[geodeticman.5]

"Hickory Grove" - That was the name of Fogelberg's beautiful song on the album with "Wysteria", and the cover art of the charcoal-drawing-looking face of Dan... He was FAR to young to have died, a sad loss indeed. He had a pad around here in Colorado, for long enough outside of Boulder that he was a well-known fixture to see at the bar in the restaurant half-way up foothills road. climbing Steadily UP ! out of Boulder, and having dinner there, at the second of the two best restaurants in town, had a regular crowd there that was a living who's who list of the powerful, the rich, the intellectually-famous wild-haired professors from CU, the "lets do lunch - calll me and we'll say words" power-broker lunch is for wimps Gordon Gecko crowd, too....

"The Overlook' restaurant - gotta double-check that.... Merry and I could only afford to eat there once, or so my sanguine Scotsman's thrifty pocket said anyway.. and we DID have Dan pointed out to us - remarkably young looking.... at the bar....at a time that if I reconstruct it date-wise - he likely knew at that point, its so sad to think of knowing that..... he'll indeed be missed. Very talented. I think his "Run for The Roses" - which has a Stonewall/TJ157 vistory on it as I recall, was written at commission for the Kentucky-Derby "Triveka ?" B.O.D., I believe. One of Merry's favourite songs, as it was about a horse. Memories of Dan. The day I "turned my Monk-to-be" friend "ON" to Lightfoot - Don Quixote LP notably -that same day he "turned me on to" Dan's album with "Wysteria" and "Hickory Grove" as well, by coincidence. Such beautiful orchestration , too, with a real string section, as DQ and I, and several others have reminisced about music in the 70's, of Gord's et al, when one could get union musicians locals to play strings et al.

I also think Dan was classically-trained in music if memory serves, by no means pre-requisite, but as Dawn Minstrel said, and Gord, it helps.