Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Aw man that sucks. A real delight of recent years for me was listening to old episodes of his podcast, especially classic tv stars like Butch Patrick, or even Alan Alda. He was such a fan, and always got great stories, i loved him the most when he was in that mode. the Buscemi ep was hilarious too.

Truly a legend & an unforgettable comedic voice.

Butch Patrick?

Lou "Butch" Patrick

Sure is something to realize they all left this year.

This photo is very sad now. RIP Bob Saget and RIP Louie Anderson. Both good friends that will be missed. pic.twitter.com/DLJ8Ntt7LN

— Gilbert Gottfried (@RealGilbert) January 21, 2022

And Norm just a few months prior!! Christ!!!

Fun Fact: Gottfried was the second-most successful Jean Doumanian SNL hire after Eddie Murphy.

I had one very brief personal encounter with GG when I was working as an usher at a benefit show where he was on the bill. I showed him where the bathroom was. He very polite and grateful. So, put him down as "nice to ushers."

man, this sucks. rip gilbert :(

thinking about it, as the voice of iago from aladdin, he's probably one of the first celebrity voices i remember

Oh man, I remember seeing this and thinking it was just a catchphrase Gilbert used and not one of the strangest moments in latter-day game show history. (9:50 is where it gets really good, the escalation and laughter is contagious) https://t.co/p0yyPqCa1j

— Mike's Hard Reissue + Novelization Posting (@Sir__Duque) April 12, 2022

That photo with Sagat & Louie is pretty haunting

many xposts - butch patrick ie Eddie Munster in the Munsters

Yeah. Know who it is, just was pleasantly surprised to see him metioned. Sorry, should have been more clear.

Michel Bouquet, French Actor & the Narrator of Night and Fog

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c97y9d44wn7o

Just saw that. RIP.

Jazz bassist Charnett Moffett. He was only 54. Played on Wynton Marsalis's best album (Black Codes From The Underground) when he was 17, and Sonny Sharrock's Ask The Ages when he was maybe 25.

RIP Michel, Gilbert and Charnett. All persons whose work/art I’ve loved.

Oh man, RIP Charnett Moffett, indeed. Loved his playing on Ask the Ages and with McCoy Tyner.

dang, RIP. got to see him with Ornette once at War Memorial Opera House in SF (gorgeous venue). and he was one of the highlights of the show for sure

apparently got the venue wrong, was Davies Symphony Hall in 2002

Freddy Rincon

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2022/apr/14/former-colombia-great-freddy-rincon-dies-aged-55-following-car-crash

Someone posted a bit on Instagram that Gottfried did on Norm MacDonald's show that was so filthy and crude but just unbelievably funny, still laughing my ass off thinking about it. RIP.

the zeta jones bit?

hockey hall of famer mike bossy, 65

Yeah caek, that one

Seeing on Facebook and twitter that Nigerian hornman and bandleader Orlando Julius (OJ Ekemode) has died at 79. He and his band always put on a fun live show when I saw him

I interviewed him in 2014, when he put out an album with the Heliocentrics. Never did get to see him live, sadly.

Seeing on FB that Noel Monk, road manager for the Sex Pistols & Van Halen (and author of separate memoirs of working with both), has passed away.

(xposts) Auston Matthews is 5th right now on the career list of goals-per-game: he's behind two guys who played in the 1910s and '20s, Lemieux is second, and Bossy--still--is first.

Bad week for Seinfeld moms.

Liz Sheridan, Character Actress Best Known as Jerry’s Mom on ‘Seinfeld,’ Dead at 93

https://www.rollingstone.com/tv/tv-news/liz-sheridan-seinfeld-jerrys-mom-dead-obituary-1338410/

I liked her...How could anybody not like her?

Woah!

In the early Fifties, while living in New York, she struck up a whirlwind romance with James Dean, a tale she relayed in her 2000 memoir, Dizzy and Jimmy (per Hendon, the book is currently in development as a feature film).

Art Rupe, head of Specialty Records, 104 years old. Released records by Sam Cooke, Little Richard, Don & Dewey, Guitar Slim, many others.

Wow, People You Thought Were Already...

Seconded

Letizia Battaglia, Italian photojournalist who documented the Mafia’s crimes in Sicily

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/letizia-battaglia-pioneer-photographer-who-defied-mafia-dead-87-2022-04-14/

The 2019 documentary about her, Shooting the Mafia, is really good.

David Freel of the band Swell

https://m.facebook.com/#!/story.php?story_fbid=10158292404932540&id=17058642539&m_entstream_source=timeline&ref=bookmarks

Catherine Spaak. So great in many classic Italian films.

https://www.nieuwsblad.be/cnt/dmf20220418_93211409

Harrison Birtwistle, 87.

David Freel is someone I've not thought about for years, but in the late 90s the Swell album TOO MANY DAYS WITHOUT THINKING and especially the 7" of (I KNOW) THE TRIP were vital, so RIP him seriously (in full awareness this will mean very little to very few)

Hip-hop DJ and producer Kay Slay, 55. He was around for pretty much the entire history of the genre; Stereogum has a good writeup.

Ah fuck seriously DJ Kay Slay? Goddammit, anyone want to come punch me in the head repeatedly? THIS IS A BAD DAY!

TOO MANY DAYS WITHOUT THINKING was really great, great ending too, never heard anything else by Swell.

ugh rip kay slay

Rick Turner, co-founder of Alembic who helped the Grateful Dead create their Wall of Sound and later built the Model 1 guitar, made famous by Lindsey Buckingham.

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=412731394191890&set=a.282746467190384

http://www.fleetwoodmac-uk.com/articles/Images/guitarplayer_03-2003/Lindsey_Interview_4-GW-042003.jpg

Hermann Nitsch, Viennese Actionist artist, 83.

Always enjoyed his organ drone stuff after seeing him at Glasgow University Chapel years ago. Intrigued and repulsed by the Aktionen, probably pretty much as intended.

RIP. Although I was hoping for some gore over Glasgow University, I remember it being a splendid ceremony at the chapel - and you took some good pics of the performance, Krakow!

I went to the museum in Naples in 2019 and watched the film of the Aktion in 2010 (which was quite a restrained one) with one of the volunteers who also took part. He told us some fairly benign anecdotes and described Nitsch as an Orson Welles-ian figure who sat making small hand gestures from a distance that were both impossible to interpret and, it seems, impossible to get wrong as his only attempt at direction.