Episode 118 In memory of Myles Goodwyn

Legendary Canadian rocker Myles Goodwyn left this mortal coil on December 3rd 2023 after a lenghty battle with various illnesses.
On December 18th 2023, I was fortunate to share memories from the life & times of Myles Goodwyn with his three surviving original co founding members of April Wine.
David, Ritchie & Jim Henman gave their individual & personal thoughts in memory their fallen brother in this episode.
This is a heartfelt tribute to the late great Myles Goodwyn from those who knew him best when April Wine first took the stage way back then.
Join us as we celebrate the life & legacy of an iconic Canadian musical treasure.
Rest in peace Myles Goodwyn June 23 1948-December 3 2023

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Episode Transcript

(00:24):
Welcome to Tommy Solo's Famous Friends.This is a special in memory of segment
and today we are celebrating the lifeand times of the recently departed Miles Goodwin.
May he rest in peace. Icould not have picked three better fellas
to talk about life with Miles thanJim, Richie and David Hemman. Welcome
boys, Hi Tommy, Hey Tommy. So it's good to have you all

(00:47):
here. I wish it could beunder better circumstances that as it may.
I understand that Jim, you werethe first one to actually play in an
official band with Miles. I knowthat you all met before that, and
your common grandparents. I guess Mileslived next door during the summer, But

(01:07):
how did the first band start?What he's from mites, Jim, Well,
Miles and I had met that firstyear in sixty three when I moved
to rich and iron DA's al homethere in Waverley. Really if it was
a summer home, and we hadmet one day when I moved there,
and he came on the cross andsaid, who plays guitar? Somebody plays
guitar here, and I said,yeah, yeah, I do. So
we started playing every day, actuallyin the woodshed. I don't know if

(01:30):
you, David Richard, you rememberthe woodshed alongside our grandparents' house there,
but we called it Club Dushane andwe played every day. Yeah, no
kidding, Club Dushane. So weplayed there every day after school and on
the weekends we'd get into jam andmy brother Bob would get on mom's sugar
cans and flower cans and attempt togive us some kind of beats. We

(01:53):
called it the Dinks. Beats didn'thave quite the groove we wanted. Anyways,
I was going to Sydney Stephen HighSchool in Bedford and every year they
had a variety show, and thisparticular year, I think it was my
first year year. Actually, theydecided they wanted a band. And I
don't know the particular to that,but Doggie Grace, who was now a

(02:15):
good friend of mine, he askedme if I would play. I said
sure. So I didn't have abass or anything. All I had was
a guitar. So we had twoguitars, a drummer, a keyboard player.
He was about thirteen years old,Greg Stephen and Dave Dodgers on drums
and we played Love Potion number nine. I remember that that was the song
Love Potion number nine. So whateveryear that was on the top ten,

(02:38):
that's the year at what was tobecome Woody's Termlite started. Editor's note to
clarify, the Searchers recorded Love Potionnumber nine in nineteen sixty four and it
reached number three on the US BillboardHot one hundred and then it was number
two on cash Box during the winterof nineteen sixty five. Now back to
the show. I didn't care forthe guitar player doing rehearsals, and I

(03:01):
mentioned to Dougie. I said,you know, I got a friend back,
Wavey, the nice guitar player.I think he fit good here,
so maybe we could just trade guitarplayers. So that's what we did.
Miles came in and I became abass player. At that point, all
we had was this echo. Ithink they're called their eco eco. Oh
yeah, Italian. Yeah, that'sthe dated to the Italian guitars. And

(03:27):
Miles didn't have an electric guitar.So I went to my dad and I
said, Dad, look, wewant to start this band. Miles doesn't
have a guitar. Electric guitar.I want to give him mine, but
we need a bass and I'll playbass if you could get me a bass.
I don't know how long it wasbefore I talked ant of that,
but anyways, he went into nightForths in Dartmouth and he bought an you

(03:47):
Go bass and so I became abass player. That's how it happened,
through no intense on my own.So this thing which was called Creatures or
the Varioty Show became Woody's term Lightand we kept that going for a couple
of years. And I think DavidRichie, I think you guys came to
see us once they're at the oldfire Hall. Editor's note to clarify you

(04:08):
were about to hear Richie Henman replyingto Jim, and then David Henman chimes
in, I saw you at theold fire Hall. I was living in
differentland at the time, but Ihad flown home, I think to bring
back my grandfather's car or something,and I had some time off on a
Friday night. I guess I wantedto see Woody's Termites at the Bedford fire
Hall and it was probably one ofthe most competent and powerful cover bands I

