RIP, Ronnie Montrose.
http://ronniemontrose.com/
― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 4 March 2012 14:01 (twelve years ago) link
Hollywood character actress Martha Stewart, 89, of Daisy Kenyon, In a Lonely Place
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 16:20 (twelve years ago) link
Robert Sherman! :(
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:31 (twelve years ago) link
ie co-songwriter of Mary Poppins, not teen idol Bobby
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 6 March 2012 21:54 (twelve years ago) link
Jungle Book, too, among many others.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 6 March 2012 22:40 (twelve years ago) link
I'll even forgive him for "It's a Small World," a plague upon the earth
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:13 (twelve years ago) link
Ravi—http://ibnlive.in.com/news/noted-musician-ravi-dies-at-85/237097-8.html
New Delhi: Noted musician Ravi Shankar Sharma, popularly known as Ravi, died today at the age of 85 after prolonged illness. The musician was born in Delhi on March 3, 1926.
One of the gifted musicians of the Hindi film industry, Ravi never had any formal training in music. He shifted to Mumbai in 1950 and got his first break in 1952 film 'Anand Math'. Soon his name started to feature among respected musicians. Films such as 'Chaudhvin Ka Chand' (1960), 'Do Badan' (1966), 'Humraaz' (1967), 'Ankhen' (1968), and 'Nikaah' (1982) won his critical as well as commercial success.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:19 (twelve years ago) link
holy shit
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:40 (twelve years ago) link
note: this isn't Ravi Shankar Ravi Shankar. This is the other Ravi Shankar, aka Ravi.
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:08 (twelve years ago) link
My prayers are with the other Norah Jones.
(Sorry.)
― The Unbearable Lightness Of Peeing (Deric W. Haircare), Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:12 (twelve years ago) link
lol
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 8 March 2012 04:14 (twelve years ago) link
Leslie Cochran, legendary Austin Texas Weirdo
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 8 March 2012 18:52 (twelve years ago) link
damn, that guy was all over South Congress Ave when I was there 3 years ago.
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 8 March 2012 19:20 (twelve years ago) link
Jimmy Ellis of the Trammps
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Friday, 9 March 2012 17:05 (twelve years ago) link
Just read that Peter Bergman of the Firesign Theater has died (leukemia).
― nickn, Friday, 9 March 2012 17:52 (twelve years ago) link
oh no!
RIP, Mr. Bergman.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 9 March 2012 17:55 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah I'm hearing about this as well.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2012 17:57 (twelve years ago) link
fuck fuck fuck
RIP
― Carlos Pollomar (WmC), Friday, 9 March 2012 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
Confirmed:
https://www.facebook.com/philip.proctor2/posts/10150620086438752
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2012 17:59 (twelve years ago) link
https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=10150673823910209&id=282668140208
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 9 March 2012 18:02 (twelve years ago) link
Aw, no. :(
― Mayan Calendar Deren (doo dah), Friday, 9 March 2012 21:58 (twelve years ago) link
Leonardo Cimino, Obie-winning actor whose films included Moonstruck, Dune, Stardust Memories:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/10/arts/leonardo-cimino-a-distinctive-actor-dies-at-94.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 10 March 2012 05:34 (twelve years ago) link
Oh bummer. Remember him from V and Moonstruck :(
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:01 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah, always good to see him pop up in something. That's one long life lived!
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:22 (twelve years ago) link
And a Normandy landing to boot. That's quite an innings.
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 10 March 2012 06:55 (twelve years ago) link
Moebius/Jean Giraud
― Alan Hale's Corn Casserole Recipe (Family Circle, June 1976) (Deric W. Haircare), Sunday, 11 March 2012 13:29 (twelve years ago) link
Geez, two of the great sci-fi illustrators of all time in two weeks. ;_;
― the Hilary Clinton of Ghostface Killahs (Phil D.), Sunday, 11 March 2012 13:31 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.filmmakermagazine.com/news/2012/03/david-doernberg-1967-2012/
Production designer David Doernberg, who brought a sensitive, finely crafted and observant touch to many excellent independent films, died in New York on Friday after a battle with cancer.
Doernberg began his career in the late ’80s/early ’90s working on music videos for bands like Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo and Superchunk. He quickly moved into independent features as a propmaster for films by Hal Hartley (Amateur), Daisy von Scherler Mayer (Party Girl) and Eric Schaeffer (If Lucy Fell). Soon after he became a production designer, bookending his career with films by Kelly Reichardt. He designed her 1994 debut film, River of Grass as well as her 2010 period tale of frontier life on the Oregon Trail, Meek’s Cutoff. Other notable credits include Phil Morrison’s Junebug, Alison Maclean’s Jesus’s Son, Morgan J. Freeman’s Desert Blue, Todd Solondz’s Palindromes and Pete Sollett’s Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist.
