Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

TIL Lance Reddick got married at Loring Park in Minneapolis

― عباس کیارستمی (Eric H.), Friday, March 17, 2023 2:36 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

local angle!!

Wow. The Wire, John Wick, a couple of big video games ....

also Fringe

Yeah, that might be an enormous problem for the third Horizon game, depending on how far into production they are (not very, is my impression). RIP

Destiny 1 and 2 have undergone many, many voice recastings over the years. It has also not been uncommon for voice actors in Destiny to disappear for very long periods of time, busy with other work so they were written around.

Not Lance Reddick, and not Commander Zavala. His role has never been recast since his debut in 2014, and he has shown up for new voicework almost every single year without fail, often appearing in multiple seasons or expansions in a given year. His tragic, early death is a heartbreaking moment for millions of Guardians. It was always assumed he’d play the role indefinitely, and as Destiny begins to venture into animated or live-action projects, the thought was that they could cast whoever they wanted in various roles, except Lance Reddick would always be Zavala. He still will be.

As for what this means for Destiny, I cannot imagine a scenario in which he’s recast, and Zavala may indeed be written out of the story. I would absolutely imagine the game will have eventually have some sort of tribute to Zavala and Reddick in the future. It’s unclear what additional, unreleased work Reddick may have already recorded for the game.

The #Destiny2 community paying respects to the late Lance Reddick's Commander Zavala in-game. 😭 pic.twitter.com/M5Q9m153L2

— Destiny Bulletin (@DestinyBulletn) March 17, 2023

loved him in both the wire and fringe. rip.

Jesus H. how the hell are they going to recast this one?

lance reddick is gone before one of his final performances comes out where we see him play king of the gods, as zeus, and it’s going to take on a whole new meaning now.

rest in peace to a an immensely talented man.

pic.twitter.com/Zm2MrZJpkD

— M. (@houseofphoton) March 17, 2023

a moment of low key deadpan hilarity in Fringe that Lance was so good at: boss observer pulls out a hip flask and asks Broyles if he will share a drink with him. He declines and says it's just water, water doesn't do anything for me. But water hydrates you sez observer. That is true replies Broyles. Anyway RIP at least all 3 versions of Agent Broyles in Fringe.

Would this be a case where doing a deepfake with his voice would be the best thing to do? With family approval, of course.

Founding member of The Parliaments — later, Parliament-Funkadelic — Clarence Eugene “Fuzzy”Haskins.

Oh no, RIP Fuzzy, Prototype Werewolf

https://dereksmusicblog.files.wordpress.com/2017/07/a-143516-1463637662-4477-jpeg.jpg

This might not be the place to ask, but what exactly are the rights issues keeping the Parliaments singles from legit reissue?

if he were still interested in and demonstrably capable of drumming (up to his old standard)

This might not be the place to ask, but what exactly are the rights issues keeping the Parliaments singles from legit reissue?

if he were still interested in and demonstrably capable of drumming (up to his old standard)

frankly I doubt he is
― assert (matttkkkk)

Simon Emmerson, aka Simon Booth - guitarist and producer (Weekend, Working Week, Afro-Celt Sound System, played on the first Everything But The Girl LP and TROUBLE by Vic Godard, both important records to me).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sA5hBZEIZK0

^^ reading this (and as a lover of that EBTG album) am now going down a Vic Godard rabbit hole for the first time. Thanks!

just got a genuine pang* checking out booth's (and weekend's and working week's) wikipedia pages: they are all distressingly scant, suggesting that here is a strand of music that has greatly fallen out of history's critical gaze since the 80s -- at the time these outfits were all important to me also, if only as ppl kinda getting post-punk's jazz turn WRONG (not now going to pretend i was getting things any righter tho i totally felt i was in the moment)**

* part sadness at a loss, part i guess guilt (did i ever diss him in print? i forget but it's not unlikely)
** one day i may try and explain this more fully but not today, RIP and sleep well, key figure i carelessly disdained long ago when there still seemed like all the time in the world to battle things out and find a good resolution for all :( :( :(

Mark I think one of our first conversations on here was me being grumpy about you being (v mildly) sniffy about this stuff.

