RIP someone or another

[Craig Sawyers]

113 confirmed dead, looks to increase. 4000 injured, looks to increase. Estimated to be around 1/3 the explosive power of Hiroshima. Ammonium nitrate storage facility, three thousand tons of the stuff.

I'm almost shaking having watched that on the BBC news. RIP everyone in Beirut 

It has destroyed whole swathes of the city.

[blessingx]

Helen Jones Woods, member of the multiracial International Sweethearts of Rhythm, dies of the coronavirus
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/04/obituaries/Helen-Woods-dead-coronavirus.html?referringSource=articleShare 

https://www.npr.org/sections/coronavirus-live-updates/2020/08/05/899477501/helen-jones-woods-groundbreaking-female-trombonist-has-died-from-covid-19

 

[blessingx]

Trini Lopez, singer, guitar designer, and star of The Dirty Dozen, dies from Coronavirus 
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2020/aug/12/trini-lopez-covid-19-frank-sinatra-dirty-dozen?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other 

 

 

Edited August 12, 2020 by blessingx

[morphsci]

RIP Trini.  I forgot he was in The Dirty Dozen. Great movie, I am going to rewatch it soon.

 

[blessingx]

Matt Herron, Civil Rights Photographer, Dies at 89
https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/matt-herron-documentary-photographer-and-adventurer-dies-while-hang-gliding

From earlier in the year... 

 

[andres]

my 1st post is a sad one.

 

RIP Julian Bream

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/14/arts/music/julian-bream-dead.html

[robm321]

Oh man. RIP Julian Bream.

[Craig Sawyers]

Bream? That is a great loss to classical guitar. RIP

[EdipisReks1]

I knew one of his first studio students (she was a full professor by the time I met her). I have some Bream in my personal catalog. RIP.

[skullguise]

RIP....

My son's guitar teacher had played with Segovia (not on any big stage); and while he idolized him, he also had mentioned Bream as the "next generation's leader" - pretty sure those were his words.....

[ironbut]

I studied classical guitar in a Segovia influenced studio for 7 years (many of the instructors had attended his master classes in Madrid).

We all had great respect for Bream and I always aspired to have a pinch of his wonderful tone.

I never got to see him in concert but I listened to The Art Of Julian Bream (and the wonderful Hauser guitar he played on it) constantly.

RIP

[Aura]

Justin Townes Earle gone at 38. Saw this guy in a memorable show a number of years ago. Jessica Lea Mayfield opened and was insanely nervous... Earle walked out beforehand and told the crowd to “be nice to her or I’m gonna whoop ya.”

☹️

https://www.facebook.com/22332699864/posts/10157797303759865/?extid=xKvFEEVTtaPydbHi&d=n

[Voltron]

That's a real bummer. I hope it wasn't an OD, but he apparently has had a tough time kicking drugs since age 12.

RIP JTE

[Audiojunkie]

RIP Chadwick Boseman...so young, so talented and so sad!

https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/chadwick-boseman-black-panther-actor-dies-of-cancer-at-43

 

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Apparently he acted through chemo.  Now that’s dedication.

RIP

[morphsci]

RIP JTE and Chadwick. I am so sad and pissed at the same time.

[tkam]

Fuck 2020

RIP Chadwick

[robm321]

Way too young. Sad. 

[emelius]

fuckin' fuck...

R.I.P....

Edited August 29, 2020 by emelius

[skullguise]

Wow, so very very sad.....RIP Chadwick!  And Fuck cancer so much, as well as COVID for taking $ away from cancer research......

[n_maher]

7 hours ago, tkam said:

Fuck 2020

RIP Chadwick

Yeah, this. 

[swt61]

RIP Chadwick

[Craig Sawyers]

RIP Chadwick - 43 is no age at all. And to work through operations and chemo is really gritty determination not to just roll over.

Carole's mother died at 42 from the same thing - colon cancer - when Carole was 18.

There is no logic to it hitting someone so young.

Once you get to over 60 in the UK, every two years they send you a poop-kit, and they screen it for bowel cancer (free of charge of course - this is the UK). There has to be a case to roll that out to younger people.

[blessingx]

This guy certainly seems pretty special. 
Larry Pardey, Mariner Who Sailed the World Engineless, Dies at 80

With his wife, Lin, he circumnavigated the world twice on wooden boats he had built. And they always took their time.
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/obituaries/larry-pardey-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare 

[n_maher]

^^ Indeed.

RIP Larry.