Yes, I'm the Rick Turner who played with Ian and Sylvia in 1965 (along with my murdered friend, Felix Pappalardi...another story...), toured all over the US and Canada and recorded a couple of albums with them..."Play One More" and "Live at Newport". And yes, I'm the guy who co-founded Alembic, who has built PA systems, guitars, ukes, and basses for a lot of folks, and continues to do so to this day. Some of you probably know a lot of my client list, and so I put my name here understanding the risks...but I also wouldn't think of posting anonymously here or anywhere else. I think it's cowardly and a cop-out. It also greatly diminishes the validity of a post whether it be about a "fact" or be merely opinion.   

And yes, I'm a part of the Santa Cruz music scene, both acoustic and electric. And yes, I knew Bob as a pretty decent (word used advisedly...) acquaintance and as someone who took one of his uke workshops and had dinner at his house with him and Haley. And yes, I'm at least as shocked as many here and would like to know more about what happened. And yes, I've talked to close friends here who are one degree closer to this whole debacle than I am myself, and they confirm that the allegations are most likely true and accurate...and I only say "most likely" out of restraint. I would like all of this to be a big mistake, but there are a lot of things I'd like that just aren't going to happen. And if Bob were alive to this day, it would be "he said, she said"...don't forget that OJ managed to get away with it on the one hand, yet Jimmy Saville seems to have been soundly convicted in the court of public opinion. What is the standard of proof when the defendant is dead?   

Does the pope want to believe that he's got a whole army of buggery addicted priests? No... But...he does...