Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

Super Sky Point to Bob Lanier, who averaged 20 points and 10 rebounds per game over a 15-year NBA career while wearing size 22 sneakers. He is perhaps best remembered by American aviator Roger Murdock as a hell of a hard man to drag up and down the court for 48 minutes. #RIP pic.twitter.com/iOKktBAMTi

— Super 70s Sports (@Super70sSports) May 11, 2022

Fred Ward, a brilliant actor who excelled at playing idiots, and people who just seemed like idiots right up till the moment they got the drop on you (kind of a precursor to Woody Harrelson in that way).

damn, he was great, especially loved him in the right stuff.

Here’s a dispatch from Ward’s publicist: pic.twitter.com/OSsnIGLikH

— Alan Sepinwall (@sepinwall) May 13, 2022

oh yeah for sure. The scene in the hotel with his wife after he "screwed the pooch". Heartbreaking.

oh man, i'm going to have to watch miami blues tonight :(

Miami Blues is amazing; I loved Remo Williams as a kid; Tremors is all-time (never saw any of the sequels); and yeah, The Right Stuff is great, probably the only "America, fuck yeah" movie I can stand. I kind of want to see Henry & June — is it a) any good and b) streaming anywhere?

He's good, yeah.

Also recommended: he starred in an American Playhouse adaptation of Katherine Ann Porter's "Noon Wine" giving what I consider his best performance.

Also fine in Southern Comfort, Uncommon Valor, The Player.

I did like Henry and June at the time, as a "sexy period piece" it's better than Kaufman's later Quillls.

Like him in a bunch of things--The Player at the top, I think. One of Kael's favourite actors.

Anyone ever see him in the Ebert fave UFOria? I used to look for it all the time back in the VHS days, and even today it doesn't appear to be available via any streaming or physical media.

It's on Youtube thanks to some enterprising fan with a VHS copy and some RCA cables. Not exactly theatrical quality, but it's there.

I know Ward best for Tremors, where he is one of several magic ingredients quietly elevating the whole thing by several letter grades.

Cast A Deadly Spell is fantastic and also available on YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jK3q1fNLeA

Ward was & forever remains a childhood fave as Roone in “Big Business”, the champion put-put golfer hayseed <3

so handsome!

kind of a low-intensity Bernthal vib

vibe

I should have mentioned Short Cuts, I think that's my favourite. (His role in The Player is small.)

I could have sworn he was in a Coen bros film but I guess not. Well, he should have been.

Urvashi Vaid, LGBT activist and attorney

https://www.advocate.com/news/2022/5/14/legendary-activist-urvashi-vaid-dies-63

rapper lil keed, 24

the only member of young thug’s ysl records who wasn’t incarcerated

Andrew Symonds, Aussie cricketer, 46.

https://news.sky.com/story/australian-cricket-cult-hero-andrew-symonds-killed-in-car-crash-in-queensland-12613441

Onkyo Audio
https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Companies/Classic-Japanese-audio-brand-Onkyo-files-for-bankruptcy

(an Onkyo A-9010 has been my main stereo amp for years. Lots of inputs for everything inc. built-in phono preamp, optical for Airport Express. Outstanding sound!)

;_; RIP to a real one

I've never felt the need to upgrade my SR-705 receiver (though it has one tic that bothers me: a switch clicking every time I start listening to CDs via optical). Maybe their products were too good!

Ricky Gardiner, David Bowie and Iggy Pop’s Berlin-Era Guitarist, Dead at 73

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/ricky-gardiner-david-bowie-iggy-pop-guitarist-dead-1353905/

The great, hugely popular Czech actor Josef Abrhám has died at the age of 82. RIP. pic.twitter.com/GbMrJ93mRZ

— Ian Willoughby (@Ian_Willoughby) May 17, 2022

Bob Neuwirth, what a life.

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/bob-neuwirth-folk-singer-songwriter-134822569.html

RIP. There will be Glissendorf in heaven... if not the other place.

Dylan, from Chronicles: "Like Kerouac had immortalized Neal Cassady in On the Road, somebody should have immortalized Neuwirth … If ever there was a renaissance man leaping in and out of things, he would have to be it.”

Vangelis!!

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-vangelis-obituary/vangelis-composer-of-chariots-of-fire-score-dies-at-79-idUSKCN2N51L8

so soon after Klaus Schulze, too. what a legend. RIP to the big guy.

oh my goodness

dang

Terrible news! So many obscure gems in his catalogue. Who's left of the 70s-era synth wizards now, JMJ, Kitaro, Chris Franke...?

Sakamoto and Hosono!

aaaaggggggggggh!

i don't mean to diminish Vangelis, but oh my god, seeing "Sakamoto and Hosono!" as the first thing i read on the obituary thread was just AWFUL

ooops, sorry, my bad!! they are both alive and well!!!

no worries!

also, RIP Vangelis, of course. I haven't explored a ton of his catalog, but for Blade Runner alone, and his centrality to the 70s/80s synth world, he was a legend

Highly recommend "L'apocalypse des animaux", which I believe is a TV soundtrack, some incredibly pretty much on that one. Earth is also a fairly great album. Albedo/Spiral are both cool synth records if you have tolerance for Jarre-type noodling.

I haven't heard many of his 80's or 90's records. I suppose they might be interesting but there are just so many of him.

rip genius :(

Almost everything on the Delectus box set is great

xp

Nice, I will definitely check out L'apocalypse des animaux. And yeah, his catalog is crazy

'666' his creative highpoint for me, but his 70s output ranges from at least interesting to essential, 'Beaubourg' and Socrates' 'Phos' collab being two of the latter.

his first solo album, earth, is the absolute bomb

The man was one of a kind and, to me, the greatest of the European synth masters. Musically untouchable at his peak. This score for a ballet, "The Thread", from a couple of years back, is magnificent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ytyp-Hf2iUM

itt Vangelis, the Thread

This one’s my favourite, totally haunting and odd. A stunner

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8zm88FF4Axw

I saw Bob Neuwirth at the Cactus Cafe during SXSW once. Wandered offstage for 10 minutes halfway through the set. Love his album Havana Midnight.

RIP Bob Neuwirth, great songwriter and owner of the most famous orange striped shirt in rock & roll pic.twitter.com/xAYYQu1Ypo

— JF Robitaille (@JFRobitaille) May 19, 2022

I guess the ones worn (shared?) by The Velvet Underground and the one mentioned here are tied for distant second:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aErNjERoLJM

I wish a had a Bob Neuwirth in my own life, someone who's always close by to laugh at my jokes that no else does.

Perhaps you can create your own thread to serve that purpose.