Rolling Obituary Thread: 2017

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Chris Cornell!

BREAKING: Chris Cornell, lead singer for rock bands Soundgarden and Audioslave, has died, his rep says

— Fox News (@FoxNews) May 18, 2017

Alba, Thursday, 18 May 2017 07:35 (six years ago) link

OH GOD 2017 STOP TAKING ALL THE GENIUSES

The Remoans of the May (Noodle Vague), Thursday, 18 May 2017 07:47 (six years ago) link

Damn, Soundgarden was gonna play a theatre here Thursday week, and I was thinking of going based on recent ILM reports re:their current live show.

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Thursday, 18 May 2017 07:49 (six years ago) link

roger ailes

sktsh, Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:47 (six years ago) link

Good.

pickety third (stevie), Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:54 (six years ago) link

Well, yeah.

A Billionaire Dinosaur Forced Me Gay (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:55 (six years ago) link

Fuck yeah

El Tomboto, Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link

rupert next

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:57 (six years ago) link

maybe all the news reports were saying "roger ails" all along, and subeditors kept fucking it up

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 18 May 2017 12:59 (six years ago) link

i think it's fair to say that rupert takes much better care of himself than human/hutt hybrid ailes ever did, not that i won't leap for joy when murdoch finally succumbs

gone too late x

spud called maris (darraghmac), Thursday, 18 May 2017 13:02 (six years ago) link

Thanking u yet again, bizarro.

human/hutt hybrid (Old Lunch), Thursday, 18 May 2017 13:04 (six years ago) link

ha, yr welcome

Anyone have him in Dead Pool?

syzygy stardust (suzy), Thursday, 18 May 2017 13:06 (six years ago) link

woohoo

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 May 2017 14:16 (six years ago) link

Good fuckin riddance. Died in disgrace, as he deserved.

Οὖτις, Thursday, 18 May 2017 15:25 (six years ago) link

I didn't think much of Soundgarden either, but that's a bit strong.

calzino, Thursday, 18 May 2017 15:37 (six years ago) link

ah celebrities

Sorry to hear about the passing of Roger Ailes. He and I shared many laughs He was always very nice to me and I counted him as a friend

— Russell Simmons (@UncleRUSH) May 18, 2017

Supercreditor (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 18 May 2017 16:43 (six years ago) link

I don't know who those particular people are, but that tweet reminds me of Limmy (the Scottish comedian) habitually tweeting made-up platitudes after well-known figures' deaths, for which he got into trouble with regard to Ian Brady the other day. He had to delete said tweet this time, but I think the above helps illustrate at least part of what his long-running joke may be.

"Had the pleasure of meeting x at a charity do once. (S)he was surprisingly down to earth and VERY funny."

brain (krakow), Thursday, 18 May 2017 18:39 (six years ago) link

http://www.avclub.com/article/human-boil-roger-ailes-mourned-online-ceaseless-pa-255595

Slug-like sexual predator and architect of today’s broken political discourse Roger Ailes died this morning, disgraced and unemployed.

so glad people aren't holding back with this guy.

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 19 May 2017 04:53 (six years ago) link

Dave Cutler, the last of Adge's siblings. That's a very regional and specific onr.

Mud... Jam... Failure... (aldo), Sunday, 21 May 2017 22:49 (six years ago) link

Saw a report on FB that Creem's Richard C. Walls has passed on.

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 22 May 2017 06:19 (six years ago) link

Aww, bummer. Was a huge CREEM fan growing up. Still got a few around here. Definitely remember his name, not hitting me like Rick Johnson's death did, but still a definite bummer. RIP Richard.

