2025 RIPs

[ketan]

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.

 

[DOR]

RIP Mr. Baseball

 

[Electrode]

^ "Major League" is one of my favorite sports comedies!

Brenton Wood passed a couple of weeks ago.

 

[ketan]

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!

 

[Electrode]

Jerry Butler

 

[billbradley]

RIP Gwen McCrae

 

[ketan]

And RIP Roberta Flack - she was a gateway drug for me bitd, so this one puts things into perspective for me.

 

[Jimster]

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.

 

[ketan]

Gene Hackman

 

[Electrode]

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.

 

[ketan]

Given that he turned to writing later in life, I wish he had written an autobiography.

 

[dj_cityboy]

Roberta Flack

 

[Jimster]

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.

 

[Duderonomy]

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

 

[ketan]

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:

 

[dj_cityboy]

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!

 

[Electrode]

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.

 

[perfectpawn]

RIP Roy Ayers -- his Jazz Is Dead release (JID 002) was pretty great, I thought, even if he was mostly a sideman on it.

 

[ketan]

oh man, 2025 is the woooooorst.

 

[kicks79]

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.