R.I.P.s

[Low D]

Paul Revere, of Paul Revere & the Raiders, 76.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6RjP7MlXk

Not to be confused with Paul Revere of the "British are Coming" Fame

Exactly, not at all to be confused. That guy is 279 and doing fine!

[Mike from Boston]

Geoffry Holder, 84 Best known as the villian in "Live and Let Die" and as a 7-Up pitchman.

[leadshoes]

Paul Revere, of Paul Revere & the Raiders, 76.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQ6RjP7MlXk

Not to be confused with Paul Revere of the "British are Coming" Fame

Exactly, not at all to be confused. That guy is 279 and doing fine!

[Mike from Boston]

Jan Hooks, 57 Saturday Night Live and a great piece in Pee Wee's Big Adventure

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cYfjq3ZYZbA

[Low D]

Actor Gerard Parkes, who played Doc on 'Fraggle Rock,' has passed on at 90 years of age.

[Mike from Boston]

Wrestler "Ox" Baker 80 Old time Wrestler, perhaps best know though for his role in "Escape from New York" where he fights Snake Pillson (Kurt Russell)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ckvDo2JHB7o

[Doktor Avalanche]

Raphael Ravenscrof​t, 50. (from Wikipedia:) Ravenscroft was best known for his work with Gerry Rafferty, performing the saxophone solo on "Baker Street" and his performances with Pink Floyd — tenor saxophone on The Final Cut — Abba and Marvin Gaye. Other Ravenscroft performing credits include work with America, Maxine Nightingale, Daft Punk, Kim Carnes, Mike Oldfield, Chris Rea, Robert Plant, Brand X, Hazel O'Connor and Bonnie Tyler. In 1979, he released the solo album Her Father Didn't Like Me, Anyway.

[Doktor Avalanche]

Ben Bradle, 93. Supervised The Washington Post’s exposure of the Watergate scandal that led to the resignation of President Richard M. Nixon.

[Mike from Boston]

Getting a bit scary up North. Two Canadian soldiers run over and killed by a Muslim Terrorist wannabe and another soldier shot today in Ottawa, shooter(s) on the loose!

[Low D]

:shock: Getting a bit scary up North. Two Canadian soldiers run over and killed by a Muslim Terrorist wannabe and another soldier shot today in Ottawa, shooter(s) on the loose!

Yes, and our public broadcaster, CBC is giving us unhelpful nonstop nonstop blanket coverage of everything we don't know... Don't get me wrong, this is terrible, but it's like ebola terrible: unlikely to become the primary threat to most Canadian's lives, or indeed even most Canadian soldiers' lives. And i can only see our right-wing government running amuck with power after this.

Dead is 24 year old Nathan Cirillo, an army reservist from Hamilton who was serving today as an honour guard at the "Tomb of the Unknown Soldier", a WWI memorial next to the federal parliment buildings. Also dead is the apparant shooter, 32 year old canadian born Michael Zehaf-Bibeau.

If media reports are accurate, it seems like he might have been shot by our (obstensibly symbolic) sergant at arms. Even an old anarchist like me thinks that's actualy pretty awesome, if only he'd used that big gold mace he carries into and out of parliment...



Sergeant at Arms Kevin Vickers, a former member of the RCMP & private security to dignitaries, is apparantly already being referred to as "Barrister Selmy" on social media.

[Low D]

Jack Bruce has gone off to the white rooom in the sky, he was 71.

[Low D]

Glen A. Larson, the writer and producer behind many TV series, including the original Battlestar Galactica, Knight Rider, Magnum, P.I. and Quincy, M.E., has died. He was 77.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/glen-a-lars ... -1.2836617

[Mike from Boston]

Death comes in threes they say:

Viktor Tikhonov, 84 Famed coach of the Soviet Red Army Hockey Team

Fondly remembered here for pulling Tretiak and losing to the US in the 1980 Olympics Miracle on Ice!!

Pat Quinn, 71 NHL Player and coach-not fondly remembered for catching Bobby Orr with his head down.
The hit was so bad, that reputedly Orr's teammate Phil Esposito was approached after the game and was asked by a member of the Boston Mafia if they should put a hit on Pat Quinn!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ml3Mkc6ao0g

and finally, former DC Mayor Marion Berry, whose legacy will always be him getting caught smoking crack!!
"The B*tch set me up!!"

[Mike from Boston]

Jean Beliveau, 83

Classy NHL Hall of Famer for the Montreal Canadiens. Won the Stanley Cup 10 times! Along with Ken Dryden, almost destroyed my childhood when in 1971, his Habs beat my heavily favored Boston Bruins in the SC playoffs.

RIP Le Gros Bill

[firehazard]

In a bad week for musicians, Ian McLagan, keyboard player with the Faces, the Small Faces, the Stones and others, has followed Bobby Keys (saxophonist with the Stones and others) to the great session in the sky. RIP.

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/dec/03/ian-mclagan-the-man-who-made-two-great-bands-greater-dead-69

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2014/dec/02/rolling-stones-saxophonist-bobby-keys-dies-aged-70