Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Grim Reaper gonna keep reaping.

burbbhrbhbbhbburbbb

Will we have a death pool this year?

I call American democracy

Is that the new Guns N Roses album?

Chris Karrer of both Amon Düüls

https://www.facebook.com/groups/10213321397/posts/10159782465886398/

One for the UK charity sector: Camila Batmanghelidjh, 61

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2024/jan/02/kids-company-charity-founder-camila-batmanghelidjh-dies-aged-61

I think her given name was Camila Brucewayneghelidjh

Glynis Johns

Oh, shame, she reached the century though. RIP Glynis.

VOTES FOR WOMEN rip glynis
thx for teaching me abt the suffragette movement <3

Love her in this Amicus/EC anthology bit:

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

Derek Draper, covid-affected husband of Kate Garaway and former Labour Party ghoul.

tbf he possibly still qualifies as a labour party ghoul?

RIP David Soul, aged 80.

xp
don't ghouls feed on the flesh of the dead? I guess if he can manage to eat himself it will save on funeral expenses

Actor Christian Oliver, 51, and his two daughters, 12 and 10, killed in a plane crash in the Caribbean.

I just re-watched the 1979 Salem's Lot miniseries, David Soul was great in that... a lot of cool cameos by old-timey hollywood stars; it's still pretty freaky as well

Still has some of the scariest scenes I've ever seen from made-for-TV

it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid watching it on a b+w valve television

I can never remember whether he was Starsky or Hutch.

he was Starsky, the smart one.. Hutch was the 'street' one

xp Yeah, Tobe Hooper directed it, he didn't pull any punches with the scary stuff

James Mason as the vampire's henchman and keeper was so cold blooded, actually he was much scarier than the vampire

A lot of it was filmed up in Humboldt County (where I'm from), my uncle got paid $15 to put a Massachussetts plate on his car

The house was totally fake, we drove out to have a look at it while they were filming

I think you've got your cops mixed up. Paul Michael Glaser was Starsky (the street one), while David Soul was Hutch (the smart one.)

Ahh okay

See?

I felt so sure of myself

You don't have many of those renaissance men much anymore: stage actor, film actor, television, successful pop singer

it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid

Seeing a *trailer* for it freaked me out!

Vampire raising up through the kitchen floor with evil James Mason and killing the kid's parents in front of him seemed pretty hardcore for post watershed television at the time.

Heard some work people today commiserating with Kate Garraway but I said nothing because lol fuck Draper not soon enough

Died of long covid? weird

he was already dead tbf! When he got covid he was in an induced coma for 10 weeks, covid hated him more than uk ilx does.

I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

"turned" being the solecism

Glad to see that David Sole was well prepared, just in case he bumped into Derek Draper…. pic.twitter.com/ky1Ax5OTOc

— Zarah Bukake MP. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Dim ond parodi ydy (@XRLlareggub) January 5, 2024

I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

Same, except when hearing it.

Silver Lady is a banger and fuiud tbh

don't give up on us baby

calz isn't that the unfunny racist Zarah Sultana "parody" account?

yeah I just posted the first offensive post about Draper I found, apols

O T MF M

Draper Death is long overdue and

Welsh flag and horrid name should have been a dead giveaway, but I'm slightly pished tonight.

David Soul was a guy who had a lot of acting chops. Weirdly my first exposure to him was as one-half of a psychotic bank robbing duo in the TV film In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders. The other psycho was Michael Gross! They were both superb and the final shootout is genuinely intense and bleak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGfKtuo2AM

Mário Zagallo

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/06/mario-zagallo-world-cup-winning-player-and-coach-for-brazil-dies-aged-92

Cindy Morgan, who played Lacy Underall in Caddyshack.

And Yori in Tron

Rip Zagallo

Joan Acocella, New Yorker staff writer and dance critic, at 78:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/obituaries/joan-acocella-dead.html

Hearing reports that Iasos has passed into the crystal realm. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRgNcqnoV8

I remember reading an Acocella review of Cirque du Soleil in the 90s in the Wall Street Journal (where she wrote before the New Yorker)...

Ahh here it is.

The "new circus" people are on the wrong track, I think. In their view, it seems, the acts are corny; what is important is the meanings that can be attached to them. But in fact it is those meanings that are corny. What is serious is the acts.

Del Palmer RIP

https://www.loudersound.com/news/del-palmer-dead-at-71?fbclid=IwAR2bmBVz2NTu9ifU2NUxvadA8-kqS6wdDgS5ZoBUFzehDN1LPzF0fvysocs

Franz Beckenbauer

According to David Grubbs, composer Phill Niblock has passed.

yeah all over facebook from people who know.

rip franz

2/3 men to ever win a world cup as both player and coach died on the same weekend

Lol that's incredible

RIP Phill Niblock, the Emperor of Drone

Saw Beckenbauer play in the first soccer match I ever attended, 1977 or '78 when he was with the New York Cosmos. Great team that was.

Saw him with The Cosmos often as well. Amazing. RIP

Oh man, Phill and Franz RIP

I never got to see the Cosmos play live, but to the extent there was soccer on TV in the western U.S. (which was almost not at all), I did get to see that club, which consisted of several aging greats and Italian fugitive Giorgio Chinaglia. IIRC, they did play some friendlies with German clubs and got pasted.

But RIP Der Kaiser, the original sweeper.

rip franz. the first image of him to come to mind is always him playing in a sling during what I think was the 1970 world cup due to a broken collarbone.

JPR Williams

Larry Collins of early Rockabilly outfit The Collins Kids

https://www.vintageguitar.com/58564/renowned-guitarist-larry-collins-passes/

He co-wrote "Delta Dawn"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAQvu7OqrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ1TYUK8T8

Kind of hard to believe that no one here is a Iasos fan— him and Niblock dying around the same time seems wild to me

I can't call myself a fan but I have enjoyed what I've heard, he seems a true character. Wouldn't mind taking a deeper dive.

Damn, RIP Iasos. Was just listening to Bora Bora 2000 yesterday.

Confessing my own ignorance — I've never listened to Niblock (had him confused with Phil Minton in my head, in fact) and never even heard of Iasos.

Those Larry Collins clips are amazing, thanks for sharing

Confessing my own ignorance — I've never listened to Niblock (had him confused with Phil Minton in my head, in fact) and never even heard of Iasos.

It was Phillip Corner I used to confuse him with. Ditto on Iasos btw.

Tony Clarkin of pomp rockers Magnum :(

Sad to hear that. Never the hippest of bands, but I heartily enjoyed seeing them back in the early 80s (less so in the mid-80s).

RIP Larry Collins

xp

yeah, they had some nice songs at their heights

Artist Alexis Smith, 74

https://www.artforum.com/news/alexis-smith-dies-19492024-545853/

Tracy Tormé, writer for Sliders, Star Trek TNG, Carnivàle, and a lot of UFO shows.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/tracy-torme-dead-sliders-star-trek-next-generation-1235783832/

Melania Trump's mother, Amalija Knavs

I really don’t care, do u?

That's exactly what Donald said to Melania.

she was my mahjong partner, I will miss her

jaysus the bar for the rip threads had better not be that because lads i could print the death notices of the mayo news each week here and make a case vs some of our entries

yes im gatekeeping the threshold for the rip thread what av it

fwiw i believe it’s fair game since it is technically “news” inasmuch as it relates to former president dipshit, my comment was more meant as a jest

mine too

mainly!

RIP Terry Bisson, author most famously of Fire on the Mountain, an excellent and politically radical sci-fi novel.

That sounds pretty good; might track down a copy. I only know Bisson from his stories "Bears Discover Fire" and "They're Made Out Of Meat," both of which are great.

