Rolling Obituary Thread: 2020

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― Hey, let me drunkenly animate yr boats in about 25 to 60 days! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, 11 May 2020 12:24 (six years ago)

Takami Asano, guitarist of Japanese band Godiego. Seems a good excuse to post this:

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

― zoom séance goes tits up (Matt #2), Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:26 (six years ago)

Daniel Clowes remembers Richard Sala

http://www.tcj.com/richard/

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 12 May 2020 17:44 (six years ago)

I really enjoyed that theme song.

― wasdnous (abanana), Wednesday, 13 May 2020 00:21 (six years ago)

Beckett Cypher, Melissa Etheridge's son, 21.

https://variety.com/2020/music/news/beckett-cypher-melissa-etheridge-son-dead-dies-1234605991/

― A White, White Gay (cryptosicko), Thursday, 14 May 2020 04:06 (six years ago)

German playwright Rolf Hochhuth has died at the age of 89. Started off writing plays that criticised Pope Pius XII's indifference to Hitler's extermination of the Jews, ended up calling David Irving a "pioneer of modern history who has written magnificent books".

https://www.tagesspiegel.de/kultur/rolf-hochhuth-ist-tot-dramatiker-mit-89-jahren-gestorben/25829450.html

― Portsmouth Bubblejet, Thursday, 14 May 2020 09:49 (six years ago)

(xp) That's grim.

― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Thursday, 14 May 2020 10:37 (six years ago)

Well that was grim too.

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 14 May 2020 15:04 (six years ago)

Obituary thread; grim

― Wuhan!! Got You All in Check (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 14 May 2020 15:23 (six years ago)

http://imgc.allpostersimages.com/img/print/u-g-PHW1ME0.jpg

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 14 May 2020 15:28 (six years ago)

Phil May of the Pretty Things according to Kris Needs on Facebook.

― dan selzer, Friday, 15 May 2020 15:23 (six years ago)

https://www.uncut.co.uk/news/pretty-things-frontman-phil-may-has-died-aged-75-126634/

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 15 May 2020 15:43 (six years ago)

Ugh. RIP.

― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 May 2020 15:52 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z3iEOc0zG0Y

― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 May 2020 16:02 (six years ago)

astrid kirchherr, 81

― mookieproof, Friday, 15 May 2020 17:00 (six years ago)

The 60s is taking a kicking today.

― Frank Bough: I Took Drugs with Vice Girls (Tom D.), Friday, 15 May 2020 17:01 (six years ago)

Lol, RIP

― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 May 2020 17:03 (six years ago)

Lol, RIP-

The classic combination

― Alba, Friday, 15 May 2020 18:25 (six years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O7oD_oX-Gio

― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 May 2020 18:45 (six years ago)

Sorry, a little, um, gallows humor. Wish Astrid could come and cut my hair.

― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 May 2020 18:46 (six years ago)

never understood why or how that woman was walking down the street eating peanut butter out of an open container

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 May 2020 19:08 (six years ago)

with her fingers yet!

― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Friday, 15 May 2020 19:08 (six years ago)

picture the fingers

― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 15 May 2020 22:47 (six years ago)

Moon Martin and Jorge Santana.

http://oklahoman.com/article/5662447/rip-oklahoma-power-pop-songwriter-moon-martin-who-wrote-robert-palmer-hit-bad-case-of-loving-you

http://bestclassicbands.com/jorge-santana-dead-musician-carlos-santana-5-15-20/?fbclid=IwAR1Hb0ok-_yn1b1vnlt6wFIdzpmWKYC8jL--DxcRWGH3QHVD5fKBe8sXzFw

I love Malo's "Suavecito"--more than any Santana song, I think.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPyuGD3kDNQ

― clemenza, Friday, 15 May 2020 23:21 (six years ago)

I just might agree with you there.

In other news, I learned the error of my ways and when a friend posted about Astrid Kirchherr on social media I responded with a sad emoji and left it at that.

― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 May 2020 02:06 (six years ago)

Oh wait, I also said something about Klaus Voormann. I guess more work is needed.

― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 May 2020 02:06 (six years ago)

Jorge Santana backing Cheo Feliciano on “El Ratón” with the Fania All-Stars is a fucking amazing salsa-blues-rock jam. And yeah, Malo deserved way more love than they got.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Saturday, 16 May 2020 02:19 (six years ago)

I hope you didn't think I was tutting at you. The lol RIP made me laugh.

― Alba, Saturday, 16 May 2020 02:29 (six years ago)

Sorry, wasn’t sure. Didn’t really think so, but old habits of defensiveness die hard.

― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 May 2020 03:03 (six years ago)

i also lolled but ruefully

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 May 2020 09:36 (six years ago)

Ruflmao

― valet doberman (Jon not Jon), Saturday, 16 May 2020 13:50 (six years ago)

Also, thought you me be protecting your turf because you might have noticed me visiting https://www.bbc.com/alba

― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 May 2020 14:44 (six years ago)

Jamie Lee Curtis announced on Twitter that Fred Willard has passed away.

― maura, Saturday, 16 May 2020 18:26 (six years ago)

god i loved him anywhere, in anything

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 May 2020 18:46 (six years ago)

At 86

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/fred-willard-best-in-show-actor-dead-obit-1000942/

― nickn, Saturday, 16 May 2020 18:46 (six years ago)

Damn, he improved everything he was in. What a comic presence he had.

― Dan Worsley, Saturday, 16 May 2020 18:48 (six years ago)

absolute legend

― nxd, Saturday, 16 May 2020 18:57 (six years ago)

Lynn Shelton, 54

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Saturday, 16 May 2020 19:01 (six years ago)

Fred Willard an utter original, RIP

― silby, Saturday, 16 May 2020 19:01 (six years ago)

If anyone deserved a LOL RIP, it’s Fred Willard.

― Louder Than Bach's Bottom (James Redd and the Blecchs), Saturday, 16 May 2020 19:04 (six years ago)

Damn, Willard was still doing bits on Kimmel earlier this year...

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 May 2020 19:07 (six years ago)

xp was gonna say, you hit it too soon

― Yanni Xenakis (Hadrian VIII), Saturday, 16 May 2020 19:09 (six years ago)

Fuck. Lynn Shelton?? Wow. That is shocking.
Love her work.

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 16 May 2020 19:17 (six years ago)

My Fred Willard story as such: so I'm at the theater seeing A Mighty Wind on its run, a few days after release. Full crowd, we're all enjoying ourselves, it's great, plenty of laughs. Then Fred Willard's amazing mug appears on the screen for the first time -- nobody knows anything about his character or what the heck he'll end up doing nearly stealing the whole damn film away from everyone else -- and *immediately* the entire place amps up from an already high level, we're laughing before his character gets even a word out, practically. What a comic genius.

― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 16 May 2020 20:19 (six years ago)

Ah man I thought Fred Willard was a lot younger than 86, and yeah, amazing in everything

― or something, Saturday, 16 May 2020 20:34 (six years ago)

seen him as 80 on wiki so...?

― spruce springclean (darraghmac), Saturday, 16 May 2020 20:45 (six years ago)

Huh, his daughter tweeted that he was 86.

It is with a heavy heart that I share the news my father passed away very peacefully last night at the fantastic age of 86 years old. He kept moving, working and making us happy until the very end.We loved him so very much!
We will miss him forever.
— Hope Willard (@Mulbytime7) May 16, 2020

But in this clip he says he was born in 1939: https://interviews.televisionacademy.com/interviews/fred-willard?clip=72743#interview-clips

― jaymc, Saturday, 16 May 2020 21:19 (six years ago)

Must have been that age-reduction surgery...

― "...And the Gods Socially Distanced" (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 16 May 2020 21:22 (six years ago)

Yes, people lie about their age.

Regardless, RIP Fred Willard. Next time you watch Best In Show, count the amount of times he makes his co-star Jim Piddock nearly (or fully a couple times) break character.

― Jersey Al (Albert R. Broccoli), Saturday, 16 May 2020 21:23 (six years ago)

It’s like. Every single thing he says.

― silby, Saturday, 16 May 2020 21:24 (six years ago)

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