((((Aretha Franklin))))

She canceled her tour dates.  I am surprised she was still touring.   Healing vibes for the undisputed Queen of Soul.

(((Aretha)))

A true pioneer who made everyone smile. Kept performing even after the pancreatic diagnosis. 

God Bless

I have always loved her

(((RESPECT)))

Good vibes to Aretha.

I often think of the time I saw her perform at the Beale Street Fest along the banks of the Mississippi river at sunset. Good memories. Earlier in the day we toured the Sun Studio, then at the fest saw Jerry Lee Lewis and Aretha. One of my favorite concert memories. 

Wishing her ease in transition.

She's been such a big part of the soundtrack of our lives...

R*E*S*P*E*C*T

Had the honor of opening for her at a festival several years back.  Somewhere in the Carolinas.

https://www.vivalazone.org/other-stuff/rip-david-cassidy

Say a little prayer for Aretha 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=STKkWj2WpWM

https://youtu.be/diwF1-xJwZM

I saw Aretha perform once at Radio City Music Hall. 

One of the best shoes I have ever seen. 

Prayers 4 the Queen of Soul 

Sad news!

Duane Allman (feat. Aretha Franklin) - The Weight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImE4IZ_n_CM

One of the greatest american artists of all time and my favorite pure singer.  The arc of her career, starting in the church and then doing package tours with Sam Cooke, she is the ur-document of all the greatness that 20th century pop and soul music gave us.

Say a little prayer for Ms. Franklin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Ifw8JhDBvs

Bridge Over Troubled Water - Aretha Franklin (Live in Montreux, 1971)

https://youtu.be/R9xcyiphoYY

Aretha Franklin - Live on The Steve Allen Show (1964)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEIdwaXYNPc

Cooking up some ham! 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEalEKNu7jM

RIP Sweet Aretha Franklin, The Queen Of Soul 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gFNqwQ8vdAY

RIP greatest singer ever!

RIP...

What a talent...thanks for blessing us with it...

https://youtu.be/cnJtsW-uFc4

{{{Aretha}}}

^

nice Hedspace

RIP Aretha 

(((Aretha)))

Nice picture spacehed!  I liked her appearance in the Blues Brothers movie.

RIP Aretha 

RIP Aretha  Franklin :(

 Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)  

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tg5nRoshICc&feature=youtu.be

RIP Aretha

Aretha 

Full Concert  3/7/71  Fillmore West 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyx34kgHGng

Part of the Obamas' statement:

America has no royalty. But we do have a chance to earn something more enduring. Born in Memphis and raised in Detroit, Aretha Franklin grew up performing gospel songs in her father’s congregation. For more than six decades since, every time she sang, we were all graced with a glimpse of the divine. Through her compositions and unmatched musicianship, Aretha helped define the American experience. In her voice, we could feel our history, all of it and in every shade—our power and our pain, our darkness and our light, our quest for redemption and our hard-won respect. She helped us feel more connected to each other, more hopeful, more human. And sometimes she helped us just forget about everything else and dance.

Aretha may have passed on to a better place, but the gift of her music remains to inspire us all. May the Queen of Soul rest in eternal peace. Michelle and I send our prayers and warmest sympathies to her family and all those moved by her song.

With clips of a couple of performances and the Obamas' longer statement:
 

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/barack-obama-aretha-franklin-death_...

Aretha 

Full Concert  3/7/71  Fillmore West 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vyx34kgHGng

Im looking forward to the Aretha Franklin live at the Bluelight mini movie.  

This one is such a massive blow to greatness in our presence, she really was uniquely magnificent. Her passing has also brought back to me how pissed at myself I am that I skipped seeing her in Oakland two or three years ago.

In her later years she didn't tour much and I never saw her perform, so I was excited about that Oakland show when it was announced, but tix were big-time pricey and went on sale months before the show so I didn't buy in and then sort of forgot about it. Then at the last minute I had a chance to go but there was some conflict the same night that I can't remember now at all, so I didn't go.

