Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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On white SGs

― TS Hugo Largo vs. Al Factotum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 April 2017 18:51 (nine years ago)

and duelling with Gary Moore on SynthAxes.

― Mozart's Musical Dubstep Dice Game (snoball), Sunday, 16 April 2017 19:24 (nine years ago)

Huh, Clifton James just made the "surprised he's not dead yet" thread last month.

RIP to him (and AH)

― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 16 April 2017 19:32 (nine years ago)

What? Oh no. RIP :(

― TS Hugo Largo vs. Al Factotum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 April 2017 19:45 (nine years ago)

Oh I thought you meant Bo Diddley's drummer, who died eleven years ago. Never mind.

― TS Hugo Largo vs. Al Factotum (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 16 April 2017 19:46 (nine years ago)

Just know Allan Holdsworth from his Soft Machine LP (Bundles) which is probably not the best perspective to view him from

― Camaraderie at Arms Length, Sunday, 16 April 2017 20:48 (nine years ago)

I only know him from UK - UK, which is a good album.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Sunday, 16 April 2017 22:41 (nine years ago)

"James Bond actor," poor ol' Clifton James

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Monday, 17 April 2017 18:36 (nine years ago)

Jane Freeman aka Ivy from Last Of The Summer Wine. The last of the original cast members.
Also I had no idea she was Tully Applebottom in the 1st series of Blackadder!

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2017/apr/17/jane-freeman-obituary

― Odysseus, Monday, 17 April 2017 18:49 (nine years ago)

xp
Like the TV news obits of Truffaut, which seemed to think his biggest accomplishment in film was playing a scientist in Close Encounters.

― nickn, Monday, 17 April 2017 18:55 (nine years ago)

Aaron Hernandez committed suicide.

― Mr. Snrub, Wednesday, 19 April 2017 10:45 (nine years ago)

Motown's Sylvia Moy, key Steveie Wonder collaborator

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-sylvia-moy-20170418-story.html

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 19 April 2017 18:51 (nine years ago)

http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/people/2017/04/20/cuba-gooding-sr-reportedly-found-dead-car-california/100721088/

Cuba Gooding, Sr.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 21 April 2017 00:05 (nine years ago)

Wow--knew nothing about the Main Ingredient connection.

― clemenza, Friday, 21 April 2017 00:26 (nine years ago)

OMG I never in my life thought there'd be an occasion to namecheck Stretch Princess in 2017. I'm as happy about this as I am the Charly Bliss album itself.

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Friday, 21 April 2017 12:19 (nine years ago)

Erin Moran--Joanie on Happy Days.

http://variety.com/2017/tv/news/happy-days-star-erin-moran-dies-at-56-1202393048/

― clemenza, Sunday, 23 April 2017 01:52 (nine years ago)

so sad, i loved Joanie

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 April 2017 01:54 (nine years ago)

Oh I thought that was Aerosmith posting just now

― Stupefyin' Pwns (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 23 April 2017 02:13 (nine years ago)

― Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Sunday, 23 April 2017 16:09 (nine years ago)

Robert M. Pirsig :'-(

― On Some Faraday Beach (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 24 April 2017 19:32 (nine years ago)

never occurred to me he was still alive

RIP dude

― Brexterminate all the brutes (Noodle Vague), Monday, 24 April 2017 20:38 (nine years ago)

Not dead yet, but Gregg Allman is rumored to have entered hospice care.

― Malcolm X, Martin Luther King, Jr, and Violent J (誤訳侮辱), Monday, 24 April 2017 20:43 (nine years ago)

Jonathan Demme, apparently.

― nate woolls, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 14:59 (nine years ago)

http://www.indiewire.com/2017/04/jonathan-demme-dead-73-silence-of-the-lambs-1201809289/

― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 15:01 (nine years ago)

Wow.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 15:17 (nine years ago)

whoa

― nomar, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 15:28 (nine years ago)

Reading on Facebook that Leo Baxendale has died, aged 86 :-(

― Bernie Lugg (Ward Fowler), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 19:43 (nine years ago)

RIP. Coincidentally, on Friday I should be seeing the person who borrowed my copies of 'On Comedy: the Beano and Ideology' and 'A Very Funny Business'. Perhaps this will be an opportunity to ask for them back (it's been years...).

