Rolling Obituary Thread 2026

The thread of the dead.

James Grauerholz, William S. Burroughs' longtime assistant/manager/editor/everything else. When I called Burroughs in Kansas to request an interview as a high school student, I spoke to Grauerholz. (Didn't get the interview.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3atJxdNJGc

(xpost)

Legendary Japanese psych-rock guitarist Munehiro Narita (High Rise, etc.).

Damn shame I never saw him live.

co-founder of Sega Games David Rosen, 95
(also a pilot in the Korean War!)

Andrew Bodnar, bassist for (Graham Parker &) the Rumour who also appeared on Nick Lowe's "I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass" with Bob Andrews (both got a co-writing credit), Elvis Costello's "Watching the Detectives," The Pretenders' Learning to Crawl, and a few of Garland Jeffreys's best records.

correction, he played on the Pretenders' cover of "Thin Line Between Love and Hate," not the entire album

Molly Parkin, painter novelist and journalist, 93

Andrew Bodnar was a favorite of mine, RIP :( Glad I got to see one of the Rumour reunion shows.

biographer/author Michael Schumacher, aged 75

i’d forgotten all about molly parkin. i used to have some sort of vague ongoing connection with her - it must have been back when i worked in a bookshop.

Béla Tarr

Only 70, I had assumed he was quite a bit older

Dunno why you would associate him with longevity

Bye bye Béla

damn, one of the greats imo. RIP Bela

RIP Béla, I will endeavour to actually watch Sátántangó this year in your honour. I've only had it on DVD for what, ten years?

RIP

RIP, Werckmeister Harmonies would be in my top 10 films of this century. One of these days I'll rewatch Sátántangó too.

I've got the Curzon box and have been trying to motivate myself enough to crack it open. Guess this is it.

i had about half the curzon box on £5 dvds from fopp so i didn't bother, but there's a lot of non-feature extras and it's a bump in quality. expensive though.

So did I but mine was a present so yay for me I guess.

Extremely sad news to wake up to. I'm glad he lived long enough to see his all of his work return to circulation in spectacular quality - it used be so difficult to see his films and even more difficult to do so in decent quality. (One of my most memorable filmgoing experiences was seeing Sátántangó in 35mm at Lincoln Center, years after the DVD fell out-of-print and years before it was finally restored in 4K.)

Only 70, I had assumed he was quite a bit older

I saw him at his last NYC appearance 16 months ago, and I was stunned how unhealthy he looked. In 2011, he was at the NYFF to present his final film, and on that gorgeous, unseasonably warm October afternoon, he walked onstage and said "what are you doing here? It's beautiful outside!" He looked great striding along with the ponytail and the shades on his head.

In fact, you can see him here at the free talk he gave at the festival (maybe even the same day):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NxHNl2H8IO0

Now flash forward to June 2023, and he looked frail and physically unsteady, hunched over and tremoring while using a cane. I would've guessed he was easily in his 70s, maybe in his 80s. (He was 68.)

But he was still as sharp as ever and still had the same fire - when someone asked about making a film, he got worked up, whipped out his iPhone and basically said: "You have THIS in your pocket. You don't need anything else, just fucking make your movie and don't let anyone else tell you that you can't."

Afterwards he sat outside, smoking another cigarette (I'm guessing he never cut back) and when people asked him to sign their DVD's, he agreed while saying "promise not to sell this, I already saw one script I signed yesterday on fucking eBay."

He was never going to make another movie, but he was dedicated to mentoring and teaching new and uncompromising filmmakers. An Elephant Sitting Still is perhaps the best film made from one such filmmaker, though sadly the same person committed suicide before it ever saw release.)

(IIRC that free talk was probably the same day and before his film was scheduled to play - he probably gave the talk and walked over to Alice Tully afterwards. The NYFF's schedule is usually packed pretty tight that way.)

Martin Chivers, footballer.

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2026/jan/07/martin-chivers-former-tottenham-england-southampton-striker-dies-aged-80

Aldrich Ames, CIA agent who spied for the Soviet Union - died in prison, aged 84

The NYT obituary for Ames is a very entertaining read in its vociferousness. RIP to all those people Ames exposed

Michael Reagan

Rest In Piss

The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, the city's paper of record.

(Actually, it won't officially die until May 3.)

Just read about Bob Pulford, a Leaf mainstay when I was a kid and watched hockey:

https://mapleleafshotstove.com/2026/01/06/bob-pulford-the-engine-of-the-maple-leaf-dynasty-in-the-1960s/

In the HOF, too. 16 seasons, never more than 30 goals, never fewer than 10.

Terry Yorath, ex dirty Leeds scum

I used to deal with him when I worked in the bookies when he was Jacko's assistant. He was such a rude, arrogant glowering presence. If you knocked him back on a price that had gone his puce bald head would start glowing an even brighter shade of puce. Horrible guy. tbh.

So RIP then?

Looked like a serious boozer to me.

peace was not a word to associate with Tel!

oh he was a boozer, in fact he was let go during his last period at Town for a drink driving incident

Actually from late 2025:

Marcia Rodd, actress who was very memorable (actually unbelievable) in Alan Arkin's Little Murders (1971) which was her film debut after doing Broadway, and was also acclaimed for her work in Jonathon Demme's Handle with Care, aka Citizens Band (1977), 87.

Yorath's son died in front of him aged 15 and he, being an unreconstructed man of a certain age, decided on drinking rather than counselling (according to a clip I just saw there).

Gabby Logan is his daughter and that's why she disappeared in the middle of MOTD last night.

Marcia Rodd also played Maude's daughter Carol in the All In The Family episode that was a backdoor pilot for Maude, but quit after the show was picked up for series and was replaced by Adrienne Barbeau.

I used to deal with him when I worked in the bookies when he was Jacko's assistant. He was such a rude, arrogant glowering presence. If you knocked him back on a price that had gone his puce bald head would start glowing an even brighter shade of puce. Horrible guy. tbh.

― calzino, Thursday, 8 January 2026 11:17 (seven hours ago)

So RIP then?

― Wilfried Nuance (Tom D.), Thursday, 8 January 2026 11:25 (seven hours ago)

Rest in puce, surely?

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/09/movies/bahram-beyzaie-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.DVA.y69j.Vha3CKOF6pCF&smid=nytcore-ios-share

RIP Bahram Beyzaie, pioneer in Iranian film and theatre

T.K. Carter, best known for playing Nauls in The Thing

Bob Weir

British character actor Derek Martin.

Lovely memory here from The Curious Orange.

Farewell Derek Martin. R.I.P.

Derek once came in to do a Fat Fighters sketch. Marjorie introduces him to the group, "he plays a character from EastEnders, but not one of the main ones". Derek roared with laughter. He was a really good sport & top bloke.https://t.co/6zozl0Da6R

— Paul Putner (@RealPaulPutner) January 11, 2026

92! I had not idea he was that old.

The thumbnail made me think Matt Lucas had died and was somehow 92.

erich von däniken (90)

https://childofatlantis.wordpress.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/img_0141.png

I didn't realise he was still recently alive

Yeah, seriously - I mentioned him recently in the context of Chris de Burgh's A Spaceman Came Travelling being apparently influenced by Chariot of the Gods.

I think the next song in discussion afterwards might've been Driving Home For Christmas, actually...

not enough has been made of the second mayan crew-member imo (its gizmo from gremlins)

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:lmtieqchvpjutjpqaed5tvyi/bafkreifffirkrh6s3s6eivl6x3u3y7g5o7ojcpzzagkc32i2bk2qmnpzve@jpeg

I just see a smiling piece of toast from a mid-70s cartoon show.

what was with the 70s and paranormal, hollow earth, ancient aliens, etc.

It was a dystopian time, people were looking for any way out. Not at all like our current halcyon days.

Good to see everyone has become more rational since then.

Chariot of the Gods fueled more nightmares for me than the Bermuda Triangle but less than Sasquatch

my preteen peers in the early ‘80s were all about the Bermuda triangle no one cared about cryptids but that’s probably because we lived on the wide open prairie so no bigfoot sightings

The tv show In Search Of, with Leonard Nimroy, had a profound impact on my young brain. Chariots in the same vein.

Oh yeah, In Search Of was awesome.. it always seemed a few years old, even when it was new

von däniken was a crackpot but in a fun way

I was a big Star Trek kid so I especially liked In Search Of. Also anyone remember the Project UFO series? (I remembered it as Project Blue Book, but I guess they probably just said Project Blue Book on the show a lot.) Kind of a proto-X Files.

I was heavily into Chariots of the Gods in my early teens until Nova did an episode taking it apart. Eventually I ritualistically ripped the paperback into tiny pieces.

I'd forgotten the Nova debunking! But now I can remember the weight it lifted from my shoulders!

I must admit I didn't know about his criminal past. Fraud, yeah that makes sense.

Also anyone remember the Project UFO series? (I remembered it as Project Blue Book, but I guess they probably just said Project Blue Book on the show a lot.) Kind of a proto-X Files.

Produced by Jack Webb's company! Saw it at the time, rewatched the pilot episode a couple of years ago to see how much I remembered from it (more than I had guessed).

I don't remember In Search of... getting aired in the UK but we had the similar sounding Arthur C. Clarke's Mysterious World which I was obsessed with.

I had a subscription to Omni magazine as a kid which was great for platforming all these kooks

In Search of... was definitely shown in the UK, maybe prior to the Arthur C. Clarke show which i seem to remember thinking of as its replacement

Matt Kwasniewski-Kelvin, formerly of black midi. 26.

