# I finally understand! Joe Cocker makes sense now! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand-joe-cocker-makes-sense-now/494513 "2009-04-27T16:16:49Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 4:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand-joe-cocker-makes-sense-now/494513/1 "2009-04-27T16:16:49Z")
All of you who are children of the sixties like me, who were at Woodstock like me\*, check [this video](http://www.elwp.com/Joe%20Cocker.html) out. Achieve enlightenment. I gotta gotta La-Z-Boy, I’m afraid. Hoggify! RR [size=1]\*Well, I’m a child of the sixties in that I was born in 1961. And I didn’t so much _go to_ Woodstock as I did like Woodstock (the _Peanuts_) version). I do like Joe Cocker, though. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 5:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand-joe-cocker-makes-sense-now/494513/2 "2009-04-27T17:57:04Z")
This made the rounds a while back, but it’s well worth another look. Hilarious!! ---
**Author:** ![BubbaDog](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bubbadog/32/333_2.png) [@BubbaDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BubbaDog)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 5:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand-joe-cocker-makes-sense-now/494513/3 "2009-04-27T17:58:12Z")
I’m exhausted from laughing. Thanks for that one. ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 6:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand-joe-cocker-makes-sense-now/494513/4 "2009-04-27T18:05:21Z")
> [@BubbaDog](#): > > I’m exhausted from laughing. > > Thanks for that one. This is one of those “small stroke of genius” moments that makes life so damn wonderful! ---
**Author:** ![wonderlust](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wonderlust/32/7237_2.png) [@wonderlust](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wonderlust)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand-joe-cocker-makes-sense-now/494513/5 "2009-04-27T19:41:32Z")
Ow ow ow, freakin’ hysterical for this former love child! Can that be downloaded somehow? ---
**Author:** ![Hal\_Briston](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/a9a28c/32.png) [@Hal\_Briston](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hal_Briston)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 7:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand-joe-cocker-makes-sense-now/494513/6 "2009-04-27T19:53:44Z")
Oh, thank you so much. While we were watching _American Idol_ last week, my wife commented on how much Kris reminded her of Joe Cocker. “…ummm…what?” was my reasoned reply (please note that she was born nearly 10 years after Woodstock). After much back and forth, we figured out that she was talking about a different singer named Joe with a different but slightly similar last name (which escapes me at the moment). I tried to explain to her just how utterly fucked up Joe Cocker was, but couldn’t quite get it right. This is just the visual aid I needed. Thank you… ---
**Author:** ![Theodore\_Striker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/74df32/32.png) [@Theodore\_Striker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Theodore_Striker)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 8:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand-joe-cocker-makes-sense-now/494513/7 "2009-04-27T20:15:30Z")
That was a treat to watch, a wonderful treatment of one my favorite tunes. Unfortunately, I think joe would have been like that without any influential substances. ---
**Author:** ![Johnny\_L.A](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/johnny_l.a/32/1084_2.png) [@Johnny\_L.A](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Johnny_L.A)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand-joe-cocker-makes-sense-now/494513/8 "2009-04-27T20:26:14Z")
I’m in the office and don’t have audio, so I haven’t clicked the link. What is it? ---
**Author:** ![RiverRunner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/977dab/32.png) [@RiverRunner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RiverRunner)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2009, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-finally-understand-joe-cocker-makes-sense-now/494513/9 "2009-04-27T20:47:00Z")
> [@Johnny\_L.A](#): > > I’m in the office and don’t have audio, so I haven’t clicked the link. > > What is it? It’s a clip of Cocker doing _With a Little Help From my Friends_ at Woodstock, complete with subtitles that seem to accurately describe what he is wailing. Partial excerpt: - Ooh, hey hen, let’s say I want a tidal wave . . . Do I go naked before my friends? (Do you need anybody?) I did some Wonder loaf. (Could it be anybody?) What about in this turbine? Whoa, I left the river out and I don’t know why. \* Pure gold. RR