| On honoring the dead / anticipation
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A month or so ago, one of my very good friends got a call that a friend of hers was dying. She rushed over to my other friends house, and found her friend dying. He had a hole in his lung which was undiagnosed. My friend gave him chest compressions until the ambulance arrived and they pronounced him dead on the scene. I never knew johnny, but knew of him. He had some drug problems, but turned the corner and was bettering himself. Everyone who knew him, truly knew him, loved him.
Fast forward to yesterday. I had sold an amp (genz benz 6.0) and was browsing the classifieds for another amp, with my wife and our friend (who Johnny was visiting when he died). She asked what I was doing, and told her that I was bass amp shopping. She told me to hold on. She picked up the phone and called Johnny's mom. He was a bass player in a punk band for quite some time. She talked to his mom, and she said, that as long as the amp was going to a good home, that she would give it to me. I have no clue what kind of amp it is, but either way, I'm excited to be able to keep his memory alive via my playing. I'm pretty honored to bear this torch, so to speak.
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