RIP erich von däniken if only for inspiring Jack Kirby to create "Eternals".

Matthew Taylor. graphic designer for Touch and Go and bass player for a bunch of bands. Designed the logo for Kranky
https://chunkletindustries.substack.com/p/matthew-taylor-rip
https://bsky.app/profile/bruceadams.bsky.social/post/3mcbjd5sdz22z

Sheila Bernette, 94, English Singer

A competent singer, she was a regular on variety shows such as the Good Old Days and The Black and White Minstrel Show

uh, come again?

The Black and White Minstrel Show is a British light entertainment show on BBC prime-time television that ran from 1958 to 1978.

Oh I thought everyone knew about that.

Oddly, I don't believe it was aired in America.

Yes I just about remember seeing it, one of the many British national shames along with It Ain't Half Hot Mum

xxxxxpost I literally just bought a Kranky hoodie, had no idea he designed the logo. rip.

I think it toured until well into the 80s as well?

Isn't it still touring without the blackface?

I'm certainly old enough to have watched it except I don't remember ever seeing so much of a second of it. Not only did my parents never watch it but I doubt even my granny did.

Three number one UK albums

Scott Adams

vaxxed?

Prostate Cancer, apparently.

Made redundant

Scott Adams

Knock knock
Who's there?
Not you anymore

rest in piss asshole

i only regret that this man can die but once

Three number one UK albums

― Ward Fowler, Tuesday, 13 January 2026 15:36

First album was number one for nine weeks and on the chart for 142 weeks!

Pitied Marcello Carlin having to write about it on his number one albums blog.

at least he finally did something funny

I really think once someone has passed away, it’s not really fair anymore to judge them on politically incorrect missteps they might’ve made. We should judge them on the best of their work. I say this, of course, not knowing anything about the black and white minstrel show, it might just be an awkward title.

Andrew Hickey on Bluesky - "Scott Adams was the Dave Sim of Jim Davises"

The only memorial that matters:

https://kalebhorton.ghost.io/the-d-lbert-project/

I really think once someone has passed away, it’s not really fair anymore to judge them on politically incorrect missteps they might’ve made.

Dilbert had 3-4 good laughs in '96.

You kind of ruined the joke there.

Whoops

lol

I knew Jim Davis was a soulless huckster, but with only vague, distant memories of Dave Sim, it was nauseating to read up on his nuttery. (Cerebus hasn't crossed my mind since I was a child, but I didn't actually read that comic, it was just a character that was hard to miss in my local comic shop's decor.)

Dilbert was ubiquitous when I was growing up and gave me a few laughs - a character's strategic use of sick time and vacation time via 15 minute increments in order to avoid work is the one I remember most - but I stopped paying attention for at least a decade and was shocked that its creator turned out to be an insanely toxic creep. Pretty sure that was always a part of him rather than the result of fame and money, mainly because he was openly motivated by the pursuit of fame and money when he created that strip.

Sometime/former ilxor Chuck Eddy's son Will.

oh no, that's horrible. Chuck if you're reading this, I'm so sorry

I supplied a "funny" to Scott Adams, he used it on one of his larger "weekend" strips. So there's that.

Obviously, long before he went wonk

(xp) Very sad. Sending love, Chuck.

Ugh so sorry to hear that, my condolences to xhukx and his family.

terrible news, also this is rather strange but i definitely crossed paths with Linus back in the day// we are virtually the same age, were probably in the same year in school, but in slightly different parts of the Philly area. i remember his face!! oof.

John Forté, member of the broader Refugee Camp Alliance-Stars collective.

damn autocorrect

All-Stars, obviously

Claudette Colvin, Who Refused to Give Her Bus Seat to a White Woman, Dies at 86

Her defiance of Jim Crow laws in 1955 made her a star witness in a landmark segregation suit, but her act was overshadowed months later when Rosa Parks made history with a similar stand.

On his Substack, Chuck has now posted an amazing eulogy for, vivid bio of his gifted and accomplished son---also links to Will's YouTube channel and much more:
https://chuckeddy.substack.com/p/william-linus-eddy-1985-2025

Doug Cugini, co-founder of legendary Austin venue The Hole In The Wall

https://austin.culturemap.com/news/restaurants-bars/doug-cugini-hole-wall-obituary/

Kenny Morris, early drummer for Siouxsie and the Banshees

https://louderthanwar.com/kenny-morris-rip/

RIP

Damn, RIP dude. That first Banshees lineup is the best.

I had been swithering about going to see John McKay in the summer, I guess this is a kick up the arse to go.

RIP ECM guitarist Ralph Towner.

Oh man, I've been listening to so much Ralph Towner over the last 5 years. He has tons of good stuff on ECM.

Andrea Pruett, beloved owner of Bagdad Cafe in Newberry Springs, age 85.

https://www.thedesertway.com/bagdad-cafe-ca/

Andrew Clements, for 30 years The Guardian’s classic music critic, aged 75.

Valentino, 93

https://www.theguardian.com/fashion/2026/jan/19/valentino-italian-fashion-designer-dies

You beat me to it by 45 seconds! RIP.

https://www.jamaicaobserver.com/2026/01/19/stephen-cat-coore-jamaican-music-icon-third-world-co-founder-dies-69/

RIP Stephen Cat Coore guitarist co-founder of Third World

Uncle Floyd. Legendary local cable Tv host from my hometown of West Orange NJ. Weird low budget shenanigans with surprising and hip guests musical and otherwise.

And commemorated in song by Bowie, no?

from wiki:

The first band to refer to The Uncle Floyd Show in a song was the Johnny Gork Band from Flemington, New Jersey, in the early 1980s, released on a 45 rpm single. Johnny and the band appeared on the show, during which Uncle Floyd said he was honored and humbled to have a band produce a record about the show.

David Bowie, a fan of Vivino's television show, recorded the song "Slip Away" on his 2002 album, Heathen, as a tribute. The lyrics mention Uncle Floyd and his puppets Oogie and Bones Boy. When asked how he had learned of the show, Bowie replied, "John Lennon told me about it."[5][8] He has also mentioned Iggy Pop regularly watching the show. While in Berlin in 2002 touring for his Heathen album, Bowie said, "This is another new song. It's about a television hero in America from '70s that myself, and Lennon and Iggy Pop used to watch in the afternoons. Crazy guy, and we were very addled and used to love fooling around watching this guy Uncle Floyd. And his song is called "Slip Away".[9] This story is also told in the 2024 documentary Flipside, which features Uncle Floyd.[10]

The song "Work for Food" by Dramarama, on the 1994 album Hi-Fi Sci-Fi features the Uncle Floyd Show in the lyrics. Footage of Vivino as Cowboy Charlie also appears in the video for the song. The members of Dramarama were from Wayne, New Jersey, and made their first television appearance on The Uncle Floyd Show.

The Ramones also recognized The Uncle Floyd Show in their song "It's Not My Place (In the Nine to Five World)",[11] as well as in various live appearances. Also, Ramones guitarist Johnny Ramone could often be seen wearing an Uncle Floyd Show T-shirt in pictures of the band, while Joey Ramone often wore an Uncle Floyd Show button on his leather jacket.[citation needed]

also a great lip-sycnhed appearance by Pussy Galore the appears in the Teenage Riot video but I can't find it online at the moment.

I used to see clips from the Uncle Floyd Show on Nickelodeon in the 80s, of all places.

oh man, a true New Jersey legend. always loved stumbling on his show late at night. RIP!

RIP. Loved the show and I remember talking to one of his brothers about him once years later.

RIP Uncle Floyd. Loved that show.

First place I saw The Ramones and I also once had a drawing on his wall :(((

Scorpions bassist Francis Buchholz, 71.

RIP :(

Scorpions had such an amazing run from 1975 to 1984. And some of their 21st century albums are really good.

yeah I love the Scorps! got super into the Uli Roth 70’s albums last year, which i had not heard before

anyway RIP Francis who was a huge part of all the Scorps big eras

RIP Francis (I believe he's on the left)

https://cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net/BgEuXKfuSfuKQxdKUmuNoY.jpg

A twitch channel is playing a lot of Uncle Floyd shows.

https://www.twitch.tv/scifiexplosion

Florio Vivino! Did not know his gov. name, but turns out:

He was the older brother of Jerry Vivino and Jimmy Vivino, who were members of the Basic Cable Band, formerly known as the Max Weinberg 7. Vivino was also the uncle of musical theater actress Donna Vivino.

Michael Parenti

RIP

RIP. one of the last of a certain kind of Marxist public intellectual

Mark Tully, a BBC journalist who was their bureau chief in India for a long time, has died in New Delhi at the age of 90.

Born in India, died in India. From wiki:

In 1992, when covering the demolition of the Babri Masjid by Hindutva activists, some of the perpetrators confronted him, chanting "Death to Mark Tully", reflecting their distrust of the BBC.

Hindutva can fuck off. RIP.

Nessa Hyams, Casting Director and ‘Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman’ Helmer, Dies at 84.

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/nessa-hyams-dead-mary-hartman-blazing-saddles-casting-1236483226/

Sly Dunbar! One of the great.

https://www.dancehallmag.com/2026/01/26/news/sly-dunbar-influential-sly-robbie-drummer-is-dead-at-73.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawPkeCJleHRuA2FlbQIxMQBzcnRjBmFwcF9pZBAyMjIwMzkxNzg4MjAwODkyAAEeY99Ov0taDxr2k0MVaP1fC2uxe1gxGmTz2izZlbr-MyZbvObXUIzXBnY0vME_aem_oRuIIqpQ0QEEvIkHaLaRDQ

Oh no!

