R.I.P. The thread of death....celebrity or otherwise

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 8:37 am

Yeah that one hurts. I've always been a fan of the Foos, not only for the music but for their sense of humor. I feel bad for one of my co-workers who is the biggest Foo Fighters fan I've ever met. She has tickets to see them in June. I'm sure she is absolutely devastated.

RIP Taylor, always loved his music video appearances. He seemed like a great guy.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:31 pm

Initial toxicology report found 10 different drugs in his system.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Mar 26, 2022 10:40 pm

Dangit.

The ones they listed were marijuana, antidepressants, opioids, heroin. All depressants. No telling what the others were. Probably put him to sleep then stopped his breathing.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:38 am

McNutt wrote: ↑Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:31 pm Initial toxicology report found 10 different drugs in his system.

Yeah, “found dead in a hotel room in Columbia” usually doesn’t leave many options for positive outcomes.

While I never liked their music, he seemed like a good dude (as do all the Foos). RIP

A nonny mouse · Post by **A nonny mouse** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 10:53 am

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Sun Mar 27, 2022 9:38 am
McNutt wrote: ↑Sat Mar 26, 2022 9:31 pm Initial toxicology report found 10 different drugs in his system.
Yeah, “found dead in a hotel room in Colombia usually doesn’t leave many options for positive outcomes.

While I never liked their music, he seemed like a good dude (as do all the Foos). RIP

Eduardo -X’d that for you

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 10:54 am

Found dead in a hotel room anywhere leaves little room for a postive outcome, regardless of whether it is in the District of Columbia or the Republic of Colombia.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 12:56 pm

Dave introduces Taylor in their last show before his death.

Spoiler:

YellowKing · Post by **YellowKing** » Sun Mar 27, 2022 1:07 pm

I've seen some reports that he called the front desk complaining of chest pains shortly before his death. Drug-induced heart attack maybe? That's how my best friend's brother died.

Xmann · Post by **Xmann** » Tue Mar 29, 2022 12:29 pm

YellowKing wrote:I've seen some reports that he called the front desk complaining of chest pains shortly before his death. Drug-induced heart attack maybe? That's how my best friend's brother died.

Yeah, you hope if that's the case it happened quick because I'm sure he knew what was happening if he was using.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Mar 30, 2022 12:31 pm

Charles Osborne Jr., World War II fighter pilot, dies at 98

Charles “Ozzie” Osborne Jr., 98, of Laurel Springs, a World War II fighter pilot, longtime printing operator at N.W. Ayer & Son advertising agency, and popular teacher and coach at Camden County Tech, died Thursday, March 17, of congestive heart failure at home.

Mr. Osborne dreamed of being a pilot when he was a boy and enlisted in the Army Air Forces in 1942 after the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. He made it through two years of intense flight training and piloted his P-47 Thunderbolt on 26 bombing, strafing, and aerial combat missions over Belgium, Holland, and Germany during the winter and spring of 1945.

In the years after, Mr. Osborne would recall on his birthday, Feb. 24, that he flew a mission on his 21st birthday in 1945 and wondered whether he would make it to his 22nd. His 410th Fighter Squadron received a presidential award in 1945 for its service.

2018 interview at Millville.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Wed Mar 30, 2022 12:32 pm

Scott Bennie, writer on Interplay's Lord of the Rings, Star Trek, Fallout, and others, has died

Brian Fargo: "Scott Bennie gave Dogmeat his name. He joked that it would be the thing that lived on in his writing career."

Scott Bennie, writer, producer, and designer of multiple videogames and tabletop roleplaying games, has died at the age 61 due to pneumonia complications, as confirmed on his Facebook page.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Wed Mar 30, 2022 6:50 pm

I have a number of his old TSR era AD&D supplements.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 8:29 pm

CW McCall Cause of Death Revealed: ’Convoy' Country Singer Died at 93

Bill Fries, an advertising executive better known by his stage name, C.W. McCall, who had hit country records in the 1970s about long-haul truck driving during the height of the citizens band radio craze and whose song “Convoy” inspired an action film directed by Sam Peckinpah, died April 1 at his home in Ouray, Colo. He was 93.

The death was confirmed by his son Bill Fries III. Mr. Fries announced in February that he was in hospice care for cancer.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 8:47 pm

I'd have never guessed he was that old.

Max Peck · Post by **Max Peck** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 8:50 pm

Convoy (1978)

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 8:56 pm

Convoy and the related CB Radio fad came out and took hole about the same time I started going to Florida with dad for vacation. I was about 10 years old and dad always had a CB in the car so he could listen for police and stuff. He drove ...uhh...fast'ish. Also sometimes other family were in a 2nd car and they had a cb too. I loved listening to them because of the song. Used to do that arm pump to have them blow their horns on the highway. Loved those days.

