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Clubroom => General Discussion => Topic started by: TooFastTim on July 28, 2013, 06:24:11 pm
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JJ Cale passed away yesterday.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-9x6dRPzgM (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f-9x6dRPzgM)
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Cocaine?
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Yup. And many others made famous by other artists or groups. Cale was a huge influence in modern rock and country. He's a huge loss to music.
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Great song JohnnyO......70's songs where the best. We had the best bikes and best music in that decade....infact, what was bad about the 70's?
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Great song JohnnyO......70's songs where the best. We had the best bikes and best music in that decade....infact, what was bad about the 70's?
Yep I'll take the 70's any day. I remember that song pumping in a sleazy Surfers nightclub in the wee hours in my teens.. Great song
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Great song JohnnyO......70's songs where the best. We had the best bikes and best music in that decade....infact, what was bad about the 70's?
School
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infact, what was bad about the 70's?
Bay City Rollers, Leif Garrett, Abba, crooked NSW and Queensland conservative governments, The Leyland P76.......but everything else was pretty damn good....one of the best decades of the century. 1976 was the best year in my life for way too many reasons to explain here 8).
JJ Cale, left us with some all time classics, my favourite being 'After Midnight'.......thank you old fella, a generation is grateful.
(http://i1112.photobucket.com/albums/k495/firko2/JJCale_zpsf73bab25.jpg) (http://s1112.photobucket.com/user/firko2/media/JJCale_zpsf73bab25.jpg.html)
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infact, what was bad about the 70's?
Missing the scene of pre75 bikes!
RIP JJ Cale... remember the music from the 80's on the southern coast !
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Call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
Well now they call me the breeze
I keep blowin' down the road
I ain't got me nobody
I don't carry me no load
8)
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Vale the great man. It's funny the things you remember. At the Tewantin Hotel at Noosa listening to the cover band belt out Cocaine in about '77. J PS Skynyrds rendition of "call me the breeze" still gets a hiding in my car.
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Will there be a turn table at Conondale Sat night? I have the original FM album with JJ on it and also Joe Walsh "lifes been good to me so far" Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, etc... even Willie singin' "Blue Skies, smilin' at me" :)
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Will there be a turn table at Conondale Sat night? I have the original FM album with JJ on it and also Joe Walsh "lifes been good to me so far" Eagles, Linda Ronstadt, etc... even Willie singin' "Blue Skies, smilin' at me" :)
You'll have to storm the turn table and take over EML ;D
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Careful there, I might play some AC/DC backwards and get charged for bring MA into disrepute ;D
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infact, what was bad about the 70's?
The Leyland P76......
The P76 V8 engine was pretty good.
JJ Cale was very good.
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"THE" mr cool of the seventies 8) Thanks for the music man ;)
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I clearly remember my first car accident, ran up the back of a cab while perving at the good sort at the bus stop and listening to
"After Midnight"
R.I.P. JJ
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Firko, don't tell me you don't know half the words to ABBA songs and didn't want to pork the 2 chicks? ;D
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Firko, don't tell me you don't know half the words to ABBA songs and didn't want to pork the 2 chicks
Sadly you're right Joan,AM radio saturation drilled that shit into all of our subconscious. My old Dad was dying of cancer in 1976 but the one thing that sparked him in his final weeks was playing the ABBA album over and over on the little cassette player next to his bed. He, like me was a Freida guy :)
I went to see JJ Cale play at the Roxy in North Hollywood back in 1976 or 77 but when I got there they'd cancelled the gig for some reason, never disclosed. That's as close as I ever got to seeing the great man. Here's a very cool live gig...soooo laid back. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q16zsctSWQ (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q16zsctSWQ)
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There was a story I heard many years ago about Cales concerts and he hints that it might be true in the link I posted. Apparently, early in his career, he was just an anonymous guy somewhere in the (big) band. He didn't stand at the front of the stage nor were the stage lights on him. He was just there, somewhere, in the band.
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There was a story I heard many years ago about Cales concerts and he hints that it might be true in the link I posted. Apparently, early in his career, he was just an anonymous guy somewhere in the (big) band. He didn't stand at the front of the stage nor were the stage lights on him. He was just there, somewhere, in the band
Check my You Tube concert link too.....it looks like he's just an anonymous member of the band.
I heard on the radio this afternoon that JJ Cale was many of the gun guitarists favourite gun guitarist. Eric Clapton worshipped him as a player and friend while Duane Allman was lining up to do an album with him but was killed before it got past the jamming stage. Butch Trucks reckons he was the best kept secret in rock guitar history and Mark Knopfler is quoted as saying that JJ Cale was his greatest influence as a quick listen to 'Sultans of Swing' would testify. Neil Young once said "of all the players I ever heard, it's got to be Hendrix and JJ Cale who are the best electric guitar players". Unlike many of his contemporaries, JJ wasn't exactly broke when he died suddenly of a heart attack, living in laid back comfort in upmarket Ja Jolla, California.
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momma don't allow no reefer smoking round here, rip