Shit. Best rhythm section ever?

God tier.

:(

damn!

sly and robbie present taxi was an album that i got to young enough it’s in my brain for all time

RIP Sly, one of the best to ever do it. first reggae album I bought was Sly & The Revolutionaries "Black Ash" purely because of it's hilarious tracklisting

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/bobby-sherman-dead-singer-actor-1236439296/

Bobby Sherman, 1970s singer/TV actor, 81

Billy "Bass" Nelson, founding member of Parliament and Funkadelic, too.

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/billy-bass-parliament-funkadelic-dead/

RIP Sly! I forget when I first got hipped to Sly and Robbie, probably some features about them when Dylan used them on Infidels.

Oh ffs RIP Billy "Bass".

I'm FAR from an expert on Sly and Robbie and Compass Point but if I had to pick one song...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPil0Pt6M5E

this will always be peak sly & robbie for me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbDJjjJQJ-o

Their playing on all that Compass Point Sessions stuff is incredible.

There are countless highlights to choose from, but I've always loved them on this Material album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jr2Sh0hVGgI

Sal Buscema:

https://www.comicsbeat.com/sal-buscema-beloved-comics-artist-passes-away/

According to a post from the Black Rock Coalition, Billy "Bass" Nelson is in hospice care, but is not dead.

Dan McQuade, of cancer

https://defector.com/dan-mcquade-1983-2026?giftLink=6652e57d2f1a5c635a44d250ce85838a

I knew he was ill but didn't realize it was so dire. He had such a wonderful personality. Probably at least a lurker here too because I believe he name-dropped ILM in an article once.

Looks like we missed that Rob Hirst, drummer and lyricist of Midnight Oil, passed last week: https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/jan/20/rob-hirst-was-a-force-of-nature-a-born-showman-who-led-midnight-oil-from-the-back

This one abt James Wisdom that McQuade wrote xp:

https://defector.com/a-notorious-pitchfork-reviewer-was-my-biggest-musical-influence

R.I.P. Rob Hirst! Fierce drummer, also co-wrote many of their songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QzH4KOf9Bs

yeah, we talked about it a bit on ILM, really sad. To emphasize his greatness, here's that same song, live:

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

I'd put him on par with Clem Burke.

Catherine O'Hara, 71

https://www.tmz.com/2026/01/30/catherine-ohara-dead

I of course reject this news and all its works.

oh no

that is awful news

Fuck. RIP

absolute legend in everything, iconic to the end

what the actual fuck

holy shit! that's awful news

RIP ;_;

jeez that one is unexpected :-(

wtf!!

aw fuck

i'm glad she was able to have that incredible role in Schitt's Creek to cement her legacy even further, and showing up in The Studio last year was just the cherry on top.

Always loved her.

Friend just said she was supposed to be on a panel about The Studio a couple of weeks back but noticed she didn't show up.

(her sister mary margaret o'hara is a strange and beguiling singer worth checking out)

Just finished The Studio last week and especially loved her in the final episode.

And yeah, Mary Margaret O'Hara's fantastic.

I'm shocked, did not see this coming at all, RIP

I actually gasped when I saw the news.

fuck. Amazing career and such a great series of roles recently, just more and more legendary.

we just watched Best in Show over the holidays because we thought our 8 year old, who loves dog shows, would love it. We forgot just how raunchy it was, but most of that went over her head.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oueIcGZUR9I

wow. she was having a career resurgence, too

Greatest comedic actor of her generation imo, RIP

Just hearing her laugh clears out whatever head trip you're on. Greatest comedic actor - full stop.

oh my god! she was excellent in everything and one of the world’s funniest humans

noooooo

Second City Television (Cdn precursor to SCTV) was my Monty Python equivalent in middle school. They were all heroes to me and damn, her passing hurts.

I have to wonder, once again, if that reunion doc that Scorsese apparently filmed pre-COVID is ever going to come out. Both Joe Flaherty and now O'Hara have passed since then.

this one is real tough (o’hara) esp 71 is young these days

DJ Michael "5000" Watts, Houston Hip Hop Pioneer & Co-founder of Swishahouse Records

https://www.chron.com/culture/music/article/michael-watts-swishahouse-dead-21325159.php

(her sister mary margaret o'hara is a strange and beguiling singer worth checking out)

― Andy the Grasshopper, Saturday, January 31, 2026 2:39 AM (nine hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Yes, and they did perform together...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Tdp3qdhCfmM

71 made me realize she was only around 40 making Waiting for Guffman.

..and mid-30s for Beetlejuice & Home Alone!

Demond Wilson, the son in Sanford & Son.

https://www.mensjournal.com/news/sanford-and-son-star-dies-at-79

Lamont! Aw RIP dummy.
We did a watch of Sanford & Son recently. Him & Redd made a great team.
And his fits! some of those threads were awesome

Haven't seen it since it first aired, but I still remember the affectionate way he'd say "Pop."

https://www.reuters.com/world/africa/more-than-200-killed-coltan-mine-collapse-east-congo-official-says-2026-01-30/

jesus thats horrific

The fact that Demond Wilson's first name was Grady makes all kinds of sense. RIP, Lamont. Thanks for the laughs.

Chuck Negron of Three Dog Night

https://variety.com/2026/music/obituaries-people-news/chuck-negron-dead-three-dog-night-singer-joy-to-the-world-1236650439/

RIP! They had SO many good songs

Jazz clarinetist and saxophonist Ken Peplowksi:
https://open.substack.com/pub/leemergner/p/ken-peplowski-heres-to-his-life

Dave Harper of the band Five or Six, as posted by Dorothy Max Prior (Rema Rema, Psychic TV)

Many of you will know of him as the legendary The Monochrome Set road manager and driver (never daunted by a One-Way or No Entry sign) turned PR person for 4AD, Cherry Red / Goldfrapp manager and loads more. But before all that, he was also a Cherry Red artist, with the legendary Five or Six.

This from the FB post from his partner:

'It is unbearable to write this but our lovely, funny, kind Harper, Harps, David, Dad, Dave, Roy Gold died last night. He’d begun recovering from cancer and cancer treatment last year but life took a cruel turn last November with a series of infections and falls.

He died peacefully, in hospital but with the windows open and the lights down watching an electrical storm over Jerez, holding my hand, having just seen the family the week before. All of us are just devastated...'
RIP dear Harper. You lived one hell of a life!

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

Longtime music publicist Tracy Zamot, 55

I didn't know her personally, but had professional interactions with her over the years. Her husband died in 2015, which leaves her teenage daughter an orphan.

John Virgo, 79

!!!

I'll be snookering you tonight ... in heaven

RIP. Even though his shtick got increasingly irritating.

enabler of Jim Davidson, though he did do some cool trick shots

Camshaft King Ed Iskendarian, 104

https://www.hotrod.com/news/the-passing-of-a-legend-rest-in-peace-ed-iskendarian

Up, Up and Away: Fifth Dimension vocalist LaMonte McLemore, 90

RIP :(

https://static01.nyt.com/images/2026/02/03/multimedia/03Oliver--01-ljvh/03Oliver--01-ljvh-videoLarge.jpg

Virginia Oliver, a feisty, salty-tongued lobster boat skipper who fished off the New England coast wearing earrings, hot-pink lipstick and an occasional scowl for more than 80 years, until she was 103, died on Jan. 21 in Rockport, Maine. She was 105.

RIP Television bassist Fred Smith.

Oh no! RIP Fred!

also briefly in Blondie RIP

Aw fuck no, I saw Richard Lloyd share a recent photo of them together and since he looked fine, didn't think anything had happened.

Oh man, RIP Fred

Posted by Jimmy Rip on their official IG account (which includes a slideshow of some wonderful moments with Television off-stage - I've never seen Tom Verlaine joking around with his bandmates before):

FRED SMITH 1948-2026
The legendary bassist for Television, Tom Verlaine and many others, Fred Smith, was not only my bandmate for 46 years — he was my true friend. He was a great running buddy and exactly the guy you wanted around when road life got wearisome. His sense of humor, much like his musical voice, was dry, subtle, to the point, hilarious and always left you wanting a more. Yesterday, he left this world, leaving so many who loved him wanting so much more…of him.
We met in 1980 playing, with Jay Dee Daugherty on drums, in The Eve Moon Band, and soon after, the three of us were the NYC version of Holly and The Italians with Holly Beth Vincent. In 1981 when Tom Verlaine was preparing to tour for his disc Dreamtime, which Fred and Jay had performed on, they recommended me as second guitar, leading to very long and rich musical, and personal friendships.
If you are a lover of melodic bass lines and counterpoint, you could go to school on what Fred created so effortlessly. He was a natural — never flashy, always essential — always serving the song in ways that only the greatest musicians can…
He fought his illness long and hard these last few years, looking always forward to new projects… we had big plans to play Tom’s music live this year… but it just wasn’t meant to be. Thankfully, we were able to say goodbye, “love you” were our last words to each other.
I will miss him more than anyone can imagine.
-Jimmy Rip

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUbpDlUgfxc/

RIP Fred :(

hearing that guitarist Lynn Blakey of Let's Active & Tres Chicas has passed
Possibly more famous for being the muse/inspiration behind the Replacements 'Let of the Dial' off of Tim

'Left of the Dial'!!

Saw the news about Smith when Chris Stein posted about it before anything was official. He okayed bass with Blondie before Television. Apparently thought Blondie wasn’t going anywhere?

