Not Another Hero Gone...

[tentoze]

Sweet Jesus, Wilson Pickett died today. I will drink tonight.

http://www.cnn.com/2006/SHOWBIZ/Music/01/19/pickett.obit.ap/index.html

 

[Toasted Almond]

Aw ****. "Land of a Thousand Dances" will never sound the same.

 

[RichPA]

Damn. Here's to Wilson ...

 

[Photobitstream]

I just heard that on NPR. Sad. Here's to you Wilson.

 

[CortR]

A hero to me, too. Been a mighty bad last twelve months for music.

 

[dennab]

More one of the greats...
The big whell keeps on turning...

den.

 

[bully]

Bummer. I really enjoyed him back in the 60s.

 

[luvvinvinyl]

'Mustang Sally', and a raised glass.

here's to Wicked Wilson Pickett.

 

[Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

Damn. The greats are dropping like flies these days.

 

[Doug The Dog]

I'm Going home after work, I'm going to fire up the garage stereo, sit in my half completed Mustang, have a few brews and listen to Wilson Pickett....LOUD!!! May he rest in peace.
Travis

 

[Urizen]

"In the Midnight Hour"...what a great tune. RIP :tears:

 

[Dan ʕ•ᴥ•ʔ]

Yup...was #1 in June of '65.

 

[steve gibson]

I partied and poured a few to his tunes in the 60s. Time marches on.

 

[tentoze]

If you never heard this album:

you didn't catch the pinnacle, IMO. Wilson at the top of his game, with a phenomenal backing band of Muscle Shoals studio geniuses, and an unknown session slinger, Duane Allman, on some scorching ass guitar.

 

[Andyman]

Damn, more weird stuff...........
Driving home from work today, I pop in a old cassette compilation I haven't played in years titled "Dead Men, Stevie and Duane", and that "Hey Jude" cut is on it.
First the Janis coincidences, now this,

 

[tentoze]

Andy, buy lottery tickets- yr karma is unassailable right now.

 

[Andyman]

Ya think??????????

 

[tentoze]

Ya think??????????

Yup- I checked with my man at the <mumblemumble> casino- smart money's all on you, amigo.

 

[Strangeband]

I have to agree that Wilson Pickett was at his best on that Hey Jude album. It's sad to think that he was still two months shy of his 65th birthday.

 

[JDaniel]

I saw a Southern Rock special on tv last week. It started out with the Allman Brothers. The setting was Muscle Shoals. And it talked about when they were working with Wilson Pickett. The times being what they were, when dinner time rolled around, everyone else would go out to eat. Duane and Wilson would have to stay behind, and the other band members would bring their food back to the studio. Why? Because one was black, and the other had long hair. Neither was welcome in the local eating establishments. Hard to believe that was in my lifetime.

RIP Wilson.

JD