[Fmpro] My Dad

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Pete, I'm so very sorry to learn of your loss. I'm sure I am telling you 
nothing you don't already know when I share from experience that you will 
miss him the rest of your life. My Dad was a happy-go-lucky man of simple 
pleasures. When I was too young to remember or even before I was born he was 
building his own stereo record players from the table up. Before this he 
built large-scale mono record players that my grandfather would play on 
Summer Hill farm land, and the cows would all come in to moo at the giant 
speakers (I now live on Summer Hill and the farms are gone, just homes). He 
was a very tall strong man. One day, while my mother was still dating him, 
she was waiting on a street corner for him near the hospital where she then 
worked. Two sailors in uniform approached my mom and rudely tried to pick 
her up. She warned them that my dad was coming but they just laughed. My dad 
did arrive and summarily kicked the shit out of the two sailors. My mom 
still likes telling that story. For a year while still attending grad school 
I worked as a bouncer at a local bar, but I never had any trouble from men 
in uniform. - JohnB

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Pete" <musical411 at yahoo.com>
To: <fmpro at nxport.com>
Sent: Sunday, April 06, 2008 3:30 AM
Subject: [Fmpro] My Dad


> --- LesHurdle wrote:
>>And where have you been... you bad boy.
>
> I've been away because, my Dad (Wallace Dlugokencky)
> was recently diagnosed with cancer and passed away
> three weeks ago.
>
> He founded a New-Orleans-Jazz style marching band in
> 1962 called the Comanche Raiders. Coincidentally, I
> was also born in 1962. The band is still going strong
> after he, and his two buddies that he founded the band
> with, have passed. It's a testament to the strength of
> good people making good music.
>
> I'll miss him. And, I'll always try (as he did) to
> spread small doses of happiness through music.
>
> Pete Surdoval
>
>
> 
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