Along with hearing the sad news regarding our friend and brother, Andrea, this evening I got the VERY sad news that a member of the band I was in in NYC for 26 years passed away today .... Fred was about 12 - 13 years older than the rest of us and along with being the "Voice of the KEYNOTES" all those years, he also served as our 'big brother' or "uncle Fred", giving us advice on life, and what is really important and what wasn't ...
I definitely feel that a part of me is gone ... We will miss him dearly ...

The news about Andrea and Fred, if nothing else, serves to bring us back to reality, and show us that, as much as we will argue about our kbs etc, it is all just STUFF, that means something only for the second we discuss it, and sometimes, not even that much ........

t.