Christa Lang-Fuller

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/christa-lang-dead-samuel-fuller-1236493895/

Brad Arnold, singer for Three Doors Down

https://deadline.com/2026/02/brad-arnold-dies-47-1236712072/

Are the flags going to be ordered down to half mast?

Lowered Three Masts Down

trying to think if I've heard three doors down but all that comes to mind is the mystery jets song, which is two doors rather than three

They apparently have a song called Kryptonite, which was one of the Superman related hits of the fin de sicle.

Siecle sic

Fuckin Trumper that performed at his inauguration.

And he missed the MAGA halftime show by one day

have to cancel that Kennedy Center residency

Greg Brown, original guitarist for Cake. He is the one who wrote "The Distance". He joined another band called Deathray after that which I really liked as a teenager. Bummer.

:(

The Distance was such a great single, RIP Greg

It really was. It intrigued me as a rap song that was rooted almost entirely in rock (and maybe jazz) rather than hip-hop

Ebo Taylor :-(

https://www.ghanabusinessnews.com/2026/02/08/ghana-music-legend-ebo-taylor-dies-at-90/

Saw Ebo Taylor last year on a bill with Pat Thomas at the Howard Theatre in DC. Taylor was sitting in a chair performing well and looking regal. RIP

oh shit, RIP ebo, putting out amazing music well into his 80s...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L0CNCbNv534

Music journalist Vic Garbarini, Today I learned he orchestrated a conversation between Robert Fripp and Joe Strummer!

https://www.elephant-talk.com/wiki/Interview_with_Robert_Fripp_and_Joe_Strummer_in_Musician

Also RIP Nashville steel guitar master Pete Finney

Steel guitarist Pete Finney, noted for his work in Americana, pop and country styles, has passed away at age 70.

Finney was also a music historian. He co-curated the Country Music Hall of Fame’s 2015–2018 exhibition “Dylan, Cash, and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City.” He wrote the lead essay in the exhibit’s catalog.

During his career, he backed the Chicks, Vince Gill, the Judds, Beck, Jon Byrd, Shemekia Copeland, Justin Townes Earle, Jon Langford, Jim Lauderdale, Allison Moorer, Ron Sexsmith and Candi Staton, among others.

He was touring with Reba McEntire when eight members of her band and two crew members lost their lives in a plane crash in 1991. Finney survived because he and another band member flew on a second plane with the tour’s other crew members.

He was particularly associated with 2023 Country Music Hall of Fame inductee Patty Loveless. He toured with Loveless for more than 20 years.

Pete Finney was also an associate of The Monkees. Group member Michael Nesmith’s solo work was with his much-applauded country ensemble The First National Band. This made the steel guitar an essential part of his solo sound. Michael Nesmith (1942-2021) recruited Pete Finney as his accompanist on tour. This led to the steel guitarist joining The Monkees on their 2017 final tour. Following Nesmith’s death, Finney joined Monkee Mickey Dolenz on a 2021 tribute album titled Dolenz Sings Nesmith.

I was only FB friends with Garbarini, but I have some friends who knew him well. He had good stories.

Nice tribute from Fripp:

Brother Vic Garbarini flew away this Saturday morning at 04.59 West Virginia time. St. Katie Dombroski, Vic's companion for many years, was by his side.

Vic was the foremost music editor of his generation IMO, at Musician, Player & Listener magazine. Vic was able to articulate the musical impulse better than nearly every musician I know. His presence was a major support for KC 1981 and for Sting's first solo project in 1984. Vic's articles and interviews set a standard for helping the artist to find the words they need but which may not hit the tongue so easily.

Fly well, Master Veek.

RIP Pogues drummer Andrew Ranken. 72!

four dead former members now, five if you count Joe Strummer.

Late career Ranken peak:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=561d1XfrUpI

I remember Vic Garbarini's byline well...did he write for either Creem or RS too?

James Van Der Beek

oh wow... yeah, I've been seeing his name in the news recently. Very sad to hear

I was only dimly aware of Dawson's Creek but thought it was really fucking stupid that he was an aspiring filmmaker and that his favorite director was... Spielberg

"father of six"!

He was featured in the greatest gif of all time

https://tenor.com/view/dawson%27s-creek-basketball-throw-bully-bullying-gif-5969771222503669590

https://tenor.com/hg9Mkg5SAC2.gif

https://tenor.com/hg9Mkg5SAC2.gif

dammit

Bud Cort (from Harold & Maude)

https://variety.com/2026/film/news/bud-cort-dead-harold-and-maude-1236659856/

...and was the kitchen manager in Heat!

oh no!

For a split second there I thought, wait, James Van Der Beek was not in "Heat" ...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pw46kpxHbls

Iirc that was a solid movie and he made a good pseudo villain.

For a split second there I thought, wait, James Van Der Beek was not in "Heat" ...

― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, February 11, 2026

He played the girlfriend who abuses Val Kilmer, requiring De Niro to intervene.

He was featured in the greatest gif of all time

surely he was more well known for the crying gif though

Will forever appreciate Cort as the crazed computer in Electric Dreams

wow i would've guessed bud cort was older

He played the girlfriend who abuses Val Kilmer, requiring De Niro to intervene.

I think you're thinking of the failed spinoff "Dawson's Heat."

well here's a Cort blunder: He turned down the role of Billy Bibbit in One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest as he wanted the lead and, after Jack Nicholson was cast, later asked for it back, but it was too late.

The casting would've worked too.

surely he was more well known for the crying gif though

Sure, if you're just into his hits.

If you had a fondness for Bud Cort, never watch Ted and Venus

review quoted on Wikipedia makes it sound kinda interesting

A retrospective review from Thepronegunman read, "What makes Ted & Venus interesting is exactly what critics of the film objected to: how it sets up expectations only to completely obliterate them…Cort leads you to believe that the film will be a trite and tiresome love-against-all-odds romantic comedy in which opposites attract and two extremely different people fall in love with each other in spite of their differences. A film in which the endless persistence of the lovelorn protagonist who refuses to take no for an answer and pursues his love interest with a single-minded, burning obsession wins the object of his affection’s heart…Instead, Cort savages this premise by depicting this obsessional behavior for what it is: not the signs of an endearing romantic but the actions of a mentally unstable individual."

damn

RIP Bud Cort - love Harold & Maude sooooo much

and RIP James Van der Beek, i was a huge Dawsons Creek fan & he had such genuine sincerity as dorky earnest Dawson <3

Dawson’s was really important to me as a closeted gay middle schooler, though like everyone, I hated Dawson and loved Pacey and Jack.

He passed, it seems, from the same cancer that I had. RIP.

Grisso beat me to the beautiful Donovan/Rules of Attraction clip.

Actually, it's the build-up to that clip that I love:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A3Yt2b_aXmE

I only saw a few episodes of Dawson's Creek when it was new, and it mostly annoyed me at the time, but we binged the entire series during the pandemic, when I was old enough to appreciate that the characters are infuriating precisely because teenagers are so often infuriating. James always seemed like a cool guy, treating his post-teen idolhood with a lot of good humour, and I feel like a lot of his work that follows was in conversation with his earlier status: he's very good in the solid Rules of Attraction, as others have already noted, and he had a funny role in last year's very sharp and very funny series Overcompensating.

I had a big Harold and Maude adolescent phase, wearing the movie out to the point that I now find it hard to watch. Anyone looking for alternative Court viewing today should check out Brewster McCloud--my fave Altman film of 1970, no contest.

Yeah, thing is there totally are tons of dudes whose movie taste doesn't go much beyond Spielberg and who nonetheless dream of being directors.

People at my "film school" in the late 90s wanted to be Tarantino or Scorsese, possibly Coppola.

that makes sense... but yearning to make the next A.I. Artificial Intelligence?

Yeah irl Dawson would've prob been into Tarantino instead but 1) you gotta account for temporal lag, writers are always projecting their own teenhoods (same reason there was a diner in Happy Days) and 2) Tarantino flicks not really something you can excerpt for a teen show on the WB.

Happy Days was set in the 50s tho, so diners/drive-ins are era appropriate

how about dives?

Jamie Lee Curtis’s Bud Cort story is next level

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1472351577579590&id=100044142864338

Yeah stevie I messed up there, wrote Happy Days but was thinking of Saved By The Bell! Also Beverley Hills 90210 now that I think of it?

Kevin Smith’s tribute to James is great.

Yeah stevie I messed up there, wrote Happy Days but was thinking of Saved By The Bell! Also Beverley Hills 90210 now that I think of it?

i’m thinking of the bell in Beckett’s “happy days”

Jamie Lee Curtis’s Bud Cort story is next level

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=1472351577579590&id=100044142864338🕸

What is the bit about mother's milk and falling asleep and waking up?

I'd been thinking about Andrew Ranken off and on for a while, meant to go see his band when I was still in London, never did (might've walked past him in Stoke Newington, I see).

I know no-one ever wants to hear it again, but the drumming on Fairytale of New York, particularly on the outro, is great. And showy in a way that I don't think of him being - though even on something like the song just previous, he doesn't stay anonymous when he's propelling the whole thing forward.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csdCM3G2l8A

What is the bit about mother's milk and falling asleep and waking up?

yeah I was fairly baffled by that too

Maybe she was dictating while looking after grandkids

John Bengtson, Bay Area silent film obsessive who did a lot of work tracking down film locations by Chaplin, Keaton, Laurel and Hardy etc. This piece is a neat overview; I'm sure Morbs likely knew this guy's work.