(04:32):
had seen up to that time andprobably for a long time after. I
remember, and you guys did complicate. You didn't do easy stuff, you
know, like look through any Windowby the Hallies with all the harmonies and
everything. That's not easy stuff todo. Good love and by the young
rascals and a lot of R andB knock on wood and midnight hour course
standards in R and B. Andit was pretty impressive because it was a

(04:57):
wider range of material than David andI were capable of playing in our bands.
And indeed most bands I saw couldn'tcover quite that range of material that
Woody's Termites covered. And the place, that's the other thing I remember.
The place was pat I understand wellyou guys were also writing, because some
of the songs that you guys wroteended up as April Wine songs, Jim

(05:24):
replies to David. Yeah, you'reright, David. And the one song
in particular, I think it wastwo songs that Miles had written. I
wrote a few too. We werejust starting to write. Then he wrote
that song you Won't Dance with Me, and he had another song called Why.
They are both slow songs, andat some point during his career with
April Wine, he brought those twosongs out again and put them together ye

(05:48):
and made them into you won't Dancewith Me and a really nice version.
We played it in the acoustic showand people just loved that song. Little
story for you here, Jim.I saw Yeah, saw Miles perform with
April Wine perform you want to Dancewith Me? I placed a Nascion in
Montreal after we had left the band, and I went in the dressing room

(06:11):
and drank all the April Wines booze. But Miles performed that song in front
of something like forty thousand people,and he asked if there was any girl
in the audience who would dance withhim. They had a mirror ball above
him. Asked if the girl inthe audience would come up and dance with
him, and of course just aboutevery girl in that audience wanted to dance

(06:35):
with him. And knowing Miles history, I was standing there watching, I
burst into tears. Wow wow.You know that was the first song that
I covered as the lead vocalist ina band. In my first bar band,
I didn't want to sing at all. I was the lead guitar player,
but they basically said you can singthis April Line song, and I

(06:57):
got into it, and I lovethat song. I got right into the
role and it was such a youknow, the emotion that Miles put into
that And when you look at theconstruction of that song, it's not really
a masterpiece in terms of the arrangement, but it's a really emotional and powerful
song and a little humor in theretoo, if you notice. Yeah,
oh yeah, you know what reallycaught me about that song is when you

(07:20):
come in from the verse into thechorus, he gregg just a little.
I called it drag it just putit in a different feel and just went
now on a massius when you wantme, dam da, not the way.

(07:56):
Yeah, it was such a beautifullittle touch. He did have amazing
sensitivity, sensibility, I should say, when it comes to rhythm and feel,
he really really quite quite quite nice. Well. He had such a
unique voice. I know that beforehe left us, he did actually pick

(08:20):
his own replacement to tour with Aprilineand Mark Parant, who's apparently doing a
bang up job. You don't seeApril wind pretty bands out there, and
that's I feel because Miles's voice wasso unique. He didn't have the absolute
greatest range of any singer out there. You know, it isn't necessarily the

(08:41):
most powerful singer out there. Buthis voice was so Miles good one.
I think there's a little thing there, Dave and rich If we remember back,
he didn't sing hardy at all.Go ahead, Rich, you were
going to say when we started thatband and first brought it up to Montreal,
Miles saying, I suppose almost athird of the material. I think

(09:03):
you and David Miles were probably splitroughly into thirds for the lead vocals.
But Miles is on stage persona.At first, when we first came up
there was he'd literally stand with hisback to his amplifier and head it down,
and when it was time for himto sing, whether it was the
lead vocal or the harmony, hewould then take those three steps to the

(09:24):
mic and always with his eyes closedand sing his part very little movement,
and as soon as he was donesinging, he'd back up to his amplifier
and stand there with his back.He was very, very shy on stage.
We knew he could be a frontman. It just took a little
while to push him out there andget him to open his eyes and look
straight at the crowd and say theseare my songs, this is me singing

(09:48):
my songs, but it took awhile. I only remember him singing one
or two songs in Woody's term Lights, and I might have sang one or
two two. We were not vocalists, neither one of us when we had
Prism before the Wine. There's aband that I joined with you and Day
we kind of shared the vocals.I think between you and I, didn't
we that's right, yeah, yeah, yeah, between you and I.

