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Erik Bauersfeld, Voice Of Admiral Ackbar & Bib Fortuna, Dies At 94

“First feel fear, then get angry. Then go with your life into the fight.” - Bill Mollison

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Every time I see this thread updated, it makes me sad, even without knowing who died yet.

Army of Darkness: The Medieval Deadit | The Terminator - Color Regrade | The Wrong Trousers - Audio Preservation
SONIC RACES THROUGH THE GREEN FIELDS.
THE SUN RACES THROUGH A BLUE SKY FILLED WITH WHITE CLOUDS.
THE WAYS OF HIS HEART ARE MUCH LIKE THE SUN. SONIC RUNS AND RESTS; THE SUN RISES AND SETS.
DON’T GIVE UP ON THE SUN. DON’T MAKE THE SUN LAUGH AT YOU.

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It made me happy to hear his voice in TFA. Glad he got to be Ackbar one last time.

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Sad news. I’m glad he got a second go-round in the SW universe before passing on.

“That Darth Vader, man. Sure does love eating Jedi.”

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I’m seeing a lot of conflicting stories, but it looks as though Prince has likely died at the age of 57. I guess he’s had a serious flu for a few weeks and was briefly hospitalized last Friday.

As if the prospect of living in a world without Bowie wasn’t already bad enough.

EDIT: A few of the articles I saw that confirmed his death now seem to have been walked back. Someone died at Prince’s estate today, and we know that Prince was in poor health, so I’m not fantastically hopeful. I’d love to be proven wrong, though.

EDIT2: The Associated Press is reporting it, I guess it’s for real. God damn it. Good night, sweet Prince.

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Wow, that’s startling news. I certainly hope it isn’t true.

EDIT: It looks like it has been confirmed by several different sources now.

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Wow. Just wow. Who will be next?

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I’m surprised no one posted Doris Robert’s passing.

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I’m a little freaked out, because last weekend I found my Batdance cassette I used to listen to in my Mom’s car back in the day. Not even sure how it ended up on a high shelf in the kitchen closet, but it probably sat there undisturbed for two decades. I took it as a good omen, because of the happy memories attached to it.

I was also musing last week that MST3K made a lot of Prince references. Of course they were both based in Minnesota.

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SilverWook said:

I’m a little freaked out, because last weekend I found my Batdance cassette I used to listen to in my Mom’s car back in the day. Not even sure how it ended up on a high shelf in the kitchen closet, but it probably sat there undisturbed for two decades. I took it as a good omen, because of the happy memories attached to it.

I was also musing last week that MST3K made a lot of Prince references. Of course they were both based in Minnesota.

I recently had do a bit of search for the Batdance video to make a point about just how wacky it was. This was made difficult by The Artist formally known as the Artist formally known as Prince’s stance against allowing his material being free to view on Youtube and other such media organs.
It’s weird for me because he was very important to me during my midteens to midtwenties but I don’t really feel impact or shock at the news in the way I did with Bowie. Possibly because I was buying Bowie records right up to the last moment. The last Prince album I got was Love Symbol (1992).
I know precious little of his work after that point and didn’t really feel a pressing need to investigate it and I can’t for the life of me figure out why either.
It’s possible I’m also suffering from celebrity death fatigue. We have lost so many people in such a short period of time, all of them key players in my life that I’m not sure if I can process these sorts of events anymore in a personal context. Naturally every death is tragic and annoying and I wish consolation on his family and friends. But as a fan I’m not really feeling it.
With so many of my heroes much, much older than Prince I worry that this year will be a Ouija Board party line.

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The older we get, the more people we grew up with go away.

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All the Prince Batman videos are on the Blu Ray, IIRC.

I did read an article recently suggesting his stance against Youtube and restricting his music to just one online service was actually making him obscure with younger people now.

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He was always very strange and mysterious. I think that’s a big part of why I enjoyed his personality. He was so bizarre and eccentric, especially with the whole, “two people in my brain” business a while back.

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Being a little weird and creativity often go hand in hand. 😃

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SilverWook said:

Being a little weird and creativity often go hand in hand. 😃

For sure, but “a little weird” doesn’t quite do Prince justice. 😉

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SilverWook said:

All the Prince Batman videos are on the Blu Ray, IIRC.

I did read an article recently suggesting his stance against Youtube and restricting his music to just one online service was actually making him obscure with younger people now.

It could be a vector in my loss of contact with his work.
I stopped watching broadcast television in the early noughties so new material from other artists would get my attention via the webz and Prince just didn’t have the web presence of other artists I had previously followed.

I guess if I ration what I haven’t heard for a while I can maintain a pretense of new output for the rest of my life.

He strikes me as the sort of performer that has a library of unreleased material as well.