Rolling RIP/Obituary Thread 2012

you are a star

"We had a band powerful enough to turn goat piss into gasoline."

An amazing bass player and a fantastic guy. If you only know the Blues Brothers, go here: http://wfmu.org/playlists/shows/32187

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ah hell. RIP Duck Dunn.

didn't see the talk here before i started a thread. well, he deserves his own.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/chuck-brown-dies-the-godfather-of-go-go-was-75/2012/05/16/gIQAJAfPUU_story_1.html

RIP Godfather of Go-go Chuck Brown. Will treasure your gogo and your jazz sounds and your warm presentation

Hailed as the President of DC in today's Washington Post

wouldn't argue with that at all.

Donna Summer

Donna Summer! Holy Shit.

http://todayentertainment.today.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/05/17/11745326-donna-summer-dead-at-63

:(

Carlos Fuentes
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-18081034

RIP, Carlos

And RIP, Donna Summer. Man, Booker T was right.

from wfmu's twitter stream:

Pete Seeger, Iconic Songwriter, Found Resting Under Tree Near NY Home: 93Yr-Old Folk Legend Was Serene, Tranquil

so far that's the only mention i've seen. i hope it doesn't mean what i think it means.

Sure it wasn't the Onion?

nonononono

yeah I hope that's doesn't mean what I think it means either

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@clemmusic No, Pete Seeger was just resting. Hes 93, but for the most part he is perfectly OK. Some rheumatism. A bit of arthritis.

thank goodness

strange thing to report tho? "pete seeger still alive, napping"

A variation of the old SNL Franco bit

German baritone Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

Never really got into the Rock And Roll Heaven iconography genre but if somebody made one of those with Duck Dunn, Andrew Love, Levon Helm, Skip Pitts and Donna Summer I would totally use it as a screensaver.

Robin Gibb, apparently.
I loved the Bee Gees when I was young :(

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noooooo

I guess we can take comfort in the fact that Spin has provided us with a long list of best guitarists, most of whom won't be going anywhere anytime soon

"Jam Master Jay still . . . lives"

aww RIP

Score score

what a month

It won't be long before Otis Redding will able to record some new material on Stax Celestial.

RIP Led Zeppelin II
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-talk-led-zeppelin-ii-dies-0524-20120523,0,1108232.story

Love this:

"Since I became Led Zeppelin, my life has improved a thousand fold."

Fuck it. I'm changing my name to In A Silent Way.

Pathos and lols all at once:

The 64-year-old Zeppelin "climbed the 'Stairway to Heaven'" May 18 at Alton Memorial Hospital, according to a death notice published in newspapers, including the Tribune. He died of a heart attack, his daughter said.

"I don't want to appear to be some off-the-wall, drug-addict idiot. I just changed my name from the standpoint that I can be a better person than I used to be."

i think i actually have a lot of respect for that guy

No I do not want to meet your friend named In the Aeroplane Over the Sea, I'm fairly certain I won't like him.

Survived by his wife Custard Pie

after reading that article I have formed a short mental list of friends of mine who might be convinced to change their name to "Hot Water Music Fuel for the Hate Game"

As of today you can all refer to me as Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.

can i call you HOTS for short?

sure

"If he'd become Sabbath Bloody Sabbath instead, he'd have lived to 200" muses Bill Magill

But then his soul would belong to Satan.

worth it imo

Hal Jackson, radio personality of 70+ years including pioneering stints at WABC and WBLS, at 96:

http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/hal-jackson-pioneer-black-radio-dies-96-article-1.1083551

paul fussell

“From the 1950s on,” he wrote in “Doing Battle,” “my presiding emotion was annoyance, often intensifying to virtually disabling anger.”

Patron saint of IA thread?

Somewhere I have Class and BAD. Or at least, I did.