― Eallach mhór an duine leisg (dowd), Wednesday, 26 April 2017 20:20 (nine years ago)

I love three Demme films--Melvin & Howard, Married to the Mob, and Silence (the last has lost a little over the years)--and like a bunch more. Had no idea he was 73, but he started in the '70s, so why wouldn't he be?

― clemenza, Wednesday, 26 April 2017 22:05 (nine years ago)

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-39730388

Comic artist Leo Baxendale of Minnie The Minx and Bash Street Kids fame:(

― calzino, Thursday, 27 April 2017 13:06 (nine years ago)

Performance artist Vito Acconci.

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/vito-acconci-dies-77-941138/amp-page

― nickn, Friday, 28 April 2017 17:03 (nine years ago)

Just to mention a "lesser" Demme work: New Order's "The Perfect Kiss" is one of my favourite music videos ever.

― anatol_merklich, Sunday, 30 April 2017 23:15 (nine years ago)

i don't think anyone classifies it as such

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 30 April 2017 23:50 (nine years ago)

Sorry, always thought of Demme as a hit-or-miss talent. Still need to see Stop Making Sense, though/

― ... Monkey Man or Astro-Monkey Man? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 1 May 2017 00:22 (nine years ago)

I hadn't heard of it before, thanks for the tip, there is something exceptional about it.

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 1 May 2017 00:31 (nine years ago)

(about The Perfect Kiss)

― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 1 May 2017 00:32 (nine years ago)

http://music.blog.ajc.com/2017/05/02/col-bruce-hampton-dies-hours-after-70th-birthday-celebration-at-the-fox-theatre/

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:45 (nine years ago)

Someone on twitter said he was such a badass he "played his own wake."

― Ⓓⓡ. (Johnny Fever), Tuesday, 2 May 2017 11:45 (nine years ago)

RIP Col. Bruce

― Brad C., Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:05 (nine years ago)

Consistently the least sucky thing associated with the jam band scene, which should now collectively resign in his honor.

― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:37 (nine years ago)

Damn, just found out about this.

― how's life, Tuesday, 2 May 2017 12:54 (nine years ago)

Kevin Garcia, bassist for Grandaddy.

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kevin-garcia-grandaddy-bassist-and-co-founder-dead-w480373

― nickn, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 03:58 (nine years ago)

Had heard unofficial word earlier -- damn shame.

― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 May 2017 04:03 (nine years ago)

Oh god, how horrible.

― Impartial Father (stevie), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 07:18 (nine years ago)

“We were heartbroken to learn that Jean Stein, the writer and editor who chronicled the venal underside of celebrity, has died at 83,” writes Dan Piepenbring of the Paris Review. “When she was still a teenager, she interviewed William Faulkner, an exchange that appeared in this magazine in 1956…. With George Plimpton, she edited Edie: American Girl, an oral history of Edie Sedgwick… Last year, Stein published West of Eden, an oral history of Los Angeles, full of myth and rancor and especially desolation.”

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2017/05/01/jean-stein-1934-2017/

― Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 3 May 2017 14:40 (nine years ago)

vague rumors that ye olde Prince Philip might have kicked the bucket

no confirmations from anywhere official yet tho

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 May 2017 04:00 (nine years ago)

sounding flakier by the minute now

― early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 4 May 2017 04:16 (nine years ago)

yeah i think this might have been a kite flying expedition lol

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 May 2017 04:34 (nine years ago)

kinda was hoping a little tbh tho, is that bad

― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 4 May 2017 04:35 (nine years ago)

no, prince philip is bad

― Impartial Father (stevie), Thursday, 4 May 2017 11:46 (nine years ago)

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