An eternity

[Roger W. Norman]

Geez, I'm just sitting here listening to a latin/cuban band I recorded using
Ricky Lopez, a very noted local percussionist who'd played with the likes of
Ernesto "Tito" Puentes and has just recently passed away. Got me to
thinking about the real definition to "eternity", which by my formula, has
to be all the musicians who have died getting their opportunity to do their
solo on a single song. If that doesn't guarantee that eternity is a long
time, then how about the inevitable "hey, let's play it again, I ****ed up"!

Sorry, beats political posts. <g>

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Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

301-585-4681

[Scott Dorsey]

In article >,
Roger W. Norman > wrote:
>Geez, I'm just sitting here listening to a latin/cuban band I recorded using
>Ricky Lopez, a very noted local percussionist who'd played with the likes of
>Ernesto "Tito" Puentes and has just recently passed away.

What happened?
That is terrible news... he was the main reason I came back to work the
jazz festival this year.
--scott
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"C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."

[Roger W. Norman]

Oh, I didn't mention it? A few weeks ago he went back to Guatemala to see
his family and just keeled over dead. Heart attack and he was 8 years my
junior. This was about a week after my picked dulcimer friend, Steve
Bellars, died at a Bluegrass festival up in West VA. Sad news on both of
them. I went through my archive and listened for two days to recordings
with Ricky on them. My own little personal tribute. And I typed Lopez, but
I meant Loza. Still, you've recorded him a number of times. Sorry Ricky.
Stupidity is striking me more than usual this week as I'm fighting some type
of eye allergy that's killing me.

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Roger W. Norman
SirMusic Studio

301-585-4681




"Scott Dorsey" > wrote in message
...
> In article >,
> Roger W. Norman > wrote:
> >Geez, I'm just sitting here listening to a latin/cuban band I recorded
using
> >Ricky Lopez, a very noted local percussionist who'd played with the likes
of
> >Ernesto "Tito" Puentes and has just recently passed away.
>
> What happened?
> That is terrible news... he was the main reason I came back to work the
> jazz festival this year.
> --scott
> --
> "C'est un Nagra. C'est suisse, et tres, tres precis."