RIP Wicked Pickett

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 7:09 pm

One of the great soul singers

selfmademug · Post by **selfmademug** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:03 pm

Shit. I had him figured for older but he was only 64-- that's entirely too young to go, especially for such a towering singer. I was just grooving to his greatest hits the other day (see the What Are You Listening To thread!) and thinking how much I love his version of "Mama Told Me Not to Come". RIP.

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 8:10 pm

64 isn't that bad a run for the amount of drugs he did - I guess he sounded a lot older than his age on those early Stax records.

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:06 pm

RIP

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/01/ ... VJOE.shtml

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 9:42 pm

He was one of the all time greats. I highly recommend the documentary Only The Strong Survives which was completely stolen by a livewire Pickett who couldn't help but come off like the coolest man on the planet.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:02 pm

A tremendous loss. I'm very sad to hear this.

alexv · Post by **alexv** » Thu Jan 19, 2006 10:26 pm

Saw the documentary last night, Vez, and rufus and irma also came across great. Pickett lived next door to a guy I knew in a very conservative Jersey town, and the stories this man had about Pickett are unreal. Gargantuan appetite for life is I all I can say. His 64 is probably twice as much in normal human years.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Fri Jan 20, 2006 2:36 am

I tend to lean towards more sophisticated and/or eclectic types, but there's no denying the man's status, musical power and influence or that the horn section on his records always rocked way hard. I'm also kind of pissed that I never got to see him live.