Eulogy for Pete

September 8, 2019

Hey, Pete. I wanted to say something at your life celebration yesterday, but that didn’t happen.
We came together to remember and celebrate the life of our brother and friend, Pete. I’d like to share a little about what you meant to me. You were a great brother to me growing up. We played classical violin and piano together as kids. Two years apart in age and one year apart in school, we shared friends and fun times. You were my closest sibling and first jammin’ buddy. As a teen I learned how to jam when your friend Charles taught me chords. We played in a rock band in high school, a band with no name that went nowhere but was great experience. After I met Tom, we all, with Charles and others, played as The Mild West Show and The Earthlings at Turk’s Head Festival and elsewhere. Sometimes Cricket joined in on drums. Playing with you was an inspiration. Over the years our holiday family jams with Richard made for great memories.

Creator Spirit of the Universe, we thank You for giving us Pete. We are grateful for his humor, his kindness, and especially his sharing the magic of music with so many. We ask that you surround Pete, and all of us, with your loving Spirit, that you hold him in your peaceful Realm with loved ones gone on before, and that you fill us with your Love that we may continue in this plane to live up to Pete’s legacy and spread the magic of music and love to all we meet.
Pete, you are loved by so many, and you will never be forgotten. The shell of your physical existence may be gone, but your Soul lives on in the place that knows no pain nor tears. Keep on jammin’, bro… you made it to the Great Gig in the Sky.