Here's Crash's post:
"...I was driving down Sunset yesterday on my way back from Malibu, in bumper-to-bumper traffic along the Strip, heading East when just as the traffic on my side of the street started to surge forward this beater from the oncoming lane on the other side of the double line shot over onto my side, I slammed on the brakes just in time and only the bumper of my car got nicked…turns out, this truck behind that car had pushed that lady’s car from behind and the sheer force made her lose control of her vehicle and she careened wildly to the opposite side of the street, jumped the curb and crashed into a meter…
...if I were five feet further along, she would’ve plowed into the side of my car and I would not be here typing this post…I just heard this Violent Femmes cut on the radio and it reminded me of some of the little details of what happened yesterday…and while some of the lyrics don’t, the title speaks to what I was feeling as I saw that car flash across the road—“this could be it”...I said all of that to say: make sure you got your shite together because when it’s time to cash in your chips, there’s no time to “Add It Up."
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I remember that evening well... can't stop thinking about it now... after the crash, there were the cops to deal with, and when it was all over, I kinda lost it and wandered off in a daze, on Sunset Boulevard... Chris just wanted to get home fast, while I felt I needed to stop for another minute and hold each other or something... later I thought, maybe he wanted to be somewhere where he could write about it. Which turned out to be kinda fun... I ended up doing a photo-blog thing, too.
He'd been close before... bad bycicle accident a few years back...
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I'm glad you had more time together after that. Thanks for sharing your memories.
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Thanks for bringing that to our attention..Going back through a lot of the posts, besides the fact that they are brilliant, funny, and musically on point, I keep coming back to one thing..Crash told the Truth. It don't get much better.
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Its sad but all so true his words tell it all.
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So true. Thank you so much for sharing this.
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thanks for the comment. i don't know if i could actually give away all my music. that would be really hard. i just sort of pretend those ones that make me remember aren't there. thanks for the kind words. i hope you are right! :)
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You're welcome, Krael. I wish you could see all my old miserable journals. I'm happier now than I've ever been; you'll be there before too long. :>)
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The Original and Founder of the band "Step By Step"
Johnnie Gee (Milwaukee's Kids Soul"
Hello, The original Johnnie Gee here, Making sure America knows I'm still alive, still releasing music, own my label "sidetraxx Records", and more.
Johnnie Gee story is the stuff of which legends are made. It is a saga that began in America's heartland at age 9 in Milwaukee Wisconsin, where Johnnie Gee was born on September 29th, 1959 to Elgie and D.W Gee, into a family of seven brothers and sisters.
When Mama Gee, herself a blues lover, noticed her sons' growing interest in music and performing, she devoted herself to the careful development of their nascent talents. Through hard work and dedication, Johnnie, Dewitt, Jerome, and other friends became ,The Exclusive Step By Step. The group began performing professionally in and around Milwaukee and Chicago in 1969; later that year, the siblings took their polished song-and-dance act to Wisconsin's famous "Cuca Records", where James Kirchstein produced LP's and singles from 1959 until the early 1970s.
While the company's bread and butter came from its vast catalog of polka and ethnic LP's, Cuca also recorded pop, rock 'n' roll, rhythm & blues, folk, and traditional jazz, with an output of over 1000 45-rpm singles. Because most of the artists were from Wisconsin or adjacent states, the Cuca recordings present a concentrated view of the area's ethnic and popular music. Read more about Cuca records here.
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