It’s pretty good, my main complaint was that I wanted it to be longer!!

Tisa Farrow, one time film actress and sister of Mia (72)

Ed Broadbent, leader of the Canadian New Democratic Party from 1975 to 1989, aged 87.

Seemed to be about the most decent politician ever.

RIP Tisa Farrow - we'll always have Zombie Flesh Eaters.

RIP Gothic horror expert David J Skal
https://medicotopics.com/david-j-skal-historian-passed-away-car-accident/

Annie Nightingale, 83 😢

Fuck. RIP

Apart from her general brilliance, she DJed my book launch, and for that I’m eternally grateful. RIP.

not sure i ever really listened to her shows tbh, but 9 year old me always thought she was dead cool for appearing on the back cover of 'zenyatta mondata' (she's part of the press group stood behind andy)

Used to love her post Essential Mix shows (The Chill Out Zone?) in the 90s

Absolute trailblazer and such an incredible life and career

Aw, shame. RIP Annie.

She was on the "Celeb" panel on the final "Pop Quest 1975" that our team won through to. She chatted to us, really genuine, just like she was on the radio (although she was "just about to" start the Radio 1 request show she was best known for - in fact by the time the show aired she was well into broadcasting it, and pretended as much on the TV show which was filmed months before...)

It was her Sunday evening show in the 80s that I really liked. Never listened to her much after that, but that show turned me on to a world of music I would not have been able to hear anywhere else on the dial.

She read my name out on her Sunday night show once but I'm damned if I can remember why.

That’s a sad one, although I never really listened much to her shows in recent decades she appeared to be keeping the flame alive until very recently - I hope I’m still able to go clubbing that late in life.

liked her sunday show a lot. also her presenting on whistle test. thought she was about 70!!

RIP Red Paden at only 67. My wife and I went to his divey blues bar in Clarksdale, Mississippi once . A great place.

Red Paden, who as the self-proclaimed “king of the juke joint runners” spent four decades as the owner of Red’s, an unassuming music spot in downtown Clarksdale, Miss., and one of the last places in the United States to offer authentic Delta blues in its natural setting, died on Dec. 30. He was 67.
His son, Orlando, said the death, in a hospital in Jackson, Miss., was from complications of heart surgery.

From NY Times obit

Still kind of reeling about Annie Nightingale - knew the Beatles but was debuting Autechre tracks in the 2010s. I read the quote in her obit about nobody in her age range apart from Peel having the same hunger for new sounds. To reclaim a cliche, what a legend.

don't really know her history but just watched her introduce and sign off on the Damned's classic and vary chaotic OGWT appearance in 79, Smash It Up and I Just Can't Be Happy Today. She took it all in stride with a sense of humor.

just had a midlife crisis upon realizing that the midpoint between the Beatles forming and now is...Incunabula

Oof I remember when Incunabula came out

just watched her introduce and sign off on the Damned's classic and vary chaotic OGWT

i'm pretty sure this was the first time i ever encountered her. also probably why I Just Can't Be Happy Today remains my favourite Damned song.

Longtime fave of mine

Captain Sensible talks about it here...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5-IkuEq-8c

Dear oh dear - that looked a bit contrived by the Damned and not very interestingly done. This could have done with a bit of Bob Harris's famous tutting.

Just dipping into the 24 hr plus Annie Nightingale Request Show playlist on Spotify. Someone has done a very good job with this , especially at the 'front end' of the list.

I wonder how many regular listeners she took with her to the 'Chil Out zone'. At the time, in 1994, the shift to the 'Chill Out Zone' felt a bit of a perplexing headlong embrace of acid, house, techno and EDM and exclusion of everything else.

She lost me as a listener at that point, certainly.

Tom Shales, TV critic for the Washington Post

Forgot he'd won a Pulitzer!

Damn, he was kind of one of those weird household names

Forgot about his SNL and ESPN books too. (Though I have to wonder what they'd look like more in recent years and with different perspectives.)

Cordell Jackson, rockabilly pioneer and Moon Records founder:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/06/obituaries/cordell-jackson-overlooked.html?unlocked_article_code=1.NU0.nXVW.6ItmzCeXUNDp&smid=url-share

Re: Shales, I think he did a good job and deserves his rest. But I do wonder how many people will have the specific job description "TV critic" in our current fractured media landscape, let alone its future.

They've been replaced by recappers

Cordell Jackson died in 2004. (Saw her live in the mid 90s, she tore it up.)

! very sorry. Was in the Times newsletter today, obviously for the 20th anniversary. Good article, thanks to Tav Falco (and Alex Chilton) for making me aware of her long ago.

Peter Crombie, "Crazy Joe Davola" from Seinfeld

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peter-crombie-dead-seinfeld-1235871063/

Was in the Times newsletter today, obviously for the 20th anniversary.

As noted at the top of the article, it's part of their Overlooked series of obits for people who never received one when they died. Lots of super-interesting stories.

Different thing but: In the olden days (by which I mean 1980), there was a whole thing where year-end magazines and newspapers were laid out and printed before the year ended.

So if you died on December 29 or thereabouts, you didn't make it into a year-in-review issue, but by the time the next year-in-review issue was being planned, your death was already old news.

Then there are the people whose deaths were overshadowed by the death of a more famous person on the same day. Cf. Sheryl Crow singing about "the day Aldous Huxley died." I am not gonna unabashedly stan for Crow's entire oeuvre, but that line has some panache.

Groucho Marx, for example. Died 2 days after Elvis.

Not the same day, but the Elvis death was news for a full week.

Peter Crombie, "Crazy Joe Davola" from Seinfeld

https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peter-crombie-dead-seinfeld-1235871063/

oh damn. I just posted in the Seinfeld thread about how this dude was so good that it actually changed the tone of the show during his scenes. idk if anyone else on the show was able to do that. I was pretty stunned that he never really appeared in anything else.

But I do wonder how many people will have the specific job description "TV critic" in our current fractured media landscape, let alone its future.

Aren't TV critics more common and read more in the post-Sopranos era than when Shales first came to prominence in the '70s and '80s? He was the only one I knew then; I could name a few now.

Loved Shales’ SNL book.

Joyce Randolph - "Trixie" on The Honeymooners, 99

RIP Jo-El Sonnier Louisiana Cajun and country musician from what sounds like a heart attack

https://kpel965.com/louisiana-cajun-country-music-artist-jo-el-sonnier-dead/

Took Richard Thompson high up into the US Country charts!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7m5yVTGsc

Groucho Marx, for example. Died 2 days after Elvis.

There was a massive fuss! My grandfather knew him a bit when young, so that might have some effect on my memories.

Peter Crombie, "Crazy Joe Davola" from Seinfeld
https://variety.com/2024/tv/news/peter-crombie-dead-seinfeld-1235871063/

oh damn. I just posted in the Seinfeld thread about how this dude was so good that it actually changed the tone of the show during his scenes. idk if anyone else on the show was able to do that. I was pretty stunned that he never really appeared in anything else.

just hung up from talking with my niece and we agreed how incredible he was and perfectly casted. Maybe the greatest/ our fave non-regular on Sein. am deeply/maybe irrationally saddened, RIP

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I'd read a book / watch a documentary / whatever about the casting of Seinfeld. They never missed.

Crombie was indeed great. Not sure where you draw your line re: the definition of "non-regular" but I'd rank it:

1. David Puddy
2. Frank Costanza
3. Newman
4. J. Peterman

with Davola not far behind. Which is no insult ... that list is a Murderer's Row of side characters.

Most impeccably cast (casted?) sitcom - maybe show - ever.