(And Eazy, hope you enjoy, Vic is a pretty fascinating figure IMO and I hope he doesn’t appear again on this thread for a long long time)

Croatian author Dubravka Ugresic, who I've never read but who I've always read good things about.

RIP. I read Europe In Sepia a few years ago and learned a great deal.

Mick Slattery, old busking pal of Dave Brock and one of the founders of Hawkwind.

RIP NY radio dj Polito Vega

In an obituary in Billboard magazine, Leila Cobo, the author of “Decoding ‘Despacito’: An Oral History of Latin Music” (2020), wrote: “Vega’s importance to Latin music cannot be overstated. He was the most influential tastemaker in the country’s top market, dating back to when tropical music first became popular in the city in the 1960s and 1970s and stretching all the way to the 21st century.”

xxp That's a loss. I read Fox, I thought it was brilliant.

Her work sounds really interesting at a scan and I'm embarassed that I'm not familiar with it. Any recommendations to start with something besides Fox?

My friend wrote a really good essay about a book of her essays:

https://www.ronslate.com/on-the-age-of-skin-essays-by-dubravka-ugresic-translated-by-ellen-elias-bursac/

I recommended this on his recommendation to a Croatian friend of mine that had never heard of her.

Willis Reed

https://www.espn.com/nba/story/_/id/35912570/new-york-knicks-legend-willis-reed-dies-80

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHzxM69qm50

Kirk Gibson before Kirk Gibson. From everything I've ever read, he didn't even have to play in the 7th game of the 1970 final; just hobbling onto the court for the pre-game warm-up was enough to thoroughly unnerve the Lakers. (I just checked, though, and he actually did play 27 minutes. Maybe I have the wrong game?...You've posted a clip, I'll have to check that.)

Rock crit Jud Cost, good writer who did a lot of work:

https://magnetmagazine.com/2023/03/20/r-i-p-magnet-contributing-editor-jud-cost/

rip willis reed, legendary knick

Seeing social media posts that Lee Purkis aka Insync has passed. There seem to be a lot of legendary 90s house and techno people leaving us too soon over the last few years.

Storm by Insync is one of those tracks made with the most basic of equipment that has stood the test of time.

Celeb journalist Bill Zehme:

When I first started subscribing to Rolling Stone in 1990, I fell in love with Bill Zehme's funny, sharp profiles of celebrities as varied as Barry Manilow and Warren Beatty. I never met him, but he was a huge influence on me. Sad to hear he's gone. https://t.co/QVVZoTXKiu

— Tim Grierson (@TimGrierson) March 26, 2023

Downtown NYC composer Scott Johnson, best known for working with tape loops and finding the melodic qualities of speech, a few years before Reich would do the same with Different Trains. This piece is very influential and quite fun. https://soundcloud.com/scottjohnson-composer/01-john-somebody-part-i

Oh yeah I used to listen to john somebody a lot

Extremely good obituary on Johnson in the NYT by Steve Smith, who also broke the news that his wife Marlisa Monroe, who apparently was big news in terms of NYC classical music publicity, passed this past Friday night -- Steve was very shaken up about having to write and report all this per his post on Facebook.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/26/arts/music/scott-johnson-dead.html

Rhys Chatham posting on Facebook that Johnson taught him the barre chord.

as an aside, I bought this CD, where I first heard part of John Sombeody, late in my high school years and it kinda blew my head wide open and definitely prepared me for my 4 years at Oberlin not long after:

https://www.discogs.com/master/2774882-Various-Late-In-The-20th-Century-An-ElektraNonesuch-New-Music-Sampler

Renée Gailhoustet (93), back in January.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/27/emahoy-tsegue-maryam-guebrou-ethiopian-nun-and-pianist-dies-at-99

Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, 99

Bobbi Ercoline, the woman on the cover of the Woodstock soundtrack.

https://ca.sports.yahoo.com/news/bobbi-ercoline-dies-blanket-draped-184232179.html

Awwwwwww... that was her future husband and they were still married, had no idea

I had seen then-and-now photos popping up on Facebook the past year or so.

That is very touching. It seems as though the world is a poorer place now.

Paul O'Grady, 67

RIP Paul

rip
unfortunate typo in that graun tribute when quoting tatchell.

Aw shame.