Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

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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)

Sadly seeing several folks post on Facebook now that Memphis drummer Howard Grimes has passed away. He played on Stax and Hi records including efforts by Al Green and Ann Peebles. He released a book about his life last year.

― curmudgeon, Sunday, 13 February 2022 00:10 (four years ago)

Ivan Reitman

https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/movie-news/ivan-reitman-dead-obit-1299688/

― Precious, Grace, Hill & Beard LTD. (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 14 February 2022 03:45 (four years ago)

pj o’rourke

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 20:12 (four years ago)

I'm afraid it's true. Our panelist and my dear friend PJ O'Rourke has passed away. More later.
— Peter Sagal (@petersagal) February 15, 2022

― Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 20:16 (four years ago)

vile man. I remember reading a line of his that read something like "how can a country that smells so much of crap have so much food poverty" and never read another line of his since.

― calzino, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 20:18 (four years ago)

Pretty repellent worldview, but I remember laughing uncontrollably at his writing in the 90s. Probably my love of snark coupled with political naïveté.

― assert (MatthewK), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 21:08 (four years ago)

He was pretty good with the pithy quip

― Andy the Grasshopper, Tuesday, 15 February 2022 22:21 (four years ago)

I don't recall anyone else mentioning Beryl Vertue, who moved from working with The Goons and Hancock into TV production, so I will.

https://www.theguardian.com/global/2022/feb/13/beryl-vertue-obituary

― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Tuesday, 15 February 2022 22:45 (four years ago)

PJ O'Rourke might have been vile but but I also remember laughing uncontrollably at his writing in the mid to late 80s. He was oddly popular with the commies of that era.

― stirmonster, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 02:14 (four years ago)

yeah (aside from HST) his Rolling Stone stuff was probably my first real exposure to political essay writing of any kind

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 02:21 (four years ago)

He understood that evil could be funny

― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:32 (four years ago)

Funny when he started and devolved into contrarian right-wing shtick iirc. But I haven't knowingly read O'Rourke in decades, so I have no idea if he had anything interesting to say this century.

― a man often referred to in the news media as the Duke of Saxony (tipsy mothra), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 03:40 (four years ago)

Veteran singer and composer Bappi Lahiri passed away, CritiCare Hospital in Mumbai has confirmed

(File pic) pic.twitter.com/HYVnMrhbrb
— ANI (@ANI) February 16, 2022

― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 06:02 (four years ago)

https://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/greater-manchester-news/jack-smethurst-star-hit-70s-23122573

Jack Smethurst, best known for the 100% non-controversial 70s sitcom Love Thy Neighbour.

― Long enough attention span for a Stephen Bissette blu-ray extra (aldo), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 19:56 (four years ago)

Manchester Evening News tellin' it like it is.

he is best known for portraying bigoted working class fool Eddie Booth in the hit 1970s comedy series Love Thy Neighbour.

― since dozzell was a fixture (Tom D.), Wednesday, 16 February 2022 20:07 (four years ago)

That description lifted from comedy.co.uk

https://www.comedy.co.uk/people/news/6724/jack-smethurst-rip/

― Alba, Wednesday, 16 February 2022 20:19 (four years ago)

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