RTP-area local music and culture

[domcasualties AT yahoo.com (Jamie McLendon)]

Thanks for posting the announcement. I heard about it from a friend
about an hour after he passed. I played "Haunted" in tribute and went
to bed. It's still an incredible album. Please post any information
about services.

Thanks,
Jamie



grady AT ibiblio.org wrote in message news:<40210FA9.5030903 AT ibiblio.org>...
> Randy Ward was a member of some of the finest bands this area has known 
> -- Metal Flake Mother, Family Dollar Pharaohs, and lately his amazing 
> one-man Protean Spook music/art project -- so while I'm always concerned 
> about whether and how to convey sensitive information via something so 
> impersonal as UseNet, I think it's important to use the tools available.
> 
> Randy died last night, of cancer, after only being diagnosed a few 
> months ago. The rest of this email is excerpted from a note I got from 
> Kerry Cantwell, because she's much better at this than I am:
> 
> 
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm sending this to all of you who I thought might have known Randy Ward 
> (or had some dealings with him somewhere along the line) in fear that 
> the message might not have reached you any other way.  Randy was a 
> member of Metal Flake Mother and Family Dollar Pharoahs back in the day 
> and recently was the brains behind the infinitely brilliant one-man 
> Protean Spook project.
> 
> Well, last night, shortly after 8 o'clock, Randy passed away after a 
> brief but intense battle with cancer.  He was diagnosed around late 
> November/early December with a rare and fierce form of the disease.  He 
> was doing moderately well until just this past Monday morning.  He spent 
> a night in the hospital and was sent home to hospice yesterday 
> afternoon.  He passed quietly at his home with his family and his 
> amazing girlfriend Amanda.
> 
> I had the painful pleasure of seeing Randy Monday night because he had 
> asked that all of his friends be contacted to visit him in the hospital. 
>   (My husband had become friends with Randy in the last year or so.) 
> There must have been 100 people flowing in and out of that room 
> throughout the day. Amanda says it really made Randy happy.
> 
> No funeral or service plans have been arranged as of yet, but I will 
> gladly pass on the info when it becomes available.
> 
> Kerry
> 
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