RIP Thread

Michael Jacks0n said:
All of the articles are just saying "died from an accident". I wonder what they mean...a car accident?
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He was found dead in his yard by his wife, probably fell off a ladder or something weird that would get him on 1000 ways to die, which I honestly think he would have wanted anyhow
 
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Chiba was action director on the 1989 release "Shogun's Shadow", which he also starred in.


He also had a heck of a final scene team-up in 1972's "Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2", where he plays a loyal friend of professional gambler Meiko Kaji as she searches for the man who murdered her father years ago


1977's "Doberman Cop", based on a manga, directed by Kinja Fukasaku, where he plays an Okinawan cop in the big city of Tokyo in search of answers about a girl back home who went missing. Written off as a bumpkin by many, who come to realize how hasty their assessment was.


Also, Makai Tensho aka Samurai Resurrection, another film Kinja Fukasaku directed, based on the fantasy/horror novel by Futura Yamada, starring Chiba as none other than Yagyu Jubei.


Another Fukasaku film, 1978's Message from Space, where Chiba plays a swordsman in this obvious but entertaining entry in cashing in on Star Wars Fever.


Roaring Fire, which featured Hiroyuki Sanada as the lead, as well as Etsuko Shihomi, a Chiba protege and star of the "Sister Street Fighter" movies among others.


And he co-starred in Sister Street Fighter as well


And to wrap this up before I go through the man's filmography, "Wolf Guy" a truly bizarre genre mashup where he played a detective whose secret is that he's the lone survivor of an ancient clan of werewolves, and an investigation leads him into a web of conspiracy, including intelligence agents who want to capture and study him.


The man was a legend.
 
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TiggerNits said:
He was found dead in his yard by his wife, probably fell off a ladder or something weird that would get him on 1000 ways to die, which I honestly think he would have wanted anyhow
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I knew a guy who fell off a ladder while repairing his garage. He lived but was never the same afterwards and had serious back issues. Falling off a ladder is not the comedy routine cartoons make you think it is. It can mess you up bad.

I just found out my doctor died. He's been my family doctor for almost half my life. It can be hard to find a doctor that cares and doesn't rush you through everything these days. But I must get one right away because I need to follow up on blood clot risks in my leg.I hope I don't get someone who treats patients like they are on a conveyor belt.
 
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Commander X said:
Chiba was action director on the 1989 release "Shogun's Shadow", which he also starred in.


He also had a heck of a final scene team-up in 1972's "Wandering Ginza Butterfly 2", where he plays a loyal friend of professional gambler Meiko Kaji as she searches for the man who murdered her father years ago


1977's "Doberman Cop", based on a manga, directed by Kinja Fukasaku, where he plays an Okinawan cop in the big city of Tokyo in search of answers about a girl back home who went missing. Written off as a bumpkin by many, who come to realize how hasty their assessment was.


Also, Makai Tensho aka Samurai Resurrection, another film Kinja Fukasaku directed, based on the fantasy/horror novel by Futura Yamada, starring Chiba as none other than Yagyu Jubei.


Another Fukasaku film, 1978's Message from Space, where Chiba plays a swordsman in this obvious but entertaining entry in cashing in on Star Wars Fever.


Roaring Fire, which featured Hiroyuki Sanada as the lead, as well as Etsuko Shihomi, a Chiba protege and star of the "Sister Street Fighter" movies among others.


And he co-starred in Sister Street Fighter as well


And to wrap this up before I go through the man's filmography, "Wolf Guy" a truly bizarre genre mashup where he played a detective whose secret is that he's the lone survivor of an ancient clan of werewolves, and an investigation leads him into a web of conspiracy, including intelligence agents who want to capture and study him.


The man was a legend.
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Don’t forget the time when he was in the Golgo 13 live action movie

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Or the time where his martial arts skills came in real handy:

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Monke said:
Conservative talk show host Phil Valentine dies after battle with Covid-19
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From the article:
The grave dancers at CNN said:
Phil Valentine, a Nashville-based conservative radio talk show host who had questioned whether it was necessary for all people to get Covid-19 vaccines, died on Saturday, his employer, WWTN Radio, announced on Twitter. Valentine was 61 years old.

