this thread made me cry. RIP to all of them

Jack DeJohnette, jazz drummer, pianist and melodica player who played with a galaxy of jazz luminaries in addition to his own projects. And yes, Miles Davis fans, he played on Bitches Brew. I didn't realize until reading the following article that he also played piano, even doing a solo piano tour:


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_DeJohnette

RIP Joe Rogan

Donna Godchaux-MacKay, formerly of the Grateful Dead and many other projects, including backup singing for Elvis Presley and Percy Sledge.

A lot of hardcore Deadheads didn't like Donna. Maybe that's why I was rather fond of her:

https://variety.com/2025/music/news/...ad-1236568488/

She wasn't what I consider to be a great vocalist but she had her moments with the Grateful Dead. Sometimes I could do without her presence on certain songs and other times I think she added some magic to their music.

R.I.P.

I didn't know until I read the stories announcing her death that she did a lot of studio work before joining the Dead. She certainly wasn't allowed to join simply because she was Keith's wife. She admitted that she wasn't accustomed to a lot of live singing and was "pitchy" early on. I enjoyed her work on Shakedown Street, an album that a lot of Dead fans can't stand. It's the only Dead album I own, so I guess I'll never be a Deadhead. Anyway, RIP Donna.

Yay!!!!

I have never said that when somebody dies.

Interesting.

I very much understand celebrating when Bin Laden of Baghdadi or Nasrallah or Sinwar were wiped out (I was over the moon with joy over the last two). I don't have a particularly high opinion of those who were not relieved to hear of the deaths of Hitler, Stalin or Franco or other monsters who exercised dictatorial or totalitarian rule over their countries.

But I'll never understand being overjoyed over octogenarians, nonagenarians and centenarians peacefully expiring in the loving bosom of their families. Whatever one makes of their legacies. There's such a huge disconnect between your reaction and what actually happened that I simply cannot process it. I guess this is another example of the internet doing away with people's sense of reality.