Rolling Obituary Thread 2022

;_;

Truly a great. My childhood memories would be much different without Sesame Street and without him.

RIP. This is one of my favorite things ever.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gZ2d00D7Gzg

I've watched Christmas Eve on Sesame Street pretty much every holiday season since it first aired. Having lost both Luis and Bob in '22 is gonna make it rough going this year.

he was so lovely! big bird will be so sad

Love and thanks to you, Bob. May you rest in peace.

The amazing thing about Bob was that he was probably the most naturalistic human performer on Sesame Street. He fully committed to the bit; you never got a winking-to-the-camera or I-am-putting-on-a-show-for-small-children feeling from him when he was talking to a muppet, he just acted like he was talking to another human being. Not something I noticed as a kid, but watching clips as an adult it's pretty amazing, and very difficult to pull off.

bob, luis and gordon were all fathers to me and america

RIP Bob!
Yeah, growing up in a very homogeneous rural part of California, I was mesmerized by the urban/cosmopolitan elements of Sesame Street; it was clearly a city and I think I wanted to see what a real city looked like.
Mr. Rogers, Sesame Street, Electric Company, Zoom - I'm grateful we had such thoughtful shit on TV back then

Not good news:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/300757350/iconic-kiwi-musician-hamish-kilgour-found-dead

― aphoristical, Monday, December 5, 2022 1:58 PM (one minute ago) bookmarkflaglink

(hamish kilgour of the clean)

awful news, RIP

So sad. Well loved worldwide obviously but also as a guy on the scene in NYC. I told the story when I posted about his disappearance on facebook last week, although I'd seen him around and seen the Mad Scene I never met him until I did the happy refugees reissue and they flew over to open up for Crystal Stilts in brooklyn. Hamish was at the show and the guys in Happy Refugees couldn't believe it, how cool was it that a member of the Clean was at their show! I put him on the list to come to the manhattan show the next night as well and I dj'd between bands, getting props from him for playing Clock DVA's 4 Hours, he came up to me and started singing along.

Seeing reports on FB that Jim Stewart of Stax Records has passed.

Looks like it's true:

https://bestclassicbands.com/jim-stewart-stax-obituary-12-2-22/

Kirstie Alley

Wow, dang.

oh shit

Saavik forever, frankly.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/entertainment/celebrities/2022/12/05/kirstie-alley-dies-cheers-actress-jenny-craig-cancer/10841958002/

Wow, RIP

On a more underground musical note, Steffen Basho-Junghans, a German acoustic guitarist very much in the Glenn Jones and Jack Rose vein, they were mutual friends and admirers. Glenn posted a great FB note remembering him.

taking on that Cheers role after Shelley Long left was probably one of the toughest gigs in show business and she pulled it off amazingly well.

RIP Steffen, love quite a few of his records, blasting "In the Morning Twilight" right now.

I loved Kirstie Alley in "Summer School."

Saavik and Uhura both gone this year

Kirstie will always be Vanessa Bartholomew to me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WwhqZLO-_A

here she is taking shots at sharon stone on letterman
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWhckdNTM8o

Didn't plan on watching the whole thing, but that's a great clip--man, she's funny there.

This scandalized me as a lad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=993nvsfwvnY

RIP Kirstie ;_;

She could rock Vulcan ears like no one else.

boxing referee mills ‘let’s get it on’ lane, 85

Longtime Nashville country music writer (and musician) Peter Cooper, at just 52 from a head injury.

https://www.tennessean.com/story/entertainment/music/2022/12/07/peter-cooper-acclaimed-country-music-journalist-and-musician-dies-at-52/69707124007/

Jet Black of The Stranglers

I had no idea how old he was. Older than any of the Beatles or the Stones! Must've been wild running around playing in 1977 and being 40 years old already.

Not older than Bill Wyman tbf.

I think the last time he was playing with them, he'd only come in for a couple songs

I was thinking he would have been the oldest musician to come up in the punk/new wave scene, but Alan Vega was a couple of months older.

Vi Subversa of the Poison Girls was older I think?
anyway RIP Jet Black, cool name cool guy

Vi Subversa was 80 when she died in 2016.

An evil Tory, 90. How do they all live so long?

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/dec/09/lord-young-conservative-minister-and-businessman-dies-aged-90

Ronnie Turner, Tina's son, 62:

Ronnie Turner’s brother, Craig Turner, died by suicide in 2018. His aunt, Alline Bullock, Tina Turner’s sister, passed away in 2010. His father, Ike Turner, died in 2007.

Jo Carol Pierce.
https://www.statesman.com/story/news/2022/12/08/jo-carol-pierce-austin-death-obituary-wellington-jimmie-dale-gilmore-bad-girls/69703288007/

Was just thinking about her recently because she wrote a funny song about Jerry Lee Lewis that I can’t seem to find much trace of on the intranetz.

american soccer journalist grant wahl, 48

wtf

Ruth Madoc

Tony Hill, fuzzmaster guitarist of 70s UK psych band High Tide

Richard Miller, aka the man who created Princess Leia’s gold bikini, 80: https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/richard-miller-dead-ilm-sculptor-star-wars-1235279457/

J.J. Barnes, much admired singer/songwriter in Northern Soul circles, 79. He had one US hit, "Baby Please Come Back Home", but his big Northern tunes were "Our Love Is In The Pocket", "Real Humdinger", "Please Let Me In" and "Sweet Sherry".