Celebrity Deaths

[maureen]

Eli Wallach.  Adios, Tuco.  Vaya con Dios.

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Dear Mr. Eli Wallach, It has been a privilege and an honour, sir!

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

He was magnificent!

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[Tarbaby]

Dear Mr. Eli Wallach, It has been a privilege and an honour, sir!

yes indeed, go with God. I loved eli in that role, "the ugly". Absolutely classic.

[coaster]

Eli Wallach was brilliant. Tuco still has to be my favorite character ever in a movie.

[Yorkshire pud]

No mention of Bobby Womack? He died aged 70...So many in music owe so much to the man.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28071906

[maureen]

Thanks, Bobby Womack!!  When we were young and silly and wore silk, you were there!

[Eddie Coyle]

No mention of Bobby Womack? He died aged 70...So many in music owe so much to the man.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-28071906

   His soundtrack to 1972's "Across 110th Street" is on par with "Superfly" and better than "Shaft".

     I can't believe his running buddy Ron Wood outlived him...the again, Woody has more money and no full-time Stone has died since 1969. But many of their session men/producers are long dead.

[Ms. C]

"Paul Mazursky, an innovative director and screenwriter who both satirized and sympathized with America’s panorama of social upheavals in the late 1960s and ’70s in films that included “Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice,” “Blume in Love” and “An Unmarried Woman,” died on Monday in Los Angeles. He was 84."
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/02/arts/paul-mazursky-director-dies-at-84.html?_r=1

[Treading Water]

   His soundtrack to 1972's "Across 110th Street" is on par with "Superfly" and better than "Shaft".

     I can't believe his running buddy Ron Wood outlived him...the again, Woody has more money and no full-time Stone has died since 1969. But many of their session men/producers are long dead.

Oh, I've missed you, Eddie. 
It's the little things....I love this stuff.   

[Tarbaby]

 

Oh, I've missed you, Eddie. 
It's the little things....I love this stuff.   

quote for a two bit hood he has his fingers in a lot of pies…"
(That was said about Eddie coil about halfway through the movie "the friends of Eddie Coyle")

[Morgus]

Yesterday, Actor Bob Hastings passed away at age 89.
He played Lt. Elroy Carpenter on 'McHale's Navy' - Capt Binghampton's yes-man assistant.

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bob-hastings-20140703-story.html

[George Drooly]

Yesterday, Actor Bob Hastings passed away at age 89.
He played Lt. Elroy Carpenter on 'McHale's Navy' - Capt Binghampton's yes-man assistant.

http://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-bob-hastings-20140703-story.html

He looks great in that bikini top, too.

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

According to Wikipedia, "After McHale's Navy, Hastings was a regular on the Universal Studios lot, where Universal paid actors during downtime to be on the grounds and talk to tourists. According to an interview on Time Travel Radio,[3] he got along so well with the people that he became one of the few regulars on the tour."

Here's a picture of him doing his Universal meet and greet with my cousin and me in 1966. At the time, it seemed kind of sad that he was reduced to wandering around the grounds in his McHale's Navy uniform posing for pics with little kids after the show had been canceled.  I remember he was gripping us a little too tightly, and my cousin claimed he had bad breath.  It was more or less a "meh" moment for us, because we didn't give a shit about Elroy Carpenter. We would have rather met Ernest Borgnine.  Glad to hear he was good at the job and didn't seem to be ashamed of it, though. 

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[Percy Dovetonsils]

My all time favorite, may he play the eternal chess game.

[paladin1991]

My all time favorite, may he play the eternal chess game.

Dad!

[valdez]

tommy

     So I'm listening to the show (yeah, still listening, just can't bring myself to write another word about el morono idioticus) when I hear during the news break that Tommy Ramone has died.  Not my favorite Ramone, but hey, he's a Ramone.   I get home and read an article about it and I find out that Johnny had also died back in 2004.  I knew that Joey and Dee Dee had kicked the can, but how far up my butt my head must have been not to know Johnny had died?  I learned my first (and last) three chords on a cheap no named electric crap guitar because of these goons and they are gone.  No more Ramones on this earth.  Sadness.

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[UnscreenedCaller]

Oh my god, this makes me so sad. It's the end of an era, the last Ramone.

Queens girls and boys summer anthem:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=79S5k1pgWZU

Blitzkrieg Bop stays in your head for decades:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYh1lRR1m6Y

RIP Tommy. 

Valdez, good to see you again!

[Treading Water]

I heard this while driving home from the grocery store this morning.  It was like a punch in my chest. 

Gone, just like that.  They're all gone now.

[onan]

 twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty four hours ago, I wanna be cremated.

[b_dubb]

twenty, twenty, twenty, twenty four hours ago, I wanna be cremated.

