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CardinalX : 12/5/2018 5:43 pm
i'll kick off with a few that came to mind for me:

Robin Williams
James Gandolfini
Jose Fernandez

going back historically, I could list a million more. i'm thinking more along the lines of...

boy, i miss the Sopranos. i hope they make a mov.. oh yeah, forgot "Tony" is dead.
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George HW Bush  
spike : 12/5/2018 5:47 pm : link
RIP
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Jay on the Island : 12/5/2018 5:47 pm : link
Chris Farley
John Candy  
Jay on the Island : 12/5/2018 5:47 pm : link
Mitch Hedberg
Tony Gwynn is one that always bothers me when I think about it.  
Mike in Long Beach : 12/5/2018 5:48 pm : link
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as a big Beatles fan, it may sound horrible  
CardinalX : 12/5/2018 5:52 pm : link
but i don't mean it that way.

but everytime i see Sir Paul McCartney doing some public appearance and acting all hokey... i think; boy i miss John Lennon
Lemmy  
Greg from LI : 12/5/2018 5:58 pm : link
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Chris  
crick n NC : 12/5/2018 5:59 pm : link
Cornell
Stevie Ray Vaughn  
kennyd : 12/5/2018 6:03 pm : link
We missed out on a lot of great music.

And since we're on this site, Troy Archer
Heath Ledger  
dep026 : 12/5/2018 6:05 pm : link
...
And  
dep026 : 12/5/2018 6:06 pm : link
Paul Walker.
RE: Lemmy  
Vanzetti : 12/5/2018 6:08 pm : link
In comment 14206964 Greg from LI said:
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Towards the end, Lemmy said he started drinking vodka because his doctor told him if he kept drinking whiskey it was going to kill him.
Joey, DeeDee, Johnny and Mark  
Vanzetti : 12/5/2018 6:11 pm : link
Hard to believe all four of them are dead.

Talk about 4 guys who embodied Old School NYC
Anthony Bourdain  
B in ALB : 12/5/2018 6:16 pm : link
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John  
joeinpa : 12/5/2018 6:34 pm : link
Kennedy
RE: Joey, DeeDee, Johnny and Mark  
Mr. Bungle : 12/5/2018 6:34 pm : link
In comment 14206974 Vanzetti said:
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Hard to believe all four of them are dead.

Talk about 4 guys who embodied Old School NYC

Marky is not dead. Tommy is.
RE: Anthony Bourdain  
Jim in Scranton : 12/5/2018 6:37 pm : link
In comment 14206976 B in ALB said:
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yep
Kurt Cobain  
RobCrossRiver56 : 12/5/2018 6:53 pm : link
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RickJames : 12/5/2018 7:00 pm : link
Scott Weiland

Greg Giraldo

Evan Tanner
Another great one.......  
RickJames : 12/5/2018 7:11 pm : link
Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf
Bobby  
GmeninPSL : 12/5/2018 7:26 pm : link
Darin
Belushi  
weeg in the bronx : 12/5/2018 7:29 pm : link
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David Bowie  
Milton : 12/5/2018 7:45 pm : link
Philip Seymour Hoffman
RE: John  
Milton : 12/5/2018 7:49 pm : link
In comment 14206989 joeinpa said:
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Kennedy
I think Bobby Kennedy even more so.

But I was thinking more along the lines of people who have died in the past decade. Otherwise the list gets out of control. John Kennedy would've in all likelihood died of old age by now (he'd be 101 years old).
For me....  
Chris684 : 12/5/2018 7:51 pm : link
Chris Farley

Biggie Smalls

Abraham Lincoln. JFK.  
SFGFNCGiantsFan : 12/5/2018 7:57 pm : link
MLK Jr. RFK.

If all had lived, history would have been so much different and, in my opinion, better.
Layne Staley  
Greg from LI : 12/5/2018 7:57 pm : link
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i was gearing for a list...  
CardinalX : 12/5/2018 7:59 pm : link
kind of like, these people would be active and doing things we enjoy now... if not for their untimely demise.

like, i know we all miss Bush41. but he was 94 and not likely to be making many appearances or publishing any new books anytime soon... soooo
Chris Farley  
jnoble : 12/5/2018 8:26 pm : link
I had no idea about his addiction issues until after he died
Owen Hart  
Route 9 : 12/5/2018 8:42 pm : link
What a stupid and silly reason to die.
Whenever I see/hear Cobain, Layne Staley, or Bradley Nowell mentioned  
j_rud : 12/5/2018 8:42 pm : link
in this capacity I feel obliged to mention Shannon Hoon. Every bit as talented as those guys, and Blind Melon can legitimately be called the most underrated band of that era. If you only know No Rain do yourself a favor and dig into their (unfortunately very limited) catalog.
RE: Kurt Cobain  
Les in TO : 12/5/2018 8:53 pm : link
In comment 14207000 RobCrossRiver56 said:
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jimmy hendrix Chris Cornell Len Bias Belushi Farley
RE: Whenever I see/hear Cobain, Layne Staley, or Bradley Nowell mentioned  
RickJames : 12/5/2018 8:58 pm : link
In comment 14207071 j_rud said:
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in this capacity I feel obliged to mention Shannon Hoon. Every bit as talented as those guys, and Blind Melon can legitimately be called the most underrated band of that era. If you only know No Rain do yourself a favor and dig into their (unfortunately very limited) catalog.


Dam straight, he was a great talent. Blind Melon put out 2 monster albums.
Hendrix - we were only scratching the surface with his genius.  
markky : 12/5/2018 9:09 pm : link
Malcolm X - would have loved to see what he became. He left a void filled by lesser men (my opinion only).

