How About An Obituary Forum? (Today's Obit - James Garner)

[Old Moparz]

greatest keyboardest in rock and roll    

RIP Jon Lord

   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oovbKFWf9qU&feature=fvwrel



 This is exactly what pisses me off about the Rock and Roll Hall of fame  ,   Inducting a bunch of crap bands .  These guys deserve better .  

Not good news, he'll be missed.  

Not long ago I was reading that he had pancreatic cancer & was very sick. I saw Deep Purple back when "Perfect Strangers" came out, it was an awesome show. I want to see them again when they're supposed to tour in the USA next year, but they definitely won't be the same.

RIP


This is from his website......

http://jonlord.org/

It is with deep sadness we announce the passing of Jon Lord, who suffered a fatal pulmonary embolism today, Monday 16th July at the London Clinic, after a long battle with pancreatic cancer. Jon was surrounded by his loving family.

Jon Lord, the legendary keyboard player with Deep Purple co-wrote many of the bands legendary songs including Smoke On The Water and played with many bands and musicians throughout his career.

Best known for his Orchestral work Concerto for Group & Orchestra first performed at Royal Albert Hall with Deep Purple and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra in 1969 and conducted by the renowned Malcolm Arnold, a feat repeated in 1999 when it was again performed at the Royal Albert Hall by the London Symphony Orchestra and Deep Purple.

Jon's solo work was universally acclaimed when he eventually retired from Deep Purple in 2002.

Jon passes from Darkness to Light.

Jon Lord 9 June 1941 – 16 July 2012.

[Mytur Binsdirti]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R-x7RqRF8Pk

[NHCharger]

Two of my favorite albums. Machine Head and Who Do We Think We Are.
He made playing the keyboards "Cool".

[RallyeMike]

NOOOooooooooo!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=81Jg6L16Mzs

What memories. RIP.

[Old Moparz]

Welcome Back, Kotter's "Horshack" Ron Palillo, Dies

http://tv.yahoo.com/news/-welcome-back--kotter-s--horshack--ron-palillo--dies.html

Ron Palillo, the class clown from "Welcome Back, Kotter," has died. The actor best known as Arnold Horshack from the 1970s sitcom was 63. TMZ reports the cause of death was a heart attack.

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I watched the Welcome Back Kotter show once in a while, but my younger sister never missed an episode. She had a crush on John Travolta in the show. One thing I do recall is, Horshack's character in the 1st season was not the wimpy nerd he became further into the series. He was a real wiseass in the beginning.  

63 is a pretty young age to go. RIP

[doctor4766]

Wow, Horseshack was 63 already?
RIP


On a personal note, one of my old workmates passed away on Sunday.
Great guy who was always good for a laugh.
I only called him a week or so ago and he told me he was getting ready for a liver transplant.
Unfortunately I didn't get to go see him like I'd planned, and now it's too late 

RIP Bob Lloyd
You will be missed by many

[68 CHARGER R/T]

Wow, Horseshack was 63 already?
RIP


On a personal note, one of my old workmates passed away on Sunday.
Great guy who was always good for a laugh.
I only called him a week or so ago and he told me he was getting ready for a liver transplant.
Unfortunately I didn't get to go see him like I'd planned, and now it's too late  

RIP Bob Lloyd
You will be missed by many

Juan Ebstein (Robert Hegye) also died not too sure when it happend, from heart attack age 60

[moparstuart]

Wow, Horseshack was 63 already?
RIP


On a personal note, one of my old workmates passed away on Sunday.
Great guy who was always good for a laugh.
I only called him a week or so ago and he told me he was getting ready for a liver transplant.
Unfortunately I didn't get to go see him like I'd planned, and now it's too late 

RIP Bob Lloyd
You will be missed by many

Juan ebstein (Robert Hegye) also died not too sure when it happend, from heart attack age 60

is travola next 

[Tilar]

Wow, Horseshack was 63 already?
RIP

Wow, Hard to believe he was 63. Someone needs to apply the brakes, This ride seems to be gaining speed.

