Author Topic: Obituaries for 2021 (Read 50340 times)

verga · « **Reply #125 on:** February 13, 2021, 03:37:09 pm »

Quote from: Gefn on February 11, 2021, 10:14:58 pm

Chick Corea, Jazz Pianist Who Expanded the Possibilities of the Genre, Dead at 79

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/chick-corea-obit-1127283/

I was introduced to his music in 1976, by my 10th grade English teacher. His music moved your soul.

PeteS in CA · « **Reply #126 on:** February 15, 2021, 01:39:58 am »

This is too deep into the bowels of the music industry for me to have heard of the guy, but ...

Rupert Neve 1926-2021

https://www.soundonsound.com/news/rupert-neve-1926-2021

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We are very sad to report the death of Rupert Neve, perhaps the most important and influential designer in recording-studio history. Mr. Neve passed away at the age of 94 in his adoptive home of Wimberley, Texas, but his name will be forever associated with the British company he founded in 1961. He was quick to see the potential of solid-state electronics, designing his first all-transistor console in the mid-â€™60s, and would go on to create seminal designs such as the 1073 and 1084 preamp/EQ modules. Neve consoles became first choice for recording studios and broadcasters all around the world, and by the time he and wife Evelyn sold Neve Electronics in 1975, the company employed over 500 people.

mountaineer · « **Reply #127 on:** February 17, 2021, 02:07:50 pm »

GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame Member, CARMAN, Iconic CCM Trailblazer, Dies at Las Vegas Hospital

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LAS VEGAS, Nev. (February 16, 2021) - GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame member, CARMAN, passed away Tuesday, February 16, 2021 at a Las Vegas, Nevada hospital, after fighting a series of complications resulting from surgery to repair a hiatal hernia.

Carman Dominic Licciardello, known to fans worldwide as â€œCarman,â€ was 65.

Born January 19, 1956 in Trenton, New Jersey, Carman began his musical career playing drums in his motherâ€™s band at the age of 15. Carman holds the world record for having the largest audience to see a single Christian artist. He set the record for the largest concert at Texas Stadium with more than 71,000 fans and led more than 80,000 fans in worship in Chattanooga, Tennessee.

Among his many awards, Carman received the House of Hope of Humanitarian Award for his positive influence in the lives of American youth in 2006, other noted recipients of this award include Ronald & Nancy Reagan and Billy Graham. The Gospel Music Association honored Carman with induction into the GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame in 2018. ...

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Edit to add: a few years ago, he overcame a very virulent form of cancer and returned to the stage. Died of a heart attack after hernia surgery, but I understand there was concern that his cancer may have been returning.

Polly Ticks · « **Reply #128 on:** February 17, 2021, 02:11:25 pm »

Quote from: mountaineer on February 17, 2021, 02:07:50 pm

GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame Member, CARMAN, Iconic CCM Trailblazer, Dies at Las Vegas HospitalMore

I saw that this morning. Very sad. He was a huge deal in the late 80's - used to be a guest at ORU chapel fairly frequently.

sneakypete · « **Reply #129 on:** February 17, 2021, 02:22:06 pm »

Quote from: mountaineer on February 17, 2021, 02:07:50 pm

GMA Gospel Music Hall of Fame Member, CARMAN, Iconic CCM Trailblazer, Dies at Las Vegas HospitalMore

@mountaineer

I'm a big fan of his cousin,Cartman.

GtHawk · « **Reply #130 on:** February 17, 2021, 05:42:20 pm »

Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70 ...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-dead-talk-radio-conservative-icon

Dead at 70, lung cancer. This will hit my mother hard, Rush was part of her morning for as long as I can remember.

RIP Rush.

deb · « **Reply #131 on:** February 17, 2021, 05:48:32 pm »

Truly a sad day.

PeteS in CA · « **Reply #132 on:** February 17, 2021, 05:58:58 pm »

I remember first hearing Rush in 1988 (guest host on KGO, recommended by Bernie Ward of all people). My first thought was, "Is this a parody?" My second thought was, "I wish I could get away with saying that so bluntly!"

(Corrected the date)

catfish1957 · « **Reply #133 on:** February 17, 2021, 06:10:39 pm »

Quote from: PeteS in CA on February 17, 2021, 05:58:58 pm

I remember first hearing Rush in 1987 (guest host on KGO, recommended by Bernie Ward of all people). My first thought was, "Is this a parody?" My second thought was, "I wish I could get away with saying that so bluntly!"

I was a latecomer as a listener to Rush (1991). My first impression was ... Wow, we have a new Bill Buckley, without having to have to keep dictionary near by.

verga · « **Reply #134 on:** February 17, 2021, 08:47:42 pm »

Quote from: GtHawk on February 17, 2021, 05:42:20 pm

Rush Limbaugh, conservative talk radio pioneer, dead at 70 ...

https://www.foxnews.com/media/rush-limbaugh-dead-talk-radio-conservative-icon

Dead at 70, lung cancer. This will hit my mother hard, Rush was part of her morning for as long as I can remember.

