Bring Out Your Dead! The celebrity death thread....

Mike Pinder, a founding member and keyboard player for the progressive rock band, the Moody Blues

Days of future passed….

Jaytee said:

Donald Payne jr. Newark lost a good man.

I'll say!  Jr. is the one who was currently in office, right?  I asked for help here once and someone suggested calling my congressman, which I never would have thought of on my own.  He helped me out of a big jam within 48 hours of my first speaking with his office.

If I've got the lineage right, his father helped me out of another big jam -- keeping my then au pair in the country for another year.

A real loss.

Jaytee said:

Mike Pinder, a founding member and keyboard player for the progressive rock band, the Moody Blues

Days of future passed….

one of my favorite bands. The Core Seven albums are a remarkable set of music.

Thanks Mike. Still listening.

Paul Auster, grew up in SOMA and graduated from Columbia High School. Famous as a Brooklyn author, but his sweeping novel "4 3 2 1" has a protagonist who grows up (in multiple ways) in Maplewood and vicinity.

Paul Auster, the Patron Saint of Literary Brooklyn, Dies at 77 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

[Edited to add] Found the video of the talk he gave on Zoom, hosted by the South Orange Library, on 4/3/21 about that novel and talking about his memories of growing up. 

nohero said:

Paul Auster, grew up in SOMA and graduated from Columbia High School. Famous as a Brooklyn author, but his sweeping novel "4 3 2 1" has a protagonist who grows up (in multiple ways) in Maplewood and vicinity.

Paul Auster, the Patron Saint of Literary Brooklyn, Dies at 77 - The New York Times (nytimes.com)

[Edited to add] Found the video of the talk he gave on Zoom, hosted by the South Orange Library, on 4/3/21 about that novel and talking about his memories of growing up. 

Thank you for posting this. I will have to get one of his books.

Duane Eddy was 86years old??? 

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/may/01/duane-eddy-grammy-musician-dies

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/duane-eddy-guitarist-dead-obituary-1235013403/

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-68940716

And now I’m reading ELOs Richard Tandy has passed, aged 76years. Bloody brilliant keyboardist…

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/may/02/richard-tandy-dies-aged-76-death-elo-electric-light-orchestra-keyboardist

Probably hadn't thought of Duane Eddy in 30 or 40 years, but when i heard his name his music jumped right into my ear (dum dum Dum).  Good times. RIP.

eta: According to the radio, DE said his biggest contribution to music was not singing. : )

Frank Stella, American artisti

Love his uses of colour! 

galileo said:

Frank Stella, American artisti

Holy ****, Steve Albini! RIP to the fuckign man! Apart from Big Black being a massive influence on me, he produced some of the best albums of my early twenties, when he was in his late twenties. I followed his funny and sometimes poignant posts on Twitter and immediately followed him again on Bluesky when I moved over there. His political views, his musical knowledge... Heck I didn't know him and I'm gonna miss him. 7 years older than me. Jesus.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/article/2024/may/08/steve-albini-us-alt-rock-musician-and-producer-dies-aged-61

ridski said:

Holy ****, Steve Albini! RIP to the fuckign man!

I’m reading a new book about the Chapel Hill music scene in the 1990s, and Albini comes up a few times as a kind of éminence grise. (It says he produced Superchunk’s sophomore record uncredited.) There was also a lot of respect for 4AD at nascent local labels like Mammoth and Merge.

4AD. Finally. A name I actually recognize in this story.

Sometimes I feel so disconnected from the music scene.

(my son recently excitedly explained the Kendrick/Drake brouhaha to me. I had, and still have, no clue.)

DaveSchmidt said:

ridski said:

Holy ****, Steve Albini! RIP to the fuckign man!

I’m reading a new book about the Chapel Hill music scene in the 1990s, and Albini comes up a few times as a kind of éminence grise. (It says he produced Superchunk’s sophomore record uncredited.) There was also a lot of respect for 4AD at nascent local labels like Mammoth and Merge.

4AD had such a cool stable of artists but was never cool enough to buy any of it when I was a kid.

This is one of our South Orange neighbors. 

Death by train whether accidental or intentional is always difficult for me. Been on a couple of trains that hit someone; been on a number of others that were delayed because of them. I also lost a couple of friends and school peers. I feel for the person lost and for those who have lost them. God rest his soul.

https://www.nj.com/entertainment/2024/05/nj-broadway-veteran-dead-after-being-struck-by-train-theater-community-mourns.html
 

The Turtles liked to joke around, but they were seriously good. The gifted drummer John Barbata, who grew up in part in Nutley, was one of the reasons.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/john-barbata-drummer-the-turtles-csny-jefferson-starship-dead-obituary-1235019260/

RIP David Sanborn. While I wasn't a huge fan of a lot of his solo work, except when he worked with Marcus Miller, his session work on other people's songs was world class. Everything from Bowie's Young Americans to duetting with Eric Clapton on the Lethal Weapon soundtrack.

https://www.npr.org/2024/05/13/1251006759/saxophonist-david-sanborn-6-time-grammy-winner-has-died-at-age-78

ridski said:

RIP David Sanborn. While I wasn't a huge fan of a lot of his solo work, except when he worked with Marcus Miller, his session work on other people's songs was world class. Everything from Bowie's Young Americans to duetting with Eric Clapton on the Lethal Weapon soundtrack.

I was hoping someone would post about Sanborn. The NBC music show he hosted with Jools Holland was maybe the best thing on American TV in the late ’80s.

DaveSchmidt said:

I was hoping someone would post about Sanborn. The NBC music show he hosted with Jools Holland was maybe the best thing on American TV in the late ’80s.

It looks really interesting. Never made it to the UK as far as I know.

I’ve been an avid fan of David Sanborn since the very early 80’s. A friend lent me the album “as we speak”…then “Double vision” with Bob James came out … if you guys have never heard that album you’re missing out. Bob James was another favorite of mine. 

Film and TV actor Dabney Coleman. Age 92.
Probably most famous for playing the boss in "9 to 5."

https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dabney-coleman-bad-boss-9-215233021.html

Dabney Coleman, the beloved character actor who famously played the dastardly cad overseeing Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton in the movie "9 to 5," has died. He was 92.

Coleman's death was confirmed by his daughter Quincy Coleman who said he died "peacefully and exquisitely" at home Thursday afternoon.

“My father crafted his time here on Earth with a curious mind, a generous heart and a soul on fire with passion, desire and humor that tickled the funny bone of humanity,” she said in a statement obtained by The Times. “As he lived, he moved through this final act of his life with elegance, excellence and mastery."