Not that anyone asked, but my own personal favorite celebrity death trilogy was Miles Davis / Klaus Barbie / Dr. Seuss. September 1991.

I'd read a book / watch a documentary / whatever about the casting of Seinfeld.

Read this a few years ago; very good, and lots about the casting, as I remember it.

https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/Seinfeldia/Jennifer-Keishin-Armstrong/9781476756110

Howard Waldrop, American sf writer of note. After Terry Bisson’s passing, this is a hard month on this front! (Seek out Waldrop’s “The Ugly Chickens.”)

RIP. Pretty famous story, haven’t gotten around to reading it yet. Same with other guy actually/pvmic

Fact mix

Our first mix of 2024 will be the last mix of this series in its current form. After 16 years of mixes, Fact’s pioneering music program will no longer continue in its current iteration.

— 180.Fact (@180fact) January 16, 2024

I missed this one, Georgina Hale. Great, quirky (and sexy) British actress.

https://www.theguardian.com/film/2024/jan/10/georgina-hale-obituary

T-Bag!

Peter Schickele

https://wapo.st/3tWqUkj

RIP, person I thought was already

AKA PDQ Bach---haven't heard it, but really liked the idea of his album about the NPR station that was proudly "All Pachebel, All The Time." Think this was after Eno covered the "Canon" on Discreet Music, a teen choral version was the theme of Redford-directed Ordinary People, and it went on and on---in the late 80s or early 90s, a rapper sampled it, and why the fuck not, But Kyle Gann took a class taught by Peter S., said he was a rainy day at best--reminding me of what somebody else said about Donald Barthelme, and I think it was Thurber who wrote about what dark or gray miserable bastards so many humorists are. Maybe it's true of comedians as well, having to be funny.

Pachelbel, excuse me! And Eno recorded Variations on:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Pache%3Bbel+Brian+Eno&oq=Pache%3Bbel+Brian+Eno&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.22601j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6d711571,vid:nPesTx4yb3g,st:0

The PDQ Bach stuff was amusing, but I also loved Schickele Mix, a radio show where he could just ramble on about whatever music he wanted to talk about.

He introduced me to this fabulous song about dust mites by Heywood Banks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG0e6KOIZAI

"“Recognise the faces but can’t place the names?” Among the list of Britain’s top 10 great unsung television character actors that followed was Georgina Hale."

...

"This article was amended on 10 January 2024 to change a picture that did not show Georgina Hale."

Hale was a good Alma Mahler too

Brilliant dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni:

Blank Forms is deeply saddened by the death of Amelia Cuni (1958–2024), vocalist, composer, writer, teacher, well-known as one of the greatest contemporary Western proponents of dhrupad singing. More here: https://t.co/UZcxrIRjzl pic.twitter.com/c5Sgh6crTY

— Blank Forms (@BlankForms) January 17, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEKShVBmQr8

Aw, I love Amelia Cuni... she wasn't very old, either!

Juan Mendez aka Silent Servent. Way too young.

https://ra.co/news/80120?fbclid=IwAR3UTHIIGS3JYsnaBVfbnQ-TNNH8QXi2cntJ1IaCXOUBz-6tDdg2VU6YaeY_aem_AbfBjSE8TJBieOgzmOh05CatAjiAVXQ6Lqvi5Ch2KdUxyVg9C9NgeIcHIMtWTqJO21U

Ah wow :( Rest In Peace. Chatted with him once a couple of years back - nice guy.

Never met him but he gave props to Acute in an interview or something somewhere and had friends in common. He definitely defined a very influential aesthetic visually as well as musically.

Juan's wife and Luis Vasquez of The Soft Moon also passed away.

I just saw that on the Soft Moon facebook page. Terrible and sad news.

What the hell? ;_;

absolutely heartbreaking

that's terrible, wtf happened??

car accident?

there are rumors of it being fentanyl related, but i feel guilty spreading that as i have no idea if it's true

Was pretty weirded out to find that Juan's last record as Silent Servant came out last year and was called In Memorium

awful news. met him one time and bonded over early foetus 7"s chat. loved his music.

how awful :(

there are rumors of it being fentanyl related, but i feel guilty spreading that as i have no idea if it's true

Nothing official-official yet, but seeing some reports from people who would know on FB that Mary Weiss from the Shangri-Las has passed on.

RIP :(

Light In The Attic is also reporting that Seattle music scene Legend Susie Tennant of Sub Pop Records has passed away.

It’s with heavy hearts we share the news that Susie Tennant passed away yesterday. Susie was a giant inspiration for so many within the Seattle music community and far beyond. While interning at Sub Pop in the mid-90s, Susie handed me a 7" by the Fastbacks, released on Munster Records in Spain. She said to call the phone # on the back of the record jacket, tell them Susie sent me, and ask for an internship. I immediately did just that, trying to explain to Francisco (or was it Íñigo?!) at Munster the definition of the word “internship.” Six months later, I was in Madrid, interning for Munster and my life would never be the same. Without a doubt, there’d be no Light in the Attic without Susie. Susie, we’ll miss you. Thanks for all you did for us and thanks for all you did for so many others. Rest in Peace. Our hearts go out to Susie’s family and friends.

OMG Mary Weiss, what a heartthrob, RIP!

there are rumors of it being fentanyl related, but i feel guilty spreading that as i have no idea if it's true

Also have heard this rumor :-/

it would appear so - https://www.hollywoodlanews.com/jose-vasquez-dead/

such a tragedy

FUCK FENTANYL.

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

Is he a good danceuh?
Whaddayamean, is he a good danceuh?
Well, how does he dance?
Close, very, very close!

Wow, RIP :(

FUCK FENTANYL.

FUCK FENTANYL.

FUCK FENTANYL.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mary-weiss-the-shangri-las-dead-obituary-1234950474/

Mary Weiss's death brings to mind an ongoing issue with the baseball HOF: their habit of not inducting some obviously qualified people while they're still alive (Ron Santo, Buck O'Neil, Leo Durocher, Dick Allen), then inducting them soon after they die--or, in Allen's case, not even then. (He'll be inducted eventually). I bet the Shangri-Las go in within two or three years; they should have been in long ago, and from all reports (by which I mean Greil Marcus), going in was something that was actually important to Weiss.

otm

i'm sorry that that was important to her

i've complained about the baseball HOF often enough, as clemenza is well aware -- it does less to celebrate greatness than to punish non-inductees (who were all great players!) for not measuring up, for years on end. (and then slips harold baines in via a back door because tony la russa liked him)

and the R&RHOF is ten times more arbitrary and racist and sexist. no one should care about it

otm as well

Halls of Fame are shit.

God bless the Shangri-La's. Rest in Peace Mary.

I’M JUST HERE FOR DICTATION
I DON’T WANT TO BE A SENSATION
BEING ON SIXTY MINUTES WASN’T
WORTH YOUR 15 MINUTES
DON’T TOUCH MY BREAST
I’M JUST WORKING AT MY DESK
DON’T PUT ME TO THE TEST
I’M JUST DOING MY BEST
SHOPPING AT MAXFIELDS
POWER FOR YOU TO WIELD
I DREAMED OF GOING TO THE GRAMMYS
TILL YOU POKED ME WITH YOUR WHAMMY
YOU USED TO SPIN THE DISKS
NOW YOU’RE MOURNING YOUR WRISTS
I’M JUST FROM ENCINO
WHY ARE YOU SO MEANO
I’M JUST HERE FOR DICTATION
IM NOT YOUR SUMMER VACATION
YOU REALLY LIKE TO SMOORE
WELL NOW YOU’RE ON THE NEWS
I’M FROM SHERMAN OAKS, JUST A WHEEL IN THE SPOKES
BUT I AIN’T GIVING YOU HEAD
IN A SUNSET BUNGALOW
ROSHUMBA, JUDIT, PAULINA, KATHY,
VENDELLA, NAOMI, ASHLEY, ANGIE, STACEY,
GAIL, I’M SWIMMING, I’M SWIMMING (US WOMEN)

Marlena Shaw, 81.
Pluto Shervington, 73.

