RIP Ray Charles

[Chang Style Novice]

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=501&e=4&u=/ap/20040610/ap_on_en_mu/obit_charles

Godd@mn reaper better lay off of my heroes or I'm gonna get really p!ssed off. And I DON'T mean Reagan was my hero.

I'm talking about Kenny Burrell, Elvin Jones, Robert Quine, Steve Lacy, and now this.

I'm getting drunk tonight. Some occassions just call for it.

[Shaolinlueb]

that sucks man.

[Kristoffer]

What!?


:(

****

[norther practitioner]

Sad day for blues, jazz, gospel, r&b, etc.:(

[Chang Style Novice]

No shiznit, NP. The Genius of Soul did it all. There's a great record of his called "Modern Sounds in Country and Western Music" where he totally knocked down the walls between poor black folks music and poor white folks music.

Here's to Brother Ray, who even made Pepsi Jingles sound good.

[sean_stonehart]

Indeed...

:(

[Shadowboxer]

****!! I didn't realize Kenny and Elvin had passed too...

:(

-To Brother Ray

[Chang Style Novice]

The jazz guitarist who died on May 6th was Barney Kessel, not Kenny Burrell.

I apologize for the confusion.

[CaptinPickAxe]

Rest in Peace.
I saw the news and thought that death has been working overtime lately.

Makes me nervous about my flight home this coming wednesday (knocks on wood)

[Oso]

yea, Elvin passed away a couple of weeks ago, maybe a little longer than that.

NPR did a great story on him.

you know there's a lot of reasons that this period of time sucks to be alive in.

1 - you can't be a pirate

2 - A lot of the great firsts in a lot of things are dying off.

[Starchaser107]

yo Ray : "u got da right one baybee Uh Huh !"
rip

[rubthebuddha]

at least you gents can agree on the more important issues.

rest in peace, mr. charles. :(

[X_plosion]

It's sad to know Mr. Charles is no longer with us. May he rest in peace!

[Serpent]

:(

He left the world a better place for his works. He's immortal for that.

RIP

[yuanfen]

Ray Charles crossed human bridges that few politicians are able to cross- and none lately.

[YinYangDagger]

Ray Charles sucked. I hated his music. It wasn't so special. Stevie Wonder could have taken him out - at least it would have been a good fight.

[Chang Style Novice]

0.02

[phantom]

Rest in peace to a great music legend.