JJ Cale died yesterday in La Jolla. He was 74.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...t-attack-at-74
JJ Cale died yesterday in La Jolla. He was 74.
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/...t-attack-at-74
All the world’s a stage, but obviously the play is unrehearsed and everybody is ad-libbing his lines. Maybe that’s why it’s hard to tell if we’re living in a tragedy or a farce.
Oh, Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaayyyum.
I loved his stuff. Another friend of the turntable, gone.
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
Crazy Mama was a favorite
Eric Clapton and so many others covered JJ. I am blessed to have seen him perform.
Here's another, that most don't know....
http://youtu.be/U1L7DQymLMs
"Where would we be without the agitators of the world to attach the electrodes
of knowledge to the nipples of ignorance?" ~ Professor "Dick" Soloman
"Basically, I'm just a guitar player that figured out I wasn't ever gonna be able to buy dinner with my guitar playing so I got into songwriting, which is a little more profitable business."
He was SOOOooo right and I learn something every day. I never heard him play, never even knew his name but OH BOY, his song writing ROCKS! For what it's worth, (rather little) a CBer, Lenny Kalish aka the Breeze after Lynard Skynard written by JJ Cale. Then there was COOOooo Breeze, always said that handle like he was riding the SOOOooo Train. Funny how sparks illuminate dim memories.
"The universe is under no obligation to make sense to you."
Neil deGrasse Tyson
73 de Warren KB2VXA
Station powered by atomic energy, operator powered by natural gas.
R.I.P. another of the good ones gone...
"If the Republicans will stop telling lies about the Democrats, we will stop
telling the truth about them." - Adlai Stevenson (1900-1965)
“I’m not liberal/conservative, I’m anti-idiotarian.”
At some point in the last 20 years, the left moved to the center, and the right moved into a mental institution
JJ played in Yellow Springs, Ohio. i heard him, I had no idea of who he was. DAYUM.
cul de n8tb
"Sadly, it always takes a few martyrs to get the ball rolling." Colonel Tim Boldman 2001
"There are no differences but differences of degree between different degrees of difference and no difference."--William James
"Science flies you to the moon. Religion flies you into buildings." Victor J. Stenger
R.I.P.
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