He had a great enthusiasm for music - really, for everything he did. He was a ball of fire. |
I think early on he knew the prognosis wasn't good. He was basically incapacitated. He couldn't play music, he couldn't paint and after awhile, he couldn't read. |
Onstage, he would lean way over into the microphone. He seemed to defy gravity and you'd swear he was going to fall over, but he never did. |
The first thing he noticed was that he couldn't do cross-picking any more. |