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2025 RIPs

ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,217 Posts
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David Lynch. When you have an adjective named after your style, you know you're fresh as hell.  

To be honest, I don't LOVE a lot of his works (Twin Peaks ish, Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Mulholland Drive), but he was clearly an incredible artist who pushed boundaries in film.

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  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,908 Posts

    RIP Mr. Baseball


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  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,160 Posts
    ^ "Major League" is one of my favorite sports comedies!

    Brenton Wood passed a couple of weeks ago.

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  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,217 Posts
    After The Elephant Man's success, George Lucas, a fan of Eraserhead, offered Lynch the opportunity to direct the third film in his original Star Wars trilogy, Return of the Jedi. Lynch declined, saying that he had "next door to zero interest"...

    Via Wikipedia - I hadn't heard that before!
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  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,160 Posts
    Jerry Butler 

  • billbradleybillbradley You want BBQ sauce? Get the fuck out of my house. 2,923 Posts
    RIP Gwen McCrae
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  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,217 Posts
    And RIP Roberta Flack - she was a gateway drug for me bitd, so this one puts things into perspective for me.
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,990 Posts
    I hope she got paid in full off the back of The Fugees.  It's a beautiful tune.

    Ahead of her time I always thought, output was pretty diverse and not a stereotypical R&B artist.
  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,217 Posts
    Gene Hackman :(
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  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,160 Posts
    Very sad. His wife and dog passed with him too. It sounded like a carbon monoxide leak at first, but that has been ruled out based on an article I read. No foul play either.
  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,217 Posts
    Given that he turned to writing later in life, I wish he had written an autobiography.  
  • dj_cityboydj_cityboy 1,490 Posts
    Roberta Flack
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,990 Posts
    Angie Stone!   Car accident.  Mother of D'Angelo's child IIRC.
    Saw her a couple of years back at Southport Weekender with Sharay Reed on bass.
    R.I.P. Angie.
  • DuderonomyDuderonomy Haut de la Garenne 7,807 Posts
    ketan said:
    Gene Hackman :(

    I’ve been reading a few obituaries for Gene Hackman. It feels that for his ‘70s work, film buffs stress his gritty stuff and his Lex Luther is overlooked as merely a supporting part in a commercial/lightweight film. I rate Lex as a higher water-mark in Hackman’s career than Popeye Doyle. Lex Luther is the realest character in those films. Doyle is a familiar make-my-day-punk character I’d seen before while Lex’s charisma is stronger than cryptonite.


    RIP

  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,217 Posts
    Duder, I was thinking the exact same thing yesterday.  His Lex is a rare feat in superhero movies.

    Sad to hear about Angie Stone.  This was my jam bitd:
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  • dj_cityboydj_cityboy 1,490 Posts
    Jimster said:
    Angie Stone!   Car accident.  Mother of D'Angelo's child IIRC.
    Saw her a couple of years back at Southport Weekender with Sharay Reed on bass.
    R.I.P. Angie.

    holy shit i just heard this….damn!

  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,160 Posts
    Jimster said:
    Angie Stone!   Car accident.  Mother of D'Angelo's child IIRC.
    Saw her a couple of years back at Southport Weekender with Sharay Reed on bass.
    R.I.P. Angie.

    My father and I saw her at the Hollywood Bowl opening for James Brown, shortly before he passed away.

  • perfectpawnperfectpawn 25 Posts
    RIP Roy Ayers -- his Jazz Is Dead release (JID 002) was pretty great, I thought, even if he was mostly a sideman on it.
  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,217 Posts
    oh man, 2025 is the woooooorst.  


    Jimster
  • kicks79kicks79 1,353 Posts
    Wow, what a horrific start to the year. I'm bummed out that I never got to see Roy Ayers live.
    So is his Jazz is dead worth picking up? The most recent thing that I remember him doing was all the BBE comps.
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,990 Posts
    perfectpawn said:
    RIP Roy Ayers -- his Jazz Is Dead release (JID 002) was pretty great, I thought, even if he was mostly a sideman on it.