_What is the bit about mother's milk and falling asleep and waking up?_

yeah I was fairly baffled by that too

After I saw Todd Solondz's Storytelling I read about James Van Der Beek being in a deleted scene as a football player having gay sex. I'd seen a bunch of speculation about why it was deleted but I found a quote from Solondz saying it was nothing to do with the performance and just Solondz thinking the scene was a bad idea that didn't really serve the film well.

Perhaps this is untrue alarmist reporting but I recently heard that there are now film students unable to watch full films.

Perhaps this is untrue alarmist reporting but I recently heard that there are now film students unable to watch full films.

Checking and yes it seems I ranted about this "report" on bluesky rather than ILX

From what I've seen kids like to watch clips, and commentary clips on the clips.

I started my BA Film Studies in 1998, and didn't even know anyone with a mobile phone, let alone social media, and yet the majority of students could not sit through difficult films, I would go to a 10am screening and 2/3 of the audience would be asleep by 11am.

Aboriginal poet and activist Lionel Fogarty, yesterday. Incredible body of work, was obsessed with him for a while. A real tragedy that his work is not better known in other English-speaking countries.

Manchester Orchestra drummer Tim Very at just 42 :(

https://www.instagram.com/p/DUwOL2ekXBU/

Bookworm host Michael Silverblatt, 73.

Robert Duvall, 95.

people you thought were dead but aren't

His co-stars in Network have been dead for 49 years (Peter Finch) and 44 years (William Holden) - Faye Dunaway is alive of course.

― Dance Yourself Dizzy To The Music of Time (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Thursday, 22 January 2026 11:19 (three weeks ago) bookmarkflaglink

RIP Robert Duvall. 95! what an innings.

Hell of a run.

Wow. For some reason I thought he was gone already.

As a nation we should all come together & rewatch Lonesome Dove <3

looking over his filmography and....wow

Didn't know (or remember--it's been decades) that he was in the original True Grit!

Saw it the other month. He is of course great in it. RIP.

I suspect it has not aged well (or maybe it has?) but I have been meaning to rewatch "Colors," of all things.

RIP. I really loved The Apostle, which he wrote, directed and starred in.

Gonna watch this fella. Never seen it, always meant to.

https://www.rogerebert.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/03/True-Confessions.jpg

The Apostle -- best starring role he ever had.

I've liked him in many things, including the best-remembered roles, but let me single'em out for his trainer in Days of Thunder and as Joaquin Phoenix and Mark Wahlberg's dad in We Own the Night.

There was a great quote from his wiki:

People described him as "Hollywood's No. 1 No. 2 lead"

i'd see michael silverblatt at readings here every once in a while, he came to one that my husband was a part of and said very nice things to him afterwards about his work. RIP.

I love how Sparks gave Silverblatt’s show two theme songs! New compositions even! Really great, their appearance on the show was a treat.

And now...Frederick Wiseman.

Duvall, Silverblatt, Wiseman...

Also, before there were a million podcast options, I especially loved the double feature of Bookworm and The Treatment, with Silverblatt and Elvis Mitchell as the best kind of 'nerds,' who did bottomless research and didn't dumb down their conversations.

Damn, Wiseman too!

Wait do we not have a Wiseman thread already?

Wow, was just about to order that new Wiseman set ...

xpost

Oh we do! (I know the threads are getting tangled today with these three passing.)

Frederick Wiseman

And now Billy Steinberg! Jeez Louise. https://www.billboard.com/pro/billy-steinberg-death-grammy-winning-songwriter-dies/#recipient_hashed=0537b10f8a857ca5575be3fa699a7a68bc721912cde51af197a8418a36341c3b&recipient_salt=72c5574729f846b947eb1646a39f7c022929fc971fb4f90c3a3ecfa1203a1d88&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exacttarget&utm_campaign=billboard_BreakingNews&utm_content=664924_02-16-2026&utm_term=10397164

Bad day for cinema. Duvall and Wiseman have one thing in common: both were incredibly prolific and consistently delivered at the highest level. The Apostle is my favorite film and performance from Duvall, but he's so damn good and so committed in everything he does. Welfare alone makes the BFI's new Wiseman set essential, but they're all damn good films. (The BFI won't put out a second volume unless this one does well, so please get it!)

I'm feeling more compelled to watch his Stalin movie than True Confessions.

I could have sworn Duvall was in JFK but I guess not. Everyone else was!

Jesse Jackson

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/obituaries/rev-jesse-jackson-civil-rights-activist-dies-rcna42408

One Robert Duvall movie I've definitely never seen...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/football/articles/ckg3896875wo

Robert Duvall refused to work with Spielberg and DreamWorks again after Spielberg visited Fidel Castro in 2002, noting the hypocrisy of him making films like Schindlers List while visiting a dictator.

lol, what a numpt. He played Stalin in a 1992 HBO movie btw!

and Michael Caine played Stalin a couple years later. Tis the season!

Was Duval's Stalin sympathetic?

not watched it yet, might be some scenes of joyful cannibalism in there who knows

https://i.ibb.co/Lh5F6ZC2/images.jpg

the Three Amigos

Bless Bob Hoskins but that looks absolutely terrible

my god ... that looks bad. I think Lithgow ended up playing Churchill 20 years later

Lithgow's FDR is the best of the lot iirc

Playing Churchill must be the easiest gig going for an actor.

🖼🕸

Can’t see this for some reason but it sounds like other can

It's the Mona Lisa and a spider's web

Another great character actor, Tom Noonan, who apparently died on Valentine's Day.

Memorable in Heat and Manhunter, and people regularly recommend to me What Happened Was (which he also wrote and directed).

Also Wolfen, Mystery Train, Wonderstruck...but I think my favorite appearances would have to be the ones mentioned for Michael Mann and the ones he did for Charlie Kaufman, especially for this crazy scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rXMNfwwdw90

What Happened Was... is a masterpiece that you should never, ever watch with a partner.

What Happened Was is amazing

Wow, how did we miss Noonan's passing? Besides Manhunter and Heat, great in some not very good movies, like Robocop 2 and Late Phases. Memorably eccentric in House of the Devil. Played the Monster in the Gen X cult staple "Monster Squad."

bc it was only reported last night

Ah. A quick google reveals the news was belatedly broken on Instagram by Karen Sillas, who was in "What Happened Was..."

What Happened Was... wowed me when I happened upon it on cable as a teenager, struck by the opening scene of a woman (the aforementioned Sillas) nervously wandering around her apartment listening to Til Tuesday's "Voices Carry." Really need to see that one again.

It's free to watch with ads on Plex, it seems.

Frank "Skip" Groff (November 20, 1948 – February 18, 2019) an American record producer, DJ, and owner of Yesterday and Today record store (also known as Y&T) in Rockville, Maryland

https://wtop.com/music/2019/02/record-store-owner-early-dc-punk-producer-skip-groff-dies-at-70/

I miss his store so much. And I miss the ads they used to run in the City Paper. This past weekend I was just thinking I miss the old physical edition of the paper.

e what prompted this? he died in 2019.

I only got to Y & T once, during its closing sale.

Maybe he died again

Yesterday and TODAY

Sad lol, my bad, it popped up on Facebook for me so I figured it was new(s).

Must have just been because it was the anniversary.

i mean you are correct that it ~was~ news

lol <3

Eric Dane

Paul Brainerd, PageMaker creator
https://www.geekwire.com/2026/pagemaker-pioneer-paul-brainerd-1947-2026-aldus-founder-devoted-his-second-chapter-to-the-planet/

rip i guess though tbh my time using Pagemaker was largely annoying lol

Bill Mazeroski

Willie Colón. This is a big one. Hard to imagine the last 50 years of Latin music without him.

oh man. titan.

Todo tiene su final. RIP :(

Byte magazine artist Robert Tinney, 78. For a certain generation of folks, you'll absolutely remember his art: https://70sscifiart.tumblr.com/search/robert-tinney

https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/02/tinney_byte_hearder_2.jpg

Robert Carradine, 71

For those, like me, that mostly know him from "Revenge of the Nerds," he was also in "Mean Streets"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BS-6KavRfww

Sad statement from Keith:

"It is with profound sadness that we must share that our beloved father, grandfather, uncle, and brother Robert Carradine has passed away. In a world that can feel so dark, Bobby was always a beacon on light to everyone around him. We are bereft at the loss of this beautiful soul and want to acknowledge Bobby’s valiant struggle against his nearly two-decade battle with Bipolar Disorder. We hope his journey can shine a light and encourage addressing the stigma that attaches to mental illness. At this time we ask for the privacy to grieve this unfathomable loss. With gratitude for your understanding and compassion.”

“We want people to know it, and there is no shame in it,” he said. “It is an illness that got the best of him, and I want to celebrate him for his struggle with it, and celebrate his beautiful soul. He was profoundly gifted, and we will miss him every day. We will take solace in how funny he could be, how wise and utterly accepting and tolerant he was. That’s who my baby brother was.”

Éliane Radigue, at 94.

Damn RIP Eliane, love her work so much

Scott Foust of Idea Fire Company, The Pickle Factory, Swill Radio and much more.

i loved her in Seinfeld

Martin Short's Daughter Katherine Dies at 42

https://people.com/martin-short-daughter-katherine-dead-at-42-11913565

What a rough road that guy has had, jeez.

Robert Carradine's really good in Coming Home.

Comedy writer Rob Grant (Red Dwarf, Spitting Image, etc.)

