Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

xp Yeah, Tobe Hooper directed it, he didn't pull any punches with the scary stuff

James Mason as the vampire's henchman and keeper was so cold blooded, actually he was much scarier than the vampire

A lot of it was filmed up in Humboldt County (where I'm from), my uncle got paid $15 to put a Massachussetts plate on his car

The house was totally fake, we drove out to have a look at it while they were filming

I think you've got your cops mixed up. Paul Michael Glaser was Starsky (the street one), while David Soul was Hutch (the smart one.)

Ahh okay

See?

I felt so sure of myself

You don't have many of those renaissance men much anymore: stage actor, film actor, television, successful pop singer

it scared the shit out of me when I was a kid

Seeing a *trailer* for it freaked me out!

Vampire raising up through the kitchen floor with evil James Mason and killing the kid's parents in front of him seemed pretty hardcore for post watershed television at the time.

Heard some work people today commiserating with Kate Garraway but I said nothing because lol fuck Draper not soon enough

Died of long covid? weird

he was already dead tbf! When he got covid he was in an induced coma for 10 weeks, covid hated him more than uk ilx does.

I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

"turned" being the solecism

Glad to see that David Sole was well prepared, just in case he bumped into Derek Draper…. pic.twitter.com/ky1Ax5OTOc

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I keep misreading gushing tributes to him as "lobbyist turned psychopath"

Same, except when hearing it.

Silver Lady is a banger and fuiud tbh

don't give up on us baby

calz isn't that the unfunny racist Zarah Sultana "parody" account?

yeah I just posted the first offensive post about Draper I found, apols

O T MF M

Draper Death is long overdue and

Welsh flag and horrid name should have been a dead giveaway, but I'm slightly pished tonight.

David Soul was a guy who had a lot of acting chops. Weirdly my first exposure to him was as one-half of a psychotic bank robbing duo in the TV film In the Line of Duty: The FBI Murders. The other psycho was Michael Gross! They were both superb and the final shootout is genuinely intense and bleak.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBGfKtuo2AM

Mário Zagallo

https://www.theguardian.com/football/2024/jan/06/mario-zagallo-world-cup-winning-player-and-coach-for-brazil-dies-aged-92

Cindy Morgan, who played Lacy Underall in Caddyshack.

And Yori in Tron

Rip Zagallo

Joan Acocella, New Yorker staff writer and dance critic, at 78:

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/07/obituaries/joan-acocella-dead.html

Hearing reports that Iasos has passed into the crystal realm. RIP.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKRgNcqnoV8

I remember reading an Acocella review of Cirque du Soleil in the 90s in the Wall Street Journal (where she wrote before the New Yorker)...

Ahh here it is.

The "new circus" people are on the wrong track, I think. In their view, it seems, the acts are corny; what is important is the meanings that can be attached to them. But in fact it is those meanings that are corny. What is serious is the acts.

Del Palmer RIP

https://www.loudersound.com/news/del-palmer-dead-at-71?fbclid=IwAR2bmBVz2NTu9ifU2NUxvadA8-kqS6wdDgS5ZoBUFzehDN1LPzF0fvysocs

Franz Beckenbauer

According to David Grubbs, composer Phill Niblock has passed.

yeah all over facebook from people who know.

rip franz

2/3 men to ever win a world cup as both player and coach died on the same weekend

Lol that's incredible

RIP Phill Niblock, the Emperor of Drone

Saw Beckenbauer play in the first soccer match I ever attended, 1977 or '78 when he was with the New York Cosmos. Great team that was.

Saw him with The Cosmos often as well. Amazing. RIP

Oh man, Phill and Franz RIP

I never got to see the Cosmos play live, but to the extent there was soccer on TV in the western U.S. (which was almost not at all), I did get to see that club, which consisted of several aging greats and Italian fugitive Giorgio Chinaglia. IIRC, they did play some friendlies with German clubs and got pasted.

But RIP Der Kaiser, the original sweeper.

rip franz. the first image of him to come to mind is always him playing in a sling during what I think was the 1970 world cup due to a broken collarbone.

JPR Williams

Larry Collins of early Rockabilly outfit The Collins Kids

https://www.vintageguitar.com/58564/renowned-guitarist-larry-collins-passes/

He co-wrote "Delta Dawn"!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nnAQvu7OqrY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cZ1TYUK8T8

https://amsterdamnews.com/news/2024/11/09/dancer-and-choreographer-judith-jamison-dies-at-81/

Saxman Lou Donaldson

https://www.thesnaponline.com/2024/11/10/jazz-legend-badin-native-lou-donaldson-has-died/

Los Angeles/Hollywood personality Dennis Woodruff. If you've lived here for any length of time, you've probably seen his car(s) around.
https://lamag.com/news/hollywood-personality-dennis-woodruff-dies

https://lamag.com/.image/ar_1:1%2Cc_fill%2Ccs_srgb%2Cfl_progressive%2Cq_auto:eco%2Cw_1200/MjEwNDgwMjYyNzkyODgyMDAx/dennis-woodruff-atop-his-art-car-in-hollywood.jpg

SST records is saying Jeff Atta of the Middle Class has died. His brother Mike (also in the band) died in 2014.

Frank Auerbach, British painter, 93.

He did an episode of This Cultural Life months ago - look on BBC Sounds for a listen.

he was a better painter than his more celebrated and famous iconic N London drinking buddy imo

Sue Tilley who posed for Lucien Freud has just posted a tribute - apparently when she was sitting for the Benefits Supervisor portrait, FA stopped by the studio a lot. His story is really fascinating and he spoke about it in an ambivalent way I really liked.

the recent courtauld exhibition of charcoal sketched heads was mesmerising.

X-post - just seeing Dow’s Nov 8 post re Jamie Klimek ‘s death and just seeing it elsewhere. Klimek was in great Cleveland 70s rock band the Mirrors who, and was also known for having tape recorded some late 60s gigs of the Velvet Underground in Cleveland.

Oops I also missed Dan S’s post about Klimek

roy haynes, 99

aw, one of the greatest of the greats that was still standing :(

weird wikipedia detail: In 2008, Haynes lent his voice to the open-world video game Grand Theft Auto IV, to voice himself as the DJ for the fictional classic jazz radio station, Jazz Nation Radio 108.5

RIP Roy

Dobaldson’s Blues Walk was the first CD I ever bought.

Throwing on Pat Metheny's Question and Answer, Haynes really tears it up on that one

Model Georgina Cooper, 46, complications from long covid.

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/georgina-cooper-dead-supermodel-age-46-b2643875.html

I was going to post about that last week because ppl I know who’d worked with her were sharing the news.

Timothy West, 90.

Poor Pru

Sharath Jois, Ashtanga Yoga guru who I see has taught Madonna, dies aged 53.

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/world/yoga-madonna-gwyneth-paltrow-sting-sharath-jois-ashtanga-vinyasa-india-b1193474.html

Shel Talmy. The Kinks. The Who. the Creation. Easybeats. Lee Hazlewood. Had just started following him on Facebook. Great stories. Great career.

Oh shit... legend! He was recording bands in california until fairly recently

Crikey! A giant.

wow. what a legend. tbh I had no idea he was still alive.

Creation's 'Making Time' gets me bobbing my head against my will

That song is all-time for me.

Even if I slightly prefer Lord High Fixers' obliteration of it.