Kool & the Gang co-founder dead

obiwankobe · Post by **obiwankobe** » Fri Jun 23, 2006 9:07 am

Claydes Charles Smith co-wrote 'Celebration,' 'Jungle Boogie'

LOS ANGELES, California (AP) -- Claydes Charles Smith, a co-founder and lead guitarist of the group Kool & the Gang, has died. He was 57.

Smith died Tuesday in Maplewood, New Jersey, after a long illness, his publicist said.

Kool & the Gang grew from jazz roots in the 1960s to become one of the major groups of the 1970s, blending jazz, funk, R&B and pop. After a downturn, the group enjoyed a return to stardom in the '80s.

Smith wrote the hits "Joanna" and "Take My Heart," and was a co-writer of others, including "Celebration," "Hollywood Swinging" and "Jungle Boogie."

Smith was introduced to jazz guitar by his father in the early 1960s.

Later in that decade, he was in a group of New Jersey jazz musicians, including Ronald Bell (later Khalis Bayyan), Robert "Kool" Bell, George Brown, Dennis Thomas and Robert "Spike" Mickens, who became Kool & the Gang. Other members would include lead singer James "JT" Taylor.

assholitis · Post by **assholitis** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 4:02 am

Thanks, for that. Probably one of the more popular and founding bands in 60's and 70's and I didn't even hear a peep about this anywhere.

rotter · Post by **rotter** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:26 am

I loved their song Celebration...

gidgetgoestohell · Post by **gidgetgoestohell** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 7:44 am

Some bitch who killed her kid and was piad back in spades with cancer is splashed ALL over the news and nothing about this guy.....talk about fucked up prioroties.....

rotter · Post by **rotter** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:02 am

Yeah.....I didn't know till I came here,didn't hear a word about his death.I shaked my ass to Kool when I was a kid,the K-tel records.....I loved those compliations.

shloemoe · Post by **shloemoe** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:15 am

gidgetgoestohell wrote:Some bitch who killed her kid and was piad back in spades with cancer is splashed ALL over the news and nothing about this guy.....talk about fucked up prioroties.....

I dont think they did it.(Ramsey case)

....Kool 'n' the gang...shit when I was a kid and you mentioned you liked
"Kool 'n' the gang"....hahahahaha....shoot!.....ostracised...shit. disco's
always been illegal back where's I come from...it's the law 'o' the hills!

rotter · Post by **rotter** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:19 am

I like disco...like a lot of stuff.Fuck the law of the land ol' Shloe and get a set of balls of disco.

shloemoe · Post by **shloemoe** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:23 am

ya mean ya "liked" disco.....It's done dead...long gone, along with wide
collared polyester shirts, 8 track cassettes, ford pintos.....etc....

rotter · Post by **rotter** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:31 am

I hated the polyester...but mum made me wear it...aaahahaha.....grandad had a pinto and bro wrapped it around an exploding tree and 8 tracks are tits!

.....I hear ABBA in the background...shall we dance Shloe?

gidgetgoestohell · Post by **gidgetgoestohell** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:37 am

~also hears the beginning strains of Fernando~

rotter · Post by **rotter** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 8:49 am

hmmm......them grrls of abba made 12 year old rott want tits bigtime...they should get them tits reunited.

jr · Post by jr » Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:40 am

the men in ABBA made me feel the same way Rott...
if this was what was making music....
give me tits too...

wheres the balls????

ooooooo... here they are...

never could choke down another swede meatball again.... i know where they come from....

beautiful harmonies though...

gidgetgoestohell · Post by **gidgetgoestohell** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 9:43 am

Nice camel toe there, Jilly....

shloemoe · Post by **shloemoe** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 12:45 pm

rotter wrote:I hated the polyester...but mum made me wear it...aaahahaha.....grandad had a pinto and bro wrapped it around an exploding tree and 8 tracks are tits! .....I hear ABBA in the background...shall we dance Shloe?

...oh you brash romeo you...of course I'll dance with you...but you gotta
give my sister a dance too...she doesn't get much attention from the
fellas

rotter · Post by **rotter** » Sun Jun 25, 2006 1:04 pm

"Romeo roTT...oh Romeo roTT...where the fuck art thou romeo roTT"..I heard her say across that crowded room. I made my way over for a dance and as I kissed her hand she jumped on top of ol brash and sass and dryhumped me right on the dancefloor

Your sisters' a slut Shloe