Tony, I lost my long time music partner, Tommy Johnston a few years ago. He was 40 and I was around 20 when we joined up. He was my teacher. We worked as a duo in the winter and a trio in the summer, at a chain of Holiday Inns all the time I was in graduate school.

He played B-3 and I played guitar, banjo, mandolin, etc and sang.
As he got older and arthritis set in, I played more bass guitar; then Whirlitzer piano with a Fender finger-bass.

There's nothing like the bond between musicians on the same page.

So sorry for your loss.


Russ

P.S, I still have my Danelectro Sytar/guitar like the one in the photo. You may remember, I posted a photo of Tommy and I from the 70's last year, complete with puffy sleeved shirts, a hippy painted Mosrite double neck guitar and a melodica.

Tommy was a police judge in the daytime. He made the national news when he raided a cock fight. It took a bus to haul in all the people he arrested. The photo of his father getting on the buss was picked up by UPI and circulated all over the country.

I still miss the old SOB.