# Joe Jackson **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [December 11, 2000, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098 "2000-12-11T22:38:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Chef\_Troy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/85f322/32.png) [@Chef\_Troy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chef_Troy)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 8:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098/21 "2000-12-12T20:42:38Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Tommy the Cat \* > \*\*Chef, if you see this, I’ve thought about introducing myself in one of the “DFW Dopefest” threads, but just wanted to be around a bit more so people would somewhat recognize the name. I figured I should wait until I got to at least 100 posts. Well, I’ll keep an eye out for the next time y’all are planning a dopefest and I’ll speak up when you are. Thanks for the invite. \*\* Oh, we don’t sneer at new folks the way some of those hoity-toity Dopers on the coast do. Y’all are welcome - just check in the next time there’s a thread, which will probably be before long. ---
**Author:** ![xizor](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/xizor/32/102_2.png) [@xizor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xizor)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098/22 "2000-12-12T20:48:06Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Athena \* > **Damn, Padeye, if I were in Phoenix, I’d go.** Athena, if you did than we would all be back here saying “Is she really going out with him?” ---
**Author:** ![RTFirefly](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/c77e96/32.png) [@RTFirefly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RTFirefly)\ **Post date:** [December 12, 2000, 9:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098/23 "2000-12-12T21:33:07Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Pipeliner \* > His _Jumpin’ Jive_ album predated the whole swing resurgence thing by what? a decade? Considerably more, I think. That’s my favorite JJ album, **Pipeliner** - and one of my all-time favorites in general. I love hearing him do stuff like “Jack, You’re Dead” and “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?”. Great stuff. ---
**Author:** ![Padeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@Padeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Padeye)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098/24 "2000-12-13T17:55:11Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by xizor \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Athena \* > > **Damn, Padeye, if I were in Phoenix, I’d go.** > > Athena, if you did than we would all be back here saying “Is she really going out with him?” \*\* But she’s met me so I highly doubt an affirmative answer to the question, “is she really gonna take him home tonight?” 😃 That song was the crowd pleaser for sure. Joe: Look over there… Audience: (roaring) WHERE! Joe: There’s a lady that I used to know ---
**Author:** ![CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/crankyasanoldman/32/11670_2.png) [@CrankyAsAnOldMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CrankyAsAnOldMan)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 6:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098/25 "2000-12-13T18:02:41Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Scarlett67 \* > \*\*Oops, forgot – has anybody read JJ’s memoir, _A Cure for Gravity_? Excellent stuff. I read it last year and am giving it to a friend for Christmas. I highly recommend it for JJ fans! > > \*\* Ditto, I didn’t read it but my husband did. He really enjoyed it, and it compelled him to go out and get some more JJ albums. ---
**Author:** ![Gregor\_Samsa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a6a055/32.png) [@Gregor\_Samsa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gregor_Samsa)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2000, 9:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098/26 "2000-12-13T21:47:09Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by RTFirefly \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Pipeliner \* > > His _Jumpin’ Jive_ album predated the whole swing resurgence thing by what? a decade? > > Considerably more, I think. > > That’s my favorite JJ album, **Pipeliner** - and one of my all-time favorites in general. I love hearing him do stuff like “Jack, You’re Dead” and “Is You Is or Is You Ain’t My Baby?”. Great stuff. \*\* Even my dad liked _Jumpin’ Jive_. My father is of the opinion that music’s been going steadily downhill ever since Glen Miller died. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Mermaid](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/a183cd/32.png) [@The\_Mermaid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Mermaid)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098/27 "2000-12-14T14:53:01Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by Jack Batty \* > \*\* > > > [@](#): > > > > \*Originally posted by Tommy the Cat \* > > \*\*I absolutely wore out my tapes of Joe Jackson Live 82-86 (I think those were the dates). I then bought it on CD and they were stolen and I’ve yet to find them. \*\* > > I think that album must have some sort of curse on it. I have that CD set too, and there’s a big honking scratch on it. \*\* Cue the scary music. I too had the CD’s and had them stolen. I had a big party the they…just…disappeared. I smell a conspiracy. (Funny it kind of smells like discarded foreskin, or at least what I imagine it would smell like.) ---
**Author:** ![dustMagnate](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/fbc32d/32.png) [@dustMagnate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dustMagnate)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 3:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098/28 "2000-12-14T15:35:18Z")
Joe Jackson is a real class act. I saw him on the original Night and Day tour, 1982 Richmond VA USA. A two and a half hour show, he played the grand piano more than the harmonica, but Look Sharp was still fresh and he was into this big band reggae groove. Most awesome show by a squirrely white guy in 1982 with the possible exception of the Talking Heads Speaking in Tongues tour. The heads were all funked out with a twenty piece band, so pound for pound I think Joe Jackson was the man that year. ---
**Author:** ![cygnus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@cygnus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cygnus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 4:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098/29 "2000-12-14T16:05:39Z")
Wow, several comments spurred by this thread. I’ve like JJ for many years, own seven albums, and needless to say am stunned that concert tickets would go begging. I saw him only once, on the “Blaze of Glory” tour, and it remains one of the finest live shows I’ve ever atttended. Absolutely, totally, awesome. Echoing Padeye’s experience, during the show I saw, Joe did not speak to the audience until after the break at midpoint. The BOG album transitions from one track to another without any actual breaks, and so did the live show. The comment that stuck in my mind when Joe did talk to the audience was when he said, “People always ask how come I don’t do more of the old stuff. I don’t know why; the new stuff is just as good.” He and all his band/performers were the epitome of professionalism and musical virtuosity. It was a powerful, powerful show that still sparks vividly in my mind more than ten years later. I had no idea that “Blaze of Glory” was out of print! I will cherish it all the more. I also didn’t know that there was a new album; shame on me for not keeping up (so many things, so little time). Will have to check a tour posting to see if he’s coming to my area; that would definitely be high on my list of “acts worth seeing again”. My CD’s of “live 82-86” also developed an inexplicable skip. :eek: (Prior to that, they had also disappeared for a while, but I eventually found them fallen behind the rack.) Concur with Pipeliner and dustMagnet’s assessment of JJ as a class act all the way. Sure hope he’s coming to my area. Need to add another CD to my Christmas wish list. ---
**Author:** ![cygnus](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e0b2c6/32.png) [@cygnus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cygnus)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2000, 4:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098/30 "2000-12-14T16:11:20Z")
> [@](#): > > \*Originally posted by cygnus \* > \*\*dustMagnet’s assessment \*\* oops! sorry! I meant, of course, **dustMagnate** (a sad subconscious commentary on the incredibly lackluster housekeeping I’ve been doing lately; obviously it preys on my mind now and then) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/joe-jackson/45098.md?page=1)