The RIP Thread...

[Dave Shepard]

I just read the obit for a former coworker. I think died in their sleep is sometimes used in place of "found face down on the kitchen floor clutching his chest", which is how he was really found.

 

[MasterBlaster]

It's gonna be something, that's for sure!

 

[Fiddler]

Matt 'Guitar' Murphy

 

[Tree09]

Awwwww he was awesome... good life tho

 

[MasterBlaster]

Crazy looking guitar!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Saw this earlier.

I really liked his playing style.

Had some good jazz infuence.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Been playing any gigs lately, Jim?

 

[FireFighterZero]

Not lately. We did a benefit gig a while back but that was about it.

Have a real disaster coming up.

Playing a wedding, but with only about a quarter of the band.


Been calling around to find any musicians we can.

 

[MasterBlaster]

A quarter of the band? You mean just you???

Good luck!!!

 

[FireFighterZero]

Well, me an a rhythm player.

 

[MasterBlaster]

Two can rock.

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[Raj]

Howard Stern Wack Packer ‘Evil Dave Letterman’ Dead at 63

 

[MasterBlaster]

I like Howard, but I never heard of that guy.

 

[Fiddler]

Hasn't gone down yet, but my friend has some rare terminal cancer and is doing his best to hang on well enough the next couple weeks to make a showing at his last festival he will be promoting.

I helped build several of the buildings on the property, and have performed with several different bands on stage over the years. I even wrote a song about the cabin there on the property where we used to hang out picking music and such nearly every weekend for many years.

https://bluegrasstoday.com/40th-to-be-final-year-for-salt-river-bluegrass-festival/

 

[Raj]

Sad news.

 

[Ryan]

Nice little write-up.

 

[Fiddler]

I thought so too.

George is currently at home and on sugar water or saline on alternating days as intravenous feeding is cost prohibitive and not covered by insurance.

 

[Fiddler]

Well, he made it through his festival (though bedridden in his trailer) and passed away peacefully last night at 8:30.

His wife asked me to perform a song I wrote on stage Sat. so I borrowed a guitar, enlisted one of the hired bands to back me up, and sang it.

 

[Raj]

Sad news.

 

[Altissimus]

Nice send-off with song though , appreciated I'm sure.

 

[MasterBlaster]

I hope someone sings me out!!!

 

[Altissimus]

I remember watching the TV when Ray Charles went ... at the ceremony it was Willie Nelson's job to play "Georgia" , was so sad he almost couldn't deliver but pulled it up.

 

[MasterBlaster]

"Spirit In The Sky" would work for me!

 

[BlackSmith]

I just hope when I go the wife doesn’t sell all my stuff for what I told her I paid for it...

 

[Ryan]

I've often thought what songs I'd like played at my funeral. Although I'm not religious, Jim Reeves has some nice spirituals. Garth Brooks "Last Dance is a good tear jerker also.