His death comes more than a month after the host first announced he had been diagnosed with Covid-19. On his program, Valentine had repeatedly downplayed the importance of getting a vaccine against the virus, saying last December that he believed his personal odds of dying from Covid-19 were "probably way less than one percent."

But his message changed in late July when his family announced that Valentine had been hospitalized in "very serious condition" and was suffering from "Covid Pneumonia and the attendant side effects."
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Fucking cocksuckers. They'd never publish an article like this if a radical leftist who refused to get vaccinated as a way of "fighting the system" (i.e. "the government can't tell *me* what to do!") died from the Shaolin Shakes as a result.
 
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Famous groupie Sweet Connie Hamzy:

https://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/...road-song-dead-66/C2KIB3RBJFBRFMEUWX7PPUXKHY/

She's sang about in the Grand Funk Railroad hit "We're An American Band".
Hamzy was 17 and a senior in high school when the band’s manager first told her about the line in the song, KTHV reported in 2019.

“He called me and said, ‘You’re never going to believe this,” Hamzy told the television station. “But Grand Funk’s written a song called ‘We’re an American Band,’ and your name is in the first lyrics.”

Hamzy had been to Barton Coliseum several times. She was 15 when her mother dropped her off to watch Steppenwolf, KTHV reported.

”She didn’t like to deal with parking. She didn’t like to deal with traffic. So, she’d take me out to the fairground early in the afternoon before the traffic got bad,” Hamzy told the television station. “We’d go out there and then we’d wander around the backstage area, and one thing would lead to another.”

It was not the last time Hamzy made it backstage.

She said she has hung out with Queen, the Eagles and Kiss, and spent time with Van Halen when the band toured in 1988, according to KTHV.
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And that would not fly today. No way. Kind of like how Seventeen by Winger makes people feel skeevy now. Although Reb Beach began writing the music for it when he was 15. So maybe they should get a bit of a break.

Kiss and Christine 13 however... 🤮
 
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Don Everly, from the former duo the Everly Brothers. https://variety.com/2021/music/people-news/don-everly-dead-everly-brothers-harmony-1235046396/

Don Everly, who with his late younger sibling Phil established the template for close harmony vocalizing in the chart-topping duo the Everly Brothers, died Saturday at age 84 in Nashville. No cause of death was immediately disclosed.

The Los Angeles Times confirmed the death through a family spokesman, even as tributes were already accumulating on social media Saturday night as word circulated about his death.

Everly (pictured above, right) – an inaugural inductee in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1986 who also joined the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2001 – grew up singing the high, fluid harmonies that would make him famous in his family’s country act. Beginning in 1957, he and his brother cut a groundbreaking series of hit ballads and rockers for the Cadence and Warner Bros. labels.


The Everlys left a bold impression on the rock musicians who succeeded them. The Beatles and Simon & Garfunkel – whose early pairing as Tom & Jerry essentially cloned the brothers’ sound – were only the best known acts to adapt their achingly beautiful harmony sound.

The brothers also made their mark on a later generation of country-rock musicians, with their impact felt in the work of the Byrds, Gram Parsons, Emmylou Harris and the Eagles.
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tehpope said:
Charlie Watts, the only Drummer for the Rolling Stones, died. The sensible one.
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Ok that celebritiy death actually hurts me.
Bowl of Ramen said:
I can’t wrap my head on Charlie being gone.

The Stones officially ended today. They have no shame if they decide to go on somehow.
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I agree. We should wait and see if they will continue on or not without him. Either why I understand what every they decide.
 
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tehpope said:
Charlie Watts, the only Drummer for the Rolling Stones, died. The sensible one.
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If Keith goes before Mick because of this, I think it will ask a lot of questions as to how Sex, Drugs and Rock N Roll doesn’t make people immortalized

Bowl of Ramen said:
I can’t wrap my head on Charlie being gone.

The Stones officially ended today. They have no shame if they decide to go on somehow.
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Paul and Ringo of The Beatles are still kicking it in their age, so I’m not too sure what would make the Stones stop.
 
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