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No,

You guys have it all wrong. Tesla is one of the greatest Metal groups of all time. Sheesh...you guys need some edumication

Ok, just kidding. Don't throw anything at me Eric. I know who Tesla was and that he was a truly great inventor, and that Tesla is named after him. That guy was serious. And so was Bob. Maybe we haven't noticed the time passing so fast because he IS alive in our instruments and music so he's still here with us and will be for a long, long time. Bob's instruments are the only analog gear I consistently hear that make my eyes tear becuase of the beauty of the sound. Not even my Polyevolver does that.

I remember hearing the news a bit after his death but those thoughts will never leave me.

I remember looking at his birthdate and thinking he is the same age as my mother!

He and my mother both had been struggling with cancer. My mother had been fighting it at the same time he was (and it made me wonder why there *seems* to be so many people with cancer these days), my mother had been fighting it since June/July 2004 after a previous battle in 1993.

I thought about that generation of people and all of the things they had contributed. There were some great minds from that generation and many things came about from many that lived or were born in the 20th century.

Sadly, my mother also lost her battle with cancer on July 31st of this year *sigh*