RIP Marlena + Pluto.

Weird that reggae used to be in the British charts so regularly. I assume Pluto Shervington's "Dat" managed to become a Top 10 hit because the BBC couldn't understand the patois, it mentions buying weed in the first 30 seconds!

RIP Pluto, Dat 7" was a regular fixture in 90s charity shops/car boot sales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8HsIxaHq3Q

RIP Marlena

I was just listening to "Let's Wade In The Water" on a Chess v/a comp yesterday, which was quite the floor-filler at the local Soul Nights back in the day. RIP Marlena!

oh no not Pluto :(

one day i will find a karaoke that's got "Your Honour"

Laurie Johnson, composer of great TV, film and library music. Not least one of the greatest title sequences of all time.

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

And the Jason King theme, too.

Conductor of a fantastic LP version of Herrmann’s North By Northwest also
And his Hammer score for Captain Kronos is really special

Norman Jewison, 97. Definitely assumed he died like 20 years ago.

Gigi Riva, at the age of 79.

R.I.P Gigi Riva 💔

Italy’s greatest ever striker & STILL their top scorer 50 years after his last game

Scored in Euro 68 final win, a legend at World Cup 70

Led Cagliari to historic 1970 Scudetto

His left foot shot was so powerful it once broke the arm of a fan in the crowd pic.twitter.com/KPJgJCfc47

— Carlo Garganese (@carlogarganese) January 22, 2024

David Emge (from Dawn of the Dead)

https://ew.com/david-emge-died-dawn-of-the-dead-8547146

Oh, this one hurts. The great David Emge passed away Saturday in his hometown of Evansville IN at age 77.

DAWN OF THE DEAD is one of the best social and commercial commentaries ever set to film, and David’s nerve-addled “Flyboy” ties the movie together with heart and humanity. pic.twitter.com/iXoLVeKkIG

— Ted Geoghegan (@tedgeoghegan) January 22, 2024

Apparently Neil Kulkarni? I can't find it anywhere official, but a mutual friend (who I don't think posts here any more) mentioned it, and the most recent post on his Facebook wall (from someone else) says something similar.

I had heard word earlier today, sadly.

Wow, that's a genuine shock.

Knocked me flat when I heard it. It's just...wrong. Completely wrong.

Oh god that's awful :(

holy shit, that is terrible

Does anyone know what happened?

My understanding was a heart attack.

That's awful. His poor kids. They lost their mother too, right?

Yes, they had. This is devastating.

I can’t believe this one :(

Really sad to hear this, RIP.

:-(

What the actual fuck? He was so consistently great on the Chart Music podcast. Massive shock, big loss.

No way - Used to enjoy his writing for melody maker and vox and was consistently interesting on Twitter. RIP.

Really sad. And he posted here a few times, so one of the ILX fallen.

Damn - loved his writing, a true giant. RIP

Ugh.

Norman Jewison too RIP.

... and Gigi Riva RIP.

Totally gutted about Neil. Couldn't believe it when I heard it last night, he only posted on my wall the day before.

What a shitty year this is already (my dads funeral is on thursday).

oh shit sorry to hear that mate x

Condolences

sorry to hear that too Toshirō, sending my best.

David Stubbs has set up a crowd-funder for Neil Kulkarni should anyone be interested in contributing: https://www.gofundme.com/f/neil-kulkarni

"for Neil Kulkarni's family" that should have read

Erwin James, 66

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/jan/23/erwin-james-former-guardian-prison-columnist-dies

Fuck, that's horrible news about Neil Kulkarni, RIP

Very sorry to hear about your dad, Toshiro, condolences

Absolutely reeling from the news about Neil. Fuck.

Kulkarni was also a mainstay of The Wire for about the last decade too.

the Local BBC radio station, CWR, Coventry and Warwickshire Radio have mentioned Neil, on the BBC News app / website

Tributes are paid to Coventry musician and critic Neil Kulkarni.

Tributes are paid to Coventry musician and critic Neil Kulkarni.

Tap to read: https://t.co/YNomtnX65m

— BBC CWR (@BBCCWR) January 23, 2024

Frank Farian, 82

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-68065904

Terrible news about Neil Kulkarni too, he was the shake-up MM needed back then.

https://kaptainkulk.medium.com/dissidence-to-britpop-exhibit-a-fbcfefdc8e8d

Thanks guys for the kind words about my dad.

David Stubbs has set up a gofundme for Neil's daughters. I'll post the link here if anyone would like to donate to a former ilxor.
Obviously I read him in MM in the 90s but it was through ILX I got to 'meet' him online. He will be missed and I feel so bad for his girls whom he utterly adored.

https://gofund.me/af6ec158

I wasn't familiar with his work sadly, but am as always shaken by young people having heart attacks. Obviously there can be a lot of other pre-existing conditions/medical history that feeds into things, but I'm grateful for the ability to look into these things as I near that age. There are things to do like getting your cholesterol checked, taking a stress test etc, but there's another thing that's kind of newer called arterial calcium scoring where they can take a simple non-invasive scan, like a CT scan, and measure build-up of deposits in the heart arteries. Of course the United States healthcare companies will not cover it and it costs 1 or 2 hundred dollars, but according to any number of doctors, it's worth the money, esp if you have family history of heart disease, high cholesterol, overweight etc etc.

obv no idea what his situation was or whether there was anything that would've predicted this happening, but it's something I think a lot about and would suggest.

he wasn't particularly known for his own music, but you might enjoy some of it dan - very much in the vein of the television personalities...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZBQIN8v9D8

cool, will check it out.

Physicist & radio astronomer Arno Penzias, 90 - discovered the cosmic microwave background radiation leftover from the Big Bang.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/22/science/space/arno-a-penzias-dead.html

I haven't quite been able to rewatch this since the news last night, but I do think Neil's band recorded one of the greatest xmas songs of the 21st century
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D6GV4f0adwk

Cant help thinking how much he sounds like Terry Hall with that Coventry accent

Charles Osgood

https://www.npr.org/2024/01/23/1226384995/charles-osgood-cbs-died-91

"People You Thought Were..."

Oh wow... 'The Osgood Files' were almost a daily thing for me years ago.. he was basically doing the Paul Harvey thing, but a bit more urbane

Frank Farian.. RIP.

Melanie, 76

Melanie Safka has died and this is one of the greatest things you will ever see on YouTube. RIP.https://t.co/O52mbb2hDO

— Rob Chapman (@rcscribbler) January 24, 2024

https://variety.com/2024/music/obituaries-people-news/melanie-dead-brand-new-key-singer-woodstock-1235886892/

In early January, according to her label, Melanie recorded a cover of Morrissey’s “Ouija Board Ouija Board” for a forthcoming tribute album celebrating his music. (Morrissey was known to be a fan of hers, having covered “Some Say (I Got Devil).”)

Morrissey being a fan I get; her covering, of all things, that song is befuddling me.

oh man, a shame. that margie;s birthday party live record is fantastic.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w--u8pcLFNs

RIP Melanie

RIP

Love her; at least three really great singles.

Carl André died in hospice this morning. Hope he burns in hell.

RIP DJ Katapila from Ghana, born Ishmael Abbey. He blended Ghana styles with Chicago & Detroit style dance. He dj’d parties, funerals and more at home, and after Brian of Awesome Tapes from Africa found 2 of his tapes and re-released them, he did Europe gigs as well.

