Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

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i interviewed him by e-mail for a school project many years ago. just dug up our exchange; he signed every e-mail 'jimbo'. he was very kind and funny, wish i'd kept a longer correspondence with him beyond that one project

― donna rouge, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 03:19 (four years ago)

Bob Wall, martial artist and actor, best known as the evil O'Hara in Enter the Dragon

― Brad C., Tuesday, 1 February 2022 03:57 (four years ago)

RIP Jimmy Johnson, older brother of Syl Johnson, frequent collaborator on songs including “Come On Sock It To Me” & a blues legend in his own right. Here he is in a clip from our film talking about Syl’s arrival in Chicago with their brother Mack Thompson (bassist for Magic Sam). pic.twitter.com/g1VgJkj5UH
— Syl Johnson Movie (@SylJohnsonMovie) February 1, 2022

― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 05:42 (four years ago)

Sam Lay, drummer for Waters, Wolf, Butterfield & Dylan

https://pitchfork.com/news/blues-drummer-sam-lay-dies-at-86/

― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 06:46 (four years ago)

Italian climber and mountain guide Corrado “Korra” Pesce has died following an accident in Patagonia (41).

https://gripped.com/news/top-climber-and-mountain-guide-korra-pesce-dies-in-patagonia/

― nickn, Tuesday, 1 February 2022 20:03 (four years ago)

Jonny Z

https://variety.com/2022/music/news/jon-zazula-megaforce-records-metallica-dead-dies-1235169137/

― There's A Goots In My House (stevie), Tuesday, 1 February 2022 22:57 (four years ago)

Hearing murmurs about Monica Vitti

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 11:48 (four years ago)

Confirmed, sadly: https://www.google.com/amp/s/deadline.com/2022/02/monica-vitti-dies-italian-screen-icon-of-1960s-classics-was-90-1234924794/amp/

― SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 11:49 (four years ago)

RIP Monica :(

― Someone left a space telescope out in the rain (Tom D.), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 12:02 (four years ago)

RIP

― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 2 February 2022 13:42 (four years ago)

Mandy Allwood, 56. What a way to start the day, reading this. RIP.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/uk/octomum-dies-of-cancer-aged-56-b980653.html?amp

― Alba, Friday, 4 February 2022 08:23 (four years ago)

Jesus, what an absolutely tragic story. That poor, poor woman.

― There's A Goots In My House (stevie), Friday, 4 February 2022 09:39 (four years ago)

That is sad. Wasn't there another Octomom, an American one?

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 February 2022 12:18 (four years ago)

Yes. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nadya_Suleman

― dan selzer, Friday, 4 February 2022 12:21 (four years ago)

Dubbed "The most hated woman in Britain" for not giving interviews to the paper that dubbed her, for free. Doubtless.

― Mark G, Friday, 4 February 2022 14:55 (four years ago)

Todd Gitlin: https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/todd-gitlin-prominent-activist-thinker-dead-79-82697239

― clemenza, Sunday, 6 February 2022 01:58 (four years ago)

Lata Mangeshkar, 92

― mookieproof, Sunday, 6 February 2022 13:33 (four years ago)

Oh! RIP.

― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 6 February 2022 13:34 (four years ago)

Syl Johnson, July 1, 1936- February 6, 2022.

Sock it to 'em wherever you end up next, old friend. pic.twitter.com/d0wv4mQ4OW
— numerogroup (@numerogroup) February 6, 2022

― deep luminous trombone (Eazy), Sunday, 6 February 2022 16:35 (four years ago)

RIP Syl

― calzino, Sunday, 6 February 2022 16:51 (four years ago)

Man and his brother just passed away too.

― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 6 February 2022 16:58 (four years ago)

Composer George Crumb, 92

https://pitchfork.com/news/george-crumb-prolific-avant-garde-composer-dies-at-92/

― The White Hot Stamper With Issues (Matt #2), Monday, 7 February 2022 22:30 (four years ago)

Oh no! RIP George.

― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Monday, 7 February 2022 22:37 (four years ago)

Noooooo

― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Monday, 7 February 2022 22:52 (four years ago)

So very very dear to me

― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Monday, 7 February 2022 22:52 (four years ago)

Heard Ancient Voices of Children in a music appreciation class in college. Loved him since. I just bought but I haven’t listened to the new Marcantonio Barone CD. Going to do that now.

― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Monday, 7 February 2022 23:36 (four years ago)

it’s really great, not a huge departure from Makrokosmos I and II but a potent enchantment

― covidsbundlertanze op. 6 (Jon not Jon), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 01:16 (four years ago)

Bamber Gascoigne, 87

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2022/feb/08/bamber-gascoigne-former-university-challenge-quizmaster-dies-at-87

― The White Hot Stamper With Issues (Matt #2), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 10:38 (four years ago)

Almost posted him the unexpectedly still alive thread the other week. RIP BG.

― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 10:39 (four years ago)

Tony "Strat" Thomas of P-Funk.

― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 15:04 (four years ago)

Don't think we mentioned Mark Levine yet.
https://www.wbgo.org/music/2022-01-31/mark-levine-a-versatile-artist-and-influential-teacher-in-jazz-and-latin-music-is-dead-at-83

― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 16:57 (four years ago)

Douglas Trumbull, who did more for a generation's idea of film SF than probably anybody else. And beyond, through his lasting influence.

https://variety.com/2022/film/news/douglas-trumbull-dead-visual-effects-1235174814/

― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:00 (four years ago)

Monumental loss but the legacy is forever now.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:19 (four years ago)

Oh man, that's a biggie. An unsung hero whose work is deservedly adored but whose name is probably unknown to most.

― When the Pain That You Feel is the Bite of an Eel, That's a Moray (Old Lunch), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:24 (four years ago)

what a legend. RIP

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 17:59 (four years ago)

Trumbull was so instrumental to so much and so many, revered by his peers, that it was probably the best, proudest kind of fame.

― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:08 (four years ago)

Oh wow. RIP.

I saw him introduce a print of Brainstorm at MOMI a few years back. He was lively and engaging, and laser-focused on the issues of film projection quality and (his longtime obsession) the possibilities of high-frame-rate cinema. Somehow he managed to complain about the proportions of MOMI's room/screen without it coming off as a faux pas. I saw 2001 for the first time a short time later, in a 70mm print on an IMAX screen, and his big final effects sequence made the case for grand projection all by itself.

― The creator of Ultra Games, for Nintendo (Doctor Casino), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 18:09 (four years ago)

Did Trevor Pinch get a mention at the end of last year? Don't think so.
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/12/pioneering-professor-trevor-pinch-dies-69

― Tapioca Tumbril (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 8 February 2022 20:12 (four years ago)

seeing posts suggesting Betty Davis passed away, not yet confirmed

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 16:50 (four years ago)

confirmed by Rolling Stone

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/betty-davis-dead-obit-1297372/

― Muad'Doob (Moodles), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 17:57 (four years ago)

Oh fuck. RIP Betty.

― Bastards of Fish (Tom D.), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:01 (four years ago)

RIP Betty :(

― calzino, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 19:05 (four years ago)

awww RIP

― papal hotwife (milo z), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 20:19 (four years ago)

RIP

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Wednesday, 9 February 2022 22:29 (four years ago)

I remember the first time I heard anything from her right around when she was first being reissued, and thinking it was the hardest, funkiest music I'd ever heard.

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 9 February 2022 23:53 (four years ago)

Ian McDonald, founder member of both King Crimson and, er, Foreigner

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/ian-mcdonald-king-crimson-foreigner-dead/

― The White Hot Stamper With Issues (Matt #2), Friday, 11 February 2022 09:54 (four years ago)

...and saxes on "Bang A Gong"!

― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 11 February 2022 20:48 (four years ago)

― Ferryboat Bill Jr. (James Redd and the Blecchs), Friday, 11 February 2022 22:36 (four years ago)

wow didnt know that! RIP

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 12 February 2022 00:49 (four years ago)

I know soul & blues singer Syl Johnson and his blues guitar playing brother Jimmy Johnson's deaths within a week of each other were mentioned on the 6th , but here's a nice article on them by author Aaron Cohen

https://chicagoreader.com/music/a-tribute-to-syl-and-jimmy-johnson/

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 February 2022 00:09 (four years ago)

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