Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Noted fetish/pinup model and internet star Masuimi Max, 45.

― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson),

DJ Slick Rick (not the rapper) https://www.tmz.com/2024/01/26/memphis-dj-slick-rick-decapitated-beheaded-death-police-investigating/

NEW ORLEANS — Harry Connick Sr., who was New Orleans’ district attorney for three decades and later faced allegations that his staff sometimes held back evidence that could have helped defendants, died Thursday at age 97.

I hadn't heard till now - on January 3rd, Tawl Ross of the original Funkadelic group, at the age of 75. Billy Nelson is now the only member of the instrumental quintet left.

RIP Tawl

Wow at Jesse Jane. She used to date Kid Rock, because of course she did. I heard a story once that during a lull in their relationship Kid Rock literally sent her an 18-wheeler full of Budweiser to try and woo her back.

Didn't break till his wife announced it yesterday, but British Lovecraftian fiction writer Brian Lumley died at the beginning of the month.

Sandra Milo

https://variety.com/2024/film/global/sandra-milo-dead-federico-fellini-8%c2%bd-juliet-of-the-spirits-1235890276/

people u thought

oh no, I had no Tawl Ross had passed :(

He gets a spot in my pantheon just for singing "Funky Dollar Bill" (the 45 mix below is rougher than the LP but interesting):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hjQi0UAHFaY

Shelley Ganz of The Unclaimed (per their Facebook page)

Awesome UK photographer Brian Griffin, so many incredible album covers and press shots in the 1980s in particular.

Ah he did the covers for the first four Echo & the Bunnymen albums, have always loved those

N. Scott Momaday, Kiowa writer and the first Indigenous writer to win the Pulitzer for Fiction, given for his novel House Made of Dawn. Great writer, love teaching his story “The Well.”

xp and the first four Depeche Mode ones too, wow!

https://www.theguardian.com/stage/2024/jan/30/chita-rivera-broadway-star-dies-aged-91

Cool 2015 interview with Brian Griffin - gets into tech, advertising work, more album covers that everyone here knows.
https://davedye.com/2015/06/01/brian-griffin-interview/

That’s a great read. He seems like a spiky character. Some fantastic pictures, the one of Tony Benn made me guffaw.

chita!

Melinda Wilson, wife & manager to Brian

https://people.com/melinda-wilson-wife-of-beach-boys-brian-wilson-dead-8553386

https://www.iol.co.za/entertainment/celebrity-news/local/sipho-hotstix-mabuse-pays-tribute-to-late-musical-genius-tony-cedras-02063ffd-3818-4150-855e-70ded6501707

Tony Cedras, who played accordion, keyboards and more with Hugh Masekela , and was part of Paul Simon’s band for years, has died at age 72

https://www.playbill.com/article/three-time-tony-winner-hinton-battle-dies-at-67

Stop animation wiz Mark Gustafson, 64.

And also Bruce Springsteen's mother Adele, 98.

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-02-02/carl-weathers-dead-dies-rocky-apollo-creed-predator-mandalorian

Wow.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oDOffqDsV5Q

goddamn it ;_;

dude did everything
also played for the raiders

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JnfwSx10-8c

rip to the legend. what a charismatic screen presence.

i fuckin love him in those Rocky movies

Ah dang. The Mandalorian was a nice late highlight.

I've still never seen the first two Rocky movies, but he was great in The Predator and Action Jackson is a really underrated/unjustly forgotten 80s action movie.

Yeah I was tempted to post the infamous Predator gif itt but realized not everyone probably wanted to see that one.

Weathers and David Cross were a good comedy duo

i fuckin love him in those Rocky movies

^^^ RIP Carl

Dadjoke: apparently there are some things that even he couldn't weather

(Sorry; I preemptively denounce myself)

damn, RIP Action Jackson, hes been all over my screen in this interminable Gronk FanDuel ad campaign lately so he seemed spry.

loved him in everything

so deft as apollo creed, so good as a foil for arnies energy in predator, so gently funny even in slapstick or sendup in happy gilmore and arrested development, very few with that build and grace and lightness and variety and hes a big loss

hearing sketchy reports of Brother Wayne Kramer? Jeez I hope it's not true

oh no i hope not

oh please noooo

https://www.instagram.com/p/C23AQzQPeHR/

confirmed :(

MC5 guitar great Wayne Kramer has died at 75https://t.co/wYUshcRIa9

— Stereogum (@stereogum) February 2, 2024

From Insta:
Wayne S. Kramer
“PEACE BE WITH YOU” 🕊️
April 30, 1948 - February 2, 2024

Gutted... I saw him do an instore in San Francisco with John Sinclair and Steve Mackay; I was such a fanboy, I helped him load his amp back into his rental car

Extremely cool genuine dude, and his autobiography is a must-read

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfDoUIh23Wg

Dennis Thompson is the only Five left

^ most thrilling rock song ever imo xp

America's greatest rock'n'roll band.. I'm glad he was able to get back into the ballrooms late in life, I didn't see MC50 but it's great that he was able to finally make a decent living playing in front of appreciative audiences