My friend Chet Helms is in the hospital right now, fighting to stay alive. Chet’s a great guy, and I would like all my friends to join me right now in praying that he pulls through this one.
Chet Helms is a veteran in this crazy rock and roll universe. He’s managed the Family Dog, a booking agency that competed with Bill Graham in San Francisco in the turbulent 1960’s. He’s hitchhiked from Texas with his lady friend Janis Joplin. He’s a man with many great stories, and I hope he gets the chance to tell them in that big book he’s been threatening to write.
He’s also an excellent photographer with a wonderful website DigiFotos.com. If you dig around the website, you can even see a photo he shot of me shooting video with Bill Haley’s original Comets in San Francisco.
C’mon Chet…. don’t leave us now…. We need ya!
I’m pulling for Chet! Someone should interview him & write the book for him. I really hope his stories are not lost.