Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

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Yow!

SQUIRREL MEAT!! (Capitaine Jay Vee), Monday, 4 April 2022 17:13 (two years ago) link

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Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Monday, 4 April 2022 17:14 (two years ago) link

"What's up doc...oh wait OW!"

Ned Raggett, Monday, 4 April 2022 17:20 (two years ago) link

Roger Corman (b. April 5, 1926) is still alive. Happy Birthday, Roger!

dow, Monday, 4 April 2022 17:36 (two years ago) link

RIP at 93 guitarist Joe Messina from Motown’s Funk Brothers band

http://www.soultracks.com/story-joe-messina-dies

curmudgeon, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 18:33 (two years ago) link

Man, what a career that guy had. RIP.

Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Tuesday, 5 April 2022 18:43 (two years ago) link

Philadelphia Legend Bobby Rydell, ‘Wildwood Days’ Singer, Dies

https://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2022/04/05/philadelphia-legend-bobby-rydell-wildwood-days-singer-dies/

nickn, Tuesday, 5 April 2022 22:20 (two years ago) link

Journalist Eric Boehlert

1/oh my goodness: Just got crushing news from Tracy Breslin, wife of @EricBoehlert https://t.co/l0nOnE0Tad Has died in a bike accident, age 57. Adored his kids Jane and Ben, his dogs, biking and running and basketball and good friends, a fierce and fearless defender of the truth

— Soledad O'Brien (@soledadobrien) April 6, 2022

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 18:01 (two years ago) link

Singer Bobby Rydell, Aged 79

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link

ope, somebody beat me to it

Andy the Grasshopper, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:35 (two years ago) link

I guess he was the last of the Bobbys, after Darin and Vee

Josefa, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link

Not quite, Bobby Vinton's still with us, at 86.

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:50 (two years ago) link

Lol at these last two posts

Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 20:51 (two years ago) link

Oh man, I forgot Bobby Vinton, the Polish Prince. One of the first singers I remember bc my family watched his variety show in the mid-'70s.

Josefa, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 21:05 (two years ago) link

Journalist/critic John Swenson died on March 27. Many of us likely know him best from the 1979 and 1983 Rolling Stone Record Guides which he co-edited with Dave Marsh.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 21:06 (two years ago) link

RIP. A Tom D favorite, I believe.

Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 22:04 (two years ago) link

Oh no!!!!

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 22:06 (two years ago) link

The world might be in a terrible state but at least Nehemiah Persoff is still alive.... so what now?

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 22:13 (two years ago) link

I'm sorry, Tom. I'm sorry for all of us.

Josefa, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 22:16 (two years ago) link

Some say a little TOO sorry!

Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 22:24 (two years ago) link

Sorry.

He was like the patron saint of the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive, both of you posted about him multiple times on that thread.

Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 22:31 (two years ago) link

We need a new centenarian

Josefa, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 22:35 (two years ago) link

As long as Stanley Baxter is still alive I can wake to face a bright new day. I just hope I haven't jinxed him.

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 22:40 (two years ago) link

Then there is this oft-mentioned dichotomy if not rivalry: Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Came Here to Roll the Microscope (James Redd and the Blecchs), Wednesday, 6 April 2022 22:46 (two years ago) link

Francisco González, a founding member of Los Lobos, has died. He was 68.
In the early 1970s, González joined fellow musicians Louie Perez, David Hidalgo, Cesar Rosas and Conrad Lozano to form one of East LA's most eclectic bands.
Los Lobos paid tribute to González on its Instagram page.

"We are deeply saddened by the passing of our brother and founding member, Francisco González. He, along with Cesar, started the group in 1973 for the purpose of 'playing Mexican music for our mothers,' as he always put it. Francisco was a brilliant musician, and after leaving the group in 1976 to follow a different musical path, he went on to master the Veracruz harp, then became the musical director of El Teatro Campesino theatre group—always shining across a lifetime of accomplishments."

https://www.npr.org/2022/04/05/1091007144/los-lobos-francisco-gonzalez-obituary

dow, Wednesday, 6 April 2022 23:51 (two years ago) link

Eric Boehlert!

A bicyclist who was killed by a New Jersey Transit train Monday night was writer Eric Boehlert, founder and editor of Press Run, a blog about the media, according to his wife, Tracy Breslin.

