Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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Steve Howe's son Virgil, a drummer who played on some of Steve's albums.

Due to the tragic, unexpected death of guitarist Steve Howe’s beloved younger son Virgil, the remaining #YESTIVAL dates have been cancelled. pic.twitter.com/u1934a93Ng
— YESofficial (@yesofficial) September 11, 2017

― nickn, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 00:38 (eight years ago)

Oh man. So sad. Poor Steve...

― Acid Hose (Capitaine Jay Vee), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 02:52 (eight years ago)

wtf? Wasn't he touring with them? Shocker.

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 09:16 (eight years ago)

No, that's the other son, Dylan.

― grawlix (unperson), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 11:46 (eight years ago)

Sir Peter Hall, 86.

― kim jong deal (suzy), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 12:15 (eight years ago)

Virgil has played with FSOL/AA a lot, as well as being a part of the mashup/dj era and releasing a brilliant mix cd under the alias of sparoworlds when he used to discuss stuff with me via his myspace page.

r.i.p.

― mark e, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 12:48 (eight years ago)

Sorry to say I didn't know about Virgil but I love Steve Howe so it's very sad to see this.

― Robert Adam Gilmour, Tuesday, 12 September 2017 13:03 (eight years ago)

Edith Windsor, the gay-rights activist whose landmark Supreme Court case struck down the Defense of Marriage Act in 2013

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/woman-helped-end-federal-gay-marriage-ban-dies-49801389

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Tuesday, 12 September 2017 21:14 (eight years ago)

Jessi Zazu, Those Darlins Singer, Dead at 28 (cervical cancer).

http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/jessi-zazu-those-darlins-singer-dead-at-28-w502855

― nickn, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 17:21 (eight years ago)

Pete Domenici, NM senator for 36 years

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/13/pete-domenici-dies-obituary-242660

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 18:21 (eight years ago)

Frank Vincent, 78. (Phil Leotardo/Billy Batts.)

― henry s, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 21:22 (eight years ago)

Aw fuck

― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 21:27 (eight years ago)

he was the victim and perpetrator of some famously ugly death scenes.

― calzino, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 21:46 (eight years ago)

Vincent and Farina, jammin' in Heaven.

― Eazy, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 21:55 (eight years ago)

Phil Leotardo "coming out" of Vito's closet will forever haunt me.

― henry s, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 21:56 (eight years ago)

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DJoeCWfWsAEntru.jpg

― nomar, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 22:06 (eight years ago)

RIP Wm Berger of "My Castle of Quiet"/WFMU

― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 22:12 (eight years ago)

^^another image to forever haunt me

― henry s, Wednesday, 13 September 2017 22:15 (eight years ago)

Xpost my wife just told me about that
Uncle Wiggly is one of her all time favorite bands

― harbinger of failure (Jon not Jon), Wednesday, 13 September 2017 22:41 (eight years ago)

RIP, hope he's telling people in Heaven to get their shineboxes

― Neanderthal, Thursday, 14 September 2017 01:04 (eight years ago)

god i just realized the poetry of Pesci killing Billy Batts and then what happens in Casino with, well...

http://www.chud.com/articles/content_images/0NICK2/casino_1818.jpg

― nomar, Thursday, 14 September 2017 03:36 (eight years ago)

Nothing to say about Frank Vincent in Raging Bull, Goodfellas, and (to a somewhat lesser extent) Casino that hasn't been said a million times already. My favourite scene of his from The Sopranos--this one scene lingered for the rest of the series with me.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBcbc8eWz6U

(xpost: And don't forget the beating Pesci gives him in Raging Bull.)

― clemenza, Thursday, 14 September 2017 03:39 (eight years ago)

Grant Hart

― Alba, Thursday, 14 September 2017 07:54 (eight years ago)

Ooof. Fuck cancer.

― kim jong deal (suzy), Thursday, 14 September 2017 08:06 (eight years ago)

JP Donleavy

― passé aggresif (darraghmac), Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:12 (eight years ago)

Oh man, what a day!

