RIP someone or another

[HemiSam]

Condolences.  

Godspeed, Goldie....

HS

[Knuckledragger]

Tom Kane, Iconic ‘Star Wars’ and ‘Powerpuff Girls’ Voice Actor, Has Died.  RIP. 64 is crazy young.

[swt61]

I drove her for about 10 months when I first moved out here. RIP Skanky!

[Knuckledragger]

Gay rights and longtime Democratic Congressman Barney Frank dies at 86.  

I have mixed feelings about this one.  Barney was a trailblazer in a much earlier era.  He also had (and I steal this quote) a sense of humor he wielded like a wrecking ball.  I have never seen anyone make Republicans so buttmad on the floor as he did.  He's also one of the few politicians who ever directly took on Wall St. in my lifetimes.

With that said, he spent his retirement years undoing more or less all the good that he did in office.  He became a lobbyist for the very financial institutions he sought to regulate previously, he went after trans people directly and in his final act as a public figure, attacked Graham Platner.  Way to shit on your own legacy, bud.

[skullguise]

Same here, Dan.  He came to my college and gave an incredible speech in his active days.  But yes, in later years something switched off.....

I still look to his earlier legacy as good.

[swt61]

I try to do the same with Giuliani, but it doesn't work for me. He is fully responsible for throwing his own legacy in the dumpster.

As much as I'd like to give Barney a pass, I just can't. 

[Knuckledragger]

I'm having trouble finding a news source, but I learned (from Toby Marks of Banco De Gaia of all people) that Dick Parry died.  He was a hell of a session musician, best known for his work with Pink Floyd.  His sax solos are legendary.

Spoiler

Also, Pink Floyd is one of those things that the boomers are completely right about.

 

[Knuckledragger]

RIP Rapper Rob Base, known for 'It Takes Two,' dies at 59 after private battle with cancer.

I was there in '88 when this dropped.  It turns out he was internationally known.

[dsavitsk]

Sonny Rollins, colossus of jazz saxophone, dies aged 95

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2026/may/26/sonny-rollins-jazz-saxophone-dies-aged-95

[Voltron]

I was lucky to see Sonny in 2012 shortly before he was forced to stop playing for health reasons. He was still a colossus. RIP to the true legend. 

[blessingx]

He was also the last musician survivor of “Harlem 1958.”

https://uptowngrandcentral.org/harlem-1958 

 

With the death of his fellow saxophonist Benny Golson in 2024, Mr. Rollins became the last survivor of the 58 musicians captured by the photographer Art Kane in his famous Esquire magazine group portrait “Harlem 1958.”

“I was a fan,” Mr. Rollins told The Times in recalling the photo shoot in 2024. “I was in the picture, but it wasn’t so much as a musician — although I happened to be there as a musician — but I had been following jazz all my short life up to that time, so I knew a great deal about the guys.” He added that he was particularly proud to have been photographed alongside “my particular idols, Coleman Hawkins and Lester Young.”

Edited Tuesday at 09:57 AM by blessingx

[blessingx]

For those interested, WKCR is running a 48 hour Sonny Rollins Memorial Broadcast Friday and Saturday. 

http://wkcr.streamguys1.com/live.m3u 

[Knuckledragger]

RIP Marcia Lucas.  Not only did she put up with being married to George Lucas, she took the steaming pile that was his ideas and turned it into A New Hope.  George Lucas is the definitive example that it is better to be lucky than talented.  At every turn, he blundered into meeting people with abilities far beyond his own who could elevate his murky and misconceived visions into cultural touchstones.  Peter Crushing was the absolute master class at portraying a bad guy.  Sir Alec Guinness could inflect the most hokey dialogue imaginable in a way that resonated with like six different generations.  James Earl Jones had the voice of all time.  Irvin Kershner was a deftly skilled directory with decades of experience.  Unlike George, Lawrence Kasdan actually was an accomplished screenwriter.  Also Carrie Fisher was lighting in a bottle.

I'm sorry, this is about about George's ex-wife, not The Neck himself.