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 11 March 2012 23:10 (twelve years ago) link
I was just looking at Leonard Cimino's imdb entry Friday because he was on a Law and Order rerun.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 11 March 2012 23:43 (twelve years ago) link
Bugs Henderson of Mouse & the Traps:
http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/10/3800606/bugs-henderson-local-blues-guitar.html
For me, the funniest garage record ever:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obRy59b21TU
― clemenza, Friday, 16 March 2012 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
Wow, RIP. Didn't know he was sick.
The story behind "A Public Execution" is pretty funny, and rather Texan. Ronnie "Mouse" Weiss was engaged to this girl who'd moved from Tyler down to Houston. One weekend Weiss' had some cousins from West Texas come in for a visit. One of the cousins was a pretty teenage girl who was seen (near a Dairy Queen or something) riding around with Mouse on his motorcycle (or "two-wheeled pony") by a friend of the fiance. The friend called her up and she wrote Mouse an angry letter ending their relationship.
He wrote the song as a response to the letter, intending to just record it and send her the tape. His producer, Robin Hood Brians, talked him into working it up into the garage standard (and charter Nuggets inclusion) we all know and love today.
Mouse and The Traps actually had a pretty solid and stylistically varied body of work. Big Beat did a real nice comp, The Fraternity Years, back in the 90s.
― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 16 March 2012 02:17 (twelve years ago) link
Tom Murrin, The Alien Comic
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/rip-the-alien-comic_n_1341225.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Friday, 16 March 2012 03:23 (twelve years ago) link
RIP, Mouse & the Traps guy
― Everything You POLL Is RONG (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 16 March 2012 03:30 (twelve years ago) link
The friend called her up and she wrote Mouse an angry letter ending their relationship. He wrote the song as a response to the letter, intending to just record it and send her the tape.
I feel like "Mouse retreated to his room, dropped acid, and listened to nothing but 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?' for two whole weeks" ought to be inserted between those two sentences.
― clemenza, Friday, 16 March 2012 04:58 (twelve years ago) link
Was-he-or-wasn't-he convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk. His case caused no end of grief among Cleveland's German, Polish, Slovak and Jewish communities.
― butvi wouls (Phil D.), Saturday, 17 March 2012 16:07 (twelve years ago) link
OMG no way, he's finally dead?!
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 March 2012 19:15 (twelve years ago) link
do not RIP if you are Ivan the Terrible; RIP if this has all been a huge mistake
― Laura Lucy Lynn (La Lechera), Saturday, 17 March 2012 19:16 (twelve years ago) link
and i mean HUGE
yeah, his trials have dominated Cleveland news...my whole life?
― kate78, Saturday, 17 March 2012 22:16 (twelve years ago) link
Richest guy in Thailand and co-founder of Red Bull.
― "marvellously inoffensive" (Eazy), Saturday, 17 March 2012 23:25 (twelve years ago) link
Ulu Grosbard, director of theatre (American Buffalo) and film (Straight Time, True Confessions)
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/ulu-grosbard-broadway-and-film-director-dies-at-83.html
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 21 March 2012 04:27 (twelve years ago) link
Tonino Guerra, screenwriter for Antonioni, Fellini, Angelopoulos, Tarkovsky, Rosi
http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/tonino-guerra-1920-2012
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 25 March 2012 02:08 (twelve years ago) link
as mentioned by aero elsewhere, boxing writer Bert Sugar -- would not have guessed he was 'only' 75:
http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/story/_/id/7736006/acclaimed-boxing-writer-bert-sugar-dies-cardiac-arrest-75
― Literal Facepalms (Dr Morbius), Monday, 26 March 2012 02:24 (twelve years ago) link
Just saw that Ulu Grossbard RIP now. Ah well, RIP.
Hilton Kramer:http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/arts/design/hilton-kramer-critic-who-championed-modernism-dies-at-84.html?_r=1&ref=arts
― (Dre) vs. (Eazy), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 12:35 (twelve years ago) link
adrienne rich, 82
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/03/adrienne-rich.html
really enjoyed the handful of poems of hers i've read, have always meant to investigate her further
― y'tulip, y'pea-brained earwig (donna rouge), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 21:15 (twelve years ago) link
oh college lit classes, sigh I loved her for a shining period in my life
v sad
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 March 2012 21:44 (twelve years ago) link
http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm
― 1staethyr, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:45 (twelve years ago) link
http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2012/03/28/earl-scruggs-country-music-hall-of-famer-dies-at-age-88/
― Johnny Fever, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 23:55 (twelve years ago) link
oh fuck earl scruggs was a titan. rest easy world-changingly great picker.
― tempestuous alaskan nites! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:07 (twelve years ago) link
oh no
I saw him at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass a few years back, he was wonderful
― Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 29 March 2012 00:10 (twelve years ago) link