Who do you still mourn for? (I mean, that anyone else would know.)

[mr_hat]

Me: Lowell George.

God, his death a hole in my heart. Listening to his music -- even when I've got the snake-neck going -- just leaves me empty and wistfull.

[ScreamingMeemie]

1. Waylon Jennings and Johnny Cash.

:cry: :cry:

[Khephra]

2. John Belushi

Dr. Seuss
Jim Henson
Kurt Cobain

And most of all...

Wellstone.

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

3. Frank

[JohnOneillsMemory]

90. Zappa actually helped liberate Czechoslovakia, friends w/Havel

A music group that revered Zappa called themselves 'Plastic People of the Universe.' They drew the govt's ire and harassment.

Some were jailed and a support group of dissidents formed to demand their release. The movement grew and grew.

Later, Vaclav Havel was tight with Zappa and this pissed of the US government.

[yardwork]

4. Writer Laurie Colwin

She died much too young. She wrote about food and cooking a lot. I felt like I knew her.

[kitchen girl]

38. Oh, my...yes.

I discovered her books the week before she died.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

5. Paul Wellstone.

One of the last of the great liberals.

[hatredisnotavalue]

7. Me too :( I also miss my grandmother a whole lot..n/t

[hollywood926]

12. Me too. Paul Wellstone and if Olivia Newton-John dies before me,

I most assuredly won't be able to bear it!

[Radical Activist]

30. Wellstone

I will never be over it and will always wish he had lived to run for President.

[RFKHumphreyObama]

51. I agree with Paul Wellstone

A true liberal/progressive champion who represented the values of courage, honor, integrity and principled politics

[Left Is Write]

61. Put me in this column. I know I've mentioned a few times

that I'm extremely bitter about Norm Coleman sitting in Paul Wellstone's seat. I don't know if I will ever stop mourning the loss of Mr. Wellstone. He was a great man.

[UrbScotty]

84. That makes seven of us. (nt)

[Bouncy Ball]

6. Princess Diana.

I'm not normally one given to celebrity worship or anything even close, but I was really horrified by her awful and sudden death.

I remember just standing in my living room with my hand clamped over my mouth, big wide eyes, thinking "it can't be true, it can't be true."

She was so lovely and interesting and.....real.

On edit, Shel Silverstein also died too young. And Jim Henson. Mr. Rogers wasn't young but he was really special to me.

[peekaloo]

8. Andy Kaufman

no talent coat tail ridin' imposter!

[Bouncy Ball]

9. I've always wanted to say this but

I never knew who Wellstone was until I heard of his death and I really regret that I didn't know of him before that. I have read many things about him since then and the world truly lost a good man that day.

[Modem Butterfly]

70. Elliott Smith

I'm never gonna know you now
But I'm gonna love you anyhow

[Liberal Veteran]

10. Carl Sagan....

My role model.

[Zenlitened]

55. Agreed. So much wisdom was lost.

:(

[ikojo]

11. Jerry Garcia

I sure do miss the fat man. Hard to believe it will be TEN YEARS (a DECADE) since he left us.

[bigwillq]

13. 2PAC

I listen to his music everyday. And I have a poster of him on my bedroom door.

[donheld]

14. John Jr

[JimmyJazz]

15. Joe Strummer

:cry:

[miss_kitty]

27. I'm with you on that one sistah.

sad

:(

[JimmyJazz]

28. Well hello Love Bunny

Don't worry, in a few days, I'll post my tribute thread - almost 2 years now. :cry:

[Metatron]

16. Douglas Adams and Jerry Garcia

[motely36]

17. Freddie Mercury

[mr_hat]

21. Hey, did you know that Queen are going to tour again?

Paul Rogers (Free, Bad Co. etc) handling the vocals.

I met Freddie once; he was a partner in a London cafe that my sister (Festival Ballet dancer) had connections with. Tiny little guy; most gracious.

[oxymoron]

18. Gilda Radner

I loved Gilda.

[oregonjen]

19. John Denver

He died in a plane crash. I wonder what songs he would have written against this administration.

[baldguy]

20. Stephen Jay Gould

Douglas Adams
Ray Charles

[JanMichael]

50. I'll second SJG.

What a freakin' bummer.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

22. George Harrison nt

[johnnie]

23. These two

Both really influenced my early life.

[Tikki]

24. Joey Ramone....

n/t

[mwdem]

25. Miles Davis, George Harrison, John Lennon

[havocmom]

26. Jim Henson, John Lennon, JFK & RFK, Martha Mitchell

Not necessarily in that order. But they all had vision and truth to share. We are sorely in need of their voices again.

