OT: Obituaries Thread

[CWSooner]

10-year NFL veteran (Saints, Jets, and Vikes), DL Barry Bennett, and his wife Carol were found dead in their rural Minnesota home Wednesday.  Their 22-year-old son is the suspect and is at large.

https://start.att.net/news/read/article/people-former_nfl_player_and_wife_found_dead_in_rural_min-rtime/category/sports

EDIT: The son has apparently fled to Mexico, but he has been charged with the murders.

[847badgerfan]

Eddie Money dies at 70. That's too young.

[FearlessF]

the Money Man!

[ELA]

Eddie Money dies at 70. That's too young.

My ex-GF was his server at Mitchell's Fish Market maybe 13 years ago

[fezzador]

Eddie Money dies at 70. That's too young.

For a musician that's probably par for the course.  You would think with all that money (no pun intended) athletes, actors and pop musicians would take better care of themselves but the opposite is actually true.  All too often they find themselves in early graves due to poor financial management, high stress, alcohol/narcotics (which probably goes hand-in-hand with the stress), etc.  Some of them look 60 before they even turn 40.

I don't think the Money Man necessarily had the above issues (at least not to the degree that plagues a lot of celebs) but all those years of recording, touring, partying, etc. probably took its toll.

[MrNubbz]

For a musician that's probably par for the course.  

there's a lot of truth to that and not necessarily because they were parting like rock stars.Because of all the years of travel they eat a lot of fast,hastily prepared meals that are usually artery/intestinal clogging.And sometimes they slightly over did it,unfortunately I think Tom Petty did that

[MichiFan87]

T. Boone Pickens died this week, as well. Obviously he's best known here for helping fund Oklahoma State football into relevance, but of course he made his money in the oil & gas industry. That said, to his credit, he was also a big proponent of wind power as that sector was starting to take off 10-15 years ago.

[MarqHusker]

Boone was a very interesting man.  At one point one his divisions was a client of ours.   Very innovative and fearless business man.  Great vision.  I'm not sold on wind, the windmills have a short life, relatively,  and nobody has really addressed what to do with so much expired material and waste which isn't exactly cost effective nor do I think as productive source as people think.

[CWSooner]

I'm not sold on wind power either.  At least not when it's generated by giant farms of giant windmills.

[FearlessF]

I spoke with the Money Man after one of his shows 5 - 10 years ago i sewer city

Obviously if he was playing this nickel venue, it wasn't a big gig

hard life on the road, but he didn't know anything else.

seemed to be a good guy , just doing what he did best

[MrNubbz]

Lot of folks in Music and fans said he was a reguar guy just playing R & R - that's what its really all about

[MarqHusker]

Ric ocasek is dead. Damn.  The Cars were a great band, timeless tunes.   He was a hell of a producer too.   A contemporary of Eddie Money too.

[CWSooner]

They're all reaching "that age," if they are not already there.

[MrNubbz]

Ocasek was also known as a producer who collaborated with other musical groups. He was born Richard Theodore Otcasek in Baltimore, according to Reuters, and met bass player and future bandmate Benjamin Orr after moving to Cleveland for high school. The Cars was formed in the mid-1970s.

He met Benjamin Orr here and the rest they say is history.The played locally on occasion befor breaking out.Always loved "Moving in Stereo"