Obituary/RIP Recent Passings (Threads Merged)

[roomark]

9 minutes ago, fforest said:

And yet the Rolling Stones are still at it at almost 80 years old except for  Charlie Watts....

Currently doing their 60 tour

[Stillearly]

Already posted 

Edited May 27, 2022 by Stillearly

[Glasseye]

On 5/26/2022 at 11:08 PM, AJSP said:

Very sad news this. 🙁

 

 

Yep... Saw them back in the early 80's at the Uptown Theatre in Chicago. One of may favorite bands during that period. Very influential back then. 

 

 

 

[Glasseye]

On 5/26/2022 at 8:24 PM, Yessongs said:

My best friend whom I had seen every "Yes" tour with since 1974, told me Alan White passed away this afternoon. 

Guy was great over all those years with "Yes"  Nice guy too, having met him 3 different times, last time was 2019 here locally. Answered all of your questions. Distinctly remember asking him back in 2004, how he does it night after night? He told me " The hardest part is after the sound check, you eat, then you realize how tired you are as we pretty much come into that particular city, get checked in at the hotel, then come over to the gig" 

RIP Alan White...

 

https://yesworld.com/

 

Shit.... Not very long after Chris.

[Glasseye]

On 5/26/2022 at 1:52 PM, roomark said:

Yeah unreal that one...

I'd say Goodfellas is one of my all times too.

Can't believe it was 32 years old just unreal how fast time goes.

RIP Ray

 

I'll never forget that scene in "Hannibal".... When Lecter cut the top of his skull off at the dinner table.

[galenkia]

On 5/26/2022 at 7:27 PM, Golfingboy said:

Goodfellas is of course the obvious one, but I forgot how many decent roles he played in, that I watched over the years. Never saw Something Wild or Field of Dreams, but he was Depp’s poor Dad in Blow, and just now was in Many Saints of Newark too. There was a crazy island prison flick, forgot the name….Killing me Softly, Narc, Smokin’ Aces, Identity, John Q….. 

Sure he was in plenty of flops, but definitely a great actor of the past 3 decades

Field Of Dreams , now that was a great film.

Maybe Shutter Island the prison one with Leo Di Caprio?.

[Golfingboy]

17 minutes ago, galenkia said:

Field Of Dreams , now that was a great film.

Maybe Shutter Island the prison one with Leo Di Caprio?.

No Ray wasn’t in Shutter, but OMG what a movie, finally saw it just when COVID started. 
 

Movie I was thinking of was No Escape, me and a good Italian mate I haven’t seen in 25 years rented it on VHS. Fell asleep, never saw the ending, but remember it was violent 

[AussieBob]

1 hour ago, Golfingboy said:

No Ray wasn’t in Shutter, but OMG what a movie, finally saw it just when COVID started. 
Movie I was thinking of was No Escape, me and a good Italian mate I haven’t seen in 25 years rented it on VHS. Fell asleep, never saw the ending, but remember it was violent 

Ray was in another similar film which was very good - Identity - very under-rated movie. 

[Golfingboy]

5 minutes ago, AussieBob said:

Ray was in another similar film which was very good - Identity - very under-rated movie. 

Yeah you don’t realize who’s guilty until the end….

[Lemondropkid]

R.I.P Lester

One of the greatest jockeys ever, rode this first winner aged 12🙂. My favourite is his Breeder's Cup in win on Royal Academy for late great Vincent O'Brien at Belmont Park in New York.

Aged 54, 6 lengths down go balked at the top of the short straight , at Belmont got Royal Academy up with bilstering run to win close to the line. Would get a huge whip ban now for the ride but different times.

A real genuis- white cap on the outside.

 

Edited May 29, 2022 by Lemondropkid

[Starshine]

A case where the word genius is totally appropriate

R.I.P Lester you legend

[galenkia]

Actress Patricia Brake age 79,best known for playing Ronnie Barker's daughter Ingrid in Porridge and Going Straight. Quite the looker back in the day. 

RIP

[Butch]

5 hours ago, Lemondropkid said:

R.I.P Lester

One of the greatest jockeys ever, rode this first winner aged 12🙂. My favourite is his Breeder's Cup in win on Royal Academy for late great Vincent O'Brien at Belmont Park in New York.

Aged 54, 6 lengths down go balked at the top of the short straight , at Belmont got Royal Academy up with bilstering run to win close to the line. Would get a huge whip ban now for the ride but different times.

A real genuis- white cap on the outside.

 

Didn't he do a stretch for Tax evasion?. Reminds me of the joke:

Who was the last 17 stone man to ride a Derby winner?

