J. Giles died yesterday. We've lost another great man...

I still have his poster on my wall, the one from the Bowen Field House, March 9th,1978.

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Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

Eh, he might as well have been dead anyway

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

He wasn't that old. I mean, 71 is a senior, but it's not like he was Chuck Berry's age.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

What I meant was his career wasn't going anywhere

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Jackaloftheazuresand: True, but he was still a musician. Like Skip Haynes is still around but isn't writing much anymore. His daughter was my piano teacher when I was a child, and his old band mate John Jeremiah was my father's roommate in college.

Jackaloftheazuresand · 26-30, M

Interesting

BlueMetalChick · 26-30, F

@Jackaloftheazuresand: They were both nutcase drunks. Apparently they got into a fight one night while both of them were hammered and Jeremiah tried to throw my dad out the window. It was one of their favorite stories to tell back in the day.