Rolling Obituary Thread: 2021

we could have admonished him with "never a cross word" :(

E were brilliant tho

Juini Booth, Jazz Bassist and Sun Ra Arkestra Member, Dies at 73

https://www.msn.com/en-us/music/news/juini-booth-jazz-bassist-and-sun-ra-arkestra-member-dies-at-73/ar-AAMcQvN

For Canadian eyes only: Dolores Claman, who wrote the Hockey Night in Canada theme.

https://www.cbc.ca/sports/hockey/dolores-claman-death-hnic-theme-song-1.6107048

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6WE3z_--HU

I don't even know if it's still in use, but more definitively Canadian than almost anything.

Kurt Westergaard, artist of famous newspaper cartoons of Mohammed, looks like ISIS probably weren't responsible unless they have adopted much more subtle methods

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/jul/19/kurt-westergaard-danish-cartoonist-muhammad-cartoon-dies-aged-86

Author, screenwriter, Logan's Run co-creator William F Nolan:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_F._Nolan

Robby Steinhardt, Violinist and Co-Lead Vocalist of Kansas, Dead at 71

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/robby-steinhardt-kansas-obit-dead-1198999/

Laid his weary head to rest.

Pyotr Mamonov of the Russian band Zvuki Mu due to coronavirus

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2021/jul/20/a-folkloric-hallucination-zvuki-mu-soviet-russias-most-glorious-band

Reading of the death of Joan Le Mesurier aged 90, led me to the Wikipedia entry for her husband and wow that’s quite a personal life

Oh yes i remember looking into it before.

Zvuki Mu, possibly the most unusual, unexpected band to get an album produced by Brian Eno.

Looks like Chuck E Weiss has passed.

"Sorry to be the bearer of bad news. My friend since childhood, musician, club owner, all around big deal in the Los Angeles music scene, and the protagonist of Rickie Lee Jones’ world hit, CHUCK Es IN LOVE, Chuck E Weiss passed away last night."

https://newdeaths.com/2021/07/21/chuck-e-weiss-obituary-death-american-songwriter-chuck-e-weiss-has-died/

Jazz drummer and member of the Vince Guaraldi Trio, Jerry Granelli. That's him playing the drums on Charlie Brown Christmas.

"Granelli "pretty much played with everybody" as a session musician, Reilly said, and performed with the likes of the Grateful Dead, Lou Rawls, Mose Allison, Sly Stone and, of course, Vince Guaraldi."

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/jerry-granelli-jazz-musician-dies-at-80-1.6110699

Peter Rehberg

Peter Rehberg (1968-2021) pic.twitter.com/rqZP3wDTAw

— INA grm (@Ina_GRM) July 23, 2021

Dammmm

:(

RIP

Charles Radcliffe: early Peace Movement activist, and member of the English Situationists (credited as 'political advisor' to the Jefferson Airplane on their Volunteers album).

I read his autobiography a few years ago, which is an exhaustive 900 page 'cultural document' containing accounts of the early London Blues scene (Eric Clapton was a flatmate), and the visits by US Blues artists to London in '63 and '64, among many other entertaining diversions.

Jackie Mason, who definitely fell into my ‘people you didn’t realize etc’ category.

Here’s a finger for Jackie. Rip

He was 93, but his material was 150 at least.

Lol x2

Worked with jackie mason like 12 years ago and he was not all there

For $300 via Cameo, you could hire Jackie Mason to do a small video routine for friend or foe. His intro video was... not quite there. Felt bad that he was a Trumper for the last couple years, but I guess that's the fate of professional angry dudes.

RIP. Saw him on a street in London once, pretty sure he was getting out of a limo.

I remember hearing a very bad late period set of his on R4 something like 20 years ago and he was doing a monologue about mobile phones eh? what's the point of them .. are they just a means for unemployed people to talk to each other while they walk the streets!

it's funny because it's true

"I have enough money to last me the rest of my life unless I buy something."

Rest in peace Jackie Gleason

he's the one walked into a precinct and gunned down the captain for no fucking reason!

He shot a man in Reno just to make him laugh?

Otelo Saraiva de Carvalho, one of the military captains who ushered in the Carnation Revolution in Portugal. That the first obituary I found in the international press comes from the Financial Times is an irony I'm sure he would have appreciated.

https://www.ft.com/content/abb4ab84-eb31-4c11-84ea-e749ab10c88a

Dieter Brummer, former hottie Shane from Home and Away, only 45... the euphemistic article suggests it might have been suicide :(

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-26/dieter-brummer-dead-home-and-away-star-shane-parrish/100324596

:(

:(((

That’s sad. Odd how you recognise an actor’s name in an instant, after not thinking about them for over 25 years.

Yeah, same. I guess that daily exposure in the credits really helps it stick.

i had such a crush on him, he was a cutie

Shane + Angel 4 Eva

https://www.newidea.com.au/media/104422/pac-portrait-71.jpg?width=720¢er=0.0,0.0

this is the girl

Joey Jordison, Founding Slipknot Drummer, Dead at 46

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/joey-jordison-slipknot-dead-1203167/

Wow. He was a monster drummer.

That sucks. He was an amazingly talented drummer. I only met him once while I worked at Roadrunner, and it was in 2014 or 2015 when he was just starting to come back; we shot a video where he and Mike Mangini from Dream Theater sat around talking about drums and kind of interviewing each other.

Dusty Hill of ZZ Top

Ron Popeil!

https://www.thewrap.com/?p=5667705

RIP, Mr. Popeil.

Seeing on Facebook that Willie Winfield of the Harptones, a vocal harmony doo wop group who were stars in the 50s has died at 91 of a heart attack.

Here’s an article on them from a few years ago
https://link.medium.com/r7aGpfv8gib

Glen Ford, founding editor of Black Agenda Report, 71

I am sorry to inform you that Glen Ford, founder of Black Agenda Report, and my friend, comrade, and mentor has passed away. We will share more information as we receive it.

May he rest in power.@GlenFordBAR @blkagendareport

— Margaret Kimberley (@freedomrideblog) July 28, 2021

RIP Roberto Calasso. A brilliant writer and publisher. Cadmus and Harmony is one of those books you want to read until everything in it sticks in your head and won't come out. pic.twitter.com/jiE8eHAG2A

— Daniel Fraser (@Oubliette_Mag) July 29, 2021

https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/politics/2021/07/29/former-u-s-sen-carl-levin-michigan-dead-87-obituary/5425351001/

Carl Levin, age 87

RIP Jacob Devarieux , guitarist from zouk dance band Kassav from Covid ( seeing this on Facebook and Twitter)