# RIP, Joe Cocker **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2014, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934 "2014-12-22T18:34:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 19\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![chiroptera](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@chiroptera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/chiroptera)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 10:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/21 "2014-12-22T22:28:51Z")
Well shit. RIP, Joe. What a voice he had. ---
**Author:** ![TBG](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c89c15/32.png) [@TBG](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TBG)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/22 "2014-12-22T22:38:58Z")
Too bad he sang out of tune and I had to stand up and walk out on him. [SIZE=“1”]to any mods who don’t know, this a reference to a song he covered, not a threadshit[/SIZE] ---
**Author:** ![Inigo\_Montoya](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/inigo_montoya/32/124_2.png) [@Inigo\_Montoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Inigo_Montoya)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 11:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/23 "2014-12-22T23:05:13Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > \ For the win. I really dug his music. His duet with John Belushi was priceless. ---
**Author:** ![Nema98](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/d2c977/32.png) [@Nema98](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nema98)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 11:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/24 "2014-12-22T23:28:20Z")
Rest in Peace. ---
**Author:** ![not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/not_what_you_d_expect/32/3246_2.png) [@not\_what\_you\_d\_expect](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/not_what_you_d_expect)\ **Post date:** [December 22, 2014, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/25 "2014-12-22T23:49:00Z")
Aw, one of my most favorite voices in rock. I loved his music and him. Almost all of his songs take me back to a special time and place in my life. RIP Joe. ---
**Author:** ![Magiver](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/4491bb/32.png) [@Magiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Magiver)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/26 "2014-12-23T00:14:49Z")
dang. ---
**Author:** ![astorian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ad7895/32.png) [@astorian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astorian)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 12:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/27 "2014-12-23T12:31:55Z")
Another giant who never got elected to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. ---
**Author:** ![Aeschines](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aeschines/32/16251_2.png) [@Aeschines](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Aeschines)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 12:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/28 "2014-12-23T12:45:14Z")
RIP. Not even all that old. I would have thought he was bit older. ---
**Author:** ![WordMan](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/e8c25b/32.png) [@WordMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WordMan)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 12:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/29 "2014-12-23T12:56:34Z")
> [@QuickSilver](#): > > \ Pretty much says it all. He was never my guy, but man, could he get inside a song and present it his way. ---
**Author:** ![Meurglys](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/258eb7/32.png) [@Meurglys](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Meurglys)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/30 "2014-12-23T13:01:03Z")
Bugger. That’s sad news. ---
**Author:** ![alted315](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/cc9497/32.png) [@alted315](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alted315)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 2:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/31 "2014-12-23T14:16:15Z")
\*\* RIP\*\* the master of making someone else’s song\*\*[/his ownB] ---
**Author:** ![wguy123](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wguy123/32/3161_2.png) [@wguy123](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/wguy123)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 3:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/32 "2014-12-23T15:46:47Z")
Saw Joe open for SRV on 7/21/90 at the Gorge Amphitheater. I went to see Stevie but was absolutely blown away by Joe. I have no idea how someone can belt it out like that! Was also blown away by Stevie who was gone a month later. RIP both of you. Still have the t-shirt although it is a holey mess that has shrunk down to doll size. ---
**Author:** ![Misnomer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/misnomer/32/14897_2.png) [@Misnomer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Misnomer)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 6:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/33 "2014-12-23T18:39:39Z")
☹ > [@lost4life](#): > > > [@QuickSilver](#): > > > > \ > > You could have left it on. He wouldn’t have minded. I ❤ this place. ---
**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2014, 7:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/34 "2014-12-23T19:36:29Z")
Sorry he’s gone, however I found he had the bad habit of overcooking his singing, oversouling it if you like, and when he did it, it just didn’t work - and he did it far too often, Janis Joplin was another one who marred her work with over souling it too. When they just stuck to hitting the song dead on, it was great, not enough of it though. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2014, 12:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/35 "2014-12-24T00:46:06Z")
> [@jsc1953](#): > > This is a good opportunity to post [this](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4_MsrsKzMM), possibly the funniest thing I’ve ever seen on the internet. > > But RIP, Joe. You were one of a kind. That was funny as hell! Thanks. ---
**Author:** ![Ponch8](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ponch8/32/9883_2.png) [@Ponch8](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ponch8)\ **Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 7:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/36 "2014-12-25T19:51:43Z")
Too bad. Like many others my age (38), my first exposure to his work was probably during the opening credits to every \* Wonder Years\* episode (his version of “With a Little Help from My Friends” was the theme song). ---
**Author:** ![slowlearner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@slowlearner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/slowlearner)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2014, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/37 "2014-12-26T02:44:13Z")
Lost my virginity during a showing of the documentary Mad Dogs and Englishmen in 1971 at the Denton Rd drive-in. Only missed about one minute of the movie. ---
**Author:** ![foolsguinea](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/foolsguinea/32/14751_2.png) [@foolsguinea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/foolsguinea)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2014, 6:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/38 "2014-12-26T06:49:46Z")
Amazing voice. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [December 26, 2014, 10:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934/39 "2014-12-26T10:22:42Z")
> [@TBG](#): > > Too bad he sang out of tune and I had to stand up and walk out on him. > > [SIZE=“1”]to any mods who don’t know, this a reference to a song he covered, not a threadshit[/SIZE] All you had to do was lend him your ear and he’d try not to sing out of key. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rip-joe-cocker/707934.md?page=1)