Kim Shattuck, of the Muffs, Pandoras, and Pixies.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 23:03 (four years ago) link
??!?
― an incoherent crustacean (MatthewK), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 23:11 (four years ago) link
From ALS apparently.
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 23:16 (four years ago) link
https://www.thewrap.com/kim-shattuck-lead-singer-and-songwriter-for-the-muffs-dies-at-56/
― a bevy of supermodels, musicians and Lena Dunham (C. Grisso/McCain), Wednesday, 2 October 2019 23:20 (four years ago) link
Followed by a very long list of 'other people who also died this year'!
― Mark G, Thursday, 3 October 2019 02:04 (four years ago) link
Oh man, that's sad
― SHANTY the golden fish portion (stevie), Thursday, 3 October 2019 09:09 (four years ago) link
Diahann Carroll, 84
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/diahann-carroll-dead-pioneering-actress-julia-dynasty-was-84-1196051
― maura, Friday, 4 October 2019 16:09 (four years ago) link
"Julia" is one of the first sitcoms i remember watching in its original run.
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 4 October 2019 16:16 (four years ago) link
Hearing news that Ed Ackerson of Polara and friend to a lot of folks in Minneapolis passed from cancer. (a gofundme was set up for his family yesterday)
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 5 October 2019 08:27 (four years ago) link
Ah man.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 October 2019 13:06 (four years ago) link
Man, no Polara thread on here! I've fixed that.
Polara and the work of Ed Ackerson
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 5 October 2019 13:29 (four years ago) link
Ginger Baker
― SHANTY the golden fish portion (stevie), Sunday, 6 October 2019 10:13 (four years ago) link
Baseballer Andy Etchebarren, 2x All-Star catcher; 2 World Series rings with Baltimore ('66, '70); together with Elrod Hendricks caught the 1971 Baltimore pitching squad that boasted four 20-game winners. Also was of Basque descent and had great eyebrows.
― Josefa, Sunday, 6 October 2019 14:54 (four years ago) link
Rip Taylor
― methanietanner, Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:04 (four years ago) link
there is confetti in heaven
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:14 (four years ago) link
No way did he just die. Really?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:15 (four years ago) link
Wow, people you thought were, etc.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:16 (four years ago) link
Just googled and the third image seems to be a Rip Torn mugshot.Wish I could watch a video of that SNL Superbuzzers sketch.
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:17 (four years ago) link
torn and taylor in the same year. rip rips.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:25 (four years ago) link
Rip it up and start again.
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 October 2019 22:29 (four years ago) link
riptide
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Monday, 7 October 2019 04:59 (four years ago) link
Militant's Tony Mulhearn
https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/veteran-liverpool-political-campaigner-tony-17044088
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Monday, 7 October 2019 11:20 (four years ago) link
Bassist-composer William Folwell, probably best known for his stint in Albert Ayler's band.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Tuesday, 8 October 2019 19:18 (four years ago) link
Marshall Efron, a '70s TV creator/actor who's hard to describe
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/arts/television/marshall-efron-dead.html
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 14:25 (four years ago) link
They play his Better Living Through Chemistry clip on a loop at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.