There’s a long heartfelt Awesome Tapes from Africa Instagram post

https://www.instagram.com/p/C2iRl0mo2ud/?igsh=aWQwamF1dWNuemNz

nooo rip

Word from his family that one of the last of his kind, famous boxcar and mail artist buZ blurr has passed on.

His work graced thousands of train cars all over the US, and his other art was exhibited widely. A kind, learned, and excellent person.

More of his famous “Colossus of Roads” moniker here: https://www.northbankfred.com/buz.html

And more on his life: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BuZ_blurr

https://washingtoncitypaper.com/article/660696/doo-wop-till-you-drop-in-memory-of-ron-poozie-miles/

RIP Washington DC doo wop singer Ron Poozie Miles of the Rainbows best known for their song “Mary Lee.” He continued to sing on and off over the years.

He’s in the bozo texino doc, which is highly watchable xp

yeah Bill is an acquaintance of mine, love that documentary.

House singer Michael Watford, who did some great tunes in the 90s (Holdin On, So Into You, Come Together with Robert Owens).

Holdin' On is the shit, RIP Michael

Noted fetish/pinup model and internet star Masuimi Max, 45.

Wow, and apparently former porn actress Jesse Jane died this week too, at 43.

🫡

Noted fetish/pinup model and internet star Masuimi Max, 45.

― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson),

DJ Slick Rick (not the rapper) https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/26/memphis-dj-slick-rick-decapitated-beheaded-death-police-investigating/

NEW ORLEANS — Harry Connick Sr., who was New Orleans’ district attorney for three decades and later faced allegations that his staff sometimes held back evidence that could have helped defendants, died Thursday at age 97.

I hadn't heard till now - on January 3rd, Tawl Ross of the original Funkadelic group, at the age of 75. Billy Nelson is now the only member of the instrumental quintet left.

RIP Tawl

Wow at Jesse Jane. She used to date Kid Rock, because of course she did. I heard a story once that during a lull in their relationship Kid Rock literally sent her an 18-wheeler full of Budweiser to try and woo her back.

Didn't break till his wife announced it yesterday, but British Lovecraftian fiction writer Brian Lumley died at the beginning of the month.

Sandra Milo

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/sandra-milo-dead-federico-fellini-8%c2%bd-juliet-of-the-spirits-1235890276/

people u thought

oh no, I had no Tawl Ross had passed :(

He gets a spot in my pantheon just for singing "Funky Dollar Bill" (the 45 mix below is rougher than the LP but interesting):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjQi0UAHFaY

Shelley Ganz of The Unclaimed (per their Facebook page)

Awesome UK photographer Brian Griffin, so many incredible album covers and press shots in the 1980s in particular.

Ah he did the covers for the first four Echo & the Bunnymen albums, have always loved those

N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa writer and the first Indigenous writer to win the Pulitzer for Fiction, given for his novel House Made of Dawn. Great writer, love teaching his story “The Well.”

xp and the first four Depeche Mode ones too, wow!

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jan/30/chita-rivera-broadway-star-dies-aged-91

Cool 2015 interview with Brian Griffin - gets into tech, advertising work, more album covers that everyone here knows.
https://davedye.com/2015/06/01/brian-griffin-interview/

That’s a great read. He seems like a spiky character. Some fantastic pictures, the one of Tony Benn made me guffaw.

chita!

Melinda Wilson, wife & manager to Brian

https://people.com/melinda-wilson-wife-of-beach-boys-brian-wilson-dead-8553386

https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/celebrity-news/local/sipho-hotstix-mabuse-pays-tribute-to-late-musical-genius-tony-cedras-02063ffd-3818-4150-855e-70ded6501707

Tony Cedras, who played accordion, keyboards and more with Hugh Masekela , and was part of Paul Simon’s band for years, has died at age 72

https://www.playbill.com/article/three-time-tony-winner-hinton-battle-dies-at-67

Stop animation wiz Mark Gustafson, 64.

And also Bruce Springsteen's mother Adele, 98.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-02-02/carl-weathers-dead-dies-rocky-apollo-creed-predator-mandalorian

Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOffqDsV5Q

goddamn it ;_;

dude did everything
also played for the raiders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfwSx10-8c

rip to the legend. what a charismatic screen presence.

i fuckin love him in those Rocky movies

Ah dang. The Mandalorian was a nice late highlight.

I've still never seen the first two Rocky movies, but he was great in The Predator and Action Jackson is a really underrated/unjustly forgotten 80s action movie.

Yeah I was tempted to post the infamous Predator gif itt but realized not everyone probably wanted to see that one.

Weathers and David Cross were a good comedy duo

i fuckin love him in those Rocky movies

^^^ RIP Carl

Dadjoke: apparently there are some things that even he couldn't weather

(Sorry; I preemptively denounce myself)

damn, RIP Action Jackson, hes been all over my screen in this interminable Gronk FanDuel ad campaign lately so he seemed spry.

loved him in everything

so deft as apollo creed, so good as a foil for arnies energy in predator, so gently funny even in slapstick or sendup in happy gilmore and arrested development, very few with that build and grace and lightness and variety and hes a big loss

hearing sketchy reports of Brother Wayne Kramer? Jeez I hope it's not true

oh no i hope not

oh please noooo

https://www.instagram.com/p/C23AQzQPeHR/

confirmed :(

MC5 guitar great Wayne Kramer has died at 75https://t.co/wYUshcRIa9

— Stereogum (@stereogum) February 2, 2024

From Insta:
Wayne S. Kramer
“PEACE BE WITH YOU” 🕊️
April 30, 1948 - February 2, 2024

Gutted... I saw him do an instore in San Francisco with John Sinclair and Steve Mackay; I was such a fanboy, I helped him load his amp back into his rental car

Extremely cool genuine dude, and his autobiography is a must-read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDoUIh23Wg

Dennis Thompson is the only Five left

^ most thrilling rock song ever imo xp

America's greatest rock'n'roll band.. I'm glad he was able to get back into the ballrooms late in life, I didn't see MC50 but it's great that he was able to finally make a decent living playing in front of appreciative audiences

fuck RIP brother wayne

Carl Weathers was in the Herzog documentary I saw last night quite a bit (The Mandalorian). Didn't know he was in Close Encounters till I looked the previous title up.

saw wayne last year playing with pere ubu - they did a very, uh, shambolic cover of "kick out the jams". i wasn't expecting him so it was very cool to see him on stage, and he seemed in good health/spirits then. RIP

RIP Wayne ;_;

I worked for BOMP/Alive Records in the mid-1990s when they were releasing that series of sourced-from-bad-tapes MC5 and MC5-adjacent stuff. Much of material came from John Sinclair but Kramer would come by the offices to tacitly sign-off. Really nice guy - intense and super-driven. He had just moved to LA, re-connected with Mick Farren, and was playing gigs all over Los Angeles while working on what would be his first album for Epitaph, The Hard Stuff. Most often, the gigs would just be him and a drummer. Sometimes a sax player. Occasionally Farren would come up for a ten minute ramble while they backed him up. Every gig, regardless of how decrepit the punk bar was, was the Grande Ballroom in '68 - an all-out *performance*. LA in the 90s was awash in unemployed guitarists and a middle-age bald dude was wiping the floor with them with shows that were actually thrilling.

The MC5: A True Testimonial documentary is a must watch. I was lucky to be at the premiere for it at the Arclight. Back then most folks had never seen the Wayne State footage before, and on a giant screen at full volume it was as life-changing as Star Wars.