 

 

Lester Piggott's cellmate.

[Lemondropkid]

1 hour ago, Butch said:

Didn't he do a stretch for Tax evasion?. Reminds me of the joke:

Who was the last 17 stone man to ride a Derby winner?

 

 

Lester Piggott's cellmate.

Yep he did a year.

I  did hear that it wasn't the evasion that did for him. Allegedley he had reached a settlement with the revenue, but then went to pay a fine with a cheque drawn upon a bank account they didn't know about😀

There was a campaign to have his OBE re-instated but the HRH put the kibbosh on that. Said that Lester had been "very, very naughty!"  

[coxyhog]

Ronnie Hawkins RIP

https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/ronnie-hawkins-obituary-1.6470162?fbclid=IwAR3ThvT6AHEBdqiBFvr6dC77Gy2cRpcxtXfUuwCtNEf1lt8U38K6dT_4Ieo

[Lemondropkid]

[Painter]

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/cricket/2022/05/31/jim-parks-former-england-wicketkeeper-dies-aged-90/

Paywall....copied and pasted, 

Parks scored 36,673 runs and made nearly 1,200 dismissals in first-class cricket - unimaginable numbers today

 

Jim Parks, who played 46 Tests for England as a wicketkeeper/batsman, has died aged 90. From an august cricketing family, he scored 36,673 runs and made nearly 1,200 dismissals in first-class cricket - unimaginable numbers today - but then his father was the only cricketer ever to do the double of 3000 runs and 100 wickets in a first-class season.

Parks was ahead of his time in that he was a specialist batsman - good enough to have been selected for one Test for England aged 22 in 1954 - who then made himself into a wicketkeeper. Sussex’s keeper Rupert Webb was injured so their captain Robin Marlar told Parks to take over, in mid-game, even though he had not done the job before and had to borrow gloves from Essex’s keeper.

Happening to be coaching in Trinidad in 1960, Parks was called into the England team as a keeper/batsman for the fifth Test there, as the current keeper Roy Swetman had made only 58 runs in the four Tests. Parks proved a match-saver, scoring 43 and an unbeaten 101, and effectively kept the job until Alan Knott emerged in the second half of the 1960s. He scored 1962 runs for England at an average of 32, very high for a wicketkeeper in those days before Adam Gilchrist revolutionised the role.

Ted Dexter, another of Parks’s captains at Sussex and also for England, summarised him as “the sublimely gifted, sandy-haired Jim Parks. You could pick out his style from a mile away, open-stanced with his hands high on the handle. No furrowed brow for this prince of sweet ball-strikers.” Dexter added that it was unwise to “take him on at table tennis, shove-halfpenny, darts or tiddlywinks.”

Scoring runs well into his forties, and after captaining Sussex, Parks spent his last three years at Somerset, before retiring in 1976. He then worked for Whitbread and returned to Sussex as their marketing manager.

Not only his father and uncle played first-class cricket. So did his son Bobby, who kept wicket for Hampshire, and was a better keeper but not nearly so good a batsman as his father. But then nobody was, except Les Ames of Kent, the only wicketkeeper to have scored more first-class runs than Parks.

[Golfingboy]

RIP to this young man, saw the smartphone clip on YT…..didn’t look like much of a curve, he stayed left and rode straight into the wall. Saw the Wiki page for fatalities, it’s gotten much better as speeds have increased , but what a dangerous track. Much respect for these lads, the fastest I’ve driven a car is about 190, to average 210+ for a 60km track with many twists and turns and no protection…..Damn the adrenaline must be nuts

 

 

Edited June 2, 2022 by Golfingboy

[AussieBob]

On 6/3/2022 at 4:39 AM, Golfingboy said:

RIP to this young man, saw the smartphone clip on YT…..didn’t look like much of a curve, he stayed left and rode straight into the wall. Saw the Wiki page for fatalities, it’s gotten much better as speeds have increased , but what a dangerous track. Much respect for these lads, the fastest I’ve driven a car is about 190, to average 210+ for a 60km track with many twists and turns and no protection…..Damn the adrenaline must be nuts

 

 

IMO the Isle of Man and all road racing should be banned.  It is far too dangerous and modern bikes go far too fast. I love bike racing - but as Rossi himself said when watching them "these guys crazy". 

