When Dave Matthews, or any members of the DMB, or the DMB itself dies, it will be a sad day. Ranks up with John Lennon, the Beatles breaking up, and the death of J.R. 
You know, I was just thinking… I really don’t like this thread. Reading about all these celebrities who I thought had died, or forgot about there deaths is bringing me to tears. Walter Matthau, Jack Lemmon, Bill Gaines, even what happened to Christopher Reeves. Gosh… 
That segment at the Oscars that shows everybody who died that year makes me lose it every time…
That said, I’d be really devastated when my childhood/teenage year idols pass away e.g.
Harrison Ford
Michael J. Fox
Matthew Broderick
Ralph Macchio
because then I’ll feel old and like death will come knocking soon for me, too. (Other than that, I’ll second Terry Pratchett & Neil Gaiman…)
I liked the tribute poster/ad.
An imitation here
Amazing how many of us name Phil Hartman, but I’m gonna do it again.
Add to my list of “I never wanna see them go”:
Kurt Russell
Bruce Campbell
Sorry for the hijack, but John Lee was *one of *the last of the majorly famous Mississippi bluesmen. B.B. King is still with us. Plus there are a number of lesser-known bluesmen still playing; check out Fat Possum Records for new stuff from T-Model Ford, R. L. Burnside, Robert Cage, and a bunch of others. Strange, wild, dark music.
We now return you to your regularly scheduled morbidity.
Come on now…what about Willie Nelson? He seems to be in good health now, but he’s definitely got some miles on the odometer. And when he goes, hell when he quits touring, the world as we know it will be a different place…
The worst bit was the way the cameras hung around watching because everyone thought the fall was part of his act in entering the ring. Then, suddenly they jerked up to the ceiling…
LOST: One black horse-drawn hearse, one coffin (occupied), six black horses. Last seen Spirngfield IL, 1865. If found, please return to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, Washington DC. Small reward.
Hooker wasn’t the last of the Mississippi bluesmen, but he was the last of the first-generation bluesmen. Closest thing left now is the Blind Boys of Alabama.
Don’t see much point adding names of my own. Everybody we’ve ever seen and liked (or loathed) is in some way a piece of us. When they go, we are lessened because something of the past is gone forever.
When Olivia de Havilland dies, the last of the leads of Gone With The Wind will be gone. The Magnificent Seven are now the Magnificent Three, and Bronson is ailing with chronic Alzheimers - as, for that matter, is Ronald Reagan.
It isn’t a pleasant thing to be reminded that time is passing, is it?
I’m not looking forward to John Denver’s death. A time of rocky mountain sorrow, it’ll be.
I was sad when the following died:
Princess Diana
Walter Payton - Chicago Bears, watched him play football.
Freddie Mercury
Michael Hutchens
Benjamin Orr
I will be sad when the following dies:
Russell Crowe
Tom Hanks
Chris Cornell
Tina Turner
Forgot one:
Layne Staley
Denver died in 1997. Sorry.
Gerry Trudeau
“Weird Al” Yankovic
Cecil Adams
Lorne Michaels
Lord British
George Lucas
Steven Spielberg
Matt Groening along with any of the voice actors from The Simpsons
It will also be sad for me when either Queen Elizabeth or Pope John Paul II dies, not so much because I have great respect for either of them, but because they’ve both been there for as long as I can remember (I’m 29). When they die, it will be as if I’m suddenly a generation older.
Sigh That’s what I get for leaving out the smileys.
'Course, a smiley would have ruined the line anyway.
I thought you might be joshin’, but I didn’t read any signs of a joke or punning in your message; it seemed pretty straightforward. Consider me whooshed.
I’m with you Kniz, Nell Harper was not one I was expecting to cry for but I sure did. I guess it was because I’ve caught a few re-runs recently.
Nitpicking a nitpick of a nitpick: John Lee Hooker was not a first generation bluesman, since the blues goes back to (at least) 1919, when John Lee was all of two years old.
BB King is more associated with Memphis than Mississippi, but he was born and raised in MS.