Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

RIP, person I thought was already

AKA PDQ Bach---haven't heard it, but really liked the idea of his album about the NPR station that was proudly "All Pachebel, All The Time." Think this was after Eno covered the "Canon" on Discreet Music, a teen choral version was the theme of Redford-directed Ordinary People, and it went on and on---in the late 80s or early 90s, a rapper sampled it, and why the fuck not, But Kyle Gann took a class taught by Peter S., said he was a rainy day at best--reminding me of what somebody else said about Donald Barthelme, and I think it was Thurber who wrote about what dark or gray miserable bastards so many humorists are. Maybe it's true of comedians as well, having to be funny.

Pachelbel, excuse me! And Eno recorded Variations on:
http://www.google.com/search?q=Pache%3Bbel+Brian+Eno&oq=Pache%3Bbel+Brian+Eno&aqs=chrome..69i57j33i160l3.22601j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:6d711571,vid:nPesTx4yb3g,st:0

The PDQ Bach stuff was amusing, but I also loved Schickele Mix, a radio show where he could just ramble on about whatever music he wanted to talk about.

He introduced me to this fabulous song about dust mites by Heywood Banks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kG0e6KOIZAI

"“Recognise the faces but can’t place the names?” Among the list of Britain’s top 10 great unsung television character actors that followed was Georgina Hale."

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"This article was amended on 10 January 2024 to change a picture that did not show Georgina Hale."

Hale was a good Alma Mahler too

Brilliant dhrupad singer Amelia Cuni:

Blank Forms is deeply saddened by the death of Amelia Cuni (1958–2024), vocalist, composer, writer, teacher, well-known as one of the greatest contemporary Western proponents of dhrupad singing. More here: https://t.co/UZcxrIRjzl pic.twitter.com/c5Sgh6crTY

— Blank Forms (@BlankForms) January 17, 2024

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NEKShVBmQr8

Aw, I love Amelia Cuni... she wasn't very old, either!

Juan Mendez aka Silent Servent. Way too young.

https://ra.co/news/80120?fbclid=IwAR3UTHIIGS3JYsnaBVfbnQ-TNNH8QXi2cntJ1IaCXOUBz-6tDdg2VU6YaeY_aem_AbfBjSE8TJBieOgzmOh05CatAjiAVXQ6Lqvi5Ch2KdUxyVg9C9NgeIcHIMtWTqJO21U

Ah wow :( Rest In Peace. Chatted with him once a couple of years back - nice guy.

Never met him but he gave props to Acute in an interview or something somewhere and had friends in common. He definitely defined a very influential aesthetic visually as well as musically.

Juan's wife and Luis Vasquez of The Soft Moon also passed away.

I just saw that on the Soft Moon facebook page. Terrible and sad news.

What the hell? ;_;

absolutely heartbreaking

that's terrible, wtf happened??

car accident?

there are rumors of it being fentanyl related, but i feel guilty spreading that as i have no idea if it's true

Was pretty weirded out to find that Juan's last record as Silent Servant came out last year and was called In Memorium

awful news. met him one time and bonded over early foetus 7"s chat. loved his music.

how awful :(

there are rumors of it being fentanyl related, but i feel guilty spreading that as i have no idea if it's true

Nothing official-official yet, but seeing some reports from people who would know on FB that Mary Weiss from the Shangri-Las has passed on.

RIP :(

Light In The Attic is also reporting that Seattle music scene Legend Susie Tennant of Sub Pop Records has passed away.

It’s with heavy hearts we share the news that Susie Tennant passed away yesterday. Susie was a giant inspiration for so many within the Seattle music community and far beyond. While interning at Sub Pop in the mid-90s, Susie handed me a 7" by the Fastbacks, released on Munster Records in Spain. She said to call the phone # on the back of the record jacket, tell them Susie sent me, and ask for an internship. I immediately did just that, trying to explain to Francisco (or was it Íñigo?!) at Munster the definition of the word “internship.” Six months later, I was in Madrid, interning for Munster and my life would never be the same. Without a doubt, there’d be no Light in the Attic without Susie. Susie, we’ll miss you. Thanks for all you did for us and thanks for all you did for so many others. Rest in Peace. Our hearts go out to Susie’s family and friends.

OMG Mary Weiss, what a heartthrob, RIP!

there are rumors of it being fentanyl related, but i feel guilty spreading that as i have no idea if it's true

Also have heard this rumor :-/

it would appear so - https://www.hollywoodlanews.com/jose-vasquez-dead/

such a tragedy

FUCK FENTANYL.

