Mic drop: The 2024 RIP thread for musicians

First up is Cajun music legend Jo-El Sonnier. I inexplicably went on a Cajun music kick for a year or so in elementary school and he was one of the mainstays.

Louisiana Cajun and Country Legend Jo-El Sonnier Passes Away After Show in Texas

 

Aw, man. RIP.

 

At risk of this not being the right forum for it, I dislike running threads. Always have. This place is worse for them.

Lumping in all the dead people for our convenience sucks.

Deceased musicians deserve their own threads. Alive musicians deserve their own threads. You can replace "musicians" in the previous two sentences with any number of other topics.

Sorry, I know this thread was created with honorable intentions, but this was a bridge too far for me.

 

Why does the left hate the Obituary page? Why not put out special editions for every dead body?

I'm not a moderator nor a spokesman for this site, but I'll post a rebuttal.

There are almost 27,000 separate threads just in this forum alone. Making a "dead musician" thread or "motorsports" thread does a number of really good things.

1. Keeps people from double posting the same story.
2. Keeps all pertinent information about a topic in one place.
3. Allows for more views and replies within one place.
4. Limits the number of unread threads when I sign on.
5. Keeps the most popular 20 threads on the first page.

Nobody needs a "RIP Jo-El Sonnier" thread if 99 percent of us have no idea who Jo-El Sonnier is, but it's nice to know the one or two who do can link that information to an existing thread. I saw recently where the guy who hit No. 1 with "The Ballad of Davy Crockett" in 1955 died but didn't think it even important enough for here, let alone a separate post.

I covered auto racing for most of my career. I don't want to have to go searching for multiple places to read "RIP Ryan Pemberton," "The Clash at the Coliseum," "German guy fired at Haas," etc. when it's all in one place. Newspaper people are used to briefs and roundups. That's what we do, even when we're not getting paid.

 

Decent arguments, YMCA, but ... this.

 

It's not like major musicians won't get an RIP thread. This is more for smaller artists, sidemen, other guys in a band, people whose RIP thread would get a "Who?" from most of the board.

 

I feel bad for people who get RIP threads with only a couple responses.

 

His cover of Tear-Stained Letter was so great.

Killer version here with Richard Thompson, who wrote it:

 

So, instead of “Will Phil Collins make 1A?” the question will be “Does Phil Collins deserve his own thread?”

 

Against all odds, I'd say, "yes."

 

Oh Lord.

 

I saw that movie on a double date in high school.