'They don't belong': police called on Native American teens on college tour

[marble falls]

81. Its not depressing, its life. Ralph Carney who played horns with B-52's, Tin Huey, the Waitresses ..

passed too early this last January by soberly falling down his front steps - one of the nicest people one could ever meet. Mark Price from Tin Huey to cancer - one of the nicest people you'd ever hope to meet, several players from Devo - the same.

Three died as a result of Viet Nam. Including one that got sent because the guy in the next bunk was sent to the hospital and they all moved one bunk down and he went from the safe side of the line to the bad side of it the next day, literally got on a plane and after a stop in Hawaii went to Viet Nam. Had my first beer cruising in his blue Corvair Monza.

Some of it was pure gobsmacked why him and not someone more ... suitable. Sad passings but life happens. Out of eight kids all my brothers and sisters are still alive and healthy. Non of us have anything but good kids and wonderful grandchildren. My parents lived long and well and my step parents are doing well.

Howdy Campbell asked me why I wouldn't smoke or swear, I told him I was going to be a minister. Howdy told me. "we don't need no preacher, we need a lawyer!", when we were 13 or 14 and working on a truck farm in Akron, Ohio in '63 or '64.

I always thought Howdy had moxy and made it.

Terry Eastwood and I got into a dust off in wood shop, he bumped me when he was too close to the lockers and I knocked him back off-balance into the lockers and wailed into him. The shop teacher said he had to stop it to protect me, I told him I was doing pretty well on my own. He dropped out with in a year and about twenty years later I read about him in papers. He had robbed a couple of drugstores on Market St and ended up at a bad motel. The police figured out where he was staying and knocked on the door. Terry stayed quiet and the cop walked away, Terry figuring the cop was calling in SWAT, shot himself.

Terry was always kind of sad story for me, but also a cautionary tale, too.


All in all, life may have been hell on folks all around me, my life has been eventful but pretty darn good.