[Cary]

29. Bill Clinton as president.

Looked awfully good then--looks a million times better now.

[ElectroPrincess]

31. Gregory Peck ...

He was such an excellent actor and an even more honorable human being. Who could ever forget his performance in, "To Kill a Mockingbird."

[ldf]

32. jfk jr, and princess di

i can't imagine what they could have done if they had had the time...

and my cat, bob. bob's death affected me more than my parents' deaths. strange.

[MrSlayer]

33. Dimebag Darrell Abbott, Chuck Shuldiner, Paul Baloff, Cliff Burton

Randy Rhodes, Bon Scott and John Bonham.

All musical heroes gone too soon.

[Rabrrrrrr]

34. Frank Zappa, Bill Hicks, Adonis

[fluffernutter]

35. John Lennon

[St. Jarvitude]

59. Imagine how he'd feel right about now

I'm not sure he would have enjoyed living in a world like we have today. He must have thought we'd learned our lesson in the 60's that hate and war are horrible things.

He's very disappointed with us where ever he is now :( I'm sure he wishes he could be down here FIGHTING it tho

[kitchen girl]

36. John Hartford, Johnny Cash, Gene Kelly, Waylon...

Gilda Radner, June Carter, Bill Monroe, MLK, Stevie Ray Vaughan. I miss them all. :cry:

[Magrittes Pipe]

37. Jim Shepard and Jerry Wick

And if you don't know them, you should.


Otherwise, most of my list would be folks already mentioned: Cash, Strummer, Hicks.

[oregonjen]

39. Did Jim Shepard write stories based on his childhood?

Did he write/narrate "A Christmas Story?"

[mr_hat]

40. That was Jean Shepherd. >

http://www.keyflux.com/shep/

[oregonjen]

49. Uh, oh well

Thanks for the correction :hi:

[Magrittes Pipe]

45. No. He wrote songs based upon a depression that ultimatley led to suicide.

He was a brilliant guitarist, a gifted poet, and a good friend to many of my Cow Town buds.

[SOteric]

41. Don Barthelme

[Krupskaya]

42. I still can't believe Paul Wellstone is gone.

Sometimes Mr. K and I will be at a labor rally, hollering and cussing, and then we'll look at each other with tears, and say, "Paul should be here."

[enigmatic]

43. Bukowski, Bill Hicks, and D.Boon....

Bukowski



Bill Hicks



D. Boon

[dolo amber]

48. Oh God, Bill Hicks

Definitely. :cry:

[vixengrl]

56. Bukowski was the man.

When I was in college, I discovered his poetry after a boyfriend turned me on to "Barfly". There was something so real and sad and momentary and beautiful in his poems. And unpretentious (my boyfriend's poems, alas, did not have this quality). I wanted to meet him. He died shortly after I broke up with that boyfriend, and I was like, "Shit, and I won't meet Charles Bukowski, either."

[enigmatic]

58. Bukowski is my hero..

I became a writer because of him. I wrote him 1992 and actually got a reply back; framed it and put it on the wall of my bathroom, where hangs today. He kept me alive (or his books, rather) for a number of years through my own alcohol-soaked Greyhound trips across the US; when he died I was in a bad way for awhile...

[Blue_Tires]

44. Howard Cosell

Dick Schaap
Harry Carey

[WritersBlock]

46. JFK & RFK

Just haven't, and never will, quite get over either one.

[corksean]

47. Tim Buckley, left before he'd even started.

[Pithlet]

52. Don't laugh. Mr. Rogers.

That was my favorite show growing up, and now it is my son's favorite. When he died, I genuinely felt sad, like he was someone I knew in real life. I had just started watching it again with my son when he died. I still feel sad sometimes watching the show with him.

[LeftPeopleFinishFirst]

60. Me too!

I loved PBS as a kid! Mr. Rogers was awesome, because you felt like you knew him as well as you grandpa or old uncle. His goldfish were adorable, and I loved how he put on his shoes and coat the same way every day :D

[Pithlet]

63. If you ever have kids

Just wait until you watch it again as an adult with them. It's great.

[chaska]

53. Well two of mine have been mentioned, so... Jaco Pastorius.

[sendero]

54. Bradley Nowell..

... (soul of Sublime) died on the cusp of greatness.

[Frogtutor]

57. Stevie Ray Vaughn n/t

[Left Is Write]

62. I was just going to say that. Good thing I decided to skim over the posts

first!

Hard to believe it's been more than 14 years.

[Frogtutor]

66. I know; I'll always remember that day...n/t

[Phillycat]

67. Exactly my answer too.

When I heard he had died on the radio, I had to pull my car over and cry.