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

Is he a good danceuh?
Whaddayamean, is he a good danceuh?
Well, how does he dance?
Close, very, very close!

Wow, RIP :(

FUCK FENTANYL.

FUCK FENTANYL.

FUCK FENTANYL.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mary-weiss-the-shangri-las-dead-obituary-1234950474/

Mary Weiss's death brings to mind an ongoing issue with the baseball HOF: their habit of not inducting some obviously qualified people while they're still alive (Ron Santo, Buck O'Neil, Leo Durocher, Dick Allen), then inducting them soon after they die--or, in Allen's case, not even then. (He'll be inducted eventually). I bet the Shangri-Las go in within two or three years; they should have been in long ago, and from all reports (by which I mean Greil Marcus), going in was something that was actually important to Weiss.

otm

i'm sorry that that was important to her

i've complained about the baseball HOF often enough, as clemenza is well aware -- it does less to celebrate greatness than to punish non-inductees (who were all great players!) for not measuring up, for years on end. (and then slips harold baines in via a back door because tony la russa liked him)

and the R&RHOF is ten times more arbitrary and racist and sexist. no one should care about it

otm as well

Halls of Fame are shit.

God bless the Shangri-La's. Rest in Peace Mary.

I’M JUST HERE FOR DICTATION
I DON’T WANT TO BE A SENSATION
BEING ON SIXTY MINUTES WASN’T
WORTH YOUR 15 MINUTES
DON’T TOUCH MY BREAST
I’M JUST WORKING AT MY DESK
DON’T PUT ME TO THE TEST
I’M JUST DOING MY BEST
SHOPPING AT MAXFIELDS
POWER FOR YOU TO WIELD
I DREAMED OF GOING TO THE GRAMMYS
TILL YOU POKED ME WITH YOUR WHAMMY
YOU USED TO SPIN THE DISKS
NOW YOU’RE MOURNING YOUR WRISTS
I’M JUST FROM ENCINO
WHY ARE YOU SO MEANO
I’M JUST HERE FOR DICTATION
IM NOT YOUR SUMMER VACATION
YOU REALLY LIKE TO SMOORE
WELL NOW YOU’RE ON THE NEWS
I’M FROM SHERMAN OAKS, JUST A WHEEL IN THE SPOKES
BUT I AIN’T GIVING YOU HEAD
IN A SUNSET BUNGALOW
ROSHUMBA, JUDIT, PAULINA, KATHY,
VENDELLA, NAOMI, ASHLEY, ANGIE, STACEY,
GAIL, I’M SWIMMING, I’M SWIMMING (US WOMEN)

Marlena Shaw, 81.
Pluto Shervington, 73.

RIP Marlena + Pluto.

Weird that reggae used to be in the British charts so regularly. I assume Pluto Shervington's "Dat" managed to become a Top 10 hit because the BBC couldn't understand the patois, it mentions buying weed in the first 30 seconds!

RIP Pluto, Dat 7" was a regular fixture in 90s charity shops/car boot sales

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8HsIxaHq3Q

RIP Marlena

I was just listening to "Let's Wade In The Water" on a Chess v/a comp yesterday, which was quite the floor-filler at the local Soul Nights back in the day. RIP Marlena!

oh no not Pluto :(

one day i will find a karaoke that's got "Your Honour"

Laurie Johnson, composer of great TV, film and library music. Not least one of the greatest title sequences of all time.

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

And the Jason King theme, too.

Conductor of a fantastic LP version of Herrmann’s North By Northwest also
And his Hammer score for Captain Kronos is really special

Norman Jewison, 97. Definitely assumed he died like 20 years ago.

Gigi Riva, at the age of 79.

R.I.P Gigi Riva 💔

Italy’s greatest ever striker & STILL their top scorer 50 years after his last game

Scored in Euro 68 final win, a legend at World Cup 70

Led Cagliari to historic 1970 Scudetto

His left foot shot was so powerful it once broke the arm of a fan in the crowd pic.twitter.com/KPJgJCfc47

— Carlo Garganese (@carlogarganese) January 22, 2024

David Emge (from Dawn of the Dead)

https://ew.com/david-emge-died-dawn-of-the-dead-8547146

Oh, this one hurts. The great David Emge passed away Saturday in his hometown of Evansville IN at age 77.

DAWN OF THE DEAD is one of the best social and commercial commentaries ever set to film, and David’s nerve-addled “Flyboy” ties the movie together with heart and humanity. pic.twitter.com/iXoLVeKkIG

— Ted Geoghegan (@tedgeoghegan) January 22, 2024