Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

Garage banger they just sang on--Produced By Lee Hazlewood!

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

You don’t happen to own this, do you?

Nah, just that Sundazed comp.

That was the LP I had (no longer, of course). Is it worth a lot now?

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/will-ryan-dead-disney-voice-actor-1235051299/?fbclid=IwAR0WkeuwlPWqmt8cVdcdHwmSRKY-P8zVSNs5hoTILEQZfg_6fqKrOjPT688

Voiceover artist Will Ryan, 72. (I knew him best as fake 30s comic Sammy Shooster, of The Misadventures of Biffle and Shooster.)

lowtax apparently confirmed a suicide.

“I'm obviously not a visionary, but I predicted that the internet would be shitty back in 1999,” Kyanka told Motherboard in 2017. “Everybody was talking about how the internet was going to revolutionize everything and everything was going to be great, but nobody ever talked about how shitty the internet could also be.”

Subway co-founder Peter Buck died today. His funeral will be open sandwich.

— Nell Scovell (@NellSco) November 20, 2021

Art LaFleur. 'Who?' you ask. Oh THAT guy!!

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/r-p-character-actor-art-173800465.html

Oh shit, THAT guy?

Bernard Holley, the British version of the above post, also has had his death announced.

Rip Matilda… BBC Radio London’s Jo Good’s beloved bulldog companion of 13 years

David Longdon of Big Big Train.

― aphoristical, Saturday, November 20, 2021 7:30 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I'm guessing most people here never heard of this band but this is a pretty massive loss for the modern prog community

peter aykroyd, canadian improviser, SNL cast member, and brother of dan
https://www.looper.com/667288/the-devastating-death-of-peter-aykroyd/

RIP trombonist Slide Hampton, only mentioned here once before in passing on a Björk thread.

https://www.wbgo.org/2021-11-22/slide-hampton-trombonist-who-also-made-a-lasting-impression-as-a-master-arranger-is-dead-at-89

RIP trombonist Slide Hampton, only mentioned here once before in passing on a Björk thread.

Malikah Shabazz
https://edition.cnn.com/2021/11/23/us/malikah-shabazz-malcolm-x-daughter-dies/index.html

oh no :(

Joanne Shenandoah https://www.syracuse.com/news/2021/11/grammy-winning-oneida-singer-and-activist-joanne-shenandoah-dies-at-64.html

https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2021/11/stephen-sondheim-dies?yptr=yahoo

Titanic

the guy hung with cole porter. crazy.

...and was writing a new show!

Had lunch with once, for the life of me can't recall why!

Hungry

Lads Who Lunch

;_;

Robert Bly.

Sondheim.

Already mentioned but yeah

oh yeah, missed that.

Virgil Abloh. Man.

LVMH, Louis Vuitton and Off White are devastated to announce the passing of Virgil Abloh, on Sunday, November 28th, of cancer, which he had been battling privately for several years. pic.twitter.com/CytwZLvSFu

— LVMH (@LVMH) November 28, 2021

that's a bit of a shock

What an example of someone making the most of their time here.

When things like this come out I'm often reminded of Isaac Asimov's famous line — Barbara Walters asked him what he would do if he found out he had only six months left to live and he said, "Type faster."

Aboriginal actor David Gulpilil (Walkabout), 68.

Aw.

the virgil news is very sad. seems like there's been an increase of people privately battling cancer for years then dying "suddenly"

Sarcoma’s an absolute bastard, and angiosarcoma has terrible five-year survival rates. One of the ways sarcoma is different from carcinoma is that, for many people, there’s no long, slow wasting away - it’s possible to appear reasonably healthy until a few weeks before the end. Which may have helped VA keep working and appearing in public as late as he did.

Gulpilil, what a fucking legend, the best.

1/3 Our family mourn the passing of David Gulpilil Ridjimiraril Dalaithngu AM. A cinematic legend, cultural icon, painter and dancer - walked in two worlds but always remained true to his people and his homelands. pic.twitter.com/DPOlHaGLRv

— Ngarra Murray (@ngarra_murray) November 29, 2021

Among other things, I thought he was hilarious in Crocodile Dundee.

https://wtop.com/arts/2021/11/arlene-dahl-who-shone-in-films-of-the-1950s-dies-at-96/https://wtop.com/arts/2021/11/arlene-dahl-who-shone-in-films-of-the-1950s-dies-at-96/

Actress Arlene Dahl, 96.

RIP :( I saw her at Film Forum introducing Slighty Scarlet once. Geoffrey O'Brien was there, told me it was one of his favorite films, but maybe he says that about everything.

aww RIP Arlene, I only really know her from this LP which I found at a car boot sale (which also bizarrely cropped up in a Techmoan video this week). it comes with a script so you can read Bogart's lines in the gaps she leaves, oddly fun.

https://i.imgur.com/DflAlDC.jpg

RIP flamboyant, brilliant Yale art and music professor Robert Farris Thompson. I saw him speak in DC twice and was wowed by his knowledge of African art, music, and religion as well as Afro-Latino art, music, and faith. This Texas raised guy, who spent some years living in Nigeria, schooled audiences ( including me) on the history of pre-salsa mambo music in an entertaining manner that was also scholarly. Beyoncé is seen reading his book Black Gods and Kings in her Black is King movie, and his Flash of the Spirit book on African art and culture inspired many.

Ray Kennedy, 70
https://www.theguardian.com/football/2021/nov/30/ray-kennedy-former-arsenal-liverpool-and-england-player-dies-aged-70

RIP. The "later life" section of his wiki entry makes for grim reading.

Lee Elder, first Black golfer to play in Masters, dies at age 87

https://www.espn.com/golf/story/_/id/32745449/lee-elder-first-black-player-play-masters-dies-age-87

x-post - musician/critic/author Greg Tate re Professor Robert Farris Thompson-

A giant of African cultural scholarship no longer walks among us but along what Sun Ra called The Celestial Road. Professor Robert Farris Thompson’s lectures and books impact on C. Daniel Dawson,David Hammons, Jean Michel Basquiat, Kelly Jones, Kerry James Marshall, Henry Louis Gates, Judith Wilson, Sanford Biggers, and Arthur Jafa was immense, especially Flash of the Spirit which we essayed upon in Flyboy In The Buttermilk under the title ‘Guerilla Scholar On The Loose’. Peace go witcha Professor RFT.

Alvin Lucier has left the room.