Christopher Priest

https://www.ninaallan.co.uk/?p=6855

https://variety.com/2024/music/news/wayne-kramer-dead-mc5-1235895922/?fbclid=IwAR2fOVSLp7WdiQnQYApIswFGjQmNKS1YPq080JP6uJLwKkzKoz9HPieLwDA

(Just another Kramer obit)

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/don-murray-dead-bus-stop-1235813848/

Actor Don Murray, 94

Isabelle Thomas, documentary filmmaker and wife of Killers of the Flower Moon producer dies at 39, suicide.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/filmmaker-isabelle-thomas-wife-of-killers-of-the-flower-moon-producer-dies-of-multiple-injuries/ar-BB1hGIqU

Did A True Testimonial ever get an official release? Saw it back in the day at a press preview and it remains one of the most amazing experiences I ever had in a cinema. Never quite understood the conflicts that prevented its release, don't really understand why the filmmakers might have tried to rip Brother Wayne off, but you really shouldn't attempt to fuck with someone who has spent years in prison, they really do not play.

Just been reminded that it's Wayne playing guitar on the first Was Not Was album and on 'Wheel Me Out'

Steve Brown, who did an awful lot of music for British comedy shows, wrote a couple of musical, produced some award winning records and appeared on the other side of the performing fence as Glen Ponder in KMKYwAP.

Oh what a shame. Who can forget his memorable onscreen sacking?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6bZnwgTqkb8

Never quite understood the conflicts that prevented its release, don't really understand why the filmmakers might have tried to rip Brother Wayne off, but you really shouldn't attempt to fuck with someone who has spent years in prison, they really do not play.

The way I understand it (and this is all from--possibly faulty--memory) is that it got hamstrung the way a lot of independently financed music docs do: because of the high cost of music clearances for proper theatrical & home media distribution, particularly when you don't have a distributor in place to handle those things in the first place. The filmmakers tried to work around this by asking surviving band members to make them full partners in the group's LLC, so they could ostensibly make it easier to clear the publishing rights and possibly ease negotiations with Warner Music by representing the group for clearances on the recordings.

This is why Kramer balked, because he and the rest of the band didn't want to give up any of their hard fought-for rights to people they felt didn't have the sweat equity to do so on a deal that up till then had worked on handshakes. This all also happened at the figurative 11th hour too, as a DVD release had already been prepared and put up for preorder on major sites (a seriously naive move on the filmmakers part, and one that ultimately allowed for serious bootlegging, as promos of the final authored disc leaked and have been ripped ever since).

So the movie went into limbo, occasionally surfacing here and there, but it seems like Kramer seriously washed his hands of the whole deal.

I managed to grab it when it appeared on youtube or vimeo a few years ago, don't think it's up any more

I bought a DVD-R of it at a record show 10+ years ago. It was freaky because it was a full rip of the intended release disc, with menus & all the extras (which IIRC were surviving performance clips you see on YouTube: that great '70 Tartar Field footage, a local TV performance of "American Ruse", and the Beat Club "KOTJ").

https://archive.org/details/mc-5-a-true-testimonial-disc-1

https://archive.org/details/mc-5-a-true-testimonial-disc-2

Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett of the upsetters/wailer passed

wailers

was all over those keith hudson records too

RIP

Believe he was a big-time studio musician before The Wailers and maybe after.

RIP. My condolences to his 41 children.

RIP Aston Barrett

RIP. My condolences to his 41 children.

Actually no, he was known as Family Man before he'd fathered any children.

Couldn't call him 'Family Planning' obvs.

I see that Christopher Priest along with David Langford recently wrote the Guardian obit for David D.G. Compton so RIP to him too.

^ most thrilling rock song ever imo xp

― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:44 bookmarkflaglink

the 1968 single version definitely is, the version on Back In The USA is a little tame by comparison

Just noticed that Carlos Lyra passed away in late December, don’t think it was remarked upon yet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/arts/music/carlos-lyra-dead.html

Not an obit but an interview and long overview from May of last year:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/16/bossa-nova-pioneer-carlos-lyra-at-90-we-wrote-songs-about-our-reality-the-beach-sun-and-love-stories

Barry John - not long after JPR Williams too.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/04/barry-john-welsh-rugby-legend-and-british-and-irish-lions-great-dies-at-79

Ian Lavender

Oh no, genuinely sad at this.

He was the last one left, no?

Yup.

The curse of Dad's Army strikes again.

I wonder if there's a particular Dad's Army clip news programmes will run to mark his passing?

Michael Jayston, according to Colin Baker.

I was literally watching Trial Of A Time Lord during lunch today

very much enjoyed his reading of tinker tailor on a driving holiday lately, rip

Great voice. RIP.

His finest moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsQ4n_XOgjs

As far as I'm aware neither Ian Lavender or Michael Jayston were in Harry Potter so I can read their obituaries without doing my nut in.

Jarvis' time will come...

I'll spin Finisterre by Saint Etienne today for good dose of Jayston voice.

The whole main cast of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has now passed

As far as I'm aware neither Ian Lavender or Michael Jayston were in Harry Potter so I can read their obituaries without doing my nut in.

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:25 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

they were both in the early 90s Cluedo tv series though not at the same time and none of the obits I've read yet have mentioned this

Toby Keith. Wasn’t aware he was sick.

I liked to love his music between his late '90s and mid '00s breakthrough. His 9-11 song and pro-lynching duet with Willie Nelson remain gross.

Don't know much of his stuff beyond the gross ones, but "Somewhere Else" is great

wilhelmenia wiggins fernandez at 75 😔😔😔

Mickey Gilbert, stunt performer, 87.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mickey-gilbert-dead-stuntman-robert-redford-1235817432/

Mickey Gilbert, the fearless stunt performer who jumped off a cliff for Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and doubled for Gene Wilder in films including Blazing Saddles, Silver Streak and The Frisco Kid, has died. He was 87.

Gilbert died Monday of natural causes at his home in Camarillo, California, his oldest son, Tim Gilbert, also a stunt performer, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Early in his career, Gilbert was a horse wrangler in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959) and a bank robber in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). Years later, he took the lumps for Lee Majors’ Colt Seavers on the 1981-86 ABC action show The Fall Guy.

Seeing Mojo Nixon, from a "cardiac event," age 66

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mojo-nixon-dead-obituary-1234964257/

Oh no. I saw him (with Skid Roper) the night before I graduated from college, it was a religious experience.

oh man. My first memory when reading this was the Dead Milkmen reference, but I'm watching the Elvis is Everywhere video and my first impulse is "oh yeah, this used to be on all the time" followed by "oh right, this is catchy" followed by "oh shit, I forgot how hilarious this was. Elvis needs boats!"

Our store could use some fixin

Waiting for comment from Michael J. Fox

fuuuuck RIP mojo

no one rules harder

Wow… Mojo was a San Diego Comic Con regular all through the 80s - roaming the show with his guitar, busting out a song, and somehow operating and thinking at a higher speed than anyone else.

It's just goddamn weird to think of a world without him OR Country Dick in it.

The world needs "Don Henley Must Die" now more than ever.

Good story about that: https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2014-06-20/don-henley-must-die/

Well, yeah.

It's like that dril tweet about Coolio & Kissinger, except it's Mojo & Henley.

No more stuffin' Martha Quinn's muffin

If only Howlin Wolf were still alive to dig up Mojo Nixon :(

Seiji Ozawa. A titan.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/09/arts/music/seiji-ozawa-dead.html

Henry Fambrough, last of the original Spinners, 85

The Murakami interview book had a ton of musical insights. Surprised at how enjoyable of a read it is.

