Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

You can try it out here:

https://open.spotify.com/album/66sV58eUBYA4FMFdchc0D9?si=znteNeQWSZOO13n9zVnWiw

Back in the heyday of mp3 blogs someone posted Genevieve Waite’s Girls and I was rather taken with it. RiP

Jeff Walls of Guadalcanal Diary (via Murray Attaway on FB)

https://flagpole.com/blogs/homedrone/posts/rip-athens-musician-jeff-walls

Damn apparently Tricky’s daughter died. 24. Daughter of Tricky and Topley Bird. :-(

Leon Redbone

https://variety.com/2019/music/news/singer-leon-redbone-dies-at-69-1203229012/

A post on Redbone’s website confirming his death contained enough deadpan humor and whimsical fiction that it was almost certainly prepared in advance by the singer himself. “It is with heavy hearts we announce that early this morning, May 30th, 2019, Leon Redbone crossed the delta for that beautiful shore at the age of 127,” it read. “He departed our world with his guitar, his trusty companion Rover, and a simple tip of his hat. He’s interested to see what Blind Blake, Emmett, and Jelly Roll have been up to in his absence, and has plans for a rousing sing along number with Sári Barabás. An eternity of pouring through texts in the Library of Ashurbanipal will be a welcome repose, perhaps followed by a shot or two of whiskey with Lee Morse, and some long overdue discussions with his favorite Uncle, Suppiluliuma I of the Hittites. To his fans, friends, and loving family who have already been missing him so in this realm he says, ‘Oh behave yourselves. Thank you…. and good evening everybody.'”

Aww, RIP. I love On The Track.

RIP. I'll confess that, despite it being a terrible show, I really liked Redbone's theme to Mr. Belvedere (written by Gary Portnoy, who also did the Cheers song).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SIFQ98YUd1A

"Dropped kicked your jacket" is an oddly striking image.

Claus von Bülow, aged 92

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/may/31/claus-von-bulow-socialite-cleared-wife-murder-dies-aged-92

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrxenZhf78I

Never saw Reversal of Fortune, but it's interesting trivia that von Bülow's mistress during the scandal was Alexandra Moltke, aka Alexandra Isles, the original narrator of and lead actress in the 1960s Dark Shadows TV series. She was born with a "von" in her name and dropped it; he was born without one and added it. She was portrayed in the film by Julie Hagerty.

Xpost loved that movie so much

Roky Erickson has left us.

https://www.austin360.com/entertainmentlife/20190531/reports-roky-erickson-texas-psychedelic-music-legend-has-died

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B97ZhagHSmw&list=RDB97ZhagHSmw&start_radio=1

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B97ZhagHSmw

ahhhh fuck

Jose Antonio Reyes, 35:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/48483157

Car accident. Awful news.

jesus christ

Terrible.

RIP to Roky

https://www.nola.com/news/2019/06/leah-chase-new-orleans-matriarch-of-creole-cuisine-dead-at-96-family.html?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=nolanews_sf&utm_source=twitter

Leah Chase, the 96-year old matriarch of Dooky Chase restaurant in New Orleans . She fed Presidents this century, and civil rights leaders and more last century (especially during Jim Crow years when they couldn’t eat elsewhere)

RIP Ms. Chase -- great legacy there.

Portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler, who started out in comic books, dead at 92. File under 'people I didn't know were still alive.'

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/everett-raymond-kinstler-portrait-artist-of-presidents-and-celebrities-dies-at-92/2019/06/01/b1544f7c-83d8-11e9-933d-7501070ee669_story.html?utm_term=.fef646b8cf1b

Yeah I had assumed he died decades ago.

NYC jazz drummer Lawrence Leathers, suicide at 37.

I'm not familiar with his work, but this quote ...

“I don’t play a whole lot of flashy stuff,” he reflects. “Listening, that’s one of my biggest assets.”

...surely sums up what a great player/person he was. RIP.

Ugh. RIP

That Christopher Plummer portrait is in the players’ club

Someone who knew Leathers is saying on FB that it wasn't suicide, and pointed to this story.

The NPR story has been updated - it was murder, and someone's been arrested.

Paul Darrow, best known as Avon in Blake's Seven but in lots of other things too...

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-48501099

aw fuck, RIP Leathers

https://www.israelhayom.com/2019/06/03/last-survivor-of-sobibor-death-camp-dies-at-96/

Semyon Rosenfeld who is reportedly the last known survivor of Sobibor Uprising, although I've not seen Yehuda Lerner's obituary yet (impressive guy from Lanzmann Sobibor doc who was an escape specialist and killed a top SS commander with an axe).

Damn -- Dr. John.

https://www.theadvocate.com/new_orleans/news/article_a962e500-8877-11e9-991d-2f4782c02ae0.html/

damn! RIP.

He's one of those cats I know next to nothing about. I know he was a session guy at first, right? But for some reason the rest of his career has always seemed to hover at the margins for me. I think I have a copy of Gris Gris, but everything else ... no idea.

Yeah, he was a NOLA session guy that went west in the early sixties.

Kit Moon, mother of Keith Moon, at the age of 98...which means that she lived three times (and two years) longer than her son.

;_; rip Mrs Moon <3

woah, watched her being interviewed in an oldish Who doc last week and wondered if she was still alive. Dear Boy is a motherfucker of a biog.

We are deeply saddened and shocked to hear of the passing of Justin Edinburgh.

Our heartfelt condolences and thoughts go out to his family and friends at this terribly difficult time as well as everyone that worked alongside Justin at Leyton Orient. pic.twitter.com/rFRZZYNuLa

— Tottenham Hotspur (@SpursOfficial) June 8, 2019

Justin Edinburgh, Spurs FA Cup winner and Leyton Orient manager, at 49 after a cardiac incident earlier in the week.

Seeing on FB that Bushwick Bill (Geto Boys) has passed.

As we first reported, Bill had a falling out with tour organizers ... feeling like they were exploiting his cancer diagnosis to sell tickets. He was especially bent out of shape with the mini-tour's title, "The Beginning of a Long Goodbye: The Final Farewell."

Promoters pulled the plug on the tour on the eve of its launch. However, Bill told us he wanted to do a 20-city solo tour called "Phuck Cancer" ... and planned to donate a portion of proceeds to pancreatic cancer patients in each city.

sounds like he was working with some disreputable shits in has last year.

We've lost the brilliant music journalist and lovely man Andy Gill. He was funny, rude, intelligent and a great writer. xxx

— David Quantick (@quantick) June 9, 2019

Was just coming to post that :-(

not so fast re Bushwick Bill

UPDATE: Bushwick Bill’s publicist revealed that the rapper is “still alive and fighting cancer” in a hospital.

➡️ https://t.co/eNNT9k7n9R pic.twitter.com/j9bsTqs2e5

— Complex (@Complex) June 9, 2019

Lol, was just trying to post that. Wtf is going on?

he can't be stopped (or can he?)