jamesg1213
Moshkito
Hi,
A bit strange, but I fit into the surrealist area when it comes to these things ... have a drink ... go party!
Celebrate ... the wonderful things that you learned from that person and anything else ... but sitting back and crying is not gonna help. Some folks will be missed, but then you and I don't sit here and say we miss Mozart, Beethoven or Bach ... so end of story!
Of course we don't, because they didn't exist in our lifetimes.
Just to pick a few at random, I miss Iain Banks, Terry Pratchett and Freddie Mercury. Likewise John Martyn, Stuart Adamson and Gary Moore. I miss Christopher Hitchens, even though I only became aware of him a short while before he died. It seems a shame that such people have gone too soon, and will have no further part to play in what's going on.
I'm not attached to people that much. Sure I miss Daevid Allen, one of the greatest and best people I ever met, both funny, literary, intelligent and a great artist, singer and writer ... but ... for me, he is more important as a person that taught me about myself, than anything else ... he showed me one of the ways to path ... and I can not ask for more than anyone/anything else.
To me, the inspiration is inside, and forever alive ... it will never die. Their body's will ... and as Daevid says ... in one song ... "you can kill my body, but you can't kill meeeeeeeeee .... " ... and I think that you have to relate to that ... for me, it's the soul of the person that matters, not anything else. Their work is the bonus gift to you and I.
NP: Garry Moore - Spirit (to the end of the album) from his first solo. AND, very loud. The best guitar solo ever.