Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

Good job my son is too young to understand ;_;

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also catholic conservative michael novak

Singer-songwriter Peter Skellern. Had no idea he'd become a priest.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-39006899

Blimey.

I associate Peter Skellern with Richard Stilgoe and that is not a good thing, in any way. However this was a good song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kSYJ4tYpyQ8

(xps) RIP Dick Bruna

Nicole Bass, 52

thanks for posting that song tom, surprised how good it is

It's the Lancashire Steely Dan.

kind of curious to know whether anyone has ever sampled that bass tbh

rip dick bruna ;_;

Bob Michel

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/robert-michel-longest-serving-minority-leader-in-us-house-dies-at-93/2017/02/17/8c49b51c-f511-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html

Warren Frost, father of Mark, Donna's dad in twin peaks and Susan's in Seinfeld

Never knew his name until now, but Frost had some brilliant deadpan moments on Seinfeld.

Otm - I always think of his reaction to George riffing on the pointlessness of laughter ("we open our mouth and go 'HA-HA ' - what is that?")

I never cared for his jokes

Frost was especially great on Seinfeld because of the way he was paired with Grace Zabriskie from Twin Peaks. His best moment for me was hissing contempt at her in the Cheever episode.

"He was the most wonderful person I've ever known. And I loved him deeply--in a way you could never understand."

I love his throwaway "wear some more lipstick" as a retort to Zabriskie's passive-aggressive digs at him.

Clyde Stubblefield.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AoQ4AtsFWVM

Man, him and Jaki in the same span ...

Damn, with him, Jaki, and Junie, Heaven just got alot funkier.

Ugh so bummed about Clyde, such a genius SUCH A GENIUS

I can't find it on youtube but the Cold Sweat on the Say It Live And Loud Dallas 1968 album is the best drumming I have ever heard.

Norma McCorvey aka Jane Roe

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/18/515972447/norma-mccorvey-roe-of-landmark-roe-v-wade-ruling-on-abortion-dies-at-69

Sheikh Omar Abdel-Rahman, linked to 1993 World Trade Center attack

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/omar-abdel-rahman-blind-sheik-convicted-in-1993-world-trade-center-attack-dies-at-78/2017/02/18/807c4f2c-f603-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html

ivan 'the russian bear' koloff (born oreal perras in montréal)

http://people.com/sports/wrestler-ivan-koloff-russian-bear-dead

A few days ago, but Bobby Freeman, of "Do You Want To Dance" fame, at 76. Didn't know Jerry Garcia played guitar on the 1958 hit.

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bobby-freeman-20170215-story.html

Alan Aldridge - graphic illustrator and artist (including album covers for Captain Fantastic and the Brown Dirt Cowboy and A Quick One)

RIP.

(xp) That Jerry Garcia credit is disputed

love Aldridge

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/56/06/eb/5606ebc2cee88058103f5d90c8cc8adf.jpg https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/564x/e8/d3/4a/e8d34a21fac41177b2c300ff0be30998.jpg

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/236x/fc/3c/72/fc3c7201d45b669237a87daedd906c07.jpg http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/images/2620_ALFRED_BESTER_Tiger_Tiger_1967.jpg

Wish I could say the same, but RIP nonetheless.

Did he also do The Beatles Illustrated Lyrics? Hard for me to know, since the version I bought from the Scholastic Book Club long ago as a schoolboy actually had no illustrations.

I guess it did have an image on the cover, over 100 photographs and an introduction by Richard Brautigan, along with the lyrics of course.

https://pictures.abebooks.com/MEDFORDBOOKS/md/md773933138.jpg

We had a Beatles For Guitar book which had illustrations by Alan Aldridge. I don't know where it came from, no-one in my family liked the Beatles, I think my brother might have borrowed it from someone to learn some songs. Always hated the illustrations too.

(xp) That cover looks more like John Byrne.

... no, having seen a bigger version it's definitely Alan Aldridge!

Byrne was tapped up to do the cover for The Beatles, though wasn't used until it appeared on Beatles Ballads in 1980.

https://img.discogs.com/gYvCsrUU93QEvdIPbpMj5P2VbT0=/fit-in/600x600/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-2431327-1343218241-1881.jpeg.jpg

We had the same book, Tom D, in similar 'Beatle-less' circumstances. Maybe they were issued to the populace like vaccines...

David Fricke's dad passed away and his rock critic son penned a sweet obit for him.

http://m.legacy.com/dignity-memorial/obituary.aspx?n=Charles-Fricke&lc=4577&pid=184172595&mid=7297739

Seem to recall Tom D also saying had done some extensive reading in The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, which is what I almost mistakenly called the lyrics book, despite the complete lack of fandom in the D. family.

In a way I think of this as an example of his exemplary music fandom, reading up on bands he doesn't like, or else reading to completion basically unreadable books about bands he does like, such as John "Drumbo" French's Beefheart book.

Actually, I never finished the John French book, which, given that I did finish John Tilbury's Cornelius Cardew biography gives you some idea of how much of a chore it became. I met John French not long after I gave up on his book, I never mentioned that though. As for The Beatles: An Illustrated Record, that was from when I had a flatmate who was a Beatles obsessive, and it's not exactly a hagiography!

No it isn't. I seem to remember a lot of stuff like "schmaltz reared its ugly head again," or words to that effect, whenever Macca came up with another song that strings on it.

I think everyone's solo stuff got a bit of a kicking, but, boy, the authors hated George's albums with a vengeance.

You're right, now that I think of it. Wonder if they hated them as much as Alfred does, though.

Richard Schickel

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-richard-schickel-dies-20170219-story.html

Stanley Bard, longtime manager of the Chelsea Hotel, 82

Guitarist-composer Larry Coryell

Saw Richard Schickel speak a few years ago--he was excellent. (Can't remember what he was introducing.)