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Ray Charles — Let's Go Get Stoned
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Lazarus
(Bethany)
Posted: Mar 07, 2013 - 12:36
 

Everybody in my church loves this song...
 

nancyco
Posted: Jan 03, 2013 - 20:34
 
 lily34 wrote:

  Very funny!

 



Elroweho
(Cheesehead in Paradise)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 11:44
 
I know just how you feel Brother Ray! - R.I.P. we miss you!

lily34
(GTFO)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 11:43
 
 richlister wrote:
 


nagsheadlocal
(North Carolina, the new New Jersey)
Posted: Dec 03, 2012 - 11:43
 
Is it 4:20 already?

richlister
Posted: Nov 02, 2012 - 03:34
 


ycb661
Posted: Oct 01, 2012 - 17:29
 
I'm stoned right now... thank you.

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 08:17
 
 iscoot4peace wrote:
I first became acquainted with this song via Joe Cocker's excellent rendition on "Mad Dogs and Englishmen".  Great tune... and I dig both versions.  *
 
Me too ... Joe had a little more conviction in his delivery.  Maybe his need was more immediate.

lily34
(lexvegas)
Posted: Jun 29, 2012 - 08:17
 
niiiiiiice.

leathepea
(Hickory, NC)
Posted: Feb 23, 2012 - 07:31
 
and the hookers sing..."lets go get boned"

(former member)
(hotel in Las Vegas)
Posted: Jan 22, 2012 - 14:30
 
 helgigermany wrote:
Very nice!
 


Yes, I agree...  love it... 

 

shakitten
Posted: Dec 21, 2011 - 20:50
 
 Cynaera wrote:

I read in the paper that a guy was busted yesterday for having a quarter-ounce of pot and a protopipe. His bail is set at $17,500.00.  The meth problem here is out of control, and law enforcement can't curtail it with their limited resources, so they're fighting the battles they know they can win - namely, busting pot-smokers (never mind the dealers) and playing up the busts in attempts to reassure "the public" that something is being done.  It's a joke.  I swear, if I wasn't so afraid of ending up in jail (in a state where gambling and prostitution is legal and one can buy a bottle of Jack Daniels in the grocery store!) I'd smoke pot rather than drink Jack Daniels for recreation.  I think that, if anything, people are more paranoid than ever, and let the witch-hunts begin. {#Eek}
 


I live in Colorado, and MMJ is out in the open here. We've got shops on every freaking corner advertising plants and buds of all varieties, and edibles come in all types of baked forms. It's ridiculous, actually.
Pot's not my thing. Just doesn't react well with me. But if it's your thing, come on over to CO. All you need is a doctor approved MMJ card. They're sadly easy to get.

helgigermany
(Germany)
Posted: Jul 17, 2011 - 03:50
 
Very nice!

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 07:42
 
 Cynaera wrote:

I read in the paper that a guy was busted yesterday for having a quarter-ounce of pot and a protopipe. His bail is set at $17,500.00.  The meth problem here is out of control, and law enforcement can't curtail it with their limited resources, so they're fighting the battles they know they can win - namely, busting pot-smokers (never mind the dealers) and playing up the busts in attempts to reassure "the public" that something is being done.  It's a joke.  I swear, if I wasn't so afraid of ending up in jail (in a state where gambling and prostitution is legal and one can buy a bottle of Jack Daniels in the grocery store!) I'd smoke pot rather than drink Jack Daniels for recreation.  I think that, if anything, people are more paranoid than ever, and let the witch-hunts begin. {#Eek}
 
I meant that pot smoking is much more accepted than in the past.  The last three US Presidents have admitted to "being around" or using controlled substances - particularly marijuana; that would not have been concievable in the 1950's and 60's, much less "acceptable".  I don't think that general "society" is more paranoid about drug use than they were forty or fifty years ago; the people who may be "more paranoid" are the ones who are using or selling controlled substances.



a_genuine_find
(not me, Radio P) (3rd stone, sol, orion belt, milkyway)
Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 07:21
 
Yes, please.