RIP Rush.

Started listening to him in 91 or 92. He said what I was thinking. RIP

mountaineer · « **Reply #135 on:** February 17, 2021, 09:11:03 pm »

I never listened to talk radio during my early years - too busy working. But when I changed careers and moved back to Pittsburgh in late 1991, my schedule was completely rearranged and I started turning on the radio in the afternoon. The first few shows I listened to were just too liberal, and even though I hadn't been much of a political animal to that point, I knew they just didn't make sense. Then I discovered the guy from noon to 3 p.m. who pounded his pencil and imitated a news ticker - duh duh dut, duh duh dut - and I realized that this was someone with whom I agreed. He made sense, and did it with good humor and without hatefulness. I loved that he had been a DJ in Pittsburgh long ago ("Jeff Christie") and that he was from Cape Girardeau, Mo., not far from my previous home in St. Louis.

Rush inspired and educated us. I just hope someone fills the void. We are in a very low period in American history.

jmyrlefuller · « **Reply #136 on:** February 17, 2021, 09:47:36 pm »

I discovered Rush Limbaugh in September of 1993, when I was still in elementary school. Before then, they used to have cartoons on in the morning before the network news. There was The Jetsons for a while, and maybe before that was Underdog, and in 92-93 there was a God-awful one called Camp Candy. I used to get up early to watch the cartoons before school. Well, in '93, they pulled the cartoons off and replaced them with Rush Limbaugh's TV show. I thought, "that's a silly sounding name." But even though his commentary at the time went way over my head, something about him kept my attentionâ€”enough that when they moved his show back from 6:30 to 5:30 the next year to make way for local news, I would still wake up early to try and catch it.

I truly believe that Limbaugh's death is probably going to mark the end of talk radio as we know it. The current crop of pundits have either gone podcast or can't hold a candle to Limbaugh. Sean Hannity and Glenn Beck are not going to keep stations afloat.

skeeter · « **Reply #137 on:** February 17, 2021, 09:59:29 pm »

Quote from: catfish1957 on February 17, 2021, 06:10:39 pm

I was a latecomer as a listener to Rush (1991). My first impression was ... Wow, we have a new Bill Buckley, without having to have to keep dictionary near by.

I took my kids by WABC in Manhattan in about '97 to see if we could at least watch Rush do his show. That was when he was splitting his time between NY and FLA and unfortunately he was in FLA that day.

Gefn · « **Reply #138 on:** February 18, 2021, 12:18:53 pm »

Quote from: skeeter on February 17, 2021, 09:59:29 pm

I took my kids by WABC in Manhattan in about '97 to see if we could at least watch Rush do his show. That was when he was splitting his time between NY and FLA and unfortunately he was in FLA that day.

Ah, 97 was good listening. You had Bob Grant in the afternoon, after Rush, Curtis in the am, and Lynn Samuels and Drudge on weekends. Lynn was hid producer. Steve Maltzberg was also on.

I grew up listening to Bob Grant on WABC, WOR, and WMCA. I do miss him, and Jean Shepherd. They were the ones that made me like talk radio. Shepherd was on WOR.
@skeeter

skeeter · « **Reply #139 on:** February 18, 2021, 02:38:30 pm »

Quote from: Gefn on February 18, 2021, 12:18:53 pm

Ah, 97 was good listening. You had Bob Grant in the afternoon, after Rush, Curtis in the am, and Lynn Samuels and Drudge on weekends. Lynn was hid producer. Steve Maltzberg was also on.

I grew up listening to Bob Grant on WABC, WOR, and WMCA. I do miss him, and Jean Shepherd. They were the ones that made me like talk radio. Shepherd was on WOR.
@skeeter

Lol Bob Grant kept getting fired, if I recall. Bouncing him between WOR and WABC.

verga · « **Reply #140 on:** February 18, 2021, 08:43:55 pm »

Max "Shane" Gibson
The Club 747's first DJ has passed away:
Sad news: DJ Shane Brother Shane (Shane Gibson) passed away at age 78 on Feb. 15 after suffering a heart attack. Shane came to Buffalo for a one-night tryout at WKBW-AM in '73 to replace departing Jackson Armstrong (KB called it the Great American Talent Hunt). Shane stayed briefly at WKBW, then went to WYSL and stayed a long time at WGR-AM. He co-announced at Lancaster Speedway in '73 and drag raced there in his '66 Chevy, dubbed "The WYSL Mysl." Shane also was one of the very first DJs at the Club 747 and also designed the soundbooth and mixing board.

