Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

(xp) Didn't someone else in Nazareth die recently too?

Manny Charlton, founding guitarist of Scottish hard rock band Nazareth (he was with them from 1968 to 1990).

― but also fuck you (unperson), Wednesday, July 6, 2022 7:33 PM (four months ago) bookmarkflaglink

I know of another man from Nazareth who died…for our sins.

Yeah, the drummer.

i don't think i ever heard nazareth but i remember stuart adamson from the skids/big country saying that when he was a kid, if he saw them outside he used to turn his amp up while he was practising hoping that they'd hear him playing

anyway, that's my fascinating story for today

Only really know Love Hurts off the Dazed & Confused soundtrack, pretty thrilling vocal tbh.

yeah, love their version of it (which was the first one I knew)

My favorite Nazareth:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikZNQAMub6A

"Hair of the Dog" checks all the boxes: awesome riff, lots of cowbell, some kind of vocoder, plus a swear word. Used to see these guys a bunch back in the day, always spot-on with their cover versions ("This Flight Tonight", "Ballad of Hollis Brown", "Gone Dead Train", etc.) RIP Dan.

RIP Big Dan, here's where Nazareth invented Funereal Doom, what a fucking voice

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2dw-MvBnlFg

Son of a bitch.

I had always assumed they were just kind of an ur-buttrock band, but then I saw the covers they did: Randy Newman, Crazy Horse, Little Feat, Joni Mitchell, Frank Zappa, Everly Brothers ...

Wow, their “This Flight Tonight”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9uvpr_gm64

his vocal on Love Hurts is so fucking killer, i never get tired of hearing it!

I remember reading somewhere that he was considered as Bon Scott's replacement in AC/DC before they chose Brian Johnson. That would have been amazing.

read that as Boris Johnson

“Whole Lotta Rosé”

xxpost holy shit yeah that would have ruled! I mean, Brian is perfect of course but DAMN

A friend of mine hated Nazareth because he grew up listening to the Hair of the Dog 45 at 33 1/3 and was extremely mad when he heard it at proper speed for the first time.

LMAO

if that were out there I'd definitely give a listen

Some days my favorite scene in the film:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8U7n1XG9fk

I just listened to it at .75 speed on YouTube and honestly it is better that way

God I love that movie so much

the brilliant Gal Costa: https://www.bbc.com/portuguese/brasil-63573370

Nooooooo

Aww no. Feels like the good people keep dying and we're just left with the fucking cockroaches

:-(

"Stevie Ray Vaughan is dead, and we can't get Jon Bon Jovi on a helicopter."

--Denis Leary

Boomtown Rats' guitarist, Garry Roberts, 72.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/breaking-boomtown-rats-guitarist-garry-28432144

rip to an icon

Kevin Conroy, who’s most well known as the iconic voice behind Batman in BATMAN: THE ANIMATED SERIES, has sadly passed away at the age of 66…

Rest In Peace pic.twitter.com/hbnu6YPS3H

— MovieRankings.net (@LightsCameraPod) November 11, 2022

An utter legend.

RIP Gallagher. Really famous for some reason. Turned into an insane right wing crank. Friend on facebook posted this wonderful memory:

"I saw Gallagher live once. Ticket sales had been so low that the promoter turned it into a "bringer show" lining up a few opening comedians who could guarantee they'd bring a certain number of people. Gallagher was pretty pissed about it so he stood by the side of the stage and derailed their acts by interrupting them with critiques on their jokes.
Once on stage he angrily berated a couple for ordering drinks from their server too loud and demanded they leave. After that it was a full on meltdown. He whined about how he deserved more success and how unfair it was that he was never giving a late night talk show like other comedians got. These weren't bits this was just rage complaining. Eventually he started complaining about everything in his life yelling at the audience "My family doesn't even speak to me!!!" The whole scene was upsetting. Finally he regained some composure then brought up audience members to smash watermelons.
Overall, he seemed like a bitter, spiteful, entitled person full of offensive comments and resentment so... RIP?"

RIP gallagher (?)

he sure did destroy a lot of watermelons. i wonder if he had any superfans that kept the tarp after the show and brought it home

he was funny insofar as his terribleness was fun to laugh at, even that lost its appeal over the last 20+ years

there was some crazy this with his brother too. I'm too lazy to google it right now.

I had no watermelon juice from him, but RIP anyway.

Wasn't Gallagher pretty right wing?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xecEJC-mDD8

Nik Turner of Hawkwind.

Yeah Joel famously loathed him in real life, considered him a hack and joke-stealer.

My favorite, utter destruction of Gallagher remains this piece, originally from 1999:

https://kenlevine.blogspot.com/2008/03/gallagher-es-muy-mala.html

he gave joel shit for being a prop comic iirc

Was trying to remember that article, thanks.

more about what a piece of shit Gallagher was
https://www.thestranger.com/theater/2010/07/01/4357855/gallagher-is-a-paranoid-right-wing-watermelon-smashing-maniac

wow, had no idea. yikes.

We owe him. "Dave Letterman ain't comin' here. Robin Williams ain't comin' out here. You gotta say, you know, Gallagher came here, and he did two hours."

This is basically the first Trump campaign (and every subsequent Trump campaign).

I prefer watermelon to Gallagher

Nik Turner of Hawkwind.

;_; RIP Nik

Rab Noakes, Scottish musician, 75.