Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

Sad, loved his work on Pat Metheny's Offramp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iZF17VwrOYQ

george martin and nana vasconcelos are kind of connected through their work with collin walcott

shit, at this point can we just say "everybody"? fucking bowie even had to beat everybody to dying.

Was tempted this morning to start a thread titled "they're ALL going to be bad years from here on out" this morning, to explore the idea of what is turning into constant cycle of mournful tributes supplied by a now neverending supply of elderly celebrities of whom we are fond.

Based on

jesus, 2016 has been a bad year. RIP.

― Bee OK, Wednesday, March 9, 2016 12:27 AM (18 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

from the George Martin thread. No offense to Bee OK. It just got me thinking that this bad streak isn't going to stop now, its going to keep on going.

Seriously, given the ages it's going to be bam bam bam bam, one after another, as it's playing out.

the bad streak has been going since they invented death I think

yes it's just that the lords of what the young-turk academics call boomer hegemony are reaching deathy ages.

One day we'll be dignified and ... oh wait

It just got me thinking that this bad streak isn't going to stop now, its going to keep on going.

― how's life, Wednesday, 9 March 2016 23:38 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I too predict that this trend of notable people not being immortal will continue

I am really saddened by every early Internet person who passes because even though my field isn't really Fundamentals Of Internet I do feel like a lot of the people who invented what I do are getting closer all the time and nobody, as far as I know, is trying to do even a cursory oral history of how this business started and who did what, like handling "the posse" in the early 90s or any of the series of other similarly nasty internet worms that followed Morris

http://www.amazon.com/Where-Wizards-Stay-Up-Late/dp/0684832674

my coworkers and I all got a free copy of this when it was published

lol I should have clicked on clemenza's picture; images off strikes again

xxp:

Yeah, but I think we're really starting to approach the end of natural life cycle for people from the peak of the music industry. Late 60s/early 70s to me feels like the onset of a glut of approachable celebrity. Yes, notable people from earlier eras have always died, but I don't know if there were quite so many of them. Or maybe there were similar numbers of them but they weren't relevant enough to me personally? But at any rate this year it feels like they're going down like dominoes.

being totally selfish here but the real problem imo is that i'm getting ever closer to the front of the queue

Pop culture as youth culture, we're talking '50s and beyond, right? Little Richard, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis, ground-zero folks like that are still around, but not for long, and after that, things are really going to accelerate for pop/youth culture icons of the 20th century.

Those three in particular have remarkable longevity.

production designer Ken Adam

http://www.filmandfurniture.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/dr-strangelove-ken-adam-film-set-war-room.jpeg

good innings

also did all the early Bond films

Probably mostly personal on this one, but the founder of Catalinbread pedals in Portland, one of the most creative effects companies out there, and in an endlessly tragic way.

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/03/37-year-old_portland_man_trave.html

I'm so sorry jjj. I remember when you got your first batch of his pedals. This is real sad.

oh that sucks bad

Ugh. Sorry

Yeah a bunch of us in th pedal industry are sorta reeling about this - we're all in the same age category, and it's a small and very personal world. It's also bringing up memories of Andy from Zvex from last year for a lot of people i think. Dark stuff.

John Gutfreund, Wall Street thief

http://fortune.com/2016/03/10/john-gutfreund-died/

Bristolian seventysomething reggae selector DJ Derek: http://www.bristol247.com/channel/news-comment/people/obituaries/obituary-dj-derek

rambling bike race commentator david duffield:

http://www.theguardian.com/sport/2016/mar/11/david-duffield-obituary

Oh they found Dj Derek:( . There was a short R4 doc on him a few months back, one of his nieces was still looking for him. RIP. He sounded like a character.

They found a body on Friday, and are presuming it's Derek because of "personal items". Autopsy pending, etc.

I was lucky enough to know Derek quite well when he was drinking in the Tavern (after the Tragic Box closed) and probably spent a couple of nights a week with him. We'd mainly talk about real ale and his next Wetherspoons trip, and Keith Hudson. Always Keith Hudson. Derek was definitely part of the Bristol obsession with such a relatively obscure reggae artist (along with Revolver dude who I also had many long discussions about KH). But his favourite was always Chase The Devil, which he had been playing since it was released.

RIP Iron Shirt.

keith emerson?

I met Derek a couple of times, I'm pleased to say, at the dear old Star and Garter; seemed like a fine fellow. Listening to that documentary last month I learned his surname for the first time, and realised his older brother (Gerald on the doc, Gerry to us) had been big mates with my mum and dad in the 70s. That was a surprise.

Now seeing reports that music writer Ben Edmonds has died.

Harsh fucking times. Not cool, planet earth, not cool

Ben Edmonds obit:
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/entertainment/music/2016/03/11/music-journalist-ben-edmonds-dies/81659064/

http://dailynous.com/2016/03/13/hilary-putnam-1929-2016/

Aw, Hilary. RIP

RIP

Sir Peter Maxwell Davies

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35802564

Mondo we Langa/David Rice

http://atlantablackstar.com/2016/03/14/former-black-panther-mondo-we-langa-dies-in-nebraska-prison/

Anita Brookner

Indiana Jones

No, wait, he died six years ago.

Sylvia Anderson, of Thunderbirds and that.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35818530

> "voice of Thunderbirds' Lady Penelope"

hows about "co-creator"? and all the rest.

she was in a couple of episodes of the new series, playing the new lady penelope's snobby Great Aunt Sylvia, which was a nice touch.

Ben Bagdikian, ace investigative reporter

http://www.motherjones.com/media/2016/03/ben-bagdikian-tribute

The remains are confirmed as being DJ Derek.

Frank Sinatra Jr.:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/frank-sinatra-junior-dies-at-72-1.3495035

When I looked at that obituary, at first I thought they'd accidentally used a photo of his father.

about time

there's a nice bit in bob dylan's chronicles about him

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35828566

Cliff Michelmore. Would have belonged in the 'people you thought were dead' thread a couple of days ago.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35829251

Paul Daniels

:-(