Rolling Obituary Thread 2014

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

Yeah, that doc is very good. RIP.

Mr. Fine WIne posting lots of Hannibal memories on his FB page.

i enjoyed some jancso films last year. must get around to 'red palm'.

Anna Gordy
http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/anna-gordy-gaye-ex-wife-of-marvin-gaye-dead-at-92-20140131
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6aXP4FYuIw

jancso was one of the greats and foremost exponents of the long take / choreographed mis en scene idiom

the red and the white is one of my favourite films, he was making films in his old age that never got much attention so who knows

RIP jancso - i have xyzzzz to thank for previously linking to this excellent final essay by raymond durgnat on red psalm (which looks stunning on the second sight region 2 dvd):

http://www.rouge.com.au/8/red_psalm.html

durgnat calls it 'processional cinema', which strikes me as exactly right.

Arthur Rankin of Rankin-Bass animation fame, age 89

http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/animation-legend-arthur-rankin-jr-676275

Philip Seymour Hoffman http://t.co/hNaBnT26jX

Working links from the c/d thread :
http://online.wsj.com/news/articles/SB10001424052702304626804579358943360702878
http://nypost.com/2014/02/02/philip-seymour-hoffman-found-dead-in-his-apartment/

:( Was away this weekend and missed Jancso's passing. RIP. Lots of his stuff I haven't seen, but would always go out of my way if something of his was showing.

Joan Mondale, the former veep's wife

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/joan-mondale-political-wife-and-culture-maven-dies-at-83/2014/02/03/50398e42-8d29-11e3-833c-33098f9e5267_story.html

Christopher Jones, of the films Wild in the Streets and Ryan's Daughter

http://www.avclub.com/article/rip-christopher-jones-actor-of-the-legend-of-jesse-107461

14 OR FIGHT

RIP

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pEqWCH_4srU

(as u might guess, he didn't sing it)

Yeah, it was all L.A. session dudes. I can't find it now, but there was a ILM thread on the song and a googler who happened to be in one of the Max Frost 'road bands' to promote the single popped in to say 'hi'.