Rolling Obituary Thread: 2016

I love how in the Bullit segment of that McQueen doc from about ten years ago, Vaughn is so casually frank when discussing the appeal of the movie--[paraphrased]"Let's face it, the story makes no sense...but Steve was such a great actor"

RIP Weather Report bassist Victor Bailey

http://www.soultracks.com/story-victor-bailey-dies

Leon Russell has died.
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-people-leonrussell-idUSKBN1380JM

RIP

Billy Miller of the A-Bones and Norton Records.

RIP. Didn't know you were familiar with him.

Anyone who loves garage rock and awesome/creepy rockabilly is.

Sorry. I never knew what kind of your music you actually liked after all these years of reading your posts.

But one thing I do know is that you're a pretty smart cookie who doesn't suffer fools gladly.

*ducks*

I don't discriminate against genres in my listening. I write about what I can talk about reasonably. Norton rules, other people can write more intelligently about them.

x-post I am a lamb.

RIP studio guitarist Al Caiola, at 96.
https://www.google.com/amp/www.hollywoodreporter.com/amp/news/al-caiola-dead-guitarist-themes-bonanza-magnificent-seven-was-96-946769

Truth be told, I used to get Billy and Miriam confused with Billy and Michelle, who used to cut quite a figure at the front of many an Alex Chilton show, at which they would request (Little) "G.T.O" which he would gladly perform for them. Can't remember ever talking to Billy, did talk to Miriam once about her paperback collection and the appearance therein of both Hal Ellson and Harlan Ellison.

Al Caiola's Deep in a Dream is one of my favorite jazz albums.

Lupita Tovar, age 106, best known for the Spanish-language version of Dracula (1931).
https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/lupita-tovar-actress-in-spanish-language-version-of-dracula-dies-at-106/2016/11/13/4612ca16-a9ad-11e6-977a-1030f822fc35_story.html

gwen ifill

No kidding. Wow. I was wondering why she wasn't doing election night stuff.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/11/14/502031518/gwen-ifill-host-of-washington-week-pbs-newshour-dies

Fuck cancer, for real.

so sad, she was my favorite TV news anchor

in addition to doing her job well, she faced more garbage in her career than we can comprehend

She was great.

David Mancuso.

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/obituary/7573724/david-mancuso-house-dj-nyc-underground-dies-72

Mose Allison:

http://hottytoddy.com/2016/11/15/mose-allison-dies-age-89/

Holly Dunn:

http://www.rollingstone.com/country/news/daddys-hands-singer-holly-dunn-dead-at-59-w450608

Daniel Prodan, probably most famous in Britain for never playing for Rangers:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/38010896

I thought mose allison was already dead fsr, rip

gwen and mose back to back did a lot of damage to my soul

Leonard and Mose, jammin' in heaven.

Dr. Denton Cooley

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/19/science/dr-denton-cooley-whose-pioneering-heart-surgery-set-off-a-40-year-medical-feud-dies-at-96.html?_r=0

http://www.bleedingcool.com/2016/11/18/innovative-colourist-cory-adams-passes-away-from-breast-cancer

Cory Adams, ex-wife of Neal and legendary 70s comics colourist of (amongst others) Superman vs Muhammed Ali.

Sharon Jones

https://www.facebook.com/sharonjonesandthedapkings/photos/a.417570373916.195450.48909068916/10154681582593917/?type=3

well shit

2016, worst year

yes

fuck everything basically

Ah fuck

Not dead, but Scott Eric Kaufman of the Lawyers, Guns and Money blog, who has also written for The Guardian and Raw Story, has entered an end-of-life care facility after experiencing multiple organ failure. https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10104638770448691&id=6021853

Music write Don Waller.

http://www.laweekly.com/music/rip-don-waller-influential-music-journalist-and-imperial-dog-7625759

"writer"

The SEK news hit pretty hard in my house.

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/music/blog/20844265/experience-unlimited-keyboardist-and-gogo-legend-ivan-goff-has-died

william trevor

SEK is gone.

http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2016/11/goodbye

Craig Gill of the Inspiral Carpets, age 44.

http://www.nme.com/news/music/inspiral-carpets-craig-gill-dies-aged-44-1869192?utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social

:( fuck that's young. how did he die?

That NME link is the only one I've seen, and it doesn't mention it. Maybe not known at this point.

SEK is gone.

I knew him very casually at UCI before he left. He was one of the good ones.

Florence Henderson, age 82.

https://apnews.com/2f3b33a3942d433fa542d092825f5353/Florence-Henderson,--%22The-Brady-Bunch%22-mom,-dies?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP

David Hamilton :'-(

http://bbc.in/2fhDHGz

seeing it suggested that he took his own life?

Now there is a wiki page that will be locked within the hour.