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[zamboni]

Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and co-founder Gary Rossington, 71

Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist Gary Rossington Dead at 71

Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington died at the age of 71 in March 2023.

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[Hastur]

Interesting. The only member there for the whole run...

 

[zamboni]

Interesting. The only member there for the whole run...

Indeed. The fact that he not only survived that 1977 plane crash, but managed to keep on playing all that time, is amazing.

 

[Psychopav]

Tom Sizemore. RIP.

Amazing he lasted as long as he did. Here's to you, Tom!

 

[zamboni]

The classic live Free Bird performance, three months before the plane crash. Rossington rocking the slide, including those great bird chirps at the 0:22 mark.

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[nirad3]

Tom Sizemore. RIP.

Amazing he lasted as long as he did. Here's to you, Tom!

Yeah, the guy battled some hardcore addiction(s).

Always enjoyed his characters. RIP

 

[The Man With No Name]

Robert Blake - 89

 

[Doug B]

Chaim Topol from Fiddler on the Roof and Flash Gordon, age 87.

 

[JohnnyU]

Tom Sizemore. RIP.

Amazing he lasted as long as he did. Here's to you, Tom!

Yeah, the guy battled some hardcore addiction(s).

Always enjoyed his characters. RIP

"We're in business"

We're in business! Definitely

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We're in Business!!!

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[JohnnyU]

Robert Blake - 89

I suppose he has something in common with OJ.

 

[James Bond]

Longtime Chiefs wide receiver, and Superbowl IV champion, Otis Taylor dies at age 80.

 

[Uruk-Hai]

Longtime Chiefs wide receiver, and Superbowl IV champion, Otis Taylor dies at age 80.

He was Andre Johnson before Andre Johnson - big, fast, and nasty. What he did to Earsall Mackabee (sp?) in SB IV should have been considered a crime - he stoned that dude on his TD catch.

 

[jamny]

Robert Blake - 89

I loved Baretta as a kid.

RIP

 

[JohnnyU]

Longtime Chiefs wide receiver, and Superbowl IV champion, Otis Taylor dies at age 80.

I enjoyed watching him play. He was a true WR1 and a star. He went 6/81/1 in SB IV, catching a 46 yard TD. I was still an NFL guy back then, so I was pulling for the Vikings. I became an AFC guy when the Colts moved to the AFC after the merger in 1970.

 

[The Kerminator]

Long time Minnesota Vikings head coach Bud Grant passed away at the age of 95

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

Jesus Alou, 80 passes away ...

when we ever see three brothers play at that high of a level in professional sports?

so many guys from my youth passing away

 

[simsarge]

Robert Blake - 89

I loved Baretta as a kid.

RIP

Electraglide In Blue one of my favorite movies of all time

 

[simsarge]

Long time Minnesota Vikings head coach Bud Grant passed away at the age of 95

Badass player too!

 

[mr. furley]

Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist and co-founder Gary Rossington, 71

Lynyrd Skynyrd Guitarist Gary Rossington Dead at 71

Lynyrd Skynyrd guitarist Gary Rossington died at the age of 71 in March 2023.

ultimateclassicrock.com

the Netflix doc on this band is great and i don't even listen to their music

 

[Mookie]

Olympic High Jumper Richard ("****") Fosbury, dead at 74.

I had the pleasure of working with him for many years. A great, great, man who will be sorely missed in his community.

 

[glvsav37]

Rolly Crump. 93

Historic Disney animator and artish that played a huge role in building Disneyland.

Rolly Crump, Disney designer who helped define the look of Disneyland, dies at 93

Animator turned theme park designer Rolly Crump, who was instrumental in the design of early Disneyland, died Sunday in his Carlsbad home. He was 93.

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[otb_lifer]

Joe Pepitone, at 82

in the long line of Italian tradition for the Yankees - Lazzeri, Rizzuto, Dimaggio, Berra, Raschi, Crosetti, Billy ...

those players meant an awful lot to the Italian community - a great sense of pride and accomplishment

R.I.P., Joe

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Joe Pepitone, at 82

in the long line of Italian tradition for the Yankees - Lazzeri, Rizzuto, Dimaggio, Berra, Raschi, Crosetti, Billy ...

those players meant an awful lot to the Italian community - a great sense of pride and accomplishment

R.I.P., Joe

Damn.