Pete Dello, singer and songwriter for Honeybus.

https://www.mirror.co.uk/3am/celebrity-news/honeybus-pop-genius-pete-dello-36784854

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MiS60VWpzY

Lauren Chapin, the youngest of the kids from Father Knows Best

https://people.com/lauren-chapin-dead-father-knows-best-child-star-was-80-11914143

Was just thinking about Father Knows Best because it surprised me that the oldest of the kids, Elinor Donahue, is still with us at 88

Author Dan Simmons (Hyperion, The Terror)

oh dang

I didn't realize he'd gone brain-wormy though.

I read that recently on reddit. I loved the Terror. I just read the first two books of Hyperion and had very mixed feelings about it.

Yeah. Definitely one of the major speculative fiction guys of the '90s-'00s, but wow he went down the Islamophobe/anti-woke rabbitholes hard. Also I didn't realize he was that old, I guess because he was in his 40s by the time anyone knew who he was.

Yeah Flashback is terrible xps

Yeah I'm a The Terror reader/enjoyer but that was about it and honestly all I needed, and definitely flawed in its own right. But when it was on, it was something.

The Terror is really excellent but has a couple of characters that reveal his right-wing tendencies. I tried with some other novels but never really got into them.

Ian Huntley apparently

Neil Sedaka, 86

wow

rip!

He recalled in 2025 how someone had spotted him on the street during this time period and said "Hey, you used to be Neil Sedaka!" Sedaka brusquely retorted "I still AM Neil Sedaka, you bitch!"

I'm named after his song Stephen, which was playing on the radio as my dad drove home from the hospital after I was born

Without irony I do think this is kind of marvelous https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ZMDPX49EvA

xpost Imagining the alternate world where you were named Badblood.

ha!

Bluesman John (Paul) Hammond

https://bestclassicbands.com/john-hammond-blues-singer-guitarist-obituary-3-1-26/

John Hammond Jr, son of the producer, who said Dad didn't want him singing those country blues, even though he approved Bobby D.'s debut platter of those--mebbe Dad just meant he didn't want Junior singing 'em, because he could emit this loose-lipped pre-Cocker-Waits white excess---but did manage eventually to cut some listenable tracks with Duane Allman, also members of the Hawks/Band---even a couple decent albums of Waits covers. Also sometimes referred to as John Paul Belmando Hammond for his undeniable looks, and could provide an appealing solo guitar sound live (those resonator cones, also reflecting stage lights).

John Paul *Belmondo*, that is.

RIP, I saw him perform live back in the 90s in Illinois, pretty great show I thought. Stripped down solo acoustic blues in a very spare style, full commitment to the sound.

I saw Hammond on a good ‘80s bill with the Nighthawks and Robert Cray. I was in high school and just starting to get a handle on the blues, it was pretty educational.

RIP Memphis, TN guitarist Travis Wammack of "Scratchy" song fame, per Deke Dickerson on Facebook. That was a surf sorta rockabilly instrumental with a backwards looped vocal part in the middle.

Here's part of Deke Dickerson's public facebook post about him -

Travis Wammack was one of the greatest guitar players you never heard of. He was a Memphis guy, originally discovered as a child prodigy by Eddie Bond in the 1950s. Bond released Travis' first record, a kiddie-rockabilly vocal 45, "Rock and Roll Blues," on Scotty Moore's Fernwood Records, and Travis' career began.
In the early 1960s, Travis cut a really weird instrumental called "Scratchy" at Roland Janes' Sonic Studios in Memphis, with Jerry Lee Lewis' old drummer J.M. Van Eaton on drums. ... The record became a regional hit.
Travis then began issuing a series of demented and great instrumentals and then vocals. ...
Travis eventually drifted into a Southern Rock-meets-Soul career and eventually became Little Richard's bandleader and guitarist for twenty years. When I met him at the Ponderosa Stomp festival in 2006, he was in semi-retirement but still playing often with his family band.

David Toop kicked off his excellent Guitars on Mars comp with 'It's Karate Time' by Travis Wammack, RIP:

https://www.deaddisc.com/disc/Guitars_On_Mars.htm

Gary Leeds aka Gary Walker of the Walker Brothers. Also played with PJ Proby and the Standells.

Didn't he have a band or record called Gary Walker and the Rain? Like a play on the song title? Something like that!
Cool how many mentions of Travis turn up in ilx search---from my comments about Country Funk 3 comp, on the Country Funk thread---he makes a surprise appearance at the end:

Another country trope, though it was certainly and prob mainly a movie one too, for quite a while, had , still, in the years these tracks were made, to do with singles running around and around, while their friends and neighbors get married, or already are: the former become something of a vicarious thrill and/or point of concerned speculation for the latter —thus Brian Hyland's "Hale The Man"---maybe sic, or maybe ironic salute–-Hail Hale, you the man and the gang's all here, but you live alone, so why you try to hard to get into that party, while runnin' runnin', and livin' to regret it (spoiler). So maybe there's a tension, a nervous energy to some of the eagerness here. But Travis Wammack doesn't feel it, he's grinning in the shadows, prob best he lets the music do most of the talking, walking up with a rhythm guitar that sounds like a rusty farm implement well-repurposed—then it gets psychedelisized, as the Chambers Brothers would say, and then the whole track does, maybe with synths for horns and the LITA-mentioned Moog bass line, some more voices.

I have a bunch of Travis Wammack records, including two he did in the early '80s, A Man...and a Guitar and Follow Me. But his 1972 self-titled album on Fame may be his best (he's still playing in Muscle Shoals and probably still doing his big instrumental hit "Scratchy"). This is the most psychodynamic of its tracks, "I Don't Really Want You," which has the most interesting structure of anything I've heard him do:

travis wammack's debut album is pretty great

cover doesn't quite sell the soul, but nevertheless

https://i.postimg.cc/tR820xS4/travis.jpg

RIP Gary Leeds. Not sure what her ever actually did in the Walker Brothers but nonetheless...

Per Questlove: Bob Power ;(((((

Rest in Power

ugh rip, one of the most important engineers of the past three decades or so

Mike Vernon, 81, record producer who worked with Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Level 42 and many others.

Iraqi feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada

Horrific news from Iraq where feminist activist and human rights defender Yanar Mohammed, co-founder and director of the Organization of Women's Freedom in Iraq (OWFI), has been assassinated by gunmen outside of her home just days after returning from Canada. pic.twitter.com/cIVphY8Jve

— Mai El-Sadany (@maitelsadany) March 3, 2026

(crap, I forgot X messages get imported)

Reggae producer Phil Pratt.

Les Garry, of the Quarrymen

(xp) Oh boo. RIP Phil.

(xp) Just saw that...Strangely moving to see Paul McCartney post "My dear old mate from the Quarrymen, Len Garry, has passed away" on Facebook.

With this photo (not sure which one Les Garry is).

https://i.postimg.cc/TPr0RG9N/quarrymen.jpg

Bill Bragg did a book on skiffle a few years back, been meaning to track down a copy

Xpost the tea chest bass player.

a little more on Bob Power

https://pitchfork.com/news/bob-power-prolific-engineer-behind-hip-hop-classics-dies-at-73/

Slava Tsukerman, director of Liquid Sky.

Like thousands of people I heard Bob Power's name first when Q-Tip namechecked him in 1991.

speaking of Power-- Power from the Wu-Tang Clan passed last week.

Antonio Lobo Antunes. Portuguese modernist writer. Many of his books dealt with Portugal's last colonial wars in the 70s. RIP

Francis Ford Coprophagia (Camaraderie at Arms Length) at 8:56 27 Feb 26

Ian Huntley apparently

God wanted him to stay down here a bit longer.

Country Joe McDonald of Country Joe and the Fish

R.I.P.! Electric Music for the Mind and Body is a total classic, and so is at least the title track to the second album (which I'm not sure I've ever listened to all of).

Jennifer Runyon, an actress you knew if you watched a lot of 80s film and TV, from cancer at 65.

A very dorky young me knew her as Gwendolyn Pierce on "Charles in Charge."

Also the very gifted psychic who was acing that ESP playing card test at the beginning of Ghostbusters.

Robert "Gabba" Gregory, guitarist for Chaos UK, FUK, Instant Ruin, Scumputer & Seats Of Piss

ok those are definitely going into the “terrible band names” thread

Nozomu Aoki 95, composer & arranger most known for Galaxy Express 999, Fist of the North Star and the Unico film

Grime rapper Dot Rotten, 37.

fuuuck, poor guy :(

i can't see a cause of death but if you've ever heard 'Overload' its hard not to be punched in the gut by this

Augie Meyers (Sir Douglas Quintet; Texas Tornados; Dylan etc.)

https://www.sacurrent.com/music/san-antonio-music-icon-augie-meyers-has-died-at-age-85/

I think he was the last of the original Texas Tornados.

ok those are definitely going into the “terrible band names” thread

Scumputer actually made me lol, love it

yeah that one is good, I’ll admit

Is Seats Of Piss a verbal pun I'm missing? Anyway I like it

Tommy DeCarlo, singer for Boston since 2007.

guessing that with song titles like We Fuck Dogs and I Can Drink 24 Pints that Seats of Piss is not in fact a result of wordplay as we conceive of it

Peats of Cis..

No, maybe not...

xp Tommy DeCarlo's predecessor, Brad Delp, also died on March 9

Reading these posts too fast and I'm all "Boston had a song called "We Fuck Dogs"?"

it's more than a feeling

And though I take my sis
to sit on seats of piss
Amanda

guessing that with song titles like We Fuck Dogs ...

