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We'll always remember the good

From: Doug
Email: oliasdoug54@yahoo.com
Remote Name: 67.26.34.211
Date: 05-Oct-2002
Time: 06:34 PM

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Just got a few letters from some kind folks, including Marie, who complimented me on the review I wrote of Mickey's brilliant FRISCO MABEL JOY album; my thanks to each of you for taking the time to write. I am probably going to cause a collective gasp of disbelief in confessing this in front of all of you, but so far that's the only album of Mick's that I've heard. (Please don't crucify me.) I think it was Marie who said it sometimes is only when someone passes that we truly begin to appreciate them...needless to say, I will be investing in everything Mickey's ever recorded over the next several months. It wasn't that I didn't appreciate him--read my Amazon.com review and hopefully that will convince you of how much his music on that album meant to me. There were just so many artists that I was and still am into these days that he just got lost in the shuffle. But I never lost my copy of FMJ, in all my moving around through the '70's and '80's before settling here in Kansas City in 1988. And I surely would have loved to have seen Mickey at the Uptown Theatre or Midland Theatre or Starlight Theatre here...KC gets lots of different genres of concerts here (not enough New Age, though!), and Mickey's presence, I'm sure, would have been very welcomed here. I didn't have an opportunity to get turned onto Nick Drake's music until 15 years after he died, and I now appreciate the genius that he was...and now, with Mickey's passing, I will have the opportunity to do likewise. It's difficult to lose someone you've felt close to musically for the greater part of your life, and it will take awhile for this to sink in. My condolences go out to Mickey's family and close friends and fellow musicians...as someone who gave a great deal of airplay to FMJ when I was a disc jockey at KOVF-FM at Kearney State College in Nebraska in the 70's, I feel safe in saying that because of the incalculable gifts of this wonderful HUMAN being, we will all, indeed, remember the good. Peace & Love to all...Doug

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