Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

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Damn. RIP, Maurice.

EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 8 May 2012 12:51 (fourteen years ago)

oh no

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 May 2012 15:20 (fourteen years ago)

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

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 21:50 (fourteen years ago)

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

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

clemenza, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:00 (fourteen years ago)

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

caro's johnson (Eazy), Thursday, 10 May 2012 02:26 (fourteen years ago)

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

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

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 May 2012 15:55 (fourteen years ago)

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

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 10 May 2012 17:35 (fourteen years ago)

Carroll Shelby, racer and car builder

Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 11 May 2012 21:37 (fourteen years ago)

Thought he'd already died. Hm.

Johnny Fever, Friday, 11 May 2012 21:38 (fourteen years ago)

well, he's dead now.

♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 12 May 2012 01:38 (fourteen years ago)

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

Vini Reilly Invasion (Elvis Telecom), Saturday, 12 May 2012 01:42 (fourteen years ago)

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

improvised explosive advice (WmC), Saturday, 12 May 2012 13:12 (fourteen years ago)

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

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

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 13 May 2012 06:20 (fourteen years ago)

Oh holy shit noooooo

O_o-O_0-o_O (jjjusten), Sunday, 13 May 2012 06:22 (fourteen years ago)

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

It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:57 (fourteen years ago)

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

how's life, Sunday, 13 May 2012 08:59 (fourteen years ago)

you are a star

It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Sunday, 13 May 2012 09:10 (fourteen years ago)

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

get wolves (get bent), Sunday, 13 May 2012 10:40 (fourteen years ago)

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

Three Word Username, Sunday, 13 May 2012 10:58 (fourteen years ago)

:(

The Unbassful Serpent (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 13 May 2012 12:48 (fourteen years ago)

ah hell. RIP Duck Dunn.

EZ Snappin, Sunday, 13 May 2012 13:02 (fourteen years ago)

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

arby's, Sunday, 13 May 2012 13:14 (fourteen years ago)

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

curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 02:45 (fourteen years ago)

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

curmudgeon, Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:11 (fourteen years ago)

wouldn't argue with that at all.

Sisig Steve (stevie), Thursday, 17 May 2012 15:41 (fourteen years ago)

Donna Summer

on the road to the twilight zone (doo dah), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:04 (fourteen years ago)

Donna Summer! Holy Shit.

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

i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:05 (fourteen years ago)

:(

Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:07 (fourteen years ago)

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

Goodbye 20th Centipede (NickB), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:07 (fourteen years ago)

RIP, Carlos

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

Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 16:52 (fourteen years ago)

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.

get wolves (get bent), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:20 (fourteen years ago)

Sure it wasn't the Onion?

Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:34 (fourteen years ago)

nonononono

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:37 (fourteen years ago)

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

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:38 (fourteen years ago)

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

tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:28 (fourteen years ago)

thank goodness

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:32 (fourteen years ago)

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

yorba linda carlisle (donna rouge), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:36 (fourteen years ago)

A variation of the old SNL Franco bit

Shakes-a-maxion (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 17 May 2012 23:16 (fourteen years ago)

German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

mookieproof, Friday, 18 May 2012 19:17 (fourteen years ago)

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.

Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 19 May 2012 11:46 (fourteen years ago)

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

on the road to the twilight zone (doo dah), Sunday, 20 May 2012 22:59 (fourteen years ago)

:(
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Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:03 (fourteen years ago)

noooooo

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:17 (fourteen years ago)

I guess we can take comfort in the fact that Spin has provided us with a long list of best guitarists, most of whom won't be going anywhere anytime soon

Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:20 (fourteen years ago)

"Jam Master Jay still . . . lives"

mookieproof, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:41 (fourteen years ago)

aww RIP

Chris S, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:47 (fourteen years ago)

Score score

Jeff, Sunday, 20 May 2012 23:56 (fourteen years ago)

what a month

the late great, Monday, 21 May 2012 00:18 (fourteen years ago)

It won't be long before Otis Redding will able to record some new material on Stax Celestial.

Ian Hunter Is Learning the Game (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 21 May 2012 00:21 (fourteen years ago)

RIP Led Zeppelin II
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-led-zeppelin-ii-dies-0524-20120523,0,1108232.story

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:34 (fourteen years ago)


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