Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

Oh man. RIP. A true giant. A certain ILX0R studied him although not on bass.

Also played on the somewhat-maligned (though not in this house!) Laura Nyro album Smile.

Studied with him

Mike Yarwood, 82.

Trotting out his Ted Heath impression for St Peter as we speak!

Richard Davis, Roy Bittan, Randy Brecker: all Springsteen needed for "Meeting Across The River," one of his best tracks ever.

Richard Davis talk and memories here - Roll Call: Jazz Heroes of the Upright Bass

Lawrence English on Steve Roden's passing
https://thequietus.com/articles/33373-steve-roden-obituary

LA Times obit
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2023-09-08/steve-roden-obituary-artist-los-angeles

Thanks, love his work

Lisa Lyon, American bodybuilder and photo model for Helmut Newton and Robert Mapplethorpe, 70

Texan Country Singer Charlie Robison

https://apnews.com/article/obit-charlie-robison-dies-7c2712b1200a44b1e17fa6622c3ffa9b

Oh damn. A little over a decade ago, I undertook a summer-long immersion attempt to get into country music, by systematically checking out nearly every country CD in my county's library system. His album Good Times was one of the highlights of that summer. R.I.P.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lG_jOrybqs

Buichi Terasawa at 68. started as Tezuka's assistant in the 70s, then created sci-fi manga like Cobra aka Space Adventure Cobra and Goku Midnight Eye
https://comicbook.com/anime/news/buichi-terasawa-manga-artist-death/

Geoff Davies of Probe/Probe Plus/Eric's fame. He retired a couple of years ago, taking the label with him.

Two Scousers in a row...
A few weeks after her husband Carl Davis - Jean Boht, 91.

https://cdn.tiqets.com/wordpress/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Y-Tho-Baby-Meme.jpg

Aw just read about this

Rip

I'm seeing John Marshall (drummer for Nucleus and Soft Machine), 82, but nothing official.

Rumours that Ramzan Kadyrov is gone.

Aussie rules legend and elder statesman Ron Barrassi, 87.

there was a story that Kadyrov had his doctor buried alive before he went into a coma

Couldn't he have just asked for a second opinion?

lol

there are some very shite jobs in this world and amongst the worst of them is being the ruthless warlord's personal physician. It's never going to end well.

Whomst among us has not had someone buried alive tho

Jost Gebers, founder of German free improv label FMP.

From a different corner of music, Roger Whittaker.

Yes, saw that in the the last famous person you were surprised to discover was actually still alive thread. RIP Roger.

RIP Jost :-(

RIP Roger. His 1970 single I Don't Believe in If Anymore should be a classic.

For a minute, I thought that was the "Do Whacka Do" guy. Wrong Roger.

Prescient, Roger, prescient.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xMyjbjmQZ2w

RIP, guy I knew chiefly from this TV ad which aired for a coupla years

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcaoSP8UhuM

yeah, he was one of the "sold more records than Elvis and the Beatles" guys you'd see in those informercials (the others being, to my memory, Boxcar Willie and Slim Whitman.)

Cartoonist Joe Matt, 60:

https://www.cbr.com/joe-matt-acclaimed-peepshow-creator-obituary/

Oh fuck, my husband is friends with him. When they first met in person, Joe was in San Francisco for a wedding and Jordan offered to drive him and his friend - who turned out to be E from Eels - and by sheer coincidence, when Jordan turned on the car the Eels CD he had in the stereo turned on. Poor Jordan was mortified.

stevie mccabe, axeman

:(

Terry Robert Kirkman (December 12, 1939 – September 23, 2023)

Kirkman is best remembered as a vocalist for the pop group the Association and the writer of several of the band's hit songs such as "Cherish", "Everything That Touches You", and "Six Man Band". As a member of the Association, he was inducted into the Vocal Group Hall of Fame in 2003.

Nothing personal, but "Cherish" is one of those songs that got stuck in my head when it first came out, but I habitually make fun of whenever it bubbles into my consciousness.

I like "Cherish" okay; "Never My Love" I love.

'Never My Love' rules, 'Windy' is pretty great as well, in a cheery sunshine california way

David McCallum! What a run.

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/david-mccallum-dead-ncis-man-from-uncle-1235734772/

Sally Draper in mourning.

Kenn Thomas, conspiracy writer and publisher of Steamshovel Press, 65
http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2023/09/KennThomasObit.html

I realise that if it might be your sort of thing it is probably already your sort of thing, but McCallum is amazing in Sapphire & Steele.

i only really know him as Ducky on NCIS - RIP

Just learned from the LL message board that CohenD2, who posted here as govern yourself accordingly, has passed away.

I also found this remembrance by Neal Pollack:
https://bookandfilmglobe.com/creators/remembrance/daniel-cohen-rip

― jaymc, Monday, September 25, 2023 8:27 PM (fifty-three minutes ago)

RIP David McCallum. He was 90 but, you know when people say about someone they look 20 years younger, well, he actually looked 30 years younger!

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RIP Terry Kirkman, wrote and sang some of the Association's best songs. There's some good interviews with him out there, seemed like a good guy. Here he is on the story that the Association turned down "Macarthur Park":

It just so happened that one day Richard Harris was at Pink’s Hot Dogs in Hollywood. I had just heard him on the air telling this story about the assholes who turned down this great song. I’m at Pink’s, and I look up and there he is, sitting and eating a hot dog sitting across the patio from me. I thought, “Well, here I go.” I stood up and I walked over, and I’m standing above him which is the wrong idea to do with a man like Richard Harris, and I said, “I’m a member of the group, the Association, and you told a story again on the air that’s absolutely not true.” He essentially said, “I’m going to give you three seconds to get the fuck out of my face.” I thought… “I’ll leave.”

hard to choose from david mccullum highlights. first thing i remember noticing him in was the invisible man tv series, which freaked me out a bit, the way he'd take those bandages off and just disappear (thanks to the miracle of colour separation overlay)