Gerry Rafferty Dead at Age 63

[KG4CGC]

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I remember him from when I was in high school. Most people wouldn't admit to listening to him but he did get A LOT of airplay.

[PA5COR]

Yep, listened to him, quite well played here in the EU

[NA4BH]

Damn, I liked him.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2vGMgov_S5s

[ki4itv]

I hate to see them go like that.

[KA5PIU]

I hate to see them go like that.

Hello.

I will give you a tiny hint, nobody gets a choice. ;)

[NQ6U]

I will give you a tiny hint, nobody gets a choice. ;)

Well, yes and no. You do get a choice whether or not to abuse alcohol and kill your liver the way Rafferty did.

[kc7jty]

Baker Street is a masterpiece. I still remember where I was when I first heard it in 1978.

[n6hcm]

Well, yes and no. You do get a choice whether or not to abuse alcohol and kill your liver the way Rafferty did.

in this country alcoholism is a treatable disease. most people don't choose to be alcoholics.

[N8YX]

Baker Street is a masterpiece. I still remember where I was when I first heard it in 1978.
I think I still have it around somewhere.

[K7SGJ]

Sorry to see him go SK. I always liked the sax intro on Baker Street.

[KA5PIU]

in this country alcoholism is a treatable disease. most people don't choose to be alcoholics.

Hello.

+1000000000

[NQ6U]

in this country alcoholism is a treatable disease. most people don't choose to be alcoholics.

True, but they can choose to seek treatment rather than continue to drink until their liver fails. Don't get me wrong here--I live with an alcoholic, I've seen how the addiction works. I was just responding to Rudy's comment about how "nobody gets a choice" of how they die. That's true enough most of the time, but not entirely so in this case.

[w2amr]

Baker Street is a masterpiece. I still remember where I was when I first heard it in 1978.Having to play the same song over and over for 30 years would make anybody drink.

[kb2vxa]

OK kids, FOCUS! Now what's wrong with this picture?

[NQ6U]

OK kids, FOCUS! Now what's wrong with this picture?

Mind the gap.

[ab1ga]

OK kids, FOCUS! Now what's wrong with this picture?

Nothing at all. Sherlock Holmes seems only to be sucking on his pipe, not actually smoking it.

[kb2vxa]

Being that unobservant you'd be run over by a train.

[ab1ga]

Being that unobservant you'd be run over by a train.

My hearing is one of the few things I have left that work!

[KA5PIU]

Hello.

I am amazed at the sheer number of automobiles that get hit by a train.

[kb2vxa]

Automobiles... in the London Underground? Still they keep trying and you can't read the sign. (;->)

[N7YA]

It was a bummer to hear about him dying. I really liked his "yacht rock" style, and i actually have Baker Street loaded up in the car. I also like his tune "Right Down The Line". Most folks dont know he was half of the band Stealers Wheel, with their one song "Stuck in the Middle with you". Baker street was released when i was in 6th grade, it reminds me of when me and my buddy would ride our bikes in the rain in Anchorage down to the the hobby shop to buy airplane models.

I also agree, very few sax solos were as well known...i mean, just about everyone knows Raphael Ravenscroft's sax riff. It was originally intended for guitar, but he was in the studio at the time and offered to do it on sax and it worked!

R.I.P Gerry...alcoholism is a bitch. I live in a very alcoholic town and see idiots driving all over the road, wandering out into the streets drunk, puking on the side of the road, etc...its a 365 day drunk fest around these parts. He dies from it, and i bet no one takes a hint from this.