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In a long life of public playing, with all of the attendant trials and misadventures, by far the saddest day was the one on which I heard the news of the recent passing of our cherished friend and workmate, the late Brian Durham. Still reeling from the tremendous sadness which attends this news, we have consoled ourselves with attempting to finish his last and perhaps greatest work.
Few fields command the dedication that ours does and Brian had it more than almost anyone. Having the good fortune to enter the business in the glory days when a gig was a large public event, he was brilliant and monocular, an uncompromising artist. We (Multiplex & Living Colour {sic}), truly reaped that wild wind, and later, in this age when nearly every musician has succumbed to a day job, Brian stuck to the principals we established in the heady days of the mid-70's to mid-80's. Simultaneously we started getting serious about recording.
In my digital facility (DMS), where Brian and I recorded together from the mid-90s on, we tracked the intensely beautiful and, for Brian, painfully autobiographical 'Imagination'. It was his deepest wish that this song, featuring his vocal performance, be finished and released. It was decided that friends of his would embed into the tracks of this cherished composition, such feelings as they have by playing or singing on it. We (among others: longtime Brian guitarist Georgie Biggs, Living Colour drummer Alan Cornett, and the multi-talented Rose Manfre from Multiplex and L7) don't know everyone's number, so if you were a close friend or band mate and would like to participate in this touching memorial, please e-mail us at: Woody_Lissauer@yahoo.com Once mixed it will be made available, free of charge, to the public on our listening page: ( http://www.angelfire.com/wy/woodysmusic/progress.html )
He was humorous in the extreme, charismatic and generous.. Imperfect, but with the flaws attendant to singular vision, with which we and the reader may surely identify. I would say rest in peace, but I suspect his 'Gothic' nature would rather not; so I will simply say: Goodbye with tears, there goes our light, we shall not see your like again.
Arthur (Woody) Lissauer et al
