Mountain View Cemetery - 29 September 2024

Randy Rampage 31 December 2015

The Red Shawl: very mysterious classy item.like some neat,funky historical piece. I’d wear it for fuckin' sure !!!!

On December 3, 2015 Randy Rampage posed wearing my mother’s Mexican red shawl. His comment about wearing it (above) is short and sweet.

Today 29 September, 2024 I attended the sixth anniversary of his death (August 14, 2018) at Mountain View Cemetery. The memorial has always been arranged by his paramour Susanne Tabata. 

As life progresses attendance is reduced every year. Perhaps, as I believe, people are simply dying.

Going to this memorial makes me feel useful as I shoot (a tradition it seems) the group photograph. I bungled it this year by not sitting quickly enough after I pressed the self-timer.

I had the terrific luck of sitting next to my hero Art Bergmann who was given  Randy’s 12-string guitar to play. He sang, low key but I was able to hear nicely.

Art Bergmann

Before I left Susanne pointed in the direction of Jade Kent and told me, “Isn’t she a classical beauty?” I agreed and happily Jade posed for me when I was setting up my camera for the group shot.

Jade