[bomp] R.I.P.

[Sknoof@xxxxxxx]

Nah, sorry, it's nobody you'd know.  But he and I grew up together, he lived 
right across the street from me.  He was a year older than me, larger than 
life, and seemingly indestructible.
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 http://www.legacy.com/northjersey/DeathNotices.asp?Page=Lifestory&;
PersonId=19513558
 
EGLESTON - David James died Monday, October 2, at St. Joseph's Medical Center 
after a short illness. Born August 3, 1953 and raised in New Jersey, David 
was a resident of the Seattle/Tacoma area since 1978.
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Anyway -- I got my first tape recorder, a 7" reel-to-reel, for Xmas 1966.  I 
was 12 years old, Dave was 13.  And I picked up a plastic Emenee guitar that 
my sister had gotten for that same Xmas, and discarded...tuned it to something 
that sounded like an open chord, since I didn't know any better, and held it 
across my lap, barred the chords with my thumb, and played it using a quarter 
as a pick.

Later on I figured out that I could put a little mic inside one of the 
F-holes, plug that mic into Dave's tape recorder, turn the record-level all the way 
up, and have an "electric guitar" -- while recording the whole thing with 
another mic and my own tape recorder.  He sang, I played, and we made up most of 
the songs as we went along.  Seriously.  Lyrics just popped out of his head.

Anyway...if not for Dave, I probably never would have picked that guitar up.

Do I still have any of the tapes?  Did you really have to ask me that? ;)

There are some unfortunate edits and overdubs, added later, but you can hear 
through them.  This is from late '67, I think...

http://www.xnet2.com/sknoof/mp3/forget-you.mp3

R.I.P.

Mike F.

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