Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

Never quite understood the conflicts that prevented its release, don't really understand why the filmmakers might have tried to rip Brother Wayne off, but you really shouldn't attempt to fuck with someone who has spent years in prison, they really do not play.

The way I understand it (and this is all from--possibly faulty--memory) is that it got hamstrung the way a lot of independently financed music docs do: because of the high cost of music clearances for proper theatrical & home media distribution, particularly when you don't have a distributor in place to handle those things in the first place. The filmmakers tried to work around this by asking surviving band members to make them full partners in the group's LLC, so they could ostensibly make it easier to clear the publishing rights and possibly ease negotiations with Warner Music by representing the group for clearances on the recordings.

This is why Kramer balked, because he and the rest of the band didn't want to give up any of their hard fought-for rights to people they felt didn't have the sweat equity to do so on a deal that up till then had worked on handshakes. This all also happened at the figurative 11th hour too, as a DVD release had already been prepared and put up for preorder on major sites (a seriously naive move on the filmmakers part, and one that ultimately allowed for serious bootlegging, as promos of the final authored disc leaked and have been ripped ever since).

So the movie went into limbo, occasionally surfacing here and there, but it seems like Kramer seriously washed his hands of the whole deal.

I managed to grab it when it appeared on youtube or vimeo a few years ago, don't think it's up any more

I bought a DVD-R of it at a record show 10+ years ago. It was freaky because it was a full rip of the intended release disc, with menus & all the extras (which IIRC were surviving performance clips you see on YouTube: that great '70 Tartar Field footage, a local TV performance of "American Ruse", and the Beat Club "KOTJ").

https://archive.org/details/mc-5-a-true-testimonial-disc-1

https://archive.org/details/mc-5-a-true-testimonial-disc-2

Aston ‘Family Man’ Barrett of the upsetters/wailer passed

wailers

was all over those keith hudson records too

RIP

Believe he was a big-time studio musician before The Wailers and maybe after.

RIP. My condolences to his 41 children.

RIP Aston Barrett

RIP. My condolences to his 41 children.

Actually no, he was known as Family Man before he'd fathered any children.

Couldn't call him 'Family Planning' obvs.

I see that Christopher Priest along with David Langford recently wrote the Guardian obit for David D.G. Compton so RIP to him too.

^ most thrilling rock song ever imo xp

― blazin' squab (NickB), Friday, 2 February 2024 21:44 bookmarkflaglink

the 1968 single version definitely is, the version on Back In The USA is a little tame by comparison

Just noticed that Carlos Lyra passed away in late December, don’t think it was remarked upon yet.
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/12/23/arts/music/carlos-lyra-dead.html

Not an obit but an interview and long overview from May of last year:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/may/16/bossa-nova-pioneer-carlos-lyra-at-90-we-wrote-songs-about-our-reality-the-beach-sun-and-love-stories

Barry John - not long after JPR Williams too.

https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2024/feb/04/barry-john-welsh-rugby-legend-and-british-and-irish-lions-great-dies-at-79

Ian Lavender

Oh no, genuinely sad at this.

He was the last one left, no?

Yup.

The curse of Dad's Army strikes again.

I wonder if there's a particular Dad's Army clip news programmes will run to mark his passing?

Michael Jayston, according to Colin Baker.

I was literally watching Trial Of A Time Lord during lunch today

very much enjoyed his reading of tinker tailor on a driving holiday lately, rip

Great voice. RIP.

His finest moment:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YsQ4n_XOgjs

As far as I'm aware neither Ian Lavender or Michael Jayston were in Harry Potter so I can read their obituaries without doing my nut in.

Jarvis' time will come...

I'll spin Finisterre by Saint Etienne today for good dose of Jayston voice.

The whole main cast of Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy has now passed

As far as I'm aware neither Ian Lavender or Michael Jayston were in Harry Potter so I can read their obituaries without doing my nut in.

― The British Boy of Film Classification (Tom D.), Monday, 5 February 2024 15:25 (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

they were both in the early 90s Cluedo tv series though not at the same time and none of the obits I've read yet have mentioned this

Toby Keith. Wasn’t aware he was sick.

I liked to love his music between his late '90s and mid '00s breakthrough. His 9-11 song and pro-lynching duet with Willie Nelson remain gross.

Don't know much of his stuff beyond the gross ones, but "Somewhere Else" is great

wilhelmenia wiggins fernandez at 75 😔😔😔

Mickey Gilbert, stunt performer, 87.
https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/movies/movie-news/mickey-gilbert-dead-stuntman-robert-redford-1235817432/

Mickey Gilbert, the fearless stunt performer who jumped off a cliff for Robert Redford in Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and doubled for Gene Wilder in films including Blazing Saddles, Silver Streak and The Frisco Kid, has died. He was 87.

Gilbert died Monday of natural causes at his home in Camarillo, California, his oldest son, Tim Gilbert, also a stunt performer, told The Hollywood Reporter.

Early in his career, Gilbert was a horse wrangler in William Wyler’s Ben-Hur (1959) and a bank robber in Sam Peckinpah’s The Wild Bunch (1969). Years later, he took the lumps for Lee Majors’ Colt Seavers on the 1981-86 ABC action show The Fall Guy.

Seeing Mojo Nixon, from a "cardiac event," age 66

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/mojo-nixon-dead-obituary-1234964257/

Oh no. I saw him (with Skid Roper) the night before I graduated from college, it was a religious experience.

oh man. My first memory when reading this was the Dead Milkmen reference, but I'm watching the Elvis is Everywhere video and my first impulse is "oh yeah, this used to be on all the time" followed by "oh right, this is catchy" followed by "oh shit, I forgot how hilarious this was. Elvis needs boats!"

Our store could use some fixin

Waiting for comment from Michael J. Fox

fuuuuck RIP mojo

no one rules harder

Wow… Mojo was a San Diego Comic Con regular all through the 80s - roaming the show with his guitar, busting out a song, and somehow operating and thinking at a higher speed than anyone else.

It's just goddamn weird to think of a world without him OR Country Dick in it.

The world needs "Don Henley Must Die" now more than ever.

Good story about that: https://www.austinchronicle.com/music/2014-06-20/don-henley-must-die/