He’s gone 5 years this week. I still miss him. I remember a friend telling me that The Smithereens were the loudest band he’d ever heard. And this friend had seen The Who multiple times…a band once measured at 126 decibels, roughly the volume of a Jet engine at full throttle.
That’s loud.
Anyway, this is what I wrote when I got the news. There was already a sense of foreboding in the air that year. This just kicked that feeling into overdrive….where it essentially remains.