Hannio
(Austin, TX)
Posted: Apr 13, 2011 - 07:19
 
 ThePoose wrote:
In Islam, this would be ''Let's go to the stoning.''
 

Heh.

Cynaera
(South of Neanderthal)
Posted: Mar 12, 2011 - 19:06
 
 Proclivities wrote:

I'm not quite sure that "Society" fears drug use more now than it did in the 1950's and 60's.  It seems to me that it's much more accepted now than it was over fifty years ago... 

 
I read in the paper that a guy was busted yesterday for having a quarter-ounce of pot and a protopipe. His bail is set at $17,500.00.  The meth problem here is out of control, and law enforcement can't curtail it with their limited resources, so they're fighting the battles they know they can win - namely, busting pot-smokers (never mind the dealers) and playing up the busts in attempts to reassure "the public" that something is being done.  It's a joke.  I swear, if I wasn't so afraid of ending up in jail (in a state where gambling and prostitution is legal and one can buy a bottle of Jack Daniels in the grocery store!) I'd smoke pot rather than drink Jack Daniels for recreation.  I think that, if anything, people are more paranoid than ever, and let the witch-hunts begin. {#Eek}

esyoubeelime
(Cincinnati)
Posted: Mar 12, 2011 - 18:59
 
Just to be clear, this is was written by Ashford & Simpson.

Proclivities
(Carrboro, NC)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 11:31
 
 james_of_tucson wrote:

And I just love it when people try to be genteel about things, to the point where they pretend that a black musician in the late 1950s or early 1960s wouldn't  relate to the expression "getting stoned" as meaning exactly, "smoking reefer."  Society feared this concept then, and to no sensible reason I can find, fears it even more today. 

 
I'm not quite sure that "Society" fears drug use more now than it did in the 1950's and 60's.  It seems to me that it's much more accepted now than it was over fifty years ago.  Also, I think this song was originally released later than 1961. 



vandal
(arriving somewhere, but not here. . .)
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 11:12
 
I'm in. . . 

ThePoose
Posted: Feb 09, 2011 - 11:06
 
In Islam, this would be ''Let's go to the stoning.''

james_of_tucson
(Tucson AZ)
Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 13:36
 
 daveesh wrote:
actually getting stoned back then meant getting drunk. my dad still uses that term.
 
And I just love it when people try to be genteel about things, to the point where they pretend that a black musician in the late 1950s or early 1960s wouldn't  relate to the expression "getting stoned" as meaning exactly, "smoking reefer."  Society feared this concept then, and to no sensible reason I can find, fears it even more today. 


gratefulgator
(San Francisco CA)
Posted: Dec 08, 2010 - 13:33
 
I think Ray's got the right idea... sounds good to me!

bachbeet
Posted: Nov 06, 2010 - 20:13
 
"er, uh...actually, i think Ray did both..."

I think Ray was actually being sly.  He knew that if he said any words like "toke" or "dope" or any other drug reference, his song probably would never have been played.  Heck, I think Anslinger was still alive and enforcing his wacky views.

Rooney
(Near Paradise)
Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 08:23
 
 Dgradeworkunit wrote:

"take a little nip" sure fits that definition...
 

er, uh...actually, i think Ray did both...

Dgradeworkunit
(Shenandoah Valley)
Posted: Oct 06, 2010 - 06:23
 
 daveesh wrote:
actually getting stoned back then meant getting drunk. my dad still uses that term.
 
"take a little nip" sure fits that definition...

martinc
(Ottawa Canada)
Posted: Aug 03, 2010 - 06:14
 
Ray should have done this as a duet with Joe Cocker. It would have been a classic. Ray was one talented man. Too early here to take his advice today.

jhorton
Posted: Apr 29, 2010 - 20:35
 
released the year I was born. Sounds older. 

daveesh
(birthplace of the american revolution)
Posted: Mar 29, 2010 - 04:58
 
actually getting stoned back then meant getting drunk. my dad still uses that term.

vinv
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 15:37
 
but if you happen to know somebody here, who'd like to take a toke, or you happen to be here by yourself - feel free to join ;-))

vinv
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 15:31
 
 horstman wrote:

