Rolling Obituary Thread 2023

Pioneering Radio DJ Dusty Street

https://variety.com/2023/music/news/dusty-street-dead-kroq-dj-siriusxm-1235764948/

Angelo Bruschini of Massive Attack/Blue Aeroplanes. Going to play 'And Stones...' very loud now.

oh thats sad! his guitar is all over Mezzanine, but yeah, there's a run of Blue Aeroplanes albums that are some of my favourite guitar records ever, and he plays no small part in those

Dave Courtney, east end gangster fella. Suicide, apparently, pillowcase over the head and gunshot.

i knew him in the 90s when he was a reformed character and got into clubbing. he was very entertaining, though also on a couple of occassions the underlying anger and violence was all too evident, so i was slightly relieved when he moved on to pastures new. not surprised at all to hear this is how he chose to go out.

Bruce Reynolds also big on the gangsters who went clubbing scene, if not slightly more boho thanks to his musician son.

I remember him from being on a Jerry Sadowitz TV show as his "security" - he had a habit of looking "over there" to the right whenever he laughed at something.

I'd no idea he played on Mezzanine.

Yes, but BILL GATES! ^^

I remember him from being on a Jerry Sadowitz TV show as his "security"

I saw a few of those and recall him manhandling, not as easily as he might've expected, a guy from the audience off stage whose time was up. At least one punch thrown. Probably not the only violence on that live show.

Bill Kenwright

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2023/oct/24/bill-kenwright-dies-everton-chairman-theatre-impresario

Bishan Bedi

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2023/oct/23/bishan-bedi-former-india-cricket-captain-spinner-dies-aged-77

Richard Roundtree

https://variety.com/2023/film/obituaries-people-news/richard-roundtree-dead-shaft-1235767495/

Damn

Fuck

Shut yo mouth!

Man I love the Shaft films. Dude was cooler than cool could be

rip king

They want me to pigeon

But I just said UP YOURS BABY

Great in every film big or small. After Shaft, I immediately thought of his part in Speed Racer as the former racer-turned-commentator who in one oblique sentence, reveals to Speed that the World Racing League has been fixed since the beginning.

RIP

His album, The Man From Shaft, was pretty great too.

Japanese music promoting legend Seijiro Udo aka Mr Udo who pretty much promoted just about EVERY US and UK and beyond act who toured the country across literal decades. Seen his name more times than I can count in various stories, articles and biographies.

RIP Mr Udo! A man with seemingly infinite patience for dealing with rock star clowns.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/nikki-sixx-japanese-jail/

Nikki Sixx briefly declined to write a letter that would have gotten the Motley Crue bassist and his former manager Don McGhee out of jail. It took an assist from one of Japan's most famous promoters to finally free them.

“We played Japan in December of ’87 and took the bullet train from Tokyo to Osaka for a show,” McGhee told Rock Candy magazine. “On the way back, Nikki was all messed up. Mick Mars and Nikki started getting into each other and Nikki threw donuts at Mick while he was drinking a bottle of Jack.

“There wasn’t a fist fight because Mick couldn’t fight anybody," added McGhee, who is also known for his work with Kiss and Bon Jovi. "Nikki threw a bottle and hit a Japanese guy in the back of the head. Blood was pumping and they ended up dragging the guy out like he’d survived a battle.”

When Motley Crue arrived back in Tokyo, they were confronted by “a couple of hundred Japanese police with riot gear,” McGhee added. “I went up and said, ‘I’m Doc McGhee, the manager of Motley Crue.’ They grabbed me, threw me on the ground and zip-tied my hands behind my back. Then they went and got Nikki. They dragged him out and threw him beside me and took the two of us off to jail.”

He believes they spent “four or five hours” behind bars while promoter Mr. Udo worked frantically to resolve the issue, eventually persuading the authorities to release them if they wrote a letter of apology. “Mr. Udo went through hell on that tour,” McGhee said. “He came down and sorted things out so that all we had to do was write that letter of apology. But Nikki didn’t want to do it. I wanted to kill him, because I’m in jail because of him.”

With the letter presumably written at last, the pair were allowed out of prison – but McGhee reflected that if it hadn’t been for Mr. Udo, “we’d probably still be there.”

lol what do Nikki Sixx and Mitt Romney have in common?

they stand on stage pretending to do things

West coast DJ Dusty Street of KROQ, KMPX, KSAN etal

what do Nikki Sixx and Mitt Romney have in common?

Double consonants in their names?

https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51XQx7fMLnL.jpg

Give Nikki this, he apparently remembered who got him out of that jam:

https://www.instagram.com/p/Cyv9hjmpc2S/

richard roundtree was apparently only 6 years older than samuel l. jackson? that blows my mind

Minimalist artist Robert Irwin, 95
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/robert-irwin-sculptor-light-and-space-dia-beacon-dead-1234684773/

Richard Moll

https://variety.com/2023/tv/news/richard-moll-dead-night-court-1235771133/

This has been a bad last few years for Night Court.

Including the reboot.

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NOOOOOOO NOT “BULL”

the worst day ;_;

Matthew Perry, 54 :[

BREAKING: ‘Friends’ star Matthew Perry is dead at 54

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— UPROXX (@UPROXX) October 29, 2023

What the hell?

jesus

This sucks. I always liked him. I even watched that God awful.movie with Selma hayak and the hot dogs more than once. Immediately wonder if he was high and passed out then drowned.

im not quite ready for this tbh arent there seventies sitcom casts we can work through first

Yeah I'm reading he drowned in a jacuzzi (what an unfortunately typical hollywood way to go), but it seemed like he'd actually been sober for a few years? And you generally dont drown in hottubs when you're awake and straight. But yeesh he'd got really really bad for awhile there, I had no idea - burst colon from vicodin abuse and almost died.

RIp Bull

DAVID CRANE: We brought everybody in. We were so sure that Chandler would be the easiest part to cast. It’s got the most joke jokes. It’s sarcastic and kind of quippy, but no one could do it. No one.

https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2012/05/friends-oral-history-top-of-the-rock

i remember thinking it might have been a little soon for him to do a huge victory lap book tour. that is sooooo much pressure. especially for someone who had been in such ill health so recently. in any case, its something people were kind of expecting. he was a very funny and charismatic actor! but drugs don't care how funny you are. they getcha poor or rich.

Ice Hockey player Adam Johnson. Fucking hell

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/ice-hockey/67253892

that's awful

Matthew Perry was one month older than me. I'm not going to defend Friends for its many offenses, but it had generational resonance for me — a big shift in pop/mass culture toward Gen X.

yeah otm

the one thing i liked about his memoirs, was how stark & factual he was about his addiction, ie the constant cost, the high & low of it, the uglier realities of it for him.
very few actors at his level would be so nakedly open about struggling. most would spin it into some mountain theyre climbing or dragon theyre slaying bc they don’t want to bum their fans out or whatever. whereas he was v real, like this shit is hard for me, and expensive. he was open that sometimes felt like he was failing & knew that it would probably happen again, but would keep trying to do the work.

which at the time i thought was good, because other people struggling w sobriety need to feel like they are not the only ones fucking up.

idk

the whole thing makes me v sad

He might have still have been sober, for whatever time segment, but maybe the physical effects caught up with him, the ones I've read about, but won't specify here. That sure happens to a lot of people.

I know what you mean about its many offenses, Tipsy - I haven't watched in some years but I'm sure Friends hasn't aged well. But it was definitely the polished apex of a certain era of sitcom, not least because of the writing, and it's hard to think of a member of that sharp cast who delivered their lines better or understood their character deeper than Perry.