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Phil Lesh, founding member of the Grateful Dead, dies at 84
Mr. Lesh brought an avant-garde bass style to the band and contributed to hits such as "Box of Rain."

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Phil Lesh, a founding member of the Grateful Dead whose expressive bass lines helped shape the band's trippy "space" jams and who contributed to hits such as "Truckin'" and the wistful "Box of Rain," died Oct. 25 at age 84.

The death was announced in a statement posted to his official Instagram page. No cause was noted.

Mr. Lesh, alongside bandmates Bob Weir and Jerry Garcia, were the front three of the Grateful Dead from the band's rise in San Francisco's 1960s music scene until Garcia's death in 1995.

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The story of Phil Lesh writing Box of Rain with Robert Hunter was already tear jerker in the 90s when this came out. Hits especially hard today. (From the wonderful doc Anthem to Beauty). pic.twitter.com/t9rFupQlSJ

— Andrew Rose (@andrewjrose) October 26, 2024

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Teri Garr, comic actress in 'Young Frankenstein' and 'Tootsie,' dies at 79
Long one of Hollywood's most appealing performers, she saw her career decline after showing symptoms of multiple sclerosis.

Teri Garr, a pert blond actress who danced in Elvis Presley musicals, vaulted to attention as the shapely, German-accented lab assistant in Mel Brooks's farce "Young Frankenstein" and received an Oscar nomination for her portrayal of a self-doubting feminist in "Tootsie," died Oct. 29 at her home in Los Angeles. She was 79.

The cause was multiple sclerosis, said her publicist, Heidi Schaeffer. Ms. Garr began displaying symptoms of the degenerative disorder two decades before she went public about her condition in 2002, and she attributed widespread rumors about her health to the rapid decline of her career in the late 1980s.

On camera, Ms. Garr cultivated an appealing down-to-earth persona that was sometimes screwily discursive and other times frazzled to impatience by the men in her life, including screen husbands such as John Denver ("Oh, God!"), Richard Dreyfuss ("Close Encounters of the Third Kind") and Michael Keaton ("Mr. Mom"). New Yorker film critic Pauline Kael once described Ms. Garr as "perhaps the funniest, most neurotic dizzy dame on the screen."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/10/29/teri-garr-dead/

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"What knockers!"

"Why thank you!"

Classic. RIP.

TB

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NYT finally wrote up an obit for John

John Gierach, Fly Fishing Author With Wit and Wisdom, Dies at 77
Writing for anglers and amateurs alike, he found that the sport can reveal as much about people as it does about fish.

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John Gierach, a fly fisherman who was as skilled with a rod and reel as he was with words, producing hundreds of articles and more than 20 books, including "Even Brook Trout Get the Blues" and "Sex, Death and Fly-Fishing," died on Oct. 3 in Longmont, Colo. He was 77.

His wife, Susan de Castro Gierach, said the death, in a hospital, was caused by cardiac arrest.

Avuncular and white-whiskered, Mr. Gierach celebrated the everyday foibles and frustrations that make up the fly-fishing life, as well as the occasional triumph over an aggravating trout.

In a sport often considered a pastime for the well-to-do, he spoke to fly fishing's everyman appeal. He was, as one of his book titles suggested, a "trout bum." The expensive outfitters, private rivers and $700-a-day guides? Not for him. To have a good day in the stream, all he needed was a decent rod, the right fly and a strong cup of coffee.

When he began writing, in the 1970s, the voluminous literature around fly fishing tended to the self-serious, reverent and snobbish. Mr. Gierach brought something different: humor, irony and self-awareness.





https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/books/john-gierach-dead.html?unlocked_article_code=1.WE4.PTdF.Y_-G3Pza0Rq9&smid=url-share

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Bob Popovics, Legendary Northeastern Saltwater Fly Tier, Dead at 75
A man of big stature who humbly served his country in the U.S. Marine Corps and eagerly shared his vast knowledge with others, Popovics was a larger-than-life fly angler.

https://www.flyfisherman.com/editorial/bob-popovics-dead-at-75/509633#replay

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Quincy Jones, legendary music icon, remembered in photos

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From bebop to hip-hop, Quincy Jones exemplified the musical producer and arranger as star. He elevated the voices of dozens of entertainers — most indelibly Michael Jackson, but also Frank Sinatra, Paul Simon and Aretha Franklin — with his unsurpassed artistry in combining jazz, rhythm-and-blues and classical orchestration.

By the time of his death on Nov. 3 at 91 at his home in the Bel Air section of Los Angeles, he had become a renaissance impresario of music, film and television, catapulting the careers of Oprah Winfrey and Will Smith and smashing barriers for other African Americans. Mr. Jones's death, of undisclosed causes, was announced by his publicist, Arnold Robinson, and in a family statement.

