Celebrity Deaths

  On 12/9/2019 at 1:11 AM, Rubin Farr said:

Always in threes.  Rene Auberjonois, known from shows like Benson, and Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, passed away at age 79.

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Damn. He was one of my favorites on DS9. RIP.

r.i.p. danny aiello

I always loved him in Harlem Nights. 

"Who the fuck is Jim?  Does he measure the fucking air?"  Classic.

sad

He was great in so many roles. The chiropractor in Jacobs Ladder. All the spike lee joints. He has a supporting role in Moonstruck that’s hilarious

Rip.

Synth pioneer Gershon Kingsley dead at 97:

r.i.p. anna karina

Rip Ram Dass. Zero news on his death

Dave Riley, bass player for one of the greatest bands of all time: https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/dave-riley-big-black-dead-at-59-931315/

Neil Innes, star of The Rutles, and the "Seventh Python" has passed at 75:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/30/neil-innes-the-rutles-monty-python-dies

Vaghan Oliver. Who? The guy who designed all the cool 4AD album covers. BoingBoing has a large number of examples: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/30/vaughan-oliver-graphic-desi.html

Never really gave it much thought, but seeing a bunch of them together on one page brings home how much I like his work.

i always hated those pixies covers lol

nevertheless, rest in peace vaughan oliver. also neil innes. brave sir robin ran away

rip syd mead

https://boingboing.net/2019/12/30/syd-mead-1933-2019.html

  On 12/30/2019 at 6:23 PM, rhmilo said:

Vaghan Oliver. Who? The guy who designed all the cool 4AD album covers. BoingBoing has a large number of examples: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/30/vaughan-oliver-graphic-desi.html

 

Never really gave it much thought, but seeing a bunch of them together on one page brings home how much I like his work.

Head about this. It'll End In Tears by This Mortal Coil is one of my favourite album covers.

  On 12/30/2019 at 10:30 PM, azatoth said:

rip syd mead

https://boingboing.net/2019/12/30/syd-mead-1933-2019.html

 

86 isn't a bad age to go out on. Truly a legend. RIP, Syd.

Syd Mead is my favorite futurist visionary. His influence via Blade Runner, Tron, Alien, etc. is beyond well known, for me his interior concepts and more utopian oriented stuff is what I find perpetually inspiring. His work has a far more timeless and ageless feel to it compared to many other retrofuturism peers.

Here's to Mead and a brighter and better future.

  On 12/30/2019 at 7:16 PM, dr lopez said:

also neil innes. brave sir robin ran away

  On 12/30/2019 at 4:33 PM, Rubin Farr said:

Neil Innes, star of The Rutles, and the "Seventh Python" has passed at 75:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2019/dec/30/neil-innes-the-rutles-monty-python-dies

Man, Innes' passing is one of those that reminds me of how old I'm becoming. I wore out a VHS copy of the Rutles as a kid. I didn't realize how core he was at the songwriting of that was until years later, some of his Rutles tunes are as good if not ironically superior to the Beatles originals he was both satirizing and paying homage to. He's def an underappreciated collaborator of Monty Python, as is his work with Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

  On 12/30/2019 at 6:23 PM, rhmilo said:

Vaghan Oliver. Who? The guy who designed all the cool 4AD album covers. BoingBoing has a large number of examples: https://boingboing.net/2019/12/30/vaughan-oliver-graphic-desi.html

 

Never really gave it much thought, but seeing a bunch of them together on one page brings home how much I like his work.

Yeah, holy fuck I had no idea just how many covers he designed until I looked it up on discogs

Edward Holmes aka Optiv from Cause 4 Concern and other DNB acts has passed. Sad day for bassheads 

Neil Peart, drum legend, 67, brain cancer.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/neil-peart-rush-obituary-936221/

those videos are so silly - a stupid video of them, completely unplugged, pretending to sing and play while the fully produced track just plays over them

Fuck, only 67 and all the drugged up dinosaur shitlords keep on playing... 

o7

Nice one