Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

betty white died?

Dick Clark just HAD to die in 2012. Fuck, maybe the Mayans were right!

Chuck Colson, Nixon-admin detritus. Good fucking riddance.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57418411-503544/former-nixon-aide-chuck-colson-dies-at-80/

Watergate Club in hell nearly complete

Don't have a link yet, but the Gram Parsons page on FB is reporting that Chris Etheridge has died.

can't find an obit yet but amos vogel reportedly passed away this morning. 'film as a subversive art' was key to my film-fan development (i own 2 copies)

more on Vogel... I don't think I've ever seen or heard much about that book. :(

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/amos-vogel-1921-2012

it should be in print now (i managed to get a copy off the street from one of the back-of-the-truck booksellers in front of NYU when it wasn't)

Pete Fornatale, pioneering deejay at WNEW-FM

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/27/arts/music/pete-fornatale-a-pioneer-of-fm-rock-dies-at-66.html

david weiss of fischli/weiss

http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opinion/news/2012-04-27/david-weiss-of-fischliweiss-has-died/

This guy was probably going to win Olympic gold this year. :(

http://espn.go.com/olympics/swimming/story/_/id/7876459/swimming-world-champ-alexander-dale-oen-norway-dies-arizona-26

"Skip" Pitts, guitarist on the Isleys' "It's Your Thing" and Hayes' "Theme from Shaft".

http://www.commercialappeal.com/news/2012/may/01/stax-music-great-charles-skip-pitts-dies/

Don't know if this was noted elsewhere, but Greg Ham, sax/flute player for Men At Work, died a few days ago.

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/greg-ham-dies-found-dead-men-at-work-flute-player-314266

"Skip" Pitts? Oh no. RIP

Oh man, RIP Junior Seau.

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/sports/football/junior-seau-famed-nfl-linebacker-dies-at-43-in-apparent-suicide.html?_r=1&hp#

oh, as usual I didn't find the other thread: nfl offseason transactions, fired coaches, general nonsense 2012

whoa fuck!

Adam Yauch...

George Lindsey aka Goober Pyle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blQrIySidOA

funnier than Gomer IMO

Absolutely.

RIP Meow

Alligator Records says Arkansas bluesman Michael "Iron Man" Burks has died after collapsing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport. He was 54.

The record label says Burks collapsed Sunday after returning from a European tour. He was pronounced dead at an Atlanta hospital. A spokesman for the record label says Burks died of a heart attack.

Maurice Sendak ;_;

Damn. RIP, Maurice.

oh no

if you don't look good (or if you do), he don't look good

http://thelook.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/09/11621751-famed-hairstylist-vidal-sassoon-dead-at-age-84?lite

http://media.onsugar.com/files/ons1/300/3001837/14_2009/1a/Vidal_Sassoon.jpg

"You didn't pay them for that, did you?"

http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/misc/pixel.gif

actress Joyce Redman, best remembered for her Tom Jones eating sceme with Albert Finney.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18013687

Mort Lindsey, bandleader of Judy at Carnegie Hall and The Merv Griffin Show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/05/10/arts/music/mort-lindsey-musical-director-dies-at-89.html

Carroll Shelby, racer and car builder

Thought he'd already died. Hm.

well, he's dead now.

Perhaps more to the point, I finally get onto the Dead Pool scoreboard.

Filipino comics artist Tony DeZuniga -- http://www.newsfromme.com/2012/05/10/tony-dezuniga-r-i-p/

Donald "Duck" Dunn, Stax legend, bass player for Booker T & The MGs

http://i412.photobucket.com/albums/pp201/sharonjoy666/cropper.jpg

Oh holy shit noooooo

:((((((
tried in vain to find the scene from blues bros where he says "[incomprehensible garble] to go piss on some gasoline" or something

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MBnLgNmB1eM

you are a star

"We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline."

An amazing bass player and a fantastic guy. If you only know the Blues Brothers, go here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/32187

:(

ah hell. RIP Duck Dunn.

didn't see the talk here before i started a thread. well, he deserves his own.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chuck-brown-dies-the-godfather-of-go-go-was-75/2012/05/16/gIQAJAfPUU_story_1.html

RIP Godfather of Go-go Chuck Brown. Will treasure your gogo and your jazz sounds and your warm presentation

Hailed as the President of DC in today's Washington Post

wouldn't argue with that at all.