Very sorry for your loss. I didn't know him obviously, but from the photo you posted, he looks like the kind of guy that I would enjoy being around.
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Goodbye My Friend
- Thread starter ELG60
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He was definitely one-of-a-kind, and in a good way.
At our ages (I'm 66), we have lost and will lose many dear and close friends, many of whom inspired us to higher and higher levels of musicianship and other disciplines. Please accept my most earnest condolences and continue to do your friend and brother, Lyle Lloyd Lingle proud as you did in your most eloquent OP.
That sucks, I'm sorry. Looks like he played one Jazz bass for all those years. Nice. It also looks like he had a cool musical life. Thank you for sharing. I'll raise a beer to your friend this weekend.
Thank you. I will try, but I'm not a quarter the bass player he was, although I have fun in my mediocrity. I'm 62, so it's expected to some degree, but this one stings.
And thanks also for your very kind words. I think his best friend, Marshall (they were next-door neighbors and friends from childhood) will post a link of our thread to the High School Facebook page.
I thought: what better place to remember him than among his bass playing sisters and brothers. And I don't belong to the Book of Faces.
Thank you. Yes, I expect that his family still has it now. It was about a 75-76 if I recall correctly. He certainly had a full lifetime of musical memories and South Florida fun. I'm sure he'd be pleased with your toast, as well as all the fine words y'all have shared with me and each other today.
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My condolences on the passing of your good friend. Your memorial for him would have been appreciated I am sure.
@ELG60 - Lyle sounds like a guy I would have very much liked to have known, hung out with, and called a friend. My condolences to his family and everyone who knew him. Thank you for sharing your memories here with us.
Sorry for your loss. You were a great friend to your great friend. 
Sorry for your loss... Lyle is playing now the great gig in the sky.. RIP Lyle.. Deep thought for his familly and friends..
My condolences to you and Lyle, may he Rock in Peace!..keep him in your thoughts and heart and he will of never left.
My condolences for your loss.
I've buried my parents, grandparents, and I'm a widow from a previous marriage. Too many funerals.
I can only tell you two things they taught me:
IF it was up to me, they'd still be here. But . . . it wasn't up to me.
And that I can only trust these things are working to a plan I'll never know, and I have to have the faith that is the truth. I shall see them again one day.
I've buried my parents, grandparents, and I'm a widow from a previous marriage. Too many funerals.
I can only tell you two things they taught me:
IF it was up to me, they'd still be here. But . . . it wasn't up to me.
And that I can only trust these things are working to a plan I'll never know, and I have to have the faith that is the truth. I shall see them again one day.
sincere condolences on your loss and best wishes out to Lyle's family. It's hard to lose anyone meaningful in your life and as much as I hate to say it, at our advancing age, it's just going to happen more and more until someone is the last man standing.