VyrnaKnowlIsAHeadbanger, Monday, 22 May 2017 07:22 (six years ago) link

Aw man ;_;

RIP RCW

Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 22 May 2017 14:54 (six years ago) link

Didn't he write a lot of the TV stuff in Creem? I know he was one of my favourites from the early-'80s era.

clemenza, Monday, 22 May 2017 14:57 (six years ago) link

Yeah, "Prime Time" was his semi regular tv column...I just grabbed an old issue of creem and had to laugh at him imagining Kael and Sarris sniping at one another while hosting "Sneak Previews"

Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 22 May 2017 17:06 (six years ago) link

Is that the same piece that had one of my favourite lines ever, something about the ideal auteurist film (where the highest words of praise are "claustrophobic" and "ambiguous") being something about underground miners told from an uncertain point of view?

clemenza, Monday, 22 May 2017 17:09 (six years ago) link

Austin singer-songwriter/scene pillar Jimmy LaFave, 61, cancer

https://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/music/2017-05-22/r-i-p-jimmy-lafave/

to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 22 May 2017 17:25 (six years ago) link

xp no, piece was about siskel and ebert's shared crusade against "mad slasher" films...kael/Sarris bit was just a little aside

Wet Pelican would provide the soundtrack (Myonga Vön Bontee), Monday, 22 May 2017 19:11 (six years ago) link

As with Paul Nelson, Paul Williams, and Rick Johnson, depressing.

clemenza, Monday, 22 May 2017 20:19 (six years ago) link

Drummer - composer Mickey Roker.

He appeared on many records/with many musicians, but his work on Lee Morgan's Live at the Lighthouse always struck me as particularly beautiful.

Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Monday, 22 May 2017 20:30 (six years ago) link

All three Morgan records he's on - Standards, Live at the Lighthouse, and Sonic Boom - are great. He's also on Herbie Hancock's Speak Like a Child, one of his best Blue Note albums. And he worked with Duke Pearson a lot - something like 10 albums. He must have been Pearson's favorite drummer.

grawlix (unperson), Monday, 22 May 2017 21:06 (six years ago) link

Sir Roger Moore

Odysseus, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:19 (six years ago) link

With the heaviest of hearts, we must share the awful news that our father, Sir Roger Moore, passed away today. We are all devastated. pic.twitter.com/6dhiA6dnVg

— Sir Roger Moore (@sirrogermoore) May 23, 2017

the Rain Man of nationalism. (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link

Damnit I owe calzino £10

in a soylent whey (wins), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:20 (six years ago) link

surprisingly bummed by this one tbh, although the timing probably has a fair amount to do with it

🎵 it's grey pubic now, stoner blue 🎵 (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:24 (six years ago) link

King of DGAF. RIP.

syzygy stardust (suzy), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:34 (six years ago) link

RIP Roger! Roger!! ROGER!!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y0Nx7jNqHqI

Punnet of the Grapes (Tom D.), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:41 (six years ago) link

classic @sirrogermoore bants

🎵 it's grey pubic now, stoner blue 🎵 (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:45 (six years ago) link

go go mr bond

spud called maris (darraghmac), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:51 (six years ago) link

not to downplay his body of work but i do wonder whether a vigil will be held at chiswick roundabout

early morning reverse rumplestiltskin rage (Autumn Almanac), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 13:58 (six years ago) link

Love his last tweet:

https://mobile.twitter.com/sirrogermoore/status/862051461810843648?p=v

Josefa, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 14:07 (six years ago) link

Two things I remember about Roger Moore:

When I went to see Octopussy at the cinema with a school chum, he laughed uproariously at the scene where he tells the snake to hiss off.

+I always remember one of his ex-wives saying "I don't how he ever made it as an actor, he only has two different facial expressions"

anyway RIP RM

calzino, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 15:44 (six years ago) link

This truly wonderful Roger story from @marchaynes is soothing my aching soul. 😪 pic.twitter.com/DM7zhybLrs

— Ken Shabby (@MrKenShabby) May 23, 2017

mookieproof, Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:01 (six years ago) link

that's fucking awesome

🎵 it's grey pubic now, stoner blue 🎵 (bizarro gazzara), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:02 (six years ago) link

he was the James Bond of my childhood & i think next to Craig he's my fave Bond, even with the polyester suits and corny terribleness

i <3 underwater car

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:08 (six years ago) link

xxpost omg that made me tear up

Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 23 May 2017 16:09 (six years ago) link


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