Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

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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)

Love this:

"Since I became Led Zeppelin, my life has improved a thousand fold."

Fuck it. I'm changing my name to In A Silent Way.

Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:37 (fourteen years ago)

Pathos and lols all at once:

The 64-year-old Zeppelin "climbed the 'Stairway to Heaven'" May 18 at Alton Memorial Hospital, according to a death notice published in newspapers, including the Tribune. He died of a heart attack, his daughter said.

it was a dark and stormy genitals. (Phil D.), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:39 (fourteen years ago)

"I don't want to appear to be some off-the-wall, drug-addict idiot. I just changed my name from the standpoint that I can be a better person than I used to be."

heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:43 (fourteen years ago)

i think i actually have a lot of respect for that guy

congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:44 (fourteen years ago)

No I do not want to meet your friend named In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I'm fairly certain I won't like him.

heated debate over derpy hooves (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:46 (fourteen years ago)

Survived by his wife Custard Pie

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:46 (fourteen years ago)

after reading that article I have formed a short mental list of friends of mine who might be convinced to change their name to "Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game"

Steve Youngblood (dan m), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 17:58 (fourteen years ago)

As of today you can all refer to me as Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:00 (fourteen years ago)

can i call you HOTS for short?

EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:10 (fourteen years ago)

sure

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 18:11 (fourteen years ago)

"If he'd become Sabbath Bloody Sabbath instead, he'd have lived to 200" muses Bill Magill

Race Against Rockism (Myonga Vön Bontee), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:55 (fourteen years ago)

But then his soul would belong to Satan.

nickn, Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:57 (fourteen years ago)

worth it imo

Peppermint Patty Hearst (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 23 May 2012 20:58 (fourteen years ago)

Hal Jackson, radio personality of 70+ years including pioneering stints at WABC and WBLS, at 96:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/hal-jackson-pioneer-black-radio-dies-96-article-1.1083551

World Congress of Itch (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 24 May 2012 04:15 (fourteen years ago)

paul fussell

mookieproof, Thursday, 24 May 2012 05:54 (fourteen years ago)

“From the 1950s on,” he wrote in “Doing Battle,” “my presiding emotion was annoyance, often intensifying to virtually disabling anger.”

Patron saint of IA thread?

Somewhere I have Class and BAD. Or at least, I did.

tokyo rosemary, Thursday, 24 May 2012 14:48 (fourteen years ago)

x-post from the Hal Jackson obit:

"Born in Charleston, S.C., Jackson grew up loving sports and school. He attended Howard University and made his way onto WINX by finding a white company to sponsor him and not telling the station owner who the announcer would be."

curmudgeon, Thursday, 24 May 2012 15:16 (fourteen years ago)

Is there an opposite of a RIP thread? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18219795

windborne grey frogs (dowd), Saturday, 26 May 2012 19:32 (fourteen years ago)


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