Kraken · Post by **Kraken** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 9:47 pm

Here's your CB lingo. Try to forgive the extra stupid animation.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 10:01 pm

Hahah that video has been in my favorites a long time.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sat Apr 02, 2022 11:07 pm

Estelle Harris

Estelle Harris, who played George Costanza’s (Jason Alexander) mother Estelle on the iconic NBC sitcom Seinfeld, died Saturday evening of natural causes in Palm Desert, California, just weeks before her 94th birthday.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:31 pm

Didn't watch that show but she seems familiar from something else. No idea what though. RIP.

dbt1949 · Post by **dbt1949** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:35 pm

I am familiar with the woman. She always played in the back ground and did a good job with what she did.

Blackhawk · Post by **Blackhawk** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:38 pm

RIP Mrs Potato Head.

Unagi · Post by **Unagi** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:51 pm

Daehawk wrote: ↑Sun Apr 03, 2022 1:31 pm Didn't watch that show but she seems familiar from something else. No idea what though. RIP.

She was in a ton of commercials in 'our youth'.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 2:05 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 2:15 pm

She really stuffed his behind. Yes I know its a door in his back.

those commercials must be it. Were my time era. She had a distinctive voice. That Handi Wrap one I still recall that jingle. I hated the product though..still hate all cling wrap type...its ok it hates me too.

Isgrimnur · Post by **Isgrimnur** » Sun Apr 03, 2022 2:31 pm

The Real Reason Why Saran Wrap Doesn't Cling Anymore

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 11:19 am

Steelers QB Dwayne Haskins dies after being hit by a car. He was 24 years old.

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 11:54 am

Oh, man. That's terrible.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 12:15 pm

Wow, way too young

Defiant · Post by **Defiant** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 12:31 pm

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 12:43 pm

107!? I mean even without that history thats pretty amazing.

Freyland · Post by **Freyland** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 1:39 pm

Skinypupy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 11:19 am Steelers QB Dwayne Haskins dies after being hit by a car. He was 24 years old.

Cynical Freyland alert.
Who walks on a highway unless they absolutely have to? And per the article, his career seemed less than he expected it to be. I'm getting suicidal vibes. I really hope I'm wrong.

stessier · Post by **stessier** » Sat Apr 09, 2022 2:09 pm

Freyland wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 1:39 pm
Skinypupy wrote: ↑Sat Apr 09, 2022 11:19 am Steelers QB Dwayne Haskins dies after being hit by a car. He was 24 years old.
Cynical Freyland alert.
Who walks on a highway unless they absolutely have to? And per the article, his career seemed less than he expected it to be. I'm getting suicidal vibes. I really hope I'm wrong.

Schefter had an interview where he said he heard, but was not reporting, that Haskins got out of a stopped vehicle on the highway and got clipped.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Apr 10, 2022 4:30 am

Aw shit. I did not know until tonight that Gary Brooker had passed away. He died Feb 19 2022.

Gary was lead singer of the 1960s band Pracol Harum. Famous for Whiter Shade of Pale. Many other artist cited it as their favorite song or the best song written. People like The Beatles.

RIP Gary Brooker.

Procol Harum Frontman Gary Brooker Dead at 76

Heres both a live one from 2006 and the original in 1967. I prefer the live newer one best so Im posting above the original

McNutt · Post by **McNutt** » Sun Apr 10, 2022 9:35 am

I didn't know that. I had just watched a video of him singing jot too long ago.

I have tried, but I can't get my kids to realize that Whiter Shade of Pale is one of the best songs ever recorded.

TheMix · Post by **TheMix** » Sun Apr 10, 2022 12:42 pm

It definitely is a classic. I never thought about whether it was the best. But it is certainly good enough that I have to pause and go "hmmm..." instead of scoffing.

Edit: That live performance was magnificent.

Jaymann · Post by **Jaymann** » Sun Apr 10, 2022 3:06 pm

And the great Robin Trower played on the original recording.

Daehawk · Post by **Daehawk** » Sun Apr 10, 2022 5:55 pm

The sound of those old organs are unmatched by modern keyboards to my ears.

Skinypupy · Post by **Skinypupy** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 10:26 am

Just got a call that my uncle passed away around 5:00 this morning. That makes two aunts, two uncles, and two cousins that have all died in the past 6 months. Granted, all the aunts and uncles were in their 90's, but that still doesn't make it easier. I've got another uncle who just went into hospice care this week, so I suspect that we'll likely be adding him to the list soon as well.

If the grim reaper could maybe just give our family a pass for the next couple weeks, that'd be great.

coopasonic · Post by **coopasonic** » Thu Apr 14, 2022 12:14 pm

I've only lost two extended family members in the past two decades, but I have 12 aunts and uncles mostly in their 70s and all lifelong chain smokers. I honestly thought COVID was going to have a much bigger impact on my extended family but nobody has been touched by it. Yay for rural NY, I guess? I saw a couple fo them 5 years ago. There's an outside chance I will see any of them ever again.

Yeah, no idea why I felt compelled to share that.