For me it was Cheater Bennington. Linkin Park music helped me through some hard times and I know some of the more impactful lyrics came from him and what he experienced.
Knowing he couldn’t take it anymore definitely hit Me hard particularly as someone I looked up to from young age …
Who was yours ?
Chris Cornell, he always seemed like a classy and cool if somewhat aloof guy, extremely talented vocalist.
Douglas Adams.
That was the first time it really hit home to me how much it hurts to lose real talent from this world.
You might want to edit Chester
I dont know why, but Sean Lock, a U.K. stand-up comedian who was the backbone of a couple of U.K. panel shows. He never spoke about his illness, but lost a lot of weight and then suddenly gone. I still watch and laugh out loud from the many, many laugh out loud moments of his career.
I don’t see him on here, but Trevor Moore hit me super hard. I grew up watching WKUK, and was a big fan. He was only a couple years older than me, and what really resonated with me was that he had a son the same age as mine. It just got me thinking about my own mortality and what grief I would put my wife and son through if I’d passed away, and really put me in a dark place for a while. R.I.P. Trevor.
THIS. came here to post this. R.I.P to a real local sexpot
WKUK was making a comeback during COVID with lots of small videos and I really enjoyed them.
Definetly Chester Bennington. Linking park inspired me to be a muscisian, Chester inspired me to become a singer. His passing was really hard on me. I really gave up on linking park after the minutes to midnight album, since I see it as the last album where they were honest to their roots and still not too experimental. But after many years I was talking to my wife, and we agree that next time they played in our country, we would see them nomatter what. I shit you not, the next day we saw on the news he was dead. It was almost like we knew it was about time to go watch a show since they wouldn’t be around for long. Anyways, I have massive respect for Chester as a guy who delt with my own mental sickness and also have had thoughts of sucide and so on. Chester and linkin park helped me through a lot of tough times. I wish his family all the best.
Bourdain and Chester. Irwin a close 3rd.
Anthony Bourdain
Grant Imahara, first person I had a parasocial relationship who died. It was also such a sudden and tragic death.
Dolores O’Riordan
Ryan Dunn.
John Peel. He was devoted to all music without prejudice or judgement, and was host on a BBC radio show for years and had on some of the greatest bands ever.
Margaret Thatcher.
What a happy fucking day.
Had me in the first half…
Joan Rivers, I really miss Her, she was a comedic genius
Robin Williams, on my birthday. Great guy, a gamer, and knew his way around computers. It might not have hit as hard if it hadn’t been my birthday.
