RIP Joe Cocker

[Greg Myers]

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?

Watch the film, he's led around in a drug induced daze most of the film.

[southpier]

buncha ballbusters.

anyway, 1969 and was watching the Chambers Brothers warm up for the lead act, Joe C hissef.

things got a little "too intense" and I had to leave the auditorium before the set. suppose I should regret it, but somehow I have moved along without ...

well, 70 isn't chronologically old, but i'll wager they were like "dog years" and he packed like 150 into it.

[mnwildpunk]

That gravelly voice will be missed hard to believe we lost two amazing talented artist on the same day 12 years apart joe cocker and joe strummer

Edited December 24, 2014 by mnwildpunk

[Ace-Garageguy]

... problem is, who might be next? you just really never know.

jb

I have a couple nominations.

[mnwildpunk]

I do too how is it the true greats die so young Steve McQueen John bulushi, John lennon, james dean, goorden lightffoot, and if youre cool you die younger imho. granted Joe cocker wasn't so young but still young in my eye's he will live foever

[jbwelda]

to call joe cocker exploited in that he was "led around in a drug induced haze" is to totally misstate the situation to the point that I wonder just exactly what you "know" about that time and that particular situation. most of the time it was joe cocker who was doing the leading around, in a drug induced haze or not. you seem to think this guy was an angel who was corrupted by his partners in music. pretty much the opposite of the case. I don't think Joe Cocker did much in the way of dope; he was an alcoholic most of his life and particularly during that time he was noted for falling dead drunk off the stage, though on that tour he was kept in check by Leon Russell at least enough to keep him vertical throughout the set. perhaps there was some "alcohol in pill form" but generally speaking he did not really partake like a lot of people around him did and he certainly never got into the heroin like a lot of those people did at the time. No one was "exploiting" Joe Cocker any more than any rock star is "exploited" (which is probably less than the average working stiff is exploited in their day to day life).

and yes I was there, and yes I had something to do with locally occurring events (San Francisco and northern california). as for watching the film, I did so when it came out and a few times after that. but you didn't have to watch the film if you were there to watch the events unfolding. a lot of that trash was for the camera just like in the Robert Frank's Stones film (never released officially that I know of but a real underground hit at the time) C*cksucker Blues about their 72 tour (and featuring Bobby Keys prominently).

as for "nominations" I think I know of at least one person you are going to mention and all I have to say about it is he is still alive despite predictions to the contrary and on a track to die eventually from old age. like this person himself says: if everything you have heard about me were true I would have been dead a long time ago.

its funny how I share a bit of knowledge and get called, sarcastically, "Professor Music" by a supposed moderator. should I seek your permission to post next time?

with that I wish everyone a Merry Christmas and hope all is peaceful in your part of the world.

jb