Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

noooooo

I guess we can take comfort in the fact that Spin has provided us with a long list of best guitarists, most of whom won't be going anywhere anytime soon

"Jam Master Jay still . . . lives"

aww RIP

Score score

what a month

It won't be long before Otis Redding will able to record some new material on Stax Celestial.

RIP Led Zeppelin II
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-led-zeppelin-ii-dies-0524-20120523,0,1108232.story

Love this:

"Since I became Led Zeppelin, my life has improved a thousand fold."

Fuck it. I'm changing my name to In A Silent Way.

Pathos and lols all at once:

The 64-year-old Zeppelin "climbed the 'Stairway to Heaven'" May 18 at Alton Memorial Hospital, according to a death notice published in newspapers, including the Tribune. He died of a heart attack, his daughter said.

"I don't want to appear to be some off-the-wall, drug-addict idiot. I just changed my name from the standpoint that I can be a better person than I used to be."

i think i actually have a lot of respect for that guy

No I do not want to meet your friend named In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I'm fairly certain I won't like him.

Survived by his wife Custard Pie

after reading that article I have formed a short mental list of friends of mine who might be convinced to change their name to "Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game"

As of today you can all refer to me as Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.

can i call you HOTS for short?

sure

"If he'd become Sabbath Bloody Sabbath instead, he'd have lived to 200" muses Bill Magill

But then his soul would belong to Satan.

worth it imo

Hal Jackson, radio personality of 70+ years including pioneering stints at WABC and WBLS, at 96:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/hal-jackson-pioneer-black-radio-dies-96-article-1.1083551

paul fussell

“From the 1950s on,” he wrote in “Doing Battle,” “my presiding emotion was annoyance, often intensifying to virtually disabling anger.”

Patron saint of IA thread?

Somewhere I have Class and BAD. Or at least, I did.

x-post from the Hal Jackson obit:

"Born in Charleston, S.C., Jackson grew up loving sports and school. He attended Howard University and made his way onto WINX by finding a white company to sponsor him and not telling the station owner who the announcer would be."

Is there an opposite of a RIP thread? http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18219795

Filmmaker Kaneto Shindo (at 100), director of ILX fave Onibaba

http://www.fandor.com/blog/daily-kaneto-shindo-1912-2012/

http://s3.amazonaws.com/data.tumblr.com/tumblr_m527a9FJ0y1qz6f9yo1_r3_500.jpg

rip

RIP Eduard "Mr Trololo" Khil.

Dag

Ray Bradbury

Mars is heaven. RIP

Has own RIP thread: R.I.P. Ray Bradbury

i always think it's weird when people post really famous RIPs on this thread when it's pretty certain they're going to get a dedicated RIP thread. or is this thread just supposed to be a comprehensive list of dead celebs? i guess i don't understand what this thread is for.

Thought it was for people who might not be well-known for their own thread but could also be used to announce and link to standalone threads for more famous persons.

announce the passing of

also it's a handy one-stop REMINDER OF OUR OWN MORTALITY

ha, exactly.

RIP Bob Welch formerly of Fleetwood Mac. Shotgun suicide.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18363214

already discussion of this on his thread.

Oops, only just popped on the Beeb, hadn't heard.

A week late w/this, but:

Cinematographer Chris Challis (Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, Arabesque, Genevieve, The Private Life of Sherlock Holmes, Top Secret! etc)

^Two major car films there

Didn't he understudy with Jack Cardiff or shoot some of his films when Jack turned director?

Wait, he shot The Small Black Room! RIP http://www.powell-pressburger.org/Reviews/Challis/Challis01.html

Of course I mean The Small Back Room.

Frank Cady

http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/obituaries/obituary-jan-fairley-writer-broadcaster-lecturer-1-2348562

ethnomusicologist and writer

Actress Ann Rutherford: http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/gone-wind-ann-rutherford-dead-336296

wiseguy Henry Hill

http://www.examiner.com/article/mobster-henry-hill-dead-at-69-heart-gave-out-over-unknown-illness

and as posted in the boxing thread, 3-time Olympic heavyweight boxing champ Teofilo Stevenson

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-teofilo-stevenson-20120612,0,308275.story