Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

Bugs Henderson of Mouse & the Traps:

http://www.star-telegram.com/2012/03/10/3800606/bugs-henderson-local-blues-guitar.html

For me, the funniest garage record ever:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=obRy59b21TU

Wow, RIP. Didn't know he was sick.

The story behind "A Public Execution" is pretty funny, and rather Texan. Ronnie "Mouse" Weiss was engaged to this girl who'd moved from Tyler down to Houston. One weekend Weiss' had some cousins from West Texas come in for a visit. One of the cousins was a pretty teenage girl who was seen (near a Dairy Queen or something) riding around with Mouse on his motorcycle (or "two-wheeled pony") by a friend of the fiance. The friend called her up and she wrote Mouse an angry letter ending their relationship.

He wrote the song as a response to the letter, intending to just record it and send her the tape. His producer, Robin Hood Brians, talked him into working it up into the garage standard (and charter Nuggets inclusion) we all know and love today.

Mouse and The Traps actually had a pretty solid and stylistically varied body of work. Big Beat did a real nice comp, The Fraternity Years, back in the 90s.

Tom Murrin, The Alien Comic

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/03/13/rip-the-alien-comic_n_1341225.html

RIP, Mouse & the Traps guy

The friend called her up and she wrote Mouse an angry letter ending their relationship. He wrote the song as a response to the letter, intending to just record it and send her the tape.

I feel like "Mouse retreated to his room, dropped acid, and listened to nothing but 'Can You Please Crawl Out Your Window?' for two whole weeks" ought to be inserted between those two sentences.

Was-he-or-wasn't-he convicted Nazi death camp guard John Demjanjuk. His case caused no end of grief among Cleveland's German, Polish, Slovak and Jewish communities.

OMG no way, he's finally dead?!

do not RIP if you are Ivan the Terrible; RIP if this has all been a huge mistake

and i mean HUGE

yeah, his trials have dominated Cleveland news...my whole life?

Richest guy in Thailand and co-founder of Red Bull.

Ulu Grosbard, director of theatre (American Buffalo) and film (Straight Time, True Confessions)

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/21/arts/music/ulu-grosbard-broadway-and-film-director-dies-at-83.html

Tonino Guerra, screenwriter for Antonioni, Fellini, Angelopoulos, Tarkovsky, Rosi

http://mubi.com/notebook/posts/tonino-guerra-1920-2012

as mentioned by aero elsewhere, boxing writer Bert Sugar -- would not have guessed he was 'only' 75:

http://espn.go.com/los-angeles/story/_/id/7736006/acclaimed-boxing-writer-bert-sugar-dies-cardiac-arrest-75

Just saw that Ulu Grossbard RIP now. Ah well, RIP.

Hilton Kramer:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/28/arts/design/hilton-kramer-critic-who-championed-modernism-dies-at-84.html?_r=1&ref=arts

adrienne rich, 82

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/jacketcopy/2012/03/adrienne-rich.html

really enjoyed the handful of poems of hers i've read, have always meant to investigate her further

oh college lit classes, sigh I loved her for a shining period in my life

v sad

http://www.terry.uga.edu/~dawndba/4500compulsoryhet.htm

http://blogs.tennessean.com/tunein/2012/03/28/earl-scruggs-country-music-hall-of-famer-dies-at-age-88/

oh fuck earl scruggs was a titan. rest easy world-changingly great picker.

oh no

I saw him at Hardly Strictly Bluegrass a few years back, he was wonderful

Rich's gazahls are great.

Scruggs and Rich, jammin' in Heaven, I hope.

Was suprised by Adrienne Rich, didnt know she was still with us!

Southern novelist Harry Crews.

Oh booooo that sucks!

Nancy L. Earp, 911 operator who may have talked to the Zodiac killer.

Warren Stevens, character actor who played Doc Ostrow in Forbidden Planet

http://www.airlockalpha.com/node/9036/forbidden-planets-warren-stevens-dies-at-92.html

Sorry for your loss, Dr. Morbius.

according to a FB friend, jamaa fanaka passed away (can't find any obits yet tho) - i missed his films in the LA rebellion screening series that just happened here but 'penitentiary' and 'welcome home, brother charles' are considered blaxploitation classics

RIP NY Cosmos and Lazio legend Giorgio Chinaglia

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the Porsche 911

Luke Askew Acording to his wiki, he passed on March 30th.

Gil Noble

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/06/business/media/gil-noble-host-of-show-on-black-issues-dies-at-80.html?ref=nyregion

James Marshall, guy who developed those stacked amplifiers

RIP. But the former WFMU dj of the same name seems to still be going strong

Thomas Kinkade painter of shite light.

Placerville fellow, just up the hill from Sacramento. Heaven will be full of little candles and Christmas scenes.

Mothers and grandmothers everywhere will mourn.

Jigsaw puzzles at half-mast

end of an era

Mike Wallace!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qRyTDbEskM

i'm glad we now recognize bullshit movies as the highest posthumous truth

Ferdinand Alexander Porsche, designer of the Porsche 911

― Mike Love Costume Jewelry on Etsy (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, April 5, 2012 12:02 PM (3 days ago)

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http://www.texasdude.com/9-11-01/trade%20center%20eagel.jpg

xpost Wait, I thought you never saw "The Insider," you doofus.

Anyway, I always wondered what Mike Wallace thought of a characterization that simultaneously lionized him as a journalistic badass and a cynical, self-interested sell-out.

dunno where u got that idea; I saw the bipartite Mann hunks-in-gray-hair crapfests

Jack Tramiel, founder of Commodore computers and Auschwitz survivor
http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidthier/2012/04/09/computer-legend-and-gaming-pioneer-jack-tramiel-dies-at-age-83/

Raymond Aubrac, French resistance hero

http://www.lefigaro.fr/actualite-france/2012/04/11/01016-20120411ARTFIG00516-raymond-aubrac-mort-d-une-figure-de-la-resistance.php