10/16/2025
The Road Crew – Part One
Okay, Gentle Reader(s), we're going to try out something a bit different here at InkyInkInc. As you may well have gleaned from anything more than a cursory examination of these pages over the years, Your Humble Narrator is an alleged musician as well as an alleged writer. Way way back in the day I became friends with a fellow musician by the name of Steve LaRue, whom I typically refer to in these pages as the Goof, or Goofa. The Goof was my closest friend and we saw and/or talked to one another every single day of every single week for many years. We were bandmates, roommates, artistic collaborators and we even toured America together back in the early '80s. The Goof left us back in 2017 and even before he checked out I had started working on a sort of hopped-up memoir of our time on the road. Steve never got to read any of it but after he died I applied myself to the project with sporadic vigor and finally came to what I considered to be a finishing point about a year and a half ago. Since then, it has been edited and re-edited again, and that process could potentially go on forever. With a bit of gentle prodding from a friend or two, I have decided to share a bit of the manuscript with you. Love it or hate it, you can let me know what you think—that's what the CONTACT page is for. The full manuscript is quite long, so this is just a very small sampling. New installments will be posted on an approximately monthly basis. Here goes nothing...
