Dropping Like Flies

Unofficial: Sneaky Pete Kleinow, member of the Flying Burrito Brothers and steel guitarist.
Kleinow appears on numerous rock and country-rock albums, including those by:

Jackson Browne
Dillard & Clark
The Byrds
John Lennon
Frank Zappa
Little Feat
Rita Coolidge
The Steve Miller Band.
Stevie Wonder
Fleetwood Mac
The Golden Palominos
Yoko Ono
Dion and the Belmonts
Billy Joel
Joan Baez
the Bee Gees
Booker T. and the MG's
Gene Clark
Joe Cocker
Gordon Lightfoot
Leonard Cohen
The Rolling Stones
Linda Ronstadt
Dave Mason
John Cale
The Knack
Joni Mitchell
Doug Sahm
Neil Sedaka
The Eagles
Robert Palmer
The Ventures
Peaches & Herb
The Everly Brothers
Jermaine Jackson
Gladys Knight
Carly Simon
Sly & the Family Stone
Ringo Starr

Unofficial: Sneaky Pete Kleinow, member of the Flying Burrito Brothers and steel guitarist.

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I'm not dead…

I Found Out About This Story Last Night!

Iwao Takamoto, the animator who designed the cartoon canine Scooby-Doo as well as characters on such shows as The Flintstones and The Jetsons, died Jan. 8 after suffering a massive coronary, a spokesman told the Reuters news service. He was 81.

Takamoto died at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, where he was being treated for respiratory problems, said Gary Miereanu, a spokesman for Warner Brothers Animation.

Takamoto designed Scooby-Doo, his equally famished and cowardly master Shaggy, and their pals Velma, Daphne and Fred in the late 1960s while working at the Hanna-Barbera animation studio. The Great Dane's name was inspired by an improvised line at the end of Frank Sinatra's "Strangers in the Night."

He also designed the snickering dog Muttley, who was featured in a number of productions, and Astro, the family dog on The Jetsons. For The Flintstones, he created the Great Gazoo, a green alien.

Takamoto's death comes exactly three weeks after that of Hanna-Barbera co-founder Joseph Barbera, who was 95; Barbera's business partner, William Hanna, died in 2001.

It's funny, Ronnistar, this seems to be the only thread you ever post on. What's your fascination with death? ;)

Ronnistar also poasts to the Celeb Crime Beat thread.

Mary J.Bilge

Lily rocked my world!

Carlo Ponti

(Sorry, too lazy to look for a link.)

Jazz Performer Alice Coltrane Dies at 69
17 hrs ago Alice Coltrane, jazz performer and composer, dies at 69
17 hrs ago Jazz Performer Alice Coltrane Dies at 69

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The Associated Press
Jan 14, 2007 7:13 PM (17 hrs ago)
Current rank: # 523 of 13,027 articles

LOS ANGELES - Alice Coltrane, a jazz performer and composer and wife of the late saxophone legend John Coltrane, has died. She was 69.


Coltrane died Friday of respiratory failure at West Hills Hospital and Medical Center, said her sister, Marilyn McLeod.

For nearly 40 years, Coltrane managed the archive and estate of her husband, a pivotal figure in the history of jazz. He died of liver disease in 1967 at age 40.

A pianist and organist, Alice Coltrane was noted for her astral compositions and for bringing the harp onto the jazz bandstand.

Born Alice McLeod in Detroit on Aug. 27, 1937, she began learning classical piano at age 7. She studied jazz piano briefly in Paris before moving to New York, where she met her future husband in 1963.

At that time, she was playing with bandleader Terry Gibbs, who has often taken credit for introducing the two.

John Coltrane "saw something in her that was beautiful," Gibbs told the Los Angeles Times.

She left Gibbs' band to marry Coltrane and began performing with his band in the mid-1960s. She played tour dates with Coltrane's group in San Francisco, New York and Tokyo.

"John not only taught me how to explore but to play thoroughly and completely," Alice Coltrane said in comments published in "The Black Giants."

After his death, she devoted herself to raising their children but continued to play.

Early albums under her name, including "A Monastic Trio" and "Ptah, the El Daoud," received critical praise.

Her last recording, "Translinear Light," came in 2004. Her last performances came in an abbreviated tour last fall with her saxophonist son, Ravi.

Coltrane, a convert to Hinduism, was also a significant spiritual leader and founded the Vedantic Center, a spiritual commune now located in Agoura Hills.
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Speaking of Jazz greats, I just read somewhere that Michael Brecker of the Brecker Brothers just died. Think he had leukemia or something.

For those of you who watch(ed) Bold and the Beautiful…

Darlene Conley

Who had Doherty? :D

Brent Liles - former Social D bassist.


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Early Social Distortion bassist ID'd in wreck

Officials say that Brent Liles of Fullerton was bicyclist killed in Placentia crash.

By ERIC CARPENTER
The Orange County Register

PLACENTIA â?? Officials on Saturday identified Brent Liles of Fullerton, former bass guitarist in one of the region's most influential punk rock bands, Social Distortion, as the bicyclist killed by a big rig on Thursday.

Liles played bass on the group's groundbreaking "Mommy's Little Monster" recording in 1983 and went on to play with other well-known Orange County punk acts such as the group Agent Orange. He was 43.

"Brent was a fun-loving guy who approached his bass playing with a lot of enthusiasm and that made him a lot of fun to be around," said Frank Agnew, a fellow musician and friend.

Liles, wearing casual clothing, was riding a small dirt bicycle westbound on Orangethorpe Avenue just after 11:30 a.m. Thursday, California Highway Patrol officials said.

As he entered the crosswalk at the Orange (57) Freeway, a big rig carrying a trailer turned right onto the on-ramp and accelerated, hitting Liles. He was pronounced dead at the scene, officials said.

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There's more at the link.

Who would have guess the Ness would outlive two of his early bandmates…

Sad story about Brent Liles….

As a sidenote, the guy that wrote that article about Brent Liles, Eric Carpenter, was an original session player and live performer (horn section) of No Doubt, back when Gwen's brother Eric Stefani was running the band.

Seriously, what would you guys do without my vast knowledge of The OC?

alice coltrane and sneaky pete