Celebrity Death Thread

[DeanUK]

Deep Throat died too.

Heh? I thought you meant Linda Lovelace had died, until google came to my rescue ;)

[-Deborah-]

She did die, though. For the record.

[Drew]

She died a couple of years ago in a car wreck, or else died because of the wreck.

[YT]

RIP Sammy!

I'm too young to have seen you play, but I remember my Granddad telling me about you!

[CGVT]

RIP Eartha Kitt

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[-Deborah-]

Um, what's with the drag queens in that clip? lol

I saw Eartha in a play at the Fisher Theater way back in the 70s or 80s. Timbuktu I think it was called.

[CGVT]

He he

[YT]

RIP Ms. Kitt

[Dan V]

The sexyest Cat woman ever--

[Chuck Cunningham]

She was Purrrrrfect!

[gjdodger]

Iggy's guitar player.

Ron Asheton, the influential guitarist for legendary punk band the Stooges, was found dead early this morning at his home in Ann Arbor, police said.

Ann Arbor Police Sgt. Brad Hill said the department received a call around midnight with a request to check on Asheton, 60, because the unidentified caller said he had not heard from the guitarist in a few days. Police went to his home and found him deceased.

The death is still under investigation, but foul play is not suspected, Hill said.

The Stooges was founded in 1967 in Ann Arbor by Iggy Pop, Asheton and Ron Asheton’s brother, Scott. It is among the most important rock groups to have emerged from the Detroit area, a place that’s seen more than its share. The band was never a commercial success in its late 1960s and early ‘70s heyday, but the Stooges’ raw guttural sound helped create the template for punk rock, and later became hugely influential in the alternative-rock revolution of the late 1980s and early ‘90s.

Asheton was not an incredibly gifted player technically, but the dirgy, guttural sounds he created on early Stooges classics like “I Wanna Be Your Dog” were cited by guitarists as varied as Kurt Cobain, Thurston Moore and Jack White — who once called the Stooges’ 1969 effort “Fun House” the greatest rock album of all time. In a 2003 list by Rolling Stone magazine, the publication named Asheton the 29th-greatest rock guitarist of all time.

He made the “Stooges' music reek like a puddle of week-old biker sweat. He favored black leather and German iron crosses onstage, and he never let not really knowing how to play get in the way of a big, ugly feedback solo,” the magazine said.

Though the band broke up in the 1970s among a swirl of infighting and drugs, its influence among later generations of rockers helped spurn a series of reunion shows in 2003 — including a legendary August gig at DTE Energy Music Theatre. A near fanatical reception to the reformation spawned a new album, “The Weirdness,” and a second tour in 2007.
The Stooges were among the nominees for this year’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony, with the inductees expected to be announced this month.

In a 2003 interview with the Free Press, Asheton said the Stooges’ reunion was very important to him, and that he got great satisfaction from the recognition the band received — even if it was a long time coming.
“When I was a young guy coming up, going to the Grande Ballroom every weekend, I got to see my heroes play. Jeff Beck, the Who, everyone. I didn't want to be a fanboy, but I'd stand there and wait — 'I just want to say hi, this was great.' I saw them walk by me with blank stares like they were zombies. I said to myself, you know, if I ever make it, I've got at least one minute for everybody who wants to say something. So I talk to people, and that's what's exciting now."

Von Bondies guitarist Jason Stollsteimer, 30, is among a younger generation of rock musicians who soaked up Asheton's influence. Asheton's playing was the embodiment of the Michigan rock sound, he said.

"To me, he was the epitome of raw punk," said Stollsteimer. "He wasn't flashy or over the top. It was raw. The riffs he wrote stood the test of time."
Stollsteimer's band opened for the Stooges at their 2003 reunion show at DTE Energy Music Theatre. It was a triumphant comeback that saw the Stooges treated with a level of attention and respect they'd never previously enjoyed.
"He was like a kid ina candy store, just so excited," Stollsteimer recalled of that night. "He wasn't afraid to show it. Some people are too cool, but he was obviously very happy and proud."

[DeanUK]

Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/loc...ry/468684.html

Officer who suggested defiant ?Nuts!' response

Commanding officer used paratrooper's idea in reply to Germans' demand for surrender.

Associated Press
Posted: Tuesday, Jan. 13, 2009

Maj. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard, commander of the 1st Cavalry Division, speaks at a Pentagon news conference in 1966. ASSOCIATED PRESS FILE PHOTO




NEW YORK Retired Lt. Gen. Harry W.O. Kinnard ? the paratroop officer who suggested the famously defiant answer ?Nuts!? to a German demand for surrender during the 1944 Battle of the Bulge ? has died. He was 93.
Kinnard, a career soldier who in later years was the main architect of the Army's concept of using helicopters in infantry warfare in Vietnam, died in Arlington, Va., on Jan. 5, his family told The New York Times.

[FVD]

R.I.P. to an American Hero.

[DanO]

RIP Sir.

GO LIONS"09" !!!!!!!!

[YT]

RIP SIR!