Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

too young! And he's on the cover of this month's Wire!

Well, this sucks.

What the hell

Good piece from last year

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/aug/15/the-evolution-of-steve-albini-if-the-dumbest-person-is-on-your-side-youre-on-the-wrong-side

Heart attack apparently

Just the worst news

Only just seen this, jesus christ thats horrible news

damn

apparently died at his studio? I mean... if you have to go, there could be worse ways

It seems such a blue collar way to die, heart attack at your work place. None of your ODing after a coke binge.

Dennis Thompson, Drummer & Final Member of The MC5

https://www.freep.com/story/entertainment/music/brian-mccollum/2024/05/09/dennis-thompson-mc5-drummer-obituary/73629138007/

Pete McCloskey, former Congressman and Presidential candidate.

In a 1981 interview, he stated that he thought he "was the first Republican elected opposing the war" despite the fact that his "constituency, two to one, favored the war in 1967."

McCloskey was the first member of Congress to publicly call for the impeachment of President Nixon after the Watergate scandal and the Saturday Night Massacre. He was also the first lawmaker to call for a repeal of the Gulf of Tonkin Resolution that had allowed for the War in Vietnam. He chose, in early 1975, to see for himself the effects of US bombing in Cambodia, stating afterwards that his country had committed "greater evil than we have done to any country in the world, and wholly without reason, except for our benefit to fight against the Vietnamese."

Italian singer/Songwriter Giovanna Marini

https://e.snmc.io/i/600/w/c61006352566429c4afc3f303db776cc/4386243/giovanna-marini-la-vivazione-la-partita-truccata-Cover-Art.jpg

xxpost Dennis Machinegun Thompson, also of one-off supergroup New Race

Crazy that anyone in MC5's orbit made it 75.. It's too bad Thompson won't be there for the Hall of Fame induction, I think he actually cared about it

RIP dennis, RIP MC5 ;_;

Shirley Conran, writer and mother of designer Jasper, 91.

Oh fuck, RIP Dennis ;_;

Infamous global money launderer ​​Ramón Fonseca Mora of the Mossack-Fonseca law firm made famous in the Panama Papers investigation, 71
https://www.icij.org/investigations/panama-papers/panama-papers-law-firm-co-founder-ramon-fonseca-mora-dies-in-hospital/

Gosh, I'm reading Shirley Conran's novel Lace right now and have been for a couple of months. It's quite saucy... and long (over 700 pp). It's what's known as a "bonkbuster," a term I learned recently. There was a TV miniseries made of Lace in the 1980s.

Ha, we had a copy of Lace around the house — maybe my sister had it, I think she and her friends all read it — and as a teenager I remember skimming it for the sex scenes. There were a bunch!

"Which one of you bitches is my mother?" is an all-time line, too.

[iSmithsonian Folkways mourns the passing of blues musician and harmonica player Phil Wiggins (1954-2024). He died peacefully at his home on Tuesday morning, one day before his 70th birthday. Wiggins was a Folkways recording artist, teacher, NEA National Heritage Fellow, and frequent performer at the Smithsonian Folklife Festival along with his longtime musical partner John Cephas. He was known throughout the international blues community and his hometown of Washington, D.C., for his wit, humor, and powerful playing.[/i]

Producer and engineer Eric "ET" Thorngren, apparently. Was just thinking about him the other day because I watched Stop Making Sense (it's now streaming on Max); he mixed the original soundtrack album. Don't know if he worked on the remix/remaster for the new version of the movie/soundtrack.

Happy trails to Roger Corman

Goddamn This Fucking Week...

oh goddammit

i just recently read the excellent biography “Crabmonsters Teenage Cavemen & Candy Stripe Nurses”… what an incredible life & output & legacy.

RIP king, mench etc

Towering figure in cinema. Amazing life.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CcR24iQa0yU

RIP Roger, what an unbelievable life. I really don't want to read any snarky obituaries from the 'quality' press so will avoid.

This book should be a go-to guide for any aspiring filmmaker intending to include lengthy shots of characters wandering about/smoking etc in their work-in-progress. Roger's advice: don't.

https://pictures.abebooks.com/isbn/9780385304894-uk.jpg

Oh shame, RIP Roger.

Not having Roger Corman around is like losing an element of the periodic table. As important to culture as oxygen, carbon, and Bill Gaines. Time spent watching his movies is not subtracted from your lifespan but added to it 2x over. The true king

Susan Backlinie former actress and stuntwoman - best known as the first shark attack victim in Spielberg's Jaws, 77
https://thedailyjaws.com/news/susan-backlinie-of-jaws-fame-passes-away-aged-77

xp Indeed. RIP Roger Corman

Man I had lost track that Corman was even still alive. Wow. What a force.

John Barbata, drummer for The Turtles, CSNY, Neil Young, and Jefferson Airplane/Starship

John Barbata, Drummer for Turtles, CSN&Y, Airplane/Starship, Dead at 79@ThrashersWheat https://t.co/SomIIRa2AS

— Harold Lepidus 🌳 (@DylanExaminer) May 12, 2024

Had to check the Neil connection--Time Fades Away.

He came in mid-tour to replace Kenny Buttery in The Stray Gators. Graham Nash soon borrowed them --minus Jack Nitzsche and just a cameo from Neil (as "Joe Yankee") -- for his Wild Tales album.

RIP.

Was just trying to remember his name the other day actually

damn...he also made a terrific album called L.A. Getaway with Chris Ethridge and Joel Scott Hill. Absolutely classic '70s rock which, if released by a name artist, would be a bit iconic I think.

Pvmic from Wiki:

While Barbata was drumming with CSNY, David Geffen tried to persuade him to join The Eagles. Barbata declined as he was already in one of the biggest musical groups at the time.

Wonder how much he was able to cash in on his Jefferson Starship tenure (including Red Octopus). That's around the time when the money started to get bigger.

Was just thinking about it, and realized that the Time Fades Away guys are now down to Nash & Young.

In earlier days: all the Turtles on Sullivan clips are Gold, but this Austin Powers freakout on "She's My Girl" is new to me...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8ekoJx_u9Oc

RIP. Excellent drummer.

(By the way, Howard Kaylan is 20 years old in that clip!)

Saxman David Sanborn

From FB:

It is with sad and heavy hearts that we convey to you the loss of internationally renowned, 6 time Grammy Award-winning, saxophonist, David Sanborn. Mr. Sanborn passed Sunday afternoon, May 12th, after an extended battle with prostate cancer with complications.

Mr. Sanborn had been dealing with prostate cancer since 2018, but had been able to maintain his normal schedule of concerts until just recently. Indeed he already had concerts scheduled into 2025.

David Sanborn was a seminal figure in contemporary pop and jazz music. It has been said that he "put the saxophone back into Rock ’n Roll.”

Sanborn and band playing "Hey Joe" with Nick Cave on Night Music (I believe Sonic Youth was in the studio audience)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n7eiOsxzjKc

Sonic Youth was more than just in the audience:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jdJ2ecf-dYo

I just mean that I think I first heard of Nick Cave because Sonic Youth mentioned in an interview that they were in the studio audience of Night Music because they loved him so much