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**tomt** · January 26th, 2016, 12:50 AM

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Fare Thee Well, Stephen
A little over five years ago, I received an email from Stephen St.Croix with the subject line Goodbye, Mix. Oh no, I thought. What have I done? I've pushed 6/01/2006 8:00 AM Eastern
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A little over five years ago, I received an email from Stephen St.Croix with the subject line “Goodbye, Mix.” Oh no, I thought. What have I done? I've pushed too hard. We were a day and a half from shipping the magazine, and even by Stephen's measure, we were cutting it close. I opened the file, dreading what he might say. Then I read a love letter to our industry, which closed with the hardest couple of paragraphs I've ever had to read. I've held that document on my hard drive, opening and re-reading it a number of times over the years. Today, we're sharing it with you.

Stephen St.Croix passed away in the early morning of May 6, in his home, surrounded by family and friends. He wasn't supposed to live that long, but because he did, we all learned a little more about how it can feel to be passionate about music…and life. He stretched our deadlines over the past five years, but he never missed a column. When his bones were so broken from a motorcycle accident, he composed from his hospital bed using ViaVoice. When morphine made him groggy, he stopped taking it. It pained him these last three months when we ran “classic” columns. He was burning to write. He had so much to say. He felt love and a deep responsibility to you, his readers, whom he always considered family.

Stephen was quite simply the smartest guy I've ever known, and one of the most creative. He designed and built the Marshall Time Modulator, and he hosted Stevie Wonder in his home for six months during their work together on Songs in the Key of Life. He redesigned the interface for the Quantec Room Simulator, and he restored The Wizard of Oz. He held dozens of patents worldwide in technologies far removed from music-making, and he delivered a column about swimming into the Mediterranean and listening to a solo guitar on a rock in the water. That brought him great joy, at a time when he needed it.

Yes, he had an ego that would fill a concert hall. And he had the Harley swagger and rock-star persona that would dominate a room. That's what you read each month. At home, he was humbled by the genius and significance of an iPod. He would describe in great detail the sight of the first snow on the naked Maryland trees. More than anything, he loved to sit and pet his cats. He approached death with the spirit of a Teddy Roosevelt and the dignity of a Nelson Mandela. He was one of a kind.

More than anything, I think I'll miss the phone calls. A voice from 3,000 miles away that could answer any question or reassure any decision. He told me why we have so little lightning in California, and he long ago predicted how records would soon be made. He was right.

A few years back, he called just to say that he was in love and was going to be married, to a wonderful woman named Teresa. He, a man who lived life for the sheer experience, said he couldn't believe he waited all this time to experience real love.

I can't remember our first phone conversation way back in the late-'80s, but I'll never forget the last. A week and a half before he died, while trying to tweak a column, he called to say thank you. To me. To Mix. For allowing him to talk to all of you all these years. He wanted to remind me how special it was that we got to be a part of this whole music-making world. I can only hope that I am so gracious as I stare at my final days.

Stephen, we love you and we'll miss you. All of us.
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**tomt** · January 27th, 2016, 02:04 AM

Papers in the roadside tell of suffering and greed / Fear today, forgot tomorrow

Besides the news of holy war and holy need /

Ours is just a little sorrowed talk

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**tomt** · January 27th, 2016, 03:05 AM

True story from the late 80s. The BBC were doing a demo of HDTV to a politician. He turned up and whilst the whitecoats were rummaging around he watched a large screen in the lab intently. After a few minutes he turned around and said 'amazing, this is the future' at which point the hosts pointed out that he was looking at a broadcast 625 line baseband feed on a properly calibrated monitor and they were just getting the HD demo running.

**tomt** · January 27th, 2016, 07:16 AM

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**tomt** · January 27th, 2016, 08:59 AM

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Another thing that's interesting is that when we lived in SE MO, we had a newly discovered fault line about 1/4 mile down the road and we had to be careful when we drove by there b/c the road was pure sand and you could bog down there if you didn't get a running start. You could also see big rings in the farmers' fields where there were big sand boils. Those were from the quake.

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**tomt** · January 28th, 2016, 05:43 AM

'Looks like you killed him, Bob,' and Bob says, 'Looks like I did, Jesse.'
Then I says, 'This is my chance, Bob. You tell 'em its me you killed.
You tell my mother to say so, and you take care of that Bigelow woman.
I'm long gone.'

J. Frank Dalton - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedi

**tomt** · January 28th, 2016, 07:43 AM

In 2001 Jim Riek, anchorman for NBC 8 KOMU TV at Columbia, Missouri, interviewed
John Hartman, the director of Clay County Parks at the time of the 1995 exhumation. He
provided the strongest evidence yet that the 1995 exhumation smacks of cover-up:
“Clay County property, [the remains of Jesse James], were never returned [for reburial]
and with that being the case there’s no way to repeat these tests. There’s no way they can be
verified. We don’t really know the results of the first set of tests. Any good scientific work can
stand peer review. The results could be published as they were found, not as they have been
framed or sanitized for public consumption. The results were not presented in a convincing
enough manner to close the books on Jesse James.”
Source: NBC 8 KOMU TV, The Story You Haven’t