Come Back To The Five & Dime, Mike and Tom

Sad news this week. A high school friend and one-time crush of mine died from the Big C. He was the sophomore class favorite and an all round nice guy. Mike played in a band, The Brick Window, through junior and senior high school. Seems like yesterday they were on a high school stage with youthful hopes and aspirations of hitting the big time. I've seen a couple of guys from the band through recent years, Augie and David. But, Mike didn't make it to any of our class reunions and I only heard of his death through emails from some of my classmates. For a while, Mike played with Marshall Chapman and you can see a photo of him on her site taken at The Bottom Line in the late 70's.

Another band member and school chum, Tom, went onto Nashville and still plays the circuit with a fancier last name, Comet. Tom Comet. No wonderdog, Manfred, though. A couple of photos( scroll down the page a little) of Tom found via the web force me to acknowledge the years. He's the dude in the gold lame suit coat. Plays a mean bass guitar. Here's another snap. He is wearing the brown Mad Hatter kind of chapeau in the photos. And you can hear Tom pretty well on some sound clips from the new Webb Wilder's album, "About Time".

They still seem like boys to me.

Vaya Con Dios, Mike. Hope you are playing your guitar and having a rockin' time wherever you are.