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OT: Joe Cocker RIP
OT: Joe Cocker RIP
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The Iceman
2269 posts
Dec 22, 2014
11:41 AM
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70 years old, losing the battle with lung cancer.
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The Iceman
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John95683
200 posts
Dec 22, 2014
11:53 AM
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One of a kind, that's for sure. RIP, Joe.
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nacoran
8176 posts
Dec 22, 2014
11:53 AM
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RIP. I was just going to post something. Heard it on the radio. He was one of the only guys I ever heard make a Beatles song better.
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TetonJohn
227 posts
Dec 22, 2014
12:01 PM
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Yeah, he really could make others' songs his own!
(I saw him at Woodstock; IIRC)
Last Edited by TetonJohn on Dec 22, 2014 12:02 PM
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Meaux Jeaux
25 posts
Dec 22, 2014
12:01 PM
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"Cry Me A River" RIP Joe
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ted burke
39 posts
Dec 22, 2014
12:34 PM
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Joe Cocker had a voice that was rust and whiskey through and through, a soulful rasp and a bellicose roar that could make a songwriter's lyric seem to surrender a greater hurt, a greater passion, a more profound than mere definitions and vocalizations, now matter how ardent, would usually reveal. There was something nearly cartoonish in his take on the blues-shouter tradition, the area of gospel-informed geniuses Ray Charles, Otis Redding and Aretha Franklin came from and changed the way pop singers regarded singing. Where his influences had mastered their technique and honed their emotions to suit the timbre, pitch and range of their voices, and learned the subtle art of varying the use of the shout, the rasp, the corrosive croon, the melismatic technique of stretching words and even elongating syllables within words to suggest the tonal groans, cries and whispers of a human voice connected to unambiguous pain and joy, Cocker tossed much of that out the window when he came to the microphone and let loose a hard, blistering , sustained rage ; his voice was like one large gun aimed at a wall of hard experience, each bunker- busting shell intended to blow it all to hell. He wasn't going to tell you about his experiences, he seemed intent to make you live them . It was raw, unnerving, exhilerating, unsullied in it's prickly graininess even when he did the most treacly material. In his his best moments, his bracing presentation of self was a thing of wonder that stayed in your memory a lifetime.----------
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Last Edited by ted burke on Dec 23, 2014 2:11 PM
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The Iceman
2270 posts
Dec 22, 2014
1:55 PM
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Goldbrick
806 posts
Dec 22, 2014
1:57 PM
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He was a great one and a unique talent
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kudzurunner
5196 posts
Dec 22, 2014
4:15 PM
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That's powerful writing, Ted. Thanks for sharing it here.
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