Damn it.

I don't remember what the conflict was now, but I guarantee that I if I had gone to that show I would remember it in detail today, and many of my friends who did go are talking about that show today on facebook and other places.

That's why it's so important to Go To The Show when you have the chance. 

And another GIANT passes.

On it goes.

Argument over Aretha Franklin leads to Suffolk shooting, witnesses say

https://wtkr.com/2018/08/16/suffolk-police-investigate-shooting-2/

https://archive.org/details/plf2005-05-15.aud/d2t4.flac

Please, Please, Please; Soul Session, James Brown & Friends

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDomfC26JXE

Thanks, Noodler. Beautiful.

Aretha Franklin with Duane Allman 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bUIxhPymItY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7E_jz3jHQc

https://twitter.com/eltonofficial/status/1030101480265711616

Downright Awesome and So Insanely Talented RIP Aretha.

Thank you Steve.

https://youtu.be/pF9bPpRL0IY

Noodler The Pic of The Young Aretha at The Piano and Mic In The Nice Dress and Cross Necklace Is An A Astounding Picture WoW.. RIP A.F.

Smokey Robinson just quoted as knowing Aretha since he was 8...played together as children, lived around the corner in the same Detroit neighborhood, Boston Blvd & Belmont

Somewhere - "West Side Story" Aretha Franklin -- [Leonard Bernstein/Stephen Sondheim]

https://youtu.be/vePiVcno8Vo

A Change Is Gonna Come, Aretha Franklin

https://youtu.be/k6YCxXQ6Scw

"Without Aretha Franklin and her music, I don't know where we would be as a nation and as a people."

    -Representative John Lewis

That last pic I posted not only has Duane Allman (pre-Allman Bros), the great Jerry Jemmott on bass, and of course Aretha, but the guy with the beard and glasses, Jerry Wexler, coined the term R&B, signed Ray Charles, Aretha, and many more!  

The weight

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HGdxpnGK2o4

Aretha is in the land where we will not grow old, rest in peace Aretha, thank you!

https://youtu.be/xIX6btGIn8w?list=RDd0J9nWjRp1o

https://youtu.be/MvVfLIR7BlI

"if your cup is full may it be again"

My Cup Runneth Over

https://youtu.be/PVSqHxcuIJk

     This happened Wednesday morning, not Thursday...but as almost always I wake up with a song in my brain within a half second of consciousness, although this particular morning I had this song in my brain for what seemed like over an hour before I awoke, I had seen the title the night before in print, searching through tunes, but hadn't heard the tune in easily 25 years...what crinkle in our brain catalogs musical experience?

https://youtu.be/KBCWLhlJV0Y

Freeway of Love

https://youtu.be/Ip_pjb5_fgA

A Deeper Love

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P7wCrjuTIyo

Goodnight sweet princess, sweet queen of soul, fare thee well, we are humbled and grateful for your gift to humanity...your humanity.  Still waters run deep, don't trouble the water, let it be!

https://youtu.be/7IExZv-mgrw

https://youtu.be/S4F4SbGtqL4

oh happy day, a life very well lived!

https://youtu.be/wb7D-W-QW-8

Aretha, go with God!  Be the light that shines upon us!  Thank you for the guidance and inspiration!

https://youtu.be/tNFgKot8oh0

    Kind of a funny story as far as the Simon & Garfunkel dynamic...I went to the last ever Simon & Garfunkel show at Madison Square Garden, you could feel the historical relevance...in New York City, some Simon & Garfunkel songs sounded different in NYC post 9/11, anyways they turned that show into a DVD, it was a special night, Simon & Garfunkel are to New York City as much as any other band is to any other city ever.

