Rolling Obituary Thread 2024

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

Come party over here: Does anyone else remember that David Sanborn-hosted music show on NBC from the late '80s?

xxpost Belgian harmonica legend Toots Thielemans as well!

rip david sandborn you ruled, gonna listen to double vision tonight in tribute

and Young Americans.

Also the maybe unique-for-DS Another Hand, his Hal Willner-produced Downtown NYC hipster jazz album, all dressed in black!

Samborn as a very young man was an adjunct member of the Association for the Advancement of Creative Musicians, even got a mention in Downbeat in 1966 as “Davey” Samborn

SaNborn

In this 2017 interview he talks about his ties to BAG in his native St. Louis and his friendship with drummer Phillip Wilson:

Through Phillip I met Lester Bowie, Oliver Lake, Julius Hemphill, and Hamiet Bluiett. Lester was the comedian king: like the wise philosopher of St. Louis but funny and fearless.

Phillip and Lester did not discriminate about styles of music. Lester played in a circus band, society gigs, straight ahead gigs. He played with Jimmy Forrest. He met his wife Fontella “Rescue Me” Bass on a gig with the Clara Ward Gospel Singers.

Everyone had a day job except for Lester. Julius Hemphill sold furniture, Oliver Lake worked in the post office, Phillip worked as an arc welder at McDonnell Aircraft. Phillip worked at McDonnell all day, like from six in the morning to three or four in the afternoon, and he might of gone home and slept a bit before playing and hanging all night. Sometimes we would be hanging at like four in the morning and he’d say, “I’ve got to go home, change my clothes, and go to work.”

Hemphill was a physically imposing figure, a towering guy with a commanding presence. No one had to say it, but he was obviously the guy in control, the Einstein of everything. He was a powerful player, he had great time. And such a great composer. Eventually he was the glue in the World Saxophone Quartet, and gave avant-gardisms that were verging on tenuous more nuance. Tim Berne and I bonded over Dogon A.D.: that album was a life-changing experience for Tim.

The whole thing is worth reading.

That's great, thanks! Yeah, he and Wilson played on Butterfield's The Resurrection of Pigboy Crabshaw, one of my 60s favorites. The horns didn't get a lot of solo room, but it worked.

Having seen photos of Julius Hemphill I can only imagine he must have been an extremely successful furniture salesman. Who would dare say no to the guy?

Alice Munro, 92

Kinda didn’t realise she was that old! RIP she’s great

The greatest, really! RIP

I'm in awe of the way she'd begin with a premise, spiral outwards to the furthest reaches of this world's galaxy, and somehow return to the premise but having been enlightened by what she showed.

Gudrun Ure, Supergran herself, at 98.

RIP Supergran! One of my earliest heroes.

I think I only posted her on 'people you didn't know were still alive' about a month ago.

greatrun

Oh man, Alice Munro. Love her work.

Dabney Coleman, 92
https://www.local12.com/news/entertainment/report-actor-dabney-coleman-passes-away-dead-death-age-92-melvin-howard-on-golden-pond-tootsie-movies-film-television-emmy-award

John Hawken, keyboardist, 84
Member of the Nashville Teens, Renaissance and the Strawbs

XP Cause of death was not disclosed.

uhh, maybe his age was a factor?

That's the joke around my house — "He died of being 92."

Overtoun House windows (aldo) at 1:40 14 May 24

I think I only posted her on 'people you didn't know were still alive' about a month ago.

That's me and Dabney Coleman. Just posted him to that thread on April 12.

John Hawken! I actually love that first Renassiance album. and a lot of the Strawbs stuff he was on. what a cool band they were. not really folk, not really prog, just kinda liable to go anywhere in between. Hawken I believe was the main reason for that. I wanna quote some Strawbs tune about wishing your dead friends well but there are just so damn many of them

Pedal steel guitarist, large-scale instrument builder and LAFMS affiliate Chas Smith. (all of his albums are great)

Minneapolis West Bank folk legend Spider John Koerner https://www.startribune.com/spider-john-koerner-obituary-minneapolis-minnesota-bob-dylan-ray-glover-bonnie-raitt-palmers-cancer/600366946/"> https://www.startribune.com/spider-john-koerner-obituary-minneapolis-minnesota-bob-dylan-ray-glover-bonnie-raitt-palmers-cancer/600366946/

xpost Yeah, Chas Smith plays on that forthcoming Lee Underwood reissue that I posted Drag City press sheet about (w video link) on the post-Fahey thread, followed by sleeves post of the Bandcamp link to a Chas album.