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 ?
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.
Margaret Thatcher.
What a happy fucking day.
Had me in the first half…
Leonard Nimoy. Grew up with a lot of Star Trek. Both him and Keanu Reeves helped me understand that it’s entirely fine to be introverted.
As I understood it, Nimoy’s death was from lung problems that developed as a result of his smoking habit - even though he had quit smoking many years prior that. It was the catalyst I needed to finally say, “I can’t wait anymore, time may already be up. I need to quit smoking now.” And that was when I finally did quit smoking and make it stick.
John “TotalBiscuit” Bain.
Hit at a rough time for me and at that point I had been following his content for many years.
Man the loss of TB has been extreme.
Gaming and technology seemed to orbit him when he was alive.
Have you found a successor yet?
I miss The Mailbox and WTF Is…? so much.
Different time of my life so I’m not sure anyone would fit that niche. I was listening to BluePlz live long before the variety content as well.
I like AngoryTom for the time he gives indi games and rpg content with Mystery Quest but it’s not the same by any means
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It feels like he’d come back anytime soon and say “gotcha mfers”…
Anthony Bourdain
You might want to edit Chester
why? he knows what he did. we’ll never forget that show in '03
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.
Norm Macdonald
Grant Imahara, first person I had a parasocial relationship who died. It was also such a sudden and tragic death.
Douglas Adams.
That was the first time it really hit home to me how much it hurts to lose real talent from this world.
Yes! His early death was tragic.
We could have had several more Dirk Gently mysteries, and the Guide Trilogy could have been even more inaccurately counted, by now. RIP Adams.
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.
Chris Cornell, he always seemed like a classy and cool if somewhat aloof guy, extremely talented vocalist.
It’s extra unsettling when a 50+ year old commits suicide. This was someone who had a thriving career, loved by millions, had a family and kids. It just shows that you have to take care of your mental health. It’s not going to magically get better with age.
Well, I read the title and the only thing popped up is Chester.
I always shrugged off celebrity deaths cuz it never affects me before. But that morning my then SO woke me up and I’m in dazed cuz teens me just full of angst lol and how he did it after just released One More Light is too much, I think I avoid listening to LP for a few years after that. It’s also after Cornell did it not long before I think? AFAIK they’re Godfathers to each other kids.
I think contrary to what generally believe LP lyrics all are Mike’s. But understandable since Chester is the one actually sung it. don’t think LP would be this big if they didn’t have Chester, the band said so themselves (the label want to get rid of Chester at first but they pushed back).
I just wished Mike would just rename the band like Audioslaves did and leave LP as a legacy. Don’t get me wrong Emily is badass.
While Mike was the larger contributor, Chester wrote some of the lyrics. Brad was and still is a contributor to the instrumentals as well.
Fred Rogers, it was like a grandfather died when he passed.
