Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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he was also great on Big Love, though it descended into schlock maybe three seasons in

― a serious and fascinating fartist (Simon H.), Sunday, 26 February 2017 15:51 (nine years ago)

noooo

he was the only reason I even attempted to watch the Training Day tv show

fuckin loved Paxton ;_;

― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 26 February 2017 16:00 (nine years ago)

he should have been nominated for at least one damned academy award or golden globe award for film and not just TV, but he was never flashy enough (to his considerable credit.)

― nomar, Sunday, 26 February 2017 18:07 (nine years ago)

judge wapner of the peoples court

― mookieproof, Sunday, 26 February 2017 20:10 (nine years ago)

Mentioned over on a Marvin Gaye thread, but Leon Ware

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/leon-ware-renowned-soul-songwriter-dead-at-77-w468706

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 26 February 2017 20:13 (nine years ago)

A Simple Plan was amazing.

And Leon Ware - damn, I Want You is one of my favourite Marvin LPs. And Inside My Love one of my favourite Minnie tunes.

― Dysphagia Nutrition Solutions (stevie), Sunday, 26 February 2017 21:09 (nine years ago)

Gerald Kaufman

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-39099489

― ailsa, Sunday, 26 February 2017 23:51 (nine years ago)

Oh, that's a biggie.

― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Sunday, 26 February 2017 23:55 (nine years ago)

Hideo Ikeezumi, founder of the incredible PSF label (gave the world Fushitsusha, High Rise, and much, much more).

― Don Van Gorp, midwest regional VP, marketing (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 27 February 2017 12:55 (nine years ago)

Jeez...

― Le Bateau Ivre, Monday, 27 February 2017 13:03 (nine years ago)

Toshio Nakanishi, aka Tycoon To$h, Japanese New Wave icon, founder of The Plastics and Melon

― frogbs, Monday, 27 February 2017 13:18 (nine years ago)

Nicholas Mosley, author of numerous novels and memoirs, some about his dad Oswald. Died at age 93, his most recent novel came out in 2014.

― JoeStork, Wednesday, 1 March 2017 18:59 (nine years ago)

RIP Tommy Gemmell ;_;

Scoring vs. Inter Milan, European Cup Final, 1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i31RBFSpqbk

Rubber legs vs. Inter Milan, European Cup Final, 1967

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i31RBFSpqbk

Scoring vs Feyenoord, European Cup Final, 1970

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VFz0hXtzQj4

Kicking a German up the arse, 1969

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lnja51VticQ

― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 March 2017 09:09 (nine years ago)

Oops, here are the rubber legs, as promised...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvlaOgEHHn4

― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Thursday, 2 March 2017 09:11 (nine years ago)

:-(

― ailsa, Thursday, 2 March 2017 09:34 (nine years ago)

Gustav Metzger

https://www.theguardian.com/education/2017/mar/02/auto-destructive-art-pioneer-gustav-metzger-dies-aged-90

― Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Thursday, 2 March 2017 09:44 (nine years ago)

Lovely obit for Don Markham - Merle Haggard's horn player.
http://www.bakersfield.com/entertainment/luckiest-man-in-oildale-haggard-s-horn-player-close-friend/article_659d39cd-5764-588b-b457-55102611ce43.html

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 2 March 2017 11:56 (nine years ago)

forgot to mention, read the comments on that for a fun story from Merle's bus driver.

― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 2 March 2017 11:57 (nine years ago)

sad news about Tommy Gemmell

― Odysseus, Thursday, 2 March 2017 12:18 (nine years ago)

Free jazz pianist Misha Mengelberg

― heaven parker (anagram), Friday, 3 March 2017 15:59 (nine years ago)

Very sad. He had such an amazing career, going from accompanying Eric Dolphy to being one of the key figures of the European scene for decades.

― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 3 March 2017 16:31 (nine years ago)

I missed this at the time - Alex Young, passed away Feb 27 aged 80. A God to Evertonians a generation before mine and titular subject of Ken Loach's 1968 BBC drama-doc The Golden Vision.

― Michael Jones, Friday, 3 March 2017 17:27 (nine years ago)

8 caps for Scotland. Typical.

― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Friday, 3 March 2017 17:38 (nine years ago)

Well, they were World Champions without him.

― Michael Jones, Friday, 3 March 2017 21:55 (nine years ago)

Tommy Page!

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/7710182/tommy-page-ill-be-your-everything-singer-and-former-billboard-publisher-dies-at-46?utm_source=twitter

― the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 4 March 2017 16:56 (nine years ago)

Miriam Colón, who played Al Pacino’s Cuban mother in Scarface and founded the Puerto Rican Traveling Theater in 1967

http://variety.com/2017/film/news/miriam-colon-dead-scarface-actress-dies-1202002194/

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 6 March 2017 04:07 (nine years ago)

Willard Grant Conspiracy frontman Robert Fisher

http://www.vanyaland.com/2017/02/13/rip-willard-grant-conspiracys-robert-fisher-has-died-after-cancer-battle/

― I Ville Valo HIM (unregistered), Monday, 6 March 2017 04:18 (nine years ago)

Tommy Page!

