Tributes to Friends Who Are No Longer with Us

Dee Dee Ramone
Joey Ramone
Joe Strummer (Clash and Mescaleros)
Tomata du Plenty (man-about-town, Screamers' iconic lead singer, painter, and greatest party host)
Claude "Kick Boy" Bessy (Slash scribe and Catholic Discipline singer/founder)
Top Jimmy (X and Top Jimmy and the Rhythm Pigs)
Lance Loud (of the Mumps)
Rick Van Santen (of Goldenvoice)

and so many more . . . the saddest part of reconnecting and researching is finding out so many people died. Wiped out by AIDS, cancer, over-doses, liver failure, living fast and wild with often impoverished lives, too much junk food, too cold, too many raw nerves exposed, in the pursuit of artful, challenging and fulfilling lives. OH, but the times we had!

I will work on these pages when I can. It's hard, especially because we lost Joe Strummer and Rick Van Santen around Xmess. As I start to upload images, I'll write about them.

We miss you all and fuck that "rest in peace" shit. Rock on, keep raging against the injustices of the world, none more than you all left before you could bathe in the honor and glory you all earned. And left the world poorer by your absence and the work you still wanted to create.

Thanks for the music, art, parties, friendships and inspiring, funny, poignant and wild memories.