[nvrbdn]

 

[TUFCAT]

The obit I read said he left behind his "partner".... maybe he had hiv or aids?   

[Tilar]

The obit I read said he left behind his "partner".... maybe he had hiv or aids?   

You saying he liked to ride the white horse?   

[TUFCAT]

The obit I read said he left behind his "partner".... maybe he had hiv or aids?   

You saying he liked to ride the white horse?   

I think that's what I'm saying! 

[doctor4766]

I can see how that comes accross, but I get lots of customers that make referrals to their partners, and when they come to collect their cars together, they're usually a hetro couple. Just not married.
It can sound kinda silly referring to BFs or GFs when someone is older than 25 or so.....

Just sayin.

[TUFCAT]

I can see how that comes accross, but I get lots of customers that make referrals to their partners, and when they come to collect their cars together, they're usually a hetro couple. Just not married.
It can sound kinda silly referring to BFs or GFs when someone is older than 25 or so.....

Just sayin.

The news is out... He was a homesexual.

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/entertainment/ron-palillo-aka-horshack-was-gay-who-knew

[Old Moparz]

Larry Hagman passed away.  

http://www.deadline.com/2012/11/larry-hagman-dies-in-dallas/

I used to come home from school & watch reruns of I Dream of Jeanie all the time. Sad that another Hollywood personality is gone......RIP.

Never watched Dallas, although I know it was a big hit for years.

Larry Hagman, who played J.R. the conniving, villainous head of the Ewing clan on the TV series Dallas, died today at a Dallas hospital, sources close to the actor told the Dallas Morning News. He was 81. Born in Fort Worth, Hagman was the son of legendary actress Mary Martin. He played the character in the long-running primetime soap from 1978 through 1991 on CBS. He returned last year when the series was resurrected on TNT, focusing on a new generation of Ewings. Prior to Dallas, Hagman's biggest TV role has been as the astronaut Major Anthony Nelson on NBC's I Dream Of Jeannie opposite Barbara Eden.

[Tilar]

I guess they can pick up where he was shot in the first one or the shooter can come back 27 years later as a better shot.   

I did like watching "I dream of Jeannie", but I didn't like Dallas.

[BrianShaughnessy]

RIP Larry...

   I wasn't a big dallas fan... cause Dynasty had the way hotter babes.   

   But I appreciated Larry's work in I Dream of Jeannie as a kid.    Err... scratch that.  I appreciate Barbara Eden's "work" in I Dream of Jeannie   

RIP Larry anyway.

   

[Ghoste]

He was also in that motorsport blockbuster "Checkered Flag or Crash".  I liked "I Dream of Jeannie" better than "Dallas" but watched both.

[JB400]

I watched it with my mom. 

[Old Moparz]

If there are any jazz fans on the forum you probably know who Dave Brubeck is. Not sure of when I first heard his music, probably the 1970's, but I did like some of it once in a while. I have at least 2 or 3 albums of his & love the instrumental, "Take Five". Sad that another great musician is gone now, RIP Dave.

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2012/12/05/166570705/dave-brubeck-legendary-jazz-musician-dead-at-age-91

Legendary Jazz Musician Dave Brubeck Dies

Dave Brubeck, the legendary jazz pianist and composer, known for defying jazz conventions and for recordings like "Take Five" and "Blue Rondo a la Turk" has died. Brubeck died of heart failure in Norwalk, Conn. He was one day short of his 92nd birthday.

His All Music biography says Brubeck distinguished himself from the popular jazz musicians of the West Coast by playing unusual time signatures, "adventurous tonalities," and proving that complex music could find a larger audience. Perhaps a testimony of that was that in 1954, Brubeck became only the second jazz musician ever featured on the cover of Time Magazine. The first? Louie Armstrong.

Born Dec. 6, 1920, Brubeck grew up on a 45,000-acre ranch in California and he came to music through a circuitous route. In a 1999 interview with Fresh Air's Terry Gross, he said his first love was rodeo roping. But his mother, who spotted a special talent when he sat at the piano, insisted he not rope anything larger than a yearling.