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Vic Flick, guitarist who played 007's original theme, dies at 87
He was a prolific session musician in Britain, working with singers including Shirley Bassey, Petula Clark, Engelbert Humperdinck, Tom Jones and Dusty Springfield.

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Alice Brock, namesake of Arlo Guthrie's 'Alice's Restaurant,' dies at 83
Guthrie's 1967 antiwar anthem with the refrain "You can get anything you want at Alice's Restaurant" begins with an eventful Thanksgiving hosted by Ms. Brock.

On Thanksgiving Day in 1965, two young guests visiting Alice Brock and her husband, Ray, repaid the hospitality by helping clean up an old church that the couple had converted into their home in western Massachusetts.

They loaded up a red Volkswagen Microbus with discarded furniture, scraps of wood and other debris. But the dump was closed for the holiday. So they tossed the junk down a hill in Stockbridge. Someone told the police.

And events were set in motion for what became folk singer Arlo Guthrie's autobiographical anthem of wartime protest, hippie fellowship and a belly-filling Thanksgiving feast. The 1967 album "Alice's Restaurant" also made Ms. Brock a reluctant counterculture doyenne as the purveyor of the place where "you can get anything you want."

"It's a lot of fun," said Ms. Brock, who died Nov. 21 — a week before Thanksgiving — at age 83 in Wellfleet, Massachusetts, near her longtime home in Provincetown, "and it has a message of all the right things: of hope and music."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2024/11/23/alice-brock-restaurant-guthrie-dies/

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Hard to believe the Dump in closed on Thanksgiving.

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Greg Gumbel, Who Called N.F.L. and N.C.A.A. Games, Dies at 78

Greg Gumbel, the sports broadcaster who called some of the biggest football and college basketball games on two networks during a career that spanned five decades, died on Friday at his home in Davie, Fla. He was 78.

His family confirmed his death on Friday afternoon in a social media post from CBS Sports, where Mr. Gumbel had worked since 1989. He had been diagnosed with cancer.

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I am beginning to think that this topic should be renamed "Unlimited Dead People older than TroutBoy".  Too many of these folks are only slightly older than me or even younger than me and I am finding that uncomfortable. Yeah, I know, I know, but yikes! 😬

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"Consider thyself to be dead, and to have completed thy life up to the present time; and live according to nature the remainder which is allowed thee."
     Marcus Aurelius - Meditations

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Jimmy Carter, 39th president and Nobel Peace Prize winner, dies at 100, his son says
The tenacious Southerner was turned out of office by disillusioned voters after a single term. But he had a brilliant post-presidential career as a champion of health, peace and democracy.

Jimmy Carter, a no-frills and steel-willed Southern governor who was elected president in 1976, was rejected by disillusioned voters after a single term and went on to an extraordinary post-presidential life that included winning the Nobel Peace Prize, died Sunday at his home in Plains, Georgia, according to his son James E. Carter III, known as Chip. He was 100 and the oldest living U.S. president of all time.
His son confirmed the death but did not provide an immediate cause. In a statement in February 2023, the Carter Center said the former president, after a series of hospital stays, would stop further medical treatment and spend his remaining time at home under hospice care. He had been treated in recent years for an aggressive form of melanoma skin cancer, with tumors that spread to his liver and brain.

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Jimmy Carter, Unsurpassed as Humanitarian and Avid Fly Angler, Passes at 100
The 39th U.S. President was "one of us."

Former U.S. President, humanitarian, and avid fly angler Jimmy Carter passed away Sunday at age 100. Carter entered hospice care in February of 2023 and exceeded expectations one final time. The former president was preceded in death by his wife of 77 years, Rosalynn, in November of 2023.

Aside from his in-office accomplishments and post-presidency legacy of conservation and charitable endeavors, he was as fishy an angler as anyone. His passion was evident in his many articles on the pages of, and experiences with the editors of, Fly Fisherman. We honor his contributions to better our world

https://www.flyfisherman.com/editorial/fly-angler-jimmy-carter-passes/469372

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Jimmy Carter: A Remembrance -- A former Carter Presidential scholar who teaches at Montana State reflects on the 39th U.S. President upon his death on Sunday, Dec. 29

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"Suddenly, there was an explosive rise not ten feet away, and an eight-inch trout came up out of the water to take one of the airborne mayflies. In all my life, it was the most memorable rise of a wild fish." -- Jimmy Carter

While I've never met President Jimmy Carter, he's been a part of my life for a long time. I came of age politically in the early 1970s when the end game in the Vietnam War still stoked furious debate and the constitutional crisis of Watergate brought down the Nixon presidency. Historians, presidential scholars, and politicians fell over themselves to decry the excesses of what Arthur Schlesinger, Jr. famously termed "the imperial presidency."

https://www.livingstonenterprise.com/news/local/jimmy-carter-a-remembrance/article_b877ab14-c644-11ef-8f5f-2b4a3d0c6df2.html