Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Fonda died at the age of 79, not 69 - my mistake.

oh phew, my parents will never die, is what you're saying, great

Terry Valentine, R.I.P.

Tell Bruce Langhorne I’m coming!

He took that whole ‘60s Southern California zeitgeist and ran with it.

Pete was even good in his Oscar-nominated Ulee's Gold

seemed to get over Dad's demons easier than Jane; of course he may have suffered less from them

Checking his IMDb, it's amazing just how many motorcycle/fast car movie roles he played--many of which are winks to Easy Rider (Cannonball Run, Escape From L.A., Ghost Rider etc.).

One of the first recordings of a Gram Parsons song, "November Night" (1966)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e2NNjwjgYbU

bridget still lives

former NFL running back Cedric Benson (Bears, Bengals, Packers), in a motorcycle crash

https://www.espn.com/nfl/story/_/id/27413898/former-longhorns-nfl-rb-benson-dies-36

Richard Williams, animation director on Who Framed Roger Rabbit and writer of The Animator's Survival Kit

katreese barnes, snl music director and composer of “dick in a box”

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/16/arts/music/katreese-barnes-dead.html

Wow, so young. I know Howard Shore, and I know GE Smith and Lenny Pickett, but I had no idea who she was. (Looking into SNL musical directors I just learned that Hal Wilner sometimes still works at SNL!)

ubiquitous sportscaster Jack Whitaker, 95

Dr. Demento favorite and stand-up comedian Kip Adotta. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6l1GvDWtccI

Sundazed on FB is reporting noted session bassist and former Canned Heat member Larry Taylor has passed.

http://www.noise11.com/news/canned-heats-larry-the-mole-taylor-has-died-aged-77-20190820

Wearside Jack aka John Samuel Humble aka Yorkshire Ripper hoaxer numpt.

Richard Booth, King of Hay, bookseller extraordinaire.

He was responsible for transforming the market town in Powys into the world's foremost home for books.

RIP the Mole, here is one of his best basslines...

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

I don't know anything about Canned Heat, but I love his playing with Tom Waits, and while it's hard to say who is doing what, he's on Martinis & Bikinis by Sam Phillips (along with Colin Moulding and Jerry Scheff, so ... good company) and there is some awesome bass playing on that album.

Played on dozens of Monkees tracks too.

NBC News perennial Jack Perkins

https://www.adweek.com/tvnewser/former-nbc-newser-jack-perkins-dies-at-age-85/412187/

https://farsider.files.wordpress.com/2016/05/jack-perkins.jpg?w=450

hah forgot all about that

Sources close to the family say David Koch has died.

— Jane Mayer (@JaneMayerNYer) August 23, 2019

oh what a world, what a world

https://media.tenor.com/images/c39d3d1ff1b99b4ba39db44ba1ffd84c/tenor.gif

at least his place as one of the biggest Kochs in history is secured

https://abc7.com/amp/politics/billionaire-political-activist-david-koch-dies-at-79/5487884/?__twitter_impression=true

If he can die in his 70s so can Trump

BILLIONAIRE POLITICAL ACTIVIST

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iZW909WuB4

Wasn't one brother at least a hair shittier than the other? Anyway, death comes for everyone, asshole, but at least you donated piles of money to some not-evil things while you were around, which someone perhaps will think about every time they see your name on something and wonder, "hey, wasn't that that asshole?"

Yeah, Charles is even more evil, somehow, but just slightly

there are plenty of critiques to make of Jane Mayer's work, but you can't say that she didn't report that baby David and Charles Koch were made to shit "precisely on schedule" by a Nazi pic.twitter.com/kEBnkZWMms

— Brendan O'Connor (@_grendan) August 23, 2019

just lolled loudly at this.

lmao

Is it churlish to point out that it was child abuse, and chronologically predated any acts that could justify it?

you might have a point, but different rules apply to the vile ruling classes imo

I watched the video of Bill Koch crying about being sold counterfeit wine to get in the mood for the weekend.

you might have a point, but different rules apply to the vile ruling classes imo

― calzino, Friday, August 23, 2019 4:07 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

I mean the psycho abusive Nazi nanny probably had a hand in making them as insanely avaricious and evil as they were/are

not that they would've become 'benevolent billionaires' like a Buffett or Gates necessarily but still goddamn fuck that nanny!

Andrew Horn, director of The Nomi Song and We Are Twisted Fucking Sister!

Ah man, that's a real shame. Is there a specific source or link?

Ah, never mind, finding links.

Tim Bell

Repulsive Man Dies.

If Hitler had emerged alive and well that cunt would have been first in line to do his PR.

Neal Casal :(

Actress and presenter Sheila Steafel, seen here in Quatermass and the Pit:

http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-hZsXG2IGRvY/T5qiW2il6xI/AAAAAAAAAGM/DXoyqZCYJKQ/s1600/steafel.gif

Oh, shame, RIP Sheila.

... married to Harry H. Corbett for a while, yes can see that.