― Wewlay Bewlay (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 September 2017 09:15 (eight years ago)

Gastone Moschin, Italian film actor of The Conformist and Godfather II (Don Fanucci of Little Italy)

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/movies/gastone-moschin-dies-at-88-played-a-doomed-don-in-godfather-part-ii.html

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Friday, 15 September 2017 17:31 (eight years ago)

Harry Dean Stanton

― streeps of range (wins), Friday, 15 September 2017 22:22 (eight years ago)

aw fuck! he just had a new film coming out and a retrospective downtown.

― Chocolate-covered gummy bears? Not ruling those lil' guys out. (ulysses), Friday, 15 September 2017 22:26 (eight years ago)

Can't wait to see that film! And yeah, what a career.

― streeps of range (wins), Friday, 15 September 2017 22:30 (eight years ago)

Nooooo!!!

― flappy bird, Friday, 15 September 2017 22:34 (eight years ago)

― ailsa, Friday, 15 September 2017 22:35 (eight years ago)

Goddamn it, I was afraid 2017 was going to be out of the frying pan into the fire.

― Diana Fire (j.lu), Friday, 15 September 2017 22:35 (eight years ago)

dammit

― nomar, Friday, 15 September 2017 22:39 (eight years ago)

That's, what, three Twin Peaks: The Return cast members now?

― Anne of the Thousand Gays (Eric H.), Friday, 15 September 2017 22:41 (eight years ago)

four, I think?

― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 September 2017 22:41 (eight years ago)

Warren Frost, Coulson, Ferrer + Stanton

― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 September 2017 22:42 (eight years ago)

And Bowie

― streeps of range (wins), Friday, 15 September 2017 22:42 (eight years ago)

well he *would've* been in it

― Οὖτις, Friday, 15 September 2017 22:43 (eight years ago)

There was also a minor character (the rr cook)

― streeps of range (wins), Friday, 15 September 2017 22:45 (eight years ago)

Xp yeah it's close enough that he counts in the toll

― streeps of range (wins), Friday, 15 September 2017 22:46 (eight years ago)

aw man. 63 year career.

― El Tomboto, Friday, 15 September 2017 22:53 (eight years ago)

Bobby "The Brain" Heenan.

― EZ Snappin, Sunday, 17 September 2017 23:29 (eight years ago)

Linking to Stanislav Petrov:

https://www.rt.com/news/403625-nuclear-soviet-officer-died/

― xyzzzz__, Monday, 18 September 2017 20:09 (eight years ago)

Jake LaMotta

I assumed he was dead tbh

― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 15:30 (eight years ago)

(Like, ages ago I mean)

― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 15:30 (eight years ago)

https://i.pinimg.com/originals/2b/bf/a4/2bbfa492effca0eec14e5b514c9675f2.jpg

yeah he looks pretty old this photo of him on set with young man DeNiro in '79 or '80. 95 years old!

― nomar, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 15:32 (eight years ago)

Yeah I mean obv I only know him from raging bull and I saw that a million years ago but I remember it being like "this dude was good at punching for like 30 mins then a BUNCH of awful shit happened and he ended his life a sad fat loser *aria plays*"

Didn't even occur to me to think of the guy being alive and continuing to live for several decades

― good art is orange; great art is teal (wins), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 16:33 (eight years ago)

I saw him in the audience of a comedy club tribute to his fellow Bronxer Larry "F Troop" Storch a few years ago.

Brother Joey survives.... as does his fiancee.

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/jake-lamotta-raging-bull-boxing-legend-dead-96-article-1.3508624

― ice cream social justice (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 20 September 2017 21:06 (eight years ago)

Played a bartender in The Hustler:

http://www.tcm.com/mediaroom/video/1068673/Hustler-The-Movie-Clip-The-Lights-And-The-Scotch.html

― clemenza, Wednesday, 20 September 2017 23:54 (eight years ago)

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