     After the Simon & Garfunkel show, I took the subway to 72nd Street, walked to the front door of the Beacon Theater, looked the doorman in the eye and said "I don't have a ticket, can I walk in anyways?"  He looked at me for a moment and said "Yes, have a great evening!"  It was set break, I saw the entire 2nd set compliments of the theatre...it was psychedelic!

https://youtu.be/3jM8Zcej9XM

https://youtu.be/k9TCRqlMrAY

"After the Simon & Garfunkel show, I took the subway to 72nd Street, walked to the front door of the Beacon Theater, looked the doorman in the eye and said "I don't have a ticket, can I walk in anyways?"  He looked at me for a moment and said "Yes, have a great evening!"  It was set break, I saw the entire 2nd set compliments of the theatre...it was psychedelic!"

- Phil Lesh, Beacon Theatre, 2003

https://archive.org/details/2003-12-05.paf.schoepsmk4v.taraski-bigham.22...

Aretha Franklin - Complete Performance - 1976

https://youtu.be/TCnjCh0DnH0

^ wrong Phil tour

it did happen that way...but it was '03

beautiful tune

https://youtu.be/9FE6JTtCLK0?list=PLfQLN_piOdHk5Bfrc6W2x_ZPRTLiPWUDY

when the Beacon security guy allowed me to walk in during intermission without a ticket it was a real moment

Aretha on the Late Show compilation;

1. March 14, 1994. "A Deeper Love," chat, "Think."

2. September 7, 1994. "Honey," chat.

3. February 25, 1998. "A Rose Is Still a Rose," chat.

4. May 18, 1999. "Nessun Dorma," chat.

5. September 29, 2014. "Rolling in the Deep/Ain't No Mountain High Enough," chat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SW77I7chlIA

You've seen it before, perhaps we should experience it one more time, good stuff!!!!!

God bless you Aretha, you have changed the world!!!!!

https://youtu.be/XHsnZT7Z2yQ

Aretha Franklin

Rest In Peace 

March 25th 1942 - August 16th 2018

https://youtu.be/YsNHhJTZAM0

A blessing upon us 

https://youtu.be/FvqMOH0zYq0

Note:

Simon & Garfunkel
Madison Square Garden
12.02.2003

1. Opening Montage (America inst.)
2. Old Friends/Bookends
3. A Hazy Shade of Winter
4. I Am A Rock
5. America
6. At the Zoo
7. Baby Driver
8. Kathy’s Song
9. Tom and Jerry Story
10. Hey, Schoolgirl
11. The Everly Brothers Intro
12. Wake Up Little Susie
13. All I Have To Do Is Dream
14. Bye Bye Love (The Everly Brothers with Simon & Garfunkel)
15. Scarborough Fair
16. Homeward Bound
17. The Sound of Silence
18. Opening Montage
19. Mrs. Robinson
20. Slip Slidin’ Away
21. El Condor Pasa
22. Keep The Customer Satisfied
23. The Only Living Boy in New York
24. American Tune
25. My Little Town
26. Bridge Over Troubled Water
27. Cecilia
28. The Boxer
29. Leaves That Are Green *
30. The 59th Street Bridge Song (Feelin’ Groovy)
 
*1st live performance 

Phil Lesh & Friends
Beacon Theater 
12.02.2003

Set 1: Jam> Shakedown Street> Jam> Casey Jones, Hard To Handle> Mason's Children> Built To Last, Passenger

[entrance without ticket by permission]

Set 2: Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds> Jam> King Solomon's Marbles, Morning Dew, Unbroken Chain> Jam> Sugaree> Midnight Hour> Goin' Down The Road Feeling Bad> Not Fade Away ...Donor Rap/Intros...
E: U.S. Blues

...theme of the zone, the luckiest people in the world!  

thank you Aretha, you have enriched our lives! 

https://youtu.be/rzxVOvwjHI4

I was lucky enough to get into a packed Fillmore West in 1971 to catch her second show there in April 1971-- when Ray Charles came out for the encore. Incredible

You can catch some of the energy off the album. I was high as a kite that night and it as a mindblower.

Glad I got a chance to see her......and Ray

Two of my later day favorites of hers were Rock Steady and freeway of Love.

I meant post 60's