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Post by RocDoc on May 18, 2009 16:39:35 GMT -5
yw.
i had to say something...respect fer the dead and all that, y'now?
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Post by JACkory on May 18, 2009 21:17:20 GMT -5
I'm sure he appreciates it.
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Post by RocDoc on May 18, 2009 23:42:58 GMT -5
d'ya think?
i honestly don't care if he does, know wh'm sayin'?
just wanted someone to get the dead guy's name right.
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Post by JACkory on May 19, 2009 11:10:01 GMT -5
Whoa, Captain. I wasn't meanin' to be snarky.
He does care, though.
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Post by Ayinger on May 25, 2009 14:53:30 GMT -5
Musician Jay Bennett Dies At 45
Monday, May 25, 2009 | 3:11 PM ET
Jay Bennett, a former member of the band Wilco, died Sunday at his home in Urbana, Ill. The multi-instrumentalist was recording this fifth studio album when he died at age 45.
An announcement from Undertow Music Collective, which released one of Bennett's solo albums, reported the musician died in his sleep, adding, "Jay was a beautiful human being who will be missed."
The cause of Bennett's death is not yet known.
With Wilco, Bennett played on the albums Being There, Summerteeth, and Yankee Hotel Foxtrot, as well as their Mermaid Avenue collaborations with Billy Bragg, all between 1994 and 2001. Bennett also wrote and produced songs for the band.
Bennett's creative partnership with Wilco lead singer Jeff Tweedy ended when Bennett left the band, and his departure became the subject of a 2002 film documentary, I am Trying to Break Your Heart.
This month, Bennett filed a lawsuit against Tweedy, claiming $50,000 in royalties for five albums he made with the group. Bennett was also seeking compensation for I am Trying to Break Your Heart.
Bennett founded the power-pop band Titanic Love Affair, which split up after three albums in the mid-90s. Shortly afterward, while working in a VCR repair shop, Bennett was enlisted by Wilco founder Tweedy to play guitar.
After leaving Wilco, Bennett released several solo albums and produced music for other artists.
Wilco is currently touring in Spain.
Prior to the lawsuit, Bennett made an announcement on his MySpace page that he would need hip replacement surgery.
Chronicling the injury, which he sustained during a stage performance with Titanic Love Affair, Bennett wrote, "This whole experience has really taught me to look both inward and outward for support, and I've learned things about myself that I thought I had completely figured out years ago.
"Family and friends have helped me to keep faith in a future that will actually be much more carefree than my constricted present state."
Bennett was born in 1963 in Urbana.
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Post by RocDoc on May 26, 2009 13:48:01 GMT -5
the guy was ridiculously talented.
he had LOTS to do with summerteeth being as goodgreat as it is.
rest in peace maestro.
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Post by maarts on May 26, 2009 15:22:40 GMT -5
Sad.
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Post by Ayinger on Jun 3, 2009 16:38:36 GMT -5
 KOKO TAYLOR....and I was just listening to her less than 24 hours ago.... |
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 3, 2009 16:43:41 GMT -5
Hey!
i just put that up at CE...but yeah, koko's done wang dang doodled for the last time...
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Post by Ayinger on Jun 3, 2009 16:49:56 GMT -5
yeah,,,,I beat ya by one minute!
Pretty shocked to hear it on WGN as I was driving home just now....especially as I noted that I'd just played that tune while cooking up dinner last night. (some nice icy Buddy Guy on it too)
Was thinking there was a funny story behind how she first came around to recording a version of "Wang Dang Doodle" --- like Willie Dixon or someone woke her up in the middle of the night and made her come down to Chess to record it, thinking it was just meant for her to sing. She bitched/moaned but cut it just to do it....rest, as they say, is history.
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Post by rockkid on Jun 4, 2009 10:24:20 GMT -5
oh my
BANGKOK — Actor David Carradine, star of the 1970s TV series “Kung Fu” who also had a wide-ranging career in the movies, has been found dead in the Thai capital, Bangkok. A news report said he was found hanged in his hotel room and was believed to have committed suicide.
A spokesman for the U.S. Embassy, Michael Turner, confirmed the death of the 72-year-old actor. He said the embassy was informed by Thai authorities that Carradine died either late Wednesday or early Thursday, but he could not provide further details out of consideration for his family.
The Web site of the Thai newspaper The Nation cited unidentified police sources as saying Carradine was found Thursday hanged in his luxury hotel room.
It said Carradine was in Bangkok to shoot a movie and had been staying at the hotel since Tuesday.
The newspaper said Carradine could not be contacted after he failed to appear for a meal with the rest of the film crew on Wednesday, and that his body was found by a hotel maid at 10 a.m. Thursday morning. The name of the movie was not immediately available.
It said a preliminary police investigation found that he had hanged himself with a cord used with the room’s curtains. It cited police as saying he had been dead at least 12 hours and there was no sign that he had been assaulted.
A police officer at Bangkok’s Lumpini precinct station would not confirm the identity of the dead man to The Associated Press, but said the luxury Swissotel Nai Lert Park hotel had reported that a male guest killed himself there.
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Jun 4, 2009 10:56:11 GMT -5
I used to watch "Kung Fu" every week.
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Post by maarts on Jun 4, 2009 15:20:34 GMT -5
Me too.