(10:11):
So I didn't think that Myles wasa vocalist when we started April Wine.
I had never really heard him sayingor at the times I did, and
what he's term I said, don'trecall that well, you know. So
I was surprised when he started devolopinghis voice the way he did, because
he became Dutch recognizable voice and reallyknew how to use his voice, and
he knew how to write for hisvoice. Of course, yes, yes,

(10:33):
yes, this might be a goodsegue into how April Wine originally formed.
Yes, if you're interested in hearingthat story one more time. Absolutely,
As Jimmy mentioned, we had thisband called Prism. It preceded the
Vancouver band called Prism that came fewyears later. That that was me and

(10:54):
Richie and Jim and occasionally George mackon Keys. So anyway, I think
that band had disbanded. I'm notsure, but anyway, we were at
a point we were frustrated. Wewere playing places and we were starting to
write, and we were playing placesin Halifax where people would show to it,
Hey, buddy, play something.We know hey, and we're getting

(11:16):
frustrated with that. So Jim andI we were always talking about Jim and
I about what the problems were,what we wanted to do. We met
one morning at the Old Mill tavernin Dartmouth and we were sitting there over
a beer. I'm pretty sure thismorning could have been an afternoon, could
have been midday, I don't remember. Yeah, and we decided we were
talking about what we wanted to do. We wanted to put a band together,

(11:39):
we wanted to do something. AndJim mentioned that Miles had moved to
North Sydney and he was performing withEast Side East Skate Sanctuary Skate Sanctuary in
North and Sydney. Jim said,I can call Miles. I'll bet he'll
come down and help us put aband together. So he did. He
called Miles, Miles got off thetrain with a green garbage bag with everything

(12:05):
he owned in it. But Ithink he also had his guitar melody maker,
so I shout up. We scheduleda rehearsal. My parents were living
in Lower Sackfeld. We had ourfirst rehearsal in December one, I think
nineteen sixty nine, and we wantedto write, but we had decided,
well, we should probably play coversongs and sneak in our originals. And

(12:28):
at that point in the rehearsal,Miles played some riff from Hell and we
looked at each other. He hadwritten this riff. We looked at each
other and said, no covers,We're going original. Yeap. The rest
was history. Yeah, no kiddingnow, speaking of rehearsals and so on,

(12:50):
I know at one point when Ispoke to you, David about your
career, you were telling me thatin the early days, you guys in
the rented house, you would listento let Zeppelin all day long. Yeah.
April Wine formed right around the timeof those first two led Zeppelin albums,
which just blew the top of ourheads off. Music was going in

(13:13):
that direction, and led Zeppelin kindof like, here it is, folks,
here's all the heavy rock and rollyou're ever going to need. And
at the time, it was whenwe moved to Montreal April first, nineteen
seventy. We got in a vanthat my dad had financed for us,
a GMC window van. We hada total of one hundred bucks on us

(13:35):
and we made it as far asMontreal. I'd like to interject a little
boats and Rich I think you'll agreewith me. We had done a demo
at your Oh yeah, that's right. We had done a demo which we
said, torail to Donald K.Donald's office and our agent told us that
Donald was impressed and he wanted tosee us, which was total bullocks.

(13:56):
It was stupid. There's a biglot, that's buddy. We headed to
Montreal. We got to Montreal andwe called Donald K. Donald's office and
they said, oh, Donald's ata bar called laugh In, and they're
they're holding a press conference. Well, we were so naive that we actually
thought that press conference was for us, so we haded to laugh In.

(14:20):
We walked in the door. Therewas a fella named Tom. The place
was empty. We were there early. He's a fello named Tom behind the
bar, and we walked up thebar and he says, what would you
guys like to drink? So weordered a drink and went to pay for
it, and the said, ohno, that's no problem. So we
thought, oh, this really isfor us. So we sat in our
chairs. Place filled up. Therewas a dais at the front. Donald

(14:43):
was in the center with all theother industry people around him and announced that
there was going to be a Woodstockstyle festival in upstate New York and we'll
be right back after this. That'swhat it was about. It wasn't about

(15:15):
us at all, about us atall, but we learned the first valuable
lesson in that relationship with Donald,which was put it on Donald's tab that
video Richie that we were discussing earlier. There's a couple of times when Donald
a younger Donald, he's probably missforties or so, he talks about how
much he liked that April Wine bandthe first time he had heard them.

