For Tony
2013 and the last few years have proven to be difficult ones. I have reached a certain point in life where people are just as likely to be dying as they are reproducing. In the last few years, we have had to face quite a bit of death unfortunately. Last week, one lost his battle and didn't make it. He and I barely knew each other, we had had maybe three or four conversations since I first came into the scene sixteen years ago. Tony played in many Cleveland bands such as Sissy, Backmonkeys and, most notably, Starvation Army. I knew his wife before the two of them got together, and when they did, it was a wonderful yet tragic moment. Without getting into too many details, it was a wonderful meeting of two people who met and fell in love. Although they were both over forty (and I'll be there before I know it as well), they had a baby because neither had given up that it would or could happen for them. A few days after their son was bo...