From: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org (loud-fans-digest) To: loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Subject: loud-fans-digest V10 #151 Reply-To: loud-fans@smoe.org Sender: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-loud-fans-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk loud-fans-digest Tuesday, July 23 2013 Volume 10 : Number 151 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [loud-fans] Faye Hunter, =?windows-1252?Q?1954=962013?= [Tom Galczyns] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2013 00:12:31 -0500 From: Tom Galczynski Subject: Re: [loud-fans] Faye Hunter, =?windows-1252?Q?1954=962013?= Truly sad. Gonna go crank up some Big Plans For Everybody: http://blogs.riverfronttimes.com/rftmusic/2013/07/rip_faye_hunter_lets_active_ba.php Tom Galczynski tgalczynski@comcast.net - --------------------------------------- Hope and fear are both phantoms that arise from thinking of the self. When we dont see the self as self, what do we have to fear? -- Lao-Tzu On 7/22/2013 10:15 PM, Francis J.H. Park wrote: > For all the Let's Active fans out there. I listened to 'Cypress' more > or less nonstop in the last half of my senior year of high school. > Faye Hunter, you will be missed. > > http://www.indyweek.com/scan/archives/2013/07/22/faye-hunter-19542013 > > > Faye Hunter, 19542013 > > > Posted by Peter Holsapple > > @PeterHolsapple > on Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at > 2:25 PM > > Today, there is an entire community of musicians and friends in > Winston-Salem who are grieving and struggling to comprehend the loss > of one of our own, Faye Hunter. She died Saturday. > > > > That community extends internationally to all who had seen and heard > her as Let's Active's able bassist throughout the 1980s. Those of us > who grew up with Faye also knew her as a sweet, droll and artistic > friend who unintentionally served as something of a den mother and big > sister to many of the younger musicians in town, myself included. At > 13, I was still awestruck in the presence of talented players like > Mitch Easter and the late Sam Moss. But Faye was both approachable and > encouraging, and she always had time to talk to me. In so many ways, > it was Faye who helped broker my induction into the demimonde of > 'combo corner,' a place I knew I belonged. > > From the Winston-Salem high school days with Rittenhouse Square in the > early 70s through the H-Bombs at the other end of the decade in > Chapel Hill, I spent a lot of time with Faye. We watched /SNL/ when > Elvis Costello changed songs from "Less Than Zero" to the supercharged > "Radio, Radio." We played pick-up games of badminton in that tiny > circular green space off Franklin Street. > > Eventually, she bought a bass and began performing with Mitch in the > nascent Let's Active. In February 1985, The dB's, Let's Active and > Chris Stamey returned to Winston-Salem and shared the stage at > Reynolds Auditorium, which adjoined the high school we all attended > the decade before. The photo of the RJR alumni in front of the school > sign will always make me smile. > > As the years passed, we saw less of each other. I knew she had moved > back to Winston to take care of her elderly parents and wasn't really > playing music. Fortunately, through the modern miracle that is > Facebook, we kept up better. Faye would come to shows, and we visited > a little but never as much I would have preferred. > > I saw Faye at a recording session at the Fidelitorium in Kernersville > this past February. She sang on a friend's song and was hanging out. > We hugged, chatted, listened and took a few photos to commemorate the > day. I wish it hadn't been such a quick visit; it never occurred to me > that it would be the last time I would see her. Her home life had > become untenable, and I corresponded with her, trying to help her find > a job in Durham. I'm sure many of her friends did the same sort of > thing. But she felt responsible for her mother's care and was unable > to make that kind of move. > > It is hard to imagine a world without Faye Hunter. We all wish we > could have done more to help her, but we couldn't. We all wish we had > more time with her, but the lovely memories of the time we did have > will have to suffice in the midst of our overwhelming sadness. > > /Peter Holsapple is a member of the dB's./ ------------------------------ End of loud-fans-digest V10 #151 ********************************