{"id":13306,"date":"2023-01-20T03:20:28","date_gmt":"2023-01-20T10:20:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=13306"},"modified":"2023-06-19T14:35:41","modified_gmt":"2023-06-19T21:35:41","slug":"in-memoriam-folks-we-lost-in-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.louielouie.net\/blog\/?p=13306","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam \u2013 folks we lost in 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"

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As the dust has settled from 2022, we pause to commemorate some friends and kindred spirits that left us last year.<\/p>\n

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My friend Paul Kauppila<\/strong> was a major music nerd in the best possible way. He was deeply passionate about garage rock, punk rock, psychedelic rock, reggae, ska, disco and absolutely loved libraries. He received a Master of Library Science, from the University of Texas in Austin, where he was a DJ for a few years. He was later employed to work in San Jose (California) at the Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Library, a joint public library of the city of San Jose and San Jose State university library facility. He became an \u201cEmeritus Associate Librarian\u201d and wrote a lot of great articles including \u201cThe Sound of the Suburbs: A Case Study of Three Garage Bands in San Jose, California during the 1960s<\/a>\u201d \u2013 a dissertation that acknowledged the importance of The Chocolate Watchband, the Count Five, and the Syndicate of Sound. <\/p>\n

I would see Paul at almost all of the cool shows in San Jose. He was a true believer. I remember when he told about the time he flew out to New York to witness the very first performance of the reunited Sonics at the 2017 Cavestomp. He somehow wound up staying at the same YMCA hostel where my record collector friend Neal Skok, one of the two promoter\/ investors of this particular event, happened to be staying. As Paul told me, they did a lot of yacking that weekend. <\/p>\n

With his passing, Paul leaves behind memories, and a lot of great music articles<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Greg Easter<\/strong>, another friend that left the land of the living in 2022, was someone that I met at KFJC 89.7 – the community radio station of Los Altos Hills where the infamous Maximum: LOUIE LOUIE marathon would take place years later. My friend Buddy Awreetus was hosting a weekly Open Mike show for local bands, which I would sometimes photograph, and I happened to be there for the radio premiere of Greg\u2019s band, which was known as Northorizonine. We hit it off quite well, as it was the starting point for a friendship that lasted for multiple decades. When I first met him he was a software engineer, and within a few years he became a game developer for Atari, where he developed the unfinished Residents -Mark of the Mole Atari game in 1983. Later on, Greg would move to Los Angeles where he formed a new band known as Vivian Oblivion with his then-current wife Janu as the lead singer. He also shifted his career towards photography, and CD-ROM development, which led to yours truly moving to Los Angeles for a year to take advantage of the new opportunities.<\/p>\n

Greg went through a lot of big changes after that chapter of life. Ultimately, he wound up in Russia with a new wife and became a father with two children that brought him a lot of joy. He shifted his focus towards culinary arts and became a superb chef. Ultimately these skills allowed Greg to embark upon a new career, writing books, and creating a popular YouTube channel (CookinginFinland<\/a>) that was embraced by 36,0000 subscribers. This in turn, led to a business venture where he was hired to create a prestigious new restaurant in Helsinki, Finland that would be known as Laava<\/a>. Sadly, a lot of unforeseen factors including the 2020 Covid pandemic forced the bankruptcy of this restaurant. With the failure of this enterprise, Greg\u2019s life unraveled as his health also took a major turn for the worse after a freak injury. His last project was a book entitled \u201cMichelin Star Restaurant Plating Demystified<\/a>,\u201d a detailed guide to tricks of the restaurant trade. <\/p>\n

I will never forget my old friend, and my heart goes out to Max and Lola.<\/p>\n

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\nMichael Gosney<\/strong> was an incredibly well-connected human in the San Francisco community. He has been characterized in print as the great matchmaker that introduced the Silicon Valley tech pioneers to such folks as Ken Kesey, Ram Dass, Timothy Leary, Wavy Gravy, Todd Rundgren as well as the famous Browns of California \u2014 Jerry and Willie. Michael was a writer, philosopher and publisher that launched Verbum in 1986, a magazine of computer art, which is credited as one of the very first magazines to be assembled completely with desktop publishing tools. Michael was a great ally for the LOUIE production team, as we often provided video documentation for his various events. He was also our conduit for the vivid and unforgettable experience of Burning Man 2007.<\/p>\n

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2022 was also the year we lost two members of the Tubes with the passing of Re Styles<\/strong> and Rick Anderson<\/strong>. I didn\u2019t know them personally, but I loved their music.<\/p>\n

Rick was a founding member of the band and played bass. Re was an actress that appeared in Alejandro Jodorowsky ‘s The Holy Mountain and Sun Ra ‘s Space Is the Place, that would join the Tubes as a singer, playing an integral part of coordinating clothing design and choreography. <\/p>\n

From 1972 until 1985, the Tubes were, in my humble opinion, the most entertaining music group in the Bay Area, fusing wild theatrics with ambitious musical arrangements. Their performances were legendary. <\/p>\n

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Nate Lindsey<\/strong> (or Nathan as many of us would know him) was probably too modest to acknowledge it, but he was something of a local legend in the San Jose music scene. When I first met him in 1981, he was drumming with The Suspects. Over the years, I\u2019d see him play with Half Church, Fun House, and Wonders of Science, which actually performed live at the KFJC Maximum LOUIE LOUIE marathon of 1983. He also played with such bands as Resistant Me, Nightmare, Lovesic, Rocksteady and was the lead singer of Daisy Chamber<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Everyone I\u2019ve talked to that knew Nathan seemed to share the common opinion \u2013 a really nice guy.<\/p>\n

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Frank Andrick<\/strong> was a poet and storyteller with a beautiful soul. He was the lyricist for Timbercreek \u2013 a 1970s country-rock band from the hills of Santa Cruz, and became a professional disc jockey for radio stations KSJO in San Jose and KQAK in San Francisco. He also worked promotions for A&M Records\/ I remember attending a KFJC weekly meeting where Frank announced that KFJC would be receiving a special award (maybe a gold record) for promoting the band Big Country, helping sell a lot of records.<\/p>\n

In the last years of Frank\u2019s life, he lived in Sacramento and wrote some great poetry. I\u2019ve been told he played a major role in the The Chateau Liberte’ documentary<\/a> that I really need to see.<\/p>\n