Originally Posted By: AudioTrack
By half way through I was convinced that this video was made so that you could remember how you put it together in case something stopped working.


Well, I DID sketch it out in Paint and save a copy.

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And What?! No Lava Lamp?


Honestly there's a story about that. There was a guy named Cecil Ramirez who was a jazz dude in Sacramento. When Covid shut down touring, like many musicians he started streaming with a tip jar. He got a lot of Brian Culbertson's people so he had a pretty mice following.

And then...

One Sunday night he streamed at 7pm as usual.

From a hospital room.

He went in for some tests and it was determined that he had pancreatic cancer. I don't know what he opted to do about treatment, if he was in chemo or not. Brian started a Gofundme to help offset his medical expenses with a goal of $20,000. Donations started coming in. Well, Cecil didn't make it, and the donations continued to help his widow with the bills and the funeral and all of it. It ended up just over $35,000. Even my cheap azz donated, because he was truly just a great guy who was great to his fans.

One of the running gags on his stream was the lava lamp. Fans were going out and buying lava lamps and sending pics showing them off. I ended up with 3 of them, because I am a smart azz that way, and teased him that while he is immeasurably a better musician than I am, that I had more lava lamps. He was also a level 2 sommelier and I sent him a bottle of wine from a local vineyard, explaining that the wine from the Great Lakes is pretty good too, just like "you Napa Valley snobs!"

He came home from the hospital, and so weak he could barely speak, he continued his Sunday streams. I tuned into one and he looked like a skeleton. I had to click it off immediately. Gamer that he was he wanted to stream until the very end for his fans.

When I got word that he died, I turned off those lava lamps, and they will remain off in his memory.

Last edited by eddie1261; 01/22/22 02:44 PM.