Shane was an outstanding Disc Jockey in Buffalo during my youth. He was well known for his Charity work, especially with kids. Virtually any charity cause he was always one of the first to sign up and was "always willing to take one for the team". He was also a quick draw artist. At charity events he would have two rigs and people would pay to try and out draw him. The deal was if he won you donated $ x to the charity. If you won he donated either 2 or 3x to the charity. I only remember hearing about him losing 2 or 3 times over the years. During his time at WGR there was an evening talk show host by the name of John Otto who was getting on in age. One Wednesday evening John Shane would stay late and help Otto out. RIP Shane brother Shane you will be missed. Prayers for his family.

jmyrlefuller · « **Reply #141 on:** February 18, 2021, 11:14:18 pm »

I vaguely remember Shane Brother Shane on WGR (?) back in the early 1990s. I think he may have done weekends at KB in the mid-2000s, maybe?

I suspect something about him may have rubbed off on me because I have a pretty wild stage persona myself.

verga · « **Reply #142 on:** February 19, 2021, 01:04:24 am »

Quote from: jmyrlefuller on February 18, 2021, 11:14:18 pm

I vaguely remember Shane Brother Shane on WGR (?) back in the early 1990s. I think he may have done weekends at KB in the mid-2000s, maybe?

I suspect something about him may have rubbed off on me because I have a pretty wild stage persona myself.

Gefn · « **Reply #143 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:09:17 pm »

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet And Small Press Publisher, Dies At 101

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Lawrence Ferlinghetti has died in San Francisco. He was 101. Ferlinghetti is probably best known for three things: his Beat poetry, his San Francisco bookstore and small press, and his defense of the First Amendment in a famous court case.

His most famous work is a 1958 collection of poetry called A Coney Island of the Mind. In it, he compares the horrors depicted in Francisco Goya's paintings of the Napoleonic Wars to scenes of post-World War II America.

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A Coney Island of the Mind was translated into nine languages and sold more than a million copies. Despite his popularity, Ferlinghetti was never considered on par with some of the other Beat writers he called his friends â€” Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso and Allen Ginsberg.

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/375206219/lawrence-ferlinghetti-beat-poet-and-small-press-publisher-dies-at-101

Gefn · « **Reply #144 on:** February 23, 2021, 08:10:44 pm »

Quote from: Gefn on February 23, 2021, 08:09:17 pm

Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Beat Poet And Small Press Publisher, Dies At 101

https://www.npr.org/2021/02/23/375206219/lawrence-ferlinghetti-beat-poet-and-small-press-publisher-dies-at-101

I really liked your poetry. Rest In Peace, Sir.

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #145 on:** February 24, 2021, 08:14:30 am »

Coyote. Lab/Husky cross, 12 years old. Great pal, very vocal, never failed to greet me when I came home, a friend and companion. Loved pizza and other people food. Lost his head over a female in heat and bit a family member. Passed by lethal injection about 4:30 CST, and left a gaping hole in our family and my heart.

Sighlass · « **Reply #146 on:** February 24, 2021, 08:22:45 am »

Quote from: Smokin Joe on February 24, 2021, 08:14:30 am

Coyote. Lab/Husky cross, 12 years old. Great pal, very vocal, never failed to greet me when I came home, a friend and companion. Loved pizza and other people food. Lost his head over a female in heat and bit a family member. Passed by lethal injection about 4:30 CST, and left a gaping hole in our family and my heart.

Sorry for your loss. Hope the family member is doing well.

deb · « **Reply #147 on:** February 24, 2021, 12:12:42 pm »

Quote from: Smokin Joe on February 24, 2021, 08:14:30 am

Coyote. Lab/Husky cross, 12 years old. Great pal, very vocal, never failed to greet me when I came home, a friend and companion. Loved pizza and other people food. Lost his head over a female in heat and bit a family member. Passed by lethal injection about 4:30 CST, and left a gaping hole in our family and my heart.

Praying for your broken heart. Such a difficult situation.

Millee · « **Reply #148 on:** February 24, 2021, 12:59:32 pm »

Quote from: Smokin Joe on February 24, 2021, 08:14:30 am

Coyote. Lab/Husky cross, 12 years old. Great pal, very vocal, never failed to greet me when I came home, a friend and companion. Loved pizza and other people food. Lost his head over a female in heat and bit a family member. Passed by lethal injection about 4:30 CST, and left a gaping hole in our family and my heart.

@Smokin Joe - Condolences on the loss of your fur baby.

Gefn · « **Reply #149 on:** February 24, 2021, 01:51:24 pm »

Quote from: Smokin Joe on February 24, 2021, 08:14:30 am

Coyote. Lab/Husky cross, 12 years old. Great pal, very vocal, never failed to greet me when I came home, a friend and companion. Loved pizza and other people food. Lost his head over a female in heat and bit a family member. Passed by lethal injection about 4:30 CST, and left a gaping hole in our family and my heart.

Iâ€™m so sorry for the loss of your dog, and buddy @Smokin Joe