― fluffy tufts university (f. hazel)

xp Tommy DeCarlo's predecessor, Brad Delp, also died on March 9

― henry s

Brad Yelp

Alexander Butterfield, Nixon aide and famous for his Watergate testimony:

Then Sanders asked if there was any validity to John Dean's hypothesis that the White House had taped conversations in the Oval Office. Butterfield replied, "I was wondering if someone would ask that. There is tape in the Oval Office." Butterfield then told the investigators that, while he had hoped that no one would ask about the taping system, he had previously decided he would disclose its existence if asked a direct question.

Brad Delp

One of the most shocking and disturbing endings.

Butterfield, wow: possibly the most dramatic moment of the entire hearings, when he confirmed the taping system. You've got the quote: "I was wondering if someone would ask that..."

Bad, bad, not good, but of historical note... Antonio Tejero, of the failed 1981 attempted military coup in Spain.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/mar/10/antonio-tejero-obituary

This goes back a couple of weeks, but I can't find any mention of--and didn't find out myself until today--Monti Rock III (Feb. 23, 84 years old). He was the DJ in Saturday Night Fever, and had a couple of insane Top 40 hits as Disco Tex.

https://neon.reviewjournal.com/kats/las-vegas-bon-vivant-monti-rock-ii-dies-at-86-3330148/

Jennifer Runyon, an actress you knew if you watched a lot of 80s film and TV, from cancer at 65.

For some reason I had the mostly shitty '80s teen comedy "Up the Creek" queued up, but I couldn't remember why. All I knew is that I recalled the VHS box from the store as a kid, and that Cheap Trick does the title song. So I'm watching this thing (equal parts Animal House, Porky's, Police Academy and I guess ... a little Airplane? But with rafts.), and as the opening credits roll by with some recognizable names from the aforementioned, I see "And Introducing Jennifer Runyon." So I think, huh, who is she to get a special credit, google her, and see that she died just days earlier! I have a holy shit moment at the coincidence then realize, oh yeah, I saw cryptosicko's post on the obituary thread, must have googled her then (to see if I knew her), saw Up the Creek in her CV, recalled the VHS box, Cheap Trick, etc. Very circular.

But yeah, movie is terrible! But I did recognize her from Ghostbusters (she plays the college student Bill Murray is flirting with during his ESP experiment).

Jane Lapotaire has died at the age of 81.

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2026/mar/12/jane-lapotaire-obituary

RIP

Ernie Anastos

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EcvAEbMwW2Q

"I’ve spent my whole life building bridges, but do they call me 'Bridgeman'? No. I’ve spent my whole life building houses, but do they call me 'Housebuilder'? No."

Jürgen Habermas has died at the age of 96.

https://www.spiegel.de/kultur/philosoph-juergen-habermas-mit-96-jahren-gestorben-a-8be73ac7-e722-4543-8344-4515c4040363

Phil Campbell of Motörhead, 64. So the entire lineup I saw in the 80s is gone now! Lemmy, Philthy, Würzel and now Phil.

https://blabbermouth.net/news/motorhead-guitarist-phil-campbell-dead-at-64

RIP Habermas

Gift link to the NYT obituary: Jürgen Habermas Dies at 96; One of Postwar Germany’s Most Influential Thinkers

Actor and "Blue Moon" hitmaker (and some other stuff) John Alford, 54

https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/mar/14/londons-burning-actor-john-alford-54-dies-in-prison

One of the all time tweets.

I was a Hitler Youth. :(

— Jurgen Habermas (@J_Habermas) April 25, 2011

Was a fake account.

I guess you didn't say it was real.

Sadly far worse things are real

https://deadline.com/2026/03/judy-pace-dies-83

RIP

Cotton Comes To Harlem is awesome.

Population Bomb author Paul Ehrlich, 93

In the last years of his life, journalists would occasionally remind Dr. Ehrlich about some of his dire predictions that had not come to pass: that 65 million Americans would starve to death, for example, or that there were fair odds that “England will not exist in the year 2000.”

But he stood by his fundamental convictions. In 2018, he told The Guardian that an unsustainable focus on “perpetual growth” — leading to climate change and loss of biodiversity — meant that the collapse of civilization was “a near certainty in the next few decades.”

And in 2015, he told The New York Times that his analysis in the 1960s had actually been somewhat conservative, adding: “My language would be even more apocalyptic today.”

Len Deighton, IPCRESS File author and cookery illustrator, 97.

oh man, I swear he was only just discussed in the "people you are surprised aren't dead yet" thread

I worked for his literary agent for a bit, as it happens (high point of grunt admin job: delivering post to agency client Kingsley Amis, who lived around the corner from said agency).

that job definitely sounds like memoir fuel, suzy

https://bsky.app/profile/peterkravitz.bsky.social/post/3mhak7hofoc23
RIP Len Deighton:

“When I started writing I had rules. One was that violence must not solve the problem, and I cannot have the hero overcome violence with a counterweight of violence.”

He also worked as an illustrator for six years, including a Penguin Iris Murdoch & a Deutsch Jack Kerouac

https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyzchwagk4qpep4iynozn3im/bafkreiexk7qnzp2snytbieuanou4dm5acglvwcgk4gipip7d333ivswqxy https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cyzchwagk4qpep4iynozn3im/bafkreielewa3bepn4iyuq2dxbxqcpb5nwgcimjde4cxcdulbibfbgeelzi

am loving the Kerouac cover

Ah, I had that edition of Under the Net. Didn't realise/notice it was by him.

I had an On The Road with that exact cover but drawn in a totally different style, guessing they were both working off some photo reference?

RIP Len, we were just talking about him recently.

Cool cover gallery of Deighton novels on Steve Holland's site:

https://bearalley.blogspot.com/2010/06/len-deightons-secret-files-gallery.html?fbclid=IwY2xjawQmjFFleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETBaYXFKTWVyUWhvS2JoOEFKc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHiLTjvbi14bmvm-QGsk5e31CftbMQpQ6JcY2Ij0uPT9e6NFK8A3hfqTJ1Qhr_aem_BpAOdwKnhpDyBz4PBfQY_A

You used to see those lovely movie tie-in editions of Funeral in Berlin and Billion Dollar Brain all the time in the UK, very scarce these days.

Great, yet another x screenshot *and* a fake account, fp

The switchblade and apple ones are what I remember. I think my dad had these.

German post-punk musician Bettina Köster (Mania D, Malaria!) On left:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fb/Mania_D_Sept_1979_Berlin_Super_8_v2.jpg/960px-Mania_D_Sept_1979_Berlin_Super_8_v2.jpg

everyone I've ever met named Bettina was fairly attractive, it's a winner

I almost forgot I had a German friend with that name in my neighborhood, haven't seen her in a while.

On the Australian music front: Bernie Lynch, core member of Eurogliders, a pretty sharp 80s act that never made it as big over in the US as some of their compatriots but kept on through time via various reunions. The FB post from the other core member, Grace Knight, who was married to him for a while, is worth a read:

https://www.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10167150468400744&id=520140743&mibextid=wwXIfr&rdid=yOb7nopc9PeDy8Yf#

aw fuck. RIP Bernie

Pete Frame, 83. The brilliant creator of Rock Family Trees; RIP.

Fucking hell, the curse of the other thread strikes again. What an amazing contribution Pete made. And I'll say it again, the spinoff TV series is some of the best rockmentary out there. Peel as narrator is incredibly good value, but the interviews are often excellent, and you get to gawk at the very 80s decor of the front rooms of minor members of The Move and Deep Purple.

the curse of the other thread is thinking it's this thread!

i deleted my pete frame RIP thread on bsky, i haven't seen confirmation elsewhere

Is it possible the other thread somehow started a rumour?

sillier things have happened even on ilx

ilx spreading disinfo on the web

https://bsky.app/profile/rnrbook-club.bsky.social/post/3mhdn763ygc23

Amazing

LOOOL omg

Where did you hear it from, Suzy?

Pete Frame #1 November 1942 to March 2026

Pete Frame #2 March 2026 to the present

The Continuity Pete Frame.

I saw another ILXor who is normally very accurate post it, but apparently they were banjaxed by the info on the other not-dead thread 🙃

I wonder sometimes if I am the victim of a malicious rumour

Wayne Perkins, Muscle Shoals sessionman who almost became a Rolling Stone.

https://www.cbs42.com/news/wayne-perkins-guitarist-who-went-from-alabama-to-backing-some-of-musics-greatest-artists-dies/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3RGhtDjup38

RIP. Played on the sweetened version of "Concrete Jungle" iirc.

Which of course is mentioned prominently in that article.

Hand Of Fate one of my fave Stones songs

xps brilliant Josefa

Philip Castle, British artist who designed the posters for the Kubrick films A Clockwork Orange and Full Metal Jacket, 83.

Chuck Norris, 86.

The Battle with the Devil begins.

Roundhousin' in heaven

First Geoff Capes and now this

his films were mostly mediocre but i recall Lone Wolf McQuade being a cut above the usual fare, and Code of Silence is a really stellar police thriller.

Those are the only two I'd rep for, and that's because I saw them when I was roughly 12 years old. I would not care to watch them again.

Code of Silence had Andrew Davis' magic touch, it started his run of Chicago-set action films, which were almost all really good due to outstanding location shooting and a sense of verisimilitude. This would be a good double feature with Above the Law, which succeeds despite Steven Seagal. I might argue CoS succeeds partially due to Chuck in the lead role, he wasn't doing his usual thing.

