Wilson Pickett RIP

[Mike Burgundy]

I just heard Wilson Pickett's left us. Some part of me hopes the news is just wrong...
God bless, and bless him for all he's done.

[lovekraft0]

Unfortunately, it's all too true! I live in his birthplace, so we got the news on local television almost immediately. He'll be sorely missed!!

[A.S.P.]

R.I.P.

[Bernardduur]

 

[Mark Hammer]

OWWWWW!!  GOOD GOD YAWL!!

Too good to ignore, too wicked to live.  Gonna miss him.

Anyone remember the "psychedelic soul" classic Get Me Back On Time, Engine Number 9?  Memorable for the groove, the length (a soul hit more than 3 minutes long?  unthinkable!) the great (and plentiful) fuzzy guitar solo (what WAS that box and who was playing it?), and Pickett's signature #40-grit sandpaper vocals.  A lot of folks probably know him primarily for "Mustang Sally" and the many covers of it.  But there have been so many other tunes where his pipes laid down a benchmark for others to follow.  "I Found a Love" (with the Falcons), "Don't Fight It (Feel It)", "Land of a Thousand Dances", "Funky Boradway", "I'm In Love", "Ninety-Nine and a Half", and so many others.

Pity that he went so young, but he can hang around the pearly gates knowing that he set the standard for how soul music should sound, and how much it ought to move you.

[RDV]

 

R.I.P. your Wickedness.

RDV

[bluesdevil]

That's a surprise, I thought he died years ago!!
             In the Midnight Hour - R.I.P.

[petemoore]

 RIP, Wilson Pickett !!!
  It reminds me of the Alex Harvey lyrics to 'Next'.
  But it happens...
  There will probably be bands doing covers of WP Songs long into the future, who've never heard of a 'Wilson Pickett'...I know I've told many 'Mustang Sally' players who wrote that tune...

[RDV]

I know I've told many 'Mustang Sally' players who wrote that tune...

If you told them Steve Cropper & Isaac Hayes, you'd be right. They wrote em', the Wicked Pickett sang em'!

RDV

[playon]

Cropper and Pickett co wrote a lot of them.

I was just a kid when I first heard his version of "Land of 1000 Dances", it was like being electrocuted... what a rockin-ass record that is...