Ozawa has highs and lows but his Chicago recording of le sacre is an absolute knockout, one of my three or four favorites (among many many) of that work.

Toni Stern, a breezy young Californian who became a trusted lyricist for Carole King, providing the words for the enduring standard “It’s Too Late” and many other songs during Ms. King’s flowering as a chart-topping solo artist, died on Jan. 17 at her home in Santa Ynez, Calif., near Santa Barbara. She was 79.

Her husband and only immediate survivor, Jerry Rounds, confirmed the death. He did not specify the cause.

Ms. Stern, a Los Angeles native, was an aspiring painter and poet living in Laurel Canyon, an enclave popular with the Los Angeles rock elite, in the late 1960s. It was there that she met Ms. King, who had moved west from New Jersey after a painful breakup with her husband and songwriting partner, Gerry Goffin, with whom she had formed one of the decade’s powerhouse hit-making duos.

The two hit it off immediately. “When I moved to California in 1968, she was the epitome of a free-spirited Laurel Canyon woman,” Ms. King wrote in a Facebook post after Ms. Stern’s death. “She lived in a hillside house with her dog, Arf, surrounded by books, record albums, plants and macramé.”

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/01/arts/music/toni-stern-dead.html

She lived in a hillside house with her dog, Arf, surrounded by books, record albums, plants and macramé

Life goals

Indeed. Wonder what else was in that house. Might be some stuff for In every 70s US home ever

did Arf choose his own name?

As posted on the Can thread, Damo Suzuki

Oh my god wow

Wow.

I know we're still at the start of the deluge, but the passing of all these one-of-a-kind people just breaks my heart. I feel lucky to have shared a world with them.

Emil.y shared a stage with him once!

ah jeez, not damo ffs

a true giant

what a shit day :( RIP Damo, I'm still losing my vitamin C.

Oof. He was going to tour the US in the Spring of 2020, and I was just about to buy my ticket for the Houston show when everything stopped.

Dang man. He played in town here a decade or so ago and I can't remember what prevented me going but something did. Gah. R.I.P. weird major dude.

Bob Moore of Bob’s Red Mill, 94

RIP Günter Brus - one for the 'Art groups formed in the 60s or later, with every single member dead' thread.

Indeed.

Just revived the Aktionists thread

RIP mr bob red mill, i enjoy his muesli & steel cut oats

94's a pretty good ad for your own product. A couple of local bakeries make my regular granola but in a pinch there's always some excellent Bob's stuff right at my corner store.

The Bob's muesli is really good, and his chickpea flour is also excellent

I sang under Seiji Ozawa’s baton multiple times from 1999 through 2003. He was an amazing conductor; the only one I can think of who memorized the scores of the pieces he was conducting and danced on the podium as much as he conducted. His musical instincts were unparalleled and his ability to to lead an orchestra and choir through the emotions channeled by each performance was an awe-inspiring thing to witness, let alone be a part of.

He always asked the chorus to memorize the score as well, so we would have a stronger connection to him and be able to respond immediately to whatever gestures or adjustments he would add to the live performance. This was initially nerve-wracking to me but as I got used to the environment, I noticed that his physicality was very much matched to the score, to the point where you could tell where you were in the piece by how Seiji was dancing. In some performances it felt like he had transformed himself into a living score, making his body express where we were and prepping the runway for our entrances so they were never a surprise, even though he almost never did the “your part comes in NOW” death stare common to many conductors across all performance levels. He was a world-class talent who was always generous towards and appreciative of the all-volunteer chorus singing with his orchestra, never making us feel like second-class musicians to the professional world-class orchestra on the stage with us and never sequestering himself from us at BSO social events.

I only sang with him for four years, but those four years were a foundational experience for me. I’ve sung almost every master work composed for orchestra and chorus as a member of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, often under his baton. I met multiple internationally successful soloists and even became friends with a few of them. I’ve traveled to Europe with them, all expenses paid. Most importantly, I learned that I was a better chorister than I had realized, and that I could sing practically anything with practically anyone. I don’t think I would have been confident enough to join a fledgling opera chorus without my TFC experience, and I don’t know that I would have been confident enough to join a small professional church chamber choir or that I would have stayed with them for over two decades without several years of sharing the stage with some of the biggest musical names on the planet (Renee Fleming, Dame Felicity Lott, Jane Eaglan, Bryn Terfel, Denyce Graves, Christine Goerke, Ben Heppner, Thomas Quasthof, Hei-Kyung Hong, Vanessa Williams, The Pogues, Take 6, Amy Grant, Vince Gill, Aaron Neville, and more). Simply put, I don’t end up with credits on Mountain Goats albums without singing in the Tanglewood Festival Chorus under Seiji Ozawa’s baton. It transformed the trajectory of my musical life. I will forever be grateful for the experience.

Rest well, Maestro Ozawa.

Far out. Wonderful and deeply insightful remembrance, thank you for sharing such vivid experiences.

Thanks for that, DJP. Very cool that you got to work with him!

rip

Great post djp

Thanks for sharing, really appreciated reading that.

Yeah, that sounds like an amazing experience.

Awesome!

incredible! thx for sharing djp

That's a beautiful remembrance

such a cool obit

this is just blindingly awesome imo

He always asked the chorus to memorize the score as well, so we would have a stronger connection to him and be able to respond immediately to whatever gestures or adjustments he would add to the live performance. This was initially nerve-wracking to me but as I got used to the environment, I noticed that his physicality was very much matched to the score, to the point where you could tell where you were in the piece by how Seiji was dancing. In some performances it felt like he had transformed himself into a living score, making his body express where we were and prepping the runway for our entrances so they were never a surprise, even though he almost never did the “your part comes in NOW” death stare common to many conductors across all performance levels.

Thank you so much djp. Really.

This is a whole lot to ask, but I’m in a private classical music Google group where we have been discussing Ozawa’s legacy, would you mind if I quote your paragraph re the memorizing and internalizing to my friends there

That's really great to read, DJP.

There is a picture at my in-laws' home of Ozawa holding my daughter when she was a toddler. Seemed like an amazing person from the personal stories I've heard.

That’s fine, JnJ

https://www.rte.ie/sport/athletics/2024/0211/1431745-shock-as-kelvin-kiptum-dies-in-road-accident/

fuck

Ah damn that's awful. My dad will be really sad to hear this.

shit, his way with that run was inspiring.

xxm Thanks for that post DJP that is amazing

Kiptum dying is terrible. Just 4 months ago I was watching him run by me on his way to setting a WR. Only his third marathon!

Yeah, so incredibly sad. Kiptum was only 24. He was on the cusp of breaking the human barriers of what was thought to be impossible. Most running fans believed he would run an official sub 2 hour marathon this year. His training plans were mind boggling (180 miles a week?!) and his race speed intimidating. Could have been bigger than Bolt or Kipchoge.

Seriously, due to his inexperience running marathons I don't think even he knew what he was fully capable of. Iirc, after winning in Chicago he admitted he ran it relatively conservatively, and that he had plenty of gas left in the tank.

Bob Edwards (he of the soothing NPR voice)

Kiptum vs Kipchoge at the Paris Olympics could have been the greatest head to head battle in marathon history: one going for a third straight gold, the other being the only real threat to the crown in the last 5-8 years. Only one other runner has gone under 2:03 since 2020.

i just ran 5.5 miles in about 45 min and thought that was pretty good, i'll never understand some of those marathon numbers.

Yeah that pace is insane, basically 4 1/2-minute miles for 26 miles. Seems almost impossible.

