Rolling Obituary Thread 2014

Hiroo Onoda, the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender (after three decades in the jungle).
http://m.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-25772192

the dude was insane

he and similar men inspired many pop culture gags, incl an episode of... Gilligan's Island

> the last Japanese WW2 soldier to surrender

that article says there was another one found a few months later

"Mr Onoda was one of the last Japanese soldiers to surrender at the end of World War II.

Private Teruo Nakamura, a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army, was found growing crops alone on the Indonesian island of Morotai in December 1974."

a soldier from Taiwan who served in the Japanese army

not Japanese then

says he was 'from taiwan', doesn't say he was taiwanese. 8)

(and that is a japanese name, not a taiwanese name)

( drat http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teruo_Nakamura )

( This article is about the soldier. For the jazz bassist, see Teruo Nakamura (musician). For the golfer, see Teruo Nakamura (golfer). )

Does it honestly matter, Andy?

"calling out a dude by his real name when shit gets heated" thread, RIP 2010 (iirc)

no, was just interesting reading about it all.

the brainwash effect of an extreme disciplinary culture

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/16/travis-jackson-points-drummer-and-windian-records-founder-killed-in-collision/

punky and garage-rock sounds drummer and label owner

Lord McAlpine: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-25792289

I'm not sure I can believe that until Sally Bercow tweets about it.

Ha, I expect there are a million twitterers with their fingers poised thinking "hmmm, can I?".

A "dedicated supporter of Margaret Thatcher and the Tory party". RIP out of the question then.

http://news.bbcimg.co.uk/media/images/72372000/jpg/_72372821_komla-foa.jpg

Komla Dumor, BBC news presenter, 41 heart attack, unexpected.

Claudio Abbado:

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/20/conductor-claudio-abbado-dies-aged-80

One of the best Italian conductors of the modern era.

Steven Fromholz:

http://www.austin360.com/weblogs/austin-music-source/2014/jan/19/steven-fromholz-ground-breaking-austin-songwriter-/

Former NY Congressman Otis Pike

He went to school with my grandmother, and his daughter was my mother's classmate.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/blogs/artsdesk/music/2014/01/23/alexandros-alexi-petersen-gentleman-scholar-and-punk-rocker/

Killed in Kabul, Afghanistan in a Taliban attack on a restaurant

This one is more for Chicago folks than anybody...

http://driftglass.blogspot.com/2014/01/rip-luis-alcala.html

Luis Alcala, founder and proprietor of the Midwest's largest Western wear emporium, Alcala's Ropa Para Caballeros.

RIP Señor Alcala. I used to live around the block from his store.

I've been to Chicago a lot but never was at Alcala's until the last time, that place ruled so much. Someday I'll buy a full ensemble - boots, hat, cowboy suit, scorpion belt buckle, the works.

The scorpion belt buckle may be the single most indelible image of that amazing place.

A scorpion is on their logo and their sign.

Oh man I forgot about that, of course. Doesn't the tail move back and forth?

pete seeger

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/29/arts/music/pete-seeger-songwriter-and-champion-of-folk-music-dies-at-94.html?_r=0

fuck

94 though... that's a hell of a run.

I don't know that 94 ever calls for "fuck."

Saw him with Arlo G at Carnegie Hall once -- and also on the subway, with his guitar and a bass-fiddle sideman.

i can say fuck if I want to, what are you the fuck police wait nvm

Luis Avalos, whom is you are old enough you knew on the Electric Company. http://www.latimes.com/obituaries/la-me-passings-20140128,0,7327295.story#axzz2rioIStVx

aw

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

Que en paz descanse

(Psst: wrong show, wrong Luis.) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c53Tz2981KQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-aS8IcrR3k

Noooooo

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/jan/30/ibrahima-sylla

RIP at 57. Producer of Orchestre Baobab, Salif Keita, Africando and others. Worked on a number of projects that fused Cuban and West African sounds.

The Mighty Hannibal

http://www.spin.com/#articles/the-mighty-hannibal-dead-74-funk-soul-james-shaw/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6si2esZc2k

RIP. You didn't go to that thing at Joe's Pub a few years ago, did you Morbius?

This thing: http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,4518
Where they showed this: http://vimeo.com/6982727

Close friends with one o those gals, i know theyre tore up about this

no, Redd. I could swear I saw TMH play somewhere once though.

http://clatl.com/cribnotes/archives/2014/01/30/the-mighty-hannibal-rip

Another obit for him

Miklós Jancsó, prize-winning Hungarian film director (The Red and the White, Red Psalm)

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-miklos-jancso-1921-2014

Paul Warhola, Andy Warhol's older brother.

Oscar winner Maximilian Schell... apparently directed quite a few decent things, and his Dietrich doc Marlene (an interview in which she refused to be filmed) is my favorite thing he did.

http://www.fandor.com/keyframe/daily-maximilian-schell-1930-2014