Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

many such Roberts out there murdering

longtime minnesota vikings coach bud grant, 95

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The best. RIP Bud.

RIP Jason Kaye of Top Buzz. After Top Buzz he went on to run Social Circles, putting out some top notch UK Garage.

Also RIP MC Fats, vocalist on some classic Ganja Kru / Calibre / Break D&B tunes over the last 3 decades.

Keith Johnstone, pioneer of improvisational theatre.

Bill Tidy, cartoonist

Aw, I used to have a letter from Bill Tidy. My auntie sent him some of my (completely unremarkable, non-precocious) sketches - football! space! - and he was sweet enough to send an encouraging note back. I think I was a bit embarrassed we’d wasted Mr Tidy’s valuable time.

Nobel-winning Japanese novelist Kenzaburo Oe, a leading liberal voice who defended the disenfranchised and challenged the conformity of modern society, has died aged 88https://t.co/mKxGuEKFzY pic.twitter.com/v9LecqmiG3

— AFP News Agency (@AFP) March 13, 2023

:-(

RIP Oe, your books were beautifully written and depressing as hell

with which Oe novel should I start?

A Personal Matter or The Silent Cry.

thkx

Silent Cry still guiltily lurking on my Kindle in endless limbo

Turner Prize winner Phyllida Barlow, 78.

Disney legend Rolly Crump. Disneyland wouldn't look like it does without him.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-03-13/rolly-crump-dead-disneyland-designer

Dick Fosbury, he of the flop

https://www.bbc.com/sport/athletics/64945985

^^ i think he fits basically any definition of the word "genius"

Seriously. I love how there is pretty much no ceiling in sports, how every few years someone manages to bust an old seemingly unbreakable record through talent or ingenuity. I wonder what the longest standing sports record is?

Joe Pepitone

https://www.cbssports.com/mlb/news/joe-pepitone-yankees-all-star-and-gold-glover-in-the-1960s-dies-at-82/

14,475 days, or 39 years and 7 months, is how long the Women's 800 Metres world record has remained unbroken. It's the longest standing world record, belonging to Jarmila Kratochvílová (TCH), whose mark of 1:53.28 has stood since 26 July 1983.

Bert I. Gordon, 100!

Seriously. I love how there is pretty much no ceiling in sports, how every few years someone manages to bust an old seemingly unbreakable record through talent or ingenuity. I wonder what the longest standing sports record is?

In terms of stats, as opposed to records, no-one has ever come close in cricket to Don Bradman and I very much doubt anyone ever will.

Word going around that guitarist Dix Denney, originally of LA punk legends the Weirdos and various other acts besides, has passed on.

Cool interview with Dix here: https://theloniousmonster.com/dix-denney/
(totally forgot that John & Dix's mom played Mrs. Teevee in Willy Wonka)

Former congresswoman Patricia Schroeder, a megaphone for the women’s movement, the first woman to serve on the House Armed Services Committee and a liberal Democrat known for her barbed wit, has died at 82. https://t.co/VViFOg5FM1

— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) March 14, 2023

OG Iron Chef badass Chen Kenichi

https://japannews.yomiuri.co.jp/society/obituaries/20230314-97127/

What a legend, I think of him every time I reach for the toban djan. Pretty much unbeatable but always bemused and happy when he lost

Aw, damn, I remember Pat Schroeder. She was a fixture of Colorado politics and a trailblazer.

RIP falsetto gospel singer Paul Beasley who was in Mighty Clouds of Joy and other groups

Oops I think it was just the anniversary of his death recently

Anyone seen confirmation of this?

Music journalist A. Scott Galloway just shared that Bobby Caldwell passed away at age 71, following an extended illness.

My heartfelt sympathies go out to his family.

🎥: Bobby Caldwell performs “What You Won’t Do For Love” live in Miami Beach, filmed by George Monteiro, 1978 pic.twitter.com/350K4XFoRD

— DJ Soul Sister (@djsoulsister) March 15, 2023

https://www.tmz.com/2023/03/15/bobby-caldwell-dead-dies-what-you-wont-do-for-love/

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Congolese guitarist Lokassa ya Mbongo was in Tabu Ley Rochereau’s then African Fiesta Nationale, he later teamed up with singer Sam Mangwana & then Soukous Stars . RIP

https://www.bbc.com/news/live/world-africa-64393766?ns_mchannel=social&ns_source=twitter&ns_campaign=bbc_live&ns_linkname=6411c4bfff51f554d28c14c4%26Congolese%20guitar%20supremo%20Lokassa%20ya%20Mbongo%20dies%262023-03-15T14%3A23%3A10.359Z&ns_fee=0&pinned_post_locator=urn:asset:8d72c2f8-b507-40a4-a1db-a650c9cb659a&pinned_post_asset_id=6411c4bfff51f554d28c14c4&pinned_post_type=share

be gentle, sic

Drummer/murderer Jim Gordon.

Another Domino falls...

Jim Gordon played on a whole lotta tunes

yeah he's on a lot of the best Gordon Lightfoot stuff which is how I heard of him. hard to feel any sympathy for a murderer but the dude was definitely going through something pretty bad mentally at the time.

we used to dream about getting him out on a day pass to come drum on stuff (he was at Napa State Hospital) but now it looks like that's never gonna happen

don't stop dreamin Andy, could still happen

Great drummer, listen to his playing on the Traffic albums he was on. He literally went insane.

we used to dream about getting him out on a day pass to come drum on stuff (he was at Napa State Hospital) but now it looks like that's never gonna happen

― Andy the Grasshopper, Thursday, 16 March 2023 16:50 (six minutes ago) link

Should be a heartwarming movie script, call it “Springing Out Jim”

A Day Pass From Hell.

Saw on fb that Eric Lloyd Wright has died at 93, but not confirmed on wiki or his web site.

RIP. Maybe his best or most famous performance out of many was on “You’re So Vain.”
(xp)

Check out the long quote from Andy Newmark here: https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/youre-so-vain-50-years-on.1159457/

And Andy Newmark is no slouch, either.

Anyway, Jim Gordon: played in Derek & the Dominos, played on "Rikki Don't Lose That Number," played on "Apache," played on "All Things Must Pass," played on "Randy Newman" and "12 Songs," played on "Different Drum," Tom Waits' "The Heart of Saturday Night" ...