Boehlert, 57, was a veteran writer and media analyst and a frequent television and radio guest discussing politics and the press on CNN and CNBC. He was a founding editor of Salon magazine, a fellow with Media Matters, and a former writer with Rolling Stone and Billboard magazines. He wrote two books, "Lapdogs: How the Press Rolled Over for Bush," and "Bloggers on the Bus."

Journalist Soledad O'Brien tweeted, "Just got crushing news from Tracy Breslin, wife of

@EricBoehlert https://pressrun.media Has died in a bike accident, age 57. Adored his kids Jane and Ben, his dogs, biking and running and basketball and good friends, a fierce and fearless defender of the truth."

So who you gonna call? The martini police (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 7 April 2022 00:48 (two years ago) link

Then there is this oft-mentioned dichotomy if not rivalry: Oh! I Always Get Those Two Mixed Up!

Assumed that was going to link to Stanley Baker/Stanley Baxter tbh.

Phil McCracken (Tom D.), Thursday, 7 April 2022 06:49 (two years ago) link

Motoo Abiko aka Fujiko A. Fujio, one half of the team that created Doraemon, Q-Taro etc and the sole creator of Ninja Hattori-kun

( X '____' )/ (zappi), Thursday, 7 April 2022 10:02 (two years ago) link

Elmer and Mr Benn author David McKee, 87

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/apr/07/elmer-and-mr-benn-author-david-mckee-dies-at-87

Alba, Thursday, 7 April 2022 12:21 (two years ago) link

pvmic and probably only of interest to me and maybe Ward Fowler and one or two others

Renee Glynne, continuity girl (her term) in the prime Hammer era and a welcome face in the Indicator releases spinning tales about work on various films.

Chris Bailey of the Saints

even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:34 (two years ago) link

Oh, that’s too bad. RIP.

Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:38 (two years ago) link

Not seeing that elsewhere.

Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:41 (two years ago) link

Very sad. Hell of a band

reggae mike love (polyphonic), Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:43 (two years ago) link

posted on the band's Facebook:

It is with great pain in our hearts that we have to inform you about the passing of Chris Bailey, singer and songwriter of The Saints, on April the 9th 2022.
Chris lived a life of poetry and music and stranded on a Saturday night.
Family and friends

even the birds in the trees seemed to whisper "get fucked" (bovarism), Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:44 (two years ago) link

aw fuck

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:45 (two years ago) link

xpost Thank you aldo, yes I saw about Renee Glynne on various Facebook Hammer groups. I know she was a regular at Hammer events and genre film conventions, which I must admit hold no appeal to me - ever been to any, aldo?

RIP Henry Patterson aka Jack 'The Eagle Has Landed' Higgins

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/apr/09/henry-patterson-author-of-the-eagle-has-landed-dies-aged-92

Ward Fowler, Sunday, 10 April 2022 19:46 (two years ago) link

xpost

noooo fuck
rip Chris ;_;

terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 10 April 2022 20:37 (two years ago) link

glad i got to see him once - had no idea he was on the bill but i went to see nick cave years ago and as i walked into the theatre, the opening bars of 'just like fire would' started ringing out and i was so taken overcome with excitement, i missed my seat and sat down on the man next to me

o shit the sheriff (NickB), Sunday, 10 April 2022 20:40 (two years ago) link

Wow, great story!

Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 20:41 (two years ago) link

RIP Chris ;_;

Rick O'Shea (Tom D.), Sunday, 10 April 2022 20:42 (two years ago) link

Hmm, Wikipedia had him passed on March 9th

Mark G, Sunday, 10 April 2022 20:53 (two years ago) link

Well that's what the Facebook post says too, TBF.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 April 2022 20:55 (two years ago) link

Right now Wikipedia says April 9, 2022. Earlier today there was no evidence his passing.

Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 20:58 (two years ago) link

Am...I missing something? The official post says he passed on the 9th, so Wikipedia gets updated to reflect that.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 10 April 2022 21:03 (two years ago) link

I'm guessing the first wiki update made a typo

Mark G, Sunday, 10 April 2022 21:14 (two years ago) link

.. upthread says April 9th

Mark G, Sunday, 10 April 2022 21:15 (two years ago) link

I just looked at the Page History so yeah.

Helly Watch the R’s (James Redd and the Blecchs), Sunday, 10 April 2022 21:21 (two years ago) link


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