 

[otb_lifer]

Joe Pepitone, at 82

in the long line of Italian tradition for the Yankees - Lazzeri, Rizzuto, Dimaggio, Berra, Raschi, Crosetti, Billy ...

those players meant an awful lot to the Italian community - a great sense of pride and accomplishment

R.I.P., Joe

Damn.

yeah ... he were supposed to be the next big superstar, alongside the waning Mick, to lead them thru the mid-late 60s - and it never panned out.

star-crossed cat, a ton of promise from his great start, but he definitely chased the life off the field up here waayyy too hard.

one of the franchises greatest "coulda beens"

 

[Yankee23Fan]

Joe Pepitone, at 82

in the long line of Italian tradition for the Yankees - Lazzeri, Rizzuto, Dimaggio, Berra, Raschi, Crosetti, Billy ...

those players meant an awful lot to the Italian community - a great sense of pride and accomplishment

R.I.P., Joe

Damn.

yeah ... he were supposed to be the next big superstar, alongside the waning Mick, to lead them thru the mid-late 60s - and it never panned out.

star-crossed cat, a ton of promise from his great start, but he definitely chased the life off the field up here waayyy too hard.

one of the franchises greatest "coulda beens"

I know. I met him (I think. I have a signature that was a live one but i was little so i could be mixing him up with all the other yankees i met over the years) when I was a kid and he was a favorite of my family in those hazy small kid years when all baseball players my uncles told me were great were our guys.

 

[otb_lifer]

Joe Pepitone, at 82

in the long line of Italian tradition for the Yankees - Lazzeri, Rizzuto, Dimaggio, Berra, Raschi, Crosetti, Billy ...

those players meant an awful lot to the Italian community - a great sense of pride and accomplishment

R.I.P., Joe

Damn.

yeah ... he were supposed to be the next big superstar, alongside the waning Mick, to lead them thru the mid-late 60s - and it never panned out.

star-crossed cat, a ton of promise from his great start, but he definitely chased the life off the field up here waayyy too hard.

one of the franchises greatest "coulda beens"

I know. I met him (I think. I have a signature that was a live one but i was little so i could be mixing him up with all the other yankees i met over the years) when I was a kid and he was a favorite of my family in those hazy small kid years when all baseball players my uncles told me were great were our guys.

just noticed your username

man, did they go off the rails quickly ... those Celerino Sanchez, Horace Clark, Gene Michael, etc era teams were hot garbage - then George stepped in ... '73, iirc.

say what ya will, but things changed


PS- speaking of those horrid squads, this is the 50 yr ann'y of the Fritz Peterson/Mike Kekich switcherooooo

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

Joe Pepitone, at 82

in the long line of Italian tradition for the Yankees - Lazzeri, Rizzuto, Dimaggio, Berra, Raschi, Crosetti, Billy ...

those players meant an awful lot to the Italian community - a great sense of pride and accomplishment

R.I.P., Joe

I have mentioned this book before - but in Joe's honor, I want to bring it up again.

I loved "Ball Four" and all of the inside info of pro baseball at the time. I found his biography, "Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud" a couple years later.

At age 17 Joe Pepitone signed a $25,000 bonus contract with the Yankees, and soon experts were saying he would be the team's next superstar. He could run, throw, field and he had a sweet swing. But during his twelve years in the major leagues, Pepi devoted most of his energy to swinging off the field. He blew his career, he destroyed two marriages, he lost three children and he came very close to a nervous breakdown. At age 33 he gave up a $70,000 contract in Japan and quit baseball for good. He finally admitted that most of his life he had been living a lie, acting the carefree clown to cover up his inner pain. It was time to close the act. In Joe, You Coulda Made Us Proud, Pepitone attempts to show what was behind his berserk behavior. He does so in the most devastatingly honest terms, holding back none of the embarrassment, the anguish, the guilt he kept accumulating. He tells of the father he loved so much, "Willie Pep" Pepitone, the toughest man in a tough Brooklyn neighborhood. Obsessed with making his son a baseball star, Willie constantly beat hell out of Joe. One night, enraged at his father, Joe said,"Mom- I wish he'd die!" The next day Willie died. He tells how he demolished two marriages by trying to ball American, of how he was haunted by the words of his first child - "Daddy, don't leave me" - and of the nights when the guilt left him impotent. Despite the travail, though, there is much humor in Joe's story. Such as the time he was staying at Frank Sinatra's home, and Joe has a $350 pool shot line up. Just as he shot, Sinatra knocked the ball away. "All right, Frank... I won the money." Sinatra, grinning, said, "Joe, this is my game, this is my table - and we are playing my rules." Usually Joe Pepitone played only by his rules, and those rules maimed him. Yet his regrets are not for what he did to himself... "You do what you have to do, and you pay the price - but you pay it double when you see how it has hurt others you love." - from book's dustjacket

 

[Atomic Punk]

I’ll tell you a story …

It was the year 1991 and I was fresh out of college had no idea what I wanted to do for a career. As can happen some times, an opportunity arose when a neighbour told the my mother that the federal government was hiring and applied for the job. I went to the interview, nervous as could be, when this ‘older’ man, Larry, appeared – feathered hair (that was still the style at the time), big moustache, sports coat – he definitely looked the part. I wasn’t intimated … it was more like a was in awe.

