somebody who played w/Rod Stewart and Stones just died

[Gabi Hayes]

heard on AAR news

in Seattle

anybody know who it is?

64 years old

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

1. Ronnie Wood?

Really?

[Gabi Hayes]

2. that would have to be the one, yes?

I checked google and the Seattle Times, didn't find anything, but I didn't hallucinate....I don't think, anyway

[HockeyMom]

6. Long John Baldry

On the news yesterday.

[mcscajun]

3. John Baldry

British blues legend Long John Baldry dies in Vancouver hospital
July 22, 2005 3:09 PM EDT

VANCOUVER (CP) - Vancouver-based blues legend Long John Baldry has died after a four-month battle with a chest infection, his agent said Friday on the musician's website.

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Baldry is credited as one of the main forces in British blues, rock and pop music in the 1960s and first hit the top of the U.K. singles charts in 1967 with Let the Heartaches Begin. He has released over 40 albums.

(snip)

He has performed and recorded with such top rock 'n' rollers as Rod Stewart, Elton John, Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger. The Rolling Stones even opened for Baldry in London during an early performance in the 1960s, before the band became a household name.

The British press reported that Stewart considered Baldry a mentor, and was at his bedside when he was first admitted to hospital after he fell ill in March. There were reports Stewart even helped to pay his ailing friend's medical bills.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

7. Oh.

Sad to hear that. He was great.

Good it wasn't Ronnie. He's a fine person.

[Must_B_Free]

8. Yeah, in other words, its a good thing John Baldry died

because he wasn't as fine a person as Ron Wood.

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

11. No. Not at all.

I also resent the inference. Where have you ever seen me post something like that before?

Got a load in your diapers today?

[Lydia Leftcoast]

4. I thought I'd heard today that 64-year-old Long John Baldry

had died, but all I know about him is "Boojie-woojie music."

[muriel_volestrangler]

5. Long John Baldry

Blues legend Long John Baldry, who helped discover several music superstars including Rod Stewart, has died in Vancouver after a long illness, his agent said on Friday.

Baldry, 64, died late on Thursday in a Vancouver hospital surrounded by friends and family after a four-month fight with severe chest infection, Frank Garcia said in a statement posted on Baldry's Web site.
...
Baldry, who was nicknamed Long John because of his 6'7" height, was considered a founding father of the British blues and rock 'n roll scene in the 1960s. He had lived and worked in Canada for the past 25 years.

Baldry's early projects such as Blues Inc., Cyril Davis and the All Stars and the Hoochie Coochie Men featured a plethora of musicians would go onto superstardom: Stewart, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Jack Bruce, and Jimmy Page.

http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=entertainmentNews&storyID=2005-07-22T174712Z_01_HAR263990_RTRUKOC_0_PEOPLE-BALDRY.xml

[Gabi Hayes]

9. don't try to lay no boojie woojie on the king of rock and roll

too sad

http://www.johnbaldry.com/index1.asp

loved that song....have it lying around somewhere

BTW....

THANKS for the Steve Bell

I wonder why that fatfuk Bernard Goldberg didn't have him up there with Jeff Danziger on his list....because he's British, or because BG is so ignorant he isn't even aware of him?

[OneBlueSky]

14. one of the all-time great rock 'n roll story riffs ever . . .

I still have my vinyl copy of that album, which was played extensively back in the day . . . and that line was one of our favorites for a long time . . .

RIP, Long John . . . and a message to St. Peter . . . when he gets there, don't try to lay no boojie woojie on the King of Rock 'n Roll! . . .

[ThomWV]

10. Beck?

[Gloria]

12. I think Elton played with Baldry when the former was still Reggie

Dwight....

[DemoTex]

13. Oh woe! John Baldry was my favorite rocker ever!

He rocked my rent-house to the max right after I got back from Vietnam. My Baldry albums were the basis for some of the best parties, ever, near the Auburn campus in 1972. RIP, dear John. Rest "In the Pines." Baldry's monologue/song about getting busted on the streets of SoHo and the subsequence appearance before the magistrate is an all-time classic of rock-and-roll .. because it breaks into his uber-classic "King of Rock and Roll!". Best-Rock-Song-Ever!
Know what I mean, Vern?