JOHN STEWART - MUSICIAN STEWART DIES

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[norge]

Thanks. I googled it after I read your post. Lots of items related to it.

[prisoner6]

I just noticed the obit on my newswire as I was putting morning show prep together. Stopped me in my tracks. I had been wondering about him for some time. He hadn't looked in good health for awhile in the pics I'd seen recently.

He had so many great songs, and was a profound influence on my music. Not many people knew he wrote "Daydream Believer." It would be hard to pick one favortie but I"d say "Sweetheart On Parade" would probably top my list. Most likely "Gold" as well.

RIP writer of songs and beloved musician.

prisoner6

[19th LA Inf]

I read last night that John Stewart, at 68, was suffering from onset of Alzheimer's and as a result, had already lost his driver's license. He and family had hoped he would be able to continue performing. The night before the stroke, he had visited with Nick Reynolds, one of the two surviving original Kingston Trio members. John had replaced Dave Guard in the Trio in 1961 and played with them for seven years. Dave died quite a few years ago, and Bob Shane had to give up performing after having surgery for serious heart problems.

Was it only yesterday that I bought those old LPs?

[SANTEESLIM]

First met John when he did a show in San Diego at “The Place Across The Street From The Sports Arena” in 1978 I believe. Absolutely the finest “Balladeers” voice I’ve heard, especially on songs like, “Armstrong”, “July, You’re a women”, and “Cannons In The Rain” and “California Bloodlines”. So very sorry for your loss, John will be greatly missed by family, friends and all of us fellow musicians.

“It was a race against time...”

SANTEESLIM

[tacticalogic]

What we didn’t know until after his death was that he had been diagnosed as being in the early stages of Alzheimer’s. The thing that seemed to concern him most about this was the prospect of losing all his memories.

[vetvetdoug]

I missed the news somehow about John. He was one of my heroes from the Kingston Trio and I was thrilled when he hit the top 40 in 1980 with “Gold”. I had looked into going to the camp with John and Nick for the summer and have been too busy to recheck it. Today I read the news. My condolences to you and John’s family, I will treasure his memory.

[tacticalogic]

Thanks. We didn’t know until later that he’d been diagnosed as being in the early stages of alzheimer’s. I think think he’d rather have gone like this than to have his memories taken and his mind ravaged by the disease.

[Little Bill]

Kind of sucks seeing those musicians whom you liked pass away. I was a fan of the Kingston Trio in the early Sixties. Went in the Army and when I when I got out the world was not the same.