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01-20-2011, 11:05 AM
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Rickbass
I have fond memories of Rick, one of the "originals" here on Talkbass. He was friendly and helpful to anyone he could help. I exchanged PM's with him regularly and he always had valuable tips to share with me. I remember him giving extensive reviews on different headphone amps when I was in the market for one. Bought the one he recommended and still use it to this day (and remember him every time that I do). Thank you, Rick!
His Profile: http://www.talkbass.com/forum/member.php?u=11289
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01-20-2011, 11:29 AM
|  | Holy Ghost filled Bass Player Moderator | | Join Date: Apr 2000 Location: Heber Springs, Arkansas | | | Rick was a great guy. I was thinking about him the other day. RIP, buddy!
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01-20-2011, 11:40 AM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Tucson,AZ | | | Adrian Garcia - A truly wonderful and caring person and a great bassplayer.
R.I.P. my friend
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01-20-2011, 12:01 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Basshappi  Adrian Garcia - A truly wonderful and caring person and a great bassplayer.
R.I.P. my friend | Adrian always addressed me "mi hermano" (my brother), as I'm sure he did many of you. There was much sincerity within this man. Greatly missed! |
01-20-2011, 12:29 PM
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Originally Posted by Basshappi Adrian Garcia - A truly wonderful and caring person and a great bassplayer.
R.I.P. my friend | Adrian was a great friend. You are missed!
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01-20-2011, 08:22 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Feb 2010 Location: The Burbs, New York | | | Rob was a big inspiration for me, I loved watching his videos. RIP.
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01-20-2011, 10:46 PM
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Originally Posted by Basshappi Adrian Garcia - A truly wonderful and caring person and a great bassplayer.
R.I.P. my friend | One of the biggest sweethearts in the world.
He's missed.
RIP |
01-20-2011, 11:38 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Nov 2000 Location: Montreal, Canada | | | For me, one of the biggest lost we had on talkbass was ChrisA
I kept all the pm we traded together in my in box.
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01-21-2011, 01:35 AM
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Originally Posted by Yvon For me, one of the biggest lost we had on talkbass was ChrisA
I kept all the pm we traded together in my in box. | ChrisA was another good friend. So many great people are gone.
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01-21-2011, 04:20 AM
|  | <-- That guy looks like me, but old. | | Join Date: Aug 2002 Location: Arlington TX | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Basshappi Adrian Garcia - A truly wonderful and caring person and a great bassplayer.
R.I.P. my friend | Quote:
Originally Posted by XavierG Adrian always addressed me "mi hermano" (my brother), as I'm sure he did many of you. There was much sincerity within this man. Greatly missed! | Quote:
Originally Posted by embellisher Adrian was a great friend. You are missed! | Adrian was awesome. I knew he was sick. But I never knew when he died.
RIP Adrian
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01-21-2011, 04:22 AM
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Originally Posted by Yvon For me, one of the biggest lost we had on talkbass was ChrisA
I kept all the pm we traded together in my in box. | to the best of my knowledge chrisA was, along with blackbird, the first mods at talkbass. back in the day when nobody -wanted- to be a mod heh.
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01-21-2011, 04:31 AM
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Originally Posted by XavierG Rickbass
I have fond memories of Rick, one of the "originals" here on Talkbass. He was friendly and helpful to anyone he could help. | Looked at your links. Wow, it was 2004 when we lost Rick?!?! Seems like yesterday...
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01-21-2011, 06:32 PM
|  | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: New York | | | Hard to believe Rick has been gone as long as he has. I was looking through some old threads recently and came across some of his posts. Good guy and sadly missed by those who had the chance to know him here at TB.
The same can be said for Chris A and Adrian. |
01-21-2011, 06:37 PM
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01-21-2011, 06:56 PM
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Originally Posted by Joshua RIP pkr2. |
pkr2??? When did he pass? I thought he merely dropped out of TB... something to do with his son (or his sons passing?) |
01-21-2011, 07:08 PM
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Originally Posted by Joshua RIP pkr2. | I know we haven't heard from him in a long time, but has he for sure passed away?