Larry saw something in me and offered me the job a couple of weeks later. During the first week on the job, Larry asked me out to lunch and shared numerous stories … stories about the job … stories of the company baseball team … stories of his family.

Two years later I moved on to another position, but the we continued our friendship. Fast forward 30 of years of life, marriage, children, loss and more fun than anyone deserves, we remained friends ever since.

We are 20 years apart in age, with very different histories and life experiences … but we quickly became friends, both in our professional and personal lives. Two people, despite being very different, took the time to get to know each as individuals, accepted our differences and appreciated each other for the goodness that they brought to the world.

I am writing this to help me with the loss of a great friend … my friend, Larry. My first real boss, my first ‘adult’, friend, best friend a person could ever ask for and one hell of a guy. Larry was my personal, real life wikkid. He lived an amazing life and taught me so much … I will miss you dearly

 

[SWC]

very sorry for your loss atomic punk larry sounds like he was a hell of a guy i hope that you can find as much peace as possible

 

[rockaction]

I am writing this to help me with the loss of a great friend … my friend, Larry. My first real boss, my first ‘adult’, friend, best friend a person could ever ask for and one hell of a guy. Larry was my personal, real life wikkid. He lived an amazing life and taught me so much … I will miss you dearly

RIP, Larry. Sorry for your loss, Atomic.

 

[Atomic Punk]

Thanks all … I can’t say this pain/sadness is something you want to get used to. It is so hard to imagine him not being around any more …

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

I am writing this to help me with the loss of a great friend … my friend, Larry. My first real boss, my first ‘adult’, friend, best friend a person could ever ask for and one hell of a guy. Larry was my personal, real life wikkid. He lived an amazing life and taught me so much … I will miss you dearly

you're a lucky guy AP - and so sorry he passed away.

I have been fortunate enough to still keep in touch with several older guys that were an important part of my career development as well as close friends. Several are also gone now too, and I think about them a lot.

I was at the local phone company and most all of these guys learned the business from being in the Vietnam war. I would sit in the bar booth with them as they told wild story and story - not just the war, but company/work stories. My "in" was golf, they all loved golf. I played quite a bit of college golf and they loved that.

they took me into their weekend golf group, dancer bar visits after weekly golf league rounds, and even brought me into the local Moose lodge with them.

this Spring my wife and I are meeting up them (2 of the 4 main guys) and their wives in Nashville - really looking forward to it.

 

[simey]

I am writing this to help me with the loss of a great friend … my friend, Larry. My first real boss, my first ‘adult’, friend, best friend a person could ever ask for and one hell of a guy. Larry was my personal, real life wikkid. He lived an amazing life and taught me so much … I will miss you dearly

I'm sorry your loss, AP. People are lucky if they have a "Larry" in their life. I bet Larry felt lucky to have an AP in his. Cheers to your dear friend Larry. RIP

 

[Atomic Punk]

Thanks @New Binky the Doormat, great positive story. That very much sounds like Larry. He had so many ridiculously, hilarious stories from the 70’s and 80’s, most of which would get me banned from here if I wrote them, and then I was fortunate to live many more with him ever since. I do consider myself a very lucky man because of that.

 

[New Binky the Doormat]

Thanks @New Binky the Doormat, great positive story. That very much sounds like Larry. He had so many ridiculously, hilarious stories from the 70’s and 80’s, most of which would get me banned from here if I wrote them, and then I was fortunate to live many more with him ever since. I do consider myself a very lucky man because of that.

absolutely AP ...like they were still of the time where the management guys would go out to "lingerie show" for buffet lunches and come back a couple hours later just hammered (think Mad Men)

or the management Christmas party at the VP's house where there was a fist fight and one guy went through the sliding glass door - same party ...someone accidentally drove their car into the pond that was in front of the house

I won't get into the "no spouses allowed" other parties that occurred well before I was there ...literal key parties

 

[Atomic Punk]

The first two parties Larry invited to me at his house were a ”Screw the Summer of ‘92” (it rained all summer) and the infamous “Priest and Prostitute” (costumes, not real live priests or prostitutes). Every party ever since has had a theme ... pyjama parties, toga parties, when he got a hot tub installed at his cottage, there were weekly hot tub parties. Larry was “that guy” … like @simey said, people are lucky to have a Larry in their lives.

The stories told these next few weeks will be epic … man, I love that guy!

 

[zamboni]

Session drummer extraordinaire Jim Gordon, 77.

And such a horrific tragic path right in the midst of his success.

