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To put it in perspective, he also did a lot of my head shots and he also has a video tape of the dreaded Carson show where I bombed in front of millions of viewers. I have never seen it, and never will.
From Bob's wife, Lynn:
I was telling my sister about it (this book) last night and remembered the time you and Brian arrived in our apartment in NY on a Sunday morning when we were out of town and my parents and another couple were having breakfast having spent the night before--big surprise for all of you and then you entertained them for an hour and they were thrilled!
Paul West was part of our Seattle group too. I first got to know him when he was playing the piano bar with Lee Westwood on bass at the Hungry Turtle down on Lake Union. Paul was a fine jazz piano player and singer who could also belt out the Flanders and Swan masterpiece, "Have Some Madeira My Dear". When I was struggling between jobs, I would go see Paul and he'd have me do some comedy songs. I knew him as a piano player in a bar. Wrong again.
Paul went down to L.A. to do voice overs and then got hired by Microsoft in their marketing department. Next thing I knew he was a millionaire. But he still played piano gigs around town and his ultimate dream was to go play piano at a bistro in Paris.
Paul West died awhile ago and we lost one of the most up-beat and talented people I've ever known.
Mike Channing is a salmon fisherman who lives with his wife, Jenny, in Indianola, outside of Seattle. He's also a fine writer, poet, guitar player and one of my all-time closest friends. He and my brother are the two best e-mail writers I have ever known and we also did a lot of sailing together. Everything I've ever known about tossing fish I learned from him. He never became rich or famous but he is a life-long friend and someone I really respect. I wish he'd move to Chiangmai but the salmon fishing here is not that good.
Derek Schade was the golf pro at Highlands when I first started playing there and our friendship has lasted. He's a Canadian hockey player (all Canadian boys were hockey players apparently) who switched to golf and came to Thailand to work on his game before trying for the tour. His tour dreams didn't work out but he got hired by a golf management company and that evolved into his job at Chiangmai Highlands. He's a fine golfer and great guy and in the early years we wrote a book together about golf and life in Thailand. When we finished we had mixed feelings about publishing it. One, it would be a lot of work and two, we