Steve Jobs - a product visionary. don't care one way or the other about his success as a businessman but I think he might have had something to say about the future of AR, which I think will just sit there untapped for the next 10-15 years. Waiting for the Microsft hololens? keep waiting.
RE: i was gearing for a list...  
RickJames : 12/5/2018 9:12 pm : link
In comment 14207045 CardinalX said:
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kind of like, these people would be active and doing things we enjoy now... if not for their untimely demise.

like, i know we all miss Bush41. but he was 94 and not likely to be making many appearances or publishing any new books anytime soon... soooo


I got it

Scott Weiland - greatest live prefomer I have ever seen. I am not a big STP or Velvet Revolver fan, but Weiland was ridiculous live.

Greg Giraldo - One of the funniest people around, and a brutal roaster. I wish I would have seen him live.

Evan Tanner - He was the embodiment of a "Fighter" Learned to fight by watching videos and became a UFC Champion. I miss watching him fight.

Hank the Angry Drunken Dwarf - I can't stress how many times I want to tell someone to "go have sex with your mother!" Hank was brilliant. Maybe Stern wouldn't have turned into a giant P if Hank was still around.
Sorry  
Gman11 : 12/5/2018 9:31 pm : link
to be the downer, but the hell with all these people. In the grand scheme of things they mean nothing to me.

I miss my parents.
I don't count drug abusers and people who couldn't  
SHO'NUFF : 12/5/2018 10:02 pm : link
keep it in their pants... live by the sword, die by the sword. And suicide, those people literally did it to themselves. Also, if you lived a long, full life and died naturally, you don't count either.

So this would include:

Kurt Cobain
Eazy-E
Robin Williams
Brittany Murphy
Heath Ledger
River Phoenix
Tupac and Biggie
George Bush Sr.
Stan Lee
Michael Jackson
and a few others listed already.

Disclaimer: I love Eazy Muthafuckin E... Love Robin Williams... nicest man you'll ever meet.

Guys that didn't "deserve" it, and I'm including people who had certain health issues, but probably didn't realize it until too late:

Phil Hartman
Owen Hart
James Gandolfini
Eli Manning's Hall of Fame chances
Chris Farley
Bruce Lee, from the official report... allergic reaction
JFK
Paul Walker

One could argue JFK and Walker put themselves in that position, but unlike Tupac and Biggie, they weren't doing things that warranted retaliation. The POTUS, as a title and symbol, is always under fire (no pun intended) so JFK shouldn't count.
RE: George HW Bush  
kennyd : 12/5/2018 10:03 pm : link
In comment 14206949 spike said:
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RIP


Gone too soon? The man was 94
Janis Joplin and Billie Holiday  
BlueLou'sBack : 12/5/2018 11:09 pm : link
Charlie Parker...
As mentioned earlier,  
St. Jimmy : 12/5/2018 11:17 pm : link
Anthony Bourdain.

His shows were about the only non-sports related TV shows I regularly watched. His death felt like losing a friend. The only time that has happened for someone I didn't know.
Here is a few  
uconngiant : 12/5/2018 11:17 pm : link
Paul Walker speed kills
Jim Morrison my favorite as a youngster
Jim Belushi was so smart and funny
John Candy
JFK and no Johnson as president
MLK was a man that was needed in the early 70's and without him the country was missing something big.
Troy Archer could have been a great one
Len Bias as a Celtic fan he would have been the next great one and would have been the step between Bird and Pierce.
Elvis Presley  
Damon : 12/6/2018 12:33 am : link
Amy Winehouse
Vince Foster
RE: David Bowie  
bw in dc : 12/6/2018 12:55 am : link
In comment 14207034 Milton said:
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Philip Seymour Hoffman


I believe Hoffman is the greatest actor of the last 25 years. Guy was magical on screen.
RE: RE: David Bowie  
Milton : 12/6/2018 2:29 am : link
In comment 14207161 bw in dc said:
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In comment 14207034 Milton said:


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Philip Seymour Hoffman



I believe Hoffman is the greatest actor of the last 25 years. Guy was magical on screen.
No doubt!
"The only true currency in this bankrupt world is what you share with someone else when you're uncool." - ( New Window )
Philip Seymour Hoffman  
GeofromNJ : 12/6/2018 2:38 am : link
the best actor of the current generation
Chester Bennington  
LawrenceTaylor56 : 12/6/2018 5:29 am : link
dude had an amazing voice. Was all geared up to go see Linkin Park later that week.
If we are talking about entertainers..  
EricJ : 12/6/2018 7:11 am : link
Randy Rhoades
John Bonham
Layne Staley
Jimi Hendrix
John Tuggle

Of course as mentioned earlier, none of them are ahead of my father and grandparents.
James Dean  
Steve in South Jersey : 12/6/2018 7:21 am : link
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Milton  
joeinpa : 12/6/2018 7:39 am : link
Didn’t mean to derail the post

But it s hard to describe the sense of lost for many of us who lived through that era.

Bobby as well. They seem to symbolize the idea of “Gone too soon”
Darrell Abbott  
mgreenie03 : 12/6/2018 7:59 am : link
Vinny Paul, Jeff Hanneman, Malcolm Young, Lemmy, Phil and Eddie Clarke, RJD and on and on
a few from way back  
Steve in South Jersey : 12/6/2018 8:05 am : link
Buddy Holly
Steve McQueen
David Janssen
Marilyn Monroe
Lou Gehrig
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