Jim Gordon, Derek and the Dominos Drummer, Dead at 77

Drummer Jim Gordon, who played with many of rock's biggest stars and was a member of Derek and the Dominos, died in March 2023.

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[Doug B]

Singer Bobby Caldwell, age 71

https://www.npr.org/2023/03/16/1163833615/bobby-caldwell-singer-of-what-you-wont-do-for-love-dies-at-71

 

[Doug B]

Caldwell's appearance on CBS's Early Morning Show, I think in 2007. A little interview and and performance of you know what:

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EDIT: Can't listen at work, but thought fans might be interested in this video -- supposed to be from Caldwell's first concert in 1978:

Bobby Caldwell, Dead at 71. Watch "What You Won't do for Love" in his first live concert in 1978

Watch Bobby Caldwell, live on Miami Beach in 1978 performing his breakout hit "What You Won't Do For Love" for the first time ever. This was the first conce...

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[Godsbrother]

Session drummer extraordinaire Jim Gordon, 77.

And such a horrific tragic path right in the midst of his success.

Jim Gordon, Derek and the Dominos Drummer, Dead at 77

Drummer Jim Gordon, who played with many of rock's biggest stars and was a member of Derek and the Dominos, died in March 2023.

ultimateclassicrock.com

Great drummer, but drugs and mental illness led him to kill his mother. Was credited with writing the coda from Layla but he actually stole it from Rita Coolidge

 

[zamboni]

Session drummer extraordinaire Jim Gordon, 77.

And such a horrific tragic path right in the midst of his success.

Jim Gordon, Derek and the Dominos Drummer, Dead at 77

Drummer Jim Gordon, who played with many of rock's biggest stars and was a member of Derek and the Dominos, died in March 2023.

ultimateclassicrock.com

Great drummer, but drugs and mental illness led him to kill his mother. Was credited with writing the coda from Layla but he actually stole it from Rita Coolidge

Yup - written by Rita, sang by her sister Priscilla and Priscilla's husband Booker T. Jones.

 

[The Big Donkey]

'The Wire' Star Lance Reddick Dead at 60

Lance Reddick, known for his work on 'The Wire' and 'John Wick,' has died at the age of 60. RIP.

www.tmz.com

 

[Witz]

'The Wire' Star Lance Reddick Dead at 60

Lance Reddick, known for his work on 'The Wire' and 'John Wick,' has died at the age of 60. RIP.

www.tmz.com

Lance Reddick, famous for his work on HBO's "The Wire" and the "John Wick" movie franchise has died ... TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Lance's body was discovered at his Studio City home Friday morning around 9:30 AM. His cause of death is currently unclear, but our law enforcement sources say it appears to be natural.

Really liked this guy.

 

[foxco]

That sucks, love Lance Reddick, such a unique guy. Amazing in The Wire, great in Fringe, and a nice addition to the John Wick franchise. That's too young.

 

[Chemical X]

'The Wire' Star Lance Reddick Dead at 60

Lance Reddick, known for his work on 'The Wire' and 'John Wick,' has died at the age of 60. RIP.

www.tmz.com

Lance Reddick, famous for his work on HBO's "The Wire" and the "John Wick" movie franchise has died ... TMZ has learned.

Law enforcement sources tell TMZ ... Lance's body was discovered at his Studio City home Friday morning around 9:30 AM. His cause of death is currently unclear, but our law enforcement sources say it appears to be natural.

Really liked this guy.

this blows, he had this mysterious character thing going and i loved him in fringe. he’s been a side player in john wick, but has added gloominess.

 

[Andy Dufresne]

He had such a badass stride. He always looked like he was walking calmly away from an explosion.

 

[Dr. Octopus]

'The Wire' Star Lance Reddick Dead at 60

Lance Reddick, known for his work on 'The Wire' and 'John Wick,' has died at the age of 60. RIP.

www.tmz.com

I just started watching The Wire on HBO +. Now it will be a bit sad continuing. He’s a great part of the show.

 

[belljr]

Welcome to Continental Mr Wick.

:(

 

[northern exposure]

'The Wire' Star Lance Reddick Dead at 60

Lance Reddick, known for his work on 'The Wire' and 'John Wick,' has died at the age of 60. RIP.

www.tmz.com

Terrible news. I always think of him first as Cedric Daniels on "The Wire". I had forgotten that the first time he stood out to me was as Detective Johnny Basil on "Oz". If you love "The Wire", check out his work on Season 4 of "Oz".
Actually I would suggest checking out the entire run of "Oz". I don't see it mentioned in here when the best ever TV series are mentioned and it belong on the list imo.
Lots of actors with "The Wire" on their resume were also on "Oz".

 

[massraider]

If that guy dies at 60, looking that good, I should have died about 6 years ago