[ironflange]

64. Phil Hartman

Made even more difficult by the way he went.

[flamingyouth]

65. Yes, I agree

His death was so horribly tragic, and he was such a talented comedian.

[Frogtutor]

68. I just remembered another one: John Candy n/t

[Throckmorton]

69. Mrs Throckmorton

My first Christmas in 15 years without her.

I never liked Christmas much, and now I wish it would just go away.

[dolo amber]

72. ...

:hug:

[Frogtutor]

91. I'm so sorry...n/t

[MsAnthropy]

71. Janis and Jimi, Harry Chapin, Stevie Ray Vaughn

[crispini]

73. Spaulding Gray

I loved his monologues. I saw him perform in person twice, and rented all of his movies. I loved the way he made his life into a work of art. He was always so funny, so inspiring, such a charming and dark sense of humor. When he went missing I searched the internet every morning for news of him. When they found his body I felt like I, personally, had lost a friend. I still feel sad when I look at his books on my bookshelf.

[Metatron]

79. I completely agree.

We lost such an artist with his passing.

[liberalitch]

74. FDR, gilda radner, john lennon, adelai stevenson, ....

mr. rogers, jonas salk, dr. suess,....

[liberalitch]

75. how could I forget charles schultz....

[rbnyc]

76. John Cage

I always thought that I would meet him someday. We have many things that connect us, and I felt that it was inevitable. I also felt that he was somehow immortal. Even in his last days, he was so spry. A friend spotted him practically doing the limbo under a velvet rope at a theater shortly before he died.

----

You probably know the one about the two
monks, but I’ll tell it
anyway. They were
walking along one day when they came to
a stream where a young lady was
waiting, hoping that someone
would help her across.
Without hesitating, one
of the monks picked her up and carried
her across, putting her
down safely on the other side.

The two monks continued walking along,
and after some time,
the second one,
unable to restrain himself,
said to the first,
“You know we’re not
allowed to touch women.
Why did you carry that woman
across the stream?”
The first monk replied,
“Put her down.
I did two hours ago.”


---

[Bertha Venation]

77. Lucille Ball.

I remember the day of her death just as clearly as I remember the day my mother died. :cry:

[Bridget Burke]

78. Far too many--but I'll vote for Lowell, as well.

I saw Little Feat live several times back in the 70's. No live recording ever captured them when Lowell was at his peak. Hot guitar & soulful lyrics.

Well I've been across this country
From Denver to the ocean
And I never met girls that could sing so sweet
Like the angels who live in Houston
Singing "Roll me easy"
So slow and easy
Play the concertina
I'll be your temptress
And baby I'm defenceless
Singing harmony in unison
Sweet harmony
Gotta hoist your flag and then beat your drum.

Townes van Zandt was our local boy, but we mourned him all his life. I first saw him at Sand Mountain Coffee House, when he presented his first "serious" song--"Waiting 'Round to Die". His album The Late Great Townes van Zandt was recorded while he was still alive. Then he died on New Year's Day--just like Hank.

[babylonsister]

80. Eva Cassidy. Great voice, died too young. nt

[ImpeachBush]

81. *Janis Joplin*, Kate Hepburn, JFK, RFK, Wellstone

[Spacemom]

82. Several of the ones already mentioned here and Robert A Heinlein n/t

[the Princess]

83. John Lennon - Keith Moon - John Entwistle

I don't think I will ever stop mouring them.

[AlienGirl]

85. Phil Ochs, Alice Sheldon, Phil K. Dick, and many others

[Cuban_Liberal]

86. RFK.

It's hard to explain to some non-Hispanics just exactly how much he meant to my people...

:cry:

[Shakespeare]

87. Jim Henson and Theodore Geisel (and many others...)

Stevie Ray Vaughan
Barbara Jordan
George Harrison
Jeff Buckley

[terrya]

88. My dad.

It doesn't adhere to your proviso about "anyone else would know"

But, there is no celebrity's death that could even come close to the fact that I still miss him.

I know, some would laugh at this. But he was such a good, strong, decent man. And that he left our family so soon...cancer...it is like...fuck, I can't put it into words.

T

[Gemini Cat]

89. Several:

Sports:
Jackie Robinson
Joe Louis
Mickey Mantle

Music:
Frank Zappa
Brian Jones
Jimi Hendrix

SCOTUS:
Thurgoode Marshall

Democrats:
FDR
JFK
Paul Wellstone

Authors:
Isaac Asimov

Personal:
My little Brother

[Feathered Fish]

92. Stanley Kubrick

[barb162]

93. my cat who died a little over a year ago from cancer and the USA

for the crap that is going to happen the next 4 years and beyond