Bye Grasshopper.
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Post by strat-0 on Jun 5, 2009 0:40:46 GMT -5
Dang shame. I loved Kung Fu. I think he was a troubled soul for a long time. RIP, Grasshopper.
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Post by RocDoc on Jun 5, 2009 12:04:20 GMT -5
the european presss had these details right from the get-go...
i honestly didn't follow-up until now, but this was the stuff my mother-in-law told me she read in the lith press from the start.
maybe the u.s. press didn't wish to sully the poor guy's memory?
'news of the weird''s sud-heading of 'undignified deaths' come to mind.
Thai police: Carradine death may be accidental
By MICHAEL CASEY, Associated Press Writer Michael Casey,
40 mins ago
BANGKOK – The body of American actor David Carradine, best known for the 1970s TV series "Kung Fu," was found in a hotel room closet with a rope tied to his neck and genitals, and his death may have been caused by accidental suffocation, Thai police said Friday.
The 72-year-old actor's body was discovered Thursday in his luxury suite at Bangkok's Swissotel Nai Lert Park Hotel. Police initially said they suspected suicide, though Carradine's associates had questioned that theory and authorities later said no suicide note was found in his room.
Police Lt. Gen. Worapong Chewprecha told reporters that Carradine was found with a rope tied around his genitals and another rope around his neck.
"The two ropes were tied together," he said. "It is unclear whether he committed suicide or not or he died of suffocation or heart failure."
Thai police completed an autopsy on Carradine on Friday. But Police Col. Somprasong Yenthuam, superintendent of the Lumpini police station, which is handling the case, said results would not be ready for at least three weeks because the cause of death was unclear. He called the time lag "normal."
Dr. Nanthana Sirisap, director of Chulalongkorn Hospital's Autopsy Center, told reporters that the autopsy was conducted because of the "unusual circumstances surrounding Carradine's death," but did not elaborate.
The body was later removed from the hospital to an undisclosed location by U.S. Embassy representatives while preparations were being made for its repatriation to the United States.
Police Lt. Teerapop Luanseng had said Thursday that Carradine's body was found "naked, hanging in a closet," and that police at the time suspected suicide.
But one of Carradine's managers dismissed the theory.
"All we can say is, we know David would never have committed suicide," said Tiffany Smith of Binder & Associates, his management company. "We're just waiting for them to finish the investigation and find out what really happened. He really appreciated everything life has to give ... and that's not something David would ever do to himself."
Pornthip Rojanasunand, director of Thailand's Central Institute of Forensic Science, said Carradine may have died attempting a sex act known as auto-erotic asphyxiation — cutting off oxygen to the brain for sexual arousal.
The practice is said to result in a form of giddiness and euphoria — similar to alcohol or drug intoxication — that enhances the sexual experience.
"If you hang yourself by the neck, you don't need so much pressure to kill yourself. Those who get highly sexually aroused tend to forget this fact," Pornthip said.
Carradine had flown to Thailand last week and began work on a film titled "Stretch" two days before his death, Smith said. He had several other projects lined up after the action film, which was being directed by Charles De Meaux.
Carradine was in good spirits when he left the U.S. for Thailand on May 29 to work on "Stretch," Smith said.
"David was excited to do it and excited to be a part of it," she said by phone from Beverly Hills.
Filming began Tuesday, she said, adding that the crew was devastated by Carradine's death and did not wish to speak publicly about it for the time being.
Monica Donati, a spokesman for the French film company MK2, which was making "Stretch," said in statement from Paris that the film crew in Bangkok was "clearly shocked" by Carradine's death but would finish shooting. Carradine only had three more days of filming left in Bangkok, she said.
Aurelio Giraudo, the hotel's general manager, said Carradine checked into the hotel May 31 and he last saw him June 3. He said Carradine chatted with staff and even played piano a few nights in the lobby as well as flute which the "guests really enjoyed."
"I was a fan. I had a very nice talk with him when he checked in," Giraudo told The Associated Press. "He was very much a person full of life. I mentioned to him that I had seen (the movie) "Crank" with my family and that was the last smile he gave me."
Giraudo said a chambermaid discovered Carradine's body, adding that she knocked and entered after there was no response. Police arrived shortly thereafter.
Somprasong said there was no evidence there was anyone else in the room at the time of Carradine's death.
Carradine, a martial arts practitioner himself, was best known for the U.S. TV series "Kung Fu," which aired in 1972-75. He played Kwai Chang Caine, an orphan who was raised by Shaolin monks and fled China after killing the emperor's nephew in retaliation for the murder of his kung fu master.
Carradine also appeared in more than 100 feature films with such directors as Martin Scorsese, Ingmar Bergman and Hal Ashby.
He returned to the top in recent years as the title character in Quentin Tarantino's two-part saga "Kill Bill." Bill, the worldly father figure of a pack of crack assassins, was a shadowy presence in 2003's "Kill Bill — Vol. 1." In that film, one of Bill's former assassins (Uma Thurman) begins a vengeful rampage against her old associates, including Bill.
weird, but no, this auto-erotic shit has been publicized in the recent past. people making mistakes/miscalculations, dying or causing themselves brain damage.
it's not unheard of.
just pretty fucking stupid.
ouch.
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