RIP Joe Cocker
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o1d_dude
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Woodstock 1969
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Sad. Great musician.
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My goodness. I thought you meant John Coker (the rocketeer). My heart jumped in my chest when I read this tread title.
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You and me both! It wasn't until I opened the thread that I realized my error.
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Wow,,,
He certainly was a great musician Chuck.....
His music will go on for sure,,,,
With a little help from his friends.............
Teddy
He certainly was a great musician Chuck.....
His music will go on for sure,,,,
With a little help from his friends.............
Teddy
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A great singer, for sure, but his stage presence (spasmodic flapping) was a little disconcerting. My first awareness of him and a lot of 60's musicians was during the 80's nostalgia for the 60's (nostalgia lags 20 years, brace yourselves for mid-90's nostalgia). I saw a lot of films about Woodstock, Monterey Pop, and Altamont back then, and I remember Joe doing his thing.
Certainly a unique personality but with apologies to his family and fans, a great singer ? A great musician ? I dunno. Guess you had to be there. But I still find the Woodstock stage announcements (and Sly Stone's set) pretty entertaining. James Earl Jones and his pump action bug spray come to mind.
Sorry I (accidentally) freaked you guys out!
It depends on how you define "great" and "singer." Was he a "great singer" like Pavarotti, with a perfectly exercised and trained voice, who can hit every note with perfect pitch? No. Some might argue that Joe Cocker, with his raspy, cracking, vocal-noded voice couldn't sing at all.
But if you consider rock and blues singing as a genre unto itself, with its own rules, then yeah, I would say he was a great singer. He could really sell a song. He made you feel it. The brokenness of his voice connects with the brokenness in all of us, and produces a result.
I'd call that great.
I'll agree, he was committed to his craft, in every sense. From reading several online sources it appears he finally found a good measure of peace and love without the dope. Cheers to him.
o1d_dude
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Technically a perfect singer? Hardly.
Iconoclastic/did it his way? Damn straight. He often looked like he was having a seizure while wailing out a number but that's what made him special. He was fully committed to the performance, dancing like no one was watching.
Iconoclastic/did it his way? Damn straight. He often looked like he was having a seizure while wailing out a number but that's what made him special. He was fully committed to the performance, dancing like no one was watching.
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Most fans have probably already seen this, but he made a brief but powerful appearance in the historical-fiction, Beatle's-themed musical Across the Universe in 2007, put that in your NetFlix queue.
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0445922/fullcredits?ref_=tt_ov_st_sm