Man, I have no memory of that single at all.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 6 March 2017 05:30 (nine years ago)

Yeah I've never heard that song but I know this one
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DH2StgTvP4

― billstevejim, Monday, 6 March 2017 06:15 (nine years ago)

Aw, that's so sad. I was briefly fixated on Tommy Page as the ultimate Cool Dude when I was like eleven.

― The Flautist of Flatus (Old Lunch), Monday, 6 March 2017 06:19 (nine years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/C6Qb3Z3XEAEykEs.jpg:small

― mookieproof, Monday, 6 March 2017 19:01 (nine years ago)

Dammit, I was already gutted about other things. Still, he had a damn good run as the face of TCM.

― Diana Fire (j.lu), Monday, 6 March 2017 19:14 (nine years ago)

;_;

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 6 March 2017 19:44 (nine years ago)

that's a tough one

― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Monday, 6 March 2017 21:05 (nine years ago)

Damn, a friend and I were just speculating about his health last night. RIP

― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 6 March 2017 22:52 (nine years ago)

Gerald Hirschfeld, veteran cinematographer who shot Fail-Safe, Cotton Comes to Harlem, Young Frankenstein

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gerald-hirschfeld-dead-young-frankenstein-fail-safe-cinematographer-was-95-977763

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:05 (nine years ago)

one of the true greats of the underground cartoonists, Jay Lynch RIP
http://www.tcj.com/jay-lynch-1945-2017/

― removed from the rain drops and drop tops of experience (ulysses), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 19:44 (nine years ago)

Ric Marlow, who co-wrote the oft-recorded "A Taste of Honey"

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/ric-marlow-dead-taste-honey-songwriter-was-91-983854

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 7 March 2017 20:00 (nine years ago)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/arts/music/dave-valentin-dead-latin-jazz-flutist.html?_r=0

Had a stroke in 2012 and had Parkinson's.

― curmudgeon, Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:49 (nine years ago)

Caught that on the WBGO feed. Glad I got to see him once at the Jazz Standard. RIP.

― Nesta Leaps In (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 9 March 2017 02:57 (nine years ago)

Fred Weintraub, owner of NYC's The Bitter End hotspot in the '60s

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/fred-weintraub-whose-bitter-end-club-showcased-comic-singing-talent-in-1960s-dies-at-88/2017/03/08/73ccd9fa-041c-11e7-b1e9-a05d3c21f7cf_story.html?utm_term=.91de108a9c33

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 March 2017 19:25 (nine years ago)

Lynne Stewart, radical attorney

https://www.democracynow.org/2017/3/8/rip_lynne_stewart_peoples_lawyer_fmr

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Friday, 10 March 2017 19:27 (nine years ago)

John Surtees, only person ever to be world motorcycle and Formula One champion.

http://bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/35126201

― Return of the Flustered Bootle Native (Tom D.), Saturday, 11 March 2017 09:42 (nine years ago)

Joni Sledge

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2017/mar/12/joni-sledge-group-sister-sledge-dies-60

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 12 March 2017 08:20 (nine years ago)

Robert James Waller, author of The Bridges of Madison County

http://variety.com/2017/film/obituaries-people-news/robert-james-waller-dead-bridges-of-madison-county-author-dies-1202006294/

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 12 March 2017 08:52 (nine years ago)

http://music.blog.austin360.com/2017/03/12/evan-johns-60-left-his-mark-on-austin-music-as-a-firebrand-guitarist/

Hard-living guitarist who learned from bluesmen at Smithsonian folklife fest, Danny Gatton, punk rock and more and made his own guitar sounds in DC till 1984, and after that in Austin, Texas

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 12 March 2017 21:00 (nine years ago)

Johns’ stint in the LeRoi Brothers led to his participation in Big Guitars From Texas, a local all-star “guitar army” whose 1985 album “Trash, Twang & Thunder” earned a Grammy nomination.

I grew up listening to this album on countless family cartrips. One of the great roots records of the 80s. RIP

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 12 March 2017 23:12 (nine years ago)

John Lever, drummer for the Chameleons.

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2017/03/13/john-lever-chameleons-dies/

― nickn, Monday, 13 March 2017 16:44 (nine years ago)

RIP, that's awful

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Monday, 13 March 2017 16:50 (nine years ago)

HOLY shit, what terrible news.

― Ned Raggett, Monday, 13 March 2017 17:04 (nine years ago)

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