From Chicago. Just beautiful.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nqpx1aJXgZQ

In my 20s I worked the overnight at NPR and wrote intros for Bob Edwards. He had a very specific wry way of delivering a funny line. Masterful. So fun to write, imagining it in his voice and then he'd nail it every time. Raising a bourbon to you today,Bob. https://t.co/xVySb6eGVq

— Ira Glass (@iraglass) February 12, 2024

If I’m doing a long cycle ride I’m happy to do 13 miles an hour.

Did we mention another former Wailer, guitarist Donald Kinsey, also of Peter Tosh's band and the Kinsey Report?

Steve Wright, 69

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-68287707

!

Last time I heard him I was station-surfing in the car and he was playing Friday I'm In Love, it was about 2pm on a Tuesday.

oh no who will 80s boomers complain about the BBC to now?

Shit, for a second I thought it was Steven Wright.

same

Wow @ Steve Wright

Oh wow, one of the big names of British radio.

Literally only announced last week as the big name on the new radio 2 offshoot station.

Every year without fail I was still surprised at him making the top 10 BBC employee salary list, and how much it was.

every(*) time i call home the call always starts with "Hello, boy, can you hear me?" which is from his 80s show, one of his characters. i am that old.

(* not quite)

RIP. Wonder who will now inherit all the miniature golf pencil erasers in the world.

Oh okay I see, sorry to kill off the RONG DUDE prematurely.

There's a Steven Wright bit in there somewhere.

I did a couple of his shows when he was our local DJ along with Mike Read (they were a double-act)

I thought it was the comedian too, though I admit I was half surprised to find out he was still alive...he hasn't done much lately has he?

Steven Wright the comic just put out a novel: http://www.stevenwright.com/

“I read that Steven Wright died so I erased the n”

William Post, the inventor of Pop-Tarts.

https://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/2024/02/grand-rapids-man-inventor-of-pop-tarts-dies-at-96.html

;_;

rip mr tart

holy fuck they’re a grand rapids invention?
i didn’t know that. i have a michigan connection to them, oddly enough

when i was in yr 12 at high school i did an exchange & stayed w a family in walker, mi.
for 10 days & went to school etc. while i was there i discovered pop tarts & ate them every morning for breakfast.
the following year when i went to uni a huge box showed up at my dorm — my host mom in michigan had sent me a box full of cartons of strawberry pop tarts. like 50 boxes!

i lived on those things for my first year
i loved them

cannot eat them now lol

poor person's hot pockets

Yoshitaka Murayama, creator of the Suikoden RPG series & its upcoming spiritual successor Eiyuden Chronicle: Hundred Heroes

alexei navalny, supposedly

Least surprising death this year sadly.

Dexter Romweber of Flat Duo Jets.

o shit

(Central/SoCal-specific obit)
Ernesteen McConnell, who cofounded McConnell’s Fine Ice Creams with her husband Gordon, has died at age 104, the company announced.
In a post on Instagram, the chain of ice cream spots described “Ernie” as “a pistol.”
“Sharp, spirited and energetic, she was a woman of boundless energy, positivity and generosity of spirit,” the post says.
McConnell, who was approaching her 105th birthday later this month, helped found the store in 1950 after she and her husband moved to Santa Barbara.
Since then, McConnell’s ice creams, which the company notes are “made from scratch,” are sold at eight scoop shops in Southern California and the Central Coast, as well as in grocery stores.
https://ktla.com/news/local-news/socal-ice-cream-pioneer-dies-at-104/

sending thoughts & prayers to Babs - McConnell’s coffee icecream is her favorite

McConnell's Turkish Coffee ice cream is perfect. Of course it looks like coffee ice cream with an ash try full of espresso grind mixed in, but it is still a perfect ice cream.

longtime college basketball coach (most notably at maryland) lefty driesell, 92

Andreas Brehme, a Germany legend who scored the winning goal in the 1990 World Cup final, has died.

Rest in peace, Andreas. pic.twitter.com/3EAscikK9X

— BBC Sport (@BBCSport) February 20, 2024

RIP

Not quite on Brehme's level but a fascinating story:

https://x.com/TomLinesEtc/status/1759899259183243399

Apparently David Irving. No loss there.

hes come out and denied it

Ewen Macintosh (Keith from The Office)

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2024/feb/21/the-office-actor-ewen-macintosh-dies-aged-50

My God, only 50.

The Office largely passed me by, but I love Keith's appraisal scene and often re-watch that.

Hydeia Broadbent, AIDS activist, age 39

https://www.hydeiabroadbent.com/

Ellen Gilchrist, 88.

https://bnnbreaking.com/world/germany/remembering-rainer-buchm%C3%BCller-fred-und-luna-a-pioneer-of-electrokraut/?fbclid=IwAR1wd_5xok3iVDdl2A5sDUvtp1kCPpn5OAKatDXOAoMp1CLAobmnyaRJVKE

Rainer Buchmüller, aka Fred und Luna, of cancer.

only discovered not too long ago, composer of wonderful neo-krautrock/motorik electro pop stuff. Just late last year compiled Future Sounds of Kraut Vol 1 and Vol 2 is out shortly.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/micheline-presle-dead-devil-in-the-flesh-1235832238/

Actress Micheline Presle, 101.

https://metro.co.uk/2024/02/23/eastenders-doctor-actress-pamela-salem-dies-aged-80-20332099/

Pamela Salem, who obviously I know best from Doctor Who but also her pantomime masterwork, Into The Labyrinth opposite Ron Moody.

https://www.standard.co.uk/showbiz/coronation-street-actor-john-savident-dead-fred-elliot-tributes-b1141107.html

John Savident, a storied career but famous as Fred Elliot in Coronation Street, I said famous as Fred Elliot in Coronation Street.

Oh, shame. RIP.

Oh, shame. RIP.

Oops.

Who can forget his classic description of how he was assaulted and robbed by a young man he'd met in a pub and brought home to "talk about the theatre".

"I suddenly felt somebody come up behind me and whizz me round so I was face down on the bed and then I felt a prick on my throat".

Kpop producer Shinsadong Tiger https://abcnews.go.com/amp/International/wireStory/prominent-pop-composer-shinsadong-tiger-found-dead-south-107475507

Huge loss, responsible for a ton of classics - 2nd gen kpop would not have been the same without him

I'm surprised to find out John Savident was only 86, i said was only 86.

"I suddenly felt somebody come up behind me and whizz me round so I was face down on the bed and then I felt a prick on my throat".

!!!!!!

easily an all time top 10 Corrie character.

RIP Fred, I said RIP Fred

https://www.wmagazine.com/fashion/claude-montana-dead-76-obituary

1980s designer Claude Montana, 76.

Flaco the owl.

:(

I hadn't really been following the story but it totally hit me where it hurts just now.

oh fuck

Window strike

Really upset about Flaco

Me too

Lyn Hejinian, one of the foremost poets, publishers, and poetic thinkers of the past 60 years, passed away in hospice this morning. She was always kind and generous with her time and thought. I will miss her, though also know her work will continue to change people as they encounter it.

'my life' and 'my life in the 90s' left such a deep impression on me, RIP

Stan Bowles, 75

RIP Stan.

Villa legend Chris Nicholl has also passed away at the age of 77.

Great centre-half for us, although he's probably best known for scoring all four goals in a 2-2 draw against Leicester.

Brian Stableford

Je suis triste d'annoncer que Brian Stableford est décédé hier, le 24 février a l'age de 76 ans.
Selon sa fille Kathy, il est mort paisiblement dans son sommeil.
Sans lui, Black Coat Press ne serait qu'un fantôme d'elle-même.

JM

(Brian à Carcassonne ; photo Randy Lofficier) pic.twitter.com/x1dgAXj2gC

— Editions Rivière Blanche (@RivBlanche) February 25, 2024