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Thread #10843   Message #78798
Posted By: Art Thieme
15-May-99 - 11:38 PM
Thread Name: Obit: Shel Silverstein (1930-1999)
Subject: RE: Shel Silverstein
"Living Legend" was written by Shel for Bob. Any who know Bob's "story" will know that instantly. Bob's fame was mainly in the early & mid sixties. Then bad drug years & many of lesser "fame" that Bob struggled through. He used the drugs but he became a user of people too. Made many friends and some enemies---something like us all I suspect. Later, when he was so ill, we put the crap on the back burner and sought to recall only what a fine folksinger he was in those early years and in many instances later too. Those of us who were there in the earlier times were always exhilerated to see the flaring up of the flame once in a while.

Art