(15:39):
So I guess he heard us firstat Laughing where David was talking about at
that press conference. Donald came walkingdown the aisle and I stood up and
said, Hi, Donald, I'mDavid Hemman from Maple Wine. And he
says, oh, give me acall next week. That was the most
interesting experience in that respect that theyreally didn't expect us to come off gay.

(16:04):
They really didn't. I think theyfelt a little story for us,
so they helped us and put usup, and I think we stayed with
Sandy McLain's for a little while Lanes, and then we were at that hotel
Guy Street, Oh god, mackayStreet, mckaye Street. Yeah, it
was actually our naivety. We wereso so green that Donald kind of took

(16:26):
he heard something there, and hewas right in hearing something. But you
know, I David job from meon this. In September we went up
as part of April one to dothe Walk of Fame tour or whatever it
was. Induction Editor's note to clarify. In twenty twenty three, Miles Goodwin
was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hallof Fame, and also in twenty twenty

(16:49):
three, the band April Wine wasinducted into Canada's Walk of Fame. Now
back to this show, and youwere sitting there talking to this guy and
I didn't know who the heck hewas, but he looked so familiar to
me, and it was Terry Flood, our original manager when we were with
the band, I said, Terry, how are you and interviewed mc dont

(17:11):
He remembered me, and we kepttalking a little and he said to me,
he said, Jim, we hadno idea what the hell we were
doing. They were as new aswe were, the people at Donald pay
Donald Terry Flood Management. We allkind of arrived at the same place at
the same time, and from therewe made it up as we went.
But the enthusiasm, the enthusiasm thateverybody had, and the ability to think

(17:36):
outside the box and create marketing andstrategies and all those important things was what
made it all work. And whatwe didn't know at that time was that
the Maple system had come into play. You know, where there was no
music industry in Canada whatsoever, onany level of professional There were no studios

(17:59):
on any big stand, there wasno management, there was no nothing.
And we were right there when thisthing had been set up ce RTC.
That was a thank you, Ritchie. A Canadian band could actually get a
recording contract, could actually record,could actually get radio play, guaranteed radio
play because of the thirty percent thing, and it just built the industry.

(18:19):
And we were right there just asit was ready to patch. Yeah,
so they were hiring a lot ofdifferent bands at that time and whoever kind
of you know. I remember Milesused to say, well, we had
one chance on that first album,one album, a seat album. If
we could get a little single offof that that did something on the radio,

(18:41):
then they would give us the opportunityto do a second album, which
happened. You guys got to doone record. You guys were really part
of that whole evolution in the Canadianmusic scene, you know. And you
mentioned can Con was just coming inand Donald K. Donald was, if
not the first, one of thevery first agencies to book national tours across

(19:03):
Canada. So you guys were righton the cusp and the leading edge of
Canadian music history. So that's somethingthat's really something you know. So I
understand though that before April Wine wasactually put together, Miles had moved to
Toronto for a while. It wasa different situation when we born in April
Wind, Miles was living in NorthSydney, Cape Breton. I think you're

(19:27):
right, that's one point before that. I can speak to that data because
I remember it. Because what happenedwas he left Woody termites for a year,
and he went to Brantford to goto school and he did a year
there and I don't know the detailswhy he came back home, but he
did come back home after a year. But what happened, which didn't happen

(19:47):
I think to you, to guysand to me, was he got exposed
to big shows, conscience with lightingand sound systems at that level. It
was like probably sixty seven when hewas there, So he got exposed to
things that we weren't really exposed todown here. We hadn't seen yet down
being here in the Maritimes, andhe came back with all kinds of ideas.

(20:10):
We used to sit out in Dad'scar smoking dead cigarette butts because Dad
always smoked a cigarettes kept him boththat long and left them in the astra
and we knew that we win theold car to the media, and we'd
sit there talking about the music thathe had seen up in the Ontario,
in the dream that he had.I mean, yeah, that precipitated something
in him that he had an ideawhere he could go, what he could

(20:33):
do. He just didn't know howto do it, but he had a
vision. He had a vision soI understand that Jim, you left the
band after the first April Wine albumand you went on to get into your
career in medical research and so on, and Richie and David you stayed for
the next two but ultimately you allleft April Wine. And I understand that

(20:59):
a while after that, David Milescontacted you and said, you know,
I want to keep things going.Would you mind if I kept the name
April Line something like that. Yeah. I mean, just to jump back
a little bit, when Jim wasstill in the band, we recorded that
first album at RCA Studios with BillHill producing, and you know, Donald
had complete set up. You know, I approached Terry Flood in the parking