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01-21-2011, 07:09 PM
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Originally Posted by embellisher I know we haven't heard from him in a long time, but has he for sure passed away? | unfortunatly, yes
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01-21-2011, 07:11 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | | Just did a search and found the thread by pkr2swife dated December 2007. I must have been "away" from TB at the time. This is sad news to me as I had many good chats with Frog. I gave him a hard time when I found out that was his name. He and I had a good chuckle over that one on PM. Sad. |
01-21-2011, 07:27 PM
| | Registered User | | Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: British Columbia, Canada | | | I thought it appropriate to copy and paste the following, which was posted by Frog's sister here on the forums shortly after his passing. For those of you who "knew" him, but like I, did not know that he had passed.
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"This is PKR2's sister and I apologise for posting under Frog's user name, but I haven't quite figured out how to create one of my own and there's really no need to since I'm not a picker and I'm just here to thank all for your condolences.
Frog went very quickly, much too quickly. He was hospitilized in a small hospital near his home shortly after Thanksgiving. It was there that he was diagnosed with lung cancer. He wanted to come home for treatment, home being Greensboro, N.C. Our older brother and I had him transfered to a hospital here and he was fortunate enough to have the best Oncology specialist available but it was too late. After tests we were told that his cancer had spread and there was nothing that could be done except comfort care.
I asked Frog to come to my house and he was very happy to do that. He was discharged from the hospital on Dec. 9th. I called in Hospice before he was discharged so we had everything set up for him when I got him home. He had a pretty rough time of it for the next few days but never did I hear him complain. On Friday the 14th, he was very agitated and I had the idea of putting on a CD of some bluegrass gospel music. It seemed to calm him down immediately. I spent the afternoon sitting in bed with him, listening to some of the old favorites that we had grown up with and singing along. Even in his confusion due to the pain meds he would still try to sing along. Once I happened to look down at his hands and he was playing 'air' bass. Suddenly in the late afternoon he seemed to rally around. We sang, we talked and he made me laugh really hard at some of his comments. We shared some very special moments together that I wouldn't have missed for anything in the world.
At around 8:00 that night he began to slip away. His Hospice nurse and one of his best friends, Shawn, was here and we gathered around his bed. When I saw that the end was near I leaned over to him and kissed him goodbye and told him that it was time to go. It was then that I started singing Wayfaring Stranger. Now, I'm not a singer. I can carry a tune when I need to but I should never quit my day job. But, something happened that night. Suddenly I couldn't hit a wrong note. I sang my heart out for my brother. I've never sang like that before and I will probably never sing like that again. I sang my brother home.
Frog did one last thing that will make anyone who knew him proud to call him a friend. He donated his body to Duke Medical School. What a gift he has given to people that he never knew.
Frog was a unique individual. Anyone who ever met him never forgot him. He marched to own drummer and lived his life the way he wanted. He was a simple man who never wanted or needed a lot of material things. He loved fishing, he loved the ocean and the rivers but most of all he loved his music. He was one of the most talented bass players I've every heard. He was self taught but he was a genius on the bass. He was a brilliant man who could do most anything he set his mind to doing. He loved a challange and met it head on. He could have been a very rich man had he so chosen. God knows he had the ability, but he chose a simple life. He had what he needed and he was happy with that. Fine houses, cars and clothes meant nothing to him. In retrospect, he was indeed a very rich man.
He told me during his last days that he wasn't afraid of dying, that he had done most everything he had wanted to do. He just didn't want to suffer. I made him a promise then that I would see to it that he didn't. Thanks to Hospice I can truthfully say that he didn't. He died with true dignity and my heart is bruised from his loss. Frog and I had spent many years apart with no contact. We reconnected last year and we picked up exactly where we left off. I'm so grateful for that last year, the many emails and the visits and I'm mostly grateful for the honor and privilege of helping him with his transition home.
I've read all your posts and I want to thank you for all of the kind words about my brother. I just wish each and every one of you could have met him in person and experience what a wonderfully special person he was. I know he would have been proud to sit and pick with any one of you.
Thank you,
Sarah ( Frog's little sis)" | | Thread Tools | Search this Thread | | | | 
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