Who is Gerry Rafferty?

[Parche]

he did not have very good music.......

[Generic Brad]

1. But he had one awesome song - and that's all you need!

"Baker Street". One of my favorite songs from the 70's.

When I heard he died tonight I went out and purchased his "City to City" album from iTunes.

[peekaloo]

9. plus his Stealers Wheel days with 'Stuck in the Middle'

which I heard the other day and thought he sounded a lot like Dylan. Wasn't a Dylan fan at the time it was released so didn't notice.

RIP.

[Demoiselle]

17. Sounding like Dylan was intentional...

According to my googling sources, hee and Joe Egan and their band, Stealer's Wheel did "Stuck in the Middle" as a kind of sendup of Dylan...but it was such a terrific song that it conquered the charts, sendup or not.... I love the song...

[raccoon]

11. This was the first I'd heard that he died. thanks for the heads up. nt

[Dulcinea]

23. I love that song.

It's a classic. It sounds as good today as it did in the late '70s.

[Prisoner_Number_Six]

2. Please post links to your own repertoire

so we may revel in some really GOOD music by way of comparison.

[Parche]

22. i listen to fukin awesome music

:woohoo::hi:

[Lex]

3. Maybe this

will help you: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=Gerry+Rafferty

[Aristus]

4. Every time I hear that combined saxophone wail and guitar growl

it takes me right back to summer camp, 1978.

R.I.P. Gerry. You left us with a mighty fine song...

[Flaxbee]

5. sends me right back to coastal southern California where I grew up...

I don't know what it is about that song, but it is very, very evocative of my childhood and it makes me feel very nostalgic.

[Aristus]

6. Nostalgia is a very effective fog, obscuring authentic memory

For example, to me, the 1970's seem like one long summer day, except for around Christmas, when it suddenly started snowing everywhere.

If one has a happy childhood, one tends to idealize the era in which one grew up.

[Skittles]

7. strange how music takes you back

I grew up as a GI brat - mention a year to me and I have to rack my brain to remember where I was - but if I hear a song, I can know immediately :)

[kimi]

10. Yep, I hear that

Was a Navy, State Dept and CIA brat myself. Music from the Viet Nam era - when we lived in Bangkok - onwards, always brings me to where I was WHEN. Couldn't tell you the year or anything, but if I hear the tunes, I know exactly where I was.

Funny way to chronologize a life, yeah? But that's the way it is.

Love "Baker Street". Ice cream parlor, Menlo Park CA, babysitting a Chinese-American boy. And on from there.

[Skittles]

13. yup

LOL, you probably have that same sense of confusion when someone asks, "Where are you from?" or "Where did you grow up?" :D

[kimi]

19. Yeah, there's this momentary conundrum, for me

"Do I know or like this person enough to go through the whole chronology?", or "Meh, I'll just pick a town near the base and claim it."

Sometimes it's easier to go the simpler route. :)

[Kat45]

20. Baker Street has that effect.

Brings me back to the summer of '78, riding in the car to the beach with my boyfriend, "Baker Street" playing on the car radio. A great summer, happier and simpler times. I can almost smell the ocean air when I hear that song.

[datasuspect]

21. the lyrics resonate with me

i can really identify with what he is saying in that song.

[last_texas_dem]

8. No, his music was pretty good.

[LynneSin]

12. I hear "Stuck in the Middle With You" and it reminds me of the best scene ever in a QT movie...

In "Reservoir Dogs", one of Quentin Terratino's first movies, there was was a scene where Mr. Blue (Mike Madison) decided to tourture a police officier. Mr. Blue was dancing around to the sounds of Gerry Rafferty's "Stuck in the Middle With You". I like how when Mr. Blue went outside of the warehouse to get a gas container from the trunk that the song faded out and then returned when Mr. Blue went back into the warehouse.

[pokerfan]

16. You mean Mr. Blonde

Great scene but my favorite is probably the tipping scene where Steve Buscemi (as Mr. Pink) channels his inner Larry David.

Reservoir Dogs in thirty seconds, re-enacted by bunnies: http://www.angryalien.com/0406/reservoirbuns.asp

[Inchworm]

14. Clowns to the left of me, jokers to the right!

Here I am. :D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DohRa9lsx0Q

:hi:

[GoneOffShore]

15. No - not very good music - Fucking brilliant music.

[Redstone]

18. Yes, indeed.

Redstone