    84... Shit, he's been looking frail for a while.  I actually thought he would have been older.

    That means last time I saw him, he was probably my age now.   

    He had Dennis Davis on drums from Stevie Wonder's band and Zach Breaux on guitar.  They smashed it and were gracious with their time afterwards, loads of jokes and stories.

    Hell of a catalogue.  Gotta be RAMP Sunshine for me.

  • DORDOR Two Ron Toe 9,908 Posts
    RIP to one of my all time top 5's.

    I last saw Roy Ayers back in Toronto in 2006 with Jean Carne, Bobbi Humphrey, Jon Lucien and Lonnie Liston Smith and I believe Wayne Henderson rocked it as well. Bobbi did like a 10 min version of Hello and dropped into Harlem River Drive. Twas a good night. Thanks you for all the amazing music Roy!











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  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,990 Posts
    “The song changed everything for me,” Ayers said. “It’s still the last song of my show. People always join in and it’s been sampled over 100 times, by everyone from Dr Dre to Pharrell Williams. It seems to capture every generation. Everybody loves the sunshine – except Dracula.”

    That made me laugh.        
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  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,990 Posts


    Tracklist:
    Bruce Fisher feat. Roy Ayers - One life '77
    Roy Ayers & Wayne Henderson – Swarte '78
    Roy Ayers & Wayne Henderson - Step Into Our Life ‘78
    Ronnie Foster feat. Roy Ayers - Midnight Plane '78
    Edwin Birdsong feat Roy Ayers – Pretty Brown Skin '71
    Herbie Mann feat. Roy Ayers - Muscle Shoals Nitty Gritty '78
    RAMP (aka Roy Ayers Music Production) - Try, Try, Try ‘77
    RAMP - The American Promise '77
    David Newman feat. Roy Ayers - Fire Weaver '72
    Roy Ayers - Leo '79
    Terry Wells feat. Roy Ayers - Who's that stranger '84
    Roy Ayers - Slip'n'slide '85
    Edwin Birdsong - Good lovin' brings an encore ’81 (original member of Roy Ayers Ubiquity)
    Roy Ayers Ubiquity - He's A Superstar '72
    G. Keith Alexander - Sneakers '73 (produced by Roy Ayers)
    Ladies of the 80s - I knew that love '80 (produced by Roy Ayers)
    Ubiquity - Midnight after dark '78 (produced by Roy Ayers)
    Vi Redd feat. Roy Ayers - Just friends '68
    Justo Almario - Interlude '81 (produced by Roy Ayers)
    Justo Almario - Sho' you right '81 (produced by Roy Ayers)
    Stone City Band feat. Roy Ayers - Ladies Choice '83
    Ubiquity - Can you be yourself '78
    Ubiquity - Spread it '78
    Roy Ayers - What's the T (L70s)

    d59B.com dropping gems

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  • LamontLamont 1,090 Posts
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  • ketanketan Warmly booming riffs 3,217 Posts
    Adding onto the D59B tribute above, folks may want to check Higher Ground tonight (8pm EST) - Jason will definitely pull together something special for Roy...


    Jimster
  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,990 Posts
    Nice tribute.
    I'm informed by the one SKEL that Gillesy P will also be doing similar this weekend.  
    I'll be catching him live in Bognor this weekend if anyone else is here at the Weekender.  Holleur at yer boy.
  • ElectrodeElectrode Los Angeles 3,160 Posts
    One of the first records I found was "You Might Be Surprised" at the thrift store my mother worked when I first really got into this. Thanks to Jim for "Silver Vibrations".
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  • JimsterJimster Cruffiton.etsy.com 6,990 Posts
    I got dumped by a girl back in the 80s and spent the gift voucher I'd bought her on "In The Dark" (It had Grover Washington Jr. on one track)...  Then went backwards (where you had to dig and ask the shop what was in the book that  they could order).  "Silver Vibrations" was one of those orders.  

    Should have had 10 copies right?


    Electrode
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