Rolling Obituary Thread: 2015

I saw him once in the early 90s, co-leading a band with Louie Bellson. The warmth of Terry's sound that filled the room is something I've never experienced before or since.

Legendary Memphis session keyboardist Bobby Emmons

http://www.commercialappeal.com/go-memphis/music/news/american-studio-keyboardist-bobby-emmons-dies_50354474

RIP, Bobby.

Had not seen that Bobby Emmons with Dan Penn rendition of "Dark end of the Street" on Letterman, till now. Beautiful. RIP Bobby.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/music/ariel-camacho-dies-at-22-lead-singer-of-los-plebes-del-rancho.html?action=click&contentCollection=Music®ion=Footer&module=MoreInSection&pgtype=article

Young Mexican norteno and narcocorrido singer

leonard nimoy

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/27/arts/television/leonard-nimoy-spock-of-star-trek-dies-at-83.html?smid=tw-bna&_r=0

Twitter is saying Leonard Nimoy, don't see confirmation yet.

xp

Boris Nemtsov, Russian opposition politician and critic of Putin, has been shot dead in the middle of Moscow.
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/28/world/europe/boris-nemtsov-russian-opposition-leader-is-shot-dead.html

jesus, that does not bode well

Music journalist and producer Orrin Keepnews.

RIP Daniel von Bargen (seconding darraghmac on the Super Troopers thread).

Wherever he is, I hope he's spinning around on his swivel chair and handing out nicknames.

Koko, Koko!

I got him confused with JK Simmons a couple weeks ago and insisted to some people that Simmons was on Seinfeld as George's boss.

Cardinal Egan, former archbishop and abuser-protector

http://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/local/Edward-Cardinal-Egan-New-York-Archbishop-Death--295223021.html

John Bilezikjian, Armenian oud player who toured and recorded with Leonard Cohen, died back in January.

Harve Bennett, producer of four Star Trek films and the Six Million Dollar Man/Bionic Woman TV series.

http://io9.com/rip-harve-bennett-who-resurrected-star-trek-on-the-big-1689802949

been a bad week for guys who fought like dogs with Gene Roddenberry

Good thing Alexander Courage is long gone.

http://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2015/feb/18/mike-gray-obituary

al maysles (grey gardens, gimme shelter, etc. etc.)

!!!!!!!!

Where did you see that?

Criterion posted it on FB--he was 88.

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/07/movies/albert-maysles-pioneering-documentarian-dies-at-88.html?_r=0

:(

Trumpeter Lew Soloff (Gil Evans, Blood, Sweat & Tears, Tito Puente, many others).

That is terrible news. He always played so great, no matter how old he was, on that notoriously challenging instrument.

Japanese cartoonist Yoshihiro Tatsumi

http://www.paulgravett.com/articles/article/yoshihirotatsumi

dude was a master. RIP.

A Drifting Life was great and his shorts collections are good too. Black Blizzard is a silly early gekiga -- I'm not sure why they translated it.

it was one of his first major pieces and a foundational building block of the movement. parallels to Bark's Pirate Gold or Kirby/Lee FF#1 imo; the final product may not hold up beautifully but it's super significant. plus i don't think it had ever been published in english until now!

Damn, RIP Tatsumi. A friend got me The Push Man and other stories and I loved it. Incredible stuff.

Sam Simon:

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/sam-simon-simpsons-producer-philanthropist-606632

aw shit

was kind of hoping he might wilko johnson his cancer somehow

RIP, did good things while he was here

Camille Muffat, Florence Arthaud and eight others killed when two helicopters being used in a French reality tv show crashed in Argentina. Horrific.

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/mar/10/ten-dead-in-apparent-helicopter-crash-in-argentina

it annoys me how 10 people died but only the three french athletes seem to matter. their pictures are on all the news sites and in the radio reports, the other 7 don't even get name-checked.

'Pipeline' guitarist Brian Carman of the Chantays dies at 69
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/spickard-652922-chantays-pipeline.html

RIP. Here is another obit with some interesting info http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-brian-carman-20150306-story.html

Windell Middlebrooks, best known as "The Miller High Life Guy" from Radio & TV, but was also a regualer face on many sitcoms and dramas.

http://www.tmz.com/2015/03/10/miller-high-life-guy-dead-windell-middlebrooks-commercial-dies/

RIP, nice guy.

Michael Graves

Daevid Allen of Gong not long ago. Reported by one of his sons on their facebook page.

Terry Pratchett, age 66. Not suicide.

Tod Dockstader, electronic musician (died 27 feb 2015)

first heard his work, Quatermass, as background to some short computer graphics film by John Stehura that they screened at the tate modern a few years ago. it was too loud and very dark.

http://pitchfork.com/news/58660-musique-concrete-composer-tod-dockstader-has-died/

aw, rip terry pratchett; you were important to everyone i knew's teenage childhood reading habits

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/toto-bassist-mike-porcaro-dead-at-59-20150315

Look out Steve Porcaro.