(21:23):
lot and he agreed to manage us. They had kind of in house everything,
so they sent us into RCA RecordingStudios where one of the songs on
that first album, the one withthe feet on it was a song called
fast Train. That was a songthat Miles wrote, and it got radio
play immediately. I don't know howhigh up the charts it went. It

(21:45):
was probably top forty, if nottop ten, but it put us on
the map. Editor's note once againto clarify April Line's first single, released
in nineteen seventy one, Fast Trainpeaked at number three eight on the RPM
one hundred Singles chart, and italso peaked at number twenty three on the

(22:06):
Chum Singles Chart in June nineteen seventyone. Not bad for a first single.
Now back to the show. It'sa powerful song that stood the test
of time. You can still listento it today and it sounds as fresh
as it did in nineteen seventy orseventy one. So Miles pretty much with

(22:34):
that song put April Wine on themap, or at least blew open the
doors. And then, like yousay, after the first year Jim and
I were living together, actually wespend a lot of time living together.
We spent a lot of time together, and Jim was having just second thoughts
about let him speak for himself,but the whole rock and roll lifestyle.

(22:55):
So he decided he wanted to goback to maybe a simple Jim, you
tell the story. I do rememberbeing very frustrated because I found that I
was a folky This is the thingabout our conglomeration that we had put together.
I was a folky, bluesy typeof acoustic guitar player who had moved

(23:18):
into bass, never a high endbass player like Jimmy Klantch proved to be
a very very nice bass run,very melodic and beautiful lines. I wasn't
at that point, and I didn'tseem to be interested in it. When
I seemed to be interested in itwas the party side of it and the
playing side of it. But Iwasn't really doing the working that I should
be doing, so I didn't realizethat back then when it was going on,

(23:41):
but I was into alcohol and drugsfar too much. And when we
were working on the second album,we were going to rehearsals, I remember
going through a very dispared type oftime because Jimmy Hendrix had died, I
believe Dennis Choplin had died, andJim Morrison time, and it was all

(24:02):
connected to drugs of some sort.And I was into drugs along with my
booze consumption, and I was scaredto death that I was going to take
something in a BLACKOK and I thoughtwe were only what in early twenties,
I'm like that fourth yeah, AndI was kind of scared, and I
felt hopeless and trapped, and Idid what I now know to be a

(24:25):
geographical cure. I decided to leavethe band because I figured that all my
problems would go away. But myproblems were inside of me, and I
took them home with me. Sothat's what happened. And I didn't really
tell the guys. You know,we grew up, Tommy, We grew
up, you know, we didanyways with our parents generation because of the
war. I think how it affectedpeople and everything. We never shared feelings

(24:48):
as men. We never shared ourfeelings. We never showed anything about how
we were going on inside of us. And fortunately the younger people of our
children's generation the next or learning that. It's it's not very good that I
was in that generation where my dadwas a Second World War soldier over there

(25:08):
and got wounded and all that andlived that life, and you didn't show
your feelings. You didn't talk aboutanything like that. So I didn't talk
to Richie, I didn't talk toDavid. I never talked to Miles because
he wasn't approachable. He was atether of guy that would just kind of
say as he did when I saidI was going to quit, he just
said, Okay, go do it, and we'll be right back after this.

(25:48):
You know, there was no sittingdown and talking about anything in those
days, so that's what happened.I just kind of we were in the
car. I remember, Ritchie,you were driving. Did you have a
convertible then, yeah, yeah,we're incredible aheading for rehearsal. We were
getting ready for the second CD onrecord album second Oh yeah, yes,
right, the second album. AndI remember sitting in the back seat with

(26:11):
David and Richie were in front,and I said, what would you guys
say if I said I was thinkingof leaving? And Miles said, well
you should leave. There no talk, no conversation, no trying to find
out why. Pretty matter of fact. He was always pretty matter of fact,
you know. He had that sideto him that was kind of cut
and dried. It's interesting, youknow, when you mentioned how the war

(26:32):
affected the men and the young menthat came later of the day, you
know, And it's interesting to methat Miles was always such an emotional,
passionate singer, and as you say, he was very curt and to the
point in life offstage. So it'sinteresting to me how he seemed to let

(26:53):
his emotions and his passions out inhis music and in his songwriting. You
have to realize his situation was differentthan Dave and Richard and I in that
he lost his mom when he wasten years old and that affected him very,
very, very profoundly. A matterof fact, it affected him his
whole life, and he was closed. He was part of him that was