[biggles]

I never realized that it was  compulsory for people to race at the TT. I thought all the entrants knew the risks and accepted the danger. Many sports where people have died, same logic, they knew the risks and accepted them

[AussieBob]

34 minutes ago, biggles said:

I never realized that it was  compulsory for people to race at the TT. I thought all the entrants knew the risks and accepted the danger. Many sports where people have died, same logic, they knew the risks and accepted them

That is not the issue - they are using public roads and they are therefore subject to laws and restrictions.  There are many things that are dangerous that are banned - from climbing public structures to street racing to base jumping etc etc. Liabilities do not completely disappear because of acceptance of dangers involved.  IMO all racing on public roads should be banned - organised or not.  At the moment they are legal to participate and it is their choice - but you watch what happens if someone kills some spectators/children - then the authorities will be forced to act.  There are plenty of very fast and dangerous racetracks where participation is acceptable - build a racetrack on the island using public roads but with adequate safety arrangements. They do it in Australia for the car racing (Mt Panorama) but it was banned for motorbikes as they could not remove the walls.  I used to go there in the 70s 80s and watch both - it was great - but it was extremely dangerous for the bike riders.   

[KhunDon]

4 hours ago, AussieBob said:

That is not the issue - they are using public roads and they are therefore subject to laws and restrictions. 

No they are not!

They are racing against the clock with NO RESTRICTIONS on how fast they can go on the race course. The track itself defines the speeds they can go and like all racers, to win, you have to push the limits based on your ability, the capabilities of the motorbike you are driving and the track you’re racing on.

This is a timed lap of a CLOSED road that has been held for 50+ years. 
No one has to enter, these riders do so at their own risk, just like any motorcar or motorcycle race anywhere in the world. 
Should jumping out of a perfectly serviceable airplane to skydive or parachute be banned, because on rare occasions someone dies in an accident?
F1 and MotoGP drivers race at much higher speeds on tracks that have every possible safety systems built into the track design, yet every now and again a race driver dies in an accident.  

How many people die in road accidents each year on roads that have been designed and built to high safety standards? Would you ban all driving on roads? 

These riders are highly skilled motorcyclist who are the best in the world. They accept the risks involved, but like all risky sports, sadly, accidents happen from time to time and people die, that is the nature of all high speed sports. 👌
 

Edited June 4, 2022 by KhunDon

[galenkia]

59 minutes ago, KhunDon said:

No they are not!

They are racing against the clock with NO RESTRICTIONS on how fast they can go on the race course. The track itself defines the speeds they can go and like all racers, to win, you have to push the limits based on your ability, the capabilities of the motorbike you are driving and the track you’re racing on.

This is a timed lap of a CLOSED road that has been held for 50+ years. 
No one has to enter, these riders do so at their own risk, just like any motorcar or motorcycle race anywhere in the world. 
Should jumping out of a perfectly serviceable airplane to skydive or parachute be banned, because on rare occasions someone dies in an accident?
F1 drivers race at much higher speeds on tracks that have every possible safety systems built into the track design, yet every now and again a race driver dies in an accident.  

How many people die in road accidents each year on roads that have been designed and built to high safety standards? Would you ban all driving on roads? 

These riders are highly skilled motorcyclist who are the best in the world. They accept the risks involved, but like all risky sports, sadly, accidents happen from time to time and people die, that is the nature of all high speed sports. 👌
 

The voice of common sense.

Many sports are dangerous and if we banned them all there wouldn't be much left. If anything boxing is the one that should be banned as you are basically smashing f**k out of someone.

For me, motorcycle road racers are some of the bravest sport's men and women in the world. To race at those speeds takes the highest of skills, and if you ride a motorcycle yourself you'll appreciate their talents even more.

[Captain_B]

What l find terrible is the younger riders that have died in these sports. 14 and 15 Yr old were killed last year on the racetrack. I mean they are not deemed old enough to frink or smoke or even have sex. There is no second life, they are dead and gone. What a terrible waste of life. Its precious still to me and l,m 61 years. Just finished driving 3700 miles around Italy, fantastic holiday and safely back in southern Spain to plan the next venture. Those youngsters have lost decades of fun for minutes of excitement.  A poor exchange.

[galenkia]

21 minutes ago, Captain_B said:

What l find terrible is the younger riders that have died in these sports. 14 and 15 Yr old were killed last year on the racetrack. I mean they are not deemed old enough to frink or smoke or even have sex. There is no second life, they are dead and gone. What a terrible waste of life. Its precious still to me and l,m 61 years. Just finished driving 3700 miles around Italy, fantastic holiday and safely back in southern Spain to plan the next venture. Those youngsters have lost decades of fun for minutes of excitement.  A poor exchange.

Biggest concern is the overloaded starting lineup in the younger classes. Too many rider's with minimal experience and no fear.

Recipe for disaster.