Thanks for sharing. I'm just stunned by this.

Thank you Alan. I just finished reading your piece and feel comforted. There were a lot of smiles in your words. What a great way to remember a friendly soul.

Very nice piece. Thank you, Alan.

Awesome Alan. Thanks for that.

Well done, AP, you're a mensch!

Nailed it!

Very nice piece Alan. But it's my hope that you don't have to write another one for years to come.

This entire experience is just surreal. It's sad, yet amazing at the same time. I feel for the musicians.

I know this is selfish, but I was really looking forward to meeting him this summer at Roots Rock. The Colonel and Jack Pearson are/were the two reasons I really want to go this summer.

God bless Bruce and his extended family.

Thank you Alan. Your writing helps ease the pain. Although I never got a chance to see Bruce, I feel he was a kindred spirit and that he could have easily been a comedian or a Zen master. (He WAS a comedian and a Zen master!)
RIP Bruce Hampton.

Thanks all.

Honestly, writing these things does help me work through my won emotions. I function best when working or playing music (kinda work).

I ad some very real conflicts and good reasons I wasn't in Atlanta Monday but it was really nagging me Monday and moreso now of course. I spoke to Warren, Jeff Sipe, JBell and Chuck in the last 12 hours for another, reported-out piece. Stay tuned for that.

Alan - I'm going to risk being insensitive and out of touch here but this has been occupying my thoughts about this whole phenomenon the last 2 days.

Have any of the musicians onstage, in retrospect, been beating themselves up over the fact that they continued to play on for 3-4 minutes while Bruce laid there? As if maybe something could've been done if someone acted sooner?

I'm in NO WAY suggesting their responsibility at all... From everything I've learned about the Col. this event seems like part of some grander cosmic plan, but I also am conscious of human nature, too.

Right or wrong, we can be pretty repentant, guilt-ridden creatures.

Thanks and please excuse any boundary crossing here.

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Not publicly. It's a very difficult situation. Read other article I wrote and am bout to post in another thread.