DEATHS ; Notable Passings; The Thread to Pay Last Respects

[steve u]

Austin Songwriting Genius Daniel Johnston Dead at 58

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P., last generation of carbolineum-soaked wooden railroad ties!

 

[MisterCairo]

I need creosoted railway ties for my compost heap. easy to find in Canada fortunately!

 

[MisterCairo]

Singer songwriter Eddie Money had died, aged only 70, cancer once again the cause. I discovered him in the 80s, another voice gone too soon.

http://www.msn.com/en-ca/entertainm...-at-70-report/ar-AAHfFDp?li=AAggNb9&ocid=iehp

 

[Trenchfriend]

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P....

 

[Bamaboots]

Let the good times roll.

https://www.nbcnewyork.com/news/loc...gci5EyaJxDcgmb1iPs0RmyxSU_Brwiqf1KrP2PS1UPpsc

 

[Zombie_61]

^ An online article I read earlier today stated police found nothing on the scene that indicated foul play, so they're going to let the medical examiner determine the cause of Mr. Ocasek's death.

 

[HoosierDaddy]

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P.

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P., Luigi Colani.

 

[MisterCairo]

^^^

Dammit, dammit, dammit...

Another part of my musical upbringing gone.

Dammit.

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ric-ocasek-the-cars-found-dead-1.5284785

Ric and Ben are both rocking up there now...

 

[Formeruser012523]

Right in the childhood... R.I.P.

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P., Sigmund Jähn!

 

[MisterCairo]

Former President of France Jacques Chirac (always loved that name) has died at age 86:

https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/jacques-chirac-obit-1.5297849

 

[steve u]

R.I.P. Robert Hunter, the poet and writer who provided the Grateful Dead with many of their vivid and enduring lyrics, died Monday night. He was 78.

 

[Doctor Strange]

As a Deadhead since 1975, Hunter's death hit me harder than I expected. Though I stopped going to shows way back in 1993, I still listen to the music all the time: these words have been a part of me for decades.

People don't realize that Hunter's lyrics were and are as important to the Dead's success as the band's musical talent. There's so much there - the Americana (of gamblers, miners, cowboys, drunks, bootleggers, hardscrabble folk), the mythology and fairy tale references, the skepticism, the sheer poetry - and so much non-specific, yet really good, advice. To be thoughtful and wary, yet remain open to new ideas and be on the lookout for revelation. To be aware of the special gift of life, yet knowing that the wolf is always at the door. To stand in awe of all of life's endless possibilities.

Did he doubt or did he try?
Answers aplenty in the bye and bye
Talk about your plenty, talk about your ills:​

One man gathers what another man spills​

​

Wake up to find out that you are the eyes of the world

The wheel is turning
and you can't slow down
You can't let go
and you can't hold on
You can't go back
and you can't stand still:
If the thunder don't get you
then the lightning will

In another time's forgotten space
your eyes looked from your mother's face

Daddy made whiskey and he made it well
Cost two dollars and it burned like hell
I cut hickory to fire the still
Drink down a bottle and you're ready to kill

Walk out of any doorway
feel your way, feel your way
like the day before
Maybe you'll find direction
around some corner
where it's been waiting to meet you

Ten years ago I walked this street
My dreams were riding tall
Tonight I would be thankful, Lord,
for any dream at all

Don't lend your hand to raise no flag​

atop no ship of fools​

Since it costs a lot to win

and even more to lose,
you and me better spend some time
wondering what to choose​

Some folks trust to reason
Others trust to might
I don't trust to nothing
but I know it come out right

Every once in a while
you can get shown the light
in the strangest of places,
if you look at it right

Anyway, it's a fascinating and remarkable body of work.

http://artsites.ucsc.edu/gdead/agdl/#intro

(Though the sixties/seventies are now long enough ago to be considered "vintage", I know this subject isn't really the stuff of this forum. If anyone here wants to discuss Robert Hunter, send me a PM!)

 

[Lean'n'mean]

American soprano, Jessye Norman, has died from organ failure & septic shock, secondary complications from a spinal cord injury sustained in 2015. She was 74.

 

[Trenchfriend]

R.I.P., Karel Gott!

 

[Giftmacher]

Karel Gott dies at the age of 80. May he rest in peace!
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-czech-gott/karel-gott-the-czech-sinatra-dies-at-80-idUSKBN1WH13H