Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

a poem from him: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/54245/advances

Randy Meisner, Eagles Co-Founder and ‘Take It To The Limit’ Singer, Dead at 77

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/randy-meisner-eagles-dead-obituary-1234796423/

aw rip, randy

That sucks. The only likable member of that band. Well maybe Joe Walsh too.

how dare u forget Timothy B Schmidt

but yes, he seemed like an ok nice dude

Poco's founding bassist!

Seemed like he'd been declining for ages, so not totally surprising.

Well, yeah RIP.

I was working at the William Morris Agency when they were booking the first Eagles reunion and I found out about Lewis Morgan - the Randy Meisner impersonator. He'd been cashing in as a Henley impersonator until Henley started having hits and everyone knew what he looked like so he shapeshifted to Meisner. He'd been grifting on it for years - getting free shit, chatting up women, and driving everyone in Eagles management crazy. He upped his game when the Eagles reunited, but there was so much money involved that I think Azoff hired the CIA to drop Morgan into an active volcano or at least the next best thing.

Meisner came by the office to sign some papers once. Seemed like a nice guy all too happy to have a lot of distance between himself and the music business. If you could hang onto a percentage of a song that becomes global you would be tempted to check out too. I was bummed when his health gave out.

one detail that tracks

A newspaper report in 1998 observed that “Meisner has said he wonders if the impersonator caused bad blood with his former bandmates.”

Frey would totally be upset is there wasn't also a Frey impersonator doing the same thing only better.

Ah, that's a shame. RIP Randy.

Lelia Goldoni, the actor best known as the female lead in John Cassavetes’ groundbreaking film Shadows, has died aged 86.

German author Martin Walser has died at the age of 96.

Beatle Bob, a colorful guy at a ton of shows in Chicago, SXSW, and elsewhere.

Wow. For some reason I thought he was gone already, I hadn't seen him at any shows for at least a decade, maybe.

Oh, he had ALS, that's terrible.

He was such a presence at the Sleazefest garage rock weekends in Chapel Hill. Doing the mash potato nonstop!

Disney/animation/comics historian Jim Korkis

Adrian Street, professional wrestler. 82.

https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/news/624/mcs/media/images/75590000/jpg/_75590842_as_dad_mine_624x431.jpg

Hearing rumors about Paul Reubens??

confirmed via his FB/IG pages, looks like :(

Yup, very sadly

https://variety.com/2023/film/news/paul-reubens-dead-pee-wee-herman-1235683504/

Noooo!

This is a real bummer

Fuck, that's a rough one. Just was watching the episode of What We Do In The Shadows where he shows up as one of the members of the vampiric counsel. I watched his shows and Pee-Wee's Big Adventure so much as a child.

hate the way he was treated for doing exactly what people did in xrated movies at the time.

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

Oh my god :(

Nooooooo

hate the way he was treated for doing exactly what people did in xrated movies at the time.

It was insane how twisted that was. When the news broke I remember people in small town Central Illinois talking about it as if he did it in the middle of a mid-day Batman Returns matinee screening. Also see his weird 2002 arrest for his collection of exotica and the fallout from that. People really had it in for this guy and really wanted to take him down.

oh shit, this is too bad

shit

if he did it in the middle of a mid-day Batman Returns matinee screening

Just remembered he played the Penguin's Dad in that.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_L04BPyxYo

xp but what a comeback..."heard any good jokes lately?" Leaning in to defuse the bomb, he pretty much set the standard for that strategy.

oops, didn't see that the vid was already posted!

re: Reubens' arrest, it kills me that the LAPD tried to do the same thing to Fred Willard... in 2012

he was a classic. love the first pee-wee movie -- and can you imagine choosing tim burton as your director based on watching half of vincent? -- loved the kids' show, loved seeing him in random roles during the pee-wee hiatus, thought big holiday was surprisingly good.

i suppose putting the stage show's adult jokes in the kids' show was a bad idea (you know what they say, big feet... big boots) and would have been part of the grooming moral panic if it happened today.

Gary Panter on facebook: "As a child I was obsessed with kid shows and wanted to design one. Paul Reubens made that dream come true. We had many adventures. Enjoy heaven, Paul."

Weird that Reubens would die so closely to Sinead O'Connor--the big controversies that derailed their careers were pretty close together (July '91 for Herman, Oct. '92 for O'Connor), and both are getting much sympathy now for being treated unfairly. He was very good in Blow.

angus cloud, actor from hbo's euphoria. 25 years old.

just devastating

Damn, I don't know anything about him as a person but his character was very lovable, maybe the best on the show.

I guess he's also in an upcoming Oakland-based film called Freaky Tales

Robbie Shepherd, Scottish broadcaster probably the most recognised Doric speaker on TV and radio

In a world of limited interest posts by me on this thread, this may be the zenith (or nadir depending on your perspective)

We used to be forced into listening to Robbie Shepherd in ye olde days because my cousin's husband is a leading light in the world of accordion music and his band used to be on Take the Floor all the time.

Yes I assumed you were the only other person who would know what I was on about

Glad to be of service.

Man, this is a dark end to the New Times saga

https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/local/phoenix/2023/08/01/backpage-executive-james-larkin-dies-before-new-prostitution-trial/70509940007/

Jeez. that seems like the ultimate New Times chapter, in terms of righteous male sleazebertarianizm---but Lacey may find a way to keep going, unless Backpage was financially essential to his empire.

Composer/conductor Carl Davis

davis was composer of the "world at war" themetune; but also -- in a difft mode -- fondly remembered by ppl of a certain age for a clip of him playing a cinema organ cheekily nude in the credits to (if i recall correctly) the end of the pier show

a show my dad loved, i was a bit young for it (it was "satire")

So that’s where Monty Python got that from!

i believe so!