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Poster: almora
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Somehow I did not learn of Dan passing until an hour ago, moments before I walked into a meeting at work. I shared briefly with my coworkers in the meeting about the sad news. They are in their 30s and 40s, but they all knew who America is and immediately recognized the song when I sang the first line: "This is for all the lonely people..." I am stunned and speechless. Here are some memories I have of Dan: - Dan is the first person to enter a comment on my first youtube video, of my America tribute song, "From London to LA". This was around four years ago. - Shortly afterwards I ordered Dan's book about the band from his web site. He remembered my video and signed the book as follows: "Dear Al and Sam, I loved your song 'From London to LA'. Sam you have a great voice!" ‘Sam’ is my daughter Samantha, who sings the song. - Around a year ago I posted myself singing "Rainy Day" on youtube. Again, Dan posted a very nice comment. - I have posted around 20 times on Dan's blog. He responded to every one of my posts - as he always did for everyone who posted. I always appreciated and respected that about Dan. - Once when I posted about how I self-published a book, Dan's brother Tom (or Dan disguised at Tom - which I can understand) emailed me to ask how I went about self-publishing. I responded. It is possible that this was the method he used to publish his most-recent book, "Our Day in the Sun." - A few years ago my boss shared that he was planning to vacation on Cayman Island. I thought of Dan and reflexively said, "I have a buddy who lives on Cayman Island." I realized I had just "dropped" Dan's name, but I continued. "My buddy is Dan Peek, co-founder of America." My boss is a big America fan and is in awe that I “know” Dan. I felt a bit guilty about dropping Dan's name, so I posted on his site about it. Dan was amused and graciously told me to call him my friend any time. - I sent Dan around ten emails over the past four years about various things going on with my music or Sam's music. Most of these emails ended with "Dan there's no need for you to reply." Half the time Dan or his brother Tom did graciously reply. - I always appreciated Dan's courage in admitting his own shortcomings, and it inspired me to more-bravely face my many shortcomings. We're all only human. - I have the deepest respect for Dan's spirituality, which he wore proudly as a badge. Again, this inspires me to share my own spiritual take on this crazy world. - As I've posted many times, America inspired me to learn to play guitar and sing. Without Dan, there would have been no America, and I might never have played music, something I dread to even imagine. - Dan had strong political views which he openly shared, and he was a true lover of our planet and environmentalist. I respect his engagement. He cared. Dan, thanks for your beautiful music, spontaneity, sense of humor, hard work, openness, and caring. Above all, thank you Dan for taking the time to listen, respond, and really be anyone’s friend. I know all of your gestures of friendship were genuine. From now on, I will honor you by never hesitating to say 'Dan Peek is my friend.'


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