Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

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.

Donna Summer

Donna Summer! Holy Shit.

http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11745326-donna-summer-dead-at-63

:(

Carlos Fuentes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18081034

RIP, Carlos

And RIP, Donna Summer. Man, Booker T was right.

from wfmu's twitter stream:

Pete Seeger, Iconic Songwriter, Found Resting Under Tree Near NY Home: 93Yr-Old Folk Legend Was Serene, Tranquil

so far that's the only mention i've seen. i hope it doesn't mean what i think it means.

Sure it wasn't the Onion?

nonononono

yeah I hope that's doesn't mean what I think it means either

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@clemmusic No, Pete Seeger was just resting. Hes 93, but for the most part he is perfectly OK. Some rheumatism. A bit of arthritis.

thank goodness

strange thing to report tho? "pete seeger still alive, napping"

A variation of the old SNL Franco bit

German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Never really got into the Rock And Roll Heaven iconography genre but if somebody made one of those with Duck Dunn, Andrew Love, Levon Helm, Skip Pitts and Donna Summer I would totally use it as a screensaver.

Robin Gibb, apparently.
I loved the Bee Gees when I was young :(

:(
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noooooo