Chuck Nix
...Rest in Peace...
Chuck shot himself
in the head when he was 20 years old.
Outwardly, he was always the life
of the party. On the inside, he was a lonely guy who needed his fathers
approval. Playing guitar, drinkin wine and just being a normal teenager
of the 60's was not what Mr. Nix had in mind. He was threatening to put
his son away.
The picture above is of Chuck soon
after he joined The Blue Diamonds. Short hair nicely slicked back just
the way his Dad taught him. The picture below of Chuck (cigarette) and
me was taken in a dollar photo booth at The Pike in Long Beach shortly
before his death. There were of course four total shots but I sniped two
of them off and gave them to his Mom at her request. You see she had very
few pictures of her only son and my friend Chuck Nix.
I can only imagine how good of a guitar
player Chuck would have become. His death was his own choice but the fact
that he could not communicate with a man who was 50 years older than him...
and who had ultimate control of his life..... may have been too much for
Chuck to take.
This is the last of the only three
pictures I have of him. On this day we drove to the Fender factory loading
dock in Fullerton to pick up my first, brand new Precision Bass ($289.).
Chuck has his Gibson SG and we're plugged into his Bandmaster. Thing's
were looking good for us that day.
If you are getting on in years
yourself, and hear that biological clock ticking
just ignore it...
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