. :huh: Don't trust anyone over 30 because they're to old? I only wish I could be 30 again.

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One of my favorites from the wayback. "Just Like a Woman" and "I Shall Be Released" still have the power to move me like they did then. I'm so glad that technology has allowed the work of so many fantastic artists to be preserved, remembered and maybe rediscovered by generations to come.

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well it may have been missed by such sophisticated music lovers as we have here but Mr Cocker was not the only luminary from that circle of people who passed away in the past couple of weeks. first there was Bobby Keys, sax player for Joe Cocker in a lot of his studio and touring bands, and at one time THE studio saxophone player to have on your session, also Keith Richards best friend (and they shared a birthdate (not just a birthday)) for many decades and a mainstay with the stones on stage since the seventies with a few intermissions here and there. first class sax player and someone with a love of rhythm and blues that greatly influenced the sound of the stones not to mention Joe Cocker and particularly with Leon Russell in Mad Dogs and Englishmen band in the early 70s.

second mention would be Ian "Mac" McLagan who began with the Small Faces, went with it when they became the Faces, then played keyboards on record and stage with a whole litany of English bands starting again with the Rolling Stones but including pretty much everyone else including guest spots with David Lindleys reformed El Rayo X. He lived in Austin Tx and helped improve the already bustling local music scene immensely while also sheparding a number of major projects like the compilation of Faces tracks released on four CDs "Five Guys Walk Into A Bar" a few years ago. he was also a fellow player with most of the Beatles and most of the stones on solo projects, just like Mr Keys was and in fact they often played together on stage and off. I had met Mac a number of times in a number of different situations and he was always this totally humble person, you would never guess he had the credential he did.

somehow it seems fitting that all these guys leave here more or less at the same time, problem is, who might be next? you just really never know.

jb

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I'm one of those "sophisticated music lovers" you sarcastically refer to. And yeah, I know Bobby Keys and Ian McLagen recently died. Too bad you couldn't have mentioned them without taking a wise guy swipe at all the rest of us here.

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I'm one of those "sophisticated music lovers" you sarcastically refer to. And yeah, I know Bobby Keys and Ian McLagen recently died. Too bad you couldn't have mentioned them without taking a wise guy swipe at all the rest of us here.

Jb is the master of it so it seems.

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well it may have been missed by such sophisticated music lovers as we have here but Mr Cocker was not the only luminary from that circle of people who passed away in the past couple of weeks. first there was Bobby Keys, sax player for Joe Cocker in a lot of his studio and touring bands, and at one time THE studio saxophone player to have on your session, also Keith Richards best friend (and they shared a birthdate (not just a birthday)) for many decades and a mainstay with the stones on stage since the seventies with a few intermissions here and there. first class sax player and someone with a love of rhythm and blues that greatly influenced the sound of the stones not to mention Joe Cocker and particularly with Leon Russell in Mad Dogs and Englishmen band in the early 70s.

second mention would be Ian "Mac" McLagan who began with the Small Faces, went with it when they became the Faces, then played keyboards on record and stage with a whole litany of English bands starting again with the Rolling Stones but including pretty much everyone else including guest spots with David Lindleys reformed El Rayo X. He lived in Austin Tx and helped improve the already bustling local music scene immensely while also sheparding a number of major projects like the compilation of Faces tracks released on four CDs "Five Guys Walk Into A Bar" a few years ago. he was also a fellow player with most of the Beatles and most of the stones on solo projects, just like Mr Keys was and in fact they often played together on stage and off. I had met Mac a number of times in a number of different situations and he was always this totally humble person, you would never guess he had the credential he did.

somehow it seems fitting that all these guys leave here more or less at the same time, problem is, who might be next? you just really never know.

jb

Well then why don't you set up a new post regarding those two.?

This would be the post hoping that Joe Cocker rests in peace.

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any sarcasm was strictly in the mind(s) of the reader. I was just noting that anyone who really knows about Joe Cocker and his history beyond those couple sappy top 10 hits would have noted the passing of two giants (but often relegated to the sidelines) among musicians who passed immediately before him.

and I am not sure how exactly Joe Cocker was "exploited" in a film and album whose band he was a willing participant and in fact a prime participant in all the sideshows that went along with it. can you clarify that please?

jb

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