Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

Ginger Baker

Baseballer Andy Etchebarren, 2x All-Star catcher; 2 World Series rings with Baltimore ('66, '70); together with Elrod Hendricks caught the 1971 Baltimore pitching squad that boasted four 20-game winners. Also was of Basque descent and had great eyebrows.

Rip Taylor

there is confetti in heaven

No way did he just die. Really?

Wow, people you thought were, etc.

Just googled and the third image seems to be a Rip Torn mugshot.

Wish I could watch a video of that SNL Superbuzzers sketch.

torn and taylor in the same year. rip rips.

Rip it up and start again.

riptide

Militant's Tony Mulhearn

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/veteran-liverpool-political-campaigner-tony-17044088

Bassist-composer William Folwell, probably best known for his stint in Albert Ayler's band.

Marshall Efron, a '70s TV creator/actor who's hard to describe

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/08/arts/television/marshall-efron-dead.html

They play his Better Living Through Chemistry clip on a loop at the Chicago Museum of Science and Industry.

Vinnie Bell :(

Oh no--[checks Vinnie Bell wiki]

His first hit was in 1962 as a member of the band The Ramrods, whose version of (Ghost) Riders in the Sky made the UK top 10 and US top 40 in 1961.[4][5]

By 1962, Bell decided to devote his energies to working as a studio musician in New York and Los Angeles, developing a "watery" guitar sound popular in instrumental recordings in the 1960s.[6] He also helped design a number of electric guitar models with the company Danelectro for it’s “Coral” line of instruments, including the first electric 12-string guitar,[7] and the electric sitar,[8]

Seems like my friend the former Sounds, NME etc writer Tommy Udo has died. :(

Yeah, seeing other posts on that too. A real damn shame.

RIP cosmonaut Alexei Leonov, first person to do a spacewalk

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/alexei-leonov-died-cosmonaut-first-man-to-walk-in-space-dead-age-85-cause-of-death-not-released-2019-10-11/

He wrote an interesting (terrifying) account of that spacewalk mission which you can read here:
https://www.airspacemag.com/space/the-nightmare-of-voskhod-2-8655378/

Oh and here's a gallery of his paintings (some painted by him, some by an artist friend, some a collaboration between the two): https://gizmodo.com/the-first-spacewalker-and-his-painter-friend-created-th-1729276737

That account is fantastic, thanks for sharing. Lots of amazing details but this one jumped out at me first

The serious problems I had experienced when reentering the spacecraft were, thankfully, not televised. From the moment our mission looked to be in jeopardy, transmissions from our spacecraft, which had been broadcast on both radio and television, were suddenly suspended without explanation. In their place Mozart’s Requiem was played again and again on state radio. My family was therefore spared the anxiety they would have had to endure had they known how close I came to being stranded in space.

yeah! even aside from being a requiem you'd think the broadcast suddenly halting and being replaced by looping music would be unnerving, but I guess maybe the awareness that "uh-oh, seems like a broadcast emergency procedure" wasn't so public in 1965...

'terrifying' kinda undersells the constant piling on of disaster after disaster on top of leonov and his co-pilot, holy shit

tot knew Leonov's name when i was a 7-year-old space addict

The movie Spacewalker from a couple years back is worth watching if you want to see a highly dramatic version of Leonov life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zp8_4RXuDdk

In 1976, I got to meet Leonov and the entire crew of the Apollo-Soyuz Test Project at the IAU conference in Anaheim. I was ten years old and I felt like I met Elvis.

Robert Forster!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/robert-forster-dead-resurgent-oscar-nominee-jackie-brown-was-78-1218184

:(

noooooooo 😫

So sad, what a great guy

Medium Cool

oh shit, even the timing is sad

Fuck.

FUUUUCK

one of the most soothing and just fucking cool screen presences ever

Did the work and did it damn well. Glad the Twin Peaks return will serve as a partial sendoff for him in retrospect.

i listened to his audiobook recording of 'roadside picnic' last year. he had a wonderful voice.

Max Cherry ❤️

John Giorno

shit man

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2aE8UdMBzE

Somebody was just talking on Twitter last week about wanting to try and get all the Giorno Poetry Systems albums reissued on CD.

RIP

Stephen Moore :(((((

which one?

Good question

Dalkey Archive guy?

He spells it with a ‘v’ so I guess not

Our dear friend Stephen Moore has died. A fine actor, a lovely man and the original and most iconic voice of Marvin The Paranoid Android in The Hitchhikers Guide To The Galaxy. Our thoughts are with his family and our memories of him will always make us smile. RIP Stephen. pic.twitter.com/d01PFDpVDq

— Dirk Maggs (@DirkMaggs) October 12, 2019

I thought it was him but then I didn't think he famous enough to end up itt.

He was also in Clockwise, and Adrian Mole, and The Queen's Nose, and Harry Enfield, loads of other stuff too.

He even had a hit single.

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

https://www.lococofineart.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Slaughter-We-got-here-Text.251.jpg