One other thing...

I initially accepted the "official" report that Bob had killed himself because of guitar playing prowess-threatening physical issues. Bob had told me in January at the NAMM show that he was having problems and he was pretty upset about it all. In retrospect, I have had to wonder if he was setting up a plausible scenario to be played out at a later date.

None of us are going to know much else until a victim comes forward or BA or MC chooses to relate more here or over at Santa Cruz dot com, and I don't think any of us should hold our breath on that. This whole thing will either slowly open up or hit a dead end.

I hope/wish the allegations are/were not true, but Bob clearly had a hellhound on his trail. The hellhound won, but some innocents clearly lost as well as Bob himself. Our sympathies must be with the survivors who have all this emotion...the last upteen posts here, for instance...to deal with in addition to any damage that may have been inflicted upon them in the past. As I see it, the damage is continuing even after Bob's death, and that just isn't right.

Bob, by the way, was doing fine financially. He had two houses in the Santa Cruz Mountains, one hell of an instrument collection, some very nice vintage automobiles, and he kept a lot of funds abroad where he earned them. What was made in France stayed in France, etc., to a certain degree...that direct from the horse's mouth, so to speak.