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Title: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Bolt-01 on 11 June, 2004, 02:47:58 AM
Apologies.


Bet he never saw it coming.

Damn that Trout and his all pervading evilness!

Bolt-01
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Mr D on 11 June, 2004, 02:50:41 AM
No! Shit.... Aw man. Thats really crummy.
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Max Kon on 11 June, 2004, 03:14:31 AM
who?
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Mr D on 11 June, 2004, 03:21:59 AM
He was a friggin awesome musician. Blind too. Most 'famous' thing is being the blnd guy n the Blues Brothers really. But he was even better than he seemed and sounded then.
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 11 June, 2004, 03:49:12 AM
'Who?'... the youth of today, I don't know

He also slept with a lot of women...
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: LARF on 11 June, 2004, 03:51:43 AM
'slept with a lot of women'

He had a good 'innings' on both accounts then, as they say, fnrr, fnrr!
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Smiley on 11 June, 2004, 03:58:24 AM
Damn. Wonder who'll be third?
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Post by: Floyd-the-k on 11 June, 2004, 04:10:27 AM
had to happen sometime, but what a shame. Fantastic singer musician etc

who`s going to play tennis with Stevie Wonder now?
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: thrillpowerseeker on 11 June, 2004, 04:45:15 AM
dont forget drunken wifebeater too
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: thrillpowerseeker on 11 June, 2004, 04:46:12 AM
Damn them drunk wives
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: VampiraJen on 11 June, 2004, 05:00:57 AM
'Who?'... the youth of today, I don't know


sorry, but you'll have to put me in the 'who?' category too.  he's not this bloke who has about fifty illegitimate (sp?) children, is he?  no, i think the person i'm thinking about has already snuffed it......
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: petemaskreplica on 11 June, 2004, 07:39:46 AM
I suspect you're thinking of Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Jen.

Anyway, Ray Charles, a great artist, sadly missed.
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 11 June, 2004, 02:30:40 PM
Sad news.

RIP Ray.
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: +rufus+ on 11 June, 2004, 02:32:22 PM
You don't know of Ray Carles? Check out his music, truly one of the most beautiful voices in recorded music.
   Why couldn't it have been Billy Ray Virus? To quote Kinky Friedman (of the awesome Texas Jewboys) 'May his cowboy hat explode'.
Rufus
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: +rufus+ on 11 June, 2004, 02:32:34 PM
You don't know of Ray Charles? Check out his music, truly one of the most beautiful voices in recorded music.
   Why couldn't it have been Billy Ray Virus? To quote Kinky Friedman (of the awesome Texas Jewboys) 'May his cowboy hat explode'.
Rufus
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: +rufus+ on 11 June, 2004, 02:33:39 PM
Ray carles was good too.Doh.
Rufus, illiterate fool.
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Quirkafleeg on 11 June, 2004, 03:24:13 PM
"I think you find there is plenty of action in that keyboard."
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: +rufus+ on 11 June, 2004, 03:26:43 PM
Still one of my favourite films!
:-)
Rufus, doing the mashed potato!
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Post by: Matt Timson on 11 June, 2004, 04:06:50 PM
Believe it or not, I actually used to think that Stevie Wonder was his son.  In my defence, I was only eight or nine at the time...
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Post by: W. R. Logan on 11 June, 2004, 04:28:05 PM
>Rufus, doing the mashed potato!

What about the boogaloo

La Placa Rifa,
W. R. Logan.
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 11 June, 2004, 11:45:13 PM
His performance of Hoagy Carmichael's "Georgia on My Mind" is our state song.  A native of Albany, he was in the first class of inductees to the Georgia Music Hall of Fame.

--Grant
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Richmond Clements on 11 June, 2004, 11:52:55 PM
Georgia on My Mind has been on the radio about 100 times today. He should die more often.
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: thrillpowerseeker on 12 June, 2004, 01:39:54 AM
My apologies to Fans of Ray Charles..It was of course Ike Turner who was the drunken wife batterer as was pointed out to me today by my Mother in law(a big charles fan) in no uncertain terms...Soz Ray...if your surfing this site from heaven
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Grant Goggans on 12 June, 2004, 03:03:57 AM
I thought you were talking about James Brown when you mentioned the wife-beating.  Soul Brother Number One - another Georgia native, oddly enough - has earned that epithet a time or two.

--Grant
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: thrillpowerseeker on 12 June, 2004, 06:54:47 PM
Man them soul boys sure liked their domestic violence!!
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Post by: Mr D on 12 June, 2004, 07:42:47 PM
My fave James Brown factoid is that he won't use computers because he thinks they can see you through the screen....


Er... yeah....
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Post by: Mr D on 12 June, 2004, 07:44:06 PM
And also, I was wondering exactly how a blind person could be a very effective wifebeater, especially when drunk.... His wife would have had to be really, really stoopid!!
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: Tweak72 on 12 June, 2004, 08:57:51 PM
"dont forget drunken wifebeater too"

always wondered how he managed that one. dont doubt he did it but always wondered how in the hell being not just drunk but blind he manage to hit anything but a wall or summit
Title: Re: Ray Charles dies!
Post by: thrillpowerseeker on 13 June, 2004, 01:26:57 AM
what none of you have ever hitten a wall?..even when blind drunk?..