"She didn't want my fingers to become hurt," Brubeck said. "My uncle, who was also a rodeo roper, got his finger caught between the saddle horn and the rope, and it took his finger off. And he used to kid the other cowboys and say, 'I would've been a great pianist like my nephew Dave, had I not lost this finger.'"

Brubeck went on to college but a zoology teacher told him he should focus on what he had spotted as his true love: Music. So Brubeck started taking classes at Mills College in Oakland, California, except there was one huge problem — Brubeck never learned to read music and the dean at the college threatened not to let him graduate.
Dave Brubeck performs along with his Dave Brubeck Quartet in November 2005. Enlarge image

"But when some of the younger teachers heard this, they went to the dean and said, 'You're making a big mistake, because he writes the best counterpoint that I've ever heard,'" Brubeck said. "So they convinced the dean to let me graduate. And the dean said, 'You can graduate if you promise never to teach and embarrass the conservatory.' And that's the way I've gotten through life, is having to substitute other things for not being able to read well. But I can write, which is something very few people understand."

NPR's Felix Contreras tells our Newscast unit that Brubeck's "Take Five," released in 1959, changed jazz "by adding an extra beat to jazz's standard 4/4 time."

As Hedrick Smith wrote for PBS, "Take Five" was in 5/4 time and other songs in the "Time Out" album were just as odd. "Blue Rondo a la Turk" was in 9/8 time.

Critics didn't like it and Brubeck even lost some gigs for playing those odd time signatures and for his use of polytonality.


(Never knew he couldn't read music)   

[Dino]

There's few sounds that can touch Phil Desmonds sax on Take Five, but it wouldn't have happened without Brubeck.  RIP.

[Old Moparz]

There's few sounds that can touch Phil Desmonds sax on Take Five, but it wouldn't have happened without Brubeck.  RIP.

This version of Take Five is pretty cool.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7dmfS8WdK1I


On a related note, I have been looking & hoping to find an album I heard in a record store while I was in high school called "Larry Coryell & The Brubeck Brothers". I see used vinyl on a few sites, but was hoping to locate a CD version.   

[Old Moparz]

Ed Koch, one of the most colorful & memorable characters that New York City has had as Mayor. I didn't always agree with his policies, but I did always like that he seemed more sincere about wanting to make New York City better than it was.

Since I don't watch much TV I didn't know that for two years starting in 1997, he was the judge on the syndicated show "The People's Court." I think I'd have tuned in to watch a few episodes of him reaming out some idiots on that show. 

RIP Ed.   

New York's Brash Former Mayor, Ed Koch, Dies at 88

http://www.cnn.com/2013/02/01/us/ed-koch-obit/index.html


By Steve Almasy, CNN
updated 9:33 AM EST, Fri February 1, 2013


(CNN) -- Ed Koch, the brash former New York City mayor who typically greeted constituents with a "How'm I doin'?" died Friday at the age of 88, his spokesman said.

Koch died of congestive heart failure, spokesman George Arzt said. The former mayor felt very tired Thursday morning and was admitted to the intensive care unit, Artz said. Koch lost consciousness that afternoon and ultimately passed away around 2 a.m. Friday.

The lawyer-turned-public servant was a U.S. congressman from 1968 until he ran for mayor of the city in 1977 He served three terms until David Dinkins defeated him in a Democratic primary.

New York City has lost "an irrepressible icon," Mayor Michael Bloomberg said in a statement.

"In elected office and as a private citizen, he was our most tireless, fearless, and guileless civic crusader," Bloomberg said. "We will miss him dearly, but his good works -- and his wit and wisdom -- will forever be a part of the city he loved so much."

Koch told New York magazine in 1998: "I think my personality was helpful in this job. I always had a great sense of humor, though I am also pretty reserved personally. I mean, I don't go to chichi parties; never did. I don't like going to dinners other than small dinners at the homes of people. But I realized that if I was to harness the energies of the people of the city of New York and give them back their pride, I would have to become bigger than life. And I did."

[mauve66]

i remember him and "CRAZY EDDIE" from my time in the Apple.  Seemed to b a good guy but i was just a teenager so what did i know??