Calvin Tompkins, 100

Just came to post that. RIP.

rip nfl hall of famer mean joe greene

always wondered how exactly Chuck Norris became one the internet's longest lasting and more tiresome memes, could be Conan with the Walker Texas Ranger level (which admittedly was hilarious) or maybe that viral Lemon Demon song, idk but it felt like that lasted years.

mostly I knew Chuck from those Bowflex commercials with Christie Brinkley. Walker was fun to watch every now and then but I always wished it was a little more self aware like '68 Batman.

Tomkins' journal of being 100 years old was quite affecting: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/22/becoming-a-centenarian

xp feel like I see Chuck Norris more than anyone on banner ads and the like... "Don't Eat These Three Things" etc.

Surprised Norris was 86. I guy he was already middle aged when he was in his heyday.

Aw, Calvin Tomkins. :(

I probably posted this on the New Yorker thread, but I was in awe of the fact that he was still going out and reporting feature-length profiles in his late 90s. No shade to Roger Angell, who also made it to 100, but his last decade as a staff writer was mostly blog posts and first-person essays.

RIP guy whose 80s movies looked so shitty even I didn't watch them.

there was a guy in my yr7 class who was obsessed w Delta Force and was a complete dick so that was enough to deter me from Chuck Norris movies.
RIP to that man i guess

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

^^You know it's the '70s because Norris' shoulders had sideburns.

https://rollingout.com/2026/03/20/joe-greene-alive-death-hoax-steelers/

Other pieces saying the same.

I got a lot of joy from Walker, Texas Ranger. My brother and I were also mildly obsessed with those descriptions of his toughness from the 00s, proto-memes I guess, which tapped into a long history of shared humour about tough guys.

Jenni Murray, mainstay of Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour, 75

https://www.theguardian.com/media/2026/mar/20/former-bbc-womans-hour-presenter-jenni-murray-dies-aged-75

Jenni Murray, host of BBC Radio 4’s Women’s Hour, 75.

Massive transphobe for at least 10 years btw.

Tomkins' journal of being 100 years old was quite affecting: https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/12/22/becoming-a-centenarian

was thinking of Living Well Is the Best Revenge: The Life of Gerald and Sara Murphy--which I believe has been republished with more of Gerald's paintings---while I recently re-read Tender Is The Night (agree w Hem that I get more out of that every time I pick it up). Gotta check out some more Calvin!

https://rollingout.com/2026/03/20/joe-greene-alive-death-hoax-steelers/

Other pieces saying the same.

― clemenza, Friday, March 20, 2026 1:09 PM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

thanks for this. who knew it would be bad to pay people for lying on the internet

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/tv/tv-news/nicholas-brendon-dead-buffy-the-vampire-slayer-1236543090/

Nicholas Brendon aka Xander from Buffy

damn. RIP
i knew he’d struggled for a while but was not expecting that

Poor Guy. The Zeppo is a low-key GOAT Buffy episode, and Psycho Beach Party is such a fun little movie.

i still like that S1 episode where he hung out with that group of kids who all turned into hyenas; and when he almost got eaten by the praying mantis teacher; and when he turned into the army dude on Halloween; and and and

Xander had a lot of issues as a character but he was such a great foil for monsters of the week, and had some of the best oneliners

Amazing that for all the assault charges and the general mayhem, he never went the manosphere podcaster route, which would surely have been really lucrative for him.

Robert Mueller

https://www.reuters.com/world/former-fbi-chief-mueller-has-died-according-msnow-report-2026-03-21/

can't wait for Trump's obit

oh lol

Comic artist Sam Kieth, creator of The Maxx

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/leonid-radvinsky-death-dead-onlyfans-b2943801.html

Valerie Perrine, who played Eve Teschmacher in the Superman movies

https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/superman/images/6/61/Teschmacher.jpg

Total hero. "...sick."

Plus, made it through Can't Stop the Music with all its insanities as well as a brilliant quick cameo in The Cannonball Run.

RIP! Perrine was a minor god in my early childhood pantheon, between Superman & You Cant Stop The Music.

Also a truly great 2-episode cameo as Susan Lewis mom Cookie in the first two seasons of ER

Such a '70s actress...Important early roles: Slaughterhouse-Five, The Last American Hero (possibly where I first saw her), Lenny.

xxxxp Oh shit, what a loss, Kieth had such a distinctive style - I'd misremembered that he was one of the Image founders, but even among the second wave there he really stood out, and The Maxx is maybe the book that most points the way towards the current Image. Wild to read that he drew an Aliens story!

I actually came here with two Len Deighton facts: his novel Bomber was probably the first novel written on a word processor, for the installation of which a window had to be taken out of his home: https://slate.com/culture/2013/03/len-deightons-bomber-the-first-book-ever-written-on-a-word-processor.html

... and it was also one of the books Lemmy was reading while wondering what to call the third Motörhead album.

Cool.

xp Yeah, Kieth was unique - I loved how he could go from realistic to cartoony from panel to panel, while still feeling consistent. Most of his non-cape work takes some tracking down now, which is a shame - Four Women is a powerful story.

Chip Taylor. Playing all the Angels of the Morning right now.

RIP, wild thing.

whose niece is Angelina Jolie

I've noticed you can sing 'Angel of the Morning' over Whitesnake's 'Here I Go Again'

Charlie Kirk's Mentor Jeff Webb, the Father of Modern Cheerleading, Dies in Freak Pickleball Accident

https://people.com/jeff-webb-dead-pickleball-accident-11933142

Chip Taylor is a genius for writing and rewriting the same song over and over again. Wild Thing, Any Way That You Want Me, Angel of the Morning - all built around the same main chord change, more or less, with of course tweaks and changes. Also set the stage for Spiritualized often doing the same lol.

xpost What a headline!!!!

is that the first confirmed pickleball death?

At least he lived long enough to see his protege die.

It's not the ball that hurts, it's when you hit the ground.

What a headline!!!!

This one is kind of a doozie as well: US quadruple amputee cornhole champion arrested on suspicion of murder

while driving

Ted Nichols, composer for Scooby-Doo, The Flintstones, Josie and the Pussycats and more:

https://consequence.net/2026/03/ted-nichols-composer-flintstones-scooby-doo-dead/

I'm sure everyone will be absolutely shocked to hear that "Charlie Kirk's mentor" was a tyrannical figure who made his own destructive impact on American culture thank you very much, above and beyond said mentorship

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/22/magazine/cheerleading-jeff-webb.html?unlocked_article_code=1.VlA.UPij.YoJvI2HKhSqC&smid=url-share (gift link to exposé of his cheerleading empire, refers to him as "the Dark Sith Lord of cheer")

I love that he died in a "freak pickleball accident"

Pickleball/padel has always seemed a bit HEY KIDS to me.

I've got to be honest, there was a Padel court at the campsite in France we stayed at last summer and it looked like tonnes of fun

But I did not partake because I was 49 and at peak freak-Padel-accident age

Chip Taylor kept putting out albums until the end, including one about golf. Love his version of Regina Spektor’s “On The Radio”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rTNWpTEWtp0

Terry Cox, drummer with Pentangle.

https://www.loudersound.com/bands-artists/biographies/pentangle-drummer-terry-cox-who-also-played-on-david-bowies-space-oddity-has-died-aged-89

Only Jacquie McShee left.

They are very old these people though.

Aww RIP Terry, even though i always skipped your xylophone solos

One of my favorite drummers ever. RIP.

oh shit.. feels like Danny Thompson just graced this thread (or maybe it was last year)

feeling blessed to have seen Bert Jansch in San Francisco not long before his passing

I was just talking about him with a friend two weeks ago, sorry for making this happen.

89 is a pretty good run, we should all be so lucky

Came here to doff a cap to Terry Cox. Pentangle blow my mind.

RIP Terry Cox.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwvpMGc_J-w

Alexander Kluge, filmmaker and writer.

Abscheid von Gestern

What, is he dead as well?

^ joke

Jean-Pierre Faye, 100.

Faye is credited with creating the horseshoe theory.

obviously being a moron doesn't preclude living to be a hundred

Well, one horseshoe theory is that 100 year olds and babies are similar.

Mr. “Summer Breeze” Dash Crofts, 87.

oh no... My grandparents were friends with his parents, and they sent me a signed album (a later 80's one that I've lost)

Great, great songs but they were also kinda pro-life Baháʼí and even have a song about it

(Was he also in the 'Tequila' Champs? )

He's with the unborn children now.

I've actually listened to four Seals and Crofts albums in the past few months. They were pretty good.

'Summer Breeze' 'Diamond Girl' absolute soft-rock canon classics, very melancholy melodies

Any excuse to post:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3o6ECdCZ7Q

yeah I had a cover band that played the song more in the Isley style

Cover bands
Play these sweet songs

God I'd totally forgotten about this show

"First Years" was the theme song to the debut (1978–79) season of the television series The Paper Chase.

RIP. There was a really great long article about Seals and Crofts in the Texas Monthly a few years back.

https://www.texasmonthly.com/arts-entertainment/secret-oil-patch-roots-summer-breeze/

arguably the most famous Dash after Mrs. Dash

Now she had some real flavor

Damon Dash and in some circles Dash Snow would like a word

He's with the unborn children now.

Only learned about this just now from one of the obits.

"Diamond Girl," "Summer Breeze" and "Get Closer" are top-of-the-line 70s soft rock.

I assume Dashiell Hammett's friends called him "Dash."

I thought you had to be there, but looking at the comments above, I guess not; still like "Diamond Girl" and "Summer Breeze" a lot.

Isley Brothers version of "Summer Breeze" is all-time.

it's a great song in any format, really