(27:15):
closed, and music was his refuge. That was where he went. You
saw that in the incredible intensity ofhis singing and his playing standing beside him
on stage, Boy, that wasan experience to watch him play guitar and
sing with such burning intensity, justa passion. Having said all that,

(27:40):
we were all very fortunate to havehad miles among us and to have been
able to enjoy the music over theyears. And just in time, he
was inducted into the Canadian Songwriters Hallof Fame. So I don't know about
you, guys, I'm just reallyglad that happened before it was too late.
But one of the things that Itook from that was his comments about

(28:02):
not being the best guitar player,not being the best singer, not being
the best songwriter. Bud, hehe was very skilled at writing popular songs,
and so I think he really downplayedhimself and really estimated his ability listen
to his vocal phrasing, He's noSloach as a singer or a guitar player.

(28:23):
No, and again. Yeah,and I remember you telling me at
some point, David, how blownaway you were by his guitar playing in
the early days. Just one morequestion, I guess we'll start with Richie.
If you had the opportunity to speakwith Miles one last time, is
there anything that you would want tosay to Miles. Actually, I'd like

(28:47):
to tell him what my favorite songswere, like Fast Trained. To this
day, I never get tired ofhearing Fast Trained. Later on Mama LI
from I Think It's from the WholeWorld's Going Crazy. I Love Mama Live.
Editors note Mama I was featured onnineteen seventy seven's April line album Forever

(29:07):
for Now. Now back to theshow. From our second or third album,
Lady Run, Lady High and flowerverFlow was always one of my flowerver
Flow was written while we were inthat ski shack up North. I had
references things that like the pond thatwas about one hundred yards away from our

(29:29):
ski shack and the neighbors dog Grover. I remember, those are the things
I would like to have talked aboutthe good times. I always remember the
good times more than anything. Ithink I tend to put the bad times
in little boxes on a shelf somewhereup here. It's the good times I
remember. And again, like Isaid, fishing early in the morning,
we didn't get up very early inthe morning after that. I think it

(29:51):
was only for the first couple ofmonths. Times on the road, you
know, the fun on the roaddriving through northern Ontario. In our we
had our limousine and we're on theroad with Mash mccanada. They were driving
Terry Flood's car. We're driving sideby side on the trans Canada, throwing
firecrackers at each other that we pickedup in some sort along the way.
I remember all those great, silly, great things we did, and some

(30:14):
of the really great shows that wedid, going on stage at Massey Hall
for the Maple Music Jumping, andone of the last gigs that we played
before David and I left the bandat Ontario Place there where we got seriously
mogged. It was fun, butit was kind of scary. You know,
those are the things I'd like totalk to Miles about. You know,
how did you feel about that tothe kind of thing. But here

(30:36):
we are and that's that absolutely,David. Is there anything that you would
like to say to Miles if youcould have one last conversation? Oh boy,
I guess, I guess what iwanted to say to Miles is that
I'm really really happy that he foundpeace. Miles died in a state of

(31:00):
grace, and he found peace beforehe died. I would just want to
say to him that that means theworld to me. That's how I will
remember Miles and that I just wantto say to him it means the world
to me. I mean, there'sa lot I would like to say to
him about my respect for what he'saccomplished as a Canadian musician, and I

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would overboard with that, But thefact that Miles found peace before he passed,
that's how I'll remember him. AndI'm just overwhelmed with respect. Jim,
I know you did have that lastconversation. Is there anything that you
feel like maybe he was left out? Well, we will my wife and

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have a rhythm when he passed.So yeah, it's interesting because he talked
a lot quite a while. Hetalked to the family. He takes us
so I have that memory. Asfar as what I would like to say,
Gee, I guess I would probablysay that, you know, it's
a long way from Woody's termites rye, It's a long way for Wody's terminate

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smiles. And I'm going to missyou. And i'd say I'm going to
finish your song for you, yourChristmas song, I'll finish your brother.
Awesome. Well, I want tothank the three of you for taking the
time out of your day to dothis with me, and I think that
you all honor miles legacy and thatis amazing. Thanks so much for doing

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this, and Miles, good toinvest in peace. Peace brother. Thanks
for the ride, brother, itwas a great one. Yeah, he
had a great ride. Thanks Tony, Thank you, Tommy, Thanks Tony.
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