Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

I just Kranky post the news of Brian McBride. A sad shock.

:(

Fuck

Just miserable

Hate unexpected early exits. The world’s a lesser place without him.

John Kezdy of the Effigies?

I know this may be an easy tee for some, but still:

John Kezdy was a hero of mine. Effigies were the first great band from Chicago's scene, his stern, declamatory style influenced a generation and he helped me in material ways. Not overstating to say that without John and the Effigies, I would never have made any records.
🎈

— steve albini (@electricalWSOP) August 27, 2023

Music Producer & Strangelove Bob Feldman

https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/bob-feldman-dead-songwriter-producer-1960s-1235400747/

Feldman is survived by his two daughters, Kyle and Mahri. He is also the biological father of actor Corey Feldman, who emancipated himself from Bob and his mom Sheila as a teenager.

RIP 2 THIS GR8 SONG WRITER...WHOS NOT MY FATHER! HOWEVER MOST OF MY LIFE ITS BEEN INCORRECTLY WRITTEN AS IN THIS LONG OBITUARY ARTICLE WHERE IT AGAIN ST8S HE WAS MY DAD...HE WASNT! RIP 2 DUDE WHOS WRITING PARTNER WAS GOLDSTEIN MY MOMS LAST NAME. SO BIZARRE https://t.co/dNy1CGUEpA

— Corey Feldman (@Corey_Feldman) August 26, 2023

In fact his father was Morton Feldman

Clearly his father was Marty Feldman, you can see the resemblance:

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but his dad's name is pronounced "fieldman"

You're thinking of Marty Friedman.

lol, was wondering why, with those songwriting credits, he would have had to live off his kid's earnings.

You can't pass on that Goonie money

I guess he's saying he's not his dad because he emancipated himself from him but that means he also wants the news to report that Bob isn't and never was his father or something

Joe the Plumber

Read that to Bowie's "Joe the Lion"

The insane thing about "Joe the Plumber" is that he was apparently 49 when he died, but if you look at this video still that's been running with the news, he looks 55:

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/F4kopyyWoAEdfUZ.jpg

Alex Jones effect, pumped up with rage and ignorance.

Now he's gunning down fantasy home invaders in hell

in 2008 this man was only 35 years old. this is what happens when you're trying to buy a small business.

His last words were, "Tito the Builder still lives..."

Gábor Medvigy, cinematographer on Béla Tarr's 'Werckmeister Harmonies' and 'Sátántangó', aged 66.

https://index.hu/kultur/2023/08/28/medvigy-gabor-operator-meghalt-satantango-tarr-bela-makk-karoly-jeles-andras/

caleb southern died six weeks ago at 53

he was a local dude in chapel hill. produced the first archers of loaf record, plus several ben folds things. went on to become a computer science lecturer at georgia tech before dying in july.

obviously not a big name, but he (like gary young) was the kind of guy who made scenes happen. RIP

Medvigy shot Damnation too. Such an important member of that filmmaking team, because you have the time to observe the patterns of light and shadow so intensely in those films.

xp oh sad news about Caleb Southern. His name was definitely all over a bunch of cds I owned in the 90s.

William MacKaye, a Washington Post editor, dies at 89
A former Episcopal seminarian, he left the politics beat to join The Post’s religion desk as a way to combine his spiritual and journalistic interests

Father of Ian , Alec. And other Mackaye s in music

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2023/08/28/william-mackaye-journalism-dead/

Portland street poet Walt Curtis, 82. Wrote Mala Noche, which eventually became Gus Van Sant's first film.

"He was also the city’s most accomplished heckler. “Banned from more readings by more open mic hosts than anyone else,” wrote fellow poet Gary D Aker on social media over the weekend. “That’s doing it right.”"

https://www.wweek.com/arts/books/2023/08/28/walt-curtis-portlands-iconoclastic-street-poet-dies-at-82/

https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780688090128-us-300.jpg
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Children's book illustrator Gale Owens, 84
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/kansascity/name/gail-owens-obituary?id=52018309

rip legend <3

(doh! meant to write "Gail")

poet Gboyega Odubanjo, 27

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-66668998

So heartbreaking.

Mohammed "Al" Fayed!

Never knew he was related by marriage to Jamal Khashoggi

I have a giant Harrods bottle opener

Sakevi of G.I.S.M.! https://www.brooklynvegan.com/g-i-s-m-vocalist-sakevi-yokoyama-has-reportedly-passed-away/

Curtis Fowlkes, jazz singer and trombonist, 73.

Jimmy Buffett

https://variety.com/2023/music/obituaries-people-news/jimmy-buffett-dead-margaritaville-1235711632/

RIP guy whose music I've never heard and I always use as an example of an artist who seems to be an exclusively American phenomenon.

heard for the first time last year, don't think I can remember how it went though.

Curtis Fowlkes was cool. Buffett ... nah, but RIP.

When I interviewed Robert Forster, he said Buffett was an example of a great melodist.

Honest question, do you think Forster spent a lot of time with Buffett, or just knew the one song?

RIP Margaritadude. I never saw him in concert, but once years ago we were having dinner in a little Silver Spring seafood place. The owner came over and pointed out Buffett, saying she had known him in college and whenever he was in town he ate there.

Honest question, do you think Forster spent a lot of time with Buffett, or just knew the one song?

― Josh in Chicago

No idea. The admission came out of nowhere when I mentioned I was a Floridian.

I can't stand his two most famous songs, but a few years ago I belatedly found out that "Come Monday" was his. I had somehow misattributed it to Gordon Lightfoot.

"Come Monday" is not a bad song.

I was playing music in a bar last night and am glad this news had not yet reached the world.

Fortunately I am not playing out tonight, but I'll betcha tomorrow I am going to have to grit my teeth while some chucklehead does "Cheeseburger in Paradise."