Douglas Tompkins, co-founder of North Face. Died of hypothermia. This post has been brought to you by the Most Ironic Death Of The Decade.
Martin E. Brooks. He was Dr. Wells on The Six Million Dollar Man. I loved that show when I was a kid. I even had the action figure where you could look through Steve Austin's bionic eye. Back when TV show intros were 90 seconds long. Ha!
Former major league outfielder Dave Henderson dies of heart attack at 57 http://www.foxnews.com/sports/2015/...on-dies-heart-attack-at-57.html?intcmp=hplnws
Meadowlark Lemon: basketball player, entertainer and fun dude. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meadowlark_Lemon
Good god thats brutal. I imagine Keith Richards popping a bottle of champagne (or snorting a line of heroin) like the 72 Dolphins every time he outlives yet another hard partying 60s/70s rockstar.
A huge piece of rock and roll just died. This dude didn't just play stank music, he was the lifestyle. Unrepentant. There will not be another one like him for a long, long time. One of the last really bad men. It's easy not to emulate a creature like this, but it's hard not to admire it, safely, from a distance. As HST said, "There he goes. One of God's own prototypes. A high-powered mutant of some kind never even considered for mass production. Too weird to live, and too rare to die." Heaven's lawn just died.
Nobody knows rock and roll like Lemmy. He was IT. Live fast, play fast, fuck everything and that's all. This planet will suck without him. Motörhead is a god amongst mortals.
Y'all know what this means, don't you? We're going to lose another phenomenal musician soon; they always go in threes (Ex: Jim Morrison, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix). We just lost Scott Weiland, now Lemmy. Who's next? Anyway, in honor of Lemmy, I can't think of a more fitting song:
Damn, a bad week for music legends: https://www.yahoo.com/music/s/natalie-cole-grammy-winning-singer-died-170427529.html