― Furter-Bursting Tater Squirter (Old Lunch), Wednesday, 9 October 2019 14:41 (four years ago) link
Vinnie Bell :(
― Beware of Mr. Blecch, er...what? (James Redd and the Blecchs), Thursday, 10 October 2019 00:44 (four years ago) link
Oh no--[checks Vinnie Bell wiki]
His first hit was in 1962 as a member of the band The Ramrods, whose version of (Ghost) Riders in the Sky made the UK top 10 and US top 40 in 1961.[4][5]
By 1962, Bell decided to devote his energies to working as a studio musician in New York and Los Angeles, developing a "watery" guitar sound popular in instrumental recordings in the 1960s.[6] He also helped design a number of electric guitar models with the company Danelectro for it’s “Coral” line of instruments, including the first electric 12-string guitar,[7] and the electric sitar,[8]
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 10 October 2019 03:44 (four years ago) link
Seems like my friend the former Sounds, NME etc writer Tommy Udo has died. :(
― Thus Spoke Darraghustra (Oor Neechy), Thursday, 10 October 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
Yeah, seeing other posts on that too. A real damn shame.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 10 October 2019 18:03 (four years ago) link
RIP cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, first person to do a spacewalk
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexei-leonov-died-cosmonaut-first-man-to-walk-in-space-dead-age-85-cause-of-death-not-released-2019-10-11/
He wrote an interesting (terrifying) account of that spacewalk mission which you can read here:https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-nightmare-of-voskhod-2-8655378/
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 11 October 2019 12:35 (four years ago) link
Oh and here's a gallery of his paintings (some painted by him, some by an artist friend, some a collaboration between the two): https://gizmodo.com/the-first-spacewalker-and-his-painter-friend-created-th-1729276737
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 11 October 2019 12:59 (four years ago) link
That account is fantastic, thanks for sharing. Lots of amazing details but this one jumped out at me first
The serious problems I had experienced when reentering the spacecraft were, thankfully, not televised. From the moment our mission looked to be in jeopardy, transmissions from our spacecraft, which had been broadcast on both radio and television, were suddenly suspended without explanation. In their place Mozart’s Requiem was played again and again on state radio. My family was therefore spared the anxiety they would have had to endure had they known how close I came to being stranded in space.
― willem, Friday, 11 October 2019 13:02 (four years ago) link
yeah! even aside from being a requiem you'd think the broadcast suddenly halting and being replaced by looping music would be unnerving, but I guess maybe the awareness that "uh-oh, seems like a broadcast emergency procedure" wasn't so public in 1965...
― a passing spacecadet, Friday, 11 October 2019 13:08 (four years ago) link
'terrifying' kinda undersells the constant piling on of disaster after disaster on top of leonov and his co-pilot, holy shit
― to regain his mental focus, he played video-game golf (bizarro gazzara), Friday, 11 October 2019 13:21 (four years ago) link
tot knew Leonov's name when i was a 7-year-old space addict
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Friday, 11 October 2019 19:59 (four years ago) link
The movie Spacewalker from a couple years back is worth watching if you want to see a highly dramatic version of Leonov life.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp8_4RXuDdk
In 1976, I got to meet Leonov and the entire crew of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project at the IAU conference in Anaheim. I was ten years old and I felt like I met Elvis.
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 11 October 2019 20:29 (four years ago) link
Robert Forster!
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-forster-dead-resurgent-oscar-nominee-jackie-brown-was-78-1218184
― nate woolls, Saturday, 12 October 2019 02:42 (four years ago) link
:(
― daavid, Saturday, 12 October 2019 02:44 (four years ago) link
noooooooo 😫
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 October 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
So sad, what a great guy
― Mario Meatwagon (Moodles), Saturday, 12 October 2019 02:46 (four years ago) link
Medium Cool
― a Mets fan who gave up on everything in the mid '80s (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 12 October 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
oh shit, even the timing is sad
― times 牛肉麵 (Autumn Almanac), Saturday, 12 October 2019 02:53 (four years ago) link
Fuck.
― Οὖτις, Saturday, 12 October 2019 02:57 (four years ago) link
FUUUUCK
one of the most soothing and just fucking cool screen presences ever
― Simon H., Saturday, 12 October 2019 03:21 (four years ago) link
Did the work and did it damn well. Glad the Twin Peaks return will serve as a partial sendoff for him in retrospect.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 12 October 2019 03:36 (four years ago) link
i listened to his audiobook recording of 'roadside picnic' last year. he had a wonderful voice.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Saturday, 12 October 2019 03:50 (four years ago) link
Max Cherry ❤️
― flappy bird, Saturday, 12 October 2019 04:48 (four years ago) link
John Giorno
― Priory, Saturday, 12 October 2019 13:50 (four years ago) link
shit man
― The Ravishing of ROFL Stein (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 12 October 2019 14:00 (four years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2aE8UdMBzE