Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

A idiot friend of mine used to have a "lung-fish" theory, that the phlegm in smoker's creates a protective layer against asbestos. All based on an old chainsmoker in his 70's we talked to who worked with asbestos, and said that it was "bollocks" that it was harmful!

i imagine that has happened to, at minimum, 25 people at every ozric tentacles gig in history xxp

*phlegm in a smoker's lungs

Don't want to disagree with calz as it would only lead to an online phlegm war

Phleg Post

Cough uck yourself

walking away from thread in phlegmatic silence..

rip cheggers, former singer for the Third Ear Band

Genesis P-Orridge and John Lydon owe their careers to you.

Can we not give it a day or two before scathing criticism pls

Surf film god Bruce Brown

http://www.surfline.com/surf-news/iconic-california-surf-filmmaker-passes-away-rip-bruce-brown-1937-2017_150881/

RIP Cheggers

SF Mayor Ed Lee

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/ed-lee-san-francisco-mayor-dead-at-65-cbs-san-francisco-says/

Suzanna Leigh, star of a couple of Hammers, the usual UK 60s TV suspects and Elvis' leading lady in Paradise, Hawaiian Style.

No obits I can see.

Anthony Harvey, editor of Lolita and Dr. Strangelove and director of The Lion in Winter

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/08/anthony-harvey-obituary

Bassist Mike Leech of the American Studios band, known for his work on Sweet Caroline and this classic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cG3Hr7n7YCU

Ugh. RIP :(

Don’t sleep on his work with Elvis- “Suspicious Minds”! Think he did some arranging too, which he learned from Noel Gilbert.

Whom he would often invite to add strings on sessions. First string arrangement he did was for “The Letter”!

Um, he died in 2015.

Oh wait, maybe that’s a different guy

Boby Emmons from the same band died in 2015, maybe that's who you're thinking of.

Reported on the Smithereens thread, but repeating here. Pat DiNizio, 62.

http://www.slicingupeyeballs.com/2017/12/12/pat-dinizio-smithereens-dead/

haven't thought about that band for a long, long time but that is sad news

Heinz Wolff, Great Egg Race presenter and scientist

https://m.facebook.com/BoydRiceNon/posts/1751380601548375

First wave Industrial/noise artist Z'EV.

R'IP

TCM's annual tribute:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GA0-1QvnTA8

RIP Keely Smith :-(

Ah, RIP

Ralph Carney, 61, saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist who played with Tin Huey, Tom Waits, Galaxie 500 and a shitload of others.

Louis Prima and Keely Smith were a fantastic act. Check out this clip, the only color footage I've ever seen:

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

SHINee singer Kim Jong-hyun, 27 :(

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/18/shinee-kim-jong-hyun-lead-singer-of-south-korean-boy-band-dies

Earle Hyman, Tony nominee best known as Russell Huxtable on The Cosby Show.

http://www.playbill.com/article/tony-nominee-earle-hyman-known-for-tvs-the-cosby-show-dies-at-91

posted that a couple weeks ago

Danny Mills, who played Crackers in Pink Flamingos, his only film, in January 2017.

RIP. [redacted inappropriate comment about the UK Danny Mills].

LOL

Steve Spear, guitarist of Art Attacks, died in a car crash last month aged 64.

Heather North, the voice of Daphne in Scooby Doo.

Daphne had lines?

jinkies

cardinal bernard f. law, pedophile protector

Hip-hop journalist/podcast host Combat Jack.

Oh shit, I knew he was ailing but didn't realize it was that dire. RIP.

This sucks, kinda fell off listening after Dallas Penn left the podcast but was one of the highlights of my week for a few years.

Clifford Irving, star of F for Fake:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/20/obituaries/clifford-irving-author-of-a-notorious-literary-hoax-dies-at-87.html

Peter Duffell, director of The House That Dripped Blood:

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2017/dec/20/peter-duffell-obituary

adam alexander, mathematician and creator of alexander's star

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander%27s_Star

Dick Enberg

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/news/sd-sp-dick-enberg-death-obit-20171221-story.html

trombonist - composer Roswell Rudd, best known for his work with the New York Art Quartet and the Jazz Composers Orchestra.

He did so much tremendous work. I love the Archie Shepp albums he plays on, even the reunion album they did in the early 2000s (for which Rudd has always said there was insufficient rehearsal).

Aw I really liked Dick Enberg as a sports commentator. Very smooth with a slightly refined air that is uncommon today.