My best friend died today. It’s hard to put into words what he meant to me. In high school we had a band together and we enjoyed the same music. We wrote songs together and decided which songs we would cover based on what we knew how to play, or wanted to learn to play.
Leo inspired me as a musician. I have a few songs that we recorded together, but nothing we wrote together. The memories of those will have to be enough until I can find them again.
Here is Smashing Pumpkins – Mayonnaise, one of the first songs we bonded over. He played the main guitar lick while I played the lead.
The only song I have of him singing is 10 Things I Hate About You. That’s him playing the guitar, including the solo and singing “on that fucking phone.” His brother played bass on it.
Danny inspired me to go back to college. If it wasn’t for him I wouldn’t be where I am now. I’m not sure where I’d be. The first year I went back to college we had dinner almost every Monday night after our respective classes got out.
Danny was an amazing cook. My grill will never be the same without him.
May you forever be at peace now.