Bob Weir, a revered member of the Grateful Dead, recently passed away. As an enthusiastic music aficionado based in the San Francisco Bay Area, his loss has impacted many of us. Bob…
Category: Obituaries
RIP: MIke Braunthal (Brown) aka Pieman Mike – performance artist
“Well, they tell me of a pieman in the sky Waiting for me when I die…” With the tears of a mournful clown, we are saddened to report that Pieman Mike passed…
RIP: Todd Snider – singer songwriter
Last week, the world lost a funny and brilliant singer-songwriter named Todd Snider. He was 59 years old. For the past week as I logged onto the social media, I found an…
RIP: Little Bill Engelhart
It saddens me deeply to learn of the passing of Bill Engelhart, aka “Little Bill” of the Blue Notes. He was a talented musician with a beautiful soul that I was fortunate…
RIP: Bob Rivers – Seattle DJ + music parody king
Bob Rivers, a beloved Seattle radio disc jockey who was responsible for creating a prolific assortment of inspired music parody songs, has recently passed away after a battle with cancer. Bob’s radio…
RIP: Bob Bennett of the Sonics
Bob Bennett, the original drummer of the Sonics, passed away recently. The Sonics were true pioneers in the rock ‘n’ roll universe, playing the kinda music we call “punk rock” years before…
RIP: Mike Korgan, aka Ken Chase – producer of Kingsmen LOUIE LOUIE recording
Mike Korgan, the man also known as Ken Chase, who produced the iconic recording of LOUIE LOUIE by the Kingsmen, passed away recently. His son Todd Korgan wrote a beautiful obit +…
Thoughts about Christmas, Mojo Nixon, Glenn Howard, Todd Snider and funny music…..
It’s Christmas time and we’re thinking about this past year. We were saddened to lose Mojo Nixon in 2024. Mojo was something of a hillbilly mutant dynamo that delivered happy…
Remembering Dennis Flannigan
Today, I’m thinking of my friend Dennis Flannigan of Tacoma, Washington, who passed away last month – on July 10, 2024 at the age of 84. Dennis, in conjunction with KISW-FM radio…
RIP: Perry Kurtz, a stand-up comic with an unusual version of LOUIE
Perry Kurtz was a stand-up comic that performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, America’s Got Talent, and Late Late Show with James Corden, where he performed an unusual version of…