Too soon

"Keep on reaching for those daisies" - Kasey Kasem's epitaph

[MV/Liberace!]

tommy

     So I'm listening to the show (yeah, still listening, just can't bring myself to write another word about el morono idioticus) when I hear during the news break that Tommy Ramone has died.  Not my favorite Ramone, but hey, he's a Ramone.   I get home and read an article about it and I find out that Johnny had also died back in 2004.  I knew that Joey and Dee Dee had kicked the can, but how far up my butt my head must have been not to know Johnny had died?  I learned my first (and lastrealizechords on a cheap no named electric crap guitar because of these goons and they are gone.  No more Ramones on this earth.  Sadness.

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Oh shit. I read this post and didn't realize it was Valdez. Good to see you, man.

[McPhallus]

I heard this while driving home from the grocery store this morning.  It was like a punch in my chest. 

Gone, just like that.  They're all gone now.

Amazing how they all seemed to die within just a few years of each other.  Almost like a curse.

[ItsOver]

Tommy gone?  Damn, it really is over.  And why does some outfit here keep wanting me to do a truck and rail audit?  What?  Of my Z scale layout?

Good to have you back, Valdez.  Don't let Jorch keep you away.  Meanwhile, somebody's got Dylan singing "Forever Young" in the background.  There ARE coinshedences, Jorch.

[UnscreenedCaller]

It gets worse. I just read a report that Johnny Winter has died. http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/07/r-i-p-johnny-winter-blues-legend-dead-at-70. I'm hoping this isn't true.

A really great performance at Woodstock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6kPQLLLYAc&list=RDM6kPQLLLYAc#t=33

Very bad week. 

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

It gets worse. I just read a report that Johnny Winter has died. http://consequenceofsound.net/2014/07/r-i-p-johnny-winter-blues-legend-dead-at-70. I'm hoping this isn't true.

A really great performance at Woodstock https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M6kPQLLLYAc&list=RDM6kPQLLLYAc#t=33

Very bad week. 

Info beyond your link is still sketchy, but it sounds like the sad news is true. Damn!  He was one of my all time favorite guitarists, and nobody ever played like him.  I missed him in his prime, but saw him several times at an intimate local venue several times in the late eighties/early nineties.  He was little more than hair and tattoos, but he could still play the living shit out of the guitar.  At least he made it to seventy.  Given his lifestyle, he got a lot more years than anyone expected. 

[UnscreenedCaller]

Info beyond your link is still sketchy, but it sounds like the sad news is true. Damn!  He was one of my all time favorite guitarists, and nobody ever played like him.  I missed him in his prime, but saw him several times at an intimate local venue several times in the late eighties/early nineties.  He was little more than hair and tattoos, but he could still play the living shit out of the guitar.  At least he made it to seventy.  Given his lifestyle, he got a lot more years than anyone expected.

I was reticent to post this because it's not yet confirmed by AP or Reuters, but according to Rick Derringer it's true. I still hope it's not, and will be more than happy to take down the post. All I know is for years, ever since I can remember, every year was supposed to be his last and he made it to 70 and did damn good all the way.

[Eddie Coyle]

    As someone who saw him live in 1997(looking gaunt and sickly), I'm stunned Johnny reached 70. Frankly, when he reached 60, I began to think he'd be like Keef and just keep going while everyone else dropped. He was terrific, though. "Raisin' Cain" is a worthwhile bio of him.

       http://youtu.be/xHxY0r-ofyg

[Robert Ghostwolf's Ghost]

A cousin of mine was the drummer for a house band that opened for all the headliners in a Nashville club in the mid-seventies.  He told a great story about the time Johnny played there, and his manager strolled into the dressing room with a satchel and politely asked my cousin's band to leave so Johnny could have a few minutes of privacy.  They were happy to oblige, and on their way out one of them asked the manager what was in the satchel.  He supposedly replied, "Boys, this here bag contains everything Johnny needs to stay alive."  Whatever it was, it apparently worked for a long time. 

Thanks for all the fantastic fretwork, Johnny!

[Ms. C]

I was reticent to post this because it's not yet confirmed by AP or Reuters, but according to Rick Derringer it's true. I still hope it's not, and will be more than happy to take down the post. All I know is for years, ever since I can remember, every year was supposed to be his last and he made it to 70 and did damn good all the way.

Sigh; unfortunately, it is true -- he died in Switzerland yesterday.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/music/2014/07/17/blues-legend-johnny-winter-dies-in-switzerland/12771833/

RIP Johnny ... thank you for all your music, you were one of the best!!!!!!

[Juan]

While death is sad, I love it that so many musicians die while on tour.  They do what the love right up to the end.