A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: Stewie
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 06:09 PM

Strangely enough, yesterday (20th here in Oz) I was talking to a record collector friend of mine who told me he had just got hold of some MP3s from the obscure recording session by Snoozer Quinn in hospital. The mention of that name immediately made me think of Rick Fielding. Quinn was one of Rick's guitar heroes. Rick's postings are solely missed.

--Stewie.

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: Big Mick
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 05:08 PM

One day I will have a Laskin guitar and somewhere on it will be a picture of Rick on it.

I miss him more than I can say here. This is one of the few times the ole Big Mick is without words. Peter had the right of it, as is usual. I am not sure I have enough time left.

Mick

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: Ebbie
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 04:13 PM

Sinsull, I'm glad, and not surprised.

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: wysiwyg
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 03:29 PM

One glass is not enough.

~S~

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: Justa Picker
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 02:34 PM

Bless Him.
Sorely sorely missed.

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: Amos
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 01:14 PM

I think "SInging Telegrams -- Chicken or Gorilla Costume" is just the sort of ad Rick would put under a thread of his!! :D Weird, huh?? :)

It's awful good to know he was here, no matter how sad his absence.


A

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 12:55 PM

There are very few people I have known in my life that I can just see walking into a room, or singing a song or making a joke...but Rick tops that list. About the very first set of pics in the Mudcat 'event' photos was Rick's concert in DC, where he sat around and picked with us afterwards, and discussed how to modify an autoharp with me. ...As usual, he went from being a stranger to someone you felt you'd known forever in just a couple of hours.

A day...a year...10 years...forever.....it won't make any difference to those who knew him--so very much Rick remains with us .

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: Dave Swan
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 11:48 AM

I was awake at about 0230 this morning and Rick crossed my mind.

Best wishes to Rick, whatever he's up to.

Best wishes to Heather and Peter and the rest left behind.

D

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: GUEST,Jeri
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 11:11 AM

This is the sort of anniversary I don't want to acknowledge.
It's also the sort of anniversary I find impossible NOT to acknowledge. In the past year, I repeatedly told myself I was 'getting back to normal' and repeatedly wasn't. This once-in-a-lifetime friend enters my life and is there for a little more than three years. SO not enough time, but the folks that knew him for 5 or 15 or 20 years probably don't feel like they had enough time with him either.

I want to believe the universe owes me something, and it doesn't.
Fate doesn't, society doesn't, and even people don't owe me, and this is hard to accept because it just ISN'T FAIR! The only person who I can demand fairness from is me, and I'm not too sure about me.

For time to heal, the dangerous edge of memory has to be dulled. Memories have to be allowed to be memories instead of reminders of what's gone and examples of how life should be.

Heather, Peter and those of you who'll be together today, I'm thinking about you and Rick too. Imagine Rick saying, "Hey - I know that waiter. His name's Apu. Go ahead and ask him for some more water." Imagine him inquiring as to where his East Indian drag clothing has gotten to...

The funny thing? Tinker pointed out the Google ad for singing telegrams a la gorllas and chickens.

Right now, for me, it reads:
Wound Care -- singing telegrams
It's just weird enough to me to seem significant, even if the meaning exists only in my head. I dunno. There's probably some logical explanation, but if I choose to find meaning in coincidence, it's my bidness.

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 10:31 AM

As I stumble for my morning coffee, my eyes fall on this thread. And as I try to decide how to put words around what I want to say, my eyes fall to the bottom of the page where it reads "singing telegrams nationwide with many costumes gorilla and chickens"

I remember, and I'm smiling once again. It's been a hell of a year.

Tinker

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: GUEST,Bat Goddess
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 10:24 AM

"Just like it was yesterday, I hear the churchbells toll
And time it takes forever and the hours slowly roll.
Though they tell me passing days surely heal an aching soul
My tears could fill the harbours of home."

Raising too many glasses to too many absent friends lately.

But Rick is still here in his music and in the volumes of good advice he left in the Mudcat archives.

Linn

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: KathWestra
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 09:34 AM

Miss you, dear friend. You gave so much, and our world is the better for it. Here's to you, and the times we all shared. Here's to all the things you were to so many...and still are in our hearts. Agreeing with Peter and Kendall that the hole you left still feels very large after a year. Thanks, Katkin, for starting this. xo

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: SINSULL
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 09:22 AM

I am having a hard time reconciling my beliefs about life after death and some recent events. Rick is with us in more than his music. And he is very peaceful.
SINS

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: gnu
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 09:10 AM

Odd. I was just looking at his pic's in the member's photos. Rest in Peace, Rick.

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: kendall
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 08:59 AM

This is going to take a LONG time.

Subject: RE: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: Peter T.
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 06:37 AM

If time heals all wounds, it is taking its own sweet time about it. yours, Peter T.

Subject: A year, already - Raise a glass to Rick
From: katlaughing
Date: 20 Mar 05 - 06:26 AM

It's hard to believe, imo, that a whole year has passed since Rick left to teach the angels how to sing or pick or something.:-)

Anyway, I'd just like to say, let's all raise a glass to him, take a quiet moment, sing a song, or pick a tune and send it out to him and to Heather on this day. She and I had a neat visit on the phone yesterday and it sounds as though she has a good day planned with good friends.

So, here's to you, Rick. We miss you and love you and hope you are having a good time and that you've had the chance to hang out with Quentin Crisp!*bg*

luvyakat