You know, sometimes things just smack you right in the kisser. Tex is dead? It can't be. I first ran into him at the Fool's Mate in Westport Conn. around 1964 (Don't hand me that "CT" crap!). I thought, "Here comes the biggest and most subversive Hassidic diamond merchant in history". He was as Ric F. described, only more so. If you never met Tex, you need to get out a vid of one of his movie appearances. As it turned out, he had an ancient battered brief case with the words to every single song ever written. Really. Do you know he played for Lisa Null's coming-out party back when she was a debutant! Really. The last time I saw Tex was at NEFFA in Boston three years ago; he was mesmerizing a whole new generation of potential subversives. It was magnificent. Tex is one of the main reasons I still play this music after nearly forty years. Miss him? Jeesiz, that's not even the right word for it. I don't know what the word is. May be this is all a hoax and Koenig will show up somewhere, looking like a gigantic subversive Hassidic diamond merchant carrying a battered brief case with every song in the world in it. Pete Kraemer