Ah, could ya pass that over here, brother? Don't bogart that joint.{#Cowboy}

 
first of all, it's not a joint at all, it's a pipe ;-)) and second, i'm in SPb, Russia, and it's very snowy here, and Bob Marley is singing about shining sun...


horstman
(Syracuse, New York)
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 15:19
 
 vinv wrote:
thank you, i'm getting stoned right now ;-))
 
Ah, could ya pass that over here, brother? Don't bogart that joint.{#Cowboy}


vinv
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 15:17
 
thank you, i'm getting stoned right now ;-))

sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 15:15
 
Freekin great song!!{#Dancingbanana}

djblitz
(Boston, MA)
Posted: Feb 25, 2010 - 15:15
 
I second this sentiment!  

Autobahn
(Düsseldorf, Germany)
Posted: Jan 25, 2010 - 04:11
 
I think it is definitly maybe about blues

iscoot4peace
Posted: Nov 23, 2009 - 08:39
 
I first became acquainted with this song via Joe Cocker's excellent rendition on "Mad Dogs and Englishmen".  Great tune... and I dig both versions.  *

Rusty420
(north country)
Posted: Oct 22, 2009 - 22:21
 
yes, let's!

lmic
(Limpid Drivel of the Best Kind)
Posted: Oct 22, 2009 - 22:21
 
Awesome set:
- Ray Charles - Let's Go Get Stoned
- Marc Broussard - Home
- Big Country - Your Spirit To Me


westslope
(BC coast)
Posted: Oct 22, 2009 - 22:20
 
Just a little taste.  

HazzeSwede
(Vinyl Land)
Posted: Sep 21, 2009 - 08:40
 
 (8?» wrote:Originally Posted by tedhead:
stuff like THIS is why I'm listening to RP everyday.....thanks (of course this from an era when "stoned" meant drunk)
Stoned is stoned is stoned. What difference does the path make?
 
     I totally agree,,,,,{#Lol}     (song's a 10,either way)

Sloggydog
(UK)
Posted: Sep 21, 2009 - 08:18
 
Gin and pot just after i get in from work...well OK but only cause you asked so nice Ray.

jimcummings
Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 10:34
 
Many, many years ago, I was the PR guy for the Latin Casino in New Jersey. I saw and met most of the "greats" of the post war years through the early 60's. Since those days I have always said my headstone should say - "a life well spent - he saw Ray Charles and James Brown, twice a night, for two weeks." Both were forces of nature (and never did the same show twice).
Jim Cummings

sirdroseph
(Outer Mongolia)
Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 10:27
 
One of my fav Ray Charles tunes!!{#Clap}

sonofpick
(SoCal, Small College, My Office)
Posted: Jun 18, 2009 - 10:27
 
Goat Smoked

bachbeet
Posted: May 17, 2009 - 16:22
 
Ray certainly did his share of drugs so he definitely spoke from experience in this one.  Just another terrific song from him.

bobcat1963
(the netherlands)
Posted: Apr 16, 2009 - 01:40
 
good advice!

stkman
(Texas)
Posted: Feb 11, 2009 - 23:33
 
I saw Ray several times but once during his down time he was playing lil dinner theaters and everybody from work was treated to a night with Ray and I don't think they knew what they were in for, our table was closest to his piano and I was a diehard fan at time and just went crazy, he was maybe 10 ft away and played for close to 2 hrs. Now I was at Texas Pop Festival , Atlanta Pop festival, saw all the big groups first tours but that night with Ray with something special that I will never forget, and had the privledge of telling him so as he was leaving and he just flashed that big smile and said "why,  thank you I enjoyed it too" . What a class act and talent

lattalo
(Beartooths)
Posted: Dec 10, 2008 - 16:52
 
 DoctorHooey wrote:
I have no *cough* idea what he's *cough* talking about ...
  Something about *cough* stones, makes no *cough cough* sense to me ......... 



CCinSB
(the west coast)
Posted: Dec 10, 2008 - 16:51
 
{#Cowboy}