Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

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RIP Tawl

― Bulky Pee Pants (Tom D.), Monday, 29 January 2024 16:43 (two years ago)

Wow at Jesse Jane. She used to date Kid Rock, because of course she did. I heard a story once that during a lull in their relationship Kid Rock literally sent her an 18-wheeler full of Budweiser to try and woo her back.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 29 January 2024 17:22 (two years ago)

Didn't break till his wife announced it yesterday, but British Lovecraftian fiction writer Brian Lumley died at the beginning of the month.

― Hello I'm shitty gatsworth (aldo), Monday, 29 January 2024 17:22 (two years ago)

Sandra Milo

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/sandra-milo-dead-federico-fellini-8%c2%bd-juliet-of-the-spirits-1235890276/

― donna rouge, Monday, 29 January 2024 20:59 (two years ago)

people u thought

― Its big ball chunky time (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Monday, 29 January 2024 21:01 (two years ago)

oh no, I had no Tawl Ross had passed :(

― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Monday, 29 January 2024 23:58 (two years ago)

He gets a spot in my pantheon just for singing "Funky Dollar Bill" (the 45 mix below is rougher than the LP but interesting):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjQi0UAHFaY

― Halfway there but for you, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:45 (two years ago)

Shelley Ganz of The Unclaimed (per their Facebook page)

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 01:50 (two years ago)

Awesome UK photographer Brian Griffin, so many incredible album covers and press shots in the 1980s in particular.

― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 13:56 (two years ago)

Ah he did the covers for the first four Echo & the Bunnymen albums, have always loved those

― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 14:00 (two years ago)

N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa writer and the first Indigenous writer to win the Pulitzer for Fiction, given for his novel House Made of Dawn. Great writer, love teaching his story “The Well.”

― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 14:07 (two years ago)

xp and the first four Depeche Mode ones too, wow!

― blazin' squab (NickB), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 14:08 (two years ago)

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jan/30/chita-rivera-broadway-star-dies-aged-91

― MrDasher, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 19:39 (two years ago)

Cool 2015 interview with Brian Griffin - gets into tech, advertising work, more album covers that everyone here knows.
https://davedye.com/2015/06/01/brian-griffin-interview/

― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 20:42 (two years ago)

That’s a great read. He seems like a spiky character. Some fantastic pictures, the one of Tony Benn made me guffaw.

― Dan Worsley, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 21:03 (two years ago)

chita!

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 21:08 (two years ago)

Melinda Wilson, wife & manager to Brian

https://people.com/melinda-wilson-wife-of-beach-boys-brian-wilson-dead-8553386

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:13 (two years ago)

https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/celebrity-news/local/sipho-hotstix-mabuse-pays-tribute-to-late-musical-genius-tony-cedras-02063ffd-3818-4150-855e-70ded6501707

Tony Cedras, who played accordion, keyboards and more with Hugh Masekela , and was part of Paul Simon’s band for years, has died at age 72

― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 22:53 (two years ago)

https://www.playbill.com/article/three-time-tony-winner-hinton-battle-dies-at-67

― MrDasher, Tuesday, 30 January 2024 23:31 (two years ago)

Stop animation wiz Mark Gustafson, 64.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 13:32 (two years ago)

And also Bruce Springsteen's mother Adele, 98.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 13:32 (two years ago)

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-02-02/carl-weathers-dead-dies-rocky-apollo-creed-predator-mandalorian

― MrDasher, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:57 (two years ago)

Wow.

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 19:59 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOffqDsV5Q

― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:01 (two years ago)

goddamn it ;_;

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:01 (two years ago)

dude did everything
also played for the raiders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfwSx10-8c

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:03 (two years ago)

rip to the legend. what a charismatic screen presence.

― the defenestration of prog (voodoo chili), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:11 (two years ago)

i fuckin love him in those Rocky movies

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:12 (two years ago)

Ah dang. The Mandalorian was a nice late highlight.

― Ned Raggett, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:21 (two years ago)

I've still never seen the first two Rocky movies, but he was great in The Predator and Action Jackson is a really underrated/unjustly forgotten 80s action movie.

― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:25 (two years ago)

Yeah I was tempted to post the infamous Predator gif itt but realized not everyone probably wanted to see that one.

― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:27 (two years ago)

Weathers and David Cross were a good comedy duo

― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:30 (two years ago)

i fuckin love him in those Rocky movies

^^^ RIP Carl

― visiting, Friday, 2 February 2024 20:42 (two years ago)

Dadjoke: apparently there are some things that even he couldn't weather

(Sorry; I preemptively denounce myself)

― Washington Post Malone (Ye Mad Puffin), Friday, 2 February 2024 20:55 (two years ago)

damn, RIP Action Jackson, hes been all over my screen in this interminable Gronk FanDuel ad campaign lately so he seemed spry.

― Judi Dench's Human Hand (methanietanner), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:10 (two years ago)

loved him in everything

so deft as apollo creed, so good as a foil for arnies energy in predator, so gently funny even in slapstick or sendup in happy gilmore and arrested development, very few with that build and grace and lightness and variety and hes a big loss

― close encounters of the third knid (darraghmac), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:17 (two years ago)

hearing sketchy reports of Brother Wayne Kramer? Jeez I hope it's not true

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:36 (two years ago)

oh no i hope not

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:37 (two years ago)

oh please noooo

― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:38 (two years ago)

https://www.instagram.com/p/C23AQzQPeHR/

― omar little, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:38 (two years ago)

confirmed :(

MC5 guitar great Wayne Kramer has died at 75https://t.co/wYUshcRIa9
— Stereogum (@stereogum) February 2, 2024

― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:39 (two years ago)

From Insta:
Wayne S. Kramer
“PEACE BE WITH YOU” 🕊️
April 30, 1948 - February 2, 2024

Gutted... I saw him do an instore in San Francisco with John Sinclair and Steve Mackay; I was such a fanboy, I helped him load his amp back into his rental car

Extremely cool genuine dude, and his autobiography is a must-read

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:40 (two years ago)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDoUIh23Wg

― an icon of a worried-looking, long-haired, bespectacled man (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:41 (two years ago)

Dennis Thompson is the only Five left

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:42 (two years ago)

^ most thrilling rock song ever imo xp

― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:44 (two years ago)

America's greatest rock'n'roll band.. I'm glad he was able to get back into the ballrooms late in life, I didn't see MC50 but it's great that he was able to finally make a decent living playing in front of appreciative audiences

― Andy the Grasshopper, Friday, 2 February 2024 21:47 (two years ago)

fuck RIP brother wayne

― werewolves of laudanum (VegemiteGrrl), Friday, 2 February 2024 22:46 (two years ago)

Carl Weathers was in the Herzog documentary I saw last night quite a bit (The Mandalorian). Didn't know he was in Close Encounters till I looked the previous title up.

― clemenza, Friday, 2 February 2024 22:53 (two years ago)

saw wayne last year playing with pere ubu - they did a very, uh, shambolic cover of "kick out the jams". i wasn't expecting him so it was very cool to see him on stage, and he seemed in good health/spirits then. RIP

― donna rouge, Friday, 2 February 2024 23:23 (two years ago)

RIP Wayne ;_;

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Friday, 2 February 2024 23:54 (two years ago)

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