Good grief. Sounds really flaky.

RIP Bunny Wailer....last of the original band.... 😪

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/bunny-wailer-died-wailers-original-member-dead-age-73-cause-of-death-stroke-complications/

The reason the great Jamaican stuff deepens over time, over years, not with nostalgia but with meaning and nuance, is that it's a spiritual music. That's the anomaly underlying its power... In the States, rock 'n' roll is always on some level a move away from God into the devil's music, but in Jamaica the cultural conditions were different. Pop grew toward Jah.

https://www.gq.com/story/bunny-wailer-john-jeremiah-sullivan 

Lou Ottens, Inventor Of The Cassette Tape, Has Died

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lou-ottens-inventor-audio-cassette-tape-dead-obit-1139657/ 

https://www.npr.org/2021/03/10/975598869/lou-ottens-inventor-of-the-cassette-tape-has-died

Edited March 11, 20215 yr by blessingx

Aaron Rose, Photographer In Isolation, Dies at 84

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/11/arts/aaron-rose-photographer-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare 

Mr. Rose made his own cameras and other devices, and Rebecca Hackemann, who was his assistant and archivist from 1999 to 2005, said his studio was a sight to behold.

“It was littered with glass and silver globes, optical devices and cameras he had built himself that replaced lenses with pinholes,” she said by email. “It was like walking into a different century.”

In his darkroom, he spurned the ready-made chemicals available from Kodak and other manufacturers; its walls were lined with bottles and cans full of mysterious substances.

So very interesting!  The name was barely recognizable to me, but what a fascinating article and person!

Edited March 12, 20215 yr by skullguise

RIP Marvin Hagler

RIP Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

RIP Murray Walker 

 

BBC News - Murray Walker: Formula 1 broadcasting legend dies at 97
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/formula1/56388596

 

2 hours ago, swt61 said:

RIP Marvelous Marvin Hagler.

This....I remember the Hearns fight in the mid-80's, one of the best ever.....and I also am on the "he got ripped off" train for the Leonard fight (as good as Leonard was).

RIP Marvin Hagler. 

3 hours ago, skullguise said:

This....I remember the Hearns fight in the mid-80's, one of the best ever.....and I also am on the "he got ripped off" train for the Leonard fight (as good as Leonard was).

Either way,..

What a match!!!!

That whole era of fights were awesome and I loved the "Pay Per View" gatherings my buddies used to have for them.

I had a cable descrambler at that time. My buddies would always come to my house for all the pay-per-view events. 

RIP Yaphet Kotto: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/16/yaphet-kotto-star-of-live-and-let-die-and-alien-dies-aged-81

RIP Mr. Kotto.  I remember several of his roles....and interesting note in that article, I never realized he turned down the role of Capt. Picard in Star Trek: The Next Generation!

RIP Sabine Schmitz, a major endurance racing driver, and Top Gear fun and crazy German driver. Died at age 51 after battling cancer for four years. Too early, far too early.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/motorsport/56420308

I was just about to post that. RIP to the Queen of the Nurburgring.

5 hours ago, dsavitsk said:

RIP Yaphet Kotto: https://www.theguardian.com/film/2021/mar/16/yaphet-kotto-star-of-live-and-let-die-and-alien-dies-aged-81

Also a recording artist for a time  

 

RIP Sabine, and fuck cancer!

RIP also to Dick Hoyt, somewhat famous in New England for running the Boston marathon and other races pushing his wheelchair-bound son.

https://www.necn.com/news/sports/one-of-a-kind-boston-marathon-legend-dick-hoyt-dies/2428119/

 

This is a year old, but I missed it at the time. RIP Kellye Nakahara.

 

Sabine Schmitz: Former racing driver and Top Gear presenter dies aged 51

https://www.bbc.com/sport/motorsport/56420308

https://www.thedrive.com/news/39836/how-sabine-schmitz-changed-the-automotive-world

The Ring has lost its Queen. RIP Sabine.

 

HS

Very hard to get my head about the fact that she's gone, so young. Fuck cancer

It saw my wife's mother off nearly a decade younger, aged 42, when Carole was only 18.

On 3/18/2021 at 3:46 AM, Grahame said:

The Ring has lost its Queen. RIP Sabine.

I missed this while traveling. Fuck, fuck that sucks. 

RIP, Elgin Baylor.

I've always had a soft spot for those Baylor/West/Chamberlin Lakers squads. To go up against the Celtics year-after-year and lose again and again... that does something to a man. Poor Elgin retired just before they finally broke through in '72.