Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

Al Matthews, cigar-chomping Sgt. Apone in 'Aliens,' dies at 75 https://t.co/vmjMQJ7YhV pic.twitter.com/0KCaDJjGB6

— Hollywood Reporter (@THR) September 24, 2018

Holy moly, this interview with Al Matthews is worth reading in full: http://www.elegantastronaut.com/2012/08/al-matthews-real-life-marine-in-aliens.html

Apparently Norm Breyfogle, probably most famous for his Batman art of the early 90s. He had a stroke a couple of years ago, I know.

Dale Barclay (The Amazing Snakeheads, And Yet It Moves) at 32 from brain cancer :(

I supported the latter band a year or two back and he was lovely despite downing more Bucky than I would have thought humanly possible prior to getting up on stage and killing it.

Creator of Postman Pat dies: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-45666642

:(

;_;

Marty Balin, at 76.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/jefferson-airplane-guitarist-marty-balin-dead-76-730912/

CBeebies currently airing the episode of Postman Pat with a guest appearance by Professor Brian Cox.

too soon for such a damning indictment of his legacy.

Seeing posts on FB about Otis Rush passing.

Yeah. I had no idea he was still alive, but apparently he was mostly inactive since having a stroke in 2003. This is such an amazing song (he re-recorded it in the early 70s, but the original just kills):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCD83igIShM

Yeah, those Cobra sides are all killer.

I saw Otis once, in 1987, opening for Los Lobos. To this day, he’s the only opening act I’ve seen where the audience demanded an encore.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/otis-rush-seminal-chicago-blues-215821929.html

https://www.trinidadexpress.com/news/local/ken-professor-philmore-has-died/article_3c5cbb0a-c4bb-11e8-b76d-9fb680ecc4d4.html

Trinidadian steel band pan player Ken Professor Philmore died at 58 after a car accident

Geoffrey from Rainbow

https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/oct/01/rainbow-host-geoffrey-hayes-dies-aged-76

Aw, RIP. Loved that smutty routine they did, never intended for broadcast.

Charles Aznavour

http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2018/10/01/03004-20181001ARTFIG00151-mort-de-charles-aznavour-apres-une-longue-et-belle-vie-de-boheme.php

ahh bon soir

RIP. Saw him on Broadway a few decades ago, around the time I saw The Capeman.

1998. Same theatre too, The Marquis.

Carlos Ezquerra, arguably the definitive Judge Dredd artist and co-creator of Strontium Dog.

Oh damn, RIP. According to the 2000AD documentary, Ezquerra did the initial designs for Judge Dredd and Mega City One, even though Mike McMahon was the one who drew the first strips because of some internal disputes. So it would be fair to call him the co-creator of Dredd too.

It would, yes.

aw man, one of the greats :(

An enormous influence on my childhood.

http://thegeeksverse.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/JudgeDredd_Complete_Ezquerra_v1-pr_004-005.jpg

RIP Charles Aznavour, 94!

oh Carlos. i remember his appearance on The Big Breakfast when the Stallone film was released, much to everyone's bemusement.

Apparently Norm Breyfogle, probably most famous for his Batman art of the early 90s. He had a stroke a couple of years ago, I know.

― Bimlo Horsewagon became Wheelbarrow Horseflesh (aldo)

ah, shit, breyfogle's batman was my batman. i met him at a con once. he was cool.

by which i mean he was polite to me while i bitched at him about how i don't fuck with DC any more because of rape culture. can't ask for any more than that.

actually, it was worse than that - i don't always enunciate terribly well and he said "i'm sorry, what culture?", so I wound up screaming "RAPE!" into his face. it was a little awkward, but i guess when you work cons you have to deal with some awkward shit.

fuck, i missed that norm breyfogle news the first time around - his batman was my batman too :(

2000ad the only comic I still read. RIP

Stelvio Cipriani

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G86A7FhaO0w

An enormous influence on my childhood.

Same here. Loved everything he drew. RIP Carlos.

https://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/latin/8477603/jerry-gonzalez-dies-trumpeter-dead

Latin jazz trumpeter Jerry González has reportedly died at age 69, according to The Spanish Society of Authors and Publishers (SGAE) and local reports.

González reportedly died after a fire blazed through his first-floor home in Madrid around midnight on Monday (Oct. 1...González, who was of Puerto Rican parentage, was born in East Harlem and grew up in The Bronx. He was a member of Eddie Palmieri’s band early in his career, then joined Manny Oquendo’s Conjunto Libre with his brother, bassist Andy González. Andy was also by his side in The Fort Apache Band, which he formed in 1979.

After appearing in Spanish director Fernando Trueba’s 2000 Latin jazz documentary Calle 54, Jerry González moved to Madrid. There, he formed a quartet, El Comando de la Clave, and recorded and performed with both jazz and flamenco musicians

RIP:(

well today is certainly a busy one

Not much up in the way of clips, but one of my favourite portrayals of melancholy ever.

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

:( What a day. Posting this to cheer myself up.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RJsaujSs7Fw

Geoff Emerick

https://variety.com/2018/music/news/geoff-emerick-beatles-engineer-dead-1202966681/

Damn! RIP

Seeing on FB that Joop Roelofs guitarist of Q65 has passed away.

About a month ago: actor Peter Benson, whom I first noticed as an astonishingly meek Henry VI in the BBC Shakespeare DVD set.

https://i2.wp.com/www.loways.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/heartbeat-and-blackadder-actor-peter-benson-dies.jpg

And of course he was Henry VII in Blackadder in between those and reprising the role in Richard III.

I'll remember him as Bor, the most confused of the Vanir in the Doctor Who serial Terminus.

Juan Romero, the young man who was working as a busboy at the Ambassador Hotel when RFK was shot and held him after he fell (as seen in the photo in the story.)

https://www.npr.org/2018/10/04/654282422/juan-romero-busboy-who-cradled-dying-rfk-dies-at-68

Baritone saxophonist and founding member of the World Saxophone Quartet (along with Julius Hemphill, David Murray, and Oliver Lake) Hamiet Bluiett.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R3T-MdIoo8Y

Animator Will Vinton (California Raisins, The PJs), 70

Bluiett :( when I think of Bari sax I think of him.

My girlfriend’s a big fan, we played some cuts of WSQ in his honor before we headed out tonight.

https://stljazznotes.blogspot.com/2018/10/hamiet-bluiett-1940-2018.html

rip Hamiet.