Rolling Obituary Thread: 2018

RIP, one of the greats

fuck, rip pete :(

David Mossman, ex taxi driver and Vortex Club founder passed away on Friday night.

Chicago blues guitarist Jody Williams RIP at 83 . He played on famed sides like Bo Diddley's "Who Do You Love" and "I’m Bad," Howlin’ Wolf’s "Evil" and "Forty Four" and Sonny Boy Williamson’s "Don’t Start Me Talking."...
He began performing at clubs at the age of 17, and within a few years became the house guitarist at Chess Records, a role he served in until he was called into the army in 1958.

Though he had backed a varied list of artists including Jimmy Witherspoon, Floyd Dixon, Dale Hawkins and Bobby Charles during his time at Chess, Williams left the music industry after returning to Chicago in 1960. He would only return in 2000

https://www.guitarworld.com/news/jody-williams-famed-chicago-blues-guitarist-dead-at-83

33-year-old singer Jackson Aluta Kazimoto, known as Dogo Jackie or Jackie Simela, of great Tanzanian band Jagwa Music died in a car accident

https://www.musicinafrica.net/magazine/tanzania-jagwa-music-frontman-dies

Potential heir to Howard Hughes Melvin Dummar
https://www.deseretnews.com/article/900045831/utahn-melvin-dummar-who-claimed-to-be-a-howard-hughes-heir-dies.html

Sondra Locke

http://extratv.com/2018/12/13/clint-eastwoods-ex-girlfriend-oscar-nominee-sondra-locke-dead-at-74/

^^In November, but just publicized now.

someone needs to show The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

RIP Sondra

you'd think they could at least put 'clint's ex-girlfriend' *after* 'oscar nominee'

Nancy Wilson

https://apnews.com/2250c35bca12466a9f7a96523b0ff1fa?utm_medium=AP&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=SocialFlow

Better Sondra Locke obit:

https://news.avclub.com/r-i-p-sondra-locke-oscar-nominated-star-of-the-heart-1831088914

Melvin Dummar--would not have guessed in a million years he had still been alive.

Of local/regional interest only, Cleveland TV legend, weatherman Don Webster: https://www.cleveland.com/news/2018/12/don-webster-one-of-clevelands-most-popular-tv-personalities-has-died-at-79.html

I actually had occasion to interact with Don on several occasions. I was on my high school's "Academic Challenge" team when he was host of the long-running TV show; and when I was a button-pusher at WKNR 1220 AM, he provided the station's local weather forecasts, so I had to take phone calls from him a few times a day and record the weather onto a cart. Super nice guy.

damn, RIP Nancy

shit i just heard about ricky jay.

i got to see him at brown university in 1995 or so. it was billed as a "lecture" but it was basically his stage show at the time, framed around a history of sleight of hand. he did the watermelon thing.

the documentary about him is great. "deceptive practice" i think it's called? there's a story about a block of ice that literally makes me cry. there's another story from his karate instructor that probably ranks up there with the very best wtf how-did-he-do-that ricky jay stories.

Wrecking Crew bassist Joe Osborn.

:(

Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, dead at 34 of drug overdose.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/colin-kroll-co-founder-hq-trivia-vine-dead-769924/?fbclid=IwAR3KaKjGCOAy5LuhinJcrDZtKObFJN3iBOdYQcbzN3oAsyfkjaPwn3uUW0w

TCM's annual obit compilation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ewT7_NrGwM

Colin Kroll, co-founder of HQ Trivia and Vine, dead at 34 of drug overdose.

https://www.rollingstone.com/culture/culture-news/colin-kroll-co-founder-hq-trivia-vine-dead-769924/?fbclid=IwAR3KaKjGCOAy5LuhinJcrDZtKObFJN3iBOdYQcbzN3oAsyfkjaPwn3uUW0w

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I've considered starting a rolling prominent person fentanyl overdose death because there seems to be at least one a month

Galt MacDermot, sampletastic composer of Hair.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/galt-macdermot-dead-hair-composer-dies-at-89-1170163

Penny Marshall ;_;

I had a friend who worked with Penny Marshall, and he would be... discreetly silent

RIP Myrna Turner

Yes, RIP this last

noooooo Penny, i loved her

her book is so good. such a rad lady.

So in the past few days two people associated with “Aquarius/Let the Sunshine In (The Flesh Failures)” have passed away. Not to be macabre, but according to the well known rule of three...

Is there a list of examples of the rule of threes actually playing out? Seems like it either stalls at 2 or goes 2016 insane

Marilyn McCoo, get thee to a physician.

Evelyn Berezin, creator of the first word processor and designer of United Airlines’ 1960s online booking system.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/dec/19/evelyn-berezin-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Cool career! May her memory be a blessing.

RIP. Pretty sure United still uses that system

Donald Moffat, a perennial of stage, film, and TV

https://www.theatermania.com/new-york-theater/news/donald-moffat-dies-at-87_87380.html

I saw him play Larry Slade opposite Robards in The Iceman Cometh.

File under "did not know he was still alive." I forgot he was on that Logan's Run TV series in the 70s. Yeesh.

So, will Mark E Smith make it through the year?

― Mark G, Wednesday, January 3, 2018

:(

Yeah, sigh. Probably the most picked in this year's deadpool..

RIP Donald

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VbubW7IxNG8

Peter Masterson, theatre/film guy who directed Geraldine Page's Oscar role in The Trip to Bountiful

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/peter-masterson-playwright-actor-and-filmmaker-dies-at-84/2018/12/20/77bff1bc-04a3-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html

Paddy Ashdown.

Simcha "Kazik" Rotem. Last survivor of the Warsaw uprising.

improv pioneer David Shepherd

https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/theater/ct-ent-david-shepherd-second-city-1219-story.html

(Peter Masterson = dad of Mary Stuart Masterson)

Sister Wendy Beckett

https://www.rte.ie/news/2018/1226/1019145-sister-wendy-dead/

Honey Lantree of the Honeycombs

RIP, Honey, even if I wasn’t aware that you were still with us until recently

It's been 5 (five) yeras, but I would like to take this time to celebrate/eulogize acclaimed writer Maya Angelou, who died five (5) years ago. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She received dozens of awards and more than 50 honorary degrees.[3] Angelou is best known for her series of seven autobiographies, which focus on her childhood and early adult experiences. The first, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (1969), tells of her life up to the age of 17 and brought her international recognition and acclaim.

We take this moment on ILXOR to remember Maya.

also, Honey Laneytree.

Excuse me, Lantree.

was Maya Angelou an original member of the Bobbettes and/or the session guitarist who played the wah-wah bits in Marvin Gaye's "Let's Get It On"? if not, I'm afraid she doesn't meet the notability requirements for this thread