My father died of alzheimers disease in June of 2007. Anyone who has been with someone who has alzheimers knows how difficult it is - it's just unimaginable watching some fade.

During the last six months of his life, I wasn't really able to write - or for that matter play music.

But, I did work on this one song from around January 2007 until he passed. This tune is really the only creative music I could work on at the time.

I think I posted this once after I finished it. I never listened to it again during the past ten years - I just couldn't listen to it.

The other day, I pulled it out and remastered it. It's a sad song - but it doesn't affect me the way it did ten years ago.

So, I thought I would post it again. The name of the song is Silent Memory.

I played the guitars on this, Earl Foote played the slide guitar and Mike Vlahskis played bass guitar.
 
Silent Memory.
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It's beautiful Mark. I'm sorry about your dad. I can't fathom what that must have been like.

Here's to you Mark. Sounds like it would have been a cathartic project for you back then. Watching our parents get older or sicker is gut wrenching. It's a lovely piece you've done here. 

Hey Markybro!
Long time no see. Hope you’ve been well. I like your tune here. It’s very sweet and haunting at the same time. I feel for you, bro. I lost my mom the same way eight months after you lost your dad. Watching her fade away and revert to infancy was excruciating. Beams to you my brother from another mother.

Beautiful tune. Sadness but beautiful.
I lost the same way my Mom few years ago.
I couldn't play nothing for a few months after my Mom passed.
And the first composition I done after that was melancholy. '' Sadness, longing and memories.''
But I still have Mom... in beautiful memories
And you have  Father ... in beautiful memories

Man, I can hear the grief.  It is deep.  Death is a unexplainable by me.
 
I like the guitar much. 
 
Kind of George Harrison like.
 
Bless you Man!

Leadfoot - thank you.
 
montezuma - yes - it was cathartic. It sounds like I felt at the time Thanks for taking a listen.
 
scottybro - sorry about your mom - we all have to go at some time - the slow death just doesn't seem fair.
 
Makke - sorry to hear that your mom passed the same way. I really is hard for your feelings not to come out through your music. Thanks for taking a listen.
 
Jesse - thank you so much.

Mark,

Beautiful song, sounds melancholic, not sad or depressing.   Some happy memories in there along with loss....  Lost my mom in 2014 after a 30 year battle with MS so know the feeling of watching a parent slowly fade. 
 
Regards

that's tough, mark......
 
i can relate, similar deal....
and it inspired me into a song as well..
 
this is cool,
it's got a hendrix vibe to it, 
reminds me of 'one rainy wish'
 
nice

My father died of Alzheimer's in 2002. I, too, composed a song. The lyrics came to me on the drive home after watching him die. I'd done